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Avery (given Name)
Avery is traditionally a male given name which was originally an Old English surname that was itself derived from an Old French pronunciation of the name Alfred or the Ancient Germanic name Alberich. The name is derived from the Old English words ''aelf'', meaning ''elf'', and ''ric'', meaning ''power/mighty/king/ruler'' and dates back to the 16th century. Regional variations Europe Avery is originally a boys' name in England, France and Germany and dates back to the 16th century when it was modified from Alfred. The feminine form is rare in European countries but where found is usually used with the feminine alternative spelling Averie/Averi. America In 1989 Americans started using the name for girls and it is sometimes used with the feminine alternative spelling Averie/Averi. The name is now more popular for girls in the US and Canada. Notable men with the given name * Avery Caesar Alexander (1910–1999), American civil rights leader and Louisiana politician * Avery A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old French Language
Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse, spoken in the northern half of France. These dialects came to be collectively known as the , contrasting with the in the south of France. The mid-14th century witnessed the emergence of Middle French, the language of the French Renaissance in the Île de France region; this dialect was a predecessor to Modern French. Other dialects of Old French evolved themselves into modern forms (Poitevin-Saintongeais, Gallo, Norman, Picard, Walloon, etc.), each with its own linguistic features and history. The region where Old French was spoken natively roughly extended to the northern half of the Kingdom of France and its vassals (including parts of the Angevin Empire, which during the 12th century remained under Anglo-Norman rule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Cardoza
Avery Cardoza is an American author, professional gambler, and publisher. Cardoza is the owner of the Las Vegas-based Gambler's Book Shop / GBC Press Gambler's Book Club / GBC Press is a bookstore & small press dedicated to gambling. Now located at 5473 S Eastern Ave in Paradise, Nevada, it was originally located in the Huntridge area of Las Vegas. The company has operated for over 40 years. .... References 1957 births Living people American poker players American gambling writers American male non-fiction writers Vassar College alumni American publishers (people) {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Avery Allen Horsley
Alan Avery Allen Horsley is a retired Anglican priest and author in the 20th century. He was born on 13 May 1936, educated at St Chad's College, Durham and Queen's College, Edgbaston and ordained in 1961. His first posts were curacies in Daventry, Reading and Wokingham. He then held incumbencies at Yeadon, Heyford and Stowe, Oakham and Lanteglos-by-Fowey. He was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 1988 to 1991"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark and finally Rural Dean of Rickmansworth Rickmansworth () is a town in southwest Hertfordshire, England, about northwest of central London and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway. The town is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) and t ... until his retirement in 2001. Notes 1936 births Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Alumni of the Queen's Foundation Provosts of Inverness Cathedral Living people { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Avery Hornsby
Captain Richard Avery Hornsby (died 1818) was an 18th-century British military figure, famous for successfully taking on a boat full of French pirates in 1744. Biography Hornsby lived on Vine Street in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, at the time of the War of the Austrian Succession. He was set to take his brig, the ''Wrightson and Isabella'', to The Hague. The ship was designed for a routine voyage, boasting only a crew of seven, with four small guns, two swivel cannons, and a few blunderbusses. The ''Marquis of Brancas'', with a crew of 75 French pirates, as well as ten guns, eight swivel cannons, and 300 small arms, spotted the ''Wrightson and Isabella'' off of the Dutch coast, and engaged the ship in combat on 13 June 1744. The two ships battled for an hour, including two failed attempts by the French to board the ''Isabella''. When a shot from the British side caused the ''Brancas'' to sheer off, Hornsby put the Union Jack back up and led his crew in giving the pirates three ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Hopwood
James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Early life Hopwood was born to James and Jule Pendergast Hopwood on May 28, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Cleveland's West High School in 1900. In 1901, he began attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. However, his family experienced financial difficulties, so for his second year he transferred to Adelbert College. He returned to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1903, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1905. Career Hopwood started out as a journalist for the ''Cleveland Leader'' as its New York correspondent, but within a year had his first play, ''Clothes'' (1906), produced on Broadway, with the aid of playwright Channing Pollock. Hopwood eventually became known as "The Playboy Playwright"Jim BeaveBiography for Avery Hopwoodat Internet Movie Database and specialized in comedies and far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Gilbert
Avery Gilbert is a self-described "smell scientist" and "sensory psychologist". Early life and education Gilbert received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of Norman Adler. Career He is most known for his book ''What the Nose Knows: The Science of Smell in Everyday Life'' published by Crown Publishing Group. The book was a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology, while also shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books". In an interview with online fragrance magazine ''Sniffapalooza'', Gilbert states that he was inspired to write ''What the Nose Knows'' when his science colleagues expressed enthusiasm for his tough review of Chandler Burr's ''The Emperor of Scent'' published in ''Nature Neuroscience'' in April 2003. Gilbert wrote that Burr's biography of geneticist and ''Perfumes: The Guide'' author Luca Turin was "giddy and overwrought ... a triumphalist account of an unproven alte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Garrett
Avery Garrett (August 3, 1916 – April 15, 1988) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served as Mayor of Renton from 1969 to 1976. He also served in the Washington House of Representatives The Washington House of Representatives is the lower house of the Washington State Legislature, and along with the Washington State Senate makes up the legislature of the U.S. state of Washington. It is composed of 98 Representatives from 49 ... from 1959 to 1969 for district 47 and from 1977 to 1985 for district 11, and in the Senate from 1985 to 1988. References 1916 births 1988 deaths Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives 20th-century American legislators {{Washington-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Fisher
Avery Robert Fisher (March 4, 1906 – February 26, 1994) was an amateur violinist, a pioneer in the field of high fidelity sound reproduction, founder of the Philharmonic Radio Company and Fisher Electronics, and a philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to arts organizations and universities. Early life and career Born in Brooklyn, New York, Avery Fisher was the youngest of Charles (Anschel) (1868-1946) and Mary (Miriam) (née Byrach) (1869-1945) Fisher's six children. He came from a Jewish family. His parents had emigrated in 1903 (three years before his birth) from Kiev, then a part of Russia. Fisher said he became fascinated with music through his father's large collection of early phonograph cylinder recordings and that everyone in the family had to learn to play a musical instrument. “I was born into a musical family. Every one of my parents’ children was given an opportunity to learn an instrument. Papa would go down the line: violin, piano, violin, piano, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery E
Avery may refer to: Business * Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles * Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems * Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail weighing systems ** GEC Avery, a former British manufacturer of weighing machines (successor to W & T Avery) ** W & T Avery, a former British manufacturer of weighing machines * Avery Brewing Company, a regional brewery located in Boulder, Colorado * Avery Dennison, a major manufacturer of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays, and specialty medical products * Avery Publishing, an imprint of the Penguin Group People * Avery (given name), including fictional characters * Avery (surname) Places United States * Avery, California * Avery, Idaho * Avery, Indiana * Avery, Iowa * Avery, Michigan * Avery, Missouri * Avery, Crawford County, Missouri * Avery, Nebraska * Avery, Ohio * Avery, Okl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Dulles
Avery Robert Dulles (; 1918–2008) was an American Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974, of the Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988, and as the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008. He was also an internationally known author and lecturer. Early life Dulles was born in Auburn, New York, on August 24, 1918, the son of John Foster Dulles, the future US Secretary of State (for whom Washington Dulles International Airport is named), and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. His uncle was Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles. Both his great-grandfather John W. Foster and great-uncle Robert Lansing also served as secretary of state. His paternal grandfather, Allen Macy Dulles, was a member of the faculty of the Presbyterian Auburn Theological Seminary and published in the field of ecclesiology, to which his grandso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Craven
Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 – January 21, 1980) was an American historian who wrote extensively about the nineteenth-century United States, the American Civil War and Congressional Reconstruction from a then-revisionist viewpoint sympathetic to the Lost Cause as well as democratic failings during his own lifetime. Early life and education Craven was born near Ackworth, Iowa. His parents were Quakers who left North Carolina because of slavery and racism. Craven graduated from Simpson College (affiliated with the Methodist Church) in Indianola, Iowa, in 1908, and at his death he left his library and papers to that institution. After briefly teaching at Simpson College and North High School in Des Moines, Iowa, Craven moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was influenced by Frederick Jackson Turner and earned an M.A. from Harvard in 1914. Craven then married and taught at North Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, until 1920, when he moved to Chicago to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisha Avery Crary
Elisha Avery Crary (June 24, 1905 – April 28, 1978) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Education and career Born in Grundy Center, Iowa, Crary attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but did not graduate. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California in 1929, and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law in 1929. He was in private practice in Los Angeles from 1930 to 1941. Having joined the United States Army Reserve in 1931, he served in World War II from 1941 to 1946. He remained in the reserves thereafter until 1957, and was in private practice in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1961. He was a Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County from 1961 to 1962. Federal judicial service Crary was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on July 31, 1962, to a seat on the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
