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Sansom
Sansom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Allison Sansom (born 1994), Thai model * Ann Sansom, English poet * Art Sansom (1920–1991), American cartoonist * Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838–1907), English medical doctor *C. J. Sansom (1952–2024), British writer * Chip Sansom, American comic strip cartoonist * Clive Sansom (1910–1981), British-born Tasmanian poet and playwright * Dixie Sansom (born 1948/1949), American politician * Emma Sansom (1847–1900), American Civil War person *Ernest William Sansom (1890–1982), Canadian general * Gareth Sansom (born 1939), Australian artist *George Bailey Sansom (1883–1965), British historian * Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga (1847-1938), French writer *Ian Sansom (born 1966), English writer * Ivan Sansom, British palaeontologist *Ken Sansom (1927–2012), American actor and voice actor *Kenny Sansom (born 1958), English footballer *Odette Sansom, (1912–1995), Special Operations Executive agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Sansom
Kenneth Graham Sansom (born 26 September 1958) is a former professional footballer who played as a left-back. An England international, he played for clubs such as Crystal Palace, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers, Everton and Watford. He is the second most capped England national team full-back, having appeared 86 times for his country between 1979 and 1988. Club career Kenneth Graham Sansom was born in Camberwell, London on 26 September 1958; the second youngest of five children. His father, George, was an itinerant who left the family home shortly after the birth of his youngest child. His mother, Rose, was a cleaner, and moved the family to Tulse Hill in 1960. He considered himself a goalkeeper in his early years, but while playing for a youth team called Spring Park Wolves he replaced an injured teammate at left-back, and remained a full-back for the rest of his career. He attended Beaufoy Secondary school, and was capped by England schoolb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimbongkod Chankaew
Allison Sansom (born July 31, 1994), also known as by Thai name Pimbongkod Chankaew (; ) is a Thai-American beauty pageant titleholder. She placed first runner-up at Miss Universe Thailand 2014 and represented Thailand in the Miss Universe 2014 pageant after the winner Weluree Ditsayabut resigned her title. Early life and education Sansom was born and raised in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, to a German-American father and a Thai mother. In 2012, she graduated from Eagle Rock High School and she studied at Pasadena City College in California, United States. Pageantry Sansom competed in Miss Universe Thailand 2014 and won first runner-up. A month later, Weluree Ditsayabut, who was crowned Miss Universe Thailand 2014, resigned her title, Sansom represented Thailand at Miss Universe 2014 Miss Universe 2014 was the 63rd Miss Universe pageant, held at the FIU Arena in Miami, Florida, United States on 25 January 2015. This was the first time in the history of the competition that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sansom
Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn) is a British palaeontologist, Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham. His research has focused primarily on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain. The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ....http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/sansomij.shtml University of Birmingham: Ivan Sansom (Accessed April 2011) Sansom is an editor of the ''Journal of the Geological Society''. In 2001 Sansom was a recipient of the Palaeontological Association's Hodson Award, conferred on palaeontologists who have made a notable early contribution to the science.http://www.palass.org/modules.php?name=palaeo&page=119&sec=awards The Palaeontological Association: Hodson Award (Accessed April 2011) Selected publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Olga Sansom
Rosa Olga Sansom (née Jensen; 3 June 1900 – 1 July 1989) was a New Zealand teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster and writer. She was a curator at Southland Museum and became the director of that museum in 1953. She was a founding member of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. In 1979, she was awarded the Queens Service Medal. Early life and education Sansom was born on at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand, in 1900. Her parents were Mary Elizabeth Leask and Newton Julius (Hans) Jensen, who was a fisherman and farmer. She was educated at Halfmoon Bay School, and then Southland Girls' High School, after which she was a probationary teacher at Waikiwi School in Invercargill. Sansom later taught at Longridge Village School and Menzies Ferry School. Museum and botanical work Sansom became an honorary curator at the Southland Museum in June of 1948, having previously volunteered there. From March 1953 until 1959 she was director of the museum, making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Sansom
Ray Sansom (born July 11, 1962) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing portions of Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties from 2002 to February 21, 2010. Sansom is married to Tricia Raimey Sansom and they have three children. Sansom lists his religious affiliation as Baptist and actively attended Wright Baptist Church in Fort Walton Beach, Florida for many years. Sansom received his bachelor's degree in political science from the Florida State University in 1984 and his master's degree in education from the University of West Florida in 1993. Prior to his election to the Florida House of Representatives, he served on the Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners from 1992 to 2000. He received the Okaloosa County Management Association's Presidents Award in 1999 and the Association of Counties, Freshman of the Year award in 2003. Sansom was elected Speaker of the Florida House on November 18, 2008. He temporarily stepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sansom
Philip Richard Sansom (19 September 1916 – 24 October 1999) was an English conscientious objector, anarchist, surrealist, writer, cartoonist and activist. Early life and education Sansom was the son of John Sansom, lathe operator, and Lillian Sansom (née Underwood), occupation unknown, who lived in Hackney, London. He later lived in Wandsworth in south London. Having been influenced by ''Education through art'' by Herbert Read, the acclaimed art historian, he trained as a commercial artist iWest Ham Technical College Sansom (1987) recalled that at the time, in 1936, Read was ‘already established as England’s leading writer on modern art in all its facets’ and that his books: '“The meaning of art”, “Art and industry” and “Art and society” were almost required reading for my generation of art students'. After Sansom left art college, he worked as a commercial artist. Second World War During the Second World War Sansom worked on the land as a registered co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sansom
Peter Sansom (born 1958) is a British poet. Biography Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. For ten years Peter taught the MA Poetry at Huddersfield University before becoming a Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds University. He is currently Company Poet with Prudential. He is also a director with Ann Sansom of the Poetry Business in Sheffield, where they edit ''The North'' magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books. Sansom's book, ''Writing Poems'', is published by Bloodaxe (1994). Carcanet Press publish his five poetry collections: ''Everything You’ve Heard is True'', a Poetry Book Society Recommendation (1990), ''January'' (1994), for which he received an Arts Council Writer's Bursary and an award from the Society of Authors, ''Point of Sale'' (2000) and ''The Last Place on Earth'' (2006). The poet is married to the poet, Ann Sansom and has four children. He is a writer-in-residence with Marks and Spencer and a Guest Poet at ''The Times Educational Supplement''. He has rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Operations Executive
Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local Resistance during World War II, resistance movements during World War II. SOE personnel operated in all territories occupied or attacked by the Axis powers, except where demarcation lines were agreed upon with Britain's principal Allies of World War II, Allies, the United States and the Soviet Union. SOE made use of neutral territory on occasion, or made plans and preparations in case neutral countries were attacked by the Axis. The organisation directly employed or controlled more than 13,000 people, of whom 3,200 were women. Both men and women served as agents in Axis-occupied countries. The organisation was dissolved in 1946. A memorial to those who served in SOE was unveiled in 1996 on the wall of the west cloister of Westminster Abbey by the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Mother, and in 2009 on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odette Sansom
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes, (née Brailly; 28 April 1912 – 13 March 1995), also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second World War. She was the first woman to be awarded the George Cross by the United Kingdom and was awarded the Légion d'honneur by France. The following information relating to her war service uses 'Sansom' as this was her surname during this period. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. Sansom arrived in France on the night of 3/4 November 1942 to work as a courier with the SOE F Section networks#Spindle, Spindle network (or circuit) of SOE headed by Peter Churchill (whom she later married). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Sansom
Frank Kenneth Sansom (April 2, 1927 – October 8, 2012) was an American actor. Among his best known roles, Sansom voiced Rabbit (Winnie-the-Pooh)#Disney adaptations, Rabbit in animated television series, television specials, and films for Disney's ''Winnie the Pooh (franchise), Winnie the Pooh'' franchise from 1988 to 2010. Early life Sansom was born on April 2, 1927, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He enlisted in the United States Navy soon after graduating from East High School (Salt Lake City), East High School in Salt Lake City in 1944. Sansom enrolled at the University of Utah following World War II, but did not complete his studies there. He transferred to Brigham Young University, where he received a bachelor's degree in radio broadcasting in 1949. He was recalled by the U.S. Navy for service during the Korean War. He served as a member of the United Service Organizations, providing entertainment to American troops while in Korea. Career Sansom started his career in 1957 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Sansom
Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966) is an English novelist, best known as the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. , he had written four books in the series, which is projected to comprise forty-four novels. He is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, ''The Guardian'' and the ''London Review of Books''. Sansom was born in Essex and educated at the Oxford and the Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and teaches in its writing programme. Personal life Ian Sansom is married with three children. They live in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub .... Bibliography *''The Truth About Babies: F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
