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Bixby Creek Bridge 1932
Bixby may refer to: People * Bixby (surname) * Bixby family, a prominent southern California family * Bixby, character in ''Dominion'' (TV series) Places * Bixby, Minnesota, an unincorporated community *Bixby, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Bixby, Oklahoma, a city * Bixby, South Dakota, a ghost town *Bixby, Texas, a census-designated place * Bixby Knolls, California, a neighborhood in Long Beach *Bixby State Preserve, Iowa *Bixby, Nevada, a fictional town in the '' Tremors'' franchise. Technology *Bixby (software), a virtual assistant by Samsung Electronics Other uses *Bixby, a Beanie Baby bear produced by Ty, Inc. *Bixby Creek Bridge, an arch bridge in Big Sur, California *The Bixby land companies, ranching and land-development companies in California *The Bixby letter, written by Abraham Lincoln *Bixby Medical Center, a public hospital in Adrian, Michigan *Bixby Ranch, an alternative name for Rancho Los Alamitos, California *Bixby Shinola shoe polish and Bixby Bicyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby (surname)
Bixby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby (1812–1873), American physician * Bella Bixby (born 1995), American soccer player * Bill Bixby (1934–1993), American actor and director * Fanny Bixby (1879–1930), American philanthropist and activist better known as Fanny Bixby Spencer * Francis M. Bixby (1828–1905), New York politician * Horace Ezra Bixby (1826–1912), steamboat pilot and captain, inventor, teacher of Mark Twain * James Thompson Bixby (1843–1921), Unitarian minister and writer * Jaydee Bixby (born 1990), Canadian country musician * Jerome Bixby (1923–1998), American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter * Jonathan Bixby (1959–2001), American costume designer * Lenore E. Bixby (1914–1994), American statistician * Bixby letter, Lydia Parker Bixby (1801–1878), American widow, recipient of an 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln * Maynard Bixby (1853–1935), American mineralogist * Moses Bixby (1827–1901), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tremors (franchise)
The ''Tremors'' franchise consists of a series of American monster comedy-horror films and a spin-off television show, with a plot centered around attacks from subterranean worm-like creatures known as Graboids. It began in 1990 with the release of '' Tremors'', which spawned a series of direct-to-video films and a television series. A second television series was ordered to air on Syfy, and a pilot was shot for the spring of 2018, but the project was ultimately cancelled. Films ''Tremors'' (1990) ''Tremors'' is a 1990 American monster film directed by Ron Underwood, with a screenplay by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. ''Tremors 2: Aftershocks'' (1996) ''Tremors 2: Aftershocks'' is a 1996 action-horror sequel to ''Tremors'', in which the character of Earl Bassett, returning from the first movie, is hired to deal with a subterranean " Graboid" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinola Detroit
Shinola is an American lifestyle brand based in Detroit, Michigan. It produces and sells watches, bicycles, leather goods, clocks, home goods, and jewelry. Founded in 2011, Shinola takes its name from a common saying that harkens back to the defunct Shinola (shoe polish), Shinola shoe polish company. The company was founded by Tom Kartsotis and is owned and operated by Texas-based investment group Bedrock Group LP. History The original Shinola (shoe polish), Shinola shoe polish brand was founded in Rochester, New York in 1877, and went out of business in 1960. The Detroit-based retail company was founded in 2011 by Tom Kartsotis under his investment company, Bedrock. Kartsotis, previously a founder of Fossil Group, wanted to create a high end American watch manufacturing brand to rival Swiss watchmakers at a lower price point. Bedrock decided to acquire the Shinola brand after an associate used the World War I-era expression "You don't know shit from Shinola" as a rejoinder t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rancho Los Alamitos
Rancho Los Alamitos takes its name from an 1834 Mexico, Mexican partition of the 1784 Rancho Los Nietos, a Ranchos of California, Spanish concession, covering an area in present-day California's southwestern Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County, California, Orange County. Los Alamitos means the Little Populus sect. Aegiros, Cottonwoods or Populus, Poplars in Spanish language, Spanish, after the California native plants, native Populus fremontii, Fremont Cottonwood trees there. Rancho Los Alamitos originally included much of the area of present-day eastern Long Beach, California, Long Beach, all of Los Alamitos, California, Los Alamitos and Rossmoor, California, Rossmoor, and most of Seal Beach, California, Seal Beach, Cypress, California, Cypress, Stanton, California, Stanton and Garden Grove, California, Garden Grove. It is also sometimes referred to as Bixby Ranch, after its last private owners. The early 19th century adobe ranch ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby Medical Center
ProMedica Bixby Hospital (formerly Bixby Medical Center) was a public hospital in Adrian, Michigan Adrian is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Lenawee County, Michigan, Lenawee County. The population was 20,645 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Adrian lies in Michigan's 5th congressional district. The c ... that was part of the ProMedica Health System. It was replaced in 2020 with Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital. The new hospital also replaced Herrick Medical Center in Tecumseh. References External linksProMedica Bixby Hospital Hospitals in Michigan {{Michigan-hospital-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby Letter
The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union army during the American Civil War. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, the letter has been praised as one of Lincoln's finest written works and is often reproduced in memorials, media, and print. Controversy surrounds the recipient, the fate of her sons, and the authorship of the letter. Bixby's character has been questioned (including rumored Confederate sympathies), at least two of her sons survived the war, and the letter was possibly written by Lincoln's assistant private secretary, John Hay. Text President Lincoln's letter of condolence was delivered to Lydia Bixby on November 25, 1864, and was printed in the ''Boston Evening Transcript'' and '' Boston Evening Traveller'' that afternoon. The following is the text of the letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby Land Companies
The Bixby land companies were a group of California-based land companies founded by various members of the Bixby and Flint families from Maine. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the firms of Flint, Bixby & Company, J. Bixby & Company, J. W. Bixby & Company, the Alamitos Land Company, and the Bixby Land Company controlled large swathes of California real estate, much of it derived from Mexican land grants. At various times their holdings included Rancho Los Cerritos, Rancho Los Alamitos, half of Rancho San Justo, and part of Rancho Palos Verdes together with other property in San Benito, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles counties. Parts of the towns of Long Beach, Bellflower, Paramount, Signal Hill, Lakewood, and Los Alamitos emerged from former Bixby-held lands. History The history of the land companies begins with the brothers Benjamin and Thomas Flint and their cousin Llewellyn Bixby, who left Maine for California in 1851, attracted by the Gold Rush. They turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby Creek Bridge
Bixby Bridge, also known as Bixby Creek Bridge, on the Big Sur coast of California, is one of the most photographed bridges in California due to its aesthetic design, "graceful architecture and magnificent setting". It is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge. The bridge is south of San Francisco and south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Carmel in Monterey County, California, Monterey County on California State Route 1 (Big Sur), State Route 1. Before the opening of the bridge in 1932, residents of the Big Sur area were virtually cut off during winter due to blockages on the often impassable Old Coast Road (Big Sur), Old Coast Road, which led inland. The bridge was built under budget for $199,861 (equivalent to $ in dollars) and, at , was the longest concrete arch span in the California State Highway System. When it was completed, it was the highest single-span arch bridge in the world, and it remains one of the tallest. The land north and south of the bridge wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beanie Baby
Beanie Babies are a line of stuffed toys created by American businessman Ty Warner, who founded Ty Inc. in 1986. The toys are stuffed with plastic pellets ("beans") rather than conventional soft stuffing and come in many different forms, mostly animals. Beanie Babies emerged as a major fad and collectible during the second half of the 1990s. They have been cited as being the world's first Internet sensation. They were collected not only as toys, but also as a financial investment due to their high resale value. History Warner introduced Beanie Babies in 1993 at the North American International Toy Fair/World Toy Fair in New York City, New York. Manufacturing began in 1994, and the toys were first sold in stores in Chicago, Illinois for around 5 U.S. Dollars. There were nine original Beanie Babies: Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Spot the Dog, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Chocolate the Moose, Patti the Platypus, Brownie the Bear (later renamed Cubbie), and Pinchers the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby (software)
Bixby () is a virtual assistant developed by Samsung Electronics, launched in 2017 as a replacement of the S Voice assistant. It runs on various Samsung branded appliances, primarily mobile devices but also some refrigerators. The suite includes a voice assistant known as Bixby Voice, as well as contextual search and visual search features including tools like Bixby Vision, an augmented reality camera app, Bixby Text Call, a handsfree call answer feature, and others like Bixby Routines (now named ''Modes & Routines''), Bixby Home (now named Samsung Daily and replaced by Samsung Free), & Bixby Daily, which uses time period account-based routines for actions like calling, setting an alarm, or adding an event, (Now named Samsung Daily & Bixby Routines). Functionality Bixby Voice Bixby can get tailored information about the weather, reminders of meetings, news articles, and others using artificial intelligence. It can learn individual voices, so it can personalize its answers. Bix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby State Preserve
Bixby State Preserve is a nature reserve located in southwestern Clayton County, Iowa, in the midwestern United States. It is located north of Edgewood. It is operated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as one of the Iowa state preserves. Bixby State Preserve is one of the few places in the world to contain algific talus slopes and consequently has an ecosystem encountered in only a few other sites, all in the Driftless Area. They are mainly elsewhere in Iowa, but also in southeastern Minnesota, southwestern Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois. In winter and early spring comparatively warm air rises from the elaborate system of sinkhole A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water ...s, causing cold moist air to be drawn into the north-facing talus slopes and sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bixby Family
The Bixby family is an American family that was heavily involved in the development of California ranches and real estate in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through various companies, they controlled at one time or another large swathes of California real estate, much of it derived from Mexican land grants. Over several generations, their holdings included Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos, and parts of Rancho San Justo and Rancho Palos Verdes, totaling well over 100,000 acres. Parts of the towns of Long Beach, Bellflower, Paramount, Signal Hill, Lakewood, and Los Alamitos emerged from former Bixby-held lands. Within Long Beach, the neighborhoods Bixby Hill, Bixby Knolls, and Bixby Village are named after the family, as well as Bixby Park in the Alamitos Beach neighborhood. The key members of the family connected to California real estate are the brothers Llewellyn and Jotham Bixby, their first cousins Thomas and Benjamin Flint, and a cousin of the next generation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
