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Clore Gallery London Dec07
Clore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Clore (1904–1979), British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist * G. Marius Clore (born 1955), British/American molecular biophysicist * Joanna Clore, character in the British sitcom Green Wing, played by Pippa Haywood * Walter Clore (1911–2003), pioneer in wine growing and agricultural research in Washington State See also * Clore Gallery at the Tate Britain art gallery in London, which houses work by J. M. W. Turner * Clore Garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel * Charles Clore Park, beachfront public park in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel * Clore Leadership Programme, British programme of professional training and personal development * Clore Tikva Primary School, Jewish voluntary aided primary school in Barkingside, London, England *Claw *Clor Clor was a short-lived five-piece band from Brixton, England, formed by Barr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Clore
Sir Charles Clore (26 December 1904 – 26 July 1979) was a British financier, retail and property magnate, and philanthropist. Biography Clore was of Lithuanian Jewish background, the son of Israel Clore, a Whitechapel tailor who had emigrated to London, and later to Israel. Clore moved to Birmingham and went to Montgomery Street School. He worked at his father's textile business but then moved to South Africa at the age of 20. Clore first made money buying and selling South African film rights to a world championship boxing match between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey in 1926. In 1930 he bought Cricklewood ice rink but sold this to acquire the Prince of Wales Theatre near Leicester Square. He also invested in Lyndenburg Estates, a South African gold mining company. In 1939, he led a syndicate to acquire London Casino. After the war, he made more acquisitions, including a shareholding in Park Royal Vehicles, a textile mill in Yorkshire, and Richard Shops (a women's fashion r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Clore
''Green Wing'' is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the Sketch comedy, sketch show ''Smack the Pony'' – Channel 4 commissioner Caroline Leddy and producer Victoria Pile – and stars Mark Heap, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt. It focuses on soap opera-style twists and turns in the personal lives of the characters, portrayed in sketch-like scenes and sequences in which the film is slowed down or sped up, often emphasising the body language of the characters. The show had eight writers. Two series were made by the Talkback Thames Film production, production company for Channel 4. The series ran between 3 September 2004 and 19 May 2006. One episode, filmed with the second series, was shown as a 90-minute-long Television special, special on 4 January 2007 in the UK, but was shown earlier in Australia and Belgium on 29 December 2006. Separate from the series, a sketch was made for Comic Relief (char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Clore
Walter J. Clore (July 1, 1911 – February 3, 2003) was a pioneer in wine growing and agricultural research in Washington state and has been formally recognized by the Washington State Legislature as the "Father of Washington Wine". Among his contributions to wine growing in Washington state was his extensive research into what areas of the state that premium wine grapes (particularly ''Vitis vinifera'') would most thrive in.Terrace DaWalter Clore, Wine Grape Pioneer DiesFeb. 3rd, 2003 Early life Born in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, Clore studied botany and agriculture in high school in Tulsa before attending Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College (Today known as Oklahoma State University). While majoring in horticulture, Walter Clore also lettered in football as a lineman and was president of the agricultural fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho and elected to honorary membership to another agricultural fraternity Alpha Zeta. In the summers, he did survey work in Ohio and Indiana for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clore Gallery
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Founded by Sir Henry Tate, it houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. In 2021 it ranked 50th on the list of most-visited art museums in the world. History The gallery is on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill, commenced in 1893, and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. However, from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clore Garden
The Weizmann Institute of Science ( ''Machon Weizmann LeMada'') is a Public university, public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, fourteen years before the State of Israel was founded. Unlike other List of Israeli universities and colleges, Israeli universities it exclusively offers postgraduate-only degrees in the natural science, natural and exact sciences. The institute is a multidisciplinary research center, employing around 3,800 scientists, Postdoctoral researcher, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and scientific, technical, and administrative staff working at the institute. As of 2019, the Weizmann Institute of Science has been associated with six Nobel laureates and three Turing Award winners. The Weizmann Institute of Science and Elbit Systems have collaborated on various projects, notably including the development and supply of the space telescope for Israel's Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) program and re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Clore Park
Charles Clore Park (, ''Park Charles Clore'') is a beachfront park in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel. Covering of public land along the Mediterranean Sea, it's named after Charles Clore, a British financier, property magnate and philanthropist. The Charles Clore Foundation remains an influential grant and funding organization that supports non-profits based in Israel. The park opened to the public in 1974. In 2007, it underwent a two-year makeover. It was built on the ruins of Al-Manshiyya, a historic Palestinian neighborhood whose residents fled the neighborhood after it had become a battlefield in 1948 and were not allowed to return after the war, and whose buildings were demolished in the 1960s as part of a project to establish there a new central business district (CBD). The remains of the buildings, dumped into the seashore, could not be disposed of properly due to municipal budget constraints, and were embanked as reclaimed land. Events Each June, the annual Tel Aviv Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clore Leadership Programme
The Clore Duffield Foundation is a registered charity in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 2000 by the merger of two charitable foundations, the Clore Foundation of Charles Clore and his daughter's Vivien Duffield Foundation. Formation After her father's death in 1979, Duffield assumed the Chairmanship of the Clore Foundation in the UK and in Israel. In the UK she also established her own Vivien Duffield Foundation in 1987, and the two foundations merged in 2000. Museums and galleries The Foundation has supported a wide range of organisations including the Royal Opera House, Tate, the Royal Ballet, the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Southbank Centre, the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem, Israel and Eureka! The National Children's Museum. The Foundation has made a particular contribution to cultural education, having funded dozens of Clore Learning Centres across the UK, and to leadership training, having launched the Clore Leaders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clore Tikva Primary School
This is the list of schools in the London Borough of Redbridge, Redbridge Borough of London, England. State-funded schools Primary schools * Aldborough Primary School * Aldersbrook Primary School * Al-Noor Muslim Primary School * Avanti Court Primary School * ARK Isaac Newton Academy * ATAM Academy * Barley Lane Primary School * Chadwell Primary School * Christchurch Primary School * Churchfields Infants' School * Churchfields Junior School * Cleveland Road Primary School * Clore Tikva School * Coppice Primary School * Cranbrook Primary School * Downshall Primary School * Fairlop Primary School * Farnham Green Primary School * Fullwood Primary School * Gearies Primary School * Gilbert Colvin Primary School * Glade Primary School * Goodmayes Primary School * Gordon Primary School * Grove Primary School * Highlands Primary School * John Bramston Primary School * Loxford School * Manford Primary School * Mayespark Primary School * Mossford Green Primary School * Newbury Park Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claw
A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Some invertebrates such as beetles and spiders have somewhat similar fine, hooked structures at the end of the leg or Arthropod leg, tarsus for gripping a surface as they walk. The pincers of crabs, lobsters and scorpions, more formally known as their chelae, are sometimes called claws. A true claw is made of a hard protein called keratin. Claws are used to catch and hold prey in carnivorous mammals such as cats and dogs, but may also be used for such purposes as digging, climbing trees, self-defense and Personal grooming, grooming, in those and other species. Similar appendages that are flat and do not come to a sharp point are called nail (anatomy), nails instead. Claw-like projections that do not form at the end of digits but spring from other parts of the foot are properly named Spur (zoology), spurs. Tetrapods In tetrapods, claws are made of keratin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
