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Biggs (surname)
Biggs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Asa Biggs (1811–1878), American politician *Andy Biggs (b. 1958), American politician from Arizona * Barton Biggs (1932–2012), money manager * Basil Biggs (1819–1906), American laborer and veterinarian * Benjamin T. Biggs (1821–1893), American politician *Casey Biggs (b. 1955), American actor *Cecil Biggs (1881–1944), British rugby player and cricketer * Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British diplomat assassinated by the PIRA * D. E. Biggs (1860–1924), American politician *Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001), American sculptor * Gregory Biggs (1964–2001), American car accident victim *Hermann Biggs (1859–1923), American physician and Public Health pioneer * Ian Biggs (b.1963), Australian diplomat * J. Biggs (b. 1965), wrestling manager Clarence Mason *Janet Biggs (b. 1959), American artist * James Crawford Biggs (1872–1960), American lawyer and politician *Jason Biggs (b. 1978), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Biggs
Asa Biggs (February 4, 1811 – March 6, 1878) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Albemarle, Cape Fear and Pamptico Districts of North Carolina. Education and career Born on February 4, 1811, in Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Biggs attended the common schools and pursued classical studies, then read law in 1831. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Williamston from 1831 to 1845, and from 1847 to 1854. In 1832, he married Martha Elizabeth Andrews; they had 10 children, 2 of which died in infancy. Biggs owned "several slaves" as a result of his marriage. He was a delegate to the North Carolina constitutional convention in 1835. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons (now the North Carolina House of Representatives) from 1840 to 1842. He was a member of the North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Jim Levenstein in the '' American Pie'' comedy film series and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series '' Orange Is the New Black''. He also starred in '' Boys and Girls'', '' Loser'', ''Saving Silverman'', ''Anything Else'', '' Jersey Girl'', ''Eight Below'', ''Over Her Dead Body'', and '' My Best Friend's Girl''. Biggs initially gained recognition from his role in the soap opera ''As the World Turns'', for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1995. Early life and education Biggs was born on May 12, 1978 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela ( née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riley Biggs
Riley Edgar Biggs (March 24, 1900 – November 24, 1971) was a National Football League (NFL) center who played two seasons with the New York Giants. He played college football at Baylor University and attended Southampton High School in Southampton, New York. He was also a member of the Rock Island Independents of the American Football League The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ... (AFL). References External linksJust Sports Stats* {{DEFAULTSORT:Biggs, Riley 1900 births 1971 deaths Players of American football from Texas American football centers Baylor Bears football players Rock Island Independents players New York Giants players Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Biggs
Richard James Biggs II (March 18, 1960 – May 22, 2004) was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series ''Days of Our Lives'' and ''Babylon 5''. Early life Born in Columbus, Ohio, Biggs attended the University of Southern California on scholarship, studying theatre. He briefly taught at a Los Angeles high school before landing his first major television role, that of Dr. Marcus Hunter on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. Biggs was diagnosed with hearing problems when he was 13, and was partially deaf in one ear, completely deaf in the other. He frequently used his celebrity status to raise money for the Aliso Academy, a private school in Rancho Santa Margarita, California that serves deaf children. Career From 1987 until 1994, Biggs played the role of Dr. Marcus Hunter on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. He appeared as Dr. Stephen Franklin on the well-regarded science fiction series ''Babylon 5'' (1994–1998), reprising t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Biggs
Ralph Biggs (born February 2, 1976) is an American-born naturalized Belgian former professional basketball player. Biggs is 2.01 m tall and played the small forward position. Career He played for PBC Ural Great in the Russian Super League. He played college basketball at Towson University. He played in Ostende, Charleroi, Liège and Antwerp (all Belgian teams). Biggs led the 2000–01 Euroleague in steals per game averaging 2.1. He competed for two seasons at the Euroleague level in 2000–01 and 2001–02 with Telindus Oostende. In the 2010/11 season he was playing for the French club Limoges CSP Elite until he left the club. In February 2011 he signed with Antwerp Giants Antwerp Giants, named Telenet Giants Antwerp for sponsorship reasons, are a Belgians, Belgian professional basketball club based in Antwerp. Their home arena is Lotto Arena. The club plays in the BNXT League, the highest tier of Belgian basketbal .... In June 2013, Biggs signed a one-year deal with VOO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Biggs
Norman Witchell Biggs (3 November 1870 – 27 February 1908) was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Cardiff and county rugby for Glamorgan. Both Biggs and his brother Selwyn played international rugby for Wales, though they never played together in the same match for Wales. Biggs also played cricket for Glamorgan and in 1893 was part of a team that took on Cardiff in a two-day match; he faced his brother Selwyn, who was a member of the Cardiff team. Biggs is notable for being a member of the 1893 Triple Crown winning Wales team, being the youngest capped player to represent the Wales international team, a record he held for over a century, and the unusual circumstances of his death by poison arrow. Early history Norman Biggs was born in Cardiff to John and Emily Biggs. His father, who lived at Park Place in the centre of the city, was a brewer by trade who owned businesses in Cardiff and Bristol. Biggs was privately educated at several proprie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (film), a 2010 drama film * '' Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer'', a 2016 film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song written by John D. Loudermilk and recorded by Sue Thompson * "Norman (He's a Rebel)", a song by Mo-dettes from ''The Story So Far'', 1980 Businesses * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Biggs
Max Eugene Biggs (June 15, 1923 – October 25, 1990) was an American professional basketball player. Biggs played in four games in the National Basketball League for the Sheboygan Red Skins during the 1946–47 season A native of Lafayette, Indiana, Biggs played basketball for one season at Purdue University before enrolling in the navy. He also played for Purdue's football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... team. References 1923 births 1990 deaths American men's basketball players Basketball players from Indiana Centers (basketball) Forwards (basketball) Purdue Boilermakers football players Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball players Sheboygan Red Skins players People from Warren County, Indiana United States Navy personnel of World War II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Biggs
Margaret Biggs (born 9 July 1929, Orpington, Kent) is a popular and collectible exponent of the girls' School story. She is best known for her Melling School series of books, first published by Blackie in the 1950s. The series is set at a weekly boarding school and is unusual in that it shows boarding school life and home life side by side. The interaction between girls and boys is also atypical of the genre at that time. The Melling series was republished by Girls Gone By Publishers in the 2000s and the reprints, whilst retaining the original text and artwork, have new introductions by Margaret Biggs, who is ‘taking great pleasure in the republication of her books’. Ms Biggs has also written two new volumes in the series, ''Kate at Melling'', set twelve years after the earlier books, and ''Changes at Melling'', which were published by Girls Gone By Publishers in 2008 and 2009 respectively. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Biggs-Davison
Sir John Alec Biggs-Davison (7 June 1918 – 17 September 1988) was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Chigwell from 1955 and then, after boundary changes in 1974, Epping Forest until his death. He was a leading figure in the Conservative Monday Club. Early years The son of Major John Norman Biggs-Davison, Royal Garrison Artillery, (d. 1972), of Somerset, and his wife Sarah (née Wright), John Alec Biggs-Davison was born at Boscombe, Bournemouth, raised a Roman Catholic, and educated at Clifton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at university, he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Political career As an Oxford undergraduate, he was seconder to Basil Liddell Hart opposing conscription at the Oxford Union debate held on 27 April 1939. He into the Royal Marines in 1939. From 1942 he worked for the Indian Civil Service and the Pakistan Administrative Service, where he was an assistant commissioner in the Punjab before being dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Psychology
Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept, as well as their role in learning. The field of educational psychology relies heavily on quantitative methods, including testing and measurement, to enhance educational activities related to instructional design, classroom management, and assessment, which serve to facilitate learning processes in various educational settings across the lifespan.Snowman, Jack (1997). Educational Psychology: What Do We Teach, What Should We Teach?. "Educational Psychology", 9, 151-169 Educational psychology can in part be understood through its relationship with other disciplines. It is informed primarily by psychology, bearing a relationship to that discipline a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
