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Pendergast Era
Pendergast (, ''Piondárgas'') is a Norman-Irish names, Irish surname derived from Prendergast (surname), Prendergast. Notable people with the surname include: *Aloysius Pendergast, character in novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child *Anna Pendergast (born 1961), Canadian basketball player *Bill Pendergast (1915–2001), Welsh footballer *Charlie Pendergast (1899–1972), Australian rugby league footballer *Clancy Pendergast (born 1967), American football coach *David M. Pendergast (born 1934), American archaeologist *Oaklee Pendergast (born 2004), English actor *James Pendergast (1856–1911), American politician from Kansas City, Missouri; brother of Tom Pendergast *James F. Prendergast (1917–1985), American politician from Pennsylvania *Jane Pendergast, American biostatistician *Kevin Pendergast, American football and soccer player *Leeanna Pendergast (born 1962), Canadian politician from Ontario *Tim Pendergast (born 1958), American college football coach *Tom Pendergast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Names
A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, most surnames are patronymic surnames (distinct from patronymic, patronyms, which are seen in Icelandic names for example). The form of a surname varies according to whether its bearer is a man, a woman, or a woman married to a man, who adopts his surname. An alternative traditional naming convention consists of the first name followed by a double patronym, usually with the father and grandfather's names. This convention is not used for official purposes but is generalized in (Irish-speaking areas) and also survives in some rural non- areas. Sometimes the name of the mother or grandmother may be used instead of the father or grandfather. Epithets A first name may be modified by an adjective to distinguish its bearer from other people with the same name. ("big") and ("young") are used to distinguish parent and child, like "Suffix (name), senior" and "Junior (suffix), junior" are used in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pendergast
James Francis Pendergast (January 27, 1856 – November 10, 1911) was a Democratic politician and the first Big City Boss of Kansas City, Missouri. He rose to prominence in the West Bottoms as the proprietor of saloons and gambling establishments and became head of a political faction that held significant control over local politicians and law enforcement in Kansas City. Known as "Alderman Jim," he was known for his generosity to the working-class residents of the industrial areas of the city. He was also repudiated by reform-minded Kansas City elites for spreading the vices of alcohol and gambling, and for his political corruption. He retired from political life in 1910, handing control of his faction to his younger brother Thomas J. Pendergast. Early life Pendergast was born on January 27, 1856, in Gallipolis, Ohio, to Michael and Mary Pendergast. His family moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1859. He was educated at the public schools there and at Christian Brothers College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Pendergast (footballer)
Thomas Pendergast (12 January 1870–1946) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Accrington. Season 1889-90 Thomas Pendergast made his club and League debut as a 19-year-old on 19 October 1889. The match was played at Thorneyholme Road, Accrington and the visitors were Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2021 population of 78,266. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River B .... Pendergast played as a left-sided inside forward. The match ended 2—2. He played 16 of Accrington's 22 League fixtures, all as an Inside Forward and he scored six goals that season. The Lancashire Evening Post of 20 November 1889 made reference to Pendergast's first club and League goal which put Accrington 1—0 up. "Directly afterwards, however, Pendergast drew first blood." The article also states that Pendergast had a shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Pendergast
Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1872 – January 26, 1945), also known as T. J. Pendergast, was an American political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, from 1925 to 1939. Pendergast only briefly held elected office, as an alderman, but his capacity as chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Party allowed him to use his large network of Irish family and friends to help the election of politicians, in some cases by voter fraud, and to hand out government contracts and patronage jobs. He became wealthy in the process, but his addiction to gambling, especially horse racing, later led to a large accumulation of personal debts. In 1939, he was convicted of income tax evasion and served 15 months in a federal prison. The Pendergast organization helped to launch the political career of future president Harry S. Truman, which caused Truman's early enemies to dub him "the senator from Pendergast". Early years Thomas Joseph Pendergast, also known to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Pendergast
Tim Pendergast (born August 15, 1958) is an American former college football coach. He served as the head football coach at Hamilton College in 2000 and at Cornell University from 2001 to 2003, compiling a career head coaching record of 9–28. Pendergast graduated from State University of New York at Cortland and earned a master's degree from Ithaca College, where he began his coaching career as an assistant in 1980. He was then an assistant coach at Cornell from 1981 to 1989. He first served as the freshman coach from 1981 to 1982 before being named the defensive backs coach in 1983. After a stint as an assistant for Northwestern he was hired as the defensive backs coach for Maine. In 1993, he accepted the same position for James Madison. He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1995. In 1997, he reverted back to his role of defensive backs coach when he was hired by Memphis. Pendergast was fired from his position at Cornell in November 2003. He 2003 Cornell team lost its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeanna Pendergast
Leeanna Pendergast (born ) is a former Canadian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2011, representing the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga. Background Pendergast was born in Kitchener, Ontario in 1962. She obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo. She also studied at the University of Toronto and at Oxford University in England, receiving a Master of Arts, a Bachelor of Education, and a Master of Education. She worked at numerous high schools in the region, serving as the vice-principal of four schools and as an education consultant for the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. Pendergast has helped develop various programs for youth in Kitchener, including the Safe Schools Initiative and the Breakfast Program for Needy Students. She has also chaired the Education Foundation golf classic, raising money for literacy and numeracy initiatives. She and her husband, Richard, have lived in Conestogo, just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Pendergast
Kevin Pendergast is a former American football and soccer player. He was the most valuable player for the Notre Dame soccer team before Coach Lou Holtz recruited him to play for the football team as a placekicker. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to conspiring with players from Northwestern University's basketball team to engage in point shaving in three games. College career He was a star soccer player at Simsbury High School in Simsbury, Connecticut and Notre Dame recruited him for its soccer program. In 1989 and 1990, he was the team's leading scorer. In 1991, the football team's starting placekicker, Craig Hentrich, sprained his knee and Head Coach Lou Holtz looked to the soccer team for a kicker to handle kickoffs. Pendergast has never played organized football, but joined the team as a walk-on. In the 1992 Sugar Bowl against Florida, Hentrich again suffered an injury forcing Pendergast to attempt his first field goal in a competitive game. He made the field goal, and later k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Pendergast
Jane Pendergast is an American biostatistician specializing in multivariate statistics and longitudinal data. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University. Education and career Pendergast majored in mathematics at the University of Dayton, graduating in 1974, and went to the University of Iowa for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1976 and completing her Ph.D. in 1979. Her dissertation was ''Robust Estimation in Growth Curve Models''. After working as research faculty at the University of Florida beginning in 1980, she moved to the University of Iowa as an associate professor in 1999, and was promoted to full professor there in 2005. She moved to her present position at Duke University in 2015. She was regional president for the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society in 2006, and chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies for 2013–2015. Recognition Pendergast was named a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James F
James may refer to: People * James (given name) * James (surname) * James (musician), aka Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, (born 1964), Bollywood musician * James, brother of Jesus * King James (other), various kings named James * Prince James (other) * Saint James (other) Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Film and television * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * "James", a television episode of ''Adventure Time'' Music * James (band), a band from Manchester ** ''James'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oaklee Pendergast
Oaklee Pendergast (born 24 June 2004) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in '' The Impossible'' and '' The Woman in Black: Angel of Death''. Career Pendergast made his acting debut in 2008, appearing in an episode of ''EastEnders'' as Felix Stewart, Jamie Stewart's son. In 2012 he featured in two episodes of ''Casualty''. That same year, he made his feature film debut, playing Simon Bennett in '' The Impossible'', which was based on the true experiences of María Belón and her family during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. In 2014, Pendergast landed another main role in the film, '' The Woman in Black: Angel of Death''. Since 2016 Pendergast has worked in a number of TV series—he appeared in all six episodes of ''Camping'', in four episodes of '' Marcella'', and had a lead role in Channel 4 comedy ''Home A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prendergast (surname)
Prendergast is a British people, British and Irish people, Irish surname. Etymology This toponymic surname may derive from ''prender'' from a Germanic word for fire or conflagration (cf. brand) where the ''b'' became ''p'' due to fortition and ''gast'' (cf. geest) from a Germanic word for wasteland or dry and infertile land meaning the location could have been a wikt:burn-beat, burn-beat area. Others think the name is a Saxonized form of Bryn y Gest from the Welsh wikt:bryn#Welsh, bryn meaning hill and gest a lenition of ''cest'' which means belly or swelling or a deep glen between two mountains having but one opening. It could also lessly come from Pren-dwr-gwest, the inn by the tree near the water. The right etymology is probably Pen-dre-gast. The suffix ast (cf. wikt:gast#Welsh, gast) is of Welsh origin like the names of the wikt:cromlech, cromlech chamber tomb of Penllech yr Ast (''the chief slab of the bitch'') or Llech-yr-ast (''Bitch's stone''), in Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David M
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and '' Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; page 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
