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Elsey
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Elsey may refer to: Places Australia Northern Territory * Elsey, Northern Territory, a locality *Elsey National Park, a protected area *Elsey Station, a former pastoral lease *Electoral division of Elsey, a former electorate Germany * Elsey Abbey, a former women's religious house United States * Elsey, Missouri People *Bill Elsey (1921–2019), British racehorse trainer *Charles Elsey (1882–1966), British racehorse trainer *George Elsey (1918-2015), US Naval Commander during World War 2 *Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey (1834–1857), English-born naturalist, surgeon and explorer in Australia See also *Elseya ''Elseya'' is a genus of large side-necked turtles, commonly known as Australian snapping turtles, in the family Chelidae. Species in the genus ''Elseya'' are found in river systems in northern and northeastern Australia and throughout the river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elsey
George McKee Elsey (February 5, 1918 – December 30, 2015) was an American naval commander who was an advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. He also served as a speechwriter and political strategist for Truman during the 1948 United States presidential election, 1948 election. Life Elsey was born in Palo Alto, California and was raised in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. He studied history at Princeton University and Harvard University. A commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he was a duty officer in the White House Map Room, 1941–46, accompanying Truman to the Potsdam Conference; Assistant to Clark Clifford, the Special Counsel to the President, 1947–49; Administrative Assistant to the President, 1949–51; and Assistant to the Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-53. Having served as Vice-President of the organization between 1958 and 1961, Elsey became President of the American Red Cross in 1970, serving in that post until 1982. He died in Tustin, Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsey Station
Elsey Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Its traditional owners are the Mangarrayi people, whose rights were upheld by the Elsey Land Claim granted in 1997. The property is owned by the Mangarrayi Aboriginal Land Trust. The station is situated about east of Mataranka and north of Larrimah and the Roper River, and many of its tributary creeks run through the property. The land is about 10% flood plain, 15% black soil country, 60% red sandy country and 15% ridge country. It occupies an area of , of which is fenced. In 2001 Elsey had a herd of about 7,000 cattle grazing on its pastures. History The station is named after Elsey Creek that runs through the property. Elsey Creek was named after Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey, the surgeon who travelled with the Augustus Charles Gregory expedition from Victoria River to Queensland via the Roper River. The lease was taken up by Abraham Wallace in 1879, and he e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsey National Park
Elsey is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ..., extending from 2 km to 19 km east of Mataranka and 378 km southeast of Darwin. Features of the park include Mataranka Falls, and the Mataranka Thermal Pools The thermal springs are home to a well known colony of the little red fruit-bat, species '' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Elsey
Captain Charles Frederick Elsey (10 December 188214 February 1966) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. The son and father of successful trainers, Elsey was one of the dominant racing figures in the North of England, for more than thirty years in a career which lasted from 1911 until 1960. He trained the winners of six classics and numerous major handicaps and was the Champion Trainer in 1956. Background Charles Elsey was born in 1882 in Baumber, Lincolnshire, where his father, William Elsey ran a very successful racing stable. Elsey was a heavily built man, with brown eyes, dark eyebrows and an aquiline nose. He began training in 1911 at the Glasgow House Stable at Middleham, North Yorkshire, but abandoned his career in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War. He served in the Yorkshire Hussars and the Royal Berkshire Regiment, attaining the rank of Captain and being awarded the Military Cross. After the end of the war, he did not return immediately to racing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey
Joseph Ravenscroft Elsey (1834–1857) was an English born naturalist, surgeon and explorer. After achieving qualifications in Chemistry and at the Royal College of Surgeons, Elsey joined the North Australian Exploring Expedition, led by Augustus Gregory, that was under taken in 1856. His notes on three novel specimens of birds were published by John Gould, and commemorated in the naming of a plant species, '' Ripogonum elseyanum'', by Ferdinand von Mueller. The description by John Edward Gray of a new genus of turtles, ''Elseya ''Elseya'' is a genus of large side-necked turtles, commonly known as Australian snapping turtles, in the family Chelidae. Species in the genus ''Elseya'' are found in river systems in northern and northeastern Australia and throughout the river ...'', also honours Elsey's contributions as a field worker collecting records of Australian flora and fauna. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsey, Northern Territory
__NOTOC__ Elsey is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south-east of the territory capital of Darwin. The locality’s name derived from the Elsey Creek whose watercourse is located within the locality and which was named by the explorer, Augustus Charles Gregory. The name is ultimately derived from John Ravenscroft Elsey, a surgeon and naturalist, who was a member of Gregory’s expedition to Northern Australia during 1856. The locality of Elsey fully surrounds both the community of Jilkminggan and the locality of Mataranka. Its boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Elsey includes the following places listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register: * Elsey Memorial Cemetery * WWII Gorrie Airfield Precinct * Warloch Ponds Railway Bridge * Warloch Ponds Road Bridge The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Elsey had 39 people living within its boundaries. Elsey is located within the federal d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Elsey
Charles William Carlton Elsey (8 December 1921 – 2 January 2019) was a British horse trainer who trained horses competing in both Flat racing and National Hunt racing. Early life In a career lasting from 1961 to 1996 he trained 885 winners, and won two British Classic Races with Pia in the 1967 Epsom Oaks and Peleid in the 1973 St Leger Stakes The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over .... References 1921 births 2019 deaths British racehorse trainers People educated at Oundle School {{UK-horseracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Elsey
Elsey was an electoral division of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in Australia. One of the original divisions, it was first contested in 1974 and was abolished in 1987. It was named after Elsey National Park. It was largely replaced by the new and considerably smaller electorate of Katherine, as population growth in the town of Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Ch ... had resulted in the removal of much of the rural area of the electorate in the 1986 electoral redistribution. Members for Elsey Election results Elections in the 1970s * Preferences were not distributed. * The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown. * The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsey Abbey
Elsey Abbey, earlier Elsey Priory (), is a former women's religious house located near Elsey, now part of Hohenlimburg, Hagen, Germany. It was founded in about 1220 by Friedrich von Isenberg for Premonstratensian canonesses and endowed with the local parish church and other possessions. In the 15th century, it became a house of secular canonesses of the nobility (a ''Damenstift'') under an abbess. In the 16th century, during the Reformation, the parish became Protestant, and the abbey followed suit in due course. It was dissolved in 1810, during the secularisation In sociology, secularization () is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism or irreligion, nor are they automatica ... of the period. There remain the Romanesque church and some of the canonesses' houses. Prioresses *Walburgis – c 1270 *Gertrud von Grevel – c 1394) *Bele Kulin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsey, Missouri
Elsey is an unincorporated community in Stone County, Missouri, United States. It is located at the intersection of State Routes 173 and 413 and is halfway between Galena and Crane. The community is part of the Branson, Missouri Branson is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city is situated in Taney County, Missouri, Taney County, with a small portion in the west extending into Stone County, Missouri, Stone County. Branson is in the Ozarks, Ozark Mountain ... Micropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Elsey was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1957. "Elsey" was a name assigned by postal officials. References Unincorporated communities in Stone County, Missouri Branson, Missouri micropolitan area Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{StoneCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War 2
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes. The causes of World War II included unresolved tensions in the aftermath of World War I and the rise of fascism in Europe and militarism in Japan. Key events preceding the war included J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
