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Bourne (surname)
Bourne is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adeline Bourne (1873–1965), Anglo-Indian actress, suffragette, and charity worker * Alan Bourne (1882–1967), senior officer in the Royal Marines * Albert Bourne (1862–1930), English footballer * Aleck Bourne (1886–1974), British gynaecologist and writer tried in a landmark 1938 case for an illegal abortion * Alfred Bourne (other) * Alfred Gibbs Bourne (1859–1940), English zoologist, botanist, and educator * Ansel Bourne (1826–1910), American evangelical preacher, among the first documented cases of multiple personality and amnesia * Arthur Bourne (1880–?), English footballer * Avery Bourne, politician * Benjamin Bourne (1755–1808), American jurist and politician from Rhode Island * Bette Bourne (1939–2024), British actor and gay activist * Bill Bourne (1954–2022), Canadian musician and songwriter * Bob Bourne (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player * Charles Bourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton Bourne
Clayton Bourne (25 April 1904 – 31 December 1986) was a Canadian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al .... References External links * 1904 births 1986 deaths Canadian male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Canada Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Swimmers from British Columbia People from the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Sydal
Matthew Joseph Korklan (born March 19, 1983), better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also known for his tenure with WWE from 2008 to 2014 under the ring name Evan Bourne. Prior to signing with AEW, Sydal wrestled in WWE as Evan Bourne, and was a List of WWE Raw Tag Team Champions, one-time WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Champion, with Kofi Kingston. Sydal is known for his time in Impact Wrestling where he is a former Impact Grand Championship, Impact Grand Champion and Impact X Division Championship, Impact X Division Champion, and in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion. He has also wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. Korklan has also wrestled on the independent circuit, for Professional wrestling promotion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eulalia Bourne
Eulalia "Sister" Bourne (Dec 23, 1892 – May 1, 1984) was a pioneer Arizona schoolteacher, rancher and writer. She taught at rural Arizona schools from 1914 to 1957. Biography Eulalia Collins was born on a homestead in West Texas, the oldest of five girls. She was dubbed "Sister" by a younger sibling who couldn't pronounce Eulalia. Her family moved to the White Mountains in New Mexico, where she was raised with minimal education, with only three years of formal schooling. At seventeen, she married William S. Bourne, a prospector over twice her age. Between 1911 and 1914, the couple moved to Arizona. They divorced in 1915. Eulalia continued to use the surname Bourne after their divorce. Bourne got her first teaching job in Beaver Creek in Arizona's Verde Valley though she was fired for dancing the One-Step, which was seen as vulgar by the community. Bourne's next teaching job was at Helvetia, a mining camp in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. None of her students spok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Bourne
Ernest Alfred Bourne '''', 20 February 2009. (1 August 1926 – 21 January 2009) was an English-Australian actor, entertainer, comedian and puppeteer, whose career spanned 50 years. Having started his career in theatre in his native England, he became known for his regular roles in theatre and television in Australia, particularly in character roles. Bourne was probably best known locally and internationally for his role as prison chef Mervin Pringle in the TV series '''' and as mechanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Bourne
Emma Bourne (September 5, 1846 – October 5, 1924) was an American temperance activist and social reformer. She was a teacher in the Newark Public Schools for seven years, and for ten years later, was engaged in the life insurance business. Her subsequent activities were devoted to the promotion of the Temperance movement in the United States, temperance cause in connection with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Since 1891, and for 19 years, she served as president of the New Jersey WCTU The New Jersey WCTU's organ, ''White Ribbon News'' was established in 1910 with Bourne serving as its editor. Early life and education Emma A. Hill was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 5, 1846. Her father, John Hill, was of English parentage. Her mother, Mary G. Hill, Mary Gordon Barnett Hill, known among the temperance workers since the early days of the WCTU as "Mother Hill," was of Scotch-Huguenot ancestry. Mary was the first President of the first WCTU organization in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Elizabeth Bourne
Eleanor Elizabeth Bourne (4 December 1878 – 23 May 1957) was an Australian medical doctor. She was the first Queensland woman to study medicine. She also was one of only 15 women doctors in Australia who volunteered for service in World War I. Early life and education Bourne was born at South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 4 December 1878, eldest child of John Sumner Pears Bourne, clerk in the Land Commission Court, and his wife Jane Elizabeth, née Hockings. Always an outstanding student, Eleanor Bourne had topped the state in the scholarship examination of 1891, and entered Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School in 1892. Keen to study medicine and unable to find the prerequisite subjects at Girls’ Grammar, she attended Brisbane Grammar School (Boys) in 1896 to complete her secondary education and facilitate tertiary scholarship application. Eleanor was awarded the Sydney University Exhibition in 1896, and this scholarship enabled her to become the first Queensland woman to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gaylord Bourne
Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph. D. (June 24, 1860 – February 24, 1908) was an American historian. Biography Edward Gaylord Bourne was born in Strykersville, New York on June 24, 1860. He was educated at Yale, graduating in 1883 with high honors. He taught at Adelbert College, Cleveland from 1888 to 1895 when he became a professor of history at Yale. Bourne is considered one of the founders of Latin American history as a field in the United States. The publication of his ''Spain in America'' (1904), was "a major landmark in the development of the field," which "gave a lucid synthesis of the institutional life of Spanish America, ranging also through economic, social, and cultural developments...." In an assessment of Bourne's work, Charles Gibson and Benjamin Keen state that "He may justifiably be termed the first scientific historian of the United States to view the Spanish colonial process dispassionately and thereby to escape the conventional Anglo-Protestant attitudes of o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Bourne
Edmund J. Bourne is an American self-help author and researcher on anxiety, anxiety disorders and the treatment of anxiety disorders. He was the director of The Anxiety and Treatment Center in San Jose and Santa Rosa, California. In 1990, Edmund Bourne published ''The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook'', a self-help book that won the Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and Political philosophy, political philosopher.#britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Wood, 2021 Among the m ... Book Award for Excellence in Psychology. This book is now in its 7th Edition. He lives in San Diego, CA. Personal life Bourne no longer lives in Boca Raton, Florida with his wife, Tatyanna Peterson. He moved to California following the death of his wife in the autumn of 2023. He was born in Akron, Ohio, completing a B.A. in philosophy at Colgate University and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Bourne
Doug Bourne (22 December 1908 – 30 July 1980) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1908 births 1980 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players Prahran Football Club players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1908-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickie Bourne
Richard Bourne (14 June 1878–1957) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Barnsley, Clapton Orient, Preston North End, Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis .... References 1879 births 1954 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players Roundel F.C. players Sheffield United F.C. players Barnsley F.C. players Preston North End F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Footballers from Manchester {{England-footy-forward-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
