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Tricia Reschke
Tricia is a feminine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Patricia. It may refer to: People * Patricia Tricia Brock (born 1979), American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter * Tricia Brown (born 1979), Australian rugby union player * Patricia Tricia Cast (born 1966), American actress * Tricia Chuah (born 1982), Malaysian professional squash player * Tricia Cooke (born 1965), American editor, screenwriter and producer * Patricia Tricia Cotham (born 1978), American politician * Patricia Tricia Nixon Cox (born 1946), elder daughter of former US President Richard Nixon * Tricia Cullop (born 1971), American women's college basketball head coach * Tricia Dunn-Luoma (born 1974), American ice hockey player * Tricia Flores (born 1979) long and triple jumper and sprinter from Belize * Tricia Guild, British designer, entrepreneur and writer * Tricia Helfer (born 1976), Canadian actress and model * Tricia Hunter (born 1949), American politician * Tricia MacGregor (born 1970), Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. Origins and usage Etymologically, the term ''hypocorism'' is from Ancient Greek (), from (), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words () 'boy, youth' and () 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the Morphology (linguistics), morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipping (morphology), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Middleton
Tricia Middleton (born 1972) is an installation artist based in Montreal, Quebec. Middleton's artistic practice often involves the creation of elaborate, large-scale installations built out of a variety of materials including trash, wax, craft supplies, and other ephemera. She frequently re-purposes excess material from her studio practice in creating new installation and sculpture-based work. Her work has been collected by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Notable exhibitions In 2009, Middleton exhibited a large installation at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, titled ''Dark Souls''. Taking its title from a novel by Nikolai Gogol, ''Dark Souls'' was designed to resemble a decaying bourgeois parlour and involved five connecting rooms, each filled with garbage and refuse, towering sculptures, and two video projections. In 2012, Middleton created a site-specific installation at the Oakville Galleries at Gairloch Gardens. Titled ''Form is the Destroyer of Force, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Family Guy Characters
''Family Guy (franchise), Family Guy'' is an American animated comedy multimedia franchise originally conceived and created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company, primarily based on the animated series ''Family Guy'' (1999–present), its Spin-off (media), spin-off series ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013), and the film ''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story'' (2005), based on his 1995–1997 thesis films The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, ''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve''. Set in the fictional towns of Quahog (Family Guy), Quahog, Rhode Island, and The Cleveland Show, Stoolbend, Virginia, the show exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway (filmmaking), cutaway gags often lampooning Culture of the United States, American culture. The following is an abridged list of characters consisting of the starring families (Griffin family, Griffin; #The Brown/Tubbs family, Brown/Tubbs) and supporting characters from all three. Characters are only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trillian (character)
Tricia Marie McMillan, also known as Trillian Astra, is a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. She is most commonly referred to simply as "Trillian", a modification of her birth name, which she adopted because it sounded more "space-like". According to the movie version, her middle name is Marie. Physically, she is described as "a slim, darkish humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes," looking "vaguely Arabic." Biography Tricia McMillan is a mathematician and astrophysicist whom Arthur Dent attempted to talk to at a party in Islington. She and Arthur next meet six months later on the spaceship Heart of Gold, shortly after the Earth has been destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. The trilogy later reveals that Trillian eventually left the party with Zaphod Beeblebrox, who, according to the Quintessential Phase, is directly responsible for her n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Armstrong
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1994, by order of first appearance. Eric Firman Eric Firman, portrayed by Malcolm Terris, was the owner of ''Firman's Freezers'' who appeared on a recurring basis between 1994 and 1998. He first appeared as the best man at Reg Holdsworth's (Ken Morley) wedding to Maureen Naylor (Sherrie Hewson) in January 1994. This was mainly as part of a business launch and Eric was the guest of honour, although they knew each other through ''WARTS'', they barely knew each other. In 1995, Eric encouraged Reg, who was manager of the ''Weatherfield'' branch of ''Firman's'', to take on Curly Watts (Kevin Kennedy) as the assistant manager after working with him at ''Bettabuys''. Later that year, he employed his nephew, Leo Firman (John Elmes) as the store manager, but later sacked him after Curly reported him for sexually harassing Anne Malone (Eve Steele) and Raquel Wolstenhulme (Sarah La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Wright
Tricia Wright (born 1 September 1958) is an English former professional darts player from Mitcham in Surrey. Her nickname was The Wright Stuff. Career Wright competed in the first PDC Women's World Championship final in 2010, losing 6-5 to Stacy Bromberg despite having four darts to win it. She played at the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, losing all 3 of her group matches to Raymond van Barneveld, Darryl Fitton and Colin Lloyd. Since 2001 she has won over 50 amateur titles. Wright was due to be one of three ladies to play on the 2011 PDC ProTour, along with Bromberg and Anastasia Dobromyslova but after the PDC decided to drop the Women's World championship and thus its qualification to the Grand Slam of Darts she decided to go back to the BDO without playing a single PDC event. World Championship results PDC * 2010: Runner-up (lost to Stacy Bromberg 5–6) BDO * 2018: Last 16: lost to Lorraine Winstanley Lorraine Winstanley (née Farlam, born 28 October 1975) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Walsh-Smith
Tricia Walsh-Smith (born 24 March 1956) is an English playwright and actress. Her plays include ''Bonkers'', ''Addictions'', ''The Last Journey '' and musical ''Change The Day''. Early life Born in RAF Gütersloh, Germany, Walsh-Smith was part of a military family which travelled the world until her RAF father's death when she was twelve. She then settled briefly in her mother's hometown of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Walsh-Smith attended the Italia Conti Academy from the age of fifteen. Career Walsh-Smith appeared in over five hundred commercials on British and European television, including as a schoolgirl in the commercial for Hellmann's Mayonnaise. Her television and film roles include the British horror film, '' Terror'' (1978), ''Kenny Everett Video Show'', '' Constant Hot Water'', ''Dick Emery'' and the children's television drama, ''Grange Hill''. She has written the play ''Bonkers'' which premiered in London in 1987. In 2007, Walsh-Smith cancel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Walker
Patricia Margaret Walker (8 February 1964 – 8 January 2018), better known as Tricia Walker, was a contemporary British author, best known for her debut novel ''Benedict's Brother'', which was voted 'Book of the Year' by Publishing News and was the best-selling launch by an unknown debut author for Borders in 2007. The book follows the journey of a young woman, Benedict, who inherits money from her uncle, a deceased Japanese prisoner of war who was posted in Thailand. Like the protagonist in the book, Walker used the money she inherited from her own POW uncle, Ernest Taylor, to discover what happened to him and also visit her brother who is a Buddhist monk in Thailand. Walker was the daughter of author Peter Walker, who wrote more than 130 books (under six pseudonyms). Under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea he wrote the popular Constable series, which was the inspiration behind the successful British TV police drama, '' Heartbeat'', which was broadcast on ITV in 18 series from 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Sullivan
Tricia Sullivan (born July 7, 1968 in New Jersey, United States) is an American science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. In 1999 she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel ''Dreaming in Smoke''. Her novels ''Maul'', ''Lightborn'', and ''Occupy Me'' have also been shortlisted for the Clarke award, in 2004, 2011, and 2017 respectively. Sullivan has studied music and martial arts. Her partner is the martial artist Steve Morris, with whom she has three children. They live in Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M .... Bibliography Science fiction *''The Question Eaters'' (1995) (Short Story) *''Lethe'' (1995) *''Someone to Watch over Me'' (1997) *'' Dreaming in Smoke'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Stumpf
Tricia Stumpf (born 1970) is an American skeleton racer who competed in the early 2000s. She won two bronze medals in the women's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships, earning them in 2000 and 2001. Tricia was the Women's National Skeleton Champion in 2000 and 2001 on the Olympic track in Park City, Utah. In 2000, she also won gold in the North American Championships in Calgary, Canada. On the world stage Tricia earned two additional World Cup medals during the 2000–2001 season. She earned a bronze medal in Igls, Austria and a silver medal in La Plagne, France. In the off-season, Tricia won three consecutive summer Push Championships in 1999, 2000 (Lake Placid, New York) and 2001 (Calgary, Canada). An injury prevented Tricia from competing in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City, Utah. However, Tricia was selected to carry the Olympic flame in her home town of Park City, Utah, during the Olympic torch relay. The University of Utah alumni worked as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Springstubb
Tricia Springstubb (born September 15, 1950, New York City, U.S.) is an American writer of children's, middle grade, and young adult literature. She has also published work in literary magazines. Springstubb is also a critic who writes for ''The Plain Dealer''. Biography Tricia Springstubb was born on September 15, 1950 in New York City, U.S. She graduated from University at Albany, SUNY. Springstubb lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with her husband. She has three daughters. Bibliography * (1980). ''My Minnie is a Jewel''. United States: Carolrhoda Books. * (1981). ''The Blueberry Troll''. United States: Carolrhoda Books. * (1981). ''Give and Take''. United States: Little, Brown. * (1982). ''The Moon on a String: A Novel''. United States: Little, Brown. * (1982). ''The Magic Guinea Pig''. United States: W. Marrow. * (1984). ''Which Way to the Nearest Wilderness?''. United States: Little, Brown. * (1987). ''Eunice Gottlieb and the Unwhitewashed Truth ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Smith
Tricia Catherine Marjorie Smith (born April 14, 1957) is a Canadian lawyer and Olympic rower who was elected president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. She sits on the International Council of Arbitration for Sport. Biography Smith was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a B.A. in 1981 and from UBC law school in 1985. She practised law in Vancouver, B.C. She received an honorary doctorate of laws degree from UBC in 2001 for her career in sport and her work in international sport and the law. Smith won a silver medal in the coxless pair event with Betty Craig at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She also finished fifth in the same event at the 1976 Summer Olympics and seventh in coxed four at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Her participation in the Olympics grants her the OLY post-nominal letters. Smith won seven World Championship medals and a Commonwealth Games gold medal in her career on the Canadian team that spanned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
