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Langston Lions Football Players
Langston is a name of English people, English origin. People with the name include: People with the given name *Langston Galloway (born 1991), American basketball player *Langston Hall (born 1991), American basketball player *Langston Hughes (1902–1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist *Langston Love (born 2002), American basketball player *Langston Moore (born 1981), American football player *Langston Walker (born 1979), American football player People with the surname *Big E Langston (born 1986), American professional wrestler *Charles Henry Langston (1817–1892), African-American abolitionist and political activist *Clinton Langston (born 1962), British Anglican priest and military chaplain *Dicey Langston (1766–1837), Patriot spy at the time of the American Revolution *Grant Langston (motorcyclist) (born 1982), South African motocross champion *Grant Langston (musician) (born 1966), American singer-songwriter *John Langston (MP) (–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the , meaning "Angle kin" or "English people". Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who invaded Great Britain, Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups: the West Germanic tribes, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who settled in England and Wales, Southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons who already lived there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. "Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Langston
Mark Edward Langston (born August 20, 1960) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners (1984–1989), Montreal Expos (1989), California / Anaheim Angels (1990–1997), San Diego Padres (1998), and Cleveland Indians (1999). During a 16-year baseball career, Langston compiled 179 wins, 2,464 strikeouts, and a 3.97 earned run average (ERA). Baseball career Langston attended Buchser High School in Santa Clara, California. After graduating in 1978, he was selected in the 15th round (377th overall) of the 1978 Major League Baseball draft by the Chicago Cubs, who offered him $10,000 to sign with the team. However, he chose not to sign with the Cubs and attend college. In a 2018 interview, Langston told MLB.com, "I was 17 when I graduated from high school. It would have been interesting – I didn't turn 18 until August, so I don't know how I would have handled that, as a kid that's really never been anywhere. It's completely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langston Graham
Langston Graham is a fictional recurring character in the NBC television series ''Chuck''. Graham was the director of the CIA, and oversaw Operation Bartowski, a fictional top-secret project to guard Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) and the Intersect. Director Graham oversaw the project with, and worked alongside NSA Director Diane Beckman (Bonita Friedericy), until his death in the second season premiere. Biography Director Langston Graham was the direct superior of agent Sarah Walker, and assigned her to follow up on Bryce's theft of the Intersect by sending her to Burbank to track down where he sent the data. Little personal information about Graham has been established, other than that he arrested Sarah's father when he conned the wrong people. The details of the arrest and later release of Sarah's father have not yet been revealed. During this event, Graham cornered and confronted Sarah while attempting to recover money her father left in the event something happened to him, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langston Field
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven. The CoDominium (CD) is a political alliance and union between the United States and the Soviet Union in Pournelle's fictional history. Formed to maintain planetary stability, the CD becomes a de facto planetary government and later an interstellar empire, though it halts scientific and political evolution. The U.S. during the CD era is a welfare state with distinct social classes: Citizens and Taxpayers. The empire is organized by sectors, ruled by a Viceroy, and governed by various ministries. Colonies in the CoDominium are established on habitable planets, founded by various groups such as ethnic minorities, religious groups, and businesses. Elite colonies have advanced technology and fleets, allowing them some independence from the CD. The Outies, systems that retained enough technology to pose a threat, serve as a constant challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langston Wilde
This is a list of notable characters from the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' that made their first appearance between 2000 and 2009. Kimberly Andrews Kimberly Andrews (born Aubrey Wentworth) is a fictional character on the American soap opera, ''One Life to Live''. Amanda Setton originated the role on August 14, 2009, and last appeared on April 2, 2010. Setton reprised the role from August 22, 2011, until December 29, 2011. Kimberly Andrews is an exotic dancer who arrives in Llanview in August 2009 to help her best friend, Stacy Morasco. Stacy had miscarried her baby with Rex Balsom, and Kim conspires to help Stacy get pregnant again and pass the child off as Rex's. Running low on money, Kim sets her sights on Clint Buchanan. Kim manipulates her way into a position as Clint's executive assistant and soon finds out that Clint's wife Nora Buchanan has fallen back in love with her ex-husband, Bo Buchanan. In December, Kim arranges for Clint to discover the truth. Clint f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Langston Turner
Jamie Langston Turner (born 1949) is a Christian novelist. Biography Jamie Turner was born in Mississippi and taught writing and poetry at Bob Jones University. She has written eight novels: ''Suncatchers'' (1995), ''Some Wildflower in My Heart'' (1998), ''By the Light of a Thousand Stars'' (1999), ''A Garden to Keep'' (2001), ''No Dark Valley'' (2004), ''Winter Birds'' (2006), ''Sometimes a Light Surprises'' (2009), and ''To See the Moon Again'' (2014). Her novel ''A Garden to Keep'' won a 2002 Christy Award; her ''Winter Birds'' was named one of the "one hundred best books" of 2006 by ''Publishers Weekly'' and also won a Christy Award. After Bethany House remaindered ''Winter Birds'', Turner published her eighth novel, ''To See the Moon Again'', with mainstream Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Turner's novels were "loosely conceived as a series" and are all set in three fictional towns near Greenville in Upstate South Carolina The Upstate, historically kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Langston Gwaltney
John Langston Gwaltney (September 25, 1928 – August 29, 1998) was an African-American writer and anthropologist focused on African-American culture, best known for his book '' Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America''. Early life Gwaltney lost his eyesight soon after birth and was the first blind student to attend his local high school in Newark, NJ. Academic background Gwaltney earned a BA from Upsala College in 1952, an MA from the New School for Social Research in 1957, and in 1967 a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where he won the Ansley Dissertation Award and studied under Margaret Mead, who called him ""a most remarkable man... homanages his life and work with extraordinary skill and bravery".Cole, Johnnetta B."John Langston Gwaltney (1928-1998)", ''American Anthropologist'', September 1999 Vol. 101 (3): 614-615. His dissertation on river blindness among the Chinantec-speaking people in Oaxaca, Mexico, eventually became his 1970 book ''Thrice Shy: Cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Langston
J. William Langston is the founder and chief scientific officer, movement disorder specialist, and chief executive officer of the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, California, the founding member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of Parkinson's Disease''. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Langston was formerly a faculty member at Stanford University and Chairman of Neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. Langston has authored or co-authored some 360 peer-reviewed articles in the field of neurology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders. Langston gained national and international recognition in 1982 for the discovery of the link between a "synthetic heroin" contaminant (MPTP) and parkinsonism. Career In 1982 William Langston was head of neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center when he ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wann Langston, Jr
Wann may refer to: * Wann, Nebraska * Wann, Oklahoma * WANN-CD, a television station based in Atlanta, Georgia *WANN, the former call sign of radio station WBIS in Baltimore, Maryland * Wann Formation, a geologic formation in Kansas and Oklahoma * USS Walter C. Wann, a US Navy ship during World War II *Wann River, a tributary of Tagish Lake in northern Canada * We Are Not Numbers (WANN), English-language writing workshops for Palestinians in Gaza People named Wann *Alpha Wann, member of French rap group 1995 (band) * Dennis Wann (born 1950), English footballer *Jim Wann, actor in musical '' Pump Boys and Dinettes'' * Keith Wann (born 1969), American actor and comedian * Marie Wann (1911–1996), American statistician * Marilyn Wann (born 1966), American author and fat acceptance activist * Norman G. Wann (1882–1957), American football player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator * Sandy Wann (born 1940), Scottish footballer * Wann Rashidah (born 1970), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Langston
Peter Langston (born 1946) is a computer programmer who wrote and distributed for free several games for Unix systems in the 1970s, including one of the earliest text adventure video games ''Wander (adventure game), Wander'', the original version of ''Empire (1972 video game), Empire'' and the program "Oracle" upon which the later net-wide Internet Oracle, Oracle was modeled. He is also an experienced jazz, rock, and folk musician. He wrote his first game in 1965. Musicians from Seattle American folk guitarists American male guitarists American rock guitarists Living people 1946 births Guitarists from Washington (state) Lucasfilm people 20th-century American guitarists Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) In 1982, he was hired as the first employee by the Computer Division of Lucasfilm to start LucasArts, Lucasfilm Games. He hired the programming and design teams and wrote the music for and contributed to the game design of Lucasfilm Games' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unknown Comic
Murray Langston (born June 27, 1944), who frequently performed using the stage name "The Unknown Comic," is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian best known for his performances on ''The Gong Show'', where he usually appeared with a paper bag over his head. Early life Murray Langston was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He left home at the age of 15 because his parents, who were disabled and financially strapped could not afford to raise him and his younger siblings. He lived in Montreal ( Park Ex) before immigrating to the United States by joining the United States Navy. He served during the Vietnam War but never saw combat. Career In 1968, Langston began his show business career on ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,'' where he did impressions of a fork, a tube of toothpaste, and a grandfather clock. Later, at the suggestion of Redd Foxx, he teamed with comedian Freeman King and they became regular performers on ''The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.'' After more than 100 appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
