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David Wood (dancer)
David Wood may refer to: Entertainment * David Duffield Wood (1838–1910), American composer, educator, and musician * David Wood (actor) (born 1944), English actor and playwright * David Wood (New Zealand musician), musician with Straitjacket Fits * David Wood, guitarist of Canadian indie rock band Good Kid. Politics * David Wood (politician) (born 1961), member of the Missouri House of Representatives * David Wood (environmental campaigner) (1963–2006), executive director of the GrassRoots Recycling Network Sports * David Wood (basketball) (born 1964), American professional basketball player * David Wood (cricketer) (born 1965), English cricketer Other * David Wood (British Army officer) (1923–2009), British Army officer * David Wood (journalist), American journalist * David Wood (judge) (born 1948), British judge * David Wood (mathematician) (born 1971), Australian mathematician * David Wood (philosopher) (born 1946), professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Duffield Wood
David Duffle Wood (March 2, 1838 — March 25, 1910), sometimes written as David Duffield Wood or David Duffel Wood, was an American composer, educator, and musician. He was blind from early childhood. Wood was the organist and choir master at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia), St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia for 46 years. Early life and education David Duffle Wood was born in 1838 near Pittsburgh, one of the six sons of Jonathan Humphreys Wood and Wilhelmina Jones Wood. Through illness and accident, he lost his vision as a young child. He was five years old in 1843 when he was enrolled in the Overbrook School for the Blind, Institute for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia. By the time he was sixteen, he was listed in the school's reports as an assistant music teacher. Beyond music, he also studied mathematics with James G. Blaine, while the future U. S. Secretary of State was a young teacher at the school for the blind. Career Wood was hired a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (journalist)
David Bowne Wood is a journalist who has reported on war and conflict around the world for 35 years. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for a series on the American troops severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. A birthright Quaker, Wood registered as a conscientious objector in 1963 and served two years of civilian service before becoming a journalist. A graduate of Temple University, Wood was a correspondent for ''Time'' magazine in Chicago, Boston and Nairobi, where he covered guerrilla wars across Africa from 1977 to 1980. He is the author of two books, including ''What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of our Longest Wars'' (Little, Brown & Co, 2016) Career As a reporter in Washington he has covered presidential campaigns and the State Department for ''The Washington Star'' and national security issues for the ''Los Angeles Times'', Newhouse News Service, ''The Baltimore Sun'' and AOL's ''Politics Daily'' before moving to ''The Huffington Post'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (Christian Apologist)
David Wood (born April 7, 1976) is an American evangelical apologist, philosopher and YouTube personality, who is the head of the Acts 17 Apologetics ministry, which he co-founded with Nabeel Qureshi. He also runs Foundation for Advocating Christian Truth, which is the organization behind AnsweringMuslims.com. Wood is known for his criticism of Islam, particularly Islamic views on theology and morality, as well as the Quran in general, hadith, sīrah and Muhammad. Early life, incarceration and education Wood was an atheist in his youth, and stated that he had run-ins with the law by breaking into homes. He later smashed his father's head in with a hammer at the age of 18 in an attempt on his life, claiming a belief that morality was merely societal rules that were beneath him. He also said that after the assault on his father (who survived), Wood was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and was sentenced to ten years in prison for malicious wounding. While in prison, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Muir Wood
David Muir Wood is an academic working in the field of geomechanics (the mechanics of geomaterials) and soil mechanics, famous for having pioneered advances in mathematical modelling of soils, informed by experimental observation. The hallmark of his modelling efforts has been to formulate elegant models that capture the essence of the material response while being accessible to practitioners of Geotechnical engineering. David Muir Wood is author of a number of books for academic audiences as well as for the general public. Education David Muir Wood obtained his BA degree at Cambridge University in 1970, where he proceeded onto his MA. Career David Muir Wood obtained his PhD in Cambridge in 1974 under the supervision of Peter Wroth. The title of this work is 'Some aspects of the mechanical behaviour of kaolin under truly triaxial conditions of stress and strain' He then continued onto a Research fellowship between Cambridge and Norwegian Geotechnical Institute in 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leonard Wood
David Leonard Wood (born June 20, 1957), known as The Desert Killer, was convicted of raping and killing at least six girls and women in El Paso, Texas between May and August 1987, and later burying their bodies in the desert. He was sentenced to death. He was scheduled to be executed on March 13, 2025. His execution was stayed when evidence of his possible innocence and various constitutional violations at his trial were presented by his legal team, as described iThe Marshall Project For four decades, Wood has denied he committed the crimes. Biography David Leonard Wood was born on June 20, 1957, in San Angelo, Texas, the second of four children. In the 1960s, his father, Leo, moved the family to a luxurious neighborhood in El Paso, where he held an executive position with the El Paso Electric Company. While the family was considered well off, their private life was troublesome, as Wood's mother Betty, who had started showing signs of mental illness, began to frequently argue wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (philosopher)
David Wood (born 1946) was Centennial Professor of Philosophy, and Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, at Vanderbilt University. Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years, and is the author of 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, he also co-directed (with Beth Conklin) a research programme in ecology and spirituality for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture. Background Wood was born in Oxford, England. He was an undergraduate at the University of Manchester, where he was introduced to phenomenology by Wolfe Mays. He went on to do graduate work in philosophy at New College, Oxford (1968–1971), where through the good offices of Alan Montefiore (at Balliol College) Jacques Derrida was a frequent visitor. Under the influence of a group of animal rights activists led by Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch – now known as the Oxford Group; Peter Singer, author of '' Animal Liberation'' (1975) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (mathematician)
David Ronald Wood (born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1971) is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research area is discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, especially structural graph theory, extremal graph theory, geometric graph theory, graph colouring, graph drawing, and combinatorial geometry. Wood received a Ph.D. in computer science from Monash University in 2000. His thesis "Three-Dimensional Orthogonal Graph Drawing", supervised by Graham Farr, was awarded a Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal. He held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Sydney, at Carleton University in Ottawa, at Charles University in Prague, at McGill University in Montreal, at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and at the University of Melbourne. Since 2012 he has been at Monash University, where he was promoted to Professor in 2016. He has been awarded distinguished research fellowships including a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (judge)
David Russell Wood (born 13 December 1948) is a retired British Circuit judge. He was educated at Sedbergh School, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970).‘WOOD, David Russell’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013 He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wale ... in 1973 and was a Circuit judge from 1995 to 2014. He served as President of the Council of Circuit Judges in 2008. References 1948 births Living people People educated at Sedbergh School Alumni of the University of East Anglia Members of Gray's Inn {{UK-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (British Army Officer)
David Wood may refer to: Entertainment * David Duffield Wood (1838–1910), American composer, educator, and musician * David Wood (actor) (born 1944), English actor and playwright * David Wood (New Zealand musician), musician with Straitjacket Fits * David Wood, guitarist of Canadian indie rock band Good Kid Good Kid is a five-member indie rock band from Toronto, Ontario. It consists of five members: lead vocalist Nick Frosst, drummer Jon Kereliuk, bassist Michael Kozakov, and guitarists David Wood and Jacob Tsafatinos. The band's mascot, known as N .... Politics * David Wood (politician) (born 1961), member of the Missouri House of Representatives * David Wood (environmental campaigner) (1963–2006), executive director of the GrassRoots Recycling Network Sports * David Wood (basketball) (born 1964), American professional basketball player * David Wood (cricketer) (born 1965), English cricketer Other * David Wood (British Army officer) (1923–2009), British Army of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (actor)
David Bernard Wood OBE (born 21 February 1944) is an English actor, author, composer, director, magician and producer. ''The Times'' called him "the National Children's Dramatist". In 1979, he joined Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, and Jan Francis in a reading of ''The Hobbit'' for the BBC Television show ''Jackanory''. Early life Wood was born on 21 February 1944 in Sutton, Surrey. He was educated at Chichester High School for Boys and Worcester College, Oxford. Stage work Along with John Gould, he founded the Whirligig Theatre, a touring children's theatre company. His most famous story, '' The Gingerbread Man'' (1976), has been all across the world since its premiere at the Towngate Theatre in Basildon. Wood, FilmFair, and Central adapted the musical into an animated children's television series. The adaptation, also called '' The Gingerbread Man'', aired on ITV in 1992. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2004 Queen's Birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (cricketer)
David John Wood (born 10 January 1965) is a former English cricketer. Wood was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Cuckfield, Sussex. Wood made two first-class appearances for Sussex against Surrey and Hampshire in the 1984 County Championship. Against Surrey, he scored 15 runs in Sussex's first and only innings of the match, before being dismissed by Graham Monkhouse. The match ended in a draw. Against Hampshire, Wood scored 12 runs in Sussex's first-innings, before being dismissed by Cardigan Connor, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Nigel Cowley for 5 runs. Hampshire won this match by 108 runs. He made no further major appearances for Sussex after this match. References External linksDavid Woodat ESPNcricinfo ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wood (basketball)
David Leroy Wood (born November 30, 1964) is an American former professional basketball player, who most notably played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). His NBA career spanned from 1988 until 1997. He played in the Continental Basketball Association with the Rockford Lightning and the Yakima Sun Kings, and also played professionally in France, Spain, and the Philippines. He played for the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal. Following his retirement, Wood became interested in politics. A strong supporter of , he attended Trump's rally prior to the incident at the Capitol in 2020. His son, |
