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Poole (surname)
Poole is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adalbert Poole (1881–1970), Canadian politician * Andrew Poole (cricketer) (born 1967), English cricketer * Andy Poole (footballer) (born 1960), English footballer * Austin Lane Poole (1889–1963), British mediaevalist *Barney Poole (1923–2005), American football player *Ben Poole, British blues rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. * Bertram William Henry Poole (1880–1957), British-American philatelist *Brian Poole (born 1941), British singer and entertainer, lead singer of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes *Bruce Poole (born 1959), American politician *Cecil Charles Poole (1885–1970), British politician *Cecil F. Poole (1914–1997), American lawyer and judge *Charles Poole (1874–1941), New Zealand politician *Charles Lane Poole (1885–1970), Australian forester *Charlie Poole (1892–1931), American banjo player * Christopher "Kit" Poole (1875–1965), Irish Citizen Army officer during the 1916 Easter Rising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalbert Poole
Adalbert James Moses Poole (December 11, 1881 – September 26, 1970) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1936 as a member of the Progressive Party. Poole was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, the son of Timothy Poole and Francis Ducklow, and was educated at a rural school and business college. He worked as a farmer, and was a director of the Manitoba Wheat Pool for three years. In 1909, he married Alice Watson. Poole also served as the president of the United Farmers of Manitoba from 1925 to 1928, and of the Canadian Council of Agriculture from 1927 to 1928. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1927 provincial election, defeating Conservative candidate E.H. Whelpley in the constituency of Beautiful Plains Beautiful, an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty, may refer to: Film and theater * ''Beautiful'' (2000 film), an American film directed by Sally Field * ''Beautiful' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Poole
Daniel Poole DCM & Bar (21 April 1882 – 13 August 1959) was an Australian soldier and sailor. On 15 April 1917, during the battle of Lagnicourt, Poole collected a party of men and led them forward under heavy fire, killing nine enemy and capturing fifteen prisoners. For his leadership and bravery he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Early life Daniel Poole was born on 21 April 1882 at Birkenhead, England, son of Richard Poole, baker, and his wife Anne, née Warburton.Foldi, N.S. (1978)Poole, Daniel (1882–1959)' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, p. 255. Retrieved on 9 August 2009. Leaving home at age 11, he worked on a German sailing clipper. He arrived in Sydney in 1909, and subsequently worked as a marine stoker and served for five years with the Royal Naval Reserve.Daniel Poole [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Odyssey
The ''Space Odyssey'' series is a series of science fiction novels by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two of the novels have been made into feature films, released in 1968 and 1984 respectively. Two of Clarke's early short stories may also be considered part of the series. Literature Short stories: * " The Sentinel" – short story written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity" * " Encounter in the Dawn" – short story first published in 1953 (re-titled "Encounter at Dawn" or "Expedition to Earth" in some later collections) Novels: * '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' – produced concurrently with the film and released in 1968 * '' 2010: Odyssey Two'' – 1982 novel, adapted as the 1984 film '' 2010: The Year We Make Contact'' with screenplay by Peter Hyams * '' 2061: Odyssey Three'' – 1987 novel * '' 3001: The Final Odyssey'' – 1997 novel Comic books: * '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' – 1976 oversized Marvel single-issue comic b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Huntington Runnells Poole
Fanny Runnells Poole (, Runnells; 1863–1940) was an American writer. She was a book reviewer for ''Home Journal'' and ''Town and Country'', 1894-8. She was the author of ''A Bank of Violets'' (verse), 1895; ''Three Songs of Love'' (music), 1906; and ''Mugen'' (verse), 1908. She also compiled an unpublished poetical anthology. Poole enjoyed singing, teaching, the care of little children, the culture of flowers, embroidery, and old book and picture collections. But her absorbing passion was poetry. Poole died in 1940. Early life and education Fanny (sometimes spelled Fannie) Huntington Runnells was born at Orford, New Hampshire, in 1863. Her parents were Rev. Moses Thurston Runnells, a historian and 23 years pastor of the Congregational Church at Sanbornton, and Fannie Maria Baker Runnells. She was directly descended from the early Huntingtons of Connecticut, including Governor Samuel Huntington, Jedediah Huntington in poetry, and Daniel Huntington in art. Isolated, to a large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene J
Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the singing group S.E.S. * Eugene (wrestler), professional wrestler Nick Dinsmore * Franklin Eugene (producer), American film producer * Gene Eugene, stage name of Canadian born actor, record producer, engineer, composer and musician Gene Andrusco (1961–2000) * Wendell Eugene (1923–2017), American jazz musician Places Canada * Mount Eugene, in Nunavut; the highest mountain of the United States Range on Ellesmere Island United States * Eugene, Oregon, a city ** Eugene, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area ** Eugene (Amtrak station) * Eugene Apartments, NRHP-listed apartment complex in Portland, Oregon * Eugene, Indiana, an unincorporated town * Eugene, Missouri, an unincorporated town Business * Eugene Green Energy Standard, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Poole
Ernest Cook Poole (January 23, 1880 – January 10, 1950) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s. Poole was the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded in 1918 for his book, ''His Family.'' Biography Early years Ernest Cook Poole was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 23, 1880, to Abram Poole and Mary Howe Poole.Edd Applegate, ''Muckrackers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors.'' Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008; pg. 142. His Wisconsin-born father was a successful commodities trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, his mother hailed from a well-established Chicago family; together they raised 7 children. Poole was educated at home until he was almost 7 years old, at which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenderness (novel)
''Tenderness'' is a 1997 novel written by Robert Cormier. It is the basis for John Polson's 2009 film, '' Tenderness''. Plot Eric Poole is a convicted teenage serial killer. Lorelei "Lori" Cranston is a troubled 15-year-old girl. As a little boy in New England, Eric Poole already exhibited symptoms of a sociopath. He was suspected of murdering several young girls, but also murdered his mother and stepfather, and was convicted for those deaths. He convinced investigators that he killed his guardians out of self-defense with a false story of abuse. Lori is described as a beautiful girl with a very mature body at a young age. Consequently, she must constantly deal with the wanted and unwanted sexual attention she receives from men. She has a tendency to fixate on men, and will pursue them until she has put her mouth on theirs. Detective Jake Proctor always suspected that Eric was guilty of killing the other girls and that he had fabricated his abuse story. He is determined to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Joseph Poole
Eric Joseph Poole (December 19, 1907 – January 1, 1969) was a building contractor and a Canadian federal politician. Political career Poole first ran for political office in the 1935 Canadian federal election as a Social Credit candidate. He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament Alfred Speakman to pick up the seat for his party and win his only term in office. Poole was one of nine federal members of parliament to attend the founding political convention of the Quebec Social Credit League in Hull, Quebec on January 29, 1939. The event was attended by over 700 delegates. Later that year in a speech in the House of Commons on April 15, 1939, Poole criticized the Liberal and Conservative parties for failing to create employment. He proposed a 50-year plan to pay off the national debt and create mass employment by hiring out-of-work Canadians to reforest all the vacant and deforested land in Canada. Poole served a single term in opposition before retiring from federal po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Poole
Eric Skeffington Poole (20 January 1885 – 10 December 1916) was a British Army soldier who was the first commissioned officer to be executed by British military authority during World War I. Originally from Canada, after serving on the Western Front for four months he was sentenced to death by court martial for desertion during the Battle of the Somme, and shot by a firing squad on 10 December 1916. Early life Eric Poole was born on 20 January 1885 in Nova Scotia, Canada. From 1903 to 1905 he served in the ranks of the Canadian Army's 63rd Regiment, Halifax Rifles. He emigrated to England with his family at some date before 1914, residing in the town of Guildford, Surrey.'Name of soldier added to war memorial & details of another 'shot at dawn' corrected', 'The Guildford Dragon', July 2015. http://www.guildford-dragon.com/2014/11/08/additional-name-of-soldier-added-to-war-memorial-and-details-of-another-shot-at-dawn-corrected/ First World War After the outbreak of World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Poole
Elizabeth Poole or Pole (25 August 1588 – 21 May 1654) was an English settler in Plymouth Colony who founded the town of Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the first woman known to have founded a town in the Americas. Biography Poole was a well-born woman from Shute in East Devon, near Axminster. She was the daughter of Sir William Pole, who was knighted by James I in 1601, and Mary Peryam, the daughter of Sir William Peryam, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Until 2009, her family's descendants, the Pole-Carews, lived in the Devonshire house she was born in, Shute Barton, a National Trust property which is open to the public on four weekends during the year. (The property is now refurbished and let by the Trust as holiday accommodation). Elizabeth sailed from Plymouth, England in 1633 on the ''Speedwell'' with two friends, fourteen servants, goods, and twenty tons of salt for fishing provision. She intended to form a settlement and for the conversion of the Native Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Poole
Edward Isaih Poole (September 7, 1874 – March 11, 1919) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played from 1900 to 1904 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and Brooklyn Superbas. Poole stood at and weighed 175 lbs."Ed Poole Statistics and History" ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-04. Career Poole was born in . He started his professional baseball career in 1897 and played in the Interstate League for four seasons. In 1900, he went 20–15 for the Wheeling Stogies. He also played in the infield and outfield w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Lincoln Poole
Earl Lincoln Poole (1891–1972) was an American wildlife artist, sculptor, author, and naturalist. He was born on October 30, 1891 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Published versions of his illustrations appeared in ''Birds of Virginia'' (1913) and ''Bird Studies at Old Cape May'' (1937). After completing high school, Poole attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was a Jessup Scholar at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He undertook teaching duties at the Reading Boy's High School in 1915, guided by Dr. Levi Mengel (Director of the Reading Public Museum at the time), and was subsequently promoted to Director of Art Education. In 1920, Poole was transferred to the Reading Public Museum (though he still served as Supervisor of Art at Reading Boy's High School until 1930) and was named Assistant Director of the museum in 1925 and Director in 1938. His papers are held at Drexel University Drexel University is a private research university with its main c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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