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Helme
Helme may refer to: * G.W. Helme Snuff Mill Historic District, historic district in Helmetta, New Jersey * Helme (river), a river in central Germany * Helme Parish, a rural municipality in Valga County, Estonia * Helme, Estonia, a small borough () in Tõrva Parish, Estonia * Helme Tobacco Company, American snuff company started by George Washington Helme * Helme–Worthy Store and Residence, a historic American home and attached storefront * Helme, West Yorkshire, a hamlet in England * Schuberth Helme, a German producer of safety helmets People with that surname * Chris Helme (born 1971), British singer-songwriter * Christopher Helme (1603 – c. 1650), early immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Exeter, New Hampshire * Elizabeth Helme (died c. 1814), English novelist and translator of the 18th century * George Washington Helme (1822–1893), American founder of Helmetta, New Jersey * Gerry Helme (1923–1981), British rugby league footballer * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mart Helme
} Mart Helme (, born 31 October 1949) is an Estonian politician, diplomat and historian who served as the Ministry of the Interior (Estonia), Minister of the Interior from 2019 to 2020. He was the longtime chairman of the national conservative Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) from 13 April 2013 to 4 July 2020 when he was succeeded by his son Martin Helme. Helme also served as Estonia's ambassador to Russia from 1995 to 1999. Some media outlets have described him as a right-wing populist. Early life Mart Helme was born on 31 October 1949 in Pärnu. His younger brother was politician Rein Helme. After graduating from high school in Pärnu in 1968, he studied history at the University of Tartu and graduated in 1973. He was the editor of the Estonian translation of "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx published in 1974. In his youth, Helme played in several bands, including Hübriid (which also featured future 2 Quick Start singer-songwriter Pearu Paulus). Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Washington Helme
George Washington Helme (May 18, 1822 – June 16, 1893) was the founder of Helmetta, New Jersey. Early life and family Helme, born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA, was the ninth child and fifth son of Major Oliver Helme (descendant of an old Rhode Island family begun by Christopher Helme) by his second wife Sarah Pease Fish. As a young man George Helme obtained a clerkship with Asa Packer, a wealthy contractor involved in the construction of locks, boats, and railroads for the transport of coal (and who eventually founded Lehigh University). In his mid-twenties, Helme resigned his position with Mr. Packer and moved to Louisiana, where his older brother Samuel was living. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in New Orleans around 1851, subsequently establishing his own law practice, which he continued until the outbreak of the American Civil War. He returned north to marry Margaret Appleby in 1856 in Spotswood, New Jersey. Their first two children, daughters, were bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme Tobacco Company
The Helme Tobacco Company was a smokeless tobacco company founded by George Washington Helme in Helmetta, New Jersey in 1880, which is currently owned by Swisher (company). History George Washington Helme, a former Major-General in the Confederate States Army, built a snuff mill in East Brunswick, New Jersey, later seceding from the town and renaming it to Helmetta, New Jersey, after his daughter, "Etta." He built the a snuff mill, initially called the Railroad Snuff Mill and later the George W. Helme Snuff Mill, and 109 homes for his workers. In 1866, George Washington Helme began a snuff enterprise with his brother-in-law, Jacob Appleby. George's father-in-law, Leonard Appleby, owned a snuff mill, the Railroad Mill, established in 1825, which is one of the oldest snuff mills in the country, and located in Spotswood, New Jersey. Helme and Jacob's partnership was for Leonard Appleby's mill company, and the partnership with Jacob lasted until 1877 or 1878, when George began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Helme
Christopher Alan Helme (born 22 July 1971 in Howden, Yorkshire) is an English singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of John Squire's post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses. History Early days (1990–1996) Helme began singing and performing at the age of 19, and began playing in pubs and folk clubs in his native York with his first band Daisy Space/Genuine Moon Material before forming folk-jazz band Chutzpah in 1993. The band regularly gigged at the White Swan Pub and Fibbers, where Helme worked behind the bar. In 1995 the band busked across rural France before splitting up (the band went on to reform in 2007 for a one-off gig at The White Swan). The Seahorses (1996–1999) A friend of John Squire's long-time guitar technician Martin Herbet discovered Helme busking outside Woolworths department store in York's Coney Street. Impressed by Helme's version of The Rolling Stones song, "No Expectations", he requested a demo tape and passed it on to Squire. Squire went to see Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Helme
Martin Helme (born 24 April 1976) is an Estonian politician and current leader of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia, Conservative People's Party (EKRE). From 2019 to 2021 he was the country's Minister of Finance (Estonia), Minister of Finance. Political views Helme's views have been described as eurosceptic and populist. As one of the key figures in EKRE, Martin Helme advocates for national conservatism. He has been an opponent of Estonia's membership of the European Union and the use of the euro as the country's currency. He has claimed that immigration is endangering the sovereignty of European states, including Estonia. Helme has been a vocal critic of the EU's Global Compact for Migration, Migration Pact. Helme, then a board member of EKRE, caused controversy in 2013 for his views on immigration. During a TV interview about riots in socially segregated suburbs in Sweden, he said that "Estonia shouldn't allow things to go as far as in England, France and Sweden. Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Helme
Gerard "Gerry" J. Helme (4 April 1923 – 19 December 1981) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coached. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England, Combined Nationalities and Lancashire, and at club level for Warrington, as a , and coached at club level. Helme played almost all of his club career for Warrington, with whom he won three Championship Finals and two Challenge Cup Finals and became a Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame inductee. Background Helme's birth was registered in Leigh, Lancashire, he was a pupil of St. Joseph’s school, Leigh, and he died aged 58. Playing career Helme made his début for Warrington on Wednesday 29 August 1945. Helme played in Warrington's 15-5 victory over Bradford Northern in the 1947-48 Championship Final at Maine Road, Manchester. Helme played in Warrington's 8-14 defeat by Wigan in the 1948–49 Lancashire Cup Final at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 13 Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme, Estonia
Helme () is a small borough () in Tõrva Parish, Valga County, in southern Estonia. Prior to the 2017 reform of Estonian municipalities, it was located in Helme Parish. It is located only northwest of the town of Tõrva by the Valga–Pärnu road (nr. 6). At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 167. Helme castle The settlement was first mentioned in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry in 1210. Helme church parish was first mentioned in 1329 during a Lithuanian raid. Most of the neighbouring land was fiefed in the 15th–16th centuries. Livonian Order castle in Helme (''Ordensburg Helmet'') was probably built in the first half of the 14th century. The site on a steep hill is believed to have been used as a stronghold earlier by Sackalians in the Ancient Estonia. By its ground plan, the order castle was 120×60 m oval-shaped structure, surrounded by two moats. There was a borough beside the castle in the Middle Ages, it was mentioned until the 17th century. The castle w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme–Worthy Store And Residence
The Helme–Worthy Store and Residence (also known as the Worthy Building and Residence) is the former M.E. Helme House Furnishing Company and Helme–Worthy residence, a home and attached storefront in Huntington Beach, California. It was listed as a historic structure on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1987. Constructed in 1904, the M.E. Helme House Furnishing Company building is adjacent to the 1880s Helme–Worthy residence, both undergoing stabilization and historic preservation. The Helme–Worthy residence was moved 11 miles by mule team by Matthew and Mary Josephine Helme from the rural countryside near 5th and Verano (now Euclid Street) in Santa Ana, California, to its current location in downtown Pacific City, now Huntington Beach, in 1903. The home and business belonged to Matthew E. Helme, one of the founders of Huntington Beach and one of the township's first mayors. Helme was elected to the board of trustees for the City of Huntington Beach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme (river)
The Helme () is a river in central Germany that is about long and which forms a left-hand, western tributary of the Unstrut in the states of Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. Course The river rises in Thuringia south of the Harz mountains in the district of Eichsfeld. Its source lies amongst the northern foothills of the Ohm Hills between Weißenborn-Lüderode and Stöckey by the ''Helmspring''. The Helme flows eastwards through the municipalities of Hohenstein and Werther to Nordhausen. Near Heringen the river is joined by the waters of the Zorge from the Harz. Northwest of the Kyffhäuser hills it is impounded into a reservoir and a flood retention basin by the Kelbra Dam in the Goldene Aue. From there the Helme – now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt – continues eastwards flowing through Roßla towards Allstedt, where it then swings south and enters Thuringia again. Near Kalbsrieth, southeast of Artern, it discharges into the Unstrut. Helme watershed The Helme watershed ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Helme
Elizabeth Helme (née Horrobin; 8 August 1743 – 1 January 1814) was a prolific English novelist, educational writer, and translator active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Life Elizabeth Helme was likely born in County Durham, England, to a family tentatively identified by the name of Horrobin. Her family moved to London, where she met William Helme (c.1747–1822), who became her husband in 1772. They had five children. One of their daughters, Elizabeth Somerville (1774–1840), herself became a novelist. Elizabeth Helme is also known to have worked as a teacher, and her translations included two children's plays by Joachim Heinrich Campe: ''Cortez'' (1799) and ''Pizarro'' (1800), and much of her writing was aimed for younger readers. Writing Helme published her first, anonymous novel, ''Louisa; or, The Cottage on the Moor'' in 1787, and it remained one of her most successful publications"Helme, Elizabeth." Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme, West Yorkshire
Helme is a village in the civil parish of Meltham, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is near the town of Meltham and Blackmoorfoot Reservoir. Helme, constituted in 1858, was part of Almondbury parish in the 19th century. Amenities The local primary school is Helme Church of England Academy. Christ Church on Slades Lane, designed by James Pigott Pritchett James Pigott Pritchett (14 October 1789 – 23 May 1868) was an English architect. He lived in London and York and his practice stretched from Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders. Personal life Pritchett was born on 14 October 1789 to Char ... and consecrated in November 1859, is a Grade II listed building. Nearby Helme Hall, built in the late 19th century, is now a nursing and residential home for the elderly. See also * Listed buildings in Meltham References Villages in West Yorkshire Geography of Kirklees {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helme Heine
Helme Heine (born 4 April 1941 in Berlin) is a best-selling German writer, children's book author, illustrator and designer. He currently lives in New Zealand, writing screenplays, audiobook scripts and creating satirical drawings and sculptures. Biography Helme (Helmut) Heine was born in Berlin in 1941. His parents ran different restaurants and hotels. Helme Heine is the brother of author and architect Ernst Wilhelm Heine. Among other places, he spent his childhood in Lübbecke and from 1953 in Wülfrath. When he graduated from high school in 1958, he had attended thirteen schools. As a student, he was characterised as "playful, non-conformist and with a broad artistic talent". He went on to study business and art. Afterwards, in the early 1960s, although planned, he did not take over the parental hotel in a moated castle in Wülfrath-Düssel, an old, small village at the town boundary to Wuppertal. Instead he traveled through Europe, Asia, and South Africa, where he settled down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
