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Ammon (other)
Ammon was an ancient Canaanite nation. Ammon may also refer to: Ancient world * The Egyptian god Amun of the same name, also sometimes spelled Ammon ** Horns of Ammon, curling ram horns used as a symbol of the Egyptian deity Ammon (Amun or Amon) ** Zeus Ammon, the Greek interpretation of the Egyptian god Amun People Mononym * Ammon, bishop of Elearchia ( 4th–5th century) * Ammon, bishop of Hadrianopolis ( 400AD) * Ammon (geometer) ( 3rd century), ancient Roman mathematician * Saint Amun ( 4th century), a Christian saint also known as Ammon * Ammon, son of Lot (Bible) Book of Mormon * Ammon (Book of Mormon explorer), descendant of Zarahemla in the ''Book of Mormon'' * Ammon (Book of Mormon missionary), son of Mosiah II in the ''Book of Mormon'' Surname *Andrea Ammon (born 1958), German physician *Blasius Ammon (1558–1590), Austrian friar and priest *Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon (1873–1960), British politician *Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon (1862–1919), amateur ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon
Ammon (; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; '; ) was an ancient Semitic languages, Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Wadi Mujib, Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The chief city of the country was ''Rabbah'' or ''Rabbat Ammon'', site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital. Milcom and Moloch, Molech are named in the Hebrew Bible as the gods of Ammon. The people of this kingdom are called Children of Ammon or Ammonites. History The Ammonites occupied the northern Central Trans-Jordanian Plateau from the latter part of the second millennium BC to at least the second century AD. Ammon maintained its independence from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (10th to 7th centuries BC) by paying tribute to the Assyrian kings at a time when that Empire raided or conquered nearby kingdoms. The Kurkh Monolith lists the Ammonite king Baasha ben Ruhubi's army as fighting alongside Ahab of Kingdom of Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generosa Ammon
Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 – October 20, 2001) was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004. Ammon and his wife Generosa Ammon were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his death, and Pelosi was later romantically linked to Ammon's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ammon and his wife had married on February 2, 1986, and had two children, the twins Greg Ammon and Alexa Ammon, who they adopted from the village of Medvedivtsi in the Mukachevo Region of Ukraine in October 1992. At the time of the murder, the couple were near finalization of their divorce. The custody agreement had been signed on October 18, 2001, and the divorce settlement was expected to be consented to the following week. Four months after Ted's death, Generosa married Daniel Pelosi on January 15, 2002; she died of breast cancer on August 22, 2003. Early life Ted Ammon was born to R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon M
Ammon (; Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; '; ) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The chief city of the country was ''Rabbah'' or ''Rabbat Ammon'', site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital. Milcom and Molech are named in the Hebrew Bible as the gods of Ammon. The people of this kingdom are called Children of Ammon or Ammonites. History The Ammonites occupied the northern Central Trans-Jordanian Plateau from the latter part of the second millennium BC to at least the second century AD. Ammon maintained its independence from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (10th to 7th centuries BC) by paying tribute to the Assyrian kings at a time when that Empire raided or conquered nearby kingdoms. The Kurkh Monolith lists the Ammonite king Baasha ben Ruhubi's army as fighting alongside Ahab of Israel and Syrian allies against Shalmaneser III at the Battle of Qarqar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon Shea
Ammon Shea is an American writer, known for his nonfiction books about the English language. With Peter Novobatzky, he wrote ''Depraved English'' (1999) and ''Insulting English'' (2001), which highlight obscure and unusual English words. Shea later read the entire ''Oxford English Dictionary'', and documented his observations in ''Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages'' (2008). He was subsequently hired to work at Oxford University Press as a consulting editor of American dictionaries. Shea has also contributed to the "On Language" column in Sunday's ''New York Times''. Shea is also the author of ''The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads'' (2010) and ''Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation'' (2014) A dictionary collector, Shea had already read '' Webster's Second International Dictionary'' in the 1990s. During his life, he has worked as a gondolier The gondola (, ; , ) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon McNeely
Ammon McNeely (June 3, 1970 – February 18, 2023) was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on El Capitan in Yosemite. His other interests included BASE jumping and wingsuiting. McNeely was also a slackliner and pioneered many highlines throughout the US. Climbing career El Capitan ascents McNeely completed many one-day (i.e. under 24 hours) big wall aid climbing routes on El Capitan including Eric Kohl's ''Plastic Surgery Disaster'' (VI 5.8 A5), Warren Harding's ''Wall of the Early Morning Light'' (VI 5.9 A2+), John Middendorf's ''Atlantic Ocean Wall'' (VI 5.8 A4), and one of the hardest aid climbing routes on El Capitan, ''The Reticent Wall'' (VI 5.7 A5), along with Dean Potter & Ivo Ninov in 34 hours and 57 minutes. McNeely was considered to have completed some of the broadest range of aid and free climbing routes on El Capitan ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon Matuauto
Ammon Matuauto (born 29 January 1986) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer who currently plays as a centre for the Western Force in the international Super Rugby competition. Domestically he represents in the Australian National Rugby Championship The National Rugby Championship, known as NRC, was an Australian rugby union competition. It was contested by eight teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji. The tournament ran from 2014 until 2019 before being disbanded in 2020 following t .... He has previously played professionally in his homeland for South Island Māori in 2008 and the Makos in 2009. Super Rugby statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Matuauto, Ammon 1986 births Living people New Zealand rugby union players Rugby union centres Western Force players Perth Spirit players Tasman rugby union players 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen Rugby union players from Wellington City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Ashford Hennacy (July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970) was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, Wobbly, social activist, and member of the Catholic Worker Movement. He established the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah, and practiced tax resistance. Biography Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio, to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist. He studied at three different institutions, (a year at each one): Hiram College in Ohio in 1913, University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1914, and Ohio State University in 1915. During this time, Hennacy was a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party of America and in his words "took military drills in order to learn how to kill capitalists." He was also the secretary of Hiram College's Intercollegiate Socialist Society. At the outbreak of World War I, Hennacy was imprisoned for two years in Atlanta, Georgia, for resisting conscription. While in priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammon Bundy
Ammon Edward Bundy (born September 1, 1975) is an American anti-government militant and activist who led the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. He is the son of rancher Cliven Bundy, who was the central figure in the 2014 Bundy standoff in Nevada regarding unpaid grazing fees on federally-owned public land. In March 2020, Bundy created the far-right People's Rights network. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bundy was arrested more than five times for protests and disruptions against COVID-19 mitigation efforts by the Idaho government. Bundy ran for governor of Idaho in the 2022 election.Far-right activist Ammon Bundy is running for Idaho governor, tapping an anti-establishment trend '' |
Ammon Brown
Ammon Brown (January 15, 1798 – May 19, 1882) was an American politician who served two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives. He was also instrumental in forming the Wayne County, Michigan, poorhouse and asylum later known as Eloise, and served as its first keeper. Biography Ammon Brown was born in Dutchess County, New York, on January 15, 1798. He moved to Wayne County, New York, and then to Wayne County, Michigan, in 1824, where he settled in Nankin Township. He was originally a teacher, but took up farming in Michigan. Brown was a Democrat, and was a delegate to the state's first constitutional convention in 1835 as well as the first convention of assent that rejected the terms of statehood proposed by the United States Congress. He served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1835 to 1837, and was again a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1850. He was elected auditor of Wayne County in 1847 and served for four years. Brown was sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Ammon
Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 – October 20, 2001) was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004. Ammon and his wife Generosa Ammon were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his death, and Pelosi was later romantically linked to Ammon's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ammon and his wife had married on February 2, 1986, and had two children, the twins Greg Ammon and Alexa Ammon, who they adopted from the village of Medvedivtsi in the Mukachevo Region of Ukraine in October 1992. At the time of the murder, the couple were near finalization of their divorce. The custody agreement had been signed on October 18, 2001, and the divorce settlement was expected to be consented to the following week. Four months after Ted's death, Generosa married Daniel Pelosi on January 15, 2002; she died of breast cancer on August 22, 2003. Early life Ted Ammon was born to R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter H
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, a Japanese dancer and actor * Peter (1934 film), ''Peter'' (1934 film), a film directed by Henry Koster * Peter (2021 film), ''Peter'' (2021 film), a Marathi language film * Peter (Fringe episode), "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * Peter (novel), ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * Peter (short story), "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather * Peter (album), ''Peter'' (album), a 1972 album by Peter Yarrow * ''Peter'', a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * "Peter", 2024 song by Taylor Swift from ''The Tortured Poets Department, The Tort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ammon
Peter Ammon (born in Frankfurt/Main on 23 February 1952) is a German diplomat and was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom from May 2014 until 31 January 2018. Education and career Ammon studied Mathematics and holds a doctorate in economics from Berlin's Free University. He most recently served as German Ambassador to the United States (2011–2014) and as State Secretary (British equivalent title: Permanent Secr.) at the German Foreign Office in Berlin (2008–2011). In 2007 and 2008, Ammon was appointed German Ambassador to Paris, France. His prior diplomatic career included postings to London, Dakar/Senegal, New Delhi, and Washington, D.C. From 1996 to 1999, he was Head of Policy Planning and speech writer to the President of Germany, Roman Herzog. A staunch advocate of free trade, Ammon takes strong interest in what it takes to build a rules-based, peaceful and prosperous global order. As Director General for Economics at the German Foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
