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Cass
Cass may refer to: People and fictional characters * Cass (surname), a list of people * Cass (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Big Cass, ring name of wrestler William Morrissey * Cass, in British band Skunk Anansie * Cass, British singer, artist name of Brian Cassar * Henri Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist, standard author abbreviation "Cass." * Kevin Cassidy (born 1981), Gaelic footballer often referred to as "Cass" Places United States * Cass, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Cass, Michigan, a ghost town * Cass, West Virginia, a census-designated place ** Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, in West Virginia * Cass County (other) * Bartow County, Georgia, formerly Cass County * Cass Township (other) * Fort Cass, in present-day Tennessee, 19th century US Army fortification New Zealand * Cass, New Zealand, a locality * Cass (painting), a painting by Rita Angus Greenland * Cass Fjord Multiple countries * Cass Lake (disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Cass
William Morrissey (born August 16, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Big Bill and is a member of The Learning Tree. He is also a former one-time AEW World Tag Team Champion. He is previously known for his tenures with WWE (where he performed under the ring names Colin Cassady and Big Cass), and Impact Wrestling (where he performed as W. Morrissey). In WWE, he came to prominence for his partnership with Enzo Amore, whom he teamed with from 2013 to 2017. Together, they won the NXT Year-End Award for Tag Team of the Year in 2015. He was brought up to Raw alongside Amore the day after WrestleMania 32. He was later moved to the SmackDown brand, where he had a brief feud with Daniel Bryan, before being released by the company in June 2018. After leaving WWE, he resumed teaming with Amore (now known as nZo) on the independent circuit before joining Impact Wrestling in 2021, and AEW in 2022. Early life Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Cassidy
Kevin Cassidy (born 1981) is an Irish-Scottish Gaelic footballer, businessperson, columnist and commentator. Though born in Glasgow, Scotland, he has been living in Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal from a young age. Cassidy plays his club football for Gaoth Dobhair, with whom he has won three Donegal Senior Football Championships and one Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. Regarded as one of the best attacking wing half-backs of his generation, Cassidy has also played in midfield and even been his club's leading target man at the edge of the square during their successful Ulster Senior Club Football Championship campaign. A former member of the Donegal county team, Cassidy was twice an All Star — in his maiden season and in his last. He won the 2007 National Football League and the 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship, before an enforced — and, subsequently, permanent — absence from the inter-county scene after Cassidy became involved in a dispute about a boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass, New Zealand
Cass is a small locality in inland Canterbury on New Zealand's South Island, near Arthur's Pass. It is known for its small railway station which was the subject of the 1936 painting ''Cass'' by Rita Angus, voted in 2006 New Zealand's favourite work of art. It is also the location of a University of Canterbury field station established in 1914. Cass currently has a single permanent resident. Geography Cass is in the Cass River basin, which is in turn in the Waimakariri River basin in western Canterbury, Selwyn District, of the South Island. It is 22 km from Arthur's Pass, and 105 km from Christchurch via State Highway 73 and the Midland Line. The settlement is on a plain surrounded by mountains 1200–1800 m above sea level, predominantly in the Black Range, Polar Range, and Craigieburn Range. To the east of the settlement is Cass Hill and Sugar Loaf, and to the west are Mount Misery and Mount Horrible; two hills on the floodplain are named Romulus and Remus. The topogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass (painting)
''Cass'' is an oil painting created by the New Zealand artist Rita Angus in 1936, depicting the railway station at the small mountain settlement of Cass, New Zealand, Cass in the Canterbury Region, Canterbury High country (New Zealand), high country. It has been described as "one of the defining works of the 1930s and indeed of New Zealand art history," and was voted "New Zealand's greatest painting" in a 2006 television poll. Creation In the mid-1930s Rita Angus was in her 20s and working as a freelance commercial artist, writing and illustrating stories in the ''Press Junior'' supplement, from a small studio in Christchurch's Chancery Lane. She was part of a network of independent women working in the arts, including Olivia Spencer Bower, Louise Henderson, cellist Valmai Moffett, and her friend Jean Stevenson, editor of the ''Press Junior''. Around this time she was taking regular trips to explore the New Zealand countryside; she would frequently visit her lover Harvey Gresha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park is a state park and heritage railroad located in Cass, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It consists of the Cass Scenic Railroad, a long 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge heritage railway owned by the West Virginia State Rail Authority and operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad. The park also includes the former company town of Cass and a portion of the summit of Bald Knob, the highest point on Back Allegheny Mountain. History Founded in 1901 by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (now WestRock), Cass was built as a company town to serve the needs of the men who worked in the nearby mountains cutting spruce and hemlock for the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company, a subsidiary of WVP&P. At one time, the sawmill at Cass was the largest double-band sawmill in the world. It processed an estimated of lumber during its lifetime. In 1901 work started on the railroad, which climbs Back Allegheny Mountain. The railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass Technical High School
Cass Technical High School (simply referred to as Cass Tech) is a four-year Public magnet high school in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. from the University Cultural Center Association, retrieved June 9, 1001 It was established in 1907 and is part of the Detroit Public Schools Community District. It is named after Lewis Cass. Until 1977, Cass was Detroit's only magnet school and the only non-neighborhood enrollment school in Detroit. It remains one of few magnet schools in Detroit. Entrance is based on test scores and middle school grades. Students are required to choose a curriculum path—roughly equivalent to a college "major" —in the ninth grade. Areas of study include among others arts and communication, business management and marketing, engineering and manufacturing, human services, and science and arts. History The school was founded in 1907 on the third floor of Cass Union School on Grand Union Avenue, subsequently moving to its own wing. After that sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass Township (other)
Cass Township may refer to: Illinois * Cass Township, Fulton County, Illinois Indiana * Cass Township, Clay County, Indiana * Cass Township, Dubois County, Indiana * Cass Township, Greene County, Indiana * Cass Township, LaPorte County, Indiana * Cass Township, Ohio County, Indiana * Cass Township, Pulaski County, Indiana * Cass Township, Sullivan County, Indiana * Cass Township, White County, Indiana Iowa * Cass Township, Boone County, Iowa * Cass Township, Cass County, Iowa * Cass Township, Cedar County, Iowa * Cass Township, Clayton County, Iowa * Cass Township, Guthrie County, Iowa * Cass Township, Hamilton County, Iowa * Cass Township, Harrison County, Iowa * Cass Township, Jones County, Iowa * Cass Township, Shelby County, Iowa * Cass Township, Wapello County, Iowa Missouri * Cass Township, Douglas County, Missouri, in Douglas County, Missouri * Cass Township, Greene County, Missouri * Cass Township, Stone County, Missouri, in Stone County, Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass (surname)
Cass is the surname of: * Amelia Cass (born 1999), British para-cyclist * Annie Cass, later Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray (1860–1932), British philanthropist and suffragist *Barbara Cass-Beggs (1904–1990), Canadian folk song collector, singer and teacher *Bettina Cass (born 1940), Australian sociologist and social policy adviser * Brian Cass (born 1947), British business executive * David Cass (1937–2008), American economist * Dick Cass (born 1946), President of the National Football League's Baltimore Ravens * Eleanor Baldwin Cass (1874–1966), American fencer * Frank Cass (1930–2007), British publisher of books and academic journals * Frederick Cass (1913–2000), Canadian politician * George Washington Cass (1810–1888), American industrialist and president of the Northern Pacific Railway * Godfrey Cass (1867–1951), Australian actor * Harriet Cass (born 1952), British radio broadcaster * Henry Cass (1902–1989), English film director * Hilary Cass, British physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Cassar
Brian Cassar (21 March 1936 – 25 December 2022) was a British singer and guitarist known as Casey Jones. He led the first notable beat group in Liverpool, Cass and the Cassanovas, who were early rivals of The Beatles in the city. He later led another group, Casey Jones and the Engineers, which was one of Eric Clapton's first bands, and then, as leader of Casey Jones and the Governors, became successful in Germany, where he became based for much of his life. His surname is sometimes misspelled as Casser. Life and career Early life Cassar was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and raised in Liverpool. Casey Jones & The Engineers, ''Allmusic.com'' Retrieved 30 December 2022 In the 1950s, he worked in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Cass
Fort Cass, named for U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass (1782–1866), was a fort located on the site of the U.S. federal agency to the Cherokee Nation (present-day Charleston, Tennessee). Established in 1835, the fort served as the U.S. Army headquarters for Cherokee removal (also known as the Trail of Tears) from their ancestral homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). It housed a garrison of U.S. troops who watched over the largest concentration of internment camps where Cherokee were kept during the summer of 1838 before starting the main trek west to Indian Territory, and served as one of three emigration depots where the Cherokee began their journey west, the others of which were located at Ross's Landing in Chattanooga and Gunter's Landing near Guntersville, Alabama. The fort was abandoned in 1838. History The Cherokee population had been spread over a region that included southeast Tennessee, southwest North Carolina, northern Georgia, and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cass (1978 Film)
''Cass'' is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a woman returning home and struggling to put her life back together.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p23 Synopsis Cass ( Michele Fawdon) is a film-maker returning to Sydney after a stint filming the traditional lives of the island Mulala people. Her producer Frank ( Peter Whitford) conspires to hijack her footage for a TV special, despite Cass having made a vow to the Mulala people that it would only be shown in specialist academic circles. Cass's doctor husband Mike (John Waters) senses a change in Cass on her return from the islands, and is irritated that she wants to abstain from sex and becoming pregnant. Cass also feels disconnected from her friends and like she no longer fits in. On her way to an event, Cass stumbles on a couple of hippies, Margo (Judy Morris) and Tom ( Peter Carroll), living eco-friendly lives, that shun consumerism and capitalism. Cass proceeds to the event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cassini
Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of France, who had succeeded his father as the director of the Paris Observatory. He was also the great-great-grandson of famous Italian-French astronomer, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discoverer of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. The genus '' Cassinia'' was named in his honour by the botanist Robert Brown. He named many flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...s and new genera in the sunflower family (Aste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
