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FitzGerald (other)
The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman or Cambro-Norman noble family. FitzGerald may also refer to: People * FitzGerald (surname) Places Australia * Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia Canada * Fitzgerald, Alberta United States * Fitzgerald, Georgia * Fitzgerald, Wisconsin * Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, on the Pacific coast of Moss Beach, California Business * Fitzgerald's, live-music venue in Houston, Texas, USA * Fitzgeralds Casino and Hotel (other) * FitzGerald's Department Stores, department stores in Tasmania, Australia Other uses * FitzGerald (crater), lunar crater * Fitzgerald factor, a name for high-molecular-weight kininogen, a blood coagulation protein * Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis, physics * The SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'', ship that sank in Lake Superior ** "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald''", a 1976 song by Gordon Lightfoot about the ship * The Fitzgerald Inquiry, judicial inquiry into corruption in the Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzGerald Dynasty
The FitzGerald/FitzMaurice Dynasty is a noble and aristocratic dynasty of Cambro-Normans, Cambro-Norman, Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman origin. They have been Peerage of Ireland, peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the Four Masters as having become "more Irish than the Irish themselves" or Gaels, due to assimilation with the native Gaelic aristocratic and popular culture. The dynasty has also been referred to as the Geraldines and Ireland's largest landowners. They achieved power through the conquest of large swathes of Irish territory by the sons and grandsons of Gerald de Windsor, Gerald of Windsor (c. 1075 – 1135). Gerald of Windsor (Gerald de Windsor, Gerald FitzWalter) was the first Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Wales, and became the male progenitor of the FitzMaurice and FitzGerald Dynasty ("fitz", from the Anglo-Norman language, Anglo-Norman ''fils'' indicating "sons of" Gerald). His father, Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzGerald (crater)
FitzGerald is a large lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width .... It lies to the west-southwest of the crater Cockcroft, and about two crater diameters to the northeast of Morse. This is an impact crater with features that have become softened and eroded by subsequent impacts in the vicinity. The younger satellite crater FitzGerald W is attached to the exterior along the northwest. Faint ray material extends from the southeastern rim of this satellite across the western floor of FitzGerald, although it is unclear if this impact is the source or if it came from the rayed crater Moore F to the north. Several smaller craters also lie along the rim of FitzGerald, with a joined pair along the eastern rim and two more along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62)
USS ''Fitzgerald'' (DDG-62), named for United States Navy officer Lieutenant (navy), Lieutenant William Charles Fitzgerald, is an in the US Navy. In the early morning hours of 17 June 2017, the ship was USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision, involved in a collision with the container ship , seriously damaging the destroyer. Seven of her crew were killed. Several others were injured, including her commanding officer, Commander Bryce Benson. Construction ''Fitzgerald''s keel was Keel laying, laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 9 February 1993; Ship naming and launching, launched 29 January 1994; sponsored by Betty A. Fitzgerald, widow of the late Lt. Fitzgerald; and Ship commissioning, commissioned 14 October 1995, in Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was then home port, homeported in Naval Base San Diego, California. Service history In early April 2004, Navy officials announced plans to deploy ''Fitzgerald,'' 14 other destroyers, and three cruisers to counter balli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzGerald Report
The "Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Lebanon inquiring into the causes, circumstances and consequences of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, 25 February - 24 March 2005", better known as the FitzGerald Report, is the outcome of an inquiry, ordered by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and conducted by Irish deputy police commissioner Peter FitzGerald, into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on 14 February 2005. Background In the wake of Hariri's assassination on 14 February 2005, United Nations Secretary General of the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan dispatched a fact-finding mission to investigate the killing. Arriving in Beirut on 25 February, the mission interviewed Lebanese officials and politicians, from both the government and opposition, studied the Lebanese investigation and legal proceedings, examined the crime scene and collected evidence. It also interviewed witnesses. It was authored b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzgerald Inquiry
The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry; 1987–1989) into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC. The inquiry resulted in the resignation of Queensland's premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the calling of two by-elections, the jailing of three former ministers and the Police Commissioner (who also lost his knighthood). It also contributed to the end of the National Party of Australia's 32-year run as the governing political party in Queensland. History The inquiry was established in response to a series of articles by reporter Phil Dickie in ''The Courier-Mail'' about high-level police corruption, followed by a '' Four Corners'' television report on the same issue, by Chris Masters, entitled "The Moonlight State", which aired on 11 May 1987. Both investigations dealt with illegal prostitution and gambling, aided by police corruption. With Queensland's Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
"The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot drew his inspiration from ''Newsweek'' article on the event, "The Cruelest Month", which it published in its November 24, 1975, issue. Lightfoot considers this song to be his finest work. Appearing originally on Lightfoot's 1976 album ''Summertime Dream'', the single version hit number 1 in his native Canada (in the ''RPM'' national singles survey) on November 20, 1976, barely a year after the disaster. In the United States, it reached number 1 in '' Cashbox'' and number 2 for two weeks in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 (behind Rod Stewart's " Tonight's the Night"), making it Lightfoot's second-most-successful single, behind only " Sundown". Overseas it was at best a minor hit, peaking at number 40 in the UK Singles Chart. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces. For 17 years, ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorentz–FitzGerald Contraction Hypothesis
Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in the object's own rest frame. It is also known as Lorentz contraction or Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction (after Hendrik Lorentz and George Francis FitzGerald) and is usually only noticeable at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. Length contraction is only in the direction in which the body is travelling. For standard objects, this effect is negligible at everyday speeds, and can be ignored for all regular purposes, only becoming significant as the object approaches the speed of light relative to the observer. History Length contraction was postulated by George FitzGerald (1889) and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1892) to explain the negative outcome of the Michelson–Morley experiment and to rescue the hypothesis of the stationary aether ( Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction hypothesis). Although both FitzGerald and Lorentz al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-molecular-weight Kininogen
High-molecular-weight kininogen (HMWK or HK) is a circulating plasma protein which participates in the initiation of blood coagulation, and in the generation of the vasodilator bradykinin via the kallikrein-kinin system. HMWK is inactive until it either adheres to binding proteins beneath an endothelium disrupted by injury, thereby initiating coagulation; or it binds to intact endothelial cells or platelets for functions other than coagulation. Other names In the past, HMWK has been called HMWK-kallikrein factor, Flaujeac factor (1975), Fitzgerald factor (1975), and Williams-Fitzgerald-Flaujeac factor, - the eponyms being for people first reported to have HMWK deficiency. Its current accepted name is to contrast it with ''low''-molecular-weight kininogen (LMWK) which has a similar function to HMWK in the tissue (as opposed to serum) kinin-kallikrein system. Structure and function HMWK is an alpha-globulin with six functional domains. It circulates as a single-chain 626 ami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzGerald's Department Stores
FitzGerald's Department Stores (FitzGerald's) was Tasmania's largest chain of department stores. The chain was rebranded and relaunched as Harris Scarfe in 1995, and the renamed stores continue to trade today. History FitzGerald's was founded in March 1886, when George Parker FitzGerald—one of the early scholars of Hutchins School—established a wholesale business at 79 Collins Street, Hobart (later occupied by W. Coogan & Sons, now called Coogans). The original store was completely destroyed by fire in July 1911, and was rebuilt within eight months, with the new store opening on 21 March 1912. FitzGerald's was a Tasmanian majority family owned department store business until it was acquired by Charles Davis Limited in 1981. It was by far the largest Tasmanian department store retailer, with a substantial flagship store in Hobart with frontages to Collins Street, Murray Street and Elizabeth Street. FitzGerald's also had substantial stores in Launceston and Burnie (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FitzGerald (surname)
FitzGerald or Fitzgerald, is an Irish surname of Hiberno-Norman origin. It is a patronymic derived from the prefix '' Fitz-'' from the Latin ''filius-'' plus ''Gerald'', thus meaning "son of Gerald”. In Gaelic it is rendered ''Mac Gearailt''. People * Adolphus L. Fitzgerald (1840–1921), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada * Alan Fitzgerald (satirist) (1935-2011), Australian journalist, satirist and politician * Alexis FitzGerald Snr (1916–1985), Irish politician * Alexis FitzGerald Jnr (born 1945), Irish politician * Alice Fitzgerald (1875–1962), American nurse * Annie Fitzgerald (1844–1934), American landowner * Barry Fitzgerald (1888–1961), Irish actor * Barry Fitzgerald (investigator), paranormal investigator for SyFy Channel's ''Ghost Hunters International'' * Brian Fitzgerald (other), multiple people * Brinsley FitzGerald (1859–1931), British stockbroker * Caroline Fitzgerald (1865–1911), expatriate American poet * Casey Fitzgerald, mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzgeralds Casino And Hotel (other)
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Fitzgeralds may refer to: * Fitzgeralds Black Hawk in Black Hawk, Colorado * Fitzgeralds Las Vegas, now The D Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada * Fitzgeralds Reno, now Whitney Peak Hotel, a non gaming hotel in Reno, Nevada * Fitzgeralds Tunica in Tunica, Mississippi See also * FitzGerald (other) The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman or Cambro-Norman noble family. FitzGerald may also refer to: People * FitzGerald (surname) Places Australia * Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia Canada * Fitzgerald, Alberta Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
