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Alvin
Alvin may refer to: Places Canada *Alvin, British Columbia United States *Alvin, Colorado * Alvin, Georgia *Alvin, Illinois * Alvin, Michigan * Alvin, Texas * Alvin, Wisconsin, a town * Alvin (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community Other uses * Alvin (given name) * Alvin (crater), a crater on Mars * Alvin (digital cultural heritage platform), a Swedish platform for digitised cultural heritage * Alvin (horse), a Canadian Standardbred racehorse * 13677 Alvin, an asteroid * DSV ''Alvin'', a deep-submergence vehicle * Alvin, a fictional planet on ''ALF'' (TV series) * Alvin Seville, of the fictional animated characters Alvin and the Chipmunks * "Alvin", by James from the album ''Girl at the End of the World'' * Tropical Storm Alvin See also * Alvin Community College * Alvin High School * Aylwin (other) Patricio Aylwin (1918–2016) was a Chilean politician. Aylwin may also refer to: *Andrés Aylwin (1925–2018), Chilean politician * Guy Maxwell Aylwin (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin, Texas
Alvin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area and Brazoria County. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city population was 27,098. Alvin's claim to fame is Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who moved with his family to the city in 1947 as an infant and lived there until he moved to Round Rock in 2003. The Nolan Ryan Museum is in the Nolan Ryan Foundation and Exhibit Center on the campus of Alvin Community College. History The Alvin area was settled in the mid-19th century when bull ranches were established in the area. The Santa Fe Railroad eventually expanded into the area, and a settlement was established along the railroad. Alvin was originally named "Morgan" by the town's residents in honor of the settlement's original resident, Santa Fe employee Alvin Morgan; upon discovery that the name Morgan had been taken, the town named itself after Morgan's first name. The town was officially incorporated in 1893, making it the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin, British Columbia
Alvin is an unincorporated locality just north of the head of Pitt Lake in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Alvin was formerly located at the homestead and farm of Alvin Thomas Patterson (1865–1942), a logging contractor and farmer who settled there about 1901, originally from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. A post office operated at that location from 1915 to 1955. In 1959 a new post office opened at the confluence of Fish Hatchery Creek and the Pitt River upstream from the original site. It was operating as late as 1982 with the postal code V0M 1C0. Background The Alvin area has been the site of various logging-related industrial operations, which connected to the outside world via tug and barge traffic on Pitt Lake and the Pitt River. There is still a logging camp in the valley, operated by The Teal Jones Group, which has a sawmill in Surrey. There was once a fish hatchery in the area, as indicated by the name of the creek at the modern site of Alvin. Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin (horse)
Alvin is a champion trotting horse. He was foaled 1885, and died in 1927 at the age of 42. Bred in Ontario, Canada, Alvin took his lifetime record of 2:11 in 1893 at Buffalo, New York, becoming the fastest ever Canadian-bred trotter. At the end of his career, he was exported to Russia to become a sire. Alvin was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2000. References Alvin's page at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame See also *Harness racing Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, or spider, or chariot occupied by a driver. In Europe, and less frequently in Austral ... 1885 racehorse births 1927 racehorse deaths Canadian Standardbred racehorses Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees {{Racehorse-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Community College
Alvin Community College (ACC) is a public community college in Alvin, Texas. Alvin Community College provides educational opportunities in workforce training, academics, technical fields, adult basic education, and personal development. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of ACC is the following: *all territory within the Alvin, Danbury, and Pearland school districts, and *that portion of the Angleton Independent School District annexed by ACC prior to September 1, 1995. Areas within the ACC taxation zone include: Alvin, Hillcrest, Iowa Colony, Manvel, and portions of Pearland. Academics Alvin Community College offers degrees in Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Associate of Arts (AA), and Associate of Science (AS), as well as many certificate programs. ACC participates in the Texas Common Course Numbering System, or TCCNS, a voluntary cooperative effort by many Texas colleges and universities to create a standard set of course designation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Alvin
The name Alvin has been used for four tropical cyclones worldwide, three in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and once in the Southwest Indian Ocean. In the Eastern Pacific: * Tropical Storm Alvin (2007), weak tropical storm that did not affect land. * Tropical Storm Alvin (2013) The 2013 Pacific hurricane season was the first to see twenty named storms since 2009 but also had the ninth fewest ACE units on record, as many of the storms were weak and short-lived. The season officially began on May 15 in the Eastern Pac ..., early season tropical storm that stayed far from land. * Hurricane Alvin (2019), a category 1 hurricane that did not affect land. In the South-West Indian: * Intense Tropical Cyclone Bertie–Alvin (2005), existed in the Australian region as Severe Tropical Cyclone Bertie before moving into the South-West Indian Ocean basin and being renamed Alvin; did not affect land. {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvin Pacific hurricane set index articles South-West Indian Ocean cyclone s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl At The End Of The World
''Girl at the End of the World'' is the 14th studio album by British rock band James. It was released on 11 March 2016, through BMG. The band spent three weeks in the Scottish Highlands working on new material for their album. Re-enlisting producer Max Dingel, who produced their previous studio album, ''La Petite Mort'' (2014), James spent five months between May and September 2015 recording in separate blocks. Long-time collaborator Brian Eno, and former member Adrian Oxaal, contributed instrumentation to the sessions. The album reprised its predecessor's electronic-centred songs and dance rhythm sections. ''Girl at the End of the World'' received generally positive reviews from music critics, with some complimenting James' change in style. It peaked at number one in Scotland and number two in the UK, as well as charting in Belgium and Portugal. "Nothing But Love" was released as the lead single in March 2016, being followed by the second single "Attention" two months later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin And The Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply The Chipmunks, are an American animated virtual band and media franchise first created by Ross Bagdasarian for novelty records in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore who are originally managed by their human adoptive father, David "Dave" Seville. Bagdasarian provided the group's voices by producing sped-up recordings of his own, a technique pioneered on the successful " Witch Doctor". Later in 1958 Bagdasarian released the similarly-engineered " The Chipmunk Song" for which he came up with the chipmunk characters and their human father, attributing the track to them. ''David Seville and the Chipmunks'' released several more records over the following decade until Bagdasarian's death in 1972. The franchise was revived in 1979 with the characters' voices provided by his son Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and the latter's wife Janice Karm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALF (TV Series)
''ALF'' is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 22, 1986, to March 24, 1990. The title character is ALF (an acronym for "Alien Life Form" whose real name is Gordon Shumway) who crash-lands in the garage of the suburban middle-class Tanner family. The series stars Max Wright as father Willie Tanner, Anne Schedeen as mother Kate Tanner and Andrea Elson and Benji Gregory as their children, Lynn and Brian Tanner. ALF was performed by puppeteer Paul Fusco, who co-created the show with Tom Patchett. However, in the scenes in which the character appeared in full body, a small costumed actor was briefly used (then uncredited in that role), the Hungarian-born Michu Meszaros. Produced by Alien Productions, ''ALF'' ran for four seasons and produced 99 episodes, including three one-hour episodes ("Try to Remember", "ALF's Special Christmas" and "Tonight, Tonight") that were divided into two parts for syndication, totaling 102 episodes. The series proper c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSV Alvin
''Alvin'' (DSV-2) is a crewed deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The vehicle was built by General Mills' Electronics Group in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Named to honor the prime mover and creative inspiration for the vehicle, Allyn Vine, ''Alvin'' was commissioned on 5 June 1964. The submersible is launched from the deep submergence support vessel , which is also owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by WHOI. The submersible has made more than 5,000 dives, carrying two scientists and a pilot, to observe the lifeforms that must cope with super-pressures and move about in total darkness, as well as exploring the wreck of ''Titanic''. Research conducted by ''Alvin'' has been featured in nearly 2,000 scientific papers. Design ''Alvin'' was designed as a replacement for bathyscaphes and other less maneuverable oceanographic vehicles. Its more nimble design was made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin (digital Cultural Heritage Platform)
Alvin is a national technical platform for the dissemination and long term preservation of digitised cultural heritage and digital collections in Sweden. The platform contains material from several Swedish cultural heritage organisations, and is operated and developed at Uppsala University Library in collaboration with Gothenburg University Library and Lund University Library through the Alvin consortium. History Alvin as a system originated from several different projects that Uppsala University Library ran or participated in during a period between 2000-2014: * Creating a database to handle Erik Waller's extensive autograph collection * The management of the university library's digitized map and image collections through the image database Bildsök (sv. "Image Search") * The provenance Provenance (from the French ''provenir'', 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin, Colorado
Alvin is a populated place in Yuma County, Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ..., United States. Geography Alvin is located at (40.3077702,-102.0757432). References Populated places in Yuma County, Colorado {{Colorado-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
