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Walsh School Of Foreign Service Faculty
Walsh may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walsh (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters Places Australia * Mount Walsh, Mount Walsh National Park Canada * Fort Walsh, one of the first Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts, site of the Cypress Hills Massacre * Walsh, Alberta, a hamlet * Walsh, Ontario, a hamlet * Walsh Lake, Quebec United States * Walsh, Colorado, a Statutory Town * Walsh, Michigan, a former settlement * Walsh, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Walsh County, North Dakota United Kingdom * Shelsley Walsh, village and civil parish in Worcestershire Schools * Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. * Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio, a private Catholic university * Walsh College, Troy, Michigan * Walsh Jesuit High School, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Other uses * , a planned United States Navy guided missile destroyer * USS ''Walsh'' (APD-111), a United States Navy high-speed transport in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh (surname)
Walsh () is a common Irish surname, meaning " Briton" or "foreigner" (literally "Welshman" or "Wales"), taken to Ireland by soldiers from Britain, namely Welsh, Cambro-Norman, Cornish and Cumbrian soldiers during and after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It is the fourth most common surname in Ireland, and the 265th most common in the United States. There are variants including "Walshe", “ Welch”, "Welsh", and "Brannagh" (an anglicisation of the Irish form). Walsh is uncommon as a given name. The name is often pronounced "Welsh" in the south and west of the country. In Great Britain, Guppy encountered the name only in Lancashire. It is the surname of the Barons Ormathwaite. History Origins in Ireland There are several Walsh families in Ireland who have recognized coats of arms. These are the Walshs of Ballykilcaven in County Laois whose motto is "Firm" and their crest is a griffin's head. The Walshs of Castlehale in County Kilkenny have a crest with a swan pierced by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelsley Walsh
Shelsley Walsh is a small village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, on the western side of the River Teme. For administrative purposes it is presently located in the Teme Valley ward of the county’s Malvern Hills district. In the 2011 Census there was an estimated population of 28 people in 12 households. The site has been farmed since Anglo Saxon times and there are also vestiges of former industry, but it is now best known for its association with the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb. History The name of the settlement was recorded as ''Celdeslai'' in the Domesday Book, with the meaning of "Sceald's clearing": from Old English ''Sceald'' (a personal name) and ''leāh'' (wood, clearing). Other spellings were used in the following centuries, and the location was also known as Little Shelsley to distinguish it from Great Shelsley (Shelsley Beauchamp) on the opposite side of the River Teme. The village was described in 1831 as being within the upper division of Doddin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh Convention
:''See the Glossary of contract bridge terms for an explanation of unfamiliar words or phrases.'' Walsh is a convention used in the card game of bridge in response to an opening bid of 1. The convention has its origins in the Walsh System developed by Richard and Rhoda Walsh. In general, the Walsh convention is not used in four-card major systems such as Acol, but may be employed in some five-card major systems; especially those that use a prepared club, rather than better minor. The opening bid of 1 will therefore have shown either clubs or a balanced hand. When responder is too weak to force to game diamond suits are bypassed in favour of major suits, regardless of the length of the diamond suit. For example, holding , the response to the opening bid of 1 would be 1 rather than the normal 1. Continuations vary according to other details of the system being played. If Checkback Stayman Stayman is a bidding convention in the card game contract bridge. It is used by a partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Walsh, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct. * Walsh baronets of Little Ireland (1645) * Walsh baronets of Ormathwaite and Warfield (1804): see Baron Ormathwaite Baron Ormathwaite, of Ormathwaite in the County of Cumberland, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 April 1868 for Sir John Walsh, 2nd Baronet, the long-standing former Member of Parliament for Sudbury and Rad ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh Set index articles on titles of nobility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Walsh (APD-111)
USS ''Walsh'' (APD-111) was a United States Navy ''Crosley''-class high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946. She was scrapped in 1968. Namesake Patrick Joseph Walsh was born on 19 January 1908 in New York City. He accepted a commission in the United States Naval Reserve as a lieutenant, junior grade, on 4 May 1942. He received instruction at the Naval Training School, Boston, Massachusetts, and later received more specialized training at the Armed Guard School at Little Creek, Virginia, from 16 June 1942 to 22 July 1942. Walsh was Naval Armed Guard detachment commander aboard the merchant ship SS ''Patrick J. Hurley'' in the North Atlantic Ocean on the night of 12 September 1942 when the stealthily surfaced and closed on the ''Patrick J. Hurley''. Undetected, ''U-512'' opened fire on ''Patrick J. Hurley'' with devastating effect. Walsh fell severely wounded in the initial shelling, taking shrapnel in the throat. In spite of the machine-gun fire directed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh Jesuit High School
Walsh Jesuit High School is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school in the Jesuit tradition, located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, approximately south of Cleveland. Walsh's campus covers and is situated near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The campus features five outdoor athletic fields, a 5,000 meter cross country track, a 1,600 seat gymnasium, a field house, wrestling room, an all-sports complex (formerly known as Conway Memorial Stadium), and a residence for the Jesuit priests that staff the school. The school's chapel, named in honor of its patron saints, the North American Jesuit Martyrs, is topped with the distinctive metallic cross which has become the school's most prominent symbol and landmark. History Walsh Jesuit High School was funded by a generous gift from Cornelius Walsh (b. 1864), a prominent industrialist and Catholic layman who had lived his entire life in Cuyahoga Falls. Upon his death in 1932, Cornelius bequeathed his entire for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh College
Walsh College is a private college in Troy, Michigan. Founded in 1922 by Mervyn B. Walsh, it is an upper division undergraduate and graduate institution that primarily focuses on business education. History The college began with the founding of the Walsh Institute of Accountancy and the introduction of the Pace Accounting Method, at the time an innovative way of teaching accounting. Mervyn B. Walsh, a certified public accountant, purchased a Pace & Pace franchise to offer the Pace Accounting Method exclusively in Detroit. He founded the Walsh Institute of Accountancy on July 7, 1922, and on September 18 of that year, 23 students were enrolled in the first courses at the institute. When Mervyn Walsh retired in 1965, the state of Michigan had adopted a new bachelor's degree requirement for candidates to sit for the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination. At this time, Michigan's community college system was developing and a pivotal decision was made to build upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh University
Walsh University is a Private university, private Catholic university in North Canton, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1960 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction as a liberal arts college, it enrolls approximately 2,100 students as of 2023. The university offers more than 70 undergraduate majors and seven graduate programs, as well as multiple global learning experiences. History The school's namesake is Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown. Walsh University was founded as LaMennais College in Alfred, Maine, in 1951 by the Brothers of Christian Instruction to educate young men as brothers and teachers. In 1957, Brother Robert A. Francoeur of LaMennais College and Monsignor William Hughes of Youngstown, Ohio, discussed the Brothers' wish to move LaMennais College from Maine, and Bishop Walsh invited the Brothers to choose Canton, Ohio, as the new location. Bishop Walsh donated $304,000 to the Walsh College project. In 1959, the present location o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh School Of Foreign Service
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It grants degrees at both Undergraduate education, undergraduate and Postgraduate education, graduate levels. Founded in 1919, SFS is the oldest continuously operating International relations#Emergence as academic discipline, school for international affairs in the United States, predating the United States Foreign Service, U.S. Foreign Service by six years. SFS was established by Edmund A. Walsh with the goal of preparing Americans for various international professions in the wake of expanding U.S. involvement in world affairs after World War I. Today, the school hosts a student body of approximately 2,250 from over 100 nations each year. It offers an undergraduate program based in the liberal arts, which leads to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree, as well as eight Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary graduate progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh County, North Dakota
Walsh County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,563, and was estimated to be 10,214 in 2024. The county seat and the largest city is Grafton. History The Dakota Territory legislature created the county on May 2, 1881, with areas partitioned from Grand and Pembina counties. It was organized on August 30 of that same year, with Grafton as county seat. It was named for George H. Walsh (1845–1913), a newspaperman and politician in Grand Forks. In 1946, Walsh County was the site of one of North Dakota's deadliest tornadoes. The storm killed 11 people, including eight in Walsh County, one in Manitoba, and two in Minnesota. Geography Walsh County lies on the eastern side of North Dakota. Its eastern boundary line abuts the western boundary line of the state of Minnesota (across the Red River). The Red River flows northward along the east side of the county on its way to Hudson Bay in Canada. The south branch of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Walsh National Park
Mount Walsh is a national park in Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane. A prominent landmark in the Biggenden region is the granite bluff area of Mount Walsh which rises to above sea level in the northern part of park. The summit has three peaks. Exposed granite outcrops, rugged ridges and steep forested slopes support a range of vegetation. The "Bluff" area of Mount Walsh is located at the park's northern end and is a prominent landmark of the Biggenden area. The park features sheltered gullies, rugged ridge lines with mountain areas with spectacular exposed granite outcrops and cliffs support a diversity of vegetation. Such diversity gives a home to many endangered animal species such as the powerful owl and grey goshawk. Visitors may also see peregrine falcons, dingoes, wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos and lace monitors. A complex landscape has led to diverse vegetation communities which includes heath, shrubland, woodland, open forest and dry forest. There are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsh, Wisconsin
Walsh is an unincorporated community located in the town of Porterfield, in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. Geography Walsh is located along County Trunk Highway G at the intersection with Bagley Road and Twin Creek Road,''Porterfield Quadrangle Wisconsin–Marinette Co., 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)''. 1982. Map, 1:24,000. Reston, VA: U. S. Geological Survey. at an elevation of . It is connected by road to Rubys Corner to the east, Loomis to the west, and Porterfield to the south (via County Trunk Highway E). The town of Porterfield's town hall and fire station are located in Walsh. Name The community was originally known as Rawnsville in the nineteenth century. It was named for the family of Jacob Rawn (1819–1896; surname earlier spelled ''Rein'', ''Raan'', or ''Rhyne''), who settled in the area. The name was changed to Walsh on July 5, 1902. The new name honored John R. Walsh (1837–1911) of Chicago. Walsh was the founder of the Chicago National Bank, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
