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Polly Curtis
Polly is a given name, most often feminine, which originated as a variant of Molly (a diminutive of Mary). Polly may also be a short form of names such as Polina, Polona, Pauline, Paula or Paulina. People Female Given name * PJ Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter * Polly Apfelbaum (born 1955), American contemporary visual artist * Polly Arnold (born 1972), British academic * Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician * Polly Bartlett, American serial killer, perhaps fictitious * Polly Barton, American textile artist * Polly Bemis (1853–1933), Chinese-American pioneer * Polly Bennett (1922–2003), American artist * Polly Berry (c. 1818–c. 1870–1880), also known as Polly Crockett and Polly Wash, African-American slave who successfully sued for her freedom and that of her daughter * Polly Borland (born 1959), Australian photographer * Polly Bradfield (), American violinist * Polly Brown (born 1947), English singer * Polly Draper (born 1955), American actress, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly (name)
Molly (also spelled Molli or Mollie) is a diminutive of the feminine name Mary that, like other English diminutives in use since the Middle Ages, substituted l for r. Molly evolved from the English diminutive Mally. English surnames such as Moll, Mollett, and Mollison are derived from Molly. Molly has also been used as a diminutive of Margaret and Martha since the 1700s and as an independent name since at least 1720. The name was more popular in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere in the 1800s due to usage by Irish-American families and by Jewish American families who used Molly as an English version of Hebrew names such as Miriam and Malka. Its popularity with Americans was also influenced by stories about Molly Pitcher, a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. Usage The name has been among the 1,000 most popular names for girls in the United States since 1880 and was among the 100 most popular names for American girls at different times between 1987 and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Bradfield
Polly Bradfield is an American violinist from the New York City free improvisation scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her closest musical associates were Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn. She also played on records by William Parker (musician), William Parker and Frank Lowe. Her music career ended when she moved to California sometime in the 1980s. Her last appearance on record was on Zorn's ''The Big Gundown (album), The Big Gundown'' in 1986. Biography "I began playing music when I was 8 or 9. First piano, then violin. I preferred to play classical literature, but I started improvising by playing piano in a high school stage band. I studied jazz in college after hearing Cecil Taylor I started developing a style of improvisation on the piano, playing with many different musicians and performing occasionally. When I met Eugene Chadbourne and John Zorn on moving to New York, I quit playing the piano and concentrated on the violin. My playing really changed and so did my att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly James (screenwriter)
Polly James was an American screenwriter and TV writer active in the 1940s and 1950s. Much of her work was in the Western genre. For many years she lived with sculptor Nína Sæmundsson on Camrose Drive near the Hollywood Bowl. She was a member of the Screen Writers Guild. Selected filmography Television * '' Sugarfoot'' (1 episode; 1959) * '' Casey Jones'' (1 episode; 1957) * ''The Adventures of Jim Bowie'' (3 episodes; 1957) * ''Annie Oakley'' (1 episode; 1956) * '' The Roy Rogers Show'' (1 episode; 1956) * '' The Adventures of Champion'' (1 episode; 1956) * '' The Millionaire'' (1 episode; 1955) * ''The Gene Autry Show'' (5 episodes; 1950–52) * ''The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a ...'' (3 episodes; 1949–50) Film * '' The Redhead from Wyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly James (broadcaster)
Polly James (formerly Polly Lake; born ) is a Welsh radio and television presenter. She has presented for Absolute Radio, Radio X, and Capital South Wales. She has been a television sports broadcaster, covering darts for Sky Sports, as well as the ''Late Night Football Club'', BBC One's chat show for the duration of Wales' participation in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Background James was born in Cardiff, Wales, and lived in Llanishen, Rhiwbina and Thornhill in the city and then Penarth. She attended Stanwell Comprehensive in Penarth. She competed for Wales and GB Juniors in athletics at an underage level. Career James starting broadcasting in community radio stations like Afan FM, and Bridge FM. After working for Nation Radio Wales, she presented an overnight show on Absolute Radio in the early 2010's, moving to Capital South Wales in 2013. During Capital's restructuring in 2019, her Capital South Wales breakfast show (with Matt Lissack) was cancelled and she moved to Radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Irungu
Polly Irungu is a Kenyan-American photographer and journalist. She founded ''Black Women Photographers'', a global network aimed at promoting and assisting Black women photographers. She was the official photo editor for the office of US vice president Kamala Harris. Currently, Polly serves as a Junior Photographer attached to Governor Wes Moore's Office for the State of Maryland. Early life and education Irungu was born in Nairobi, Kenya. She moved to the United States at the age of 4, and was raised in both Kansas and Oregon. Irungu worked at McDonald's in high school, and saved her earnings to buy her first camera. She practiced portrait photography using her brother as her model, and visited sporting events to better learn how to properly photograph fast subjects. Irungu earned her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Oregon in 2017. Career In 2018, Irungu moved to New York City and took a job as a digital content editor at New York Public Radio. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Horvath
Polly Horvath (born January 30, 1957 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American-Canadian author of novels for children and young adults. She won the 2003 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for '' The Canning Season'', published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."National Book Awards – 2003" . National Book Foundation (NBF). Retrieved 2012-01-26. (With acceptance speech by Horvath an introduction by jury chair Susan Campbell Bartoletti: this year's entries "reveal that there are few or no subject boundaries left between books for young people and books for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Holliday
Polly Dean Holliday (born July 2, 1937) is an American retired actress who appeared on stage, television and in film. She is best known for her portrayal of sassy waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the 1970s sitcom ''Alice'', which she reprised in its short-lived spin-off, '' Flo''. Her character's catchphrase of "Kiss my grits!" remains the most memorable line associated with the series ''Alice''. She is the last surviving member of the show's main original cast. Early life Holliday was born in Jasper, Alabama, the daughter of Ernest Sullivan Holliday, a truck driver, and Velma Mabell Holliday (née Cain). She grew up in Childersburg and Sylacauga, where her brother Doyle's boyhood friend, Jim Nabors, lived. Holliday attended the Alabama College for Women at Montevallo (now known as the University of Montevallo) in the late 1950s where she excelled in the theater department, playing the lead roles in "The Lady's Not for Burning" and "Medea". She graduated in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Hill (economist)
Polly Hill (14 June 1914 – 21 August 2005) was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.''Who Was Who'' Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel Prize in physiology and her mother Margaret Hill (social reformer), Margaret Hill was a leading social reformer. Hill's maternal grandfather was economist John Neville Keynes, and maternal uncles were economist John Maynard Keynes and surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill (geophysicist), Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herbert Humphrey.http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/DO/filmshow/hill1_fast.htm Polly Hill interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, 20 July 1996 She graduated with a 2:1 in Economics from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1933. In 1938 she was a research assistant at the Fabian Society, publishing a book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Guerin
Polly Guerin was an author, fashion historian and retired Fashion Institute of Technology adjunct professor. Her 2013 book, ''The Cooper-Hewitt Dynasty of New York'' is an overview of Peter Cooper Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the ''Tom Thumb (locomotive), Tom Thumb'', founded the Cooper Union ..., his son-in-law, Abram S. Hewitt, and the latter's three daughters who were responsible for what is now the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2015, she published ''The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York: A History'' in honor of the more than two-hundred year history of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. References External links * 20th-century births 2021 deaths Fashion Institute of Technology people 21st-century American women writers Writers from N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Granzow
Polly Granzow (born September 29, 1941) is a former Iowa State Representative from the 44th District. She served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009. She received her BA from the University of Iowa and her MA from the University of Northern Iowa. Granzow was re-elected in 2006 with 5,559 votes (50%), defeating Iowa Democratic Party, Democratic opponent Tim Hoy. Education Granzow graduated from Eldora High School and later obtained her B.A. in Spanish and teaching from the University of Iowa. She also received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of Northern Iowa. Career Granzow served on several committees in the Iowa House - the Economic Growth committee; the Veterans Affairs committee; and the Human Resources committee, where she is the ranking member. She also serves on the Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee. Outside politics Granzow is a partner in farming with her husband. She is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunt Polly's Wash Tub
Aunt Polly’s Wash Tub is a lake in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It is the only lake in the area that has soft water. It was previously called Soft Water Lake until it was named for Polly Gage (1805–1882) who lived on the lake and took advantage of the water’s softness In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by Pressing (metalworking), pressing or abrasion ... for the laundry of the Nashotah Mission. Gage lived there until 1880 when the property was foreclosed. The family of Laura Tallmadge (1842–1879) also lived on the lake. The area once was called “Pabst Swamp Preserve”. After the Gages left, the son of Frederick Pabst, , purchased the land around the lake for Pabst Farms, and farm employees would ice skate on the lake in winter. The lake is now in , which was named for former city attorney Bill Chapman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Emery
Polly Emery (10 May 1875 – 31 October 1958) was an English actress of both silent and talking pictures. , ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 23 January 2016. She was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England and died at age 83 at Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England. Selected filmography * ''Watch Your Step (film), Watch Your Step'' (1920) * ''The Case of Lady Camber (film), The Case of Lady Camber'' (1920) * ''Nothing Else Matters (film), Nothing Else Matters'' (1920) * ''A Sister to Assist 'Er (1922 film), A Sister to Assist 'Er'' (1922) * ''If Four Walls Told'' (1922) * ''A Will and a Way'' (1922) * ''The Pauper Millionaire'' (1922) * ''Beautiful Kitty'' (1923) * ''The Alley of Golden Hearts'' (1924) * ''A Sister to Assist 'Er (1927 film), A Sister to Assist 'Er'' (1927) * ''A Honeymoon Adventure'' (1931) * ''The Third String ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
