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Annikki Maattola
Annie is the diminutive of feminine given names such as Anna, Ann, Anne, Annette, Anita, Andrea, Angela, Anastasia and other variations. It may refer to: People *Annie Heloise Abel (1873–1947), American historian * Annie Abrahams (born 1954), Dutch artist * Annie Abram, British historian * Annie Ackerman (1914–1989), American political activist * Annie Adams (music hall) (1843–1905), English singer *Annie Adams (1848–1916), American actresses * Annie M. Aggens, American writer * Annie Åkerhielm (1869–1956), Swedish writer and journalist *Annie Charlotte Catharine Aldrich (1842-1916), British novelist who published under the name Catharine Childar * Annie Alexander, multiple people *Annie Alizé (born 1955), French sprinter * Annie Altschul (1919–2001), British mental health nurse and professor * Annie Andrews, multiple people * Annie Antón, American computer scientist * Annie Antone, Tohomo O'Odham basket weaver * Annie Anzieu (1924–2019), French psychoanalyst *An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle something or someone. A ( abbreviated ) is a word-formation device used to express such meanings. A is a diminutive form with two diminutive suffixes rather than one. Purpose Diminutives are often employed as nicknames and pet names when speaking to small children and when expressing extreme tenderness and intimacy to an adult. The opposite of the diminutive form is the augmentative. In some contexts, diminutives are also employed in a pejorative sense to denote that someone or something is weak or childish. For example, one of the last Western Roman emperors was Romulus Augustus, but his name was diminutivized to "Romulus Augustulus" to express his powerlessness. Formation In many languages, diminutives are word forms that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Charlotte Catharine Aldrich
Annie Charlotte Catharine Aldrich (1842 – 13 November 1916) was a British novelist who published under the name Catharine Childar. Annie Charlotte Catharine Aldrich was born in 1842 in The Bahamas. She published four novels using her pseudonym Childar, which she created as an anagram of her last name. Her novel ''The Double Dutchman'' (1884) concerned a woman, Mrs. Hazelwood, and her three daughters. Aldrich met novelist Samuel Butler in Greece in 1895, though a mutual friend, Charles Gogin. Henry Festing Jones Henry Festing Jones (30 January 1851 – 23 October 1928) was an English solicitor and writer, known as the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler (novelist), Samuel Butler. Life He was the son of Thomas Jones Queen's Counsel, Q.C., ... published excerpts from Aldrich's diary about their brief time in Greece in his 1919 biography of Butler. Annie Charlotte Catharine Aldrich died on 13 November 1916. Bibliography * ''The Future Marquis''. 3 vol. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Au
Annie Au Wing Chi (; born February 9, 1989), known as Annie Au, is a former professional squash player who represented Hong Kong. Career Annie is a left-hander from Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ... who has made a great impression as a junior. Not only winning British Junior Open titles but reaching the final of the Asian Junior and being a member of the Hong Kong team which won the world juniors is also on her record. She is a tribute to the Hong Kong Squash development schemes. She started playing squash at school aged thirteen through the promotional scheme. She was coached by national coach Abdul Faheem Khan, a former professional squash player from Pakistan. Au reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 6 in May 2012. In 2016, she was part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Atkins
Annie Atkins is a Welsh/Irish graphic designer and prop maker for film and television. She is known for her graphic design work in ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014) and has gone on to work with director Wes Anderson on ''Isle of Dogs'' (2018) and ''The French Dispatch'' (2021). Early life Atkins grew up in Dolwyddelan in Northern Wales. Her mother was an artist and her father a graphic designer. Atkins graduated with a degree in visual communications from Ravensbourne University London. After graduation, she worked as an art director in the advertising agency McCann-Erickson in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2007, she enrolled in University College Dublin's master in film production program after losing enthusiasm for her work at McCann-Erickson, saying “I thought I’d leave design completely, that I’d study film and be a camera operator or a technician, and then I found this whole other world of design.” Career After graduating from University College Dublin, she worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Arniel
Annie Arniel (May 1873 – February 9, 1924) was a suffragist and women's rights advocate. Born in Harrington, Delaware as Anna L. Melvin, she married George Arniel of Canada and was widowed in 1910. Annie played a key role in helping to win the women's vote in the United States. Activism Arniel was a factory worker, living in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, when she was recruited by Mabel Vernon and Alice Paul for membership in the National Woman's Party (NWP). As a member of the Silent Sentinels she was among the first six suffragists arrested and jailed on June 27, 1917, at the White House. She served eight jail terms for suffrage protesting: three days in June 1917; 60 days in the Occoquan prison in Virginia, from August to September 1917, for picketing; 15 days for a meeting in Lafayette Square; and five sentences of five days each in January and February 1919 for the NWP's watchfire demonstrations. After participating in a demonstration at the United States Capitol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Armstrong (politician)
Annie Armstrong is a former Irish republican politician. Background Armstrong grew up on the Lower Springfield Road in West Belfast, and went to St Rose's Dominican College in Beechmount. She left school at fifteen. After marrying, Armstrong moved to Twinbrook suburb of Belfast in 1974 and became a community worker in 1981. At the 1993 Northern Ireland local elections, she was elected for Sinn Féin to represent Dunmurry Cross on Lisburn City Council. In July 1993, Armstrong's home came under attack from loyalist paramilitaries in an attempt to kill her. Political career At the Northern Ireland Forum election in 1996, Armstrong was placed fourth on the Sinn Féin list for West Belfast, but was elected in their best result in Northern Ireland. She did not defend her council seat in 1997, and did not stand for the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. Outside of politics Outside politics, Armstrong established the Colin Community Forum, Colin Community Restorative Justice, Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Armstrong
Annie Walker Armstrong (July 11, 1850 – December 20, 1938) was a lay Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist denominational leader instrumental in the founding of the Woman's Missionary Union. Early life Annie Armstrong was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Dunn Armstrong and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Armstrong. She had several siblings including a brother named James. She came from a long line of prominent Baptists including her great-great-grandfather Henry Sater who helped establish the first Baptist church in Maryland. At the age of 20, she had a spiritual awakening to Christ and was "Born again Christianity, born again" under the preaching of Dr. Richard Fuller at Seventh Baptist Church (now Seventh Metro Church). Later, she was among 100 Seventh Baptist Church members who established Eutaw Place Church (now Woodbrook Baptist Church). The church was pastored by Richard Fuller (minister), Richard Fuller, the third Southern Baptist Convention Presidents, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Armitt
Annie Armitt (1850 – 30 November 1933) was an English novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. She was also one of the founders of a school in Eccles, England. Early years Annie Maria Armitt was born in Salford, England, in 1850. She was the middle of three gifted daughters of William and Mary Ann (Whalley) Armitt. The sisters were all well educated. Armitt, who knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer, studied English literature at Islington House Academy in Salford, which trained people to teach according to the Pestalozzian principles. Her older sister Sophie took to botany and would later become a nature writer. Her younger sister Mary Louisa (known as Louie) excelled at music and natural history. She later wrote (mainly for periodicals) on topics ranging from ornithology to local history. Founding a school Armitt travelled to Paris in 1866 with Sophie to study French, but the following year her father died unexpectedly and she returned to England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Anzieu
Annie Anzieu (April 1924 – 10 November 2019) was a French psychoanalyst and essayist who published a series of psychoanalytic studies. Biography Anzieu earned a master's degree in philosophy and in speech-language pathology. She started as a speech therapist at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. Anzieu later became an honorary member of the French Psychoanalytic Association. She co-founded the Association for Child Psychoanalysis with Florence Guignard in 1984, and the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (SEPEA) ten years later. She directed the department of child psychiatry at the Pitié-Salpêtre Hospital. Anne Anzieu was the wife of Didier Anzieu Didier Anzieu (; 8 July 1923 – 25 November 1999) was a distinguished French psychoanalyst. Life Anzieu studied philosophy and was a pupil of Daniel Lagache, before undertaking his first psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan. Then, after discoveri .... She died on 10 November 2019. Works *'' Psychanalyse et langa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Antone
Annie Antone (born 1955) is a Native American Tohono O'odham basket weaver from Gila Bend, Arizona. Background Annie Antone was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1955. She learned how to weave baskets from her mother,McFadden and Taubman, 219 Irene Antone. Annie began at the age of 19 and sold her first basket for $10. She gave the money to her mother.Krol, Debra UtaciaThe Art of Basketry: Weaving New Life into Old Forms.''Native Peoples Magazine.'' 29 Dec 2005. (retrieved 21 April 2009) Currently she lives on the Gila Bend Reservation. Basketry Antone only uses plant materials harvested from her homeland, the Sonoran Desert. These include yucca, devil's claw, and bear grass. Her techniques in making coiled baskets are traditional, but her designs are completely unique. She specializes in highly graphic, pictorial imagery and has featured realistic images of panthers and semi-tractor trailers. She wove a basket featuring the traditional flute player, surrounded by musical notes fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Antón
Annie Antón is an academic and researcher in the fields of computer science, mathematical logic, and bioinformatics. She is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, within its College of Computing. She is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research center devoted to issues of privacy protection in information systems. She has also held advisory positions in industry and government. Antón served as chair of the School of Interactive Computing from 2012 to 2017. From 1998 to 2012, Antón served as a professor of software engineering at North Carolina State University. Early life and education Antón is a Cuban American. She attended St. Pius X Catholic High School in Atlanta. Despite having dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, she continued on to college, eventually receiving her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, finishing in 1997. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Andrews (other)
Ann, Anne or Annie Andrews may refer to: * Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (1885–1940), American pioneer mathematician and academic *Ann Andrews (1890–1986), American stage actress *Annie B. Andrews Annie Belle Andrews (born 1959) is a former Assistant Administrator for Human Resources Management in the Federal Aviation Administration, and a former Rear Admiral in the US Navy, serving in the areas of manpower, personnel, training and educat ... (born 1959), American rear admiral and aviation administrator * Anne M. Andrews, American biochemist and academic since 1990s {{hndis, Andrews, Annie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
