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Casper
Casper may refer to: People * Casper (given name) * Casper (surname) * Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque * Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426 * Caspar David Friedrich (born 1774), German Romantic painter * David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper * Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician * DJ Casper (1965–2023), American musician Places in the United States * Casper, Wyoming, a city * Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming Entertainment * Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of ''The Maltese Falcon (novel), The Maltese Falcon'' * Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics ** Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character *** Casper (film), ''Casper'' (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost *** ''Casper: A Spirited Beginning'', a direct-to-video pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the List of municipalities in Wyoming, second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. Casper is in east central Wyoming, on the North Platte River. History Casper was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, in an area that attracted European settlers during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon Trail, Oregon, California Trail, California, and Mormon Trail, Mormon trails, where several nearby ferries offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s. In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations, allowing overland travel to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (rapper)
Benjamin Griffey (born 25 September 1982), better known by his stage name Casper, is a German rapper and singer with US roots signed to Sony Music."Casper signt bei Four Music" (German). hiphop.de. Retrieved 29 July 2012 Early life Casper was born in Lemgo in North Rhine-Westphalia to a German mother and an American father, Arlen Griffey, who was a soldier stationed in Lemgo. His family moved to Augusta, Georgia, in the United States, when he was two weeks old, where he lived in a trailer park."Casper Interview"(German). juice.de. Retrieved 29 July 2012 At the age of 11, he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (given Name)
Casper (with the same sounding Kasper) is a family and personal name derived from Aramaic that means "Treasurer". The origins of the name have been traced as far back as the Old Testament and variations of the name have been adopted by a variety of cultures and languages. Origins The name is derived from Gaspar which in turn is from an ancient Aramaic language, Chaldean word, "gizbar", which according to Strong's Concordance means "treasurer". in Strong's Concordance The word "gizbar" appears in the Hebrew version of the Old Testament Book of Ezra (1:8). In fact, the modern Hebrew word for "treasurer" is still (). By the 1st century B.C. the Septuagint gave a Greek translation of "gizbar" in Ezra 1:8 as "gasbarinou" (literally, "son of Gasbar"). The transition from "Gizbar" to "Caspar" and "Kaspar" can thus be summarized as: Gizbar→Gasbar→Gaspar→Caspar→Kaspar... with "C" being a misreading of the manuscript "G" and "K" having the same phonetic value as "C". There are nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper And The Spectrals
''Casper and the Spectrals'' is a three-issue comic book miniseries published by Arden Entertainment, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Casper the Friendly Ghost. The series, which is a reimagining, gives the characters a modernized look and design while living in a grittier environment. The story follows Casper as he joins forces with Wendy the Good Little Witch and Hot Stuff the Little Devil to stop a monstrous threat named Willem Georges Volbragg. The issues were published from October 2009 to September 2010. Plot In the town of New York City, a young ghost named Casper and his cousin Spooky are getting lessons from their uncles, the Ghostly Trio (Lazo, Fusso and Fatso), as they demonstrate by scaring a local family on the subway train. However, Casper doesn't understand why, so in a school of Spookytown, the Trio inform him that they must keep the scares in Ghostburg intact in order to keep the monstrous entity Volbragg contained. Casper assumes that he is just a myth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper Sleep
Casper Sleep Inc. (also known as Casper) is an e-commerce company that sells sleep products online and in retail locations. Headquartered in New York City, the company has showrooms in New York City, Chicago, and elsewhere. Its mattresses are manufactured in Georgia and Pennsylvania. History Casper was launched in April 2014 by Philip Krim (previously of The Merrick Group, angelbeds.com, tranquilitymattress.com and SleepBetterStore.com), Neil Parikh, T. Luke Sherwin, Jeff Chapin (previously of IDEO), and Gabriel Flateman. In January 2014, the company raised $1.85 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Lerer Ventures and Norwest Ventures and also included funding from Crosslink Partners, Vaizra Investments, and Correlation Ventures. On April 22, 2014, Casper officially launched In August 2014, an additional $13.1 million was received in Series A funding, including investments from New Enterprise Associates, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher's firm, A- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (skateboarding)
Casper is a freestyle skateboarding trick that was invented by Bobby "Casper" Boyden in the late 1970s. Boyden had a very pale skin and he was nicknamed after the cartoon ghost. The modern casper was invented by Rodney Mullen in the late 1980s. During a casper the skateboarder holds the skateboard upside down with his feet and balances on the tip of the tail. The skateboarder stands on the bottom side of the tail while his front foot is under the front part of the board touching the griptape and keeping it from touching the ground. Casper was originally performed without jumping but it can also be performed from a half flip. When doing an original casper the skateboarder stands on the board so that the heel of his back foot is on the tail and the ball and toes are hanging from the side. The front foot rests on the opposite edge of the board near the trucks. The skateboarder then jumps up to unweight the board and presses the edge of the deck with his front foot to make the boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper College
Casper College is a Public college, public community college in Casper, Wyoming. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive community colleges in the region. Established in 1945 as Wyoming's first junior college and initially located on the third floor of Natrona County High School, Casper College moved to its current site 10 years later. Currently the campus consists of 28 buildings on more than 200 acres. The grounds are distinctive, with terraces that surround the modern buildings. It enrolls over 4,000 students and employs about 250 faculty. The Tate Geological Museum is located on the south end of the campus. Academics Casper College offers more than 50 academic majors and 30 technical and career field options. The academic side of the college is organized into five different Schools: Business and Industry, Fine Arts and Humanities, Health Science, Science, Social and Behavioral Science. Athletics Casper College participates in the National Junior College Athletic As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (cat)
Casper ( 1997 – 14 January 2010) was a male domestic cat who attracted worldwide media attention in 2009 when it was reported that he was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth in Devon, England. He appeared on BBC News, was the subject of a newspaper editorial in ''The Guardian'', and had a book written about him, '' Casper the Commuting Cat''. Casper died on 14 January 2010 after being hit by a taxi. Biography Casper was adopted from an animal rescue centre in Weymouth, Dorset, in 2002 by Susan Finden, a 48-year-old health care worker. He had been at the centre for about ten months and the owners called him Morse, after ''Inspector Morse'', a TV program they had been watching when he arrived. But after a few days with him in her Weymouth house, Finden changed his name to Casper, after Casper the Friendly Ghost, because he kept disappearing. She soon realised that he was a very independent and determined cat, and he frequently wandered off. She also discovered that he was not afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (admissions Test)
Casper (Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics, earlier CASPer or "CMSENS") is an admissions test developed by Harold Reiter and Kelly Dore. It was made for the McMaster University's Program for Educational Research and Development and has been used by McMaster University Medical School since 2010. The test is intended to examine an applicant's soft skills such as empathy. As of 2025, the test is used as part of the admissions process in 12 Canadian medical schools. Braden MacBeth from Science-Based Medicine ''Science-Based Medicine'' is a website and blog with articles covering issues in science and medicine, especially medical scams and practices. Founded in 2008, it is owned and operated by the New England Skeptical Society, and run by Steve ... has criticized Casper for its lack of transparency. MacBeth believes that it should not be used in the admissions process. The studies used to promote the test are considered to be poor scholarship by ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyundai Casper
The Hyundai Casper () is a crossover city car produced by the South Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai. It is the smallest crossover SUV ever offered by the brand, and also the smallest automobile of any kind that is currently sold by Hyundai. The Casper has been developed in compliance with the "light car" () category in South Korea which offers tax incentives for vehicles with exterior dimensions below in length and in width, and is the first Hyundai vehicle to occupy the segment after the Atos. As a result, it is developed as a four-seater vehicle. A battery electric version of the Casper was introduced in June 2024 as the Hyundai Casper Electric, or the Hyundai Inster in Europe. Overview The Casper was revealed through a set of images on 1 September 2021. Pre-orders started on 15 September 2021, and the vehicle was released on 29 September. According to Hyundai, the name "Casper" is taken from the Casper skateboarding technique. It's also confirmed that the Caspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Command/Service Module
The Apollo command and service module (CSM) was one of two principal components of the United States Apollo (spacecraft), Apollo spacecraft, used for the Apollo program, which landed astronauts on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. The CSM functioned as a mother ship, which carried a crew of three astronauts and the second Apollo spacecraft, the Apollo Lunar Module, to lunar orbit, and brought the astronauts back to Earth. It consisted of two parts: the conical command module, a cabin that housed the crew and carried equipment needed for atmospheric reentry and splashdown (spacecraft landing), splashdown; and the cylindrical service module which provided propulsion, electrical power and storage for various consumables required during a mission. An umbilical cable, umbilical connection transferred power and consumables between the two modules. Just before reentry of the command module on the return home, the umbilical connection was severed and the service module was cast off and al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (persistency)
In Linux systems, initrd (''initial ramdisk'') is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, to be used as part of the Linux startup process. initrd and initramfs (from INITial RAM File System) refer to two different methods of achieving this. Both are commonly used to make preparations before the real root file system can be mounted. Rationale Many Linux distributions ship a single, generic Linux kernel image one which the distribution's developers create specifically to boot on a wide variety of hardware. The device drivers for this generic kernel image are included as loadable kernel modules because statically compiling many drivers into one kernel causes the kernel image to be much larger, perhaps too large to boot on computers with limited memory, or in some cases to cause boot-time crashes or other problems due to probing for nonexistent or conflicting hardware. This static-compiled kernel approach also leaves modules in kernel memory which are no longer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
