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Calkins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Blaine Calkins (born 1968), Canadian politician * Blean Calkins (1921–2003), sports radio broadcaster * Buzz Calkins (born 1971), American racing car driver * Dick Calkins (1894–1962), comic strip artist * Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868–1964), American advertising executive * Frank C. Calkins (1878–1974), American geologist * Gary Nathan Calkins (1869–1943), American zoologist * George H. Calkins (1830–1896), American physician and politician * Helen Calkins (1893–1970), American mathematician * Homer D. Calkins (1911–1996), American environmentalist * Hugh Calkins (1924–2014), American academic administrator * Irving Calkins (1875–1958), American sport shooter *Mary Whiton Calkins Mary Whiton Calkins (; 30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing ...
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Blaine Calkins
Blaine F. Calkins (born December 25, 1968) is a Conservative member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada. He is the current member of Parliament for Ponoka—Didsbury in Alberta, having previously represented the riding of Red Deer—Lacombe from 2015-2025, and Wetaskiwin, from 2006-2015. He was elected to Parliament for Wetaskiwin in 2006. The riding was abolished in 2015, and Calkins successfully ran in Red Deer—Lacombe, essentially the southern part of his old riding (including its largest city, Lacombe) combined with the northern half of the old Red Deer riding. The riding of Red Deer—Lacombe was itself abolished in 2025 and Calkins successfully ran in the new riding of Ponoka-Didsbury, encompassing much of the previous riding, without the city of Red Deer, but adding a multitude of new rural communities, including the towns of Olds and Didsbury, south of the existing riding. Early life and career Calkins was born and raised in the Lacombe, Alberta area. H ...
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Blean Calkins
Blean Anson Calkins (August 11, 1921 in Marshalltown, Iowa - March 16, 2003 in Muscatine, Iowa) was a sports radio broadcaster for over 30 years. He was President of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) 1978-1981, and served on the NSSA Board with such contemporaries as Curt Gowdy, Chris Schenkel, Keith Jackson and Ray Scott. His birth was a difficult one, the attending doctor was credited with saving his life, so he was named in honor of Dr. Blean. Calkins broadcast Iowa Hawkeyes basketball and football home games along with Iowa high school athletics on KWPC KWPC (860 AM) is a commercial radio station serving the Muscatine, Iowa area. The station broadcasts a classic country format. The station airs regular news, weather and sports coverage. KWPC is owned by Krieger Media Company. The studio, t ... out of Muscatine for over 30 years. Calkins also did morning drive sports on album rock 99 Plus through most of the 1980s. Morning show host An ...
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Buzz Calkins
Bradley Hobson "Buzz" Calkins Jr. (born May 2, 1971 in Denver, Colorado) is a former Indy Racing League driver. After a successful run in Indy Lights from 1993 to 1995 where he finished 11th, 10th, and 6th in his three seasons, he and his Bradley Motorsports team purchased a 1995 Reynard chassis to compete in the inaugural season of the IRL. He won the series' inaugural race, the 1996 Indy 200 at Walt Disney World ahead of Tony Stewart and was that year's league co-champion with Scott Sharp. He competed in the Indianapolis 500 six times, with a best finish of 10th in 1998 His win in the series' first race would end up to be his only IRL win. Calkins graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1993. Calkins earned a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the histori ...
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Dick Calkins
Richard William Calkins (August 12, 1894 – May 12, 1962), who often signed his work Lt. Dick Calkins, was an American comic strip artist who is best known for being the first artist to draw the ''Buck Rogers'' comic strip. He also wrote for the ''Buck Rogers'' radio program. Biography Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calkins graduated from the Chicago Art Institute. His first job was cartoonist for the ''Detroit Free Press''. During World War I, Calkins served in the Army Air Service as a pilot and flight instructor. Following the war, he worked as an editorial cartoonist for the '' Chicago American'' until 1929, the year he began drawing ''Buck Rogers''. (Calkins is credited as the artist for ''Buck Rogers'' from January 1929 to November 1947, and writer from September 1939 to November 1947, but other sources indicate he stopped drawing the strip around 1932.) Calkins also co-created and illustrated the aviation-themed comic strip '' Skyroads'', with aviation pioneer and ...
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Earnest Elmo Calkins
Earnest Elmo Calkins (March 15, 1868 – October 4, 1964) was a deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, of fictional characters, the soft sell, and the idea of " consumer engineering". He co-founded the influential Calkins & Holden advertising agency. His work was recognized with many awards during his lifetime and was called the "Dean of Advertising Men" and "arguably the single most important figure in early twentieth century graphic design." Early and family life Calkins was born to Mary Manville and William Clinton Calkins in Geneseo, Illinois. They moved soon after a few miles south to Galesburg, where his father became the city attorney for a short while. At age 6, a bout of measles left him “almost completely deaf”, although it was not recognized until he was 10. His teachers told him he could hear if he paid more attention. By age 14 he was fully deaf. His mother was a Baptist who forbade him to read fiction, even ''Arabian Ni ...
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Frank C
Frank, FRANK, or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a Germanic people in late Roman times * Franks, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Aargau frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community ...
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Gary Nathan Calkins
Gary Nathan Calkins (18 January 1869 – 4 January 1943) was an American protozoologist and a professor at Columbia University. He wrote several landmark textbooks on the biology of the protozoa. He described conjugation in '' Paramoecium'' and in his taxonomic approach separated chlorophyll containing flagellates from other protists. Calkins was born in Valparaiso, Indiana to John Wesley Calkins and Emma Frisbie Smith He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1890 and taught for a while. He worked briefly at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and then continued further studies at Columbia University and obtained a Ph.D. in 1897. His influences at Columbia included Henry Fairfield Osborn. He rose to professor of zoology in 1904 which was later renamed as professor of protozoology. He worked at Columbia University for most of his life retiring as an emeritus professor in 1939. He also took an interest in statistics and worked as a consultant in cancer re ...
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George H
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ...
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Helen Calkins
Helen Calkins (1893–1970) was an American mathematician and professor, and one of the few women to earn a PhD in mathematics in the United States before World War II. Biography Helen Calkins was born on October 20, 1893, to Anna Burns Schermerhorn and Addison Niles Calkins, in Quincy, Illinois. The eldest of two daughters, she was a student at Quincy High School from 1908–1912 and then she attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, starting in 1912, graduating in 1916 with a special honor in mathematics. Her first job was teaching math at a junior high school in Quincy. In 1917 she taught at the senior high school in Jacksonville, Illinois for a year before returning to Knox College as a math instructor 1918–1920. In February 1932 at Columbia University (1920–1921) she earned her master's degree with the thesis: ''The unity in mathematics, as illustrated by a certain differential equation''. In February 1932, Calkins was awarded her PhD from Cornell; her advisor ...
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Homer D
Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an Ancient Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the '' Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Despite doubts about his authorship, Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history. The ''Iliad'' centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The ''Odyssey'' chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The epics depict man's struggle, the ''Odyssey'' especially so, as Odysseus perseveres through the punishment of the gods. The poems are in Homeric Greek, also known as Epic Greek, a literary language that shows a mixture of features of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects from different centuries; the predominant influence is Eastern Ionic. Most researchers believe that the poems were originally transmitted orally. Despite being ...
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Hugh Calkins
Hugh Calkins (February 20, 1924 – August 4, 2014) was an American lawyer and educator, who served as a member of the Harvard Corporation from 1968 to 1985. Early life Calkins was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1924, and went to Phillips Exeter Academy before attending Harvard College. As an undergraduate, he served briefly as president of the ''Harvard Crimson'' in 1942. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' in mechanical engineering. He joined the United States Army Air Forces and was on the staff at the Guam Air Depot, which provided aircraft maintenance. He served until 1946 and became a captain. Career After the war, Calkins returned to Harvard to attend law school, was president of the ''Law Review'', and graduated with enough honors in 1949 to win a job as a law clerk to Learned Hand, then the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He spent the following year clerking for Justice Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...
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Irving Calkins
Irving Romaro Calkins (October 31, 1875 – August 26, 1958) was an American physician and sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Biography Irving Calkins was born in Palmer, Massachusetts on October 31, 1875. He studied at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Vermont, and earned a medical degree from Baltimore Medical College in 1896. At the 1908 Olympics, he won a gold medal in the team pistol event. He finished in eighth place in the individual pistol event. He became world champion in 1923. He died in Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ea ... on August 26, 1958. References External linksIrving Calkins' profile at databaseOlympics * * 1875 births 1958 deaths American male sport shooters ...
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