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Corky (other)
Corky means cork (material), cork-like. It is an English and Irish unisex name that also serves as a nickname for Courtney (other), Courtney. It may also refer to: People Sportspeople *Corky Ballas (born 1960), American competitive ballroom dancer *Corky or Corkie Blow (1877–1938), English footballer *Corky Calhoun (born 1950), American former National Basketball Association player *Corky Carroll (born 1947), American surfer *Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer, nicknamed Corky *Corky de Graauw (born 1951), Dutch ice hockey player *Corky Devlin (1931–1995), American National Basketball Association player *Corky McMillin (1925–2005), American off-road desert racer and land developer *Corky Miller (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player *Corky Nelson (1939–2014), American high school and college football player and coach *Corky Palmer (born 1954), American college baseball coach *Corky Rogers (1943–2020), American high school football coach *Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korky
Korky is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Korky Neufeld, Canadian politician * Korky Paul (born 1951), British illustrator Fictional * Korky the Cat See also * Corky (other) {{Given name Given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Cornelius
Edward "Corky" Cornelius (December 3, 1914 – August 3, 1943) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cornelius's father was a drummer who worked regionally in dance bands in Texas. He was born in Indiana and raised in Binghamton, New York, and began his career in the early 1930s, playing with Les Brown, Buddy Rogers, and Frank Dailey. He joined Benny Goodman's band early in 1939, and went with Gene Krupa when the drummer split off to form his own group. While there, Cornelius met singer Irene Daye, whom he married soon after. He played with the Casa Loma Orchestra from 1941 until 1943, when he died suddenly of kidney failure. His widow, Daye, married Charlie Spivak, in 1950. General references *Eugene Chadbourne, Corky Corneliusat Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles A
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Drago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Peterson
The Reform Party of Canada fielded several candidates in the 1997 federal election, and won 60 seats out of 301 to form the Official Opposition. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. Ontario Charles Van Tuinen ( Eglinton—Lawrence) Van Tuinen was born on August 12, 1953, in Oakville, Ontario. He has a college-level education, and was a millwright with AFG glass in Scarborough during the 1990s. He was once vice-president and steward of his union. Van Tuinen campaigned for the Reform Party in 1993 and 1997, campaigning against high taxes, and promised to create jobs through investment. When the Liberal Party won a majority government in the 1993 election, Van Tuinen suggested that the party would inflate the country's money supply. Peter Spadzinski ( Parry Sound-Muskoka) Peter Spadzinski was born in Poland and moved to Canada in 1953. He graduated from Laurentian University in history and French and took fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Gonzales
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (June 18, 1928 – April 12, 2005) was a Mexican-American boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist. He was one of many leaders for the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado. The Crusade for Justice was an urban rights and Chicano cultural urban movement during the 1960s focusing on social, political, and economic justice for Chicanos.“The Crusade for Justice”, Blog, the1960bloggcu.wordpress.com Gonzales convened the first-ever Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in 1968, which was poorly attended due to timing and weather conditions. He tried again in March 1969, and established what is commonly known as the First Chicano Youth Liberation Conference. This conference was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. It also birthed the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a pro-indigenist manifesto advocating revolutionary Chicano nationalism and self-determination for all Chicanos. Through the Crusade for Justice, Gonzales organized the Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Evans
Corky Evans (born January 2, 1948) is a former Canadian provincial politician in British Columbia, Canada. He twice ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia, placing second both times. In both cases, the party formed the government of British Columbia and its leader became Premier of British Columbia. He served in several cabinet ministries. Early life and career While his birth certificate recorded his name as Conrad St. George Evans, he insists Corky Evans is his correct name. Born in California the son of a prominent defense attorney and a graduate of Palo Verde High School in Tucson, Arizona, he moved to British Columbia in 1969 with his wife and two daughters. Evans describes himself as a war resister. Their son was born soon after. Before his election to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Evans worked as a stevedore, logger, tree-planter, heavy-equipment operator, first-aid attendant, and highways surveyor. By the mid-1970s, Evan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Trinidad
Francisco Flores Trinidad, Jr. (May 26, 1939 – February 13, 2009), better known by his pen name "Corky", was a Filipino-American editorial cartoonist and comics artist. Born in Manila, he was known for his editorial cartoons for the ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' since 1969, and especially for his satirical Vietnam War comic strip '' Nguyen Charlie''. Biography Francisco Trinidad Jr. came from a family of journalists. His father, Francisco “Koko” Trinidad, was a broadcaster, and his mother, Lina Trinidad, was a columnist. Trinidad became a political cartoonist for the '' Philippines Herald'' after he graduated from university in 1961. He later became one of many journalists who fled the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Trinidad was the first Asian editorial cartoonist to be syndicated in the United States and the only Asian American editorial cartoonist at a major U.S. metropolitan newspaper. Via syndication, Trinidad's work has appeared in no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Quakenbush
Corky Quakenbush (b. ) is an American writer, producer, and cameraman who has in motion pictures and TV series. One of his specialties is in stop-motion animation. Quakenbush worked in the production of Carl Sagan's science series '' Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'' during 1979–80. Career Independently and through his company Space Bass Films, Quakenbush has produced more than 100 short films as independent works and as part of larger collections. His work has appeared in Mike Judge's The Animation Show and on ''MADtv'' on Fox TV. His parodies of the Rankin/Bass ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' for Christmas episodes of ''That '70s Show'' and ''George Lopez'' were mentioned in the book ''The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass'' by Rick Goldschmidt. Quakenbush's films generally have adult-oriented themes of comic violence, blending the innocent with the profane. Quakenbush holds a record for number of films screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival by one director (nine), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corky Lee
Young Corky Lee (September 5, 1947 – January 27, 2021) was a Chinese-American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. He called himself an "ABC from NYC ... wielding a camera to slay injustices against APAs." His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture often ignored and overlooked by mainstream media, striving to make Asian American history a part of American history. Early life and education Lee was born on September 5, 1947, in Queens, New York City. He was the second child of Lee Yin Chuck and Jung See Lee, both of whom had immigrated to the United States from Guangdong, Taishan, China. His father, who had served in the US Army in World War II, owned a laundrette. His mother was a seamstress. Lee had an older sister (Fee) and three younger brothers (John, James, and Richard). Lee attended Jamaica High School before going on to study American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corwin Clairmont
Corwin "Corky" Clairmont is a printmaker and conceptual and installation artist from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Known for his high concept and politically charged works, Clairmont seeks to explore situations that affect Indian Country historically and in contemporary times. Background Early life Corky Clairmont was born in 1946 at the St. Ignatius Mission on the Salish Kootenai reservation. Creative at a young age, Clairmont was encouraged by his parents to be creative. During the holidays family members gave him paint by number kits, which he disliked, never completing them. At age 15 he submitted a design for the communities' tribal seal; it was chosen, and is still used to this day. Attending high school in Polson he learned about the different elements of fine art, and during his sophomore year he was introduced to using a palette knife to paint with acrylics. This was his first experience in fine art painting, paving the path ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
