Blake
Blake is a surname which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. Another theory, presumably in the belief it is a Welsh patronymic in origin, for which there is no evidence, was that it is a corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake". Blake was the name of one of the 14 Tribes of Galway in Ireland. These Blakes were descendants of Richard Caddell, alias Blake, who was involved in the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. As such a long present foreign name, it became known as de Bláca in Irish. The origins of the name Blake are also considered to be Old Norse, first appearing in Yorkshire, England, possibly derived from the word Blaker, referring to a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway (east of Oslo). Blake often refers to the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). No ...
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William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his " prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself". Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard b ...
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Andre Blake
Andre Jason Blake (born 21 November 1990) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer and the Jamaica national team. College soccer Blake spent three years playing college soccer at UConn, before signing a Generation Adidas contract with Major League Soccer. He registered 37 shutouts over his three years in goal for the Huskies, winning the Big East Goalkeeper of the Year Award in 2011 and 2012 and the AAC Goalkeeper of the Year Award in 2013. He was named a semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy in 2013. Professional club career Blake was selected by Philadelphia Union first overall in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft. Originally anticipated to be the Union's starting goalkeeper, he was deputized to the bench when the Union signed designated player Raïs M'Bolhi. Blake made his first appearance for the Union in a friendly match against Crystal Palace in July 2014. He made his first competitive start for the Unio ...
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Ashley Blake
Ashley Blake (born 1969 in Lozells, Birmingham, England) is a British former television presenter and newsreader. A well-known personality in the English Midlands, he worked mostly for the BBC, where his credits include reporting and presenting on ''Midlands Today'', the region's edition of '' Inside Out'', and briefly on the TV series ''Watchdog''. In September 2009 he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being convicted of wounding. He was released on 8 June 2010, after serving nine months of his sentence, as part of the home curfew system for early release. He is now a Sky News reporter. Early life Blake grew up in the Lozells area of Birmingham in a single-parent household. He is mixed-race, and is the youngest of six children. Personal life Blake has one child. After his mother died of cancer in 2000, he raised money for a cancer support charity. Career Blake has had a career "from driving and renting out cars and trucks to working with young offenders in the c ...
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Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake (born Beverly Louise Neill, February 21, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the western television series ''Gunsmoke''. Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity. Early life Amanda Blake was born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, the only child of Jesse and Louise (née Puckett) Neill. Her father was a banker. Blake was a telephone operator and briefly attended Pomona College before she took up acting. Catherine Moore ″Kate" Barry (1752–1823), one of Amanda's ancestors, was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She warned local patriots of Banastre Tarleton's approach, giving them time to group and prepare for the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781), a major American victory that helped pave the way for the British defeat at Yorktown. Career In the late 1940 ...
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Arron Blake
Arron Blake (born 23 October 1987) is an English actor and director. A graduate of The Poor School in London, Blake's directorial debut short film '' His Hands'' with Darius Shu premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2019 and was nominated for Best Narrative Short. Early life Blake was born in the Isle of Wight. He worked as a carpenter before he pursued acting at The Poor School. Career In 2018, Blake and cinematographer Darius Shu co-directed, wrote, and produced ''His Hands,'' with Blake also starring. Their directorial debut, ''His Hands'' had its premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2019 in New York and was nominated for Best Narrative Short. It tells the story of two men meeting, with themes of sexuality, loneliness, identity and ageism. The film was made on a low budget of £400, with no dialogue. The film was made available on Amazon Prime Video. In 2020, Blake starred in ITV's Breaking the Band, playing lead singer Paul Stanley from the band Kiss, which showed on REELZ i ...
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Alfred Blake
Sir Alfred Lapthorn Blake, (6 October 1915 – 17 November 2013) was a British solicitor, Royal Marines officer and councillor. He was Lord Mayor of Portsmouth City Council from 1958 to 1959 and director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme from 1966 to 1978. Early life Blake was born on 6 October 1915 in Gosport, Hampshire, England. He was educated from 1926 to 1932 at Dauntsey's School, an independent school in Wiltshire. He read law at the University of London, graduating Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in June 1938. He qualified as a solicitor in 1938. Military service On the outbreak of World War II, Blake volunteered for military service. He was one of the first 14 civilians to be commissioned into the Royal Marines during the war. He attended and passed the Army Staff Course at Staff College, Camberley. In 1943, he was posted to Italy as brigade major to Brigadier Tom Churchill of the 2nd Special Service Brigade. He relinquished the rank of acting temporary major on 5 October ...
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Archie Blake (mathematician)
Archie Blake (born 1906) is an American mathematician. He is well known for the Blake canonical form, a normal form for expressions in propositional logic. In order to compute the canonical form, he moreover introduced the concept of consensus, which was a precursor of the resolution principle, today a common technique in automated theorem proving. Career In 1930 (or earlier), he became a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He presented his canonical form at the AMS meeting at Columbia University on 29 Oct 1932. In 1937, this work lead to a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, supervised by Raymond Walter Barnard. He worked for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington, D.C., since 1936 (or earlier) as a Mathematician, since 1938 as an Assistant Mathematician, and since 1939 as an Associated Mathematician. In 1946, he was appointed a Senior Statistician in the Office of the Army Surgeon General, Washington, D.C. He also worked for the Cornell Aeronautica ...
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Alan Blake
Alan Walter Blake (3 November 1922 – 31 October 2010) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A flanker, Blake represented Wairarapa at a provincial level. He played for the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in a single test match in 1949. Despite not having any Māori ancestry, Blake played 26 matches for New Zealand Māori and captained the side in 1950. He had an African American grandfather. 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 opposing ..., Blake served as a trooper with the 4th New Zealand Armoured Brigade from 1943, and saw action in Italy. At the end of the war, he toured with the New Zealand Army rugby team, known as the "Kiwis", appearing in 24 matches. References 1922 births 2010 deaths People from Carterton, New Zealand People ...
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Adam Blake (musician)
Adam Blake (born Adam John Blake, 25 January 1976, Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English producer, musician and songwriter, best known as a founder member of the electronic music band Zoot Woman. He produces remixes under the aliases Paper Faces (with Stuart Price), Sloop John Barillo, and Mad March Hare. Paper Faces have reworked tracks for Zoot Woman as well as other established recording artists such as Madonna, Scissor Sisters, Armand Van Helden, Chromeo and Frankmusik. He has worked on records for artists such as Pet Shop Boys, Duffy, Seal and Kylie Minogue. In an interview with Universal Audio United Recording Electronics Industries (UREI) was a manufacturer of recording, mixing and audio signal processing hardware for the professional recording studio, live sound and broadcasting fields. History Bill Putnam Sr. founded Universa ..., he discusses recording techniques. Discography Albums Singles ;From ''Star Climbing'' * 2014 – ''Coming Up For Ai ...
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Anthony Blake (other)
Anthony Blake may refer to: *Anthony Blake (bishop), Archbishop of Armagh, 1758–1786 * Anthony Richard Blake (died 1849), Irish lawyer, administrator and 'backstairs Viceroy of Ireland' *The protagonist of '' The Magician'', who was played by Bill Bixby *Anthony Blake, Baronet, of the Blake baronets *Anthony Blake, Glennfiddich Award-winning food photographer *Anthony Blake (mentalist), Dunninger Award-winning Spanish mentalist See also *Blake (surname) *Tony Blake (other) Tony Blake may refer to: * Tony Blake (English footballer) (1927–2014), Birmingham City and Gillingham player * Tony Blake (Gaelic footballer) (born 1971/2), Donegal player {{human name disambiguation, Blake, Tony ...

Asha Blake
Asha Blake is a five-time Emmy Award-winning television news journalist. Her US-based career has spanned anchoring ABC and NBC network newscasts, daytime- and entertainment-based talk shows, and local news anchoring at flagship news stations KNBC and KTLA. In 1999, Blake co-hosted NBC's ''Later Today'', a spinoff of the ''Today Show'', with Jodi Applegate and Florence Henderson. Early life and education Born in Guyana, South America, Blake grew up in Toronto and in Minnesota. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota's journalism school.http://www.ktla.com/print_landing?Asha-Blake=1&blockID=13359&feedID=556& Professional career Blake began her career at KJCT-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado. After "Later Today" went off the air in 2000, Blake hosted two syndicated programs, "Smart Gardening" on PBS and the nationally syndicated "Life Moments". In 2005, Blake joined KWGN-TV KWGN-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Denver, Colorado ...
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Arthur Blake (other)
Arthur Blake is the name of: * Arthur Blake (actor) (1914–1985), American actor * Arthur Blake (English actor) (1929–2001), English actor * Arthur Blake (hurdler) (born 1966), US-American hurdler * Arthur Blake (distance runner) (1872–1944), US-American middle-distance runner * Blind Blake (birth name Arthur Blake; 1896–1934), US-American blues/ragtime singer and guitarist See also * Henry Arthur Blake Sir Henry Arthur Blake (; 8January 184023February 1918) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903. Early life, family and career Blake was born in Limerick, Ir ...