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Freer (other)
Freer may refer to: People *Ania Freer, Australian-Jamaican documentary filmmaker *Carl Freer (born 1970), Swedish businessman and technology entrepreneur * Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), American industrialist and art collector * Dave Freer, Australian science fiction author *Fred Freer (1915–1998), Australian cricketer * Ian Freer (British Army officer) (born 1941), British Army general *Jacob S. Freer (1824–1892), New York politician *James Freer (1855–1933), Canadian film-maker * Mike Freer (born 1960), British politician *Randy Freer (born 1959/60), American television executive *Sir Robert Freer (1923–2012), Royal Air Force air chief marshal *Robert Elliott Freer (1896–1963), three-time Chairman of the United States Federal Trade Commission *Romeo H. Freer (1846–1913), Attorney General of West Virginia * Warren Freer (1920–2013), New Zealand politician *Walter Freer (born 1846), Scottish politician and temperance activist Places * Freer, Texas * Freer Galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ania Freer
Ania Freer is an Australian-Jamaican documentary filmmaker. She has documented oral histories of the people of Jamaica as a curator and through her filmmaking. Her film ''Strictly Two Wheel'' won the Best Documentary Short Film Award at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2022. Born in Sydney, Australia, Freer graduated from the University of Sydney. She has exhibited at the National Gallery of Jamaica. Early life and education Ania Freer was born in Sydney, Australia. Her grandmother has roots in the rural town of Gayle in Saint Mary Parish while her grandfather is from Christiana. Ania grew up in Australia and London, where her grandparents lived. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney in 2009, where she studied anthropology and film studies. Art career While in Australia, Freer worked for Screen Australia and No Coincidence Media and was involved in the production of documentary films. After moving to Jamaica in 2016, she started a mini-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Freer
Randy Freer (born 1959/1960) is an American television executive, and the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Hulu. Early life Freer attended Saint Joseph's College of Maine in Standish, Maine and graduated with degrees in business and history in 1982. Career Freer joined FSN in 1997 after serving for three years as senior vice president, business affairs at Active Entertainment, an animation syndication firm. Prior to that, Freer spent nine years at Turner Broadcasting, the last two as executive vice president, entertainment sales. In that position, Freer was responsible for overseeing all advertising sales for Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and Turner Network Television (TNT), as well as the Cartoon Network. Previously in his career at Fox, Freer served as co-president and COO, FOX Sports Media Group, where he focused on growing and enhancing Fox Sports' portfolio of league, conference, and team media rights. In recent years, he oversaw the negotiations that led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freer, Texas
Freer is a city in Duval County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,818 at the 2010 census, down from 3,241 at the 2000 census. Like Sweetwater, the seat of Nolan County in West Texas, Freer holds an annual rattlesnake roundup in March. The first oil well in Texas was drilled in Freer in 1860, a year after the discovery in Titusville, Pennsylvania, but it was unproductive. In 1907, oil was again discovered in Duval County, six years after Spindletop near Beaumont. Geography Freer is located in northwestern Duval County at (27.879156, –98.616237). U.S. Route 59 passes east–west through the city as Riley Street. Once outside the city limits, US 59 leads northeast to Beeville and southwest to Laredo. Texas State Highway 16 (Norton Avenue) crosses US 59 in the center of town and leads north to San Antonio and southwest to Zapata on the Rio Grande. Texas State Highway 44 passes through the center of Freer on Riley Street with US 59 but leads east to S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Freer
Walter Freer (born c. 1846) was a Scottish Liberal Party worker. He was the son of a notable Chartist and has been described as a "staunch Gladstonian". He was also a power-loom tenter and temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture * Temperance (group), Canadian dan ... worker. Notes Further reading *Walter Freer, ''My Life and Memories'' (Glasgow: Civic Press, 1929). {{DEFAULTSORT:Freer, Walter 1840s births Year of death missing Chartists Scottish Liberal Party politicians Scottish temperance activists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Freer
Warren Wilfred Freer (27 December 1920 – 29 March 2013) was a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party. He represented the Mount Albert electorate from 1947 to . He is internationally known as the first Western politician ever to visit the People's Republic of China. Early life Freer was born in 1920. His parents, Charles and May Freer had lived in Waihi during the Waihi miners' strike in 1913 and had to leave the town. They married in 1914 in Remuera. He attended Royal Oak Primary School in Auckland. During the early days of the Great Depression he was embarrassed to be the only one of his class not bare-footed, so used to take off his shoes and socks on the way to school and replace them before getting home. Michael Joseph Savage frequently went to the Freer home for Sunday roasts. On his 13th birthday, Freer received a present from Savage, a copy of Edward Bellamy's novel '' Looking Backward'', which he "devoured and cherished". As a school boy at Auck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo H
Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest named Friar Laurence. Juliet then becomes Juliet Montague. Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel, Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death. The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano's ''Il Novellino'' (1476). This story was reworked in 1524 by Luigi da Porto as ''Giulietta e Romeo'' (published posthumously in 1531). Da Porto named the character Romeo Montecchi and his storyline is near-identical to Shakespeare's adaptation. Since no 16th-century direct English translation of ''Giulietta e Romeo'' is known, Shakespeare's main source is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Elliott Freer
Robert Elliott Freer (January 30, 1896 – January 6, 1963) was an Ohio attorney who served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from January 1, 1939, to December 31, 1939, again from January 1, 1944, to December 31, 1944, and a third time from January 1, 1948, to December 31, 1948. Early life and education Freer was orn in Madisonville, Cincinnati, Ohio. He received an LL.B. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1917. He received an LL.M. from the Washington College of Law in 1929. Career He entered the practice of law in Cincinnati in 1917. He served in the United States Army during World War II in the 324th Infantry Regiment, and was deployed to France. In 1925, he became an attorney with the Bureau of Valuation within the Interstate Commerce Commission.In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Freer as a Republican member of the FTC. Freer was reappointed to the FTC by President Harry S. Truman in 1948, but resigned later that year to return to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Freer (RAF Officer)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert William George Freer, (1 September 1923 – 15 January 2012) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Deputy Commander of Strike Command from 1978 to 1979. RAF career Educated at Gosport Grammar School, Freer joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and became a flying instructor. He was given command of No. 92 Squadron in 1955, and became Station Commander of RAF Seletar in Singapore in 1963 during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. He was made deputy director of Defence Plans in 1966, Deputy Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell in 1969 and Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Near East Air Force in 1971. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding No. 11 Group in 1972, Air Officer Commanding No. 18 Group in 1975 and Deputy Commander of Strike Command in 1978. His last appointment was as Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1980 before he retired in 1982. In retirement he became a Directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Freer
Mike may refer to: Animals * Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum * Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off * Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries Arts * Mike (miniseries), a 2022 Hulu limited series based on the life of American boxer Mike Tyson * Mike (2022 film), a Malayalam film produced by John Abraham * ''Mike'' (album), an album by Mike Mohede * ''Mike'' (1926 film), an American film * MIKE (musician), American rapper, songwriter and record * ''Mike'' (novel), a 1909 novel by P. G. Wodehouse * "Mike" (song), by Elvana Gjata and Ledri Vula featuring John Shahu * Mike (''Twin Peaks''), a character from ''Twin Peaks'' * "Mike", a song by Xiu Xiu from their 2004 album ''Fabulous Muscles'' Businesses * Mike (cellular network), a defunct Canadian cellular network * Mike and Ike, a candies brand Military * MIKE Force, a unit in the Vietnam War * Ivy Mike, the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Freer
Carl Johan Freer (born 9 May 1970) is a Swedish businessman and technology entrepreneur primarily known for founding the American company Tiger Telematics, which created the handheld game console Gizmondo. Freer is also the founder of Singapore-based medical-device company, Aluminaid and co-author of several patents. Business ventures The earlier part of Carl’s career was focused on disruptive software companies. Freer founded Tiger Telematics, an electronics company that launched in 2002, raised over £160 million, and reached a market cap over $1 billion before it dissolved in 2006. He managed the development, launch and promotion of the Gizmondo. Freer was Chairman of the Tiger Telematics board of directors until he resigned in October 2005 pending publication of an article in the Swedish press. By 6 February 2006, the company was forced into compulsory liquidation and Gizmondo was discontinued. Other ventures included Xero Mobile—which had a service that automatical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Freer
James Simmons Freer (4 January 1855 – 22 December 1933) was a Canadian film-making pioneer. Born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire Freer was a newspaper reporter who emigrated to Manitoba, Canada in 1888 from Bristol and became a farmer, settling south of Winnipeg, in the Brandon Hills district. Less than two years after the Lumière Brothers exhibited the first film in France, Freer became the first Canadian filmmaker. He made films about the Canadian prairies, especially themes of farming and railways, which were shown as early as 1897. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company noticed Freer's films and began to tour them throughout the United Kingdom in an effort to promote immigration to Canada. '' Ten Years in Manitoba'' was shown through the British Isles in 1898. The tour was so successful that a second tour of Freer's films took place in 1902. The second tour was sponsored by Sir Clifford Sifton, Canadian Minister of the Interior, who was eager to promote immigration to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob S
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four women, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
