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Althea (other)
Althea () is an English female given name. It is a variation of the Greek name '' Althaea'' (Αλθαια), which may be related to Greek ''althos'' ("healing"). Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem ("To Althea, from Prison") that John Milton later alluded to in his own poem "Lycidas".Milton, John (1886). Homer Baxter Sprague, ed"Milton's Lycidas" ''Paradise Lost, Books I and II''. Boston: Ginn & Co. Notable people * Althea Braithwaite (1940–2020), English children's author, illustrator, publisher and glass artist * Althea Bridges (born 1936), Australian opera singer and music teacher * Althea Currier (born 1941), American glamor model and actress * Althea Flynt (1953–1987), fourth wife of Larry Flynt * Althea Gibson (1927–2003), American female athlete * Althea Forrest, one half of vocal duo Althea & Donna * Althea McNish (1924–2020), British textile designer of Trinidadian origin * Althea G. Quimby (1858-1942), American temperance leader * Althea Reinhardt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea (name)
Thea is a feminine given name, from Greek Θεία, ''Theía'', "Goddess". Other forms include Tea and Téa. People * Thea Andrews (born 1973), Canadian journalist * Thea Astley (1925–2004), Australian writer * Thea Beckman (1923–2004), Dutch writer * Thea Bock (1938–2025), German politician * Thea Bowman (1937–1990), American nun * Thea Dorn (born 1970), German writer * Thea E. Smith, American writer * Thea Einöder (born 1951), German rower * Thea Exley (1923–2007), Australian archivist and art historian * Thea Flaum (born 1938), American TV producer * Thea Foss (1857–1927), American entrepreneur * Thea Garrett, Maltese singer * Thea Gill (born 1970), Canadian actress * Thea Gilmore (born 1979), British singer-songwriter * Thea Gregory (c. 1926–2022), English actress * Thea Halo, American writer * Thea Hochleitner (1925–2012), Austrian alpine skier * Thea Kano (born 1965), American conductor * Thea Kellner (1914–?), Romanian fencer * Thea Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea McNish
Althea McNish (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. Born in Trinidad, McNish moved to Britain in the 1950s. She was associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in the 1960s, participating in CAM's exhibitions and seminars and helping to promote Caribbean arts to a British public. Her work is represented in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and the Cooper-Hewitt (Smithsonian Design Museum), among other places. McNish was a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers. She was married to the jewellery designer John Weiss (1933–2018).Tessler, Gloria (13 December 2018)"Obituary: John Saul Weiss" '' Jewish Chronicle''. Background Early years Althea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, around 1933. Her father, the writer Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclone Althea
Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. One of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville, Queensland, Townsville area, Althea was the fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season. After forming near the Solomon Islands on 19 December and heading southwest across the Coral Sea, the storm reached its peak intensity with 10-minute average maximum sustained winds of 130 km/h (80 mph) – Category 3 on the tropical cyclone scales#Australia and Fiji, Australian cyclone scale. At 09:00 Time in Australia, AEST on Christmas Eve, Althea struck the coast of Queensland near Rollingstone, Queensland, Rollingstone, about north of Townsville. Although early weather satellites provided only occasional glimpses into the cyclone's formative stages, its landfall (meteorology), landfall was monitored closely by land-based weather radar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiscus Syriacus
''Hibiscus syriacus'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to areas of east Asia, but widely introduced elsewhere, including much of Europe and North America. It was given the epithet ''syriacus'' because it had been collected from gardens in Syria. Common names include the rose of Sharon (especially in North America), Syrian ketmia, shrub althea (or simply althea), Korean Hibiscus and rose mallow (in the United Kingdom). It is the national flower of South Korea and is mentioned in the South Korean national anthem. Description ''Hibiscus syriacus'' is a hardy deciduous shrub. It is upright and vase-shaped, reaching in height, bearing large trumpet-shaped flowers with prominent yellow-tipped white stamens. The flowers are often pink in color, but can also be dark pink (almost purple), light pink or white. Individual flowers are short-lived, lasting only a day. However, numerous buds produced on the shrub's new growth provide prolific f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althaea Officinalis
''Althaea officinalis'', the marsh mallow or marshmallow, is a species of flowering plant indigenous to Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, which is used in herbalism and as an ornamental plant. Description This herbaceous perennial plant, perennial grows to tall and puts out only a few lateral branches. The whole plant is softly stellate-hairy, especially the leaves, which are broadly triangular to oval, often with 3-5 shallow lobes, irregularly toothed, with cordate to cuneate bases. Leaf size varies considerably, up to long, and wide. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stem, with no stipules, on petioles up to . The inflorescences occur in the leaf axils and at the top of the stem and consist of panicles of 1-many flowers. The flowers are actinomorphic with 5 lilac/pink petals up to 2 cm long and 5 green sepals which are much shorter than the petals, and fused at the base. Below the petals is a cup-shaped epicalyx with 6-9 narrow, triangular lobes, half the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go To Heaven
''Go to Heaven'' is the eleventh studio album (sixteenth overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead, released April 28, 1980, by Arista Records. It is the band's first album with keyboardist Brent Mydland. ''Go to Heaven'' was both the third Grateful Dead studio album in a row to use an outside producer, this time Gary Lyons, and the last studio album for over seven years. Recording Keyboardist Keith Godchaux and vocalist Donna Godchaux left the Grateful Dead in February 1979 and were replaced in both positions by Brent Mydland. While in the band Silver, Mydland had performed on the hit pop song "Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang", also playing and writing tracks for that band's 1976 country rock album. Following that, he toured with Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir's solo band Bobby and the Midnites. The Grateful Dead were contractually obligated to record another studio album before they could release live material. As with the previous two albums, they used an outside producer, per an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, Folk music, folk, country music, country, bluegrass music, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel music, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelic music, psychedelia, the band is famous for Musical improvisation, improvisation during their Concert, live performances, and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadhead, Deadheads". According to the musician and writer Lenny Kaye, the music of the Grateful Dead "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." For the range of their influences and the structure of their live performances, the Grateful Dead are considered "the pioneering godfathers of the jam band world". The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area during the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. The band's founding members were Jerry Garcia (electric guitar, le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altheia Jones-LeCointe
Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London. They were all acquitted of the most serious charges and the trial became the first judicial acknowledgement of behaviour (the repeated raids) motivated by racial hatred, rather than legitimate crime control, within the Metropolitan Police. Early life and education Born Altheia Jones in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she was one of the three daughters of Viola Jones, a Port of Spain dressmaker and clothes shop proprietor, and Dunstan Jones, the principal of a government school. Her parents also held local le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tia Carrere
Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo (born January 2, 1967), known professionally as Tia Carrere (), is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera ''General Hospital''. Carrere played Cassandra Wong in the feature films ''Wayne's World'' and '' Wayne's World 2''; Juno Skinner in '' True Lies''; Nani Pelekai in the ''Lilo & Stitch'' films and TV series; Queen Tyr'ahnee in '' Duck Dodgers''; Richard Lewis' girlfriend, Cha Cha, in '' Curb Your Enthusiasm''; and starred as Sydney Fox in the television series ''Relic Hunter'', as well as Lady Danger opposite RuPaul in Netflix's '' AJ and the Queen''. Carrere also appeared as a contestant in the second season of '' Dancing with the Stars'' and the fifth season of '' The Celebrity Apprentice''. In addition to acting, Carrere has won two Grammy Awards for her music. Early life Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the daughter of Audrey Lee Janairo, a computer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Wynne
Althea Kathleen Wynne (6 October 1936 – 24 January 2012), also known by her married names of Dresman and Barrington Brown, was an English sculptor and art teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She specialized in creating large figurative work for gardens and public open spaces. Early life Born at Biggleswade, Wynne was the daughter of Group Captain Frederick Robert Wynne by his marriage in 1926 to Kathleen Anne Pole Stuart, and had an older brother and sister. Her grandparents were Dr and Mrs F. E. Wynne, of Sheffield, and Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs Reginald Pole Stuart, of Folkestone. Her Stuart grandfather was the grandson of William Stuart (1798–1874), Sir William Stuart (1798–1874), himself the son of William Stuart (bishop), William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, and grandson of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, sometime Prime Minister, and his grandmother was Henrietta Maria Sarah, a daughter of Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Thauberger
Althea Thauberger (born 1970, Saskatoon, Canada) is a Canadian visual artist, film maker and educator. Her work engages relational practices rooted in sustained collaborations with groups or communities through social, theatrical and textual processes that often operate outside the studio/gallery environment. Her varied research-centric projects have taken her to military base, remote societies and institutional spaces that result in performances, films, videos, audio recordings and books, and involve provocative reflections of social, political, institutional and aesthetic power relations. Her recent projects involve an extended engagement with the sites of their production in order to trace broader social and ideological histories. Biography Althea Thauberger currently lives and works in Vancouver, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Thauberger obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Reinhardt
Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (born 1 September 1996) is a Danish handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team. Clubs career She signed for Odense in 2016, after starting the career at Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub. With Odense she won the Danish Cup in 2020 and the Danish League in 2021 and 2022. In the 2024-25 season, she achieved a perfect regular season with Odense Håndbold, winning 26 of 26 games. Later the same season she won the Danish Championship, when Odense beat Team Esbjerg in the final 2-1 in matches. National team She was part of the national team that finished 4th at the 2016 European Championship in Sweden. A week before the tournament the goalkeeper Rikke Poulsen was reported injured, which led to Althea Reinhardt being a part of the Denmark squad at an international tournament for the first time. She won bronze medals at both the 2021 and 2023 World Championships. On December 8th 2024 at a training session during the 2024 European Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
