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Drifter (person)
A drifter is a vagrant who moves from place to place without a fixed home or employment. Drifter(s) or The Drifter(s) may also refer to: Films and television Films * ''The Drifter'' (1917 film), an American film directed by Fred Kelsey * ''The Drifters'' (film), a 1919 American film starring J. Warren Kerrigan * ''Drifters'' (1929 film), a British documentary by John Grierson * ''The Drifter'' (1929 film), an American film starring Tom Mix * ''The Drifter'' (1932 film), an American film directed by William A. O'Connor * ''The Drifter'' (1944 film), an American Western Billy the Kid film directed by Sam Newfield * ''The Drifter'' (1988 film), an American film starring Kim Delaney and Timothy Bottoms * ''Drifters'' (2003 film), a Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai * ''The Drifter'' (2010 film), a German film directed by Tatjana Turanskyj * ''Drifters'' (2011 film), an Italian drama starring Asia Argento * ''Drifters'' (2015 film), a Swedish film * ''Drifter'' (fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vagrancy
Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, waste picker, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, vagrancy was historically a crime punishable with forced labor, military service, imprisonment, or confinement to dedicated labor houses. Both ''vagrant'' and ''vagabond'' ultimately derive from the Latin word Wikt:vagari, ''vagari'', meaning "to wander". The term ''vagabond'' and its archaic equivalent ' come from Latin ''vagabundus'' ("strolling about"). In Middle English, ''vagabond'' originally denoted a person without a home or employment. Historical views Vagrants have been historically characterised as outsiders in settled, ordered communities: embodiments of Other (philosophy), otherness, objects of scorn or mistrust, or worthy recipients of help and charity. Some ancient sources show vagrants as passive objects of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifters (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It started serialization in Shōnen Gahosha's magazine '' Young King Ours'' in April 2009. The series focuses on various historical figures summoned to an unknown world where their skills and techniques are needed by magicians in order to save their world from total destruction. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation aired between October and December 2016; three additional original video animation (OVA) episodes were released from December 2017 to November 2018. Synopsis Shimazu Toyohisa, while involved at the Battle of Sekigahara, manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically injured in the process. As he walks from the field wounded and bleeding, Toyohisa finds himself transported to a corridor of doors, where a bespectacled man at a desk waits for him. This man, Murasaki, sends Toyohisa through the nearest door where he wakes up in another world. There, Toyohisa meets other great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifters (Swedish Band)
Drifters are a Sweden, Swedish dansband from Skövde that was formed in 1962 and has won many prizes. They are signed to the Lionheart International record label. Members In its long existence spanning several decades there were a number of key changes. ;Lead singers *1962–1989: Johnny Wendelnäs *1989–1989: Ann-Charlotte Berndtsson *1989–1996: Marie Arturén *1996–1999: Ann-Charlotte Andersson (married and changed surname to Strandell in 2003) *1999–: Erica Sjöström ;Bass *1968–2004: Leif Svensson *2004–2009: Kent Liljefjäll *2009– Henrik "Turbo" Wallrin ;Keyboards *1969–1980: Lennart Green *1983– Stellan Hedevik ;Drums *1983–2005: Robert Muhrer *2005–2011: Mattias Berghorn *2011– Tim Nilsson In popular culture They also sang the theme for TV series ''Möbelhandlarens'' entitled "När du var här" in 2006. Awards and nominations *In 2004, the band was voted at Svenska dansbandsveckan i Malung in 2004 as best dansband with 50% of the popular vote, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noisia
Noisia was a Dutch electronic music trio from Groningen, Netherlands. The trio was composed of Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen, and Thijs de Vlieger. Their music spanned several genres, including drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat, and house. They released music on labels such as Skrillex's Owsla, deadmau5's mau5trap, and Jay-Z's Roc Nation. Noisia collaborated with Foreign Beggars on the supergroup project ''I Am Legion'', releasing a self-titled album on 2 September 2013. They also worked under the pseudonym Nightwatch, contributing to projects with artists like Alexis Jordan, Hadouken!, Wiley, and Wretch 32. Their production work on Hadouken!'s album, '' For the Masses'', resulted in a number 19 placement on the UK Albums Chart. Noisia also created music for video games; including the soundtrack for '' DmC: Devil May Cry'', a '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Music Kit in 2014, and the original soundtrack for the game, ''Armajet''. Career 2003–06: Formation and reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Drifter
A naval drifter is a boat built along the lines of a commercial Drifter (fishing boat), fishing drifter but fitted out for naval purposes. The use of naval drifters is paralleled by the use of naval trawlers. Fishing trawlers were designed to tow heavy trawls, so they were easily adapted to tow minesweepers, with the crew and layout already suited to the task. Drifters were robust boats built, like trawlers, to work in most weather conditions, but designed to deploy and retrieve drift nets. They were generally smaller and slower than trawlers. If requisitioned by navies, they were typically armed with an anti-submarine gun and depth charges and used to maintain and patrol anti-submarine nets. __NOTOC__ World War I Like fishing trawlers, the Royal Navy requisitioned many fishing drifters for conversion to naval use during World War I. In addition, 362 naval drifters were ordered to British Admiralty, Admiralty specifications (and thus are often referred to as "Admiralty drifte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drifter (fishing Boat)
A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herring in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in the Netherlands and in many British fishing ports, particularly in East Scottish ports. Until the mid-1960s fishing fleets in the North Sea comprised drifters and trawlers, with the drifters primarily targeting herring while the trawlers caught cod, plaice, skate and haddock, etc. By the mid-1960s the catches were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Consequently, the drifter fleet disappeared and many of the trawlers were adapted to work as service ships for the newly created North Sea oil rigs. Some history of drifters is covered in Scottish east coast fishery. Drifters preserved as museum ships include ''Lydia Eva'', a steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and ''Reaper'', a restored Scottish Fifie herring drifter at the Scottish Fisheries Museum. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drifters (novel)
''The Drifters'' is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener, published in 1971 by Random House. The novel follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique. The story is told from the perspective of the narrator, George Fairbanks, who is an investment analyst for the fictional company World Mutual Bank in Switzerland. Mr. Fairbanks is connected with nearly every character in some way, and they all seem to open up to him throughout the novel in one way or another. Plot summary Chapter I: Joe In the first chapter, Joe is introduced as a disenfranchised twenty-year-old youth who is enrolled at the University of California during the Vietnam War. After Joe realizes that with his grades he is going to get drafted, he hitchhikes to Yale University, where he gets the name of a professor who may be able to get him across the border into Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hoffmann
Peggy Hoffmann is an American writer of over 70 romance novels since 1993 as Kate Hoffmann. She has written for both the Temptation and Blaze lines for Harlequin Books. In 1992 she won the Harlequin Temptation contest. She lives in southeastern Wisconsin. Biography Hoffmann majored in music in college, later she settled into a job teaching music to elementary school children. After she left teaching, she had jobs in fashion merchandising, advertising, public relations and marketing/communications on both the agency and corporate side. She began reading romantic novels in 1979, when she picked up a copy of ''Ashes in the Wind'' by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, after which she immediately read all by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, Laurie McBain, Valerie Sherwood, Johanna Lindsey Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, March 10, 1952 – October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. All of her books reached the ''New York Times'' bestseller list, man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Copeland
Lori Copeland (born June 12, 1941) is an American author of over 95 novels. Career Lori Copeland's first book was published in 1982. She wrote romance novels until 1995, when she began writing Christian fiction. She has co-authored Christian romance novels with Virginia Smith and Angela Elwell Hunt. Recognition received by Copeland includes the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Waldenbooks' Best Seller award. Copeland is a member of the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. Personal life Copeland and her husband, Lance, have been married more than 40 years. They live in Springfield, Missouri. They have three grown sons. Copeland and her husband are active supporters of mission work in Mali, West Africa. Bibliography Malone Family *''Darling Deceiver'' (1990) *''Built to Last'' (1992) *''A Taste of Temptation'' (1992) Harlequin Love and Laughter *''Dates and Other Nuts'' (1996) *''Fudgeballs and Other Sweets'' (1998) Brides of the West *''Faith'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William W
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wiggs
Susan Wiggs (born May 17, 1958) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. Early years Wiggs began writing as a child, finishing her first novel, ''A Book About Some Bad Kids'', when she was eight. She temporarily abandoned her dream of being a novelist after graduating from Harvard University, instead becoming a math teacher. She continued to read, especially reveling in romance novels. After running out of reading material one evening in 1983, she began writing again, using the working title ''A Book About Some Bad Adults.'' Career For three years Wiggs continued to write, and in 1987 Zebra Books published her first novel, a Western historical romance named ''Texas Wildflower''. Her subsequent historical and contemporary romances have been set in a wide range of settings and time periods. Many of her novels are set in areas where she's lived or visited. She gave up teaching in 1992 to write full-time, and has since completed an average of two bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Vicki Lewis Thompson (born 11 October 1950 in United States) is an American writer of over seventy romance novels. She has also been published under the pseudonyms Cory Kenyon and Corey Keaton with Mary Tate Engels. Biography Vicki Lewis was born on 11 October 1950 in the United States. She has both a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Arizona. She worked as a journalist and a high school English teacher before deciding that she would try to write romance novels. Her first book was published in 1984 as the ninth entry in the Harlequin Temptation line. The first of her "Nerd" Books, ''Nerd in Shining Armor'', was a 2003 Reading With Ripa selection. Lewis has two children. Awards *1985 - Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist, ''Promise Me Sunshine'' *1986 - Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist, ''When Angels Dance'' *1987 - Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist, ''Butterflies in the Sun'' *1990 - Romance Writers of America RITA Finalist, ''Be Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
