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Selfridge Field, Michigan
Selfridge or ''variation'' may refer to: People * Andy Selfridge (born 1949), American former National Football League player * Harry Gordon Selfridge (1856–1947), American-born founder of Selfridges Department Store * John Selfridge (1927–2010), American mathematician * Oliver Selfridge (1926–2008), English computer scientist, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge * Peter A. Selfridge (born 1971), United States Chief of Protocol (2014–2017) * Rose Selfridge (1860–1918), American heiress and wife of Harry Selfridge * Thomas Oliver Selfridge (1804–1902), United States Navy admiral * Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Jr. (1836–1924), United States Navy admiral and son of Thomas O. Selfridge * Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), US Army lieutenant and the first person to die in a powered airplane crash Places * Selfridge, North Dakota, USA; a town ** Selfridge High School ** Selfridge Public School * Selfridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Selfridge
Andrew Paul Selfridge (January 12, 1949 – June 28, 2019) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, New York Giants, and the Miami Dolphins. He played college football at the University of Virginia and was drafted in the 13th round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers. After his football career, Selfridge worked in fundraising at the University of Virginia. He died on June 28, 2019, in Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ... at the age of 70. References 1949 births 2019 deaths American football linebackers Buffalo Bills players Miami Dolphins players New York Giants players Players of American football from Cleveland Virginia Cavaliers football players {{linebac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfridge Air National Guard Base
Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Selfridge Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917. Units and organizations The host organization is the 127th Wing (127 WG) of the Michigan Air National Guard, but a variety of Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Army Reserve, Army National Guard and active duty Coast Guard units use the facility as well. In 1971, Selfridge ANGB became the largest and most complex joint Reserves Forces base in the United States, a position it held until surpassed by NAS JRB Fort Worth (former Carswell AFB) in the late 1990s. "U.S. Army Garrison-Selfridge serves the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) supporting tank construction in the Detroit area." Civil Air Patrol civilian organizations at Selfridge are the 176th S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Selfridge
Miss Selfridge is a British fashion brand and former high street store chain which began as the young fashion section of Selfridges department store in London in 1966. It was part of the Arcadia Group, controlled by Sir Philip Green, which went into administration in late 2020. The Miss Selfridge brand was purchased by ASOS on 1 February 2021 and now operates exclusively online. History Miss Selfridge got its name when Charles Clore, the owner of Selfridges at the time, saw a window display in the Bonwit Teller store in New York City which showed "Miss Bonwit" dresses aimed specifically at teenagers. He later launched it throughout his Lewis's and Selfridges stores throughout the UK. By 1967 Miss Selfridge had concessions throughout the country within department stores, and by 1969 there were some independent branches on the high street. The first of Miss Selfridge's mannequins were based on 1960s icon and model Twiggy, and the first dresses were paper dresses designed to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium (ANTS) is a biennial academic conference, first held in Cornell in 1994, constituting an international forum for the presentation of new research in computational number theory. They are devoted to algorithmic aspects of number theory, including elementary number theory, algebraic number theory, analytic number theory, geometry of numbers, arithmetic geometry, finite fields, and cryptography. Selfridge Prize In honour of the many contributions of John Selfridge to mathematics, the Number Theory Foundation has established a prize to be awarded to those individuals who have authored the best paper accepted for presentation at ANTS. The prize, called the Selfridge Prize, is awarded every two years in an even numbered year. The prize winner(s) receive a cash award and a sculpture. The prize winners and their papers selected by the ANTS Program Committee are: * 2006 – ANTS VII – Werner Bley and Robert Boltje – ''Computation of locally f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfridges
Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high-end department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge in 1908. The historic Daniel Burnham-designed flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened on 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002) in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham (2003). In the 1940s, smaller provincial Selfridges stores were sold to the John Lewis Partnership, and in 1951, the original Oxford Street store was acquired by the Liverpool-based Lewis's chain of department stores. Lewis's and Selfridges were then taken over in 1965 by the Sears Group, owned by Charles Clore.subscription required Expanded under the Sears Group to include branches in Manchester and Birmingham, the chain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Selfridge (DD-357)
The second USS ''Selfridge'' (DD-357) was a in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge (1804–1902) and his son, Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. (1836–1924). ''Selfridge'' was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 18 December 1933, launched on 18 April 1936 and commissioned at Philadelphia on 25 November 1936. Shakedown ''Selfridge'' conducted her shakedown cruise in the Mediterranean in January and February 1937 and returned to the east coast, via the Caribbean, in March. From April into August, she underwent post-shakedown overhaul at, and conducted training exercises out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In September, Presidential escort duties took her to Poughkeepsie, New York; and, in October, she proceeded to Norfolk, Virginia, whence she got underway for the Panama Canal Zone and duty with the Battle Force in the Pacific. Diverted back to Norfolk for another Presidential escort mission in early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Selfridge (DD-320)
The first USS ''Selfridge'' (DD-320) was a ''Clemson''-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1921 to 1930. She was scrapped in 1931. History ''Selfridge'' was named for Thomas O. Selfridge. She was laid down on 28 April 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California; launched on 25 July 1919; sponsored by Mrs. Katharine Kellond, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Selfridge; and commissioned on 17 February 1921. ''Selfridge'' arrived at her home port, San Diego, California, on 16 March 1921 and remained there until June 1922, when she proceeded to the Puget Sound area for exercises with the fleet. She returned to San Diego on 12 September for further training. On 6 February 1923, she sailed with the Battle Fleet for the Panama Canal Zone and conducted exercises there from 26 February to 31 March before returning to San Diego on 11 April. She then underwent overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard from 30 May to 16 July and rejoined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Selfridge
USS ''Selfridge'' is the name of two ships in the United States Navy. * , a which served after World War I until 1930. * , a which served in World War II and was involved in the Attack on Pearl Harbor. {{DEFAULTSORT:Selfridge United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfridges, Oxford Street
Selfridges is a Grade II* listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London. It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909. Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with of selling space, the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK (after Harrods). It was named the world's best department store in 2010, and again in 2012. Background In 1906, Harry Gordon Selfridge travelled to England on holiday with his wife, Rose. Selfridge had made his fortune as a department store executive in Chicago. Unimpressed with the quality of existing British retailers, he noticed that the large stores in London had not adopted the latest selling ideas that were being used in the United States. Selfridge decided to invest £400,000 in building his own department store in what was then the unfashionable western end of Oxford Street, by slowly buying up a series of Georgian architecture buildings which were on the desired block defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfridges Building, Birmingham
The Selfridges Building is a landmark building in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store. The building was completed in 2003 at a cost of £60 million and designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. Since its construction, the building has become an iconic architectural landmark and seen as a major contribution to the regeneration of Birmingham. It is included as a desktop background as part of the Architecture theme in Windows 7. Architecture The architecture firm Future Systems were appointed by Selfridge's then chief executive, Vittorio Radice, to design only the third store outside London. Although Selfridges was physically integrated with the Bullring Shopping Centre the client wanted a distinct design approach which would set the store apart from the rest of the development and become an instantly recognisable signpost for the brand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battery Selfridge
Fort Kamehameha was a United States Army military base that was the site of several coastal artillery batteries to defend Pearl Harbor starting in 1907 in Honolulu, Hawaii. History The eastern areas of the fort were in the district called Moanalua. It was royal land won by conquest by Kamehameha I in the 1790s and eventually passed to Bernice Pauahi Bishop (named "Bishop's Point") and then inherited by Samuel Mills Damon in 1884. The western side known as Halawa, was the former beach-front estate of Queen Emma of Hawaii. The sandy dunes had been used as a burial site. It was used for the U.S. Army in 1901, and acquired by the U.S. federal government in 1907 by condemnation from Emma's estate. It was sometimes called "Queen Emma Military Reservation" or "Queen Emma Point". Secretary of War William Howard Taft under President Theodore Roosevelt headed a group to review coastal defenses, in light of "possessions" such as Hawaii and the Philippines, based on the findings of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfridge Public School
Selfridge Public School is a public elementary school and high school located in Selfridge, North Dakota. The athletic teams are known as the "Chieftains" and "Warriors". District Selfridge Public School District is a school district of the publicly funded school serving the town of Selfridge and the surrounding rural areas. District administration offices are in Selfridge. It has the largest land area of any other school district in Sioux County. Athletics *Basketball (boys and girls) *Football1 *Track and Field (boys and girls)1 *Volleyball1 *Wrestling1 *Cross Country1 *Golf1 1: This sport is joined with Standing Rock Community Grant High School Fort Yates Public School District #4 is a school district headquartered in Fort Yates, North Dakota. In addition to Fort Yates, the district serves Porcupine and a small section of Cannon Ball. The district has an agreement with the Standing R .... Classes Offered *Algebra *Algebra II *Geometry *Consumer Math *Life Science *E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
