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Van Tassel
Van Tassel or Van Tassell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *George Van Tassel (1910–1978) * Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton (1877–1943) * William Gilbert van Tassel Sutphen (1861–1945) * Park Van Tassel (1853–1930) *Marie Van Tassell (1871–1946) Legendary characters with the surname include: *Baltus Van Tassel, character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" *Katrina Van Tassel, romantic character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled '' The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' Irving wrote the story while living in Bi ..." See also * Van Tassell (other) {{surname Dutch-language surnames Surnames of Dutch origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Van Tassel
George Wellington Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 – February 9, 1978) was an American contactee, ufologist and author. Early life Van Tassel was born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1910, and grew up in a fairly prosperous middle-class family. He finished high school in the 10th grade and held a job at a small municipal airport near Cleveland; he also acquired a private pilot license. At age 20, he moved to California, where he worked as an automobile mechanic at a garage owned by an uncle. While pumping gas at the garage, Van Tassel met and befriended Frank Critzer, an eccentric loner who claimed to be working a mine somewhere near Giant Rock, a 7-story boulder near Landers, California in the Mojave Desert. Although Critzer was born in the US and an American citizen, others believed him to be a German immigrant, and during World War II, he was suspected of being a spy for Germany. In 1942, Critzer killed himself by detonating dynamite during a police siege at Giant Rock. After learning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton
Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton (1877–1943) was an American physician and writer. He was the author of ''Introduction to Objective Psychopathology'', one of the leading early manuals on psychopathology, and of ''A Research in Marriage'', a pioneering report on sexual activity that was one of the references used by Havelock Ellis in writing ''Psychology of Sex''. He was also a Socialist. Born in Frazeysburg, Ohio, in 1877, Hamilton was the son of an Ohio merchant. He received his university education at Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating with the AB in 1898. After completing his degree, he enrolled at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ..., where he studied the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. References Sources Gilbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gilbert Van Tassel Sutphen
William Gilbert van Tassel Sutphen (1861–1945) was an American playwright, librettist, novelist, and editor, an authority and author of publications on golf, and, eventually, an Episcopalian minister. Sutphen was born in Philadelphia on 11 May 1861. His parents were the Rev. Morris Crater Sutphen and Eleanor (Brush) Sutphen. He went to Princeton University and graduated in 1882. Sutphen wrote several novels, the most famous of which was ''The Doomsman'', a science fiction novel in the post-apocalyptic subgenre. The scholar Mike Davis has suggested that Sutphen "purloined" ideas and scenes for this book from an earlier post-apocalyptic novel, ''After London'', by the English writer Richard Jeffries. Sutphen was the first editor of ''Golf'' magazine, published by Harper Brothers. He also coined the term " the 19th hole". He gave the library at Princeton a collection of 75 books about golf. Sutphen worked for many years as a reader and editor, for the publishers Harper Brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Van Tassel
Park Albert Van Tassel (b.1853-d.1930) was a pioneering aerial exhibitionist in the United States. Van Tassel made the first balloon flights in New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado and helped invent and introduce methods of parachute jumping from balloons. His efforts helped introduce ballooning and parachuting internationally and also helped introduce women to these sports. New Mexico In May, 1882 Van Tassel expressed interest in making a balloon ascension at Albuquerque, New Mexico. After a full day of inflation with coal gas from the Albuquerque Gas Works, Van Tassel made the first human flight in New Mexico at 6:15pm on July 4, 1882. He launched from an area near Second Street between Railroad (Central) and Gold Avenues. Van Tassel rose slowly in his ''City of Albuquerque'' balloon to an apex of 11,000 feet despite it being only 2/3 full of lifting gas. His safe landing near the fairgrounds near Route 66 in New Mexico, Central Avenue and Rio Grande Blvd. was hailed as a complete succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Van Tassell
Marie Van Tassell (April 6, 1871 – January 22, 1946) was an American stage and silent film actress. Early life Marie Van Tassell was born on April 6, 1871, in Little Falls, New York. From an early age, she performed in the theater. Career In 1914, Van Tassell starred as Mrs. Collins in '' Fine Feathers'' with the All Star Players Company. She began acting in film in 1915. She first starred in ''The Rose Garden Husband'' for Universal Pictures. In 1918, she was loaned to Flying A. After acting, she worked for the Works Progress Administration and directed the KLX radio program ''Alameda City School of the Air''. She then helped train young people in acting. Personal life According to a 1914 piece in the ''Seattle Times'', Van Tassell married five times. She married Jack King, a circus performer. He predeceased her. Towards the end of her life, she lived with Marie King on 25th Avenue in Oakland. Van Tassell died on January 22, 1946, aged 72, at a hospital in Oakland. Filmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled '' The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. It has been adapted for the screen several times, including a 1922 silent film and in 1949, a Walt Disney animation as one of two segments in the package film '' The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad''. Plot The story is set in 1790 in the countryside near the former Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. It relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Tassell (other)
Van Tassell may refer to: *Marie Van Tassell *Van Tassell, Wyoming *A namesake of the Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart *Van Tassell family, 18th century owners of Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) *Baltus and Katrina Van Tassel, characters in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow See also *Van Tassel Van Tassel or Van Tassell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *George Van Tassel (1910–1978) * Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton (1877–1943) * William Gilbert van Tassel Sutphen (1861–1945) * Park Van Tassel (1853–1930) *Marie ... * Tassell (surname) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch-language Surnames
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
