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Billy Black (wrestler)
Bill Black (1926–1965) was an American bassist and bandleader. Bill Black may also refer to: *William K. Black (born 1951), American lawyer, academic, author and a former bank regulator *Bill Black (second baseman) (1899–1968), American baseball player *Bill Black (baseball coach) (1920–2002), American former college baseball coach and construction company executive *Bill Black (businessman) (born 1950), Canadian insurance industry executive and politician *Bill Black (comics), American publisher and editor of AC Comics, and freelance penciller and inker *Bill Black (pilot) (1943/1944–2020), New Zealand pilot *Bill Black (rugby union) (1928–2019), Scottish rugby union player *Bill Black (voice director) (born 1960), American musician, voice director and sound effects designer born William Thomas Blackwell III *Buckskin Bill Black (1929–2018), long-running children's television host and later school board member in Baton Rouge, Louisiana See also *William Black (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black
William Patton Black Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll. He played in Elvis Presley's early trio. Black later formed Bill Black's Combo. Early life and career William Patton Black Jr. was born on September 17, 1926, in Memphis, Tennessee, to a motorman for the Memphis Street Railway Co. He was the oldest of nine children. His father played popular songs on the banjo and fiddle to entertain the family. Black learned to play music at the age of 14 on an instrument made by his father—a cigar box with a board nailed to it and strings attached. At the age of sixteen, Black was performing "honky-tonk" music on acoustic guitar in local bars. During World War II, Black was stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Lee in Virginia. While in the Army, he met Evelyn, who played guitar as a member of a musical family. They married in 1946 and returned to Memphis. Black worked at the Fires ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William K
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (second Baseman)
John William Black (August 12, 1899 – January 14, 1968) was a professional baseball player. He was a second baseman for one season (1924) with the Chicago White Sox. For his career, he compiled a .200 batting average in 5 at-bats. He was born and later died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ... at the age of 68. External links 1899 births 1968 deaths Chicago White Sox players Major League Baseball second basemen Baseball players from Philadelphia Minor league baseball managers Suffolk Nuts players Portsmouth Truckers players Suffolk Wildcats players Beaumont Exporters players Toledo Mud Hens players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Nashville Vols managers Nashville Vols players Birmingham Barons players Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (baseball Coach)
William Ray Black (September 25, 1920 – May 1, 2002) was an American construction executive and college baseball coach. Early life Black was born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky, where his father, Ray owned a construction business. He attended the University of Kentucky and graduated in 1942 from the University of Kentucky College of Education. He played baseball and football at UK and during his senior year, served as player-coach of the baseball team. The Kentucky Wildcats baseball team had a record of seven wins and six losses under his leadership. Later life After graduation from UK, Black enlisted in the US Army during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... After the war, he worked for the family business, by then called ''Ray Black & Son'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (businessman)
William Black, C.M. (born 1950) is a Canadian business leader. Early life and education Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Black graduated from the Halifax Grammar School. He then graduated from Dalhousie University with both a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in 1970. He then went on to complete his actuarial training in 1974. Career with Maritime Life He started working for Maritime Life, a company that was co-founded by his great-grandfather, William Anderson Black, in 1922. Black entered senior management at 25, and eventually became president and CEO. During his nine years as president, the company saw continuous expansion and record profits with the number of jobs in Halifax more than doubling to over 1200. By 2004 the company had 3,000 employees and $15 billion in assets under management. Under his leadership, Maritime Life gained a solid reputation for employee relations and appearing every year among the leaders in the ''The Globe and Mail#Report on Business, Report on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (comics)
AC Comics (formerly known as Paragon Publications and Americomics) is a comic book publishing company started by Bill Black."Comic Book Biography: BILL BLACK" by , , November 19, 2003"Bill Black: 40 Years of AC Comics" by |
Bill Black (pilot)
William Arthur Black (18 August 1943 – 1 July 2020) was a New Zealand fixed-wing and helicopter pilot. He was one of the pioneers of live deer capture from helicopters in Fiordland in the 1960s, and was involved in over 500 search and rescue operations. In the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to search and rescue operations, and in 2014 he was awarded the Jean Batten Memorial Trophy by the Honourable Company of Air Pilots for his contributions to New Zealand aviation. Black was born in Owaka on 18 August 1943, and died in Invercargill Invercargill ( , mi, Waihōpai is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. The city lies in the heart of the wide expanse of t ... on 1 July 2020, aged 76 years. References 1943 births 2020 deaths People from Owaka People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (rugby Union)
Bill Black (19 February 1928 – 9 May 2019) was a Scotland international rugby union player who played at prop. Rugby union career Amateur career Black played for Glasgow HSFP. Provincial career Black played for Glasgow District. International career He was capped a total of five times for the Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... international team. References ;Sources # Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ) # Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) ''The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records''. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. # Jones, J.R. ''Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football'' (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ) # Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; ) {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Black (voice Director)
Bill Black is a musician who also casts and directs voice actors and performs sound effects design. Early life Bill Black (real name William Thomas Blackwell III) was born in Long Beach, California. August 18, 1960. He started out in music on bass guitar in the Los Angeles clubs with a rockabilly trio, James Intveld and the Rockin' Shadows.Bill Black Online Black left and was replaced by Patrick Woodward. The band split up when Ricky Nelson asked drummer Ricky Intveld and Woodward to join his backing band. All were killed on 31 December 1985 when the plane in which they were travelling crashed in De Kalb, Texas less than two miles from a landing st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckskin Bill Black
William P. "Buckskin Bill" Black (1929January 10, 2018) was a Louisiana children's television personality and, later, school board member. He hosted what at the time were the longest-running children's television programs in the United States, ''Storyland'' and ''The Buckskin Bill Show'', on Baton Rouge's WAFB-TV. Black famously helped raise funds to get the Baton Rouge Zoo built after promoting the cause on his show in the late 1950s and through the 1960s. After his successful television career, he was elected to the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board in 1994 and served for 16 years. Early life Black was born in Haileyville, Oklahoma, to Harvey and Amelia Black, and grew up in Hugo. He attended college at Oklahoma A&M before earning a degree in speech with a minor in history from Arkansas College. During college he worked as a rodeo clown and after graduation he worked briefly in radio before being drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served as a comic and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Black (other)
William Black may refer to: Politicians * William Black (Ontario politician) (1867–1944), speaker of the Legislature of Ontario and Conservative MLA * William Black (Canadian politician) (1869–1930), Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons * William Anderson Black (1847–1934), Canadian politician * William B. Black (Illinois politician) (born 1941), member of the Illinois House of Representatives * William George Black (1857–1932), antiquary, lawyer and politician of Glasgow * William Pierpont Black (1877–1942), New Zealand wood carver, socialist politician, journal editor and publisher * William Black, Lord Provost of Dundee, Scotland (1952–1954), see List of provosts of Dundee Soldiers and sailors * William P. Black (1842–1916), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient * William Black (soldier) (1853–1872), drummer boy and the youngest wounded soldier of the American Civil War * William Murray Black (1855–1933), United States Army major ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
