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Biddy Youngday
Biddy or Biddie is a given name which may refer to: People * Biddy Anderson (1874–1926), South African cricketer * Biddy Baxter (born 1933), English television producer * Biddy Dolan (1881–1950), American Major League Baseball player * Biddy Early (c. 1798–1874), Irish traditional healer * Biddy Hodson, stage name of Bridget Hodson, British actress * Gertrude Macdonald or Biddy Jamieson (1871–1952), English painter * Carolyn Martin (born 1951), nicknamed "Biddy", president of Amherst College * Biddy Mason (1818–1891), African American nurse, entrepreneur, and philanthropist * Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940), indigenous Australian artist * Biddy O'Sullivan, Irish former camogie player * Biddy White Lennon (1946–2017), Irish actress and food writer Fictional characters * Biddy, in the novel ''Great Expectations'' by Charles Dickens * Biddy Paget, in the crime novel ''Mystery Mile'' by Margery Allingham * Biddy Byrne, a protagonist in ''Glenroe'', an Irish t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biddy Anderson
James Henry "Biddy" Anderson (26 April 1874 – 11 March 1926) was a South African cricketer and rugby union player. Anderson attended Diocesan College in Rondebosch before going to Oxford University, where he was awarded a rugby Blue (university sport), Blue. A right-handed batsman, he played in one Test cricket match in 1902, when he captained South Africa cricket team, South Africa against Australia cricket team, Australia in Johannesburg. He captained Western Province cricket team, Western Province in the Currie Cup (cricket), Currie Cup in 1903-04, scoring 109 in the semi-final win over Border cricket team, Border, who totalled only 107 in their two innings. He also played three rugby union Tests for South Africa national rugby union team, South Africa in 1896 British Lions tour to South Africa, 1896. He also played for clubs in Italy and France. He is one of six men to have played both cricket and rugby Tests for South Africa. Anderson was a farmer and racehorse breeder ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Mile
''Mystery Mile'' is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1930, in the United Kingdom by Jarrolds Publishing, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Following his first, supporting appearance in ''The Crime at Black Dudley'' (1929), it is the first of many novels starring the mysterious Albert Campion, and introduces his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg. Plot introduction Crossing the Atlantic on the luxurious liner ''Elephantine'' are an American judge, Crowdy Lobbett, and his children. A number of people around Judge Lobbett have been murdered, and he is said to be fleeing to England for safety. Apparent buffoon Albert Campion offers the family sanctuary with his friends in remote Suffolk, but a local commits suicide, the Judge vanishes, and another disappearance follows soon after. What is the Judge's mysterious secret? How was he kidnapped from a remote maze? Can Campion and his friends get to the bottom of things before it' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acaena Novae-zelandiae
''Acaena novae-zelandiae'', commonly known as red bidibid, bidgee widgee, buzzy and piri-piri bur, is a small herbaceous, prostrate perennial, native to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea, of the family Rosaceae. Description ''Acaena novae-zelandiae'' is a small herbaceous perennial. It is stoloniferous with prostrate stems of 1.5 – 2 mm diameter. Damage to stolons encourages new shoots to be produced. It has imparipinnate leaves, with 9–15 toothed, oblong leaflets, which are approximately 2 –11 cm long. The adaxial surface of the leaves is dark green and shiny, and the abaxial surface is hairy and glaucous green in colouration. The rachis of the leaves is often red. The scape is 10 – 15 cm long and bears a globular, terminal inflorescence, of 20 – 25 mm diameter, with 70 – 100 flowers. The flowers lack petals and can range in colour from green to white or purple. The flowers are wind pollinated. Each flower produces one achene, bearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboats On Lake Coeur D'Alene
Steam navigation on Lake Coeur d'Alene lasted from the 1880s to the 1930s. More steamboats operated on Lake Coeur d’Alene than on any other lake west of the Great Lakes. The high point of steam navigation was probably from 1908 to 1913. After that railroads, and increasingly automobile and truck traffic on newly built highways supplanted steam navigation, although some vessels continued to be operated until the mid-1930s. Operations In September 1908, the Red Collar steamship line operated seven steamers on Lake Coeur d'Alene, which was 27 miles, running mainly in a north-south direction. The main city on the lake was Coeur d’Alene, at the northern, downstream end. By 1908 the city of Coeur d'Alene was connected by steam and electric rail lines to Spokane, Washington, about 30 miles to the west. The lake varied from 50 to 400 feet deep, and with the adjacent navigable St. Joe River, formed a natural water route just over 60 miles long. In the summer months, in 1908, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biddie (steamboat)
Biddy or Biddie is a given name which may refer to: People * Biddy Anderson (1874–1926), South African cricketer * Biddy Baxter (born 1933), English television producer * Biddy Dolan (1881–1950), American Major League Baseball player * Biddy Early (c. 1798–1874), Irish traditional healer * Biddy Hodson, stage name of Bridget Hodson, British actress * Gertrude Macdonald or Biddy Jamieson (1871–1952), English painter * Carolyn Martin (born 1951), nicknamed "Biddy", president of Amherst College * Biddy Mason (1818–1891), African American nurse, entrepreneur, and philanthropist * Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940), indigenous Australian artist * Biddy O'Sullivan, Irish former camogie player * Biddy White Lennon (1946–2017), Irish actress and food writer Fictional characters * Biddy, in the novel ''Great Expectations'' by Charles Dickens * Biddy Paget, in the crime novel ''Mystery Mile'' by Margery Allingham * Biddy Byrne, a protagonist in ''Glenroe'', an Irish t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget (given Name)
Bridget is an Irish language, Irish female name derived from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic noun ''brígh'', meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternate meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is largely related to the popularity of Saint Brigid, Saint Brigid of Kildare, who was so popular in Ireland she was known as "Mary of the Gaels, Gael". This saint took on many of the characteristics of the early Celtic goddess Brigid, who was the goddess of agriculture and healing and possibly also of poetry and fire. One of her epithets was "Brigid of the Holy Fire".Todd (1998), p. 23 In German and Scandinavian countries, the popularity of the name spread due to Bridget of Sweden, Saint Bridget of Sweden. In the Irish language, the name is spelled ''Brighid'' or ''Bríd'' and is pronounced "breed" or "breej". In the Scottish Gaelic language, the name is spelled ''Brìghde'' and is pronounced "breej-eh" At one time the name was so popular for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biddy Basketball
Biddy basketball, youth basketball or biddy ball, & or ‘’’Mini Basketball’’’ is a type of basketball game that is played by youths. The game is popular internationally, and tournaments are held in places such as the United States, Puerto Rico and other countries. The game is played by boys and girls and unisex teams may be formed. History The competition is estimated to have first been created during either 1950 or 1951, by American sports enthusiast Jay Archer of Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1977, the town of Teaneck, New Jersey, hosted the "Junior Biddy National Tournament" with American teams from as far as Dallas, Texas attending and an international one from Puerto Rico. That tournament's championship was won by a team from New Orleans, Louisiana. Rules and regulations Depending on the formality of the games, rules can be similar to FIBA regulated games in a tournament setting or, in an informal setting such as a pick-up game, then the rules can be more akin to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy O'Dea
James Augustine O'Dea (26 April 1899 – 7 January 1965) was an Irish actor and comedian. Life Jimmy O'Dea was born at 11 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin, to James O'Dea, an ironmonger, and Martha O'Gorman, who kept a small toy shop. He was one of 11 children. His father had a shop in Capel Street. He was educated at the Irish Christian Brothers O'Connell School in North Richmond Street, Dublin, where a classmate was future Taoiseach Seán Lemass, by the Holy Ghost Fathers at Blackrock College, and by the Jesuits at Belvedere College.''The Irish Times'', "Jimmy O'Dea dies after 40 years on the Irish stage", 8 January 1965 From a young age he was interested in taking to the stage; he co-founded an amateur acting group, the Kilronan Players, in 1917. But his father would not hear of it. O'Dea was apprenticed to an optician in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he qualified as an optician. He returned to Dublin where, aged 21, he set up his own business which he was, eventually, to give to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Come The Brides
''Here Come the Brides'' is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970. It was loosely based on Asa Mercer's efforts in the 1860s to import marriageable women (the Mercer Girls) from the East Coast cities of the United States to Seattle, where there was a shortage. Backstory The producers said the show was inspired by the movie ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' in an interview with ''LA Times'' TV critic Cecil Smith. As a television western, set shortly after the end of the Civil War, the series rarely featured any form of gunplay, and violence was generally limited to comical fistfights. This was in keeping with the restrictions on television violence at the time. Stories highlighted the importance of cooperation, inter-racial harmony, and peaceful resolution of conflict. Plots were usually a mix of drama and humor. Being one of the first shows targeted at young women, most of the humor w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenroe
''Glenroe'' was a television drama series broadcast on RTÉ One in Ireland between September 1983, when the first episode was aired, and May 2001. A spin-off from ''Bracken'' — a short-lived RTÉ drama itself spun off from ''The Riordans'' — ''Glenroe'' was broadcast, generally from September to May, each Sunday night at 8:30 pm. It was created, and written for much of its run, by Wesley Burrowes, and later by various other directors and producers including Paul Cusack, Alan Robinson and Tommy McCardle. Glenroe was the first show to be subtitled by RTÉ, with a broadcast in 1991 starting the station's subtitling policy. ''Glenroe'' centred on the lives of the people living in the fictional rural village of the same name in County Wicklow. The real-life village of Kilcoole was used to film the series. The series was also filmed in studio at RTÉ and in various other locations when directors saw fit. The main protagonists were the Byrne and McDermott/Moran families, relate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Expectations
''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (Great Expectations), Pip (the book is a ''bildungsroman''; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after ''David Copperfield'', to be fully narrated in the first person.''Bleak House'' alternates between a third-person narrator and a first-person narrator, Esther Summerson, but the former is predominant. The novel was first published as a serial (literature), serial in Dickens's weekly periodical ''All the Year Round'', from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. ''Great Expectations'' is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biddy Baxter
Joan Maureen "Biddy" Baxter, MBE (born 25 May 1933) is a British television producer, best known for editing the long-running BBC TV children's magazine show '' Blue Peter'' from 1965 to 1988. As editor of the programme, Baxter devised much of the format that is still used today. Biography Early life Baxter was born on 25May 1933 at Regent Hospital, Leicester, Leicestershire, to Bryan Reginald Baxter and Dorothy Vera, . Her father was a teacher, who later became the director of a sportswear company, and her mother was a pianist. She was educated at Wyggeston Girls' Grammar School, Leicester and St Mary's, a women's college at Durham University, which she attended from 1952 to 1955. In Patrick Dickinson's book ''Could Do Better'', Baxter described one school report as saying, "Biddy has worked very well during the term and her year's work has been very satisfactory. She shows interest in all that she does and she is a very cheery little girl with very pleasant manners." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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