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Bowdoin may refer to: * Bowdoin, Maine, a town * Bowdoin College, a college in Brunswick, Maine * Bowdoin Street, a street in Boston, Massachusetts ** Bowdoin (MBTA station) * Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife refuge in Montana * ''Bowdoin'' (Arctic schooner) * Bowdoin prize * Bowdoin Fjord, Greenland * Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland People with the name * James Bowdoin James Bowdoin II ( ; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealth ... (1726–1790), American political and intellectual leader * James Bowdoin III (1752–1811), American philanthropist and statesman * Jim Bowdoin (1904–1969), American football player * Temple Bowdoin (1863–1914), American businessman * Bowdoin B. Crowninshield (1867–1948), American naval architect {{disambiguation, geo, surname, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin, Maine
Bowdoin is a New England town, town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Bowdoin is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 3,136 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Bowdoin is 31 land miles north of Portland, Maine, Portland, and 21 land miles south of Augusta, Maine, Augusta (Maine’s state capital). History Bowdoin was part of a tract of land extending from Merrymeeting Bay to the Androscoggin River that was conveyed in 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, older brother of James Bowdoin. Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years before the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War. In 1773, William Bowdoin died, and by 1779 James Bowdoin had legal claim to the area and was granting deeds. It contained about 121 families when the town was incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on March 21, 1788, named after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a scientific field station on Kent Island (New Brunswick), Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. The college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates College and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin List of Bowdoin College people, alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. History Founding and 19th century Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin Street
Bowdoin Street in Boston, Massachusetts, extends from the top of Beacon Street, down Beacon Hill to Cambridge Street, near the West End. It was originally called "Middlecott Street" as early as the 1750s. In 1805 it was renamed after the Governor James Bowdoin. Location and description Bowdoin is situated on the north side of Beacon Hill, and runs north to south. It is primarily a residential street. Topographically, Bowdoin Street is a hill from Cambridge Street at the bottom to its north, and Beacon Street at the top to its south. Residences The street is flanked on both sides by apartment complexes. Lindsay Place dominates the western side, with four buildings built in 1886 which are protected historic buildings. Bowdoin Place, completed in 2003, extends along the street's eastern half. In the 18th century Governor James Bowdoin lived at the corner of Beacon and Bowdoin Streets. He had "one of the largest gardens of that day n Boston ... a large house and an extensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin (MBTA Station)
Bowdoin station ( ) is a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) rapid transit station in Bowdoin Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The station is the downtown terminus of the Blue Line, part of the MBTA subway system. It has a single wedge-shaped island platform located inside a balloon loop. Bowdoin is the only Blue Line station that is not accessible. Bowdoin opened in 1916 as part of an extension of the East Boston Tunnel, serving as the terminal for streetcar lines from East Boston. The line was converted to use high-floor trains in 1924, with raised platforms constructed at the stations. The station was modernized in 1968, with a new brutalist headhouse designed by Josep Lluís Sert. Bowdoin was closed for two periods in the early 1980s due to budget cuts; it was open for limited hours on weekdays only until 2014, when it returned to full-time service during the reconstruction of nearby Government Center station. The proposed Red Blue Connector would extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge
Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Montana. The refuge is northeast of Malta, Montana in the Milk River (Alberta–Montana), Milk River Valley and is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. History Bowdoin NWR was previously managed as part of irrigation efforts by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to conserve water that would flow into Lake Bowdoin. The seasonal floods from spring snow melt created excellent habitat for migratory and nesting waterfowl as well as raptors such as the bald eagle and peregrine falcon. Lake Bowdoin is on both the Central Flyway, Central and Pacific Flyways used by migratory birds and was well known by locals and naturalists as having the largest numbers of migratory birds in Montana. In an effort to better protect the habitat, Lake Bowdoin and the surrounding region were set asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin (Arctic Schooner)
''Bowdoin'' is a historic schooner built in 1921 in Boothbay, Maine, East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Yachts, Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard. Designed by William Hand (yacht designer), William H. Hand, Jr. under the direction of explorer Donald B. MacMillan, the gaff-rigged vessel is the only American schooner built specifically for Arctic exploration. She has made 30 trips above the Arctic Circle in her life, three since she was acquired by the Maine Maritime Academy as a sail training ship in 1988. She is currently owned by the Academy, located in Castine, Maine, Castine, Maine, and is named for Bowdoin College. History The schooner's design and construction were carefully considered and well-executed, although neither was radical for their day. ''Bowdoin'' first crossed the Arctic Circle on 23 August 1921. A place unknown to most of the world, the Arctic had had few visitors. Only sixteen years before, the goal of many generations of Arctic explorers had been reached wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin Prize
The Bowdoin Prizes are prestigious awards given annually to Harvard University undergraduate and graduate students. From the income of the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin, AB 1745, prizes are offered to students at the university in graduate and undergraduate categories for essays in the English language, in the natural sciences, in Greek and in Latin. Each winner of a Bowdoin Prize receives, in addition to $3,500, a medal, a certificate and their name printed in the commencement program. Notable recipients The award was established in 1791, and past winners include (with year of award and professional highlights): * Jared Sparks, 1815, historian and president of Harvard *Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820 and 1821, essayist and poet *Charles Sumner, 1830 and 1832, politician and US Senator *Jones Very, 1835 and 1836, Transcendentalist essayist and poet *Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1837, lawyer and politician *Edward Everett Hale, 1838 and 1839, author and historian * Charles L. Flint, 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth This fjord was named by Robert Peary after his alma mater, Bowdoin College. It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century. Geography Bowdoin Fjord runs in a roughly north–south direction with its mouth west of Cape Milne and 15 km west of Cape Ackland, in the northern shore of the middle reaches of the Inglefield Gulf. Piulip Nunaa is the peninsula that separates this fjord from MacCormick Fjord to the west and northwest; Bowdoin Fjord forms its eastern coastline. To the east lies Prudhoe Land. There is an Inuit settlement on the western shore of the fjord roughly 3 km north of Cape Tyrconnel.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 90 The Bowdoin Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord. See also *List of fjords of Greenland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin Glacier
Bowdoin Glacier ( or ''Bowdoin Brae''), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. Like the fjord further south, this glacier was named by Robert Peary after Bowdoin College. He described the glacier as follows: Geography The Bowdoin Glacier discharges at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord from the Greenland Ice Sheet to the northeast of Prudhoe Land. The glacier flows roughly from NE to SW.Google Earth See also *List of glaciers in Greenland This is a list of glaciers in Greenland. Details on the size and flow of some of the major Greenlandic glaciers are listed by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam (2006) Ice sheets and caps *Greenland Ice Sheet *Ad Astra Ice Cap (Greenland), ... References External links *Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat Glaciers of Greenland {{Greenland-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin II ( ; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merchant. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court from the 1750s to the 1770s. Although he was initially supportive of the royal governors, he opposed British colonial policy and eventually became an influential advocate of independence. He authored a highly political report on the 1770 Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one of the most influential pieces of writing that shaped public opinion in the colonies. From 1775 to 1777, he served as president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress's executive council, the ''de facto'' head of the Massachusetts government. He was elected president of the constitutional convention that drafted the state's constitution in 1779, and ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bowdoin III
James Bowdoin III (September 22, 1752 – October 11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He was born to James Bowdoin in Boston, and graduated from Harvard College in 1771. James then studied law at Oxford and traveled widely in Europe until 1775. When he got the news of the Battle of Lexington he returned home. He served in the Massachusetts state legislature and on the council before attending the Massachusetts’ constitutional convention in 1779 and 1780, and was a candidate in five elections to the U.S. House in 1792, 1793, and 1796. James devoted several years to scholarly pursuits, until he was appointed the United States Ambassador to Spain in 1804. He arrived in Madrid in May, 1805 but never actually assumed the post of ambassador. In March 1806 he and John Armstrong of New York were named commissioners to negotiate boundaries and other issues with Spain. He returned home in 1808 when the talks in Paris ended without success. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bowdoin
James L. (Goofy) Bowdoin (January 15, 1904 – May 11, 1969) was an American football guard for seven years, primarily with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Alabama, where he won two national championships. Bowdoin also had professional stints with the New York Giants, Portsmouth Spartans, and two separate seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Early life and education Bowdoin was born on January 15, 1904 in Coffee Springs, Alabama. He attended Elba High School in Alabama. While at Elba, he played football and became an all-state player. He then went to the University of Alabama for his university education. He played for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team from the 1924 to 1927 season. He was on the starting roster in the 1926 season and lettered in 1927. While he was playing for the Crimson Tide, they won the college football season in the 1925 and 1926 seasons. In the 1927 Rose Bowl, he came on as a substitute an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
