Gretchen Palmer
Gretchen (, ; literal translation: "Little Grete" or "Little Greta") is a female given name of German origin that, stand-alone, is most prevalent in the United States. Its popularity increased because a major character in Goethe's ''Faust'' (1808) has this name. In German, the ' ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for a direct question that aims at the core of a problem and that should reveal the intentions and mindset of the questioned. The question is usually inconvenient to the questioned since he or she shall confess to something crucial he or she was intentionally or unintentionally vague about before. In German-speaking countries, Gretchen is not frequent as a stand-alone given name, but as a colloquial diminutive or pet name of Grete (Greta), which itself is a short form of Margarete (Margaret). People * Gretchen (singer) (born 1959), Brazilian singer * Gretchen Abaniel (born 1985), Filipino professional boxer * Gretchen Albrecht (born 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grete
Grete or Grethe is a feminine given name, a derivate of Margaret (name), Margaret. It is most often used in Scandinavia (not including Sweden), Estonia, and List of territorial entities where German is an official language, German-speaking Europe. People Given name First name *Grete Berget (1954–2017), Norwegian politician *Grete De Francesco (1893–1945), German-speaking writer *Grete Daut (born 2000), Estonian footballer *Grete Eliassen (born 1986), Norwegian/American freeskier *Grete Faremo (born 1955), Norwegian politician *Grete Frederiksen (1918–2007), Danish freestyle swimmer *Grete Frische (1911–1962), Danish actress, screenwriter and director *Grete Gaim (born 1993), Estonian biathlete *Grete Gross, (born 1890), Russian-German commercial artist. *Grete Heckscher (1901–1987), Danish fencer *Grete Hermann (1901–1984), German mathematician and philosopher *Grete Kirkeberg (born 1964), Norwegian long-distance runner *Grete Knudsen (1940–2023), Norwegian politici ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Bleiler
Gretchen Elisabeth Bleiler (born April 10, 1981) is an American former professional halfpipe snowboarder. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Olympics. Career Born in Toledo, Ohio, Bleiler aspired to compete in the Winter X Games from a very young age, and found her passion in snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since and became professional in 1996. Among her accomplishments, she jump-started the invert revolution for female riders as the first to land a Crippler 540 in competition, and won more halfpipe competitions in 2003, 2005 and 2006 than any other female snowboarder.Gretchen Bleiler , aspensnowmass.com In the pre-Olympic season she won four of the five US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a four-time X Games gold medalist, most recently winning the superpip ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan's 7th Congressional District
Michigan's 7th congressional district is a United States congressional district in Southern Michigan and portions of Central Michigan. The current district, drawn in 2022, centers around Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan's state capital, and includes all of Clinton County, Michigan, Clinton, Shiawassee County, Michigan, Shiawassee, Ingham County, Michigan, Ingham, and Livingston County, Michigan, Livingston counties, as well as portions of Eaton County, Michigan, Eaton, Genesee County, Michigan, Genesee, and Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland counties. The district is currently represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Tom Barrett (Michigan politician), Tom Barrett. The previous incarnation of this district was represented by Republican Tim Walberg, who now represents the state's Michigan's 5th congressional district, 5th congressional district. The district was identified as a presidential bellwether by ''Sabato's Crystal Ball'', having voted for the Elec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan House Of Representatives
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2020 U.S. census. Its composition, powers and duties are established in Article IV of the Michigan Constitution. Members are elected in even-numbered years and take office at 12 p.m. (EST) on January 1 following the November general election. Concurrently with the Michigan Senate, the House first convenes on the second Wednesday in January, according to the state constitution. Each member is limited to serving at most six terms of two years, but may not serve more than twelve years combined across the Michigan House and Michigan Senate. The House meets in the north wing of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing. The Republican Party currently has a majority in the chamber. In recent years, the Republican majority in the House has been widely at ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Driskell
Gretchen Demarest Driskell (born October 1, 1958) is an American politician, accountant, and real estate agent from the state of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives, representing the 52nd district. Before her time in the Michigan legislature, she was the first female mayor of Saline, Michigan, a position she held for 14 years. Michigan House of Representatives Elections Driskell challenged Republican incumbent Mark Ouimet for the 52nd House district (northern and western suburban Washtenaw County areas outside Ann Arbor) in 2012. She defeated Ouimet, receiving 26,646 votes (52.9%) to his 23,609 (46.8%). In 2014, Driskell defeated Republican nominee John Hochstetler, receiving 20,849 votes (56.2%) to his 16,265 (43.8%). U.S. House of Representatives elections 2016 In February 2015 Driskell announced that she would challenge Republican incumbent Tim Walberg for Michigan's 7th congressional district. In a March 2015 I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Dow Simpson
Gretchen Hansell Dow Simpson (née Dow; May 17, 1939 – April 11, 2025) was an American painter from New England. She is the author of over 60 magazine covers for ''The New Yorker''. Background Born Gretchen Hansell Dow on May 17, 1939 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Sagendorph Dow and Richard A. Dow, who lived in Dover, Massachusetts. She was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, class of 1961. Career Simpson spent many years living in New York City, where she began her career in advertising. She was best known for her paintings of New England architecture, noted for its dedication to geometry and scale. Her work is best known for her attention to details, proportions, and lighting effects. Simpson considered herself a “painter with a photographer’s eye,” and architectural forms have always drawn her. Between 1974 and 1993, over 50 of her paintings were featured as covers of ''The New Yorker''. Her cove ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Donlan
Gretchen Donlan (born November 18, 1993) is an American former pair skater. With partner Andrew Speroff, she is the 2013 Ondrej Nepela Trophy champion, 2013 Ice Challenge champion, and 2012 U.S. national pewter medalist. In July 2014, Donlan teamed up with Nathan Bartholomay. Career Early years Donlan was coached by Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson from the fourth grade. Until 2009, she competed in singles and won the U.S. national title on the intermediate level in 2007. Partnership with Speroff Donlan and Andrew Speroff were paired together in spring 2009 by coach Bobby Martin. She had two stress fractures in her back for two seasons. The pair made their international debut at the 2010 Nebelhorn Trophy where they finished 4th. They were 8th at the 2011 U.S. Championships. Donlan/Speroff won the pewter medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships. The next season, they received a Grand Prix assignment, the 2012 Skate America, and finished 6th. The pair took the silver ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Dobervich
Gretchen Dobervich (born February 4, 1973) is an American politician. He is a Democratic-NPL member of the North Dakota House of Representatives who has represented District 11 since October 2016. District 11 is in south central Fargo and includes Fargo South High, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School, Lewis and Clark Elementary, and Lindenwood Park. Biography Dobervich was born in Bismarck, North Dakota and was raised on a farm and ranch in Slope County, North Dakota. She graduated from Divide County High School in 1991. Dobervich received a Bachelor of Social Work from Minot State University. She is married to Eric Michael Dobervich. Career Dobervich is a licensed social worker in the state of North Dakota. She was previously employed by HCR ManorCare, FirstLINK and the Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota. Dobervich is currently employed as Public Health Policy Manager for the American Indian Public Health Resource Center at North Dakota State University, and is curre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Daily
Gretchen C. Daily (born October 19, 1964) is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature in policy, finance, management, and practice around the world. Daily is co-founder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project, a global partnership that aims to mainstream the values of nature into decision-making of people, governments, investors, corporations, NGOs, and other institutions. Together with more than 300 partners worldwide, the Project is pioneering science, technology, and scalable demonstrations of inclusive, sustainable development. Based at Stanford University, Daily is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford, and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Daily is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Cryer
Gretchen Cryer ( Kiger; born October 17, 1935) is an American playwright, lyricist, and actress. Along with Nancy Ford, she created several successful stage musicals, including '' Shelter'', '' I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road'', and '' The Last Sweet Days of Isaac''. Early life Cryer was born Gretchen Kiger in Dunreith, Indiana, the daughter of Louise Geraldine (née Niven; 1911-1991) and Earl William "Bill" Kiger, Jr. (1911-2004), who sold school supplies and ran a home printing business. Cryer attended DePauw University as an English major. Career In one of her music classes, she met Nancy Ford, and the two forged a friendship that eventually led to a number of professional collaborations as the first female composer-lyricist team in Off-Broadway and Broadway New York theater. Their first work, ''For Reasons of Royalty'', was produced at DePauw University and their musical ''Rendezvous'' was done at Boston University. Their first professional New Yo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Corbett
Gretchen Hoyt Corbett (born August 13, 1945) is an American actress and theater director. She is primarily known for her roles in television, particularly as attorney Beth Davenport on the NBC series ''The Rockford Files'', but has also had a prolific career as a stage actress on Broadway theatre, Broadway as well as in regional theater. A native of Oregon and the great-great-granddaughter of Oregon United States Senate, U.S. Senator Henry W. Corbett, she spent her early life in Camp Sherman, Oregon, Camp Sherman and Portland, Oregon, Portland, where she graduated from the Catlin Gabel School. Corbett studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University before making her stage debut in a production of ''Othello'' at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She subsequently appeared in lead roles on Broadway in ''After the Rain (play), After the Rain'' (1967) and ''Forty Carats'' (1968), opposite Julie Harris (actress), Julie Harris. She also starred off-Broadway in the title role of ''Iphigenia in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gretchen Chapman
Gretchen Chapman is a cognitive psychologist known for her work on judgment and decision making in health-related contexts, such as clinical decision making and patient preferences, preventive health behavior, and vaccination. She is Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Chapman served as an Editor of the journal ''Psychological Science'' and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Chapman received the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of applied research. Her award citation noted her achievement in producing "a steady stream of important research on behavioral decision theory and its application to health. ... he researchincreased our understanding of several basic phenomena, including underadjustment after anchoring, loss-aversion, the sunk-cost effect, and discounting in intertemporal choice. ...She has achieved new insights ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |