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Gwinn (other)
Gwinn may refer to: People * Alfred W. Gwinn (), American former United Methodist Church bishop * Charles J. M. Gwinn (1822–1894), American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Maryland * Curtis Gwinn, writer of '' Fat Guy Stuck in Internet'' * Dick Gwinn (born c. 1936), American college football coach and former player * Donald Gwinn (1902–1961), American hammer thrower * Giulia Gwinn, German footballer * John Gwinn (1791–1849), United States Navy captain * Lambert Estes Gwinn (1884–1958), American attorney, educator, and politician * Nancy E. Gwinn (1945–2024), American librarian and administrator * Peter Gwinn, American comedy writer and improviser * Ralph W. Gwinn (1884–1962), American politician * William Gwinn (c. 1755–?), one of the first African-Americans to participate in the antebellum American Back-to-Africa movement * Gwinn Henry (1887–1955), American college football player, track athlete, head coach, and college athletics administrator P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred W
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series *Alfred (Arne opera), ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne *Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario ** Alfred, Ontario, a community in Alfred and Plantag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gwinn
Peter Gwinn is an American comedy writer and improviser from Evanston, Illinois. He attended Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He was a member of The Second City Touring Company from 1997 to 2000. He has taught at both the I.O. and Upright Citizens Brigade theaters and is the founder of the musical improv group Baby Wants Candy. He is the author of the 2003 book, ''Group Improvisation: The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games''. Gwinn was a staff writer for the TV political satire ''The Colbert Report'' until 2012-06-14. He has made several on-screen appearances, as Jimmy the director, as a singer in a "Formula 401" sperm commercial and as a barbecue attendee. He has also written and appeared on the 2013 TV series Alpha House, produced by Amazon Studios. Colbert announced in the final segment of his 2012-06-14 show that Gwinn was leaving the staff, giving no reason, but playing a clip package that ended with a stuffed effigy of Gwinn being thrown off the roof of the studio bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwinn Aircar
The Gwinn Aircar was a single-engined biplane with a cabin for two, designed in the US as a safe and simple private aircraft. Lacking a rudder, it had several unusual control features as well as an early tricycle undercarriage. Development was abandoned after a crash in 1938. Design The Gwinn Aircar was the only product of the aircraft manufacturing company set up by Joseph M. Gwinn Jr, who also designed it. He had previously worked with Consolidated Aircraft. The Aircar was intended as a safe, easy to fly aircraft that would neither stall (flight), stall nor spin (flight), spin. It used a simplified control system without a rudder. A fuselage which deepened rapidly behind a small radial engine and ended with a fin integrated into it, together with a tricycle undercarriage with a tall and faired front leg, gave the Aircar an unusual appearance.Grey 1938, pp. 271c–272c. The Aircar was a single bay biplane with parallel chord, unswept wings with strong Stagger (aeronautics) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwinn Mountain
Gwinn Mountain is a summit in West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ..., in the United States. With an elevation of , Gwinn Mountain is the 383rd highest summit in the state of West Virginia. The summit has the name of Andrew Gwinn, an early settler. References Mountains of Summers County, West Virginia Mountains of West Virginia {{SummersCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwinn, Michigan
Gwinn is an unincorporated community in Marquette County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes and has no legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population of the CDP was 1,784 at the 2020 census. The community is located within Forsyth Township. The CDP includes the nearby communities of Austin to the west and New Swanzy to the east. It is located along M-35 near the forks of the east and middle branches of the Escanaba River. The Gwinn 49841 ZIP Code serves a much larger area, including most of Forsyth Township, as well as portions of Turin Township to the east, Wells and Ewing townships to the south, Tilden Township to the west, and Richmond, Sands, and West Branch townships to the north. History The area was acquired by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (CCI) in 1902, which opened the Gwinn Mine in 1905. In 1906, the president of CCI, William Gwinn Mather, commissioned the well-known Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwinn Henry
Gwinn Henry (August 5, 1887 – May 16, 1955) was an American football player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Howard Payne University, the College of Emporia, the University of Missouri, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Kansas, compiling a career college football record of 100–78–16. Henry was also the head coach of the St. Louis Gunners, an independent professional football team, in 1933. Coaching career Howard Payne Henry was the first head football coach at the Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, and he held that position for two seasons, from 1912 until 1913. His coaching record at Howard Payne was 5–7–3. Missouri Henry was head coach of the University of Missouri from 1923 to 1931. During his tenure, he compiled a 40–28–9 (.578) record. On December 25, 1924, he led Missouri against USC at the Los Angeles Christmas Festival, losing by a score of 20–7. Other schools ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gwinn
William Gwinn (Guinn, Guin; c. 1755–?) was an African American from Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of the first African-Americans to participate in the antebellum American Back-to-Africa movement under the auspices of Captain Paul Cuffe's 1815 voyage to Sierra Leone. Early life Little is known of Gwinn's early life. Presumably, he was previously enslaved to the Massachusetts Gwinn family or had immigrated from the Southern states after being emancipated. By the early 1800s, he was a free black and lived in antebellum Massachusetts. He was listed in the 1810 census as a resident of Boston Ward 1 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was described as being of the 'Methodist order' and as being "from Boston" by Captain Paul Cuffe. Emigration to Sierra Leone The journey In 1815, at age sixty, Gwinn decided to immigrate with his 56-year-old wife Elizabeth and 17-year-old daughter Nancy Gwinn to Sierra Leone. The Gwinn family was one of eight families to emigrate to Sierra Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph W
Ralph (pronounced or ) is a male name of English origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Old High German ''Radulf'', cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms are: * Ralph, the common variant form in English, which takes either of the given pronunciations. * Rafe, variant form which is less common; this spelling is always pronounced . * Raif, a very rare variant. Raif Rackstraw from H.M.S. Pinafore * Ralf, the traditional variant form in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Polish. * Ralfs, the traditional variant form in Latvian. * Raoul, the traditional variant form in French. * Raúl, the traditional variant form in Spanish. * Raul, the traditional variant form in Portuguese and Italian. * Raül, the traditional variant form in Catalan. * Rádhulbh, the traditional variant form in Irish. First name Middle Ages * Ralph the Timid (died 1057), pre-Conquest Norman earl of Hereford, England * Ralp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy E
Nancy may refer to: Places France * Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine ** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** École de Nancy, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France ** Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum * Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie United States * Nancy, Kentucky * Nancy, Texas * Nancy, Virginia * Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire People * Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Nancy (singer) (Nancy Jewel McDonie; born 2000), member of Momoland * Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer and businesswoman, commonly known mononymously as "Nancy" in the Arab World * Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021), French philosopher * Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer Entertainment * ''Nancy'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles J
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambert Estes Gwinn
Lambert Estes Gwinn (February 19, 1884 – December 4, 1958) was a Tennessee educator, politician, and attorney. He served as a state senator (1919–1921) and ran for governor in the Democratic primaries in 1922 and 1930. As a prominent criminal and appellate lawyer, he represented many clients before the Tennessee Supreme Court, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Biography Gwinn was born and raised in the rural community of Burlison in Tipton County, Tennessee, and attended a small public school near there. His formal education ended in 1900 when he became qualified as a teacher at 16 years old. Despite little formal education, he was a prodigious reader and possessed the determination for continued self-study. For the next 7 years, he taught in the Tipton County school system and also served as a principal. He left the ranks of teaching in 1907 to become editor/publisher of the ''Tipton Weekly Record''; this position broug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gwinn
John Gwinn III (June 11, 1791 – September 1, 1849) was a United States Navy officer born in Maryland. During the War of 1812, he was a POW after the Royal Navy had captured in 1814 and he later commanded . As captain of , Gwinn sailed on December 9, 1848 and arrived at Tripoli on January 19, 1849. While transporting U.S. ambassador Daniel Smith McCauley and his family to Egypt, McCauley's wife gave birth to a son, who was named Constitution Stewart McCauley. At Gaeta on August 1 Gwinn received on board King Ferdinand II and Pope Pius IX. This would be the first time a Pope had set foot on American territory. At Palermo on September 1, 1849, Captain Gwinn died of chronic gastritis and was buried near Lazaretto on the 9th, ending a 40-year Navy career. Gwinn's body was moved to Glenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a few years later and remained there until 1931 when he was reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia Arlington County, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
