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Eleanor is a female given name. Eleanor, Elenore, Elinor, Elinore, Ellinore, Elynor or variations thereof may also refer to: Arts and entertainment *"Elenore", a 1968 song by The Turtles * "Elinor" (song) by Basshunter, 2013 *''Elinor'', a 1980 album by Zohar Argov, also the title track on the album * ''Eleanor'' (picture book), a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood by Barbara Cooney * ''Eleanor'' (novel), a novel by Mary Augusta Ward * Elanor, the name of a flower in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy work ''Lord of the Rings'' * Eleanor (automobile), a car in the film ''Gone in 60 Seconds'' and a different car in the 2000 remake Places in the United States *Eleanor, Iowa, an unincorporated community *Eleanor, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Ellinor, Kansas, an unincorporated community *Eleanor, West Virginia, a town *Lake Eleanor, a reservoir in Yosemite National Park, California *Mount Eleanor, a mountain in Alaska Ships *, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor
Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It was the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages">Provençal dialect">Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It was the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introduced to England by Eleanor of Aquitaine, who came to marry Henry II of England, King Henry II. It was also borne by Eleanor of Provence, who became queen consort of England as the wife of Henry III of England, King Henry III, and Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I. The name was popular in the Anglosphere during the first half of the 20th century, but declined in use until the late 20th century and first decades of the 21st century. It has been a well-used name in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand during the 2020s. Eleanor was the third mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Eleanor
Lake Eleanor is a reservoir located in the northwestern backcountry of Yosemite National Park at an altitude of . The reservoir has a capacity of and a surface area of 953 acres (3.9 km2). Geography The reservoir is situated in a glacier carved valley at an elevation of . Prior to flooding, a smaller lake of approximately and deep existed in the valley. The lake was fed by three streams, Kibbie Creek, Eleanor Creek, and Frog Creek. Before being clearcut, the valley floor was moderately to densely forested with a yellow pine forest consisting primarily of Jeffrey and ponderosa pines, with scatterings of incense cedar, white fir, and black oak. Manzanita and other shrub species made up the understory, and willow and other wetland species existed in the marshy areas around the lake and streams. History An archeological survey done of the valley in 1985 while the reservoir was drained for maintenance provided evidence of prehistoric occupation of the valley. Due to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Cockatoo
The Eleonora cockatoo, ''Cacatua galerita eleonora'', also known as medium sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a subspecies of the sulphur-crested cockatoo. It is native to the Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia, but has also been introduced to Kai Islands. Avicultural populations are well-established in Europe and the United States. The Eleonora cockatoo was named by Otto Finsch. He discovered the subspecies in Amsterdam's Artis zoo and named it after Maria Eleonora van der Schroef, the wife of the then director of the zoo. This subspecies was accepted by Gerlof Mees Gerlof Fokko Mees (16 June 1926 – 31 March 2013) was a Dutch ichthyologist, ornithologist and museum curator. During 1946 to 1949 he took part as a conscript in the military actions to reestablish rule in the Dutch East Indies. During that time ... in 1972 and Joseph Forshaw (1989) and recognised by Edward C. Dickinson and James Van Remsen Jr. (2013). Characteristics It is the smallest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eleanor (horse)
Eleanor (1798 – c. 1824) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse bred by Sir Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet, Charles Bunbury and was the first female horse to win Epsom Derby, The Derby. Eleanor also won the 1801 Epsom Oaks among many other races before retiring from racing at age eight to become a mare, broodmare for Bunbury. She produced the stallion Muley, which in turn sired the mare Marpessa (dam of Pocahontas (horse), Pocahontas and grandam of Stockwell (horse), Stockwell) and the influential stallion Leviathan (horse), Leviathan which was exported to the United States in the early nineteenth century. Through the produce of her daughter Active (the grandam of Woodburn), Eleanor is present in the pedigrees of 19th-century American Standardbred racehorses. Background Eleanor was foaled in 1798 at Barton Hall near Bury St. Edmunds, the ancestral home of her breeder Sir Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet, Charles Bunbury. She was a Bay (color), bay filly with a small white Horse ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Eleanor
The name Eleanor has been used for four tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...s worldwide. In the Eastern Pacific Ocean: * Tropical Storm Eleanor (1967) * Tropical Storm Eleanor (1971) * Tropical Storm Eleanor (1975) In the South-West Indian Ocean: * Tropical Storm Eleanor (2024), a severe tropical storm that affected Mauritius and Reunion The name Eleanor has also been used once in the UK and Ireland's windstorm naming system. * Storm Eleanor (2018) See also * Cyclone Elinor (1983), made landfall in Australia in March 1983 {{DEFAULTSORT:Eleanor Pacific hurricane set index articles South-West Indian Ocean cyclone set index articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a seminal American protest, political and Mercantilism, mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by Sons of Liberty activists in Boston in Province of Massachusetts Bay, colonial Massachusetts, one of the original Thirteen Colonies in British America, it escalated hostilities between Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain and Patriot (American Revolution), American Patriots, who opposed British colonial mercantile and governing practices. Less than two years later, on April 19, 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, also in Massachusetts, launched the eight-year American Revolutionary War between the British and the Thirteen Colonies, which ultimately prevailed, securing their independence and the establishment of the sovereign United States, United States of America. The target of the Boston Tea Party was the British implementation of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor (sloop)
The ''Eleanor'' is a historic gaff-rigged racing sloop built in 1903 at the B. F. Wood shipyard, City Island, Bronx and designed by Clinton H. Crane. She is homeported at the Catskill Marina, 10 Greene St., Catskill, New York. Her hull is in length and around at the waterline, her beam is , and her draft is . She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1982. Starting in 2010, ''Eleanors restoration was undertaken by the Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society. The restoration was completed in 2020. The Eleanor is owned, maintained, and sailed by the Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society. References {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Ships on the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PS Eleanor (1881)
PS ''Eleanor'' was a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1881 to 1902.Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962 History She was built by Cammell Laird for the London and North Western Railway in 1881. She was very similar in specification to the paddle steamer ''Isabella'' of 1877. She was put on the Holyhead - Greenore Greenore () is a village, townland and deep water port on Carlingford Lough in County Louth, Ireland. History A lighthouse was built on Greenore Point in 1830. Several decades later, the Dundalk and Greenore Railway Act 1863 authorised the ... route to replace her namesake ''Eleanor'' which had been wrecked earlier in the same year. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Eleanor 1881 ships Steamships Ships built on the River Mersey Ships of the London and North Western Railway Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PS Eleanor (1873)
PS ''Eleanor'' was a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1873 to 1881.Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962 History She was built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the London and North Western Railway in 1873. She may have been named after Eleanor Moon (1847–1859), the eldest daughter of the company's then chairman, Richard Moon, and was built specifically for the Greenore route that Moon had championed. She ran aground on 27 January 1881 at Leestone Point, Kilkeel, Ireland during a dense fog. The railway attempted to salvage her but severe gales in the following weeks completed her destruction. Within the year, the railway company had replaced her with a new paddle steamer of the same name, PS Eleanor (1881), ''Eleanor''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Eleanor 1873 ships Steamships Ships built on the River Tyne Ships of the London and North Western Railway Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom Maritime incidents in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Eleanor
Mount Eleanor is a mountain summit in the US state of Alaska. Description Mount Eleanor is located in the Chigmit Mountains of the Aleutian Range. The mountain is situated southwest of Anchorage, west of Homer, and six miles south of Lake Clark National Park. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains west to Iniskin Bay and east to Chinitna Bay, thence Cook Inlet. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises up from tidewater at Iniskin Bay in two miles. The mountain's name was published in 1905 by G. C. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey, and the toponym has been officially adopted by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The namesake is not recorded. Climate Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Eleanor is located in a subarctic climate zone, with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Winter temperatures can drop below 0 °F with wind chill factors below −10 °F. The months May through June offer the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor, West Virginia
Eleanor is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. Its population was 1,548 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. The town, named for Eleanor Roosevelt, was established as a New Deal project in the 1930s like other Franklin D. Roosevelt towns around the nation (e.g. Greenbelt, Greenhills, Greendale, Hanford, or Norris). History Eleanor was established in 1934, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor visited the county and developed it as a test site for families. As a "sundown town", like other Franklin Roosevelt towns around the nation (such as Greenbelt, Greenhills, Greendale, Hanford, or Norris), it was for whites only. It was one of three resettlement communities in West Virginia, the others being Arthurdale and Tygart Valley. When the town was developed, the houses were built to look very similar to one another and are now referred to as old Eleanor houses. There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
