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David Parker (physicist)
David Parker may refer to: * David C. Parker (born 1953), theology professor and textual critic * David Parker (attorney) (born 1954), North Carolina politician and attorney * David Parker (Australian politician) (born 1953), Australian politician from Western Australia * David Parker (New Zealand politician) (born 1960), New Zealand politician * David Parker (director) (born 1947), Australian cinematographer * David Parker (climatologist), head of climate monitoring at the Hadley Centre * David Parker (sound engineer) (born 1951), American sound engineer * David Parker (swimmer) (1959–2010), British Olympic swimmer * David Parker (football manager) (born 1984), English football manager * David Stuart Parker (1919–1990), Governor of the Panama Canal Zone * David J. Parker (born 1947), former leader of the Alberta Green Party * David Parker (Pennsylvania politician), American politician * David Parker (Mississippi politician) (born 1969), American optometrist and politician * Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David C
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Parker (chemist)
David Parker (born 30 July 1956) is an English chemist, Chair Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham. Early life and education David Parker was born in Leadgate, County Durham. He grew up in Durham, England and was educated at Durham Johnston School and briefly at King Edward VI High School, Stafford. Having gained an Open Exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, he read Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he gained a First Class degree in 1978, and a DPhil in 1980,working with John Brown FRS, based on mechanistic studies in asymmetric catalysis. Career and research In 1980, he was appointed to a NATO Fellowship to work with Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Prize, 1987), and was appointed to a Lectureship in Chemistry at Durham University, beginning in January 1982. He became Chair Professor of Chemistry at Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2022. Parker's research investigates the design and synthesis of chira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Parker
Dai Parker (8 August 1904 – 16 June 1965) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Swansea. He won ten caps for Wales and was selected to play in the 1930 British Lions tour of New Zealand and Australia. Club career Parker first played for Swansea in 1923, and in 1924 he was part of the Swansea team that played the 1924 touring New Zealand team. Swansea lost heavily, but when Parker scored with a penalty kick he was the first person to score against the tourists, even though the game was the fifth of the series.Billot (1972), p. 59. Parker was Swansea's lead scorer over five consecutive seasons between 1925/26 and 1929/30. He was also chosen to captain Swansea in the 1927/28 season. International career Parker was first chosen to represent Wales in a match against Ireland as part of the 1924 Five Nations Championship. The Welsh team saw ten changes from the prior game against Scotland, which Wales had lost 10–35 and Parker was one of six ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Parker (pornographic Actor)
''Kevin Clarke's A Young Man's World'' is a 2000 American gay pornographic film written and directed by Kevin Clarke and starring Joe Landon and Ashton Ryan. It was produced and cinematographed by Barry Knight and Russell Moore of Delta Productions and distributed by Paladin Video. The film's duration is two hours; its date of production is July 22, 2000, and it was shot on high-definition video. Synopsis Five middle-aged menRon Aron, Kevin Clarke, Barry Knight, Russell Moore, and Derrick Stanton; all of whom have non-sexual rolescelebrate Barry Knight's 50th birthday in a spectacular home. They reflect on what they did when they were about 18 and fantasize scenes of young men together. Scenes * One: Court Logan and Trent Sebastian; Ron Aron, fantasizing * Two: Adam Bristol and Justin Roxx; non-sexual roles, fantasizing * Three: Jonathan Prescott, Antonio Madiera, and Zach Rhodes; Russell Moore, fantasizing * Four: Aston Ryan and Jace Hughes; Kevin Clarke and Barry Knight, fanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Parker (politician)
David Fletcher Hewlett Parker (born July 5, 1940) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1987 to 1991, as a Social Credit member for the constituency of Skeena. Before entering politics he was a professional forester, he was elected as a School Board trustee, serving Golden from 1981 to 1983 and then Terrace from 1985 to 1987. He was elected to the British Columbia Legislature as MLA for Skeena in October 1986. He served as Minister of Forests and Lands and Minister of State for the North Coast Region in the Rita Johnston and Bill Vander Zalm William Nicholas Vander Zalm (born Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Marie van der Zalm; May 29, 1934) is a politician and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada. He was the 28th premier of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991. Early life Wilhelmus Ni ... governments. References 1940 births Living people British Columbia school board members British Columbia Social Credit Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Parker (rugby)
Dave Parker (1935 – 9 November 2018) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s having played rugby union at county level in the 1950s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Oldham, as a . Born in Barrow in Furness in 1935, Parker played rugby union while a student at Manchester University and captained both Manchester and the Lancashire representative team before turning professional with Oldham in August 1960. During his rugby union career he made 24 appearances for Lancashire and was considered one of the best number eights in the country. In a career with Oldham he captained the club to the semi-finals of the 1963-64 Challenge Cup and winning the second division championship in the same season. He made 198 appearances for Oldham, scoring 34 tries, before an injury in the opening game of the 1967–68 Northern Rugby Football League season The 1967–68 Rugby Football League season was the 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Parker (rock Musician)
Dave Parker (born July 15, 1978) is an American musician, producer, writer, live sound engineer, and bassist for Albany, New York indie rock band Stellar Young. He has also worked with various other bands throughout his career. Career Bleed Theory and Divest Bleed Theory began as a studio project, more or less, by Dave Parker, Nate Kelley and Kurt Brown in the fall of 1997. Nate asked Morgan Evans to come down and collaborate on one of the tunes being worked on. Josh Eppard also joined around this time on drums. The band was a side project for Nate, Morgan and Josh, who were involved in Shabutie, Fuse, and 3 (band), respectively. Soon, Josh left to take Nate's place in Shabutie (later to become Coheed and Cambria) and Zac Shaw, a long time friend of Nate and Morgan took his place. The band proceeded until 2001 when Nate left and was replaced by Mike McCoy on bass. The band then evolved into Divest. After guitarist Dave Parker joined Coheed and Cambria as touring keyboardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Parker
David Gene Parker (born June 9, 1951), nicknamed "The Cobra," is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right fielder from 1973 to 1991. A seven-time All-Star, Parker won two National League batting titles and was the 1978 National League Most Valuable Player. He was a member of two World Series championship winning teams with the Pittsburgh Pirates in and the Oakland Athletics in . Parker was the second professional athlete to earn an average of $1 million per year, having signed a five-year, $5 million contract in January 1979. Parker's career achievements include 2,712 hits, 339 home runs, 1,493 runs batted in and a lifetime batting average of .290. Parker was also known as a solid defensive outfielder during the first half of his career with a powerful arm, winning three straight Gold Gloves during his prime. From 1975 to 1979, he threw out 72 runners, including 26 in 1977. Early life Parker grew up in Cincinnati near Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp Grohn
Camp Grohn was a military base of the U.S. Army on the outskirts of Bremen, Germany after the end of World War II from 1945 to 1954. Camp Grohn was originally built in 1936 as ''Flak Kaserne'' and housed the first battalion of the Luftwaffe's 26th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment prior to the outbreak of World War II. Following the defeat of Germany in the war, the U.S. Army took over the military base and renamed it Camp Grohn after the part of Bremen in which the camp was located. Camp Grohn was in a small, joint American/British sector in northern Germany called the ''Bremen Enclave'', which included the ports of Bremen and Bremerhaven. As part of the U.S. postwar occupation of Germany, various U.S. Army units were housed at Camp Grohn, including the headquarters of the 29th Infantry Division (from May 1945 until January 1946), elements of the 29th Infantry Regiment, the 307th Replacement Group (from 1952 until 1955), the 78th Infantry Division's 311th Infantry Regiment (from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busy Bee Starski
David James Parker (born October 26, 1962), known by the stage name Busy Bee, is an American old-school hip hop musician from New York, NY. First coming on the New York City music scene in 1977, Busy Bee worked with many of hip-hop's founding fathers, including Melle Mel, Afrika Bambaataa, and Kool DJ AJ. Career Known for his comedic rhymes, Busy Bee originally gained a large following through MC rap battles in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. He was famously roasted by Kool Moe Dee at Harlem World in Manhattan, NY, December 1981, in one of the earliest documented rap battles. In 1985, he won the New Music Seminar's MC World Supremacy Belt. In the early 1980s Afrika Bambaataa asked Busy to join his Zulu Nation where the young MC would DJ for Bambaataa's Zulu Nation parties. Busy Bee continues to rhyme today, most recently appearing on KRS-One and Marley Marl's collaborative 2007 album '' Hip-Hop Lives''. Busy Bee was featured in the 1983 film '' Wild Style'', bille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skunk (weapon)
"Skunk" is a malodorant, non-lethal weapon used for crowd control by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and marketed to militaries and law enforcement around the world. It was developed and is manufactured by Odortec, with two supporting companies, Man and Beit-Alfa Technologies.'Crowd Control Weapons in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,' April 2014. The liquid's strong odor is marketed as an improvement over other crowd control weapons (CCWs) such as s and used by the IDF against |
Arthur Warren
The Arthur Warren murder was the killing of 26-year-old American Arthur Carl ("J.R.") Warren Jr. on July 4, 2000, by two male teens. According to Liz Seaton of the ''Human Rights Campaign'', it had all the earmarks of a hate crime. Background Arthur Carl ("J.R.") Warren Jr. (1974 - July 3, 2000) Warren was born in 1974 to parents Arthur Warren Sr. and Brenda Warren and resided in Grant Town, West Virginia. Warren lived with learning disabilities and a birth defect that caused him to be born with several fingers missing on one hand. He was widely regarded in his community as a "soft spoken" young man. At 16, he came out to his mother and the minister at his church, and found acceptance and support with both. After his death, his mother—Brenda Warren—addressed a hate crimes rally in Washington, D.C. and lobbied for the inclusion of sexual orientation in West Virginia's hate crimes law. With his parents, Warren was a regular churchgoer, and attended the Missionary Baptist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
