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Ringgold Band
Ringgold may refer to: Places United States * Ringgold, Georgia, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold County, Iowa, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Ringgold, Louisiana, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Maryland * Ringgold, Nebraska * Ringgold, Ohio * Ringgold Township, Pennsylvania, named after the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Ringgold, Pennsylvania * New Ringgold, Pennsylvania * Ringgold, Texas, named after the family of the founder's wife * Ringgold, Virginia * Ringgold, West Virginia * Ringold Formation, Washington state geologic formation Fiji * Ringgold Isles People * Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867), American naval officer, son of Samuel Ringgold, brother of the soldier Samuel Ringgold * Faith Ringgold (1930–2024), African-American artist * Samuel Ringgold (congressman) (1770–1829), Maryland congressman, soldier in the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812, father of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringgold, Georgia
Ringgold is a city in and the county seat of Catoosa County, Georgia, United States. Its population was 3,414 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Chattanooga metropolitan area. History Ringgold was founded in 1846 and incorporated as a city in 1847. It was named after Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican–American War. Ringgold is where ''The General'' locomotive stopped during the Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862. Ringgold is also home to the historic Ringgold Depot, which still contains bullet marks from the Civil War. The Battle of Ringgold Gap took place on November 27, 1863. Confederate Major General Patrick Cleburne with 4,100 men used the mountain pass known as the Ringgold Gap to stall the advance of Union Major General Joseph Hooker and his troops. Hooker's troops were over 12,000 strong. It was a Confederate victory because it allowed Confederate artillery and wagon trains to move safely through the Ringgold Gap unharmed whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringgold Isles
The Ringgold Isles are an archipelago in Fiji, forming an outlier group to Vanua Levu. The Budd, Nukusemanu, and Heemskercq Reefs form part of the group. The group is mostly uninhabited, but Qelelevu has a small village. In 2008 Pacific rats were eradicated from seven islands of the group in an endeavour facilitated by BirdLife International's Fiji Programme. A area covering the archipelago is the Ringgold Islands Important Bird Area. This area supports globally and regionally significant populations of marine turtles, humpback whales, seabirds and semi-nomadic reef fish, and may hold concentrations of cold-water corals. Cakau Matacucu Cobia Cobia is an island in Fiji, and is a member of the Ringgold Isles archipelago, which forms an outlier group to the northern island of Vanua Levu. It has a land area of . Lailai Maqewa Maqewa Island is narrow and rocky. It is located at and has a total land area of . Mota Levu Nanuku Levu Nukubalati and Nukubasaga N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Ringgold (DD-89)
USS ''Ringgold'' (DD-89) was a in the United States Navy during World War I and the interwar period. During World War II, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Navy as a named HMS ''Newark'', being scrapped after the end of the war in 1947. Construction and career United States Navy The first ship named in honor of Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, she was launched 14 April 1918 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, sponsored by Mrs. David W. Farquhar; and commissioned 14 November 1918 at Mare Island Navy Yard. ''Ringgold'' departed Mare Island Navy Yard 18 November 1918 to join the Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet. After transiting the Panama Canal, ''Ringgold'' called at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before arriving Hampton Roads, Virginia on 5 December 1918. She cruised along the U.S. east coast into 1922, operating generally out of Newport, Rhode Island, ''Ringgold'' put into Philadelphia Navy Yard 5 April 1922 where she was decommissioned 17 June 1922 and placed in reserve. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringgold Identifier
A Ringgold Identifier (Ringgold ID or RIN) is a persistent numeric unique identifier for organizations in the publishing industry supply chain. Ringgold's Identify Database includes over 500,000 Ringgold IDs representing organizations and consortia who acquire scholarly publications and content. The Ringgold ID was introduced in 2003. Ringgold developed it in response to an issue raised by Oxford University Press, namely how to identify institutional subscribers unambiguously. The system is owned and administered by Ringgold, Inc. and Ringgold, Ltd., who also publish a taxonomy for classifying the subject interests of the listed organizations. Ringgold is an International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) registration agency, and as such the US National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recommended that Ringgold IDs be used to identify organizations involved in scholarly communications. Ringgold Identifiers were used by ORCID, to record the institutional affiliation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringgold High School (Pennsylvania)
Ringgold High School, part of the Ringgold School District, is a public high school in Carroll Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is about thirty miles south of Pittsburgh. The Ringgold School District was formed as a result of the merger of the Donora and Monongahela School Districts. Athletics Ringgold High School has sixteen varsity sports teams and competes as The Ringgold Rams in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League. State Championship Titles Ringgold currently holds three state championship titles. The first PIAA Class 4A title was won by the 1994-5 Ringgold Boys Basketball team. The basketball team beat Williamsport in a 71-66 game. The second was won by the 2018 Ringgold Boys Baseball team. The 2018 Rams beat their opponent, Valley View, in a 6-4 win. Ringgold's third state championship title was claimed in Class AA girls diving by Anna Vogt in March 2019. Notable alumni * Fred Cox (1938-2019), former NFL kicker, (attended Monong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries—Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Early life Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan, the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. He was the youngest of nine children. Lardner's name came from a cousin of the same name. The cousin had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring, although he named one of his sons Ringgold Jr. In childhood he wore a brace for his deformed foot until he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ringgold
Thomas Ringgold IV (1715 – 1772) was an American lawyer, slave trader and merchant from Chestertown, Maryland. Along with his business partner Samuel Galloway III, the pair operated the largest slave trade operation in the Chesapeake Bay and would be responsible for importing one of the last shipments of slaves in the transatlantic slave trade to Maryland. Later in life, Ringgold became a revolutionary and served as a Maryland delegate to the Stamp Act Congress. Early life Ringgold was born on December 5, 1715 on Kent Island in Kent County, Maryland, where he was a fifth-generation Marylander. He would inherit considerable landholdings from his relatives, and as a young man became a wealthy planter and slave owner. On October 24, 1743 he married Anna Maria Earle Ringgold. The couple would have one child, Thomas Ringgold V. Law and business pursuits In the 1720s and 1730s, Ringgold's family moved to Chestertown, which had become Maryland's second largest port after Annapol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tench Ringgold
Tench Ringgold (March 3, 1777July 31, 1844) was a businessman and political appointee in Washington, D.C. He was U.S. marshal of the District of Columbia, appointed by President James Monroe (18171825) and serving in the position through 1830, during the first two years of the administration of Andrew Jackson. Ringgold also owned a leather factory and curing shop in Georgetown. He was appointed Treasurer of the Georgetown Savings Institution in what was then a separate jurisdiction later annexed by the District of Columbia. Biography Tench Ringgold was born in Washington County, Maryland, the son of Mary Galloway (daughter of Samuel Galloway III) and Thomas Ringgold V. The family's youngest son, he was born after the death of his father, a prominent merchant and slave trader based in Maryland's Eastern Shore. The Galloway and Ringgold families were prominent land owners and merchants who had resided in Maryland since the early seventeenth century. Tench enjoyed a comfortable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ringgold Ward
Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 – ) was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor, labor leader, and Congregational church minister. He was author of the influential book ''Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada and England'', written after his speeches throughout Britain in 1853. It enabled him to raise funds for the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, where many escaped slaves from the USA were arriving in the 1850s. Early life Samuel Ringgold Ward was born into slavery in 1817 on Maryland's eastern shore, the son of William Ward and Anne.Sernett, M. (2000, February). Ward, Samuel Ringgold (1817-1866), abolitionist and newspaper editor. ''American National Biography.'' Retrieved 16 Jan. 2025, from https://www-anb-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1500735. In 1820, Ward and his parents escaped to New Jersey and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ringgold (United States Army Officer)
Samuel B. Ringgold (1796 – May 11, 1846) was an artillery officer in the United States Army who was noted for several military innovations which caused him to be called the "Father of Modern Artillery." He was also, according to some records, the first U.S. officer to fall in the Mexican–American War, perishing from wounds received at the Battle of Palo Alto. Early life and career Ringgold was the son of Samuel Ringgold, a U.S. Congressman from Maryland. A younger brother, Cadwalader Ringgold, served in the navy, becoming a rear admiral. On July 24, 1818, Samuel Ringgold graduated 5th in a class of 23 from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Artillery. In the early 1820s, Ringgold was on the staff of General Winfield Scott. At about that time, (roughly 1825) John Vanderlyn, then working in New York City, painted Ringgold's portrait. Ringgold's significant military innovations included the Ringgold military saddle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ringgold (congressman)
Samuel Ringgold (January 15, 1770 – October 18, 1829), a Democratic-Republican, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1810 to 1821 with the exception of one two-year absence, was a brigadier general in the Maryland militia during the War of 1812 and father of two sons with distinguished military careers, Samuel Ringgold (US Army officer), Samuel and Cadwalader Ringgold, Cadwalader. Early life and career Samuel Ringgold was born in Chestertown, Maryland, the second son of Thomas Ringgold V, a merchant, revolutionary and Slave trade in the United States, slave trader and Mary Galloway Ringgold. Ringgold's father died young. After his father's death, Ringgold's mother relocated her children, Thomas Ringgold VI, Samuel, Benjamin, Tench Ringgold, Tench and Anna Maria to Washington County, Maryland, where her family owned considerable landholdings that would later become the Fountain Rock plantation. Plantation and political life In contrast to his forebears, who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, Sculpture, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and Intersectionality, intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her Narrative quilting, narrative quilts. Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York City, and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the City College of New York. She was an art teacher in the New York City public school system. As a multimedia artist, her works explored themes of family, race, class, and gender. Her series of story quilts, designed from the 1980s on, captured the experiences of Black Americans and became her signature art form. During her career, she promoted the work of Black artists and rallied against their marginalization by the art museums. She wrote and illustrated over a dozen children's books. Ringgold's art has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
