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Crafts (surname)
Crafts is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alden Springer Crafts (1897–1990), American botanist *Clayton E. Crafts (1848–1920), American politician * Dale J. Crafts (born 1958), American politician *Helle Crafts (1947–1986), American murder victim *James Crafts (1839–1917), American chemist *Jerry Crafts Jerry Wayne Crafts (born January 6, 1968) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles. He also played in the World League of American Football, XFL, Canadian Footba ... (born 1968), American footballer * Lisa Crafts (21st century), American artist * Nicholas Crafts (born 1949), British historian * Samuel C. Crafts (1768–1853), American politician * Sara Jane Crafts (1845–1930), American social reformer, author, educator See also * Craft (surname) {{surname, Crafts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alden Springer Crafts
Alden Springer Crafts (25 June 1897, Fort Collins, Colorado – 9 February 1990, Davis, California) was an American professor of botany, known as the first person in the United States to have the title "Weed Control Scientist" in academic employment. He was President of the American Society of Plant Physiologists for 1955, and President of the Weed Society of America (later renamed the Weed Science Society of America) for 1958–1960. Crafts was the editor of the ''Annual Review of Plant Physiology'' (now the ''Annual Review of Plant Biology'') from 1957–1959. Biography After graduating from Oakland High School. the sixth oldest high school in the state of California, Crafts matriculated in 1916 at the College of Agriculture of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). After completing one year of academic study, he left college to work as an agricultural laborer at the Kearney field station. In 1918 he and his two brothers, Andrew B. Crafts (1885–1966) and Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton E
Clayton may refer to: People * Clayton (name) * Clayton baronets * The Clayton Brothers, Jeff and John, jazz musicians *Clayton Brothers, Rob and Christian, painter artists * Justice Clayton (other), the judges Clayton Places Canada * Clayton, Ontario * Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333, Saskatchewan Australia * Clayton, Victoria *Clayton Bay, a town in South Australia formerly known as Clayton *Electoral district of Clayton, a former electoral district in Victoria United Kingdom * Clayton, Manchester *Clayton, South Yorkshire * Clayton, Staffordshire, in Newcastle-under-Lyme * Clayton, West Sussex * Clayton, West Yorkshire *Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire * Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire * Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire United States Locales *Clayton, Alabama * Clayton, California, in Contra Costa County; formerly ''Clayton's'' * Clayton, Placer County, California * Clayton, Delaware * Clayton, Georgia * Clayton, Idaho * Clayton, Illinois * Clayton, Indiana * Clayton, Iow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale J
Dale or dales may refer to: Locations * Dale (landform), an open valley * Dale (place name element) Geography ;Australia *The Dales (Christmas Island), in the Indian Ocean ;Canada *Dale, Ontario ;Ethiopia *Dale (woreda), district ;Norway *Dale, Fjaler, the administrative centre of Fjaler municipality, Vestland county *Dale, Sel, a village in Sel municipality in Innlandet county *Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative centre of Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county *Dale, Vaksdal, the administrative bop on the head *Dale Church (Fjaler), a church in Fjaler municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (Luster), a church in Luster municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (Vaksdal), a church in Vaksdal municipality, Vestland county *Dale Church (also known as Norddal Church), a church in Fjord municipality, Møre og Romsdal county ;Poland * Dale, Lesser Poland Voivodeship (south Poland) ;Sweden *The Dales, English exonym for Dalarna province ;United Kingdom *Dale, Cumbria, a hamlet i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Crafts
Helle Crafts (; born Helle Lorck Nielsen; July 7, 1947 – November 19, 1986) was a Danish flight attendant who was murdered by her husband, Eastern Air Lines pilot Richard Crafts. Her death led to the state of Connecticut's first murder conviction without the victim's body. Disappearance Helle Nielsen married Richard Crafts in 1975 and settled with him in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. Helle continued working as a flight attendant while raising their three children. In 1986, Helle began to suspect that Richard was engaged in extramarital sexual activity, and confronted him about suspicious long-distance phone calls, which angered Richard. Helle met with a divorce attorney and hired a private investigator, Keith Mayo, who snapped photos of Richard kissing another flight attendant outside her New Jersey residence. On November 18, 1986, friends dropped Helle off at the couple's Newtown residence after she had worked a long flight from Frankfurt, West Germany. She was ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Crafts
James Mason Crafts (March 8, 1839 – June 20, 1917) was an American chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel–Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Biography James Crafts, the son of Royal Altamont Crafts and Marianne Mason (daughter of Senator Jeremiah Mason), was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1858. Although he never received his Ph.D., he studied chemistry in Germany at the Academy of Mines (1859) of Freiberg, and served as an assistant to Robert Bunsen at Heidelberg, and then with Wurtz in Paris (1861). It was in Paris that Crafts first met Charles Friedel, with whom he later carried out some of his most successful research. Crafts returned to the United States in 1865. In 1868, he was appointed as the first professor of chemistry at the newly founded Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he remained until 1870. During the following four years Crafts served as professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Crafts
Jerry Wayne Crafts (born January 6, 1968) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles. He also played in the World League of American Football, XFL, Canadian Football League and Arena Football League. He is the only person to have been involved with teams that played in the championship games of each of the aforementioned Leagues. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma for Barry Switzer and the University of Louisville. Currently he is an assistant coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars Early years and college career Crafts is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he attended Metro Christian Academy. He began his college career at the University of Oklahoma before transferring to the University of Louisville after his sophomore season. Professional career Crafts was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 11th round (292nd pick overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft, but was released during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Crafts
Lisa Crafts is an American animator and moving image artist whose interdisciplinary work has addressed issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity and chaos. Practice Her current body of work focuses on a series of short moving image pieces about the Anthropocene, revealing the horror, beauty, humor and loss of the epoch. Crafts' work blends animation, video, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. It has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters and film festivals including the Museum of Modern Art, Film Forum, Slamdance, Tribeca Film Festival and La Luz de Jesus. She is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony. One of Crafts' best known works is ''Desire Pie'', a feminist erotic animation which screened widely; was "banned in Boston"; was lost, found, and restored; and ended up in the permanent collection of the Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Crafts
Nicholas Francis Robert Crafts CBE (born 9 March 1949 in Nottingham, England) is Professor of Economic History at thUniversity of Sussex Business School a post held from 2019. Previously he was Professor of Economics and Economic History at the University of Warwick, a post he held from 2005. Previously he was a Professor of Economic History at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) between 1995-2005. He also teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the LSE and HEC School of Management. His main fields of interest are the British economy in the last 200 years, European economic growth, historical data on the British economy, the Industrial Revolution and international income distribution, especially with reference to the Human Development Index. He has produced a substantial body of papers for academic journals, the British government and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund. During the 1980s Cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel C
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Jane Crafts
Sara Jane Crafts (, Timanus; pen name, Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts; August 15, 1845 – May 2, 1930) was an American social reformer, author, lecturer, and teacher. She lectured and taught at Chautauquas, as well as a lecturer at State and International Sunday school conventions. Crafts was an editor and contributor to various periodicals, and published several books between 1876 and 1911. Craft was a social reformer who traveled the world advocating on behalf of Sunday schools, temperance, and anti-opium. She was also "one of the first women to conduct convention sessions" in the U.S. Early life and education Sara Jane Timanus was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 15, 1845. Sara had two younger siblings, John and Fannie. Her parents were Jesse and Jane (Means) Timanus. She was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, at Ohio Wesleyan Female College, and at Iowa University, Grinnell. Career Around 1865 till 1870, taught in public schools. From 1870 through 1874, she was a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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