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April (given Name)
April is a feminine given name taken from the month of the same name. It was the most popular month name given to girls in the United States between 1960 and 2000. It was most well used in the Southern United States, where the spring season begins earlier than other regions of the country. The name is believed to have been particularly well-used because April is a month associated with renewal. The name has since declined in usage in English-speaking countries, but remains in regular use. Those bearing it include: People * April A. Benasich, American neuroscientist * April Adams (born 1973), Australian diver * April Ashley (1935–2021), English model, and transgender equality campaigner * April Baker-Bell, American academic and non-fiction writer * April D. Beldo (born 1964), American navy sailor * April Berg (born 1974), American politician * April Bernard (born 1956), American poet * April Bey, American artist * April Blair, American producer and screenwriter * April B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Park
The Catherine Park (russian: Екатерининский парк) is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden. Formal Dutch garden The formal garden was laid out in 1720 by masters of Dutch landscape gardening on three parterres in front of the Imperial Palace. At the same time, a reflecting pool was constructed on the third parterre, and two ponds were made on the Vangazi creek flowing from the hill: the Upper (Large) and Mill ponds (later included in the cascade of Lower ponds). The main features in this garden are the Upper bath, Lower bath, Hermitage, Cave, Hermitage Kitchen, Moreyskaya column, Vorota gate, and Orlov gate. English garden The main features of the English park are: the Dutch-style boathouse the Dutch Admiralty, Hall on the Island pavilion, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Blair
April Blair is an American writer and producer of film and television. Blair has written scripts for the films, ''Christmas Caper'', '' Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous'', ''Lemonade Mouth''. She also co-wrote with director Tom Bezucha, the film ''Monte Carlo'' starring Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy. Blair is also the creator and executive producer of the 2012 Freeform (formerly ABC Family until 2016) series ''Jane by Design''. and the 2018 The CW series All American. In 2021, she started writing for the TV series ''Gossip Girl ''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, ran on The CW network for six sea ...''. References External links * American television producers American women television producers American television writers Living people American women screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Carter
April Carter (born 22 November 1937) was a British peace activist. She was a political lecturer at the universities of Lancaster, Somerville College, Oxford and Queensland, and was a Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1985 to 1987. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, and a 'senior editor' on the international editorial board for the ''International Encyclopedia of Peace'' to be published by Oxford University Press (New York). April Carter was active in the nuclear disarmament movement in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming Secretary of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War in May 1958 (just after it had organised the first Aldermaston March), and was involved in early civil disobedience at nuclear missile bases. In 1961 she was European coordinator for the San Francisco to Moscow March organised by the US Committee for Nonviolent Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Carson
April Perry Carson is an American epidemiologist. She is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. Carson is director of the Jackson Heart Study. Education Carson completed a B.S. in microbiology at University of Georgia. She earned a M.S.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Carson was a postdoctoral researcher in cardiovascular disease epidemiology at UNC. Her 2005 dissertation was titled ''Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status across the life course and subclinical atherosclerosis''. Carson's doctoral advisor was . Career Carson is an associate professor of epidemiology and associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health. On September 20, 2021, she succeeded Adolfo Correa as director of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). JHS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Carrión
April Carrión is the stage name of Jason Carrión (born April 23, 1989), a Puerto Rican drag queen and television personality best known for their appearance on the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Early life Carrión was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico on April 23, 1989. They are the youngest of three brothers- all of which are gay. In 2007, they attended the School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico, where they earned a bachelor's degree. They started doing drag when they were 20 years old. The name April Carrión comes from the month they were born and their last name. Career Carrión was the winner of the Miss Krash Puerto Rico pageant in 2011. They won a pageant with one of the prizes being in a Gloria Estefan music video. Carrión appeared in Estefan's "Hotel Nacional" in 2012. They were announced as one of fourteen contestants for the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in February 2014. On the show, Carrión beat Vivacious in a lip-sync to Selena Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Capone Almon
April Capone (born c. 1975) is an American business woman and politician, the former mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, serving two terms from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman elected as mayor and the youngest, winning after three recounts by the narrowest margin recorded. With private sector experience, she had been elected previously to the town council. Early life Capone was born, raised and educated in East Haven, Connecticut. She attended local schools and received her MBA from Southern Connecticut State University. She married in 1999 to Regan Almon and divorced in 2011. Career She entered local politics and was elected to the 15-member Town Council of East Haven as its only Democrat. In 2010 Democratic registered voters outnumbered registered Republicans, but another major portion of the electorate is independent. In 2007, Capone challenged the 10-year Republican incumbent mayor, Joseph A. Maturo, Jr., and ran a campaign based on ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Cantelo
April Rosemary Cantelo (born 2 April 1928) is an English soprano. Life and career Cantelo was born in Purbrook, Hampshire in 1928. She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She studied in London under Vilém Tauský, Joan Cross, Imogen Holst and others. She sang in the Glyndebourne Chorus and then made her debut in Edinburgh in 1950 as Barbarina and Echo. Blyth, A. April Cantelo. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. She played Rosetta in '' Love in a Village'', the pasticcio by Arne, at Aldeburgh in June 1952. In the first half of the 1950s she sang Barbarina, Countess Ceprano and Poussette at Covent Garden. Cantelo sang in the British premieres of Hans Werner Henze's ''Boulevard Solitude'' (Manon Lescaut) and Kurt Weill's ''Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'' (Jenny). She appeared in the world premiere of Malcolm Williamson's '' English Eccentrics''. Among the roles she created are: * Lady in ''The Grace of Todd'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Byron
April Elizabeth Dove Potts (22 March 1947 – 10 July 2019), known professionally as April Byron, was an Australian pop singer and songwriter. She was the first female artist to collaborate with the Bee Gees after their formation as a band, on the 1966 single "He's a Thief" / "A Long Time Ago". Early life and career Byron was born in Warburton, Victoria and attended St. Peters Collegiate Girls School in Adelaide, South Australia. Her early business managers were Ron Tremaine and his wife Patricia Tremaine, a former Miss South Australia in 1959. Byron relocated to Melbourne in 1963 to play the Ivan Dayman dance circuit, including Festival Hall and the Palais St. Kilda, alongside other Australian teenage pop singers including Normie Rowe, Olivia Newton-John and Bobby and Laurie. Due to a resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor, Byron was sometimes referred to as 'Australia's Liz Taylor'. Byron's first recording on Festival's Leedon Label, 'Make the World Go Away', won the 3UZ (Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Bulmer
April Bulmer (born 1963) is a Canadian poet whose poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Arc, the Malahat Review, Quills, and Ascent Aspirations.April Bulmer's biography at the League of Canadian Poets. Her poetry has won awards from Leaf Press and the Ontario Poetry Society. Bulmer was born in and educated at that city's , where she earned a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Brown
April S. Brown is an American electrical engineer and materials scientist in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, where she is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the former John Cocke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Education and career After developing an interest in psychology as a high school student in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Brown was encouraged to study electrical engineering by her father, also an electrical engineer. She is a 1981 graduate of North Carolina State University. She went to Cornell University for graduate study in electrical engineering, completing her PhD in 1985. She joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor, but in 1986 moved to industry as a researcher for Hughes Research Laboratories, eventually becoming a senior scientist there as well as serving as a program manager for the United States Army Research Laboratory from 1988 to 1989. She returned to academia in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Brockman - Del Monte
April Brockman - Del Monte (born May 29, 1986) is a Canadian reality television personality who received international recognition as the winner of The Bachelor Canada in season two. Life and career April was cast on the Canadian television series, The Bachelor Canada. In 2014, she won season 2 of the Canadian reality television series which aired on the W Network. Prior to being a television personality, she built a career in the real estate industry.Susan Doran, In May 2020, April published her first book titled ''How to Thrive as a Real Estate Agent''. In February 2022, she founded ''The 6 Figure Realtor Program'' and also created informative blog series & social media community tagged ''Women Who Thrive In Real Estate''. Personal life In December 2017, April became engaged to Canadian Film Director, Michael Del Monte and creator of award-winning film Transformer. They were married on June 30, 2018 and later had a baby boy in 2019. See also * The Bachelor Canada '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Brandley
April Brandley (née Letton; born 19 April 1990) is a professional Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league. She plays in the positions of GK, GD and WD, and has been selected on several occasions for the Australia national netball team. Career Domestic Brandley was a temporary replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds in 2011 and played for the New South Wales Swifts in 2012. At the end of the 2014 ANZ Championship season, Brandley signed with the Perth-based West Coast Fever for two seasons. Since 2017 she has played for the Collingwood Magpies. At the Magpies she has established herself as a first-choice defender, and she was re-signed by the club at the end of the 2018 season. After the 2019 season Brandley announced she was pregnant and intended to step away from the game in 2020. However she returned to the game the following year as a training partner for Giants Netball, after the start of the Super Netball season was pushed back to August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
