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Swampy Marsh
Swampy means "of or resembling a swamp". Swampy may also refer to: People * Geoff Marsh (born 1958), Australian cricketer * Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (born 1960), American animator * John Barnett (whistleblower) (1961/62–2024), American engineer and whistleblower * Anthony Hamilton (snooker player) (born 1971), English snooker player * Swampy (environmentalist) (Daniel Hooper, born 1973), British environmental activist Other * Swampy Cree, native Americans (and their language) * Swampy, a character in the video game ''Where's My Water? ''Where's My Water?'' is a puzzle video game developed by American studio Creature Feep and published by Disney Mobile, a subsidiary of Disney Interactive Studios. Released for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows, Windows Phone, Mac OS X, BlackBe ...'' *"Swampy", jazz instrumental by Chico Hamilton from the album '' Chic Chic Chico'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swamp
A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment. Swamps vary in size and are located all around the world. The water of a swamp may be fresh water, brackish water, or seawater. Freshwater swamps form along large rivers or lakes where they are critically dependent upon rainwater and seasonal flooding to maintain natural water level fluctuations.Hughes, F.M.R. (ed.). 2003. The Flooded Forest: Guidance for policy makers and river managers in Europe on the restoration of floodplain forests. FLOBAR2, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 96 p. Saltwater swamps are found along tropical and subtropical coastlines. Some swamps have hammock (ecology), hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Marsh
Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958) is an Australian former cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test cricket, Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia national cricket team, Australia as an Batting order (cricket)#Opening batsmen or openers, opening batsman. Marsh was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup. As the coach of Australia he was in charge when Australia won the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England. He later coached Zimbabwe national cricket team, Zimbabwe (2001–2004) and Sri Lanka national cricket team, Sri Lanka (2011–12). Playing career Marsh was a steady, solid right-handed opening batsman and capable Fielding (cricket), fielder, making his first-class cricket, first-class debut for Western Warriors, Western Australia as a nineteen-year-old in the 1977–1978 Sheffield Shield season. In 1978 he played five games of Australian rules football for South Fremantle Football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
Jeffrey Kent "Swampy" Marsh (; born December 9, 1960) is an American animator, voice actor, writer, director, and producer. With Dan Povenmire, Marsh is the co-creator and co-star of the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'' and '' Milo Murphy's Law.'' Marsh was born in Santa Monica, California, where he grew up with a heavily blended family dynamic. Marsh is known for his contributions to the television animation industry, working for over six seasons on the animated television series ''The Simpsons''. Marsh continued to work on other animated television series, including ''King of the Hill'' and '' Rocko's Modern Life,'' before moving to England in 1996. While in England, Marsh worked on several animated programs, including '' Postman Pat'' and ''Bounty Hamster,'' and worked for BKN New Media Ltd. to produce several feature films. After six years living in England, Marsh was asked by his longtime partner Dan Povenmire to help produce ''Phineas and Ferb'', a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barnett (whistleblower)
John Mitchell Barnett (February 23, 1962 – March 9, 2024) was an American whistleblower who was known for his substantiated safety and quality reports to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about Boeing's production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Barnett worked in quality control at Boeing for 32 years, serving for seven as a manager at Boeing South Carolina. Barnett was one of several employees to go public about malpractices at Boeing beginning in 2019 with ''The New York Times'' and was featured in the 2022 Netflix documentary titled '' Downfall: The Case Against Boeing''. During his time in South Carolina, Barnett documented and reported several safety and quality issues to Boeing and the FAA. Boeing's own internal investigations corroborated his complaints about malfunctioning emergency oxygen systems and, in 2017, the FAA ordered remedial actions in regards to his complaints about non-conforming parts and metal shavings. Barnett subsequently filed a whistleblower c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hamilton (snooker Player)
Anthony Stephen Hamilton (born 29 June 1971) is an English retired professional snooker player. He turned professional in 1991 and spent fifteen seasons ranked within the top 32, including five within the top 16, reaching a career high of number 10 in the Snooker world rankings 1999/2000, 1999/2000 season. He reached three ranking finals during his career, losing 7–9 to Fergal O'Brien in the 1999 British Open (1998/1999), 1999 British Open final and 8–9 to Mark Williams (snooker player), Mark Williams in the 2002 China Open (snooker), 2002 China Open final before winning his only ranking title at the 2017 German Masters, beating Ali Carter 9–6 in the final. His best performances in Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown events were reaching four World Snooker Championship quarter-finals, in 2000 World Snooker Championship, 2000, 2002 World Snooker Championship, 2002, 2004 World Snooker Championship, 2004, and 2007 World Snooker Championship, 2007, and reaching one Masters (sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swampy (environmentalist)
Daniel Marc Hooper (born 1973), known by the nickname Swampy, is a British environmental activist. He was involved in a number of environmental protests in the 1990s, becoming nationally famous after spending a week in a tunnel aiming to stop the expansion of the A30 in Fairmile, Devon, in 1996. In 2020, he was arrested attempting to stop the destruction of Jones Hill Wood for High Speed 2 (HS2) and then joined a Stop HS2 protest at Euston Square Gardens in London. Activism Swampy became a nationally known figure in 1996 after spending a week in a complex series of tunnels dug in the path of a new extension to the A30 in Fairmile, Devon, resisting attempts at eviction by police. Specialists were called in to safely remove Swampy and other protesters locked deep inside the network of artificial tunnels. Several people took part in the protest, but Swampy was the last one to be evicted. The magistrate passing sentence on him was David Cameron's mother. The mainstream media bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swampy Cree
The Swampy Cree people, also known by their Exonym and endonym, autonyms ''Néhinaw'', ''Maskiki Wi Iniwak'', ''Mushkekowuk,'' ''Maškékowak, Maskegon'' or ''Maskekon'' (and therefore also ''Muskegon'' and ''Muskegoes'') or by exonyms including ''West Main Cree,'' ''Lowland Cree'', and ''Homeguard Cree'', are a division of the Cree Nation occupying lands located in northern Manitoba, along the Saskatchewan River in northeastern Saskatchewan, along the shores of Hudson Bay and adjoining interior lands south and west as well as territories along the shores of Hudson and James Bay in Ontario. They are geographically and to some extent culturally split into two main groupings, and therefore speak two dialects of the Swampy Cree language, which is an "n-dialect": * Western Swampy Cree called themselves: ''Mushkego'', ''Mushkegowuk'' (or ''Maškēkowak''), also called ''Lowland (Half-Homeguard) Cree'', speak the western dialect of the Swampy Cree language, while the ''s''/''š'' dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where's My Water?
''Where's My Water?'' is a puzzle video game developed by American studio Creature Feep and published by Disney Mobile, a subsidiary of Disney Interactive Studios. Released for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows, Windows Phone, Mac OS X, BlackBerry 10, Adobe Flash, NetCast, and Firefox OS operating systems, the game has its players route a supply of water to an alligator. ''Where's My Water?'' has been praised for its gameplay and its graphical style, with special recognition of its lead character, Swampy, the first original Disney character for its mobile game portfolio, voiced by actor, Justin T. Bowler. The game has inspired multiple spin-offs including: '' Where's My Perry?'', ''Where's My Mickey?'', ''Where's My Water? featuring XYY'' ''Where's My Valentine?'', ''Where's My Holiday?'', and ''Where's My Summer?''. This game was also released on Microsoft Windows in 2011. More mobile versions continued to be released through 2013. In September 2013, a sequel titled ''Where's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
