Luu

Lưu or Luu is a Vietnamese surname. It is also the Vietnamese transliteration of the Chinese surname Liu (劉). during the Ancient, The Yao people use surname Liu (劉), H'mong-Mien Lìu, they emigrate from Guangdong, Guangxi, to Vietnam. during the Yuan dynasty, the Mongols used the surname Liu in Vietnam.

In according to folk-story "Hùng Vương Ngọc Phả" (Family tree of Hung King) one of 50 son of Kinh Dương Vương there was Lưu Lang, who joined with Mother Âu Cơ and settled to northern mountain area of Van Lang. Luu Lang is considered as Ancestor of all Vietnamese/Kinh people possessed surname Luu. And other folktale: "Sự tích trầu cau" - Legend of areca nuts and betel leaves, its mentioned about a Landlord with surname Luu. The offering of areca nuts and betel leaves to the ancestors is a Vietnamese wedding ritual. It's also ancient legendary story only.

Luu (disambiguation)

Luu may refer to:

5430 Luu

5430 Luu (1988 JA1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 12, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in honor of Vietnamese American astronomer Jane Luu for her research and discovering the first and subsequent members of the Kuiper Belt.

Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2006 show a rotation period of 13:33 ± 00:01.2 hours with a brightness variation of 0.06 ± 0.02 magnitude.

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Johnny (Johnny Mathis album)

Johnny (1963) is the 19th album released by singer Johnny Mathis. It is his 15th original studio album, with four compilations of hit singles having been released by him at this point.

Overview

Collaborating once again with arranger/conductor Don Costa who had scored Rapture the previous year, Mathis is heard in a program of ballads and swingers. As with most of Mathis' albums around this time, the program is made up of well-known standards through to rarer material making for an interesting listening experience.

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Johnny (John Farnham album)

Johnny is the fifth studio album by Australian pop singer John Farnham, (who was billed then as "Johnny" Farnham) which was released on HMV for EMI Records in August 1971. It peaked at #24 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Charts. Farnham had earlier #1 singles with "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" in 1968 and his cover of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" in 1970; a non-album single, "Acapulco Sun" was released in May 1971 but there were no charting singles from Johnny. The album features compositions from artists as diverse as George Harrison, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Joe South and George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Background

Johnny Farnham's first #1 single on the Go-Set National Singles Charts was the novelty song "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)". Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade. His second #1 was a cover of B. J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head", which peaked at #1 for seven weeks in January–March 1970. A non-album single, "Comic Conversation" was released in October 1970 and peaked at #10 on the Go-Set National Top 60 Singles Chart and was still charting in March 1971. His fifth album, Johnny was released in August 1971, which peaked at #24 on the Kent Music Report Albums Charts. Another non-album single, "Acapulco Sun" had been released in May and peaked at #21 on the Go-Set Top 60, but there were no charting singles from Johnny. Aside from Johnny, Farnham also released a compilation, The Best Of Johnny Farnham, and a duet album with Allison Durbin, Together, all in 1971.

Johnny (2003 film)

Johnny is a Tollywood sports film released on 25 April 2003, written and directed by Pawan Kalyan. Kalyan also starred in the film, along with Renu Desai. The film didn't perform well commercially, Box Office India declared it a flop. Also, it proved to be the biggest flop in Pawan Kalyan's film career.

Plot

Johnny (Pawan Kalyan) loses his mother as a kid. He then runs away from his father (Raghuvaran) as he is a chain smoker, a drinker, and doesn't care for his son. Years later, Johnny becomes a martial arts coach. One day, a girl named Geeta (Renu Desai) lodges a complaint on Johnny for beating up a man. Later, Geeta comes to know that it was a misunderstanding. After Geeta apologises, both become friends and eventually get married. After marriage, Johnny finds out that his wife has cancer. Borrowing as much money as he can from his friends, he moves to Mumbai but he is still short.

Johnny learns from a stranger that there are boxing fights every day. At first, Johnny refuses the offer but when he sees the condition of his wife, he accepts the offer and goes through kickboxing competitions to raise money. Geeta's condition deteriorates to the point that Johnny needs Rs. 200,000 overnight. The owner of the boxing fights makes a deal with Johnny that he must fight two professional martial artists to get the amount overnight. The rest is how he defeats them.