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Potters
A potter is someone who makes pottery. Potter may also refer to: Places United States *Potter, originally a section on the Alaska Railroad, currently a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, US * Potter, Arkansas * Potter, Nebraska * Potters, New Jersey *Potter, New York * Potter, Wisconsin *Potter County, Pennsylvania * Potter County, South Dakota *Potter County, Texas * Potter Lake, Wisconsin * Potter Township (other) *Potter Valley, California ** Potter Valley AVA, California wine region in Mendocino County * Potter Cemetery, Michigan Elsewhere * 7320 Potter, an asteroid * Potter Island, Nunavut, Canada *Potter Peninsula, South Shetland Islands People and fictional characters *Potter (name), a given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Potter'' (TV series), a TV sitcom starring Arthur Lowe *Harry and the Potters, an American rock band * ''Harry Potter'', worldwide bestselling book and fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry And The Potters
Harry and the Potters are an American rock band known for spawning the genre of wizard rock. Founded in Norwood, Massachusetts, Norwood, Massachusetts, in 2002, the group is primarily composed of brothers Joe and Paul DeGeorge, both of whom perform under the persona of the Harry Potter (character), title character from the ''Harry Potter'' book series. Harry and the Potters are known for their elaborate live performances, and have developed a cult following within the Harry Potter fandom, ''Harry Potter'' fandom. The band is often backed up by musicians such as Ernie Kim, Andrew MacLeay, Brad Mehlenbacher, John Clardy, Mike Gintz, Jacob Nathan, Ben Macri, Phillip Dickey, Jason Anderson and Zach Burba. The band's most recent songs feature drummer Mike Harpring and bassist Paul Baribeau. Since 2002, Harry and the Potters have released three studio albums, five extended plays, and a single. The duo founded the independent record label Eskimo Laboratories, and appeared in the do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke Potters
The Stoke Potters previously the Hanley Potters were a British speedway team. As Hanley Potters they raced at the Sun Street Stadium from 1929 to 1963 and as Stoke, the team raced at Loomer Road Stadium in Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1973 to 2019. History Origins & 1920s In March 1929, British Speedways Ltd agreed a season lease with Northern Greyhound Racers (Hanley) Ltd (the owners of the recently constructed Sun Street Stadium in Hanley) for the introduction of speedway during 1929. Hanley were named as inaugural members of the 1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League and hosted their first home league match against Burnley on 18 May. However, they withdrew before the end of the season and their results were expunged. 1930s Ten years after the last appearance of speedway in Stoke, a team re-surfaced at the Sun Street stadium. The Stoke team with the nickname 'Potters' being used for the first time, joined the 1939 Speedway National League Division Two, under the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Potters (artists Group)
The Potters was an informal group of American female artists in St. Louis, Missouri, who printed their original art, poetry and prose in ''The Potter's Wheel'', a monthly artistic and literary magazine produced from November 1904 to October 1907. The group was mentored by Lillie Rose Ernst, assistant superintendent of education in the St. Louis public school system. Several members of the group went on to have successful careers in the arts, notably Sara Teasdale, Caroline Risque, and the Parrish Sisters. Name The name ''The Potter's Wheel'' was inspired by Caroline Risque's cover art for the inaugural edition in November 1904, which depicted a pair of Pottery, potters sitting opposite one another. Williamina Parrish, who acted as editor-in-chief of the magazine, preferred to call the group the "Self and Mutual Admiration Society". Members The members of the group were in their teens and early twenties. They included: * Grace Parrish (1882–1954) and Williamina Parrish (1880–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Potters (film)
''The Potters'' is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starred comedian W. C. Fields. It is based on a play by J. P. McEvoy which had a respectable run on Broadway in the 1923–24 season. Cast *W. C. Fields as Pa Potter *Mary Alden as Ma Potter *Ivy Harris as Mamie *Jack Egan as Bill *Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Red Miller * Joseph W. Smiley as Rankin *Bradley Barker Bradley Barker (January 18, 1883 – September 29, 1951) was an American actor and director of the silent film era. He also created sound effects for film and radio. Biography Born in Long Island, New York, Barker was a vaudeville perfor ... as Eagle References External links *Stillat silentfilmstillarchive.com 1927 films 1927 comedy films 1927 lost films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films American films based on plays Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potters, New Jersey
Potters was an unincorporated community and is now a neighborhood within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In the northern part of the township, Potters was once known as Potters Crossing, and may have been an African-American community as early as the 1800s. Centered around Inman Avenue and Grove Avenue, it is believed that seven upper-middle-class families moved to the village from Harlem in 1917. The community grew in the 1920s, with families from the South. By the 1940s, it had more than 1,500 residents and included three churches and a volunteer fire department. As early as 1955, Edison was pushing for a federal housing project to eliminate the slum areas of Potters. The community was dispersed during an urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s. It was largely and replaced by the James D. Elder Park and two low-income housing development projects: Greenwood Townhouses and Colonial Square Townhouses. The Mount Pleasant Baptist Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Liverpool High School
East Liverpool Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. It is the only secondary school in the East Liverpool City School District, serving the city and surrounding Glenmoor, La Croft and Liverpool Township. Athletic teams compete as the East Liverpool Potters in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the Buckeye 8 Athletic League as well as the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference. History The first consolidated high school in East Liverpool was located on East 4th Street in Downtown. This building included a clock tower. The school operated as the main building from 1894 to 1914, and then as a campus school for underclassmen until 1968. After its closure, the building was demolished. Today, a replica clock tower and a small adjoining building have since been built on this site. The building houses the East Liverpool High School Alumni Association. Built in 1914, the second high school building house upperclassm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is also called a ''pottery'' (plural ''potteries''). The definition of ''pottery'', used by the ASTM International, is "all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed, except technical, structural, and refractory products". End applications include tableware, ceramic art, decorative ware, toilet, sanitary ware, and in technology and industry such as Insulator (electricity), electrical insulators and laboratory ware. In art history and archaeology, especially of ancient and prehistoric periods, pottery often means only vessels, and sculpture, sculpted figurines of the same material are called terracottas. Pottery is one of the Timeline of historic inventions, oldest human inventions, originating before the Neolithic, Neolithic period, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Potter
''Miss Potter'' is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Chris Noonan. It is based on the life of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories, such as Peter Rabbit. Scripted by Richard Maltby Jr., the director of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revue, '' Fosse'', the film stars Renée Zellweger in the title role, Ewan McGregor as her publisher and fiancé, Norman Warne, and Lloyd Owen as solicitor William Heelis. Emily Watson stars as Warne's sister, Millie. Lucy Boynton also stars as the young Beatrix Potter and Justin McDonald appears as the young William Heelis. It was filmed in London ( St Peter's Square (Hammersmith), Cecil Court (Westminster), Osterley Park and Covent Garden), the Isle of Man, Scotland and the Lake District. ''Miss Potter'' received a limited release in the United States on 29 December 2006 so that the film could compete for the 2007 Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potter Valley, California
Potter Valley is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located north-northeast of Ukiah, at an elevation of at the headwaters of the East Fork Russian River. The CDP population was 665 at the 2020 census. History In 1852, when William and Thomas Potter and Mose Briggs first entered what would become known as Potter Valley, they were searching for the headwaters of the Russian River from their base in Sonoma County. The Pomo people called it ''Ba-lo Kai''. They found three Pomo villages (each about 500 people strong), the Russian headwaters, and a lush valley with wild oats "stirrup high". Eventually the Potters returned to settle there, and the valley became known by the American ranchers' name. The post office opened in 1870. Painter Grace Hudson was born in Potter Valley in 1865. In addition to his famous Ridgewood Ranch, Charles S. Howard, owner of the racehorse Seabiscuit, owned a ranch in Potter Valley where he ran cattle. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potter (name)
Potter is an English surname that originally referred to someone who made pottery. It is occasionally used as a given name. People with the name include: Surname * Albert Potter (1897–1942), English footballer * Alexandra Potter (born 1970), British author * Alfie Potter (born 1989), English football player * Alfred Potter (1827–1878), English clergyman and cricketer * Allen Potter (1818–1885), American politician * Alonzo Potter (1800–1865, Bishop of Pennsylvania * A. J. Potter "Archie" (1918–1980), Irish composer * Anice Potter Terhune (1873–1964), American author and composer * Arnold Potter (1804–1872), American self-declared Messiah *Art Potter (1909–1998), Canadian ice hockey administrator *Barbara Potter (born 1961), American tennis player * Barnaby Potter (1577–1642), Bishop of Carlisle *Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), British children's writer * Bert Potter (other), several people including: ** Bert Potter (composer) (1874–1930), American composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potter Box
The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions, developed by Ralph B. Potter, Jr., professor of social ethics emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinking should be a systematic process and how we come to decisions must be based in some reasoning. Steps The Potter Box is an ethical framework used to make decisions by utilizing four categories which Potter identifies as universal to all ethical dilemmas. Potter was a theologian when he developed this moral reasoning framework. The Potter Box uses four dimensions of moral analysis to help in situations where ethical dilemmas occur: Facts, Values, Principles, and Loyalties as described below. The Potter Box consists of a few simple steps, which can be completed in any order. You may also move between the steps several times before an adequate decision is made. The steps are numbered for simplicity's sake, and it may help you to organize th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moto G5
Moto G5 (stylized as moto g5) is a series of Android (operating system), Android smartphones developed by Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo. It is the fifth generation of the Moto G family. Announced as successors to the Moto G4, they were first released in March 2017 in several markets including India and Europe. The original variants are the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus, the latter also being available as an Amazon Prime version in the United States. The mid-cycle updates, the Moto G5s and Moto G5s Plus, were released in August 2017. Specifications The Moto G5's design was changed, featuring an aluminum casing and flush-mounted camera. The device is available in "lunar gray" and "fine gold" colors, and unlike previous generations is not customizable via MotoMaker. The G5 includes a 1080p display, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon system-on-chip, 2, 3 or 4 GB of RAM, and 16 or 32 GB of internal storage. A dedicated MicroSDXC memory slot is available, supporting up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
