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David Alexander (physicist)
David Alexander may refer to: Entertainers *David Alexander (director) (1914–1983), American television director *Dave Alexander (blues musician) (1938–2012), American West Coast blues pianist & bassist *David M. Alexander (born 1945), American writer *Dave Alexander (musician) (1947–1975), American bassist for Iggy Pop & The Stooges *David Alexander (singer) (1929–1995), Welsh singer and entertainer Politicians *David W. Alexander (1812–1887), Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors *David Lindo Alexander (1842–1922), British lawyer and Jewish community leader *David Alexander (Tennessee politician) (born 1952), American state legislator in Tennessee *David Alexander (Scottish politician) (born 1958), Scottish leader of Falkirk local authority, Scotland *David J. Alexander (born 1981), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives Sportsmen *David Alexander (footballer) (1869–1941), Scottish footballer *David Alexander (American football) (born 1964), Ame ...
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David Alexander (director)
David Alexander (December 23, 1914 – March 6, 1983) was an American television director. He directed episodes of the CBS Television, CBS series The Best of Broadway and several popular 1960s television shows, including: My Favorite Martian#Season 3 (1965–66), My Favorite Martian, List of Petticoat Junction episodes#Season 1 (1963–64), Petticoat Junction, List of Get Smart episodes#Season 1 (1965–66), Get Smart, The Munsters, F Troop and List of The Brady Bunch episodes#Season 1 (1969–70), The Brady Bunch. He also directed two episodes, Plato's Stepchildren and The Way to Eden, of Star Trek: The Original Series. On Broadway theatre, Broadway, he directed the 1952 revival of Pal Joey (musical). This production had the longest run of any revival of a musical in the history of the Broadway theatre at the time. In the previous year, he was the director of the Broadway production of ''The King of Friday's Men'' (1951). References External links

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Dave Alexander (blues Musician)
Dave Alexander (born David Alexander Elam), also known as Omar Sharriff, Omar Shariff, Omar Hakim Khayam (March 10, 1938 – January 8, 2012), was an American West Coast blues singer and pianist. Biography Alexander was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1938, and grew up in Marshall, Texas. His father was a pianist, and his mother encouraged him to play in church. Alexander joined the United States Navy in 1955. He moved to Oakland, California, in 1957, and began a long history of working with various San Francisco Bay area musicians. A self-taught pianist, he played with Big Mama Thornton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and Albert Collins. In 1968, he recorded his first songs for the compilation album ''Oakland Blues'', released by World Pacific Records. He performed at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1970 and at the San Francisco Blues Festival many times from 1973 onward. He was the warm-up act at the Last Waltz, a concert staged by the Band at the W ...
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David M
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and '' Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 3 ...
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Dave Alexander (musician)
David Michael Alexander (June 3, 1947 – February 10, 1975) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential proto-punk band The Stooges. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of The Stooges. Biography After his family relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, from Whitmore Lake, Michigan, Alexander attended Ann Arbor Pioneer High School, Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, where he met brothers Ron Asheton, Ron and Scott Asheton. "Zander" (as Alexander was known) dropped out after 45 minutes on the first day of his senior year in 1965 to win a bet. Later in 1965, Ron sold his motorcycle and then went to England to see The Who and to "try and find The Beatles". Alexander and the Asheton brothers soon met Iggy Pop and formed The Stooges in 1967. Although Alexander was a total novice on his instrument, he was a quick learner and subsequently had a hand in arrangement, arranging, music composition, composing a ...
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David Alexander (singer)
David Alexander (1938 – 4 February 1995), born Derick Ebdon, was a Welsh singer and entertainer. He began his career singing in social clubs, eventually obtaining wider recognition. His album ''Reflections'' sold 800,000 copies in 1988. Early years Born in Blackwood, Monmouthshire as Derick Ebdon, he left Bedwellty Grammar School at the age of 16 to support his family. He joined his father and eldest brother in the mines at Oakdale Colliery. In the years after this, he qualified as a machine engineer. It was while working at a factory in Cwmbran that he joined the Trenewydd Singers, with whom he would appear on '' Opportunity Knocks''. Career Alexander made his debut at a local social club, left the brake factory where he worked, and toured much of the United Kingdom, also working as an entertainer at Pontins. David Alexander was the name given to "Ricky" Ebdon by his manager Byron Godfrey, a friend from his teens. Godfrey and his partner, Raymond John Glastonbury, had d ...
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David W
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and '' Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; pag ...
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David Lindo Alexander
David Lindo Alexander (5 October 1842 in the City of London – 1922) was an English barrister and Jewish community leader.Sharman Kadish‘Alexander, David Lindo (1842–1922)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 December 2006 Early life and family David Lindo Alexander was born in the City of London on 5 October to solicitor Joshua Alexander and his wife Jemima (b. 1809 – d.?), daughter of Sara de Abraham Mocatta (1777–1852) and David Abarbanel Lindo (1772 -1852). His brother Lionel Lindo Alexander would become a prominent communal worker. His aunt Abigail Lindo had compiled an early English-Hebrew dictionary. Alexander was educated at City of London School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in mathematics in 1864. In 1886 David Lindo Alexander married Hester (1845–1913), daughter of stockbroker Simeon Joseph. The couple had two sons and one daughter. British Jewry In 1877 David Lindo Alexander bec ...
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David Alexander (Tennessee Politician)
David Alexander (born October 29, 1952, in Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing District 39 since January 2011. Education Alexander earned his BA in English literature from Mississippi College. Elections *2012 Alexander was unopposed for the August 2, 2012, Republican Primary, winning with 4,436 votes, and won the November 6, 2012, General election with 15,097 votes (65.7%) against Democratic nominee Doug Clark. *2010 To challenge District 39 incumbent Democratic Representative George Fraley, Alexander was unopposed for the August 5, 2010, Republican Primary, winning with 5,405 votes, and won the November 2, 2010, General election with 11,566 votes (65.7%) against Representative Fraley. References External linksOfficial pageat the Tennessee General Assembly *David Alexanderat BallotpediaDavid Alexanderat OpenSecrets OpenSecrets is a nonprofit organization base ...
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David Alexander (Scottish Politician)
David Alexander (born 20 June 1958"The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1997", Times Books, 1997, p. 137.) is a former leader of Falkirk Council from February 2001 to May 2007 and led the SNP Group on the council for twenty years. He is one of two SNP councillors for Falkirk North Ward. He is a non-executive board member of the Scottish Ambulance Service. Political career Falkirk Council Before entering politics, he worked as a support worker with a housing association. He was first elected as councillor in 1988 for the Victoria ward, then elected as a councillor for the former Middlefield Ward in 1999, then the North Ward. In 2000 he was the best value spokesman for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA). After gaining a seat in a by-election in February 2001, the SNP formed a new administration with the independents and Alexander became the council leader. Falkirk council then withdrew from COSLA. Other political activity He was the SNP candidate for t ...
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David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus (band), Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets (band), Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, ''Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)'', in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and ''The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse'' in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory. David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His most recent single, "The Day That David Bowie Died" entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The trac ...
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David Alexander (footballer)
David Alexander (22 April 1869 – 14 January 1941) was a Scottish footballer, who played for East Stirlingshire, Darwen, Accrington and Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac .... References External links *London Hearts profile 1869 births 1941 deaths Men's association football forwards Scottish men's footballers Scotland men's international footballers East Stirlingshire F.C. players Darwen F.C. (1870) players Accrington F.C. players English Football League players People from Cambusnethan Footballers from Wishaw 19th-century Scottish sportsmen {{Scotland-footy-forward-1860s-stub ...
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David Alexander (American Football)
David Franklin Alexander (born July 28, 1964) is an American high school football coach and a former professional football center and guard. He played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Jets. He played college football at the University of Tulsa and was selected in the fifth round of the 1987 NFL draft. After his professional career, Alexander operated a business as a custom homebuilder, while also pursuing a career in coaching. He worked as an assistant coach for seven years at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. In 2005–06, he was also head coach of the Tulsa Talons of the af2 arena football league. In 2013, he left Jenks to move to neighboring Broken Arrow High School, where he had played and graduated in 1982, as the running backs coach. In January 2014 he was announced as Broken Arrow's new head football coach. Although Broken Arrow won a state championship in 2018 under Alexander's leadership, it fired ...
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