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Barringer High School Alumni
Barringer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony R. Barringer (1925–2009), Canadian/American geophysicist and inventor * Daniel Barringer (1860–1929), American geologist best known for proving the ''Meteor Crater'' to be an impact crater * Daniel Laurens Barringer (1788–1832), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1825–1834. * Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806–1873), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1843–1848. * Emily Barringer (1876–1961), American and the first female ambulance surgeon and the first woman to secure a surgical residency * Ethel Barringer (1883–1925), South Australian artist, sister-in-law to Gwen Barringer * Gwen Barringer (1882–1960) South Australian watercolorist * Jennifer Simpson, née Barringer, (born 1986), American track and field athlete * Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), British fantasy author * Patricia Barringer (1924–2007), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player and manager * Rufus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony R
Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include ''Antonio'' in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; ''Αντώνιος'' in Greek; ''António'' or ''Antônio'' in Portuguese; ''Antoni'' in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; '' Anton'' in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; ''Antoine'' in French; '' Antal'' in Hungarian; and '' Antun'' or '' Ante'' in Croatian. The usual abbreviate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer High School
Barringer Academy of the Arts & Humanities (formerly Barringer High School and Newark High School), is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Newark, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. Some consider it to be the third oldest public high school in the United States. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools until July 2031 and has been accredited since 1981. As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,872 students and 115.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.2:1. There were 969 students (51.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 75 (4.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Mansion
Barringer Mansion is a historic home located at 1404 Jefferson Park Avenue in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It features an elaborate turret with garland frieze adorning the cornice, three different styles of windows, and Jacobean chimneys. It was the home of Paul Brandon Barringer (1857-1941), noted physician, scientist, executive, and publisher who became chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia (then equivalent to president), and later the sixth president of Virginia Tech. an''Accompanying photo''/ref> In 1967 a subsequent owner converted the large home into apartments. The University of Virginia Medical School Foundation purchased the property in 1981 with plans to use it as an annex to the university's medical facilities. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer (lunar Crater)
Barringer is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater that is located on the southern sphere, hemisphere on the Far side of the Moon, named after geologist Daniel Barringer (geologist), Daniel Barringer. It is attached to the north-northeastern rim of the walled basin named Apollo (crater), Apollo, and lies to the southeast of Plummer (crater), Plummer. South of Barringer, on the floor of the Apollo basin, is the crater Scobee (crater), Scobee. This crater is generally circular in form, with a slight outward bulge along the western rim. The outer wikt:rampart, rampart of ejecta spills over slightly into the Apollo basin floor, but the remainder of the rim lies in rugged irregular ground. At the midpoint is a central peak formation with a pair of tiny craters to either side: east and southwest. The remaining floor is relatively flat to the north and somewhat more irregular to the south. Satellite craters By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Hotel
Barringer Hotel, also known as Hall House, was a historic hotel building located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The 12-story, red brick building consisted of the main block constructed in 1940 and five-bay-deep rear addition in 1950. The tall first level of the façade featured Art Deco-style decoration including a cast-concrete frontispiece with a low-relief stepped parallel lines and terminated at the top into a zig-zag pattern. The City of Charlotte renovated the structure in 1983 to apartments for elderly, low-income residents. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 2013. It was demolished on November 6, 2022. References Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Hill
Barringer Hill is a drowned geological and mineralogical site in central Texas. It lies on the former west side of the Colorado River, beneath Lake Buchanan, about northeast of the town of Llano. It consists of a pegmatite, lies near the eastern edge of the Central Mineral Region in the Texas Hill Country and is named for John Baringer, who discovered here much gadolinite about 1887. Geology and history The Barringer (Baringer) pegmatite was discovered in 1887 and, until its disappearance beneath the water of Lake Buchanan in 1937, was one of the most significant places in America from a mineralogical standpoint. Described by the United States Geological Survey as one of the greatest deposits of rare-earth minerals in the world, the pegmatite was the first place geologists discovered fergusonite, thorogummite, and nivenite. The pegmatite is centrally located in the Lone Grove pluton, a 1.6 Ga old rapakivi granite, intruded into Valley Spring Gneiss. Geologic evidence sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Farmhouse
Barringer Farmhouse is a historic structure located in Rhinebeck, New York, just west of US 9. Built ''c.'' 1830, the building is in a sparsely populated neighborhood and is accessed via an unpaved road north of Fox Hollow Road. The lot covers of land, characterized by hills and open fields with lightly wooded areas. The building itself sits at the crest of a knoll overlooking two large ponds. The ponds were created by the Fallsburg Creek, which forms the eastern boundary of the property. It is a two-story building with features of the late Federal and early Greek Revival styles. Its interior displays a high level of architectural integrity. A barn and shed complex is located north of the main house. The one-and-a-half-story barn, a contributing aspect to the property, was built in the late nineteenth-century. The shed is attached to the southwest corner of the barn, and was built in the twentieth century. A contributing nineteenth-century corn crib lies east of the barn and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Crater
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after the adjacent Canyon Diablo. Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of above sea level. It is about in diameter, some deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises above the surrounding plains. The center of the crater is filled with of rubble lying above crater bedrock. One of the features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site. Despite an attempt to make the crater a public landmark, the crater remains privately owned by the Barringer family to the present day through their Barringer Crater Company. The Lunar and Planetary Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, and other science institutes pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barranger
Barranger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charly Barranger, French music producer * Todd Barranger (born 1968), American golfer See also * Barringer {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringer Township
Barringer Township is a non-functioning township in Iredell County, North Carolina, United States. By the requirements of the North Carolina Constitution of 1868, the counties were divided into townships, including sixteen in Iredell County.Keever, Homer M.; ''Iredell Piedmont County'', with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, by Homer M. Keever''The Heritage of Iredell County, 1980'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 28677, , 642 pages with index''The Heritage of Iredell County, NC Vol II, 2000'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 29866, LC # 00-110956, 574 pages with index Geography Barringer Township covers an area of 30.41 square miles (78.76 km2), and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Barringer (geologist)
Daniel Barringer (May 25, 1860 – November 30, 1929) was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of an impact crater on the Earth, Meteor Crater in Arizona. The site has been renamed the Barringer Crater in his honor, which is the preferred name used in the scientific community. A small lunar crater on the far side of the Moon is also named after him. Early life Daniel Barringer was the son of Daniel Moreau Barringer, a nephew of Confederate General Rufus Barringer and a cousin of Paul Brandon Barringer. He graduated from Princeton University in 1879 at the age of 19, and in 1882 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He later studied geology and mineralogy at Harvard University and at the University of Virginia, respectively. In 1892, Barringer, along with his friend Richard A. F. Penrose, Jr., and others, purchased a gold and silver mine near Cochise, Arizona. Later, Barringer also discovered the Commonwealth Silver Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
