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Rowayton, Connecticut
Rowayton is a coastal neighborhood in the city of Norwalk, Connecticut, roughly from New York City. The community is governed by the Sixth Taxing District of Norwalk and has a number of active local associations, including the Civic Association, the Historical Society, the Rowayton Library, a Gardeners Club, and a Parents Exchange. Rowayton annually plays host to a Shakespearean production at Pinkney Park, produced by Shakespeare on the Sound, and also has an active community of artists, many of whom are associated with the Rowayton Arts Center. The Rowayton (Metro-North station), Rowayton station on the New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad is located within the community, as is an elementary school, a public beach for residents and the Rowayton Public Library. Coastline The Rowayton coastline has been a source of inspiration for centuries. John Frederick Kensett, a famous 19th century landscape painter of the Hudson School, frequently painted this seascape in his later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbourhood
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but the following may serve as a starting point: "Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the Neighbourhood unit, spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." Preindustrial cities In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford, "Neighborhoods, in some annoying, inchoate fashion exist wherever human beings congregate, in permanent famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNIVAC
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. The BINAC, built by the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, was the first general-purpose computer for commercial use, but it was not a success. The last UNIVAC-badged computer was produced in 1986. History and structure J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering between 1943 and 1946. A 1946 patent rights dispute with the university led Eckert and Mauchly to depart the Moore School to form the Electronic Control Company, later renamed Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That company first built a computer called BINAC (BINary Automat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Rumor Of War (book)
''A Rumor of War'' is a 1977 memoir by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) in the early years of the Vietnam War. Summary In the foreword, Caputo makes clear that this is not a history book, nor is it a historical accusation; it is a story about war, based on his experience. The first section ''"The Splendid Little War"'', describes Lieutenant Philip Caputo's reasons for joining the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the training that followed and his arrival in Vietnam. Lt. Caputo was a member of the 9th Expeditionary Brigade of the USMC, the first American regular troops unit sent to take part in the Vietnam War. He arrived on March 8, 1965, and his early experiences reminded him of the colonial wars portrayed by Rudyard Kipling. The 9th Expeditionary Brigade was deployed to Da Nang (formerly Tourane) on a "merely defensive" condition, primarily to set a perimeter around an airstrip that ensured arrival and departure of military goods a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for '' A Rumor of War'' (1977), a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War. Caputo has written 18 books, including three memoirs, five books of general nonfiction, nine novels, and one book of short stories. His latest is the novel ''Memory and Desire'' which was published in 2023 by Arcade Publishing. Early life and career Philip Caputo was born in Westchester, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised in Berwyn and Westchester. He attended Fenwick High School and Loyola University Chicago, graduating with a B.A. in English in 1964. From 1965–1966 Caputo served in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) as an infantry lieutenant (platoon commander) in the United States Marine Corps. Caputo served in combat and earned several medals and awards upon completion of his tour of duty. After serving three years in the Corps, Caputo began a career in journalism, joining the staff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. Boyle is best known for her fiction, which often explored the intersections of personal and political themes. Her work contributed significantly to modernist literature, and she was an active participant in the expatriate literary scene in Paris during the 1920s. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. Early years The granddaughter of a publisher, Boyle was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in several cities but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio. She had one sibling, an elder sister, Joan (1900–1993), later Mrs. Detweiler. Their father, Howard Peterson Boyle, was a lawyer, and their mother was Katherine (Evans) Boyle, a literary and social activist who believed the wealthy had an obligation to help the financially less fortunate. In later years, Kay Boyle championed integration and civil rights. She advocated banning nuclear wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pike Bissell
Richard Pike Bissell (June 27, 1913 – May 4, 1977) was an American author of short stories and novels. His third book, and second novel, '' 7½ Cents'', was adapted into the Broadway musical ''The Pajama Game''. This won him (along with co-author George Abbott) the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience called ''Say, Darling'', which chronicled the ins and outs of a Broadway musical production and featured characters based on those (such as Harold Prince) he worked with; this book was ''also'' turned into a musical, also called '' Say, Darling'', in 1958. Early life Bissell was born, in Dubuque, Iowa, the second son of Frederick Ezekiel Bissell and Edith Mary Pike Bissell, in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1932, and graduated from Harvard College in 1936, with a B.A. in anthropology. Career After college, Bissell worked tor Polaroid, and worked in the Venezuelan oil fields, later signing on as a seaman on an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bergamini
David Howland Bergamini (11 October 1928, in Tokyo, Japan – 3 September 1983, in Stamford, CT, USA) was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics, though is best known for his controversial research on Japanese imperialism. Bergamini, born in Tokyo, Japan, was interned for four years as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines, along with his mother and father, John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa, and younger sister for the duration of World War II. Following the conclusion of the war, Bergamini attended Dartmouth College until 1949, winning the Peter Grimes prize. Bergamini spent the following two years in England, studying at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951, he joined ''Time'' as a reporter and assistant editor; in 1961, he began freelance work for ''Life'' magazine, during wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Beatty Jr
Jerome M. Beatty Jr. (December 9, 1916 – July 31, 2002) was a twentieth-century American author of children's literature. He was also an accomplished feature writer for magazines. Beatty served in the United States Army, achieving the rank of corporal, and is buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery. Popular books Arguably, Beatty's most popular works are the Matthew and Maria Looney books, a science fiction series for children. Matthew and Maria Looney are a brother and sister who live on the Moon, part of an alien civilization of people who, as it turns out, are a lot like us Earthlings. The series was first published in the early 1960s, at the dawn of the Space Age, and is clearly influenced by that era. Selected works Books * ''Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth'' (1961) * ''Matthew Looney's Invasion of the Earth'' (1965) * ''Matthew Looney in the Outback'' (1969) * ''Matthew Looney and the Space Pirates'' (1972) * ''Maria Looney on the Red Planet'' (1977) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. He received numerous honors including six Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1982,"George Abbott Biography" kennedy-center.org, accessed August 6, 2019"History, 1982" kennedy-center.org, accessed August 6, 2019Hall, Carla; McCombs, Phil [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Capital Management
Graham Capital Management (or simply Graham) is an American investment management firm headquartered in Rowayton, Connecticut. The firm has a focus on global macro and trend-following investing. It has additional offices in Florida and London. History GCM was founded in July 1994 by Kenneth Tropin. Prior to this, Tropin was president and CEO of John W. Henry & Company, a commodities trading firm established by John W. Henry. In 1993, after Tropin parted ways with Henry, Paul Tudor Jones, a friend of Tropin encouraged him to start his own hedge fund and provided initial capital as a strategic investor. The early strategies were Systematic trend following. In 1998, the firm began recruiting discretionary portfolio managers to diversify the firm's trading strategies. Then the firm launched Proprietary Matrix, a portfolio which provides broad exposure to Graham's quantitative finance and discretionary trading strategies. In November 2007, Graham enhanced its risk management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hewitt Associates
Hewitt may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom * Hewitt (hill), Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand feet with a relative height of at least 30 metres ;United States * Hewitt, Minnesota, a city * Hewitt, Texas, a city * Hewitt, Marathon County, Wisconsin, a town * Hewitt, Wood County, Wisconsin, a village * Hewitt Quadrangle, on the campus of Yale University Other uses * Hewitt (name) * , US Navy destroyer * SS ''Hewitt'', ship that went missing in 1921 * Hewitt Associates, global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm * G. W. & W. D. Hewitt, architectural firm See also * Hewett (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Low Heywood Thomas
King School, formerly King Low-Heywood Thomas, is a private coeducational day school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. King attracts students from 30 towns in the Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York areas. It operates as a 501c(3) non-profit institution and serves approximately 700 students. Campus The King School's thirty-six acre campus is located on Newfield Ave. in northern Stamford, approximately forty miles from Manhattan. The campus consists of two historic buildings that house the lower and upper schools, a new middle school, and a new performing arts center. The new middle school building and performing arts center were completed in 2013. In 2016, Campus sustainability efforts earned the school a nomination from the Connecticut State Department of Education to be considered one of the United States Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools. History King School has its origins in three dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
