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Burkett Needle
Burkett may refer to: Places * Burkett, Texas, unincorporated community in Coleman County, Texas, United States * Burkett Islands, group of small islands lying just west of Mount Gleadell in the eastern part of Amundsen Bay, in Enderby Land * Burkett Nunatak, 2180 metres high, 2 km east of Minaret Nunatak, in the Monument Nunataks, Victoria Land, Antarctica People with the surname * B. G. Burkett, author of the book ''Stolen Valor'' *Bartine Burkett (1898–1994), American film actress *Bill Burkett, CBS source in the Killian documents affair of 2004 * Brendan Burkett (born 1963), Australian swimmer who won five medals at four Paralympics * Cary Burkett, American radio broadcaster and former comic book writer * Chris Burkett (born 1962), former professional American football player *Christopher Burkett (born 1951), American landscape photographer * Daniel Burkett (born 1995), Canadian racing driver *Elinor Burkett (born 1946), American producer, director, journalist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkett, Texas
Burkett is an unincorporated community in Coleman County, Texas, United States. Though unincorporated, Burkett has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76828. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen climate classification, Burkett has a humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ..., ''Cfa'' on climate maps. References Unincorporated communities in Coleman County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{ColemanCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Burkett
Jefferson Davis Burkett (July 15, 1921 – October 24, 1947) was an American football player. He was a part of the Chicago Cardinals NFL championship team in 1947. He died in a plane crash while returning to the team following surgery for appendicitis. Pro career After playing at LSU, Burkett was signed by the Cardinals. He was not only a punter for the Cardinals, but was also one of the team's receivers as well. Though his career only consisted of three games before his untimely death, Burkett had caught two passes for 44 yards and a touchdown. In addition to playing end and punter, Burkett also played as a defensive back, intercepting a pass and returning it for 25 yards. Death Burkett was suffering from appendicitis after a game against the Los Angeles Rams, who had beaten the Cardinals 27–7, handing Chicago their first loss of the season. Burkett opted to stay behind and have the surgery to remove his appendix. Once he was released from the hospital, Burkett boarded a Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkett Restaurant Equipment
Burkett Restaurant Equipment & Supplies is a nationally known food-service equipment and supplies dealer, headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, USA. Founded by Jameel Burkett (Sr.) and Mike Burkett, the company (aka Burkett & Sons Inc.) has been family-owned and operated since 1977. The company had no web presence until 2005 when the younger Jameel Burkett became vice president of operations. In 2006, the company won contracts with rapidly growing national chain Marco's Pizza, which it used as its preferred supplier of pizza ovens and dough mixers. The company appeared in the '' Inc.'' magazine 2010 "Inc. 5000" list of the fastest-growing companies in the US. For the year ending 2021, Burkett Restaurant Equipment was ranked #43 for food equipment dealers in '' Foodservice Equipment & Supplies'' magazine. References {{Reflist External links Company web site Company profile on inc.com Distribution companies of the United States Companies based in Toledo, Ohio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Burkett Hartle
James Burkett Hartle (August 20, 1939) is an American physicist. He has been a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1966, and he is currently a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Hartle is known for his work in general relativity, astrophysics, and interpretation of quantum mechanics. Work In collaboration with Murray Gell-Mann and others, Hartle developed an alternative to the standard Copenhagen interpretation, more general and appropriate to quantum cosmology, based on consistent histories. With Dieter Brill in 1964, he discovered the Brill–Hartle geon, an approximate solution realizing Wheeler's suggestion of a hypothetical phenomenon in which a gravitational wave packet is confined to a compact region of spacetime by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy. With Kip Thorne, Hartle derived from general relativity the laws of motion and precession of black holes and other relativistic bodies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myles Burkett Foster
Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a British illustrator, watercolourist and engraver in the Victorian period. His name is also to be found as Myles Birkett Foster. Life and work Foster was born in North Shields, England of a primarily Quaker family, but his family moved south to London in 1830, where his father founded M. B. Foster & sons — a successful beer-bottling company. He was schooled at Hitchin, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...The Times Wednesday 29 March 1899 and on leaving initially went into his father's business. However, noticing his talent for art, his father secured an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver, Ebenezer Landells, where he worked on illustrations for ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Burkett
Walter Burkert (; 2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult. A professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, he taught in the UK and the US. He has influenced generations of students of religion since the 1960s, combining in the modern way the findings of archaeology and epigraphy with the work of poets, historians, and philosophers. He was a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He published books on the balance between lore and science among the followers of Pythagoras, and more extensively on ritual and archaic cult survival, on the ritual killing at the heart of religion, on mystery religions, and on the reception in the Hellenic world of Near Eastern and Persian culture, which sets Greek religion in its wider Aegean and Near Eastern context. First academic era Burkert was born in Neuendettelsau. He married Maria Bosch in 1957 and they had thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Burkett
Seth Burkett (born 14 March 1991) is an English writer and futsal player and former professional footballer. A defender, Burkett formerly played in Brazil for Sorriso EC, a team in the state league of Mato Grosso. While there, he attracted some attention as the only British footballer playing professionally in Brazil. Early and personal life Burkett was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and grew up in nearby Barnack, also in Cambridgeshire. Burkett is related to the former professional footballer Charlie Williams, who was also active in Brazil, as a manager with Fluminense and Corinthians. Williams has been described in the media as Burkett's great-granduncle. Football career Burkett began his football career with the youth team of hometown club Peterborough United, before later rejecting a contract offer from non-league team Kettering Town to continue his school studies at A-Level. After leaving the Peterborough youth system, Burkett joined non-league club Stamford, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Burkett
Ronnie Burkett, OC is a Canadian puppeteer, best known for his original theatrical plays for adults, performed with marionettes. Burkett, who hails from Medicine Hat, was the puppeteer for Ralph on the TV Ontario series '' Harriet's Magic Hats'' during seasons three and four. He was also credited on two TV shows; Chicken Minute and Little Star. Career After winning a regional Emmy Award in 1979 for the puppets in "Cinderrabbit" on PBS in the US, Burkett formed his own theatre company in Alberta in 1986. His early works included ''Fool's Edge'', ''Virtue Falls'', ''The Punch Club'' and ''Awful Manors''. In 1994, his work ''Tinka's New Dress'' was his international breakthrough, winning two Dora Awards, four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards and a special citation from the Obie Awards. Performed internationally, ''Tinka's New Dress'' was the first part of a trilogy which continued with ''Street of Blood'' in 1999 and ''Happy'' in 2000. He also won a Chalmers Award in 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Burkett
Neil Anthony Burkett (born 16 March 1948) is a South African international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career Burkett won two World Bowls Championship medals; a fours bronze at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing and a silver medal in the fours at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg. He has also won four Commonwealth Games medals including a gold medal in the fours at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria with Alan Lofthouse, Donald Piketh and Robert Rayfield. In 1996, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title with Gerry Baker Gerard Austin "Gerry" Baker (11 April 1938 – 24 August 2013) was an American soccer player. From 1955 until 1970, he played 16 seasons in either the Scottish or English first division. He earned seven caps with the US national team in 196 .... References External links * (1994–2006) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burkett, Neil 1948 births Living people South African male bowls pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael John Burkett
Michael John Burkett (born January 16, 1967), known professionally as Fat Mike, is an American musician and producer. He is the bassist and lead vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX and the bassist for the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Fat Mike started out with his first band False Alarm in 1982. He credits Joe Escalante of the Vandals for introducing him to punk rock when he was 13 at a summer camp. Musical career While attending Beverly Hills High School, Mike began his musical career with the band False Alarm. After the band split up in 1983, he met Eric Melvin and Erik Sandin and formed the original line-up of NOFX. He has also appeared as a guest-vocalist on a number of other bands' tracks including "Peter Brady" on Screeching Weasel's 1993 album, ''Anthem for a New Tomorrow''. Other appearances include "Beware" by Randy, "Mr. Coffee" and "Lazy" by Lagwagon. Mike can also be heard heckling and requesting " Free Bird" at the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Burkett (other)
Michael Burkett may refer to: * Mike Burkett (politician) (born 1948), American attorney and politician from Idaho *Mike Burkett Michael John Burkett (born January 16, 1967), known professionally as Fat Mike, is an American musician and producer. He is the bassist and lead vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX and the bassist for the punk rock supergroup cover band Me Fi ..., popularly known as Fat Mike, punk musician * Michael Burkett (cricketer) (born 1950), South African cricketer {{Hndis, Burkett, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Burkett
Mary Elizabeth Burkett (1924-2014) was an English supporter of the arts, especially in Cumbria, the director of the Abbot Hall Art Gallery from 1966 to 1986, and an expert on felt-making. Early life and education Burkett was born 7 October 1924 in Newcastle upon Tyne, to Alice (nee Gaussen), a violinist, and Ridley Burkett, a watchmaker and repairer. She attended Whickham School, gained a BA and teaching qualification at St Hild's College, University of Durham, and moved down to London to work in teaching. In 1954 she moved to Cumbria as Arts and Craft Lecturer at Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, but gave up this job in 1962 to spend seven months travelling in Turkey and Iran with her friend Genette Malet de Carteret. They co-wrote an account of this trip, ''The Beckoning East: A journey through Turkey and Persia in 1962'' in 2006. It was on this trip that Burkett first developed an interest in felt and feltmaking. Abbot Hall After her travels Burkett was appointed to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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