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Bil
BIL or Bil may refer to: Mythology * Bil, a Norse goddess * Bil (Mandaeism), the Mandaean name for Jupiter People * Bil Baird (1904–1987), American puppeteer * Bil Dwyer (1907-1987), American cartoonist and humorist * Bil Dwyer (born 1962), American stand-up comedian and game show host * Bil Herd, computer designer * Bil Keane (1922–2011), American cartoonist best known for his comic strip ''The Family Circus'' * Bil Marinkovic (born 1973), Austrian blind Paralympic athlete * Bil Zelman (born 1972), American photographer and director Transport * Billingham railway station, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England, by station code * Billings Logan International Airport, by IATA code Other * Basic impulse insulation level, electrical term * ''BIL'' (yacht) * Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, co-owner of Luxair * Boolean Integrase Logic, a transcriptor based biological equivalent of electronic logic * British & Irish Lions, a representative touring rugby union team compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billings Logan International Airport
Billings Logan International Airport is in the western United States, northwest of downtown Billings, in Yellowstone County, Montana. It is the second largest airport in Montana, having been surpassed in recent years by Bozeman in both number of gates as well as annual enplanements. Owned by the city of Billings, the airport is on top of the Rims, a cliff overlooking the downtown core, and covers of land. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 387,368 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2013, 388,329 in 2010 and 397,073 in 2009. Billings Logan International Airport has scheduled nonstop flights to several airline hubs such as Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland, Salt Lake City and Seattle. Billings also serves as a small hub for Cape Air, a commut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Keane
William Aloysius "Bil" Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the newspaper comic '' The Family Circus''. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. Early life and education Keane was born in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Crescentville, and attended parochial school at St. William Parish and Northeast Catholic High School. While a schoolboy, he taught himself to draw by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in ''The New Yorker''. His first cartoon was published on May 21, 1936, on the amateur page of the ''Philadelphia Daily News''. While in high school, his in-comic signature was spelled "Bill Keane", but early in his career, he omitted the second L from his first name "to be distinctive". Career Keane served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, drawing for '' Yank'' and creating the "At Ease with the Japanese" feature for the Pacific edition of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Dwyer
William Michael "Bil" Dwyer (born March 30, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, game show host, actor, and writer. He is perhaps most well known as the host or play-by-play announcer on series such as ''BattleBots,'' ''I've Got a Secret'', and ''Extreme Dodgeball'', as well as several iterations of VH1's '' I Love the '70s'', '' I Love the '80s'', and '' I Love the '90s'', and a 2006 appearance on ''Last Comic Standing''. His debut comedy album, ''Am I Yelling?'', was released in September 2020 by comedy label Stand Up! Records. Personal life Dwyer was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois, the youngest of five children in an Irish Catholic family. He graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1984 with a degree in radio and television. Before landing on comedy as a career Dwyer worked as a DJ, a salesman, and a tour guide at Universal Studios. Dwyer has been married since 1993 and has four children. He lives in Glendale, California. Dwyer spells his first name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billingham Railway Station
Billingham is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated north-west of Middlesbrough, serves the town of Billingham, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The station is a modern-style halt on the line and was opened on Monday 7 November 1966 to replace the town's original grander station located further west towards Norton; this closed the previous day and was subsequently demolished in the early 1970s. It was located to the west of the junction between the Durham Coast Line and the earlier Port Clarence Branch of the Clarence Railway, adjacent to the level crossing carrying the old route of the A19 across the railway. Only the signal box and footbridge survive on the site of the original station. The new Billingham station, built by the Eastern Region of British Rail, was provided with a booking hall, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Herd
Bil Herd is a computer engineer who created several designs for 8-bit home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the early to mid-1980s. Biography He attended the Indiana school system. Herd did not have a college degree, and did not graduate high school, though he was working as an engineer by the age of 20. Military service Military service: * 1977–1980: 238th Cavalry - 38th Division Indiana Army National Guard * 1980–1982: 103rd Medical Battalion - 28th Division Pennsylvania Army National Guard * 1981: Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service. Working for Commodore After first acting as the principal engineer on the Commodore Plus/4, C16/116, C264, and C364 machines, Herd designed the significantly more successful Commodore 128, a dual-CPU, triple- OS, compatible successor to the Commodore 64. Prior to the C128, Herd had done the initial architecture of the Commodore LCD computer, which was not released. File:Commodor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Baird
William Britton "Bil" Baird (August 15, 1904 – March 18, 1987) was an American puppeteer of the mid- and late 20th century. In a career that spanned over 60 years, he and his puppets performed for millions of adults and children. One of his better known creations was Charlemane the lion. He and his wife Cora Eisenberg Baird (1912–1967) produced and performed the famous puppetry sequence for "The Lonely Goatherd" in the film version of ''The Sound of Music''. His son Peter Baird was also a puppeteer, and he continued his family's legacy until his own death in July 2004. He wrote ''The Art of the Puppet'' (1965) and provided the puppets for ''Dark Shadows''. Baird also created the expandable nose Peter Noone wore as Pinocchio in the 1968 musical adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story that aired on NBC as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special. Early life Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Baird grew up in Mason City, Iowa. He traced his love of puppets to the moment when his fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Dwyer (cartoonist)
William Raphael Louis Dwyer, Jr. (January 29, 1907 – December 13, 1987), known as Bil Dwyer, was an American cartoonist and humorist. He was known for several newspaper comic strips in the 1930s and 1950s, including ''Dumb Dora'' and ''Sandy Hill'', as well as a series of humorous books of Southern slang published in the 1970s. Early life Dwyer was born in Ohio on January 29, 1907. The family lived in the Ohio towns of Portsmouth, Perrysburg and Paint when he was young. Dwyer attended Ohio State University around 1925, where he befriended fellow cartoonist Milton Caniff. Around this time, the two worked together at the ''Columbus Dispatch'' newspaper. Dwyer left Ohio State after only a few months to enroll in the Yale School of Art, in part to be closer to the New York publishing world. Dwyer sold gag cartoons to publications such as the ''New Yorker'', '' College Humor'' and '' Collier's''. He eventually dropped out of Yale also when his cartooning career began to take off. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Zelman
Bil Zelman is an American photographer and director known for his powerful, candid portraiture and spontaneous, photojournalistic style. Zelman developed a highly stylized form of hard-flash street photography while in art school and Los Angeles Times art critic Leah Ollman compares the "psychological density"Ollman, LeahIn `No Single Truth,' Humanity's Potential for Good and Bad''Los Angeles Times''. 16 November 2001. of his work to the likes of Garry Winogrand, Larry Fink, Diane Arbus and William Klein- photographers that are "purposely getting it wrong in one way so as to get it right in another, disrupting visual order to ignite a kind of visceral disorder". In 2020 Daylight Books published ''And Here We Are- Stories From the Sixth Extinction'', a collection of noir landscapes and writings about the current extinction crisis with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E. O. Wilson. "Equally striking as it is meaningful, this powerful work is a critical reminder that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil Marinkovic
Bil Marinkovic (born 16 August 1973) is a blind Paralympic athlete from Austria who competes mostly in throwing events. Bil has competed in four consecutive Paralympics. In his first appearance in 2000 he competed in the F12 discus, javelin, pentathlon and 100m, failing to win a medal in any of the disciplines. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics he competed in the more severe F11 classification, for athletes with no usable vision. He won the gold medal in the javelin, breaking the then world record with his throw. He won a bronze medal in the F11 discus event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He has won multiple IPC Athletics World Championships The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ... medals. Marinkovic is the current F11 world record holder in javelin. Currently, Marinko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bil (Mandaeism)
In Mandaeism, Bil ( myz, ࡁࡉࡋ) or Bel is the Mandaic name for the planet Jupiter. Bil is one of the seven planets ( myz, ࡔࡅࡁࡀ, translit=šuba, lit=The Seven), who are part of the entourage of Ruha in the World of Darkness (Mandaeism), World of Darkness. Bil, who is also called ''Angʿil'', is associated with masculinity and also with hotness and moistness (''see also'' four temperaments). Bil's name is derived from the Akkadian Bel (mythology), Bēlu. References Planets in Mandaeism Jupiter in culture {{cosmology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British & Irish Lions
The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for the national teams of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Lions are a test side and most often select players who have already played for their national team, although they can pick uncapped players who are eligible for any of the four unions. The team currently tours every four years, with these rotating between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in order. The most recent test series, the 2021 series against South Africa, was won 2–1 by South Africa. From 1888 onwards, combined British rugby sides toured the Southern Hemisphere. The first tour was a commercial venture, undertaken without official backing. The six subsequent visits enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities, before the 1910 South Africa tour, which was the first tour representative of the four Home Unions. In 1949 the four Home Unions formally created a Tours Committee and for the first time, every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beall
Beall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bob Beall (born 1948), American baseball player * Daryl Beall (born 1946), American politician *George Beall (born 1729), landowner whose partial holdings were ceded to establish Georgetown in Washington, D.C. * George Beall (attorney) (1937–2017), prosecutor who brought down U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew * James Andrew Beall (1866–1929), American politician, represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1903 to 1915 * James Glenn Beall (1894–1971), U.S. Senator from Maryland * Jim Beall (California politician) (born 1952), American politician *Jeffrey Beall, American librarian *J. Glenn Beall Jr. James Glenn Beall Jr. (June 19, 1927March 24, 2006) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician and businessman from the U.S. state, state of Maryland who served in the United States House of Representatives, represent ... (1927–2006), U.S. Senator from Maryland * Jo Beall (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
