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Minnis may refer to: * Ewell Minnis, a village and civil parish * Rhodes Minnis, a village and civil parish * Stelling Minnis, a village and civil parish One of several people with the surname Minnis: * Alastair Minnis (b. 1948), British academic * Arnold Minnis (1891–1972) English cricketer and military officer * Chelsey Minnis (b. 1970), American poet * Helen Minnis, Scottish psychiatrist * Hubert Minnis (b. 1954), Bahamian politician * Jack Minnis (footballer) (1922–1975), Australian rules footballer * Jack Minnis (1926–2005), American civil rights activist * John Minnis (b. 1953), American politician * Joseph Minnis (1904–1977), American bishop * Karen Minnis (b. 1954), American politician * Michael Minnis, American writer * Snoop Minnis Marvin Dwayne Minnis (born February 6, 1977), nicknamed "Snoop" Minnis, is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewell Minnis
Ewell Minnis is a village near Dover in Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ..., England. The population is included in the civil parish of Alkham. See Stelling Minnis for information on the origin of the word Minnis. References External links Villages in Kent Dover District {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodes Minnis
Rhodes Minnis is a village near Folkestone in Kent, England, located between Lyminge and Stelling Minnis. It is in the civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ... of Elham. It was a gathering place for some of the Swing Riots organizers from Lyminge during the 1830s. External links References Villages in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelling Minnis
Stelling Minnis is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district in Kent, England. The village lies to the south of Canterbury, and to the east of the B2068, ''Stone Street'', the Roman road, which takes traffic between Lympne and Canterbury. Etymology Stelling was a village a mile from the Stelling minnis. Stelling was an Old English word for a shelter or cattle fold; stell also being a Germanic word for a farmer of a small number of cattle. A minnis was ancient common pasture land cleared from the wooded upper slopes on the high clay caps of the Kent chalk downland. The word 'minnis' is believed to derive from the Saxon word ''(ge)maennes'', which means 'common land used as pasture'. It has been suggested that these areas, which were characteristically on the higher reaches of the Downs, formed large tracts of common unenclosed 'waste' grassland used by a number of distant settlements. In the 17th century, most of these minnises were incorporated into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Minnis
Alastair J. Minnis (born 1948) is a Northern Irish literary critic and historian of ideas who has written extensively about medieval literature, and contributed substantially to the study of late-medieval theology and philosophy. Having gained a first-class B.A. degree at the Queen's University of Belfast, he matriculated at Keble College, Oxford as a visiting graduate student, where he completed work on his Belfast Ph.D. (awarded 1975), having been mentored by M.B. Parkes and Beryl Smalley. Following appointments at the Queen's University of Belfast (Lecturer, 1972–81) and Bristol University (Lecturer, later Reader, 1981–87), he was appointed Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York; also Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies and later Head of English & Related Literature. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus, from where he moved to Yale University. In 2008, he was named Douglas Tracy Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Minnis
Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier Arnold Minnis, (26 October 1891 − 26 September 1972) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Minnis' military career with the Royal Engineers spanned from 1915–1946, during which he served in both world wars. He rose to the rank of brigadier and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1941. He also played first-class cricket for the British Army cricket team. Early military career Minnis was born at Oughtibridge and attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He graduated from Woolwich in October 1915, entering into the Royal Engineers (West Riding Divisional Engineers) as a Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries, second lieutenant. Serving in the First World War, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant in July 1917. In December 1918, he was promoted to the temporary rank of Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsey Minnis
Chelsey Minnis (born 1970 in Dallas, Texas) is an American poet. Her collections of poetry include ''Zirconia'', ''Bad Bad'', ''Poemland'', and ''Baby I Don't Care''. ''Zirconia'' won the 2001 Alberta Prize for Poetry. She received a B. A. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder and studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Minnis's work was described as expressing a "gurlesque" aesthetic by Arielle Greenberg, which she described as "a feminine, feminist incorporating of the grotesque and cruel with the spangled and dreamy."Arielle Greenberg, "Some Notes on the Origin of the (Term) Gurlesque," Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, ed. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, Saturnalia Books, 2010, p. 2 Selected works *Zirconia'. New York: Fence Books, 2001. *''Foxina''. Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2002. *Bad Bad'. New York: Fence Books, 2007. *Poemland'. Seattle: Wave Books, 2009.''Baby, I Don't Care'' Seattle: Wave Books Wave Books (established 2005) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Minnis
Helen Minnis is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow. She studies reactive attachment disorder and other developmental conditions. Early life and education Minnis earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1985. She remained there for her medical studies and completed a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery in 1988. In the 1990s Minnis worked as a doctor in an orphanage in Guatemala. Here she worked with children that had been abused and neglected. It was whilst she was in Guatemala that she became interested in attachment disorder. She noticed that children in orphanages would cling to visitors, whilst children in nearby villages hid from strangers. When she returned to Glasgow she noticed that children there were suffering from similar conditions; which she attributed to neglect. She moved to the Maudsley Hospital, where she trained in psychiatry and focussed her research on children with reactive att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Minnis
Hubert Alexander Minnis, Order of the Nation (Bahamas), ON (born 16 April 1954) is a Bahamian politician and doctor who served as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from May 2017 to 16 September 2021. Minnis is the leader of the Free National Movement, the former governing party, and the Member of Parliament for the New Providence constituency of Killarney (Bahamas Parliament constituency), Killarney. First elected to the legislature in the 2007 Bahamian general election, 2007 election, he succeeded Hubert Ingraham as party leader following the party's defeat in the 2012 Bahamian general election, 2012 election. He was dismissed from his leadership role in the FNM in December 2016, and regained the position in April 2017 after much internal conflict within the party. He became prime minister following the victory of his party in the 2017 Bahamian general election, general election held on 10 May 2017. Early life, education, and career Minnis was born in Nassau, New Providence to Rosal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Minnis (footballer)
John Edward Minnis (26 January 1922 – 6 February 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). I ... (VFL). Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Minnis, Jack 1922 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players 1975 deaths 20th-century Australian sportsmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Minnis
Jack Minnis (1926-2005) was an American activist, and the founder and director of opposition research for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Civil Rights Movement era. Minnis researched federal expenditures and state and local subversion of racial equality. Minnis was white, but remained affiliated with SNCC even after it adopted a "blacks only" personnel policy, its only white employee for a long time. He helped to train such workers as Stokely Carmichael, Marion Barry, and John Lewis. Minnis had been hired by the Southern Regional Council to evaluate their Voter Education Project, which included voter registration efforts in the South in 1962. Minnis was fired for what he later said were justifiable political reasons, and suggested that SNCC start its own research unit to aid its activist effort. Jack Minnis ran SNCC's research department out of the Atlanta office, but traveled widely in the South to assist local efforts to register voters. By 1965, Minnis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Minnis
John Minnis (born December 14, 1953) is a former Republican legislator and police officer in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was a member of both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, representing eastern Multnomah County. He and his wife Karen, who was Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the mid-2000s, were at one time considered the "most powerful duo in the Oregon Legislature." From 2004 to 2009 he headed the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. Early life Minnis graduated Madison High School in Portland, Oregon. He and Karen met there, and were married in 1972. They had three children; Karen held several jobs while raising the family, putting John through college. He studied at Portland State University, Portland Bible College, and Eastern Oregon State University; he was also a jet mechanic for the United States Air Force and the Oregon Air Guard. Political career Minnis was appointed to fill a seat in the Oregon House of Representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Minnis
Joseph Summerville Minnis (January 3, 1904 - September 6, 1977) was the sixth bishop of Colorado in The Episcopal Church, serving from 1954 until his removal from office in 1969 after a closed-door church trial. Early life and education Minnis was born on January 3, 1904, in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Joseph William Minnis and Sarah Summerville. He was educated at the Bloom High School, and then at Nashotah House from where he graduated in 1929 with a Bachelor of Divinity, and awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1947. Ordained ministry Minnis was ordained deacon in Dec 1928, and priest in June 1929, by Bishop Benjamin F. P. Ivins of Milwaukee. He married Mary Katherine Abell on June 5, 1933, and together had four children. He served on the Staff City Mission in Chicago between 1927 and 1928. After ordination, he served in St Mark's Church in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, while a short time later, in 1929, he became assistant priest at the Church of the Atonement in Chicago. In 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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