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Jedidiah Cage MacKay
Jedediah () or Jedidiah is a Hebrew male given name, which is derived from the name ''Yedidyah'', meaning "beloved of Jah". In the Hebrew Bible, Jedidiah (''Jeddedi'' in Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint, Brenton's Septuagint Translation) was the second or "blessing" name given by God through the prophet Nathan (prophet), Nathan in infancy to Solomon, second son of King David and Bathsheba. People *Jedediah Berry (born 1977), American writer *Jedediah Bila (born 1979), American writer and commentator *Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English mathematician *Jedediah Slason Carvell (1832–1894), Canadian businessman and politician *Jedediah Dupree (born 1979), American fencer and fencing coach *Jedediah Foster (1726–1779), American judge *Jedediah M. Grant (1816–1856), American religious leader *Jedediah Herrick (1780–1847), American general *Jedediah Hinkle, American politician *Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899), American educator and topographer *Jedediah Hunting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Huntington
Jedediah (or Jedidiah) Huntington (4 August 1743 – 25 September 1818), was an American general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he served in numerous civilian posts. Early life Huntington was born in Norwich, Connecticut Colony, the son of Jabez and Elizabeth (Backus) Huntington. Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1763 and received a master's degree from Yale University in 1770. He was engaged in commercial pursuits with his father, was an active member of the Sons of Liberty, and of the Committee of Correspondence established at Norwich on 6 June 1774. Appearance He was a slightly built man: "His greatness was rather intellectual and moral than physical, as there is in existence a memorandum of the weighing of several revolutionary officers at West Point, August 19, 1788; when Gen. Washington weighed 209 pounds, Gen. Lincoln, 224, Gen. Knox, 280, and Gen. Huntington, 132." Author Edwin Valentine Mitchell notes that "The dim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen Kane
''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by, produced by and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz. It was Welles's List of directorial debuts, first feature film. The film à clef, quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American Media proprietor, media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold Fowler McCormick, Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives. After the Broadway theatre, Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama), The War of the Worlds" on ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'', Welles was courted by Hollywood. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given freedom to develop his own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1939) and '' Sabrina Fair'' (1953). He then gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on ''Citizen Kane'' (1941), ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1942), and '' Journey into Fear'' (1943), in which Cotten starred and for which he was also credited with the screenplay. Cotten went on to become one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as '' Shadow of a Doubt'' (1943); '' Gaslight'' (1944); '' Love Letters'' (1945); '' Duel in the Sun'' (1946); '' The Farmer's Daughter'' (1947); ''Portrait of Jennie'' (1948), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor; ''The Third Man'' (1949), alongside Welles; and '' Niagara'' (1953). One of his final films was Michael Cimino's '' Heaven's Gate'' (1980). Mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night At The Museum
''Night at the Museum'' is a 2006 fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc. The film had an ensemble cast of Ben Stiller in the lead role, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, and Robin Williams. It tells the story of a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits come to life at night, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact. 20th Century Fox released the film on December 22, 2006, and it grossed $574.5 million worldwide, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2006 and received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Two live-action sequels were released, '' Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'' in 2009, and '' Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb'' in 2014. An animated sequel, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films '' Bottle Rocket'' (1996), '' Rushmore'' (1998), and ''The Royal Tenenbaums'' (2001)—the latter received a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. He has also appeared in Anderson's '' The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'' (2004), '' The Darjeeling Limited'' (2007), '' Fantastic Mr. Fox'' (2009), '' The Grand Budapest Hotel'' (2014), and '' The French Dispatch'' (2021). Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy '' Midnight in Paris'' (2011) as disenchanted screenwriter Gil Pender, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014, he appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Inherent Vice'' and Peter Bogdanovich's ''She's Funny That Way''. He made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in the Disney+ series ''Loki'' (2021–2023) as Mobius M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedidiah Strutt
Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it – was a hosier and cotton spinner from Belper, England. Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment to the stocking frame that allowed the production of ribbed stockings. Their machine became known as the Derby Rib machine, and the stockings it produced quickly became popular. Early life He was born in South Normanton near Alfreton in Derbyshire into a farming family in 1726. In 1740 he became an apprentice wheelwright in Findern. In 1754 he inherited a small stock of animals from an uncle and married Elizabeth Woolatt in 1755 in Derbyshire. He moved to Blackwell, Bolsover, Blackwell where he had inherited a farm from one of his uncles and, in addition developed a business carrying coal from Denby to Belper and Derby. The Derby Rib Strutt's brother-in-law, William Woolatt, employed one Mr. Roper of Locko who had produced an idea for an attachment to the stocking frame to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah K
Jedediah () or Jedidiah is a Hebrew male given name, which is derived from the name ''Yedidyah'', meaning "beloved of Jah". In the Hebrew Bible, Jedidiah (''Jeddedi'' in Brenton's Septuagint Translation) was the second or "blessing" name given by God through the prophet Nathan in infancy to Solomon, second son of King David and Bathsheba. People * Jedediah Berry (born 1977), American writer *Jedediah Bila (born 1979), American writer and commentator *Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English mathematician *Jedediah Slason Carvell (1832–1894), Canadian businessman and politician * Jedediah Dupree (born 1979), American fencer and fencing coach * Jedediah Foster (1726–1779), American judge * Jedediah M. Grant (1816–1856), American religious leader * Jedediah Herrick (1780–1847), American general *Jedediah Hinkle, American politician *Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899), American educator and topographer *Jedediah Huntington (1743–1818), American general * Jedediah Vincent Huntin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Smith
Jedediah Strong Smith (January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831) was an American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartography, cartographer, mountain man and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the Western United States, and the Southwestern United States, Southwest during the early 19th century. After 75 years of obscurity following his death, Smith was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the -wide South Pass (Wyoming), South Pass as the dominant route across the Continental Divide of the Americas, Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail. Coming from modest family background, Smith traveled to St. Louis and joined William Henry Ashley, William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry (fur trader), Andrew Henry's fur trading company in 1822. Smith led the first documented exploration from the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake frontier to the Colorado River. From there, Smith's party became the first United States citiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Sanger
Jedediah Sanger (February 28, 1751 – June 6, 1829) was the founder of the town of New Hartford, New York, United States. He was a native of Sherborn, Massachusetts, and the ninth child of Richard and Deborah Sanger, a prominent colonial New England family. During the Revolutionary War he attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant having fought in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Siege of Boston (1776), and during the New York Campaign. After the war, he settled in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he began farming, trading, and running a tavern. He was involved in several civic activities and was appointed Lt. Colonel of the New Hampshire militia. After a fire destroyed his property, leaving him bankrupt, he started over in the frontier of New York. Sanger settled in what was then called Whitestown. He became a land agent or speculator, buying large tracts of land on both sides of Sauquoit Creek and reselling smaller lots. He was involved in land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Spenser Purdy (born 29 November 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. In 2022 he became the Raphael Lemkin Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Property and Past and Future of Capitalist Democracy. From 2018 to 2022 he was William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, teaching courses on American Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law and Democracy and its Crisis. He previously taught at Duke University School of Law from 2004 to 2018. Purdy is the author of two widely discussed books: ''For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today'' (1999) and ''Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World'' (2003). He is also the author of ''Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening ― and Our Best Hope'' (2022), ''This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth'' (2019), ''After Nature: A Politics for the An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Peck
Jedediah Peck (January 28, 1748 – August 15, 1821) was an American farmer, surveyor, American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War soldier, and New York State legislator described as a father of the common school system of the State of New York (state), New York. He was a man of limited education and had no gift as a debater or speaker, but he was a skillful organizer. (His first name has occasionally been spelled ''Jedidiah'' or ''Jedadiah'' in the literature.) An outspoken opponent of the John Adams administration and the Federalist Party (United States), Federalist Party in New York State, Peck was arrested by Federalist Judge William Cooper (judge), William Cooper for circulating a petition against the Adams-era Alien and Sedition Acts and taken to jail in chains; massive protests from Peck supporters and opponents of the administration won his release without trial. Biography Peck was born in Lyme, Connecticut, one of thirteen children of Elijah Peck and Hepzibah Pie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
