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Corin
Corin is a given name in English deriving from the Latin Quirinus, a Roman god. The meaning is unclear but is probably associated with "spear". The name is that of a character in William Shakespeare's ''As You Like It''. It is also used as a family name. First name Corin is a masculine or feminine given name. * Corin Hewitt (born 1971), American sculptor and photographer * Corin Mellor (born 1966), British designer *Corin Nemec (born 1971), American actor *Corin Redgrave (1939–2010), British actor and political activist * Corin Robertson (born 1972), British diplomat * Corin Thunderfist, fictional character and twin of Cor in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' *Corin Tucker (born 1972), American singer and guitarist Surname *Jaclyn Corin, American activist and advocate for gun control * Joshua Corin, American writer *Lucy Corin, American writer *William Corin (1867–1929), Australian electrical engineer Related names *Corina, including Corine and Coreen *Korin (other) *Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina
Corina is a female given name of ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden". ''Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon'' Variants and diminutives include , Cori, Corri, Corinne, Corine, Kora, Korina and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaclyn Corin
Jaclyn Corin (born October 27, 2000) is an American activist against gun violence. She survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. She is one of the co-founders of March for Our Lives and the organizer of a student protest to Tallahassee, Florida. She has also been a vocal critic of politicians funded by the National Rifle Association. Corin was included in ''Time'' magazine's ''100 Most Influential People of 2018.'' Education and shooting As a student attending the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jaclyn Corin was the junior class president at the time of the deadly shooting in 2018. Her close friends Joaquin Oliver and Jaime Guttenberg were killed in the shooting; she had once tutored the 19-year-old alleged gunman and former student of the school, Nikolas Cruz. During the shooting, Corin was locked in a room with other classmates for several hours, emerging with hands up as instructed by the police SWAT units. Advocacy Corin met with fellow stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Tucker
Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney. Tucker is also a member of the alternative rock supergroup Filthy Friends, and previously recorded with the indie rock group Heavens to Betsy and The Corin Tucker Band. ''Entertainment Weekly'' writes, "Corin Tucker’s place in rock history is already set in stone, and her work in the riot grrrl era is pretty much peerless, thanks to the muscular guitar style, otherworldly wail, and knack for punchy, pounding three-minute blasts she brought to such great heights with riot queens Sleater-Kinney." ''Rolling Stone'' called her “a punk-rock heroine." Early life Tucker was born in State College, Pennsylvanaia and spent her childhood in Grand Forks, North Dakota. There, her father was a college professor and her mother was a medical technician. Her father is also a folk singer and musician.McDonnell, Evelyn. 1997. “There’s a Riot G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Redgrave
Corin William Redgrave (16 July 19396 April 2010) was an English actor and left-wing socialist activist. Early life Redgrave was born on 16 July 1939 in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. He was educated at Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge. Career Redgrave played a wide range of character roles on film, television and stage. On stage, he was known for performances by Shakespeare (such as ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Henry IV, Part 1'','' Antony and Cleopatra'', and '' The Tempest'') and Noël Coward (a highly successful revival of ''A Song At Twilight'' co-starring his sister Vanessa Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham). For his role as the prison warden Boss Whalen in the Royal National Theatre production of Tennessee Williams's '' Not About Nightingales'', Redgrave was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and after a successful transfer of the production to New York, he received a Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is an American novelist and short story writer. The winner of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters John Guare Writer's Fund Rome Prize, Corin was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2015. Writing Her collection of short stories, ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'', was published by McSweeney's in 2013. ''Bustle'' wrote: "Corin caters to our fascination with neuroses and habits, and by exaggerating aspects of our thought processes and societal quirks, she leaves us thinking deeply about parts of humanity we don't often examine under a magnifying glass." A review by Jonathan Deuel in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' read: "The dreamy, fairy-tale qualities and allegorical ambitions of these stories are tempered with sophistication and terror, making ''One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses'' ageless...I'm frightened by Corin. I'm dazzled by her writing." Corin's second novel, ''The Swank Hotel'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Nemec
Joseph Charles Nemec IV (born November 5, 1971), known professionally as Corin Nemec, is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He was billed as Corin "Corky" Nemec or Corky Nemec until 1990. Nemec is known for playing the title character in FOX sitcom ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'' (1990–93), Jonas Quinn in television series ''Stargate SG-1'', and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries ''The Stand''. Nemec is known in India for his role as Allan in Rahul Dholakia's 2007 film ''Parzania.'' Personal life Nemec (Corky) was born on November 5, 1971. His mother, Janis was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer, and poet. His father, Joseph Charles Nemec III, is of Czech descent, and works in the film industry as a set designer and production designer. His older sister, Anastacia C. Nemec, works also as an assistant director. Corin dated Jami Beth Schahn when they were teenagers, and in 1993 they had their first child, Sadie Joy. Corin and Jami married in 2002 and had the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Hewitt
Corin Hewitt (born 1971) is an American artist. His work has been shown widely in the U.S. as well as Europe. He has had several U.S. solo museum exhibitions including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and Seattle Art Museum. Hewitt's work is held in the collections of the Whitney and Seattle Art Museum. He has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014/15 Rome Prize. He is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Career Hewitt received a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College. He is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Solo exhibitions *''Seed Stage'', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008/2009 *''SAM Next: Corin Hewitt'', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 2009 *''The Hedge'', Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2013 Awards *2010: Joan Mitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Robertson
Corin Robertson (born 15 January 1972) is a British diplomat. She has previously served as British Ambassador to Mexico between 2018 and 2021, the Director of Estates and Security between 2014 and 2017 and the Deputy Head of Mission to the British High Commission, Ottawa between 2011 and 2014. Robertson served as British Ambassador to Mexico The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mexico is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the United Mexican States, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Mexico. Besides the embassy in Mexico City, the UK also maintains ... from October 2018 to August 2021. She was succeeded by Jon Benjamin, after that she was transferred to a different diplomatic appointment. References 1972 births Living people 21st-century British diplomats British women ambassadors High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Canada Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mexico Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge {{U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Thunderfist
This is a list of characters in the series of fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis called ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. See also a list of Narnia Character Portrayals, portrayals. A *Ahoshta: a 60-year-old Tarkaan of Calormen who later becomes the Grand Vizier, chief adviser to the Tisroc (king). Aravis' stepmother arranged for her to marry him, but Aravis hated him because of his age, appearance, character, and base birth. The Horse and His Boy, (HHB) *Alambil: "Lady of Peace", a planet (moving star) in the heavens above Narnia Prince Caspian, (PC) *Alimash: Calormene nobleman, cousin of Aravis The Horse and His Boy, (HHB) *Anradin Tarkaan: Calormene nobleman, former owner of Bree, who wants to buy Shasta The Horse and His Boy, (HHB) *Aravis, Aravis Tarkheena: the daughter of a Calormene nobleman; she flees when her stepmother attempts to marry her to Ahoshta. She escapes from Calormen with Shasta, and becomes Queen of Archenland after marrying him. The Horse and His Boy, (HHB) *Ardeeb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters In As You Like It
The following is a list of characters in William Shakespeare's ''As You Like It''. Full plahere The Court of Duke Frederick Duke Frederick Duke Frederick is the younger brother of Duke Senior and the father of Celia. Prior to the play he usurps power from his older brother. His hatefulness and paranoia are displayed when he banishes Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior. However, at the end of the play, as Duke Frederick brings his army towards the forest to kill his brother, he happens upon an old priest who convinces him to take up the monastic life of peace and simplicity. Celia Celia is the daughter of Duke Frederick. She has been portrayed as a foil to her cousin, Rosalind. She displays qualities of the head and heart similar to her cousin. Rosalind and Celia are intimate friends who have been bred and brought up together. It is the love for Rosalind that makes Celia choose a life of voluntary exile. In fact, Celia effects her own individuality so that her cousin may shin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Corin
William Corin (13 October 1867- 2 March 1929) was an English-born electrical engineer, who undertook some of the early design of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electricity Scheme in Australia. He was born in Kent, England and was educated at King's College School and University College, London. He worked as a civil engineer after graduating until 1891 when he became an electrical engineer. He migrated to Tasmania in 1895. In Australia his interest in electrical engineering took off. He designed the Duck Reach Power Station and made early surveys for the Great Lakes schemes. In 1907 he was made Chief Electrical Engineer to the New South Wales Department of Public Works. He was in charge of the generation of thermal electricity. In 1915 he commenced writing a series of reports on a Snowy River scheme. In 1920 Corin estimated the cost of the Snowy River scheme at £2 million and that it would produce 1,500GwH of power. He worked for both the British and French Governments on pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corin Mellor
Corin Mellor (born 17 December 1966) is a designer specializing in silverware, tableware and furniture. Son of the biographer Fiona MacCarthy and the cutlery designer David Mellor, he succeeded his father on his retirement in 2002 as creative director of the family-owned manufacturing and retailing company David Mellor Design. Early life and training Mellor was born in Sheffield and trained in product design at Kingston University. He worked for the London architects Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall before joining his father in the family design firm. David Mellor shops and Design Museum Mellor has been involved in the David Mellor shops, the first of which opened in Sloane Square, London in 1969. He has responsibility for the design of the interior and the product selection, and has designed various items. Mellor also designed the interior of the David Mellor Design Museum in Hathersage, Derbyshire, working closely with the architect Michael Hopkins. The museum won a Countryside A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
