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Aldis (name)
Aldis is both a given name and surname. As a given name, it is predominantly a masculine Latvian name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Aldis Bernard (c. 1810 – 1876), Canadian politician and mayor of Montreal * Aldis Bērziņš (born 1956), Latvian-American volleyball player and Olympic medalist * Aldis Eglājs (born 1936), Latvian sailboat designer and builder * Aldis Gobzems (born 1978), Latvian politician * Aldis Hodge (born 1986), American film and television actor * Aldis Intlers (1965–1994), Latvian bobsledder and Olympic competitor * Aldis Kļaviņš (1975–2000), Latvian slalom canoeist and Olympic competitor *Aldis Kušķis (born 1965), Latvian politician Surname * Archie Aldis Emmerson (born 1929), American businessman * Asa Aldis (1770–1847), American lawyer and judge * Asa O. Aldis (1811–1891), American lawyer and diplomat * Charles Aldis (1776–1863), English surgeon * Charles James Berridge Aldis (1808–1872), English physician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9million. The country has a Temperate climate, temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian language, Latvian. Russians in Latvia, Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian language, Russian as their native tongue. After centuries of State of the Teutonic Order, Teutonic, Swedish Livonia, Swedish, Inflanty Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles James Berridge Aldis
Charles James Berridge Aldis (16 January 1808 – 26 July 1872) was an English physician, son of Sir Charles Aldis. Biography He was born in London on 16 January 1808, and was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in January 1831. He studied medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and St. George's Hospital, London, and became M.D. Cambridge in 1837, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1838. He lectured on medicine first at his own house, afterwards at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at the Aldersgate Street School. He was successively physician to the London Dispensary, 1839; the Surrey Dispensary, 1843; the Farringdon Dispensary, 1844; the Western Dispensary, Westminster; and the St. Paul and St. Barnabas Dispensary, Pimlico, founded in 1848. A great part of Aldis's life was occupied in the arduous and unremunerated service of these institutions. Aldis took great interest in the sanitary condition of gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldis (other)
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Aldis may refer to: *Aldis (name), a masculine given name *Aldis SRL, a Romanian meat and smallgoods processing company *Aldis lamp, a type of signal lamp * ALDIS (Austrian Lightning Detection & Information System) a lightning detection sensor network on the territory of Austria See also *Aldi Aldi (German pronunciation: ), stylised as ALDI, is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickie James-Aldis
Mickie Laree James (born August 31, 1979) Additional January 6, 2017. is an American country singer and professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE. She is also signed to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) as Creative Director, Head of Female Talent and Executive Producer. She is also known for her tenures in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). James began her wrestling career in 1999 as a valet on the independent circuit, where she was known under the name Alexis Laree. She trained in several camps to improve her wrestling abilities before working for NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA: TNA, later Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, later Impact Wrestling, now Total Nonstop Action Wrestling again) in 2002, where she gained national attention. After only a few appearances, she joined a stable called The Gathering and was written into storylines with the group. She is the only woman to be involved in the promotion's Clockwork Orange House of Fun mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aldis Wright
William Aldis Wright (1 August 183119 May 1914) was an English writer and classical scholar. He was best known for founding '' The Cambridge Shakespeare'' alongside writer William George Clark. Additionally, he was friends with poet Edward FitzGerald and published many of his works posthumously. Life Wright was son of George Wright, a Baptist minister in Beccles, Suffolk. He was educated at Beccles Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1858. As a nonconformist, Wright was ineligible for election to a Trinity fellowship until 1878, but became Librarian and Senior Bursar of Trinity before that date. He opposed the allegations by Simonides that the ''Codex Sinaiticus'' discovered by Constantin von Tischendorf was produced around 1840. Duly elected Fellow in 1878, he became vice-master of the college in 1888. He was one of the editors of the ''Journal of Philology'' from its foundation in 1868, and was secretary to the Old Testament revision compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Aldis
Nicholas Harry Aldis (born 6 November 1986) is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is a producer and the on-screen general manager of the SmackDown brand. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Magnus from 2008 to 2015, and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 2017 to 2022. Aldis made his debut on the British independent circuit in 2004 before signing with his first major contract with TNA in 2008. During his seven-year tenure there, he won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship once, becoming the first British-born world champion in the company's history along with becoming a three-time tag team champion, winning the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice and the IWGP Tag Team Championship once. At Ring Ka King in 2011, he won the RKK World Heavyweight Championship. Immediately after leaving TNA in 2015, Aldis signed with Global Force Wrestling (GFW), where he was the inaugural GFW Globa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Aldis
Nathan Aldis was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on that town's Board of Selectmen in 1641, 1642, and 1644. He served in a variety of other positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant. In 1642, John Elderkin sold half of his rights to the mill on Mother Brook to Nathaniel Whiting and the other half to John Allin, Aldis, and John Dwight. They operated the mill "in a rather stormy partnership" until 1649 when Whiting became the sole owner. Aldis and his wife Mary were the parents of John Aldis and ancestors of Asa O. Aldis Asa Owen Aldis (September 2, 1811 – June 24, 1891) was a Vermont attorney, judge and diplomat. He served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and as U.S. Consul to Nice, France. Biography Asa O. Aldis was born in St. Albans, Vermont on .... His daughter, Mary, married Joshua Fisher. His prosperity diminished in his later years. Notes References Works ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RANGE
Range may refer to: Geography * Range (geographic), a chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra) ** Mountain range, a group of mountains bordered by lowlands * Range, a term used to identify a survey township in the US * Rangeland, deserts, grasslands, shrublands, wetlands, and woodlands that are grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals Mathematics * Range of a function, a set containing the output values produced by a function * Range (statistics), the difference between the highest and the lowest values in a set * Interval (mathematics), also called ''range'', a set of real numbers that includes all numbers between any two numbers in the set * Column space, also called the ''range'' of a matrix, is the set of all possible linear combinations of the column vectors of the matrix * Projective range, a line or a conic in projective geometry * Range of a quantifier, in logic Music * Range (music), the distance f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Aldis (science Writer)
Mary Steadman Aldis née Robinson (1838? – 25 June 1897) was a British science writer and social reformer known for her advocacy on a range of issues during the late 19th century. Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, to Charlotte and the Reverend William Robinson, she married mathematician William Steadman Aldis in 1863. Together, the Aldises advocated for social reform across numerous causes, from challenging the Contagious Diseases Act to campaigning against legal prostitution in India. Mary Aldis agitated for women's access to higher education, championing the campaign for female admission to Durham University and pushing for formal recognition through degrees, culminating in the groundbreaking Newcastle Memorial petition in 1880. In addition to her activism, Aldis authored two books and edited a third. Her work "The Giant Arithmos," a mathematics book tailored for mothers educating their children at home, was praised for its innovative approach and accessibility. Her fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Aldis (playwright)
Mary Reynolds Aldis (1872–1949) was an American playwright and figure in the little theater movement who founded a small theater outside Chicago in the early 1910s. Life and career Mary Reynolds was born in 1872 in Chicago, Illinois. Her birth year is contested, with one source listing 1869. She attended St. Mary's School in Knoxville, Illinois. In 1892, she married Arthur Taylor Aldis, a Chicago lawyer and real estate investor, and together settled in Lake Forest, Illinois, a wealthy area north of Chicago. They became known as patrons of the arts and for their relationships with area writers such as Edgar Lee Masters. Aldis was a prominent figure in the second wave of the Chicago Renaissance, a literary period between 1910 and the mid-1920s. Their Lake Forest residence became known as an artists' colony, where she converted a guest house into a small, 90-seat theater near her home. Between 1910 and 1915, the Aldis Playhouse's Lake Forest Players hosted amateur works by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aldis (Massachusetts)
John Aldis was a representative to the Great and General Court of colonial Massachusetts in 1683 and served for 12 years on the Board of Selectmen in Dedham, Massachusetts. He was the only son of Nathan Aldis and his wife Mary. Aldis had a son also named John. Aldis was admitted as a townsman on January 1, 1650 – 1651. He served as a constable in 1660 and in 1663 was returned to the Jury of Trials of Suffolk County. In 1681, the town voted to collect all deeds and other writings and store them in a box kept by Aldis in order to better preserve them. He was a deacon at the First Church and Parish in Dedham and an ancestor of Asa O. Aldis Asa Owen Aldis (September 2, 1811 – June 24, 1891) was a Vermont attorney, judge and diplomat. He served as a justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and as U.S. Consul to Nice, France. Biography Asa O. Aldis was born in St. Albans, Vermont on .... Notes References Works cited * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aldis, John Dedham, Massachusetts sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Aldis
Dorothy Aldis (March 13, 1896 – July 4, 1966) was an American writer of children's literature and poet. Life Dorothy Keeley was born in Chicago on March 13, 1896, to James Keeley, managing editor of the ''Chicago Tribune'', and Gertrude Keeley. The youngest of four girls, Aldis was educated privately, and attended the prestigious Miss Porter's School. When she was 17, Aldis attended Smith College for two years before returning to Chicago. Like her mother, who reported for the ''Sunday Tribune'', Aldis began working for the paper, writing columns on decorating, pets, and personals. On June 15, 1922, she married Graham Aldis. The couple lived in Chicago and had four children: Mary, Owen, and twins Peggy and Ruth. Her first publications were books of poetry for children. In 1929, she began writing children's fiction. Unable to find time to write at home with her growing family, Aldis often took her typewriter to a local park to work. In this way, she wrote seven novels and three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
