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Pym (other)
Pym or PYM may refer to: * Pym (novel), ''Pym'' (novel), a novel by Mat Johnson * Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, an organizing body for Quaker Meetings on the U.S. east coast * Pacific Yearly Meeting, an organizing body for unprogrammed Quaker Meetings in parts of Mexico and the western USA * Palestinian Youth Movement, an international Palestinian leftist organization * Plymouth Municipal Airport (Massachusetts) People * Anthony Pym, a translation studies scholar * Arthur Gordon Pym, protagonist of Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'' * Barbara Pym, a British novelist * Francis Pym, Baron Pym, UK politician * Hank Pym (aka Ant Man, Giant Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket and the Wasp), a fictional superhero in the Marvel Universe * John Pym, 17th century English parliamentarian * Magnus Pym, a character in the Le Carre novel ''A Perfect Spy'' * Morgan Pym, a character in ''The Collector'' See also * Pim (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pym (novel)
''Pym'' is the third novel by American author Mat Johnson, published on March 1, 2011. A satire, satirical fantasy inspired by ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'', Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, the book explores racial politics and identity in America, and Antarctica. The novel was written over a period of nine years and has been well received by critics, who have praised its lighthearted and humorous style of social criticism. Development history ''Pym'' takes its title from Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'', "a strange tale of shipwrecks, mutiny and a mysterious island inhabited by black-skinned people whose teeth are even black, and it ends abruptly at the South Pole with Pym facing haunting white figures". Poe's only novel, it is the favorite book of Johnson's protagonist, Chris Jaynes, an African-American professor of literature,Jonathan Messinger (March 1, 2011)"Pym by Mat Johnson. Edgar Allan Poe gets dragged down to Anta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or simply the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, or PYM, is the central organizing body for Quaker meetings in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States area, including parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. The PYM is primarily affiliated with the Friends General Conference and is a member of the National Council of Churches. History Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is one of the oldest Yearly Meetings in the Religious Society of Friends. It traces its origins to 1682 when a monthly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia was established at the now-demolished Bank Street Meeting House. By 1707, it had published its own "book of discipline", the standards and practices by which Friends worship, conduct business, and relate to one another and to the world. In 1827, it divided into two meetings in the Hicksite/Orthodox schism, each claiming the title of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. During this period, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Yearly Meeting
Pacific Yearly Meeting is an FGC-affiliated yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers. It gathered for the first time in Palo Alto, California Palo Alto ( ; Spanish language, Spanish for ) is a charter city in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. Th ..., during the summer of 1947 with twelve member Monthly Meetings. Geographically the original area served by Pacific Yearly Meeting included British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Hawaii, Guatemala and Mexico, with connections to Friends in Korea, Japan and China (Shanghai and Hong Kong). In 1973 British Columbia withdrew from PYM to align with Canadian Yearly Meeting. Two new Yearly Meetings were created out of sections of the original PYM: North Pacific Yearly Meeting in 1973 and Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 1975. It now consists of 55-56 unprogramme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Youth Movement
The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM; ) is a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist, socialist, and anti-imperialist organization with chapters across North America and Europe. The group has participated in political actions and protests alongside organizations such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a communist party in the United States, and the ANSWER Coalition. It is mainly composed of Palestinian and Arab youth. PYM has participated in the ongoing Gaza war protests in the United States, including the 2024 Columbia University occupation and the July 2024 protest in Washington D.C. alongside various other groups, and has taken an approach compared to that of New York City anti-Zionist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL), in refusing to work within the Democratic Party. In 2024, PYM along with translator Muhammad Tutunji created the first English translation of Wisam Rafeedie's''The Trinity of Fundamentals'', a novel about a member of the Palestinian resistance. Rafeedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plymouth Municipal Airport (Massachusetts)
Plymouth Municipal Airport is a town-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Plymouth, a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is categorized as a general aviation airport. for 2009–2013 Appendix A: Part 3 (PDF, 1.28 MB) . Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008. Due to space issues, the airport has two gates in |
Anthony Pym
Anthony David Pym (born 1956 in Perth, Australia) is a scholar best known for his work in translation studies. Pym is Distinguished Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced StudiesThree URV lecturers recognized by the ICREA Academia program for outstanding careers in research/ref> from 2010 to 2015, Visiting Researcher at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey from 2008 to 2016, Walter Benjamin Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna in 2015, and President of the European Society for Translation Studies from 2010 to 2016. Biography Pym attended Wesley College (Perth, Australia) and the University of Western Australia, completing his BA (Hons) at Murdoch University in 1981. He held a Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket
''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'', written and published in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The novel is set between 1827 and 1828 and relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the ''Grampus''. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and Human cannibalism, cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the ''Jane Guy''. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile, black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify. Poe, who intended to present a realistic story, was inspired by several real-life accounts of sea voyages, and drew heavily from J. N. Reyno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Pym
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are '' Excellent Women'' (1952) and '' A Glass of Blessings'' (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel '' Quartet in Autumn'' (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Biography Early life Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was born on 2 June 1913 at 72 Willow Street in Oswestry, Shropshire, the elder daughter of Irena Spenser, ''née'' Thomas (1886–1945) and Frederic Crampton Pym (1879–1966), a solicitor. She was educated at Queen's Park School, a girls' school in Oswestry. From the age of 12, she attended Huyton College, near Liverpool. Pym's parents were active in the local Oswestry operatic society, and she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Pym, Baron Pym
Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in various Cabinet positions in the 1970s and 1980s, including Foreign, Defence and Northern Ireland Secretary, and Leader of the House of Commons. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire (South East Cambridgeshire after 1983) from 1961 to 1987. Pym was made a life peer in 1987. Early life Pym was born at Penpergwm Lodge, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire. His father, Leslie Pym, was also an MP, while his grandfather, the Rt Revd Walter Pym, was Bishop of Bombay. He was not a direct descendant of the 17th-century parliamentarian John Pym as has been commonly held (see Pym's own published family history), but a collateral descendant. He was educated at Eton, before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge. For much of the Second World War, Pym served in North Africa and Italy as a captain and regimental adjutant in the 9th Lancers. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Pym
Dr. Henry Jonathan Pym is a character (arts), character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by penciller Jack Kirby, editor-plotter Stan Lee and writer Larry Lieber, Pym debuted in ''Tales to Astonish'' #27 (January 1962). He returned several issues later as the original iteration of Ant-Man, a superhero with the power to shrink to the size of an ant. He later assumed other superhero identities, including the size-changing Giant-Man and Goliath (Marvel Comics), Goliath; the insect-themed Yellowjacket (Marvel Comics), Yellowjacket; and briefly, the Wasp (character), Wasp. He is a founding member of the Avengers (comics), Avengers superhero team, and the creator of the robotic villain Ultron. He is also the ex-husband of Janet van Dyne, the first Wasp, and the father of Nadia van Dyne, his daughter by his first wife, Maria Pym. Since his earliest appearances in the Silver Age of Comic Books, Pym has been featured in various Marvel-endorsed product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pym
John Pym (20 May 1584 – 8 December 1643) was an English politician and administrator who played a major role in establishing what would become the modern Westminster system, English Parliamentary system. One of the Five Members whose attempted arrest in January 1642 was a major step in sparking the First English Civil War, his use of procedure to outmanoeuvre opponents was unusual for the period. Though this meant he was respected by contemporaries rather than admired, in 1895 historian Goldwin Smith described him as "the greatest member of Parliament that ever lived". Pym's father died when he was seven months old, and he was raised by his stepfather Sir Anthony Rous (1555-1620), Anthony Rous, from whom he inherited his Puritan views and deep opposition to the Arminianism in the Church of England, reforms of Archbishop William Laud. He was also a leading member of the Providence Island Company, which attempted to establish a Puritan colony in Central America. Described as 'a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Perfect Spy
''A Perfect Spy'' (1986) is a novel by British author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer. Major aspects of the novel are lifted from the life of the author, including the relationship between the protagonist, Magnus Pym, and his father Rick Pym. Plot overview ''A Perfect Spy'' is the life story of Magnus Pym, a British intelligence officer and double agent. The book opens in Vienna where Magnus is ostensibly a diplomat and also a spy, living with his wife Mary who assists with diplomatic matters and their son Tom. After returning to England to attend his father's funeral, Pym mysteriously disappears. As his fellow intelligence officers frantically search for him it becomes clear that, throughout most of his career, Magnus worked as a spy for the Czechoslovak secret service. Although intrigue, wit, and suspense make up much of the novel, the story of Magnus Pym is partly an unadorned recollection of his childhood and memori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
