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Fiona Gordon
Fiona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origins. It means white or fair, while the Irish name ''Fíona'' means 'of wine', being the genitive of 'wine'. It was coined by Scottish writer James Macpherson. Initially, the name was confined to Scotland but later it gained popularity in other countries, such as Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and Canada. Etymology Fiona originates from the Gaelic word ,. meaning white or fair, being a Romantic Era Latinised form; or an Anglicisation of the Irish name ''Fíona'' (Scotland ''Fìona'') meaning 'of wine', being the genitive of (Scotland ) 'wine', from which is also derived the terms (Irish) , (Irish, Scottish) ( 'tree'), and (Scottish) ( 'tree, bush') 'grape-vine'. An alternative suggested by Hanks (2006) is that ''Fíona'' means ''vine''; this meaning appears in no Irish or Gaelic dictionary, except in the compounds and In ninth-century Welsh and Breton language ''Fion'' (today: ''ffion'') referred to the foxgl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen (given Name)
Gwen is a Welsh feminine given name meaning "white, holy". It can also be a shortened form of '' Gwenhwyfar'' ( Guinevere) or other names beginning with the same element, such as: * Gwenhael, Gwenael, Gwenvael, Gwenaelle * Gwenda (explained as a compound of '' gwen'' "white, pure, blessed, holy" + '' da'' "good, well") * Gwendolen, Gwendoline, Gwendolyn * Gweneira (from ''gwen'' "white" + '' eira'' "snow") * Gwenfair (combination of ''gwen'' "blessed, holy" + -''fair'', soft mutation of ''Mair'', "(the Virgin) Mary" * Winefride (originally Gwenffrewi) () * Gwenfron (from ''gwen'' "white" + '' fron'', mutated form of '' bron'' "breast"; ''cf.'' Bronwen) * Gwenyth, Gwenith (identical to the Welsh word for "wheat") * Gwenllian * Gwennant (compound of ''gwen'' "white" + ''nant'' "stream, brook") * Gwenola (modern feminized form of Breton '' Winwaloe'') Although superficially similar, Gwyneth has a different, albeit uncertain, etymological origin (likely either from Gwynedd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyn (name)
Gwynn, Guinn and Gwyn are given names meaning 'white' or 'blessed' in Welsh and Cornish. Gwyn and its variants are male given names, indicated by the spelling using "y" rather than "e". Gwen (given name), Gwen or Gwendolen are female equivalents. Gwynne (other), Gwynne is a unisex Anglicised version of the name. Gwyneth can cause confusion, as this is a female name with apparently male spelling, however, this name has a different Etymology, etymological origin. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Gwyn Ashton (born 1961), Welsh musician *Gwyn A. Beattie, American plant pathologist *Gwyn Coogan (born 1965), American educator, mathematician, and former Olympic runner *Gwyn Cready (born 1962), American author *Gwyn Davies (rugby) (1908–1992), Welsh rugby player *Gwyn Davies (cricketer) (1919–1995), Welsh cricketer *Gwyn Evans (footballer) (1935–2000), Welsh footballer *Gwyn Evans (rugby union) (born 1957), Welsh rugby player *Gwynn Evans (1915–2001), We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Bloom
Fiona Bloom is a music industry publicist who runs the New York City agency The Bloom Effect. Early life Bloom grew up in St John's Wood, London. She took piano lessons as a child and trained to be a concert pianist. She moved to the U.S. after her father moved to Atlanta, Georgia for business reasons. She started training as a disk jockey and worked at college radio in Georgia State University. Career After receiving a degree in Speech Communications, Bloom began her professional career in 1991 at WSTR FM as the station's assistant music director, and she also served as an on-air personality. In 1994, EMI Records head Daniel Glass appointed her to the position of Director of New Artist Marketing. After working at EMI, Bloom served as the Director of Media Relations at Zero Hour Records. She started her own subsidiary record label, called 3-2-1, in 1996. Bloom started her agency The Bloom Effect in 2007. That year, she was named Top Consultant/Strategist of the Year by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Balfour
Fiona Elizabeth Balfour (born 14 August 1958) is an Australian business executive in the field of information technology. She has been named Chief Information Officer of the Year in Australia four times: 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2006 she was awarded the Pearcey Award for distinguished lifetime achievement and contribution to the development and growth of Australian IT professions, research and industry. In 2017 she was appointed to the board of the Western Sydney Airport Corporation by Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher. In May 2021 she was appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by communications minister Paul Fletcher against the recommendations of an independent panel. Life Balfour was born in Melbourne, Australia, and completed a bachelor of arts degree in English and history at Monash University in 1979. She initially worked in the public sector, in the Victorian State Public Service followed by the Commonwealth Government, in roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Baan
Fiona Valerie Fulton Baan (December 21, 1938 – June 19, 1994) was a Scottish-born American equestrian sports administrator. She was the dressage and driving trainer, manager, and director of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) from 1976 to 1994. Early life and education Fiona Fulton was born in Scotland, the daughter of James F. Fulton and Edith Agnes Chandler. She became an accomplished horsewoman in the Cotswolds. Career Baan worked in the hotel industry as a young woman, and traveled internationally in that work. In 1966 became secretary with the United States Equestrian Team, based in New Jersey. She competed in local horse shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Baan managed and directed the dressage and driving programs of the United States Equestrian Team from 1976 into 1994.Hall of Fame Inductees: Fiona Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She released five albums from 1996 to 2020, all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart. As of 2021, she has sold over 15 million records worldwide. Apple has received numerous List of awards and nominations received by Fiona Apple, accolades, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' Music Video Award. The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. She studied piano as a child and began writing songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, ''Tidal (album), Tidal'' (1996), comprises songs written during her teens, and won Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Female Rock Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards for its single "Crimina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Alpass
Fiona Margaret Alpass is a New Zealand academic at Massey University. Academic career Alpass completed a master's degree at Massey University in 1992, looking at how anger management and social contact can modulate the effects of alcohol and tobacco use. After a 1994 PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ... titled ''The Effects of Organisational Change in the Military: A Comparison of Work Related Perceptions and Experiences in Military and Non-military Environments'' at Massey University, Alpass started working at Massey and rose to full professor in 2013. Alpass has had a number of externally funded research projects, and a longitudinal ageing studying run jointly with Christine Stephens, also at Massey. In the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours, Alpass was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Allen
Fiona Allen (born 13 March 1965) is an English comedian and actress, most known for her work on Channel 4's '' Smack the Pony'' between 1999 and 2003. Career Allen has appeared in many sketch shows, including ''We Know Where You Live'' (Channel 5), '' Smack the Pony'' (Channel 4), '' Goodness Gracious Me'' and '' The All Star Comedy Show''. She has also appeared in many television dramas including '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' and ''Coronation Street'', as well as the sitcom ''Happiness'' alongside Paul Whitehouse. Subsequently, she appeared as Sandra, in the film version of the '' Viz'' comic strip '' The Fat Slags'', and as a panelist on one episode of '' Mock the Week''. She played the comedian Carlotta Adams in the 2000 TV Poirot adaptation of 'Lord Edgware Dies'. Allen appeared in the first episode of the second series of the E4 teenage drama '' Skins'', playing Maxxie's mum Jackie Oliver. She also appeared in BBC drama '' Waterloo Road'' as Georgia Stevenson, playing the form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Adams
Fiona Rose Pattinson Adams (née Clarke; 26 September 1935 – 26 June 2020) was a British photographer. She is most well known for her photograph of the Beatles jumping in the air which featured on the '' Twist and Shout'' EP cover. In the 1960s, she photographed musicians of the day including Jimi Hendrix, Billy Fury, Cilla Black, Adam Faith, Bob Dylan and Sandie Shaw. Early life Adams was born on 26 September 1935 in London, daughter of Freda (née Pattinson) and Philip Clarke, both professional musicians. The family ran a guest house in Vazon in the Channel Island of Guernsey. Due to World War Two in 1941, the family left Guernsey and returned in 1946. Adams attended The Ladies College in St Peter Port. She studied photography at the Ealing School of Art, graduating in 1955. Career Adams worked for photographer Douglas Glass for 7 months after graduating. This was followed by a role as photographer assistant in London County Council's architectural department for fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. The ''Herald''s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand. The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year. Its main circulation area is the Auckland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier (Dundee)
''The Courier'' (known as ''The Courier & Advertiser'' between 1926 and 2012) is a newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland. As of 2013, it is printed in six regional editions: Dundee, Angus & The Mearns, Fife, West Fife, Perthshire, and Stirlingshire. However, by 2020 this had been reduced to three regional editions for Perth and Perthshire; Angus and Dundee; and Fife. In the months July to December 2024, the average daily circulation of the Courier was 17,737, a minor increase from 2023 although significantly down from the 30,179 copies sold in December 2019. History Established in 1801 as the ''Dundee Courier & Argus'', the entire front page of ''The Courier'' used to contain classified advertisements – a traditional newspaper format for many years. In 1809 it was taken over by Robert Rintoul who used the paper to campaign for political reform, and criticism of local politicians such as Alexander Riddoch. In 1926, during the General Strike ''The Courier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
