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Calvin
Calvin may refer to: Names * Calvin (given name) ** Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States * Calvin (surname) ** Particularly John Calvin, theologian Places In the United States * Calvin, Arkansas, a hamlet * Calvin Township, Jewell County, Kansas * Calvin, Louisiana, a village * Calvin Township, Michigan ** Calvin crater, an impact crater * Calvin, North Dakota, a city * Calvin, Oklahoma, a town * Calvin, Virginia * Calvin, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Calvin, Ontario, Canada, a township * Mount Calvin, Victoria Land, Antarctica Schools * Calvin University (South Korea), a Presbyterian-affiliated university in South Korea * Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan * Calvin High School (other), various American schools * Calvin Christian School (Escondido, California) * Calvin Christian School (Kingston, Tasmania) * Collège Calvin, the oldest public secondary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Calvin
John Calvin (; frm, Jehan Cauvin; french: link=no, Jean Calvin ; 10 July 150927 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. Calvin was a tireless polemicist and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to his seminal ''Institutes of the Christian Religion'', Calvin wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin (Calvin And Hobbes)
''Calvin and Hobbes'' is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was Print syndication, syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic", ''Calvin and Hobbes'' has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest. ''Calvin and Hobbes'' follows the humorous antics of the title characters: Calvin, a precocious, mischievous, and adventurous six-year-old boy; and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger. Set in the contemporary suburban United States of the 1980s and 1990s, 90s, the strip depicts Calvin's frequent flights of fancy and friendship with Hobbes. It also examines Calvin's relationships with his long-suffering parents and with his classmates, especially his neighbor Susie Derkins. Hobbes' dual nature is a defining motif for the strip: to Calvin, Hobbes is a living anthropomorphic tiger, while all the other characters see Hobbes as an inanimate stuffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin University
Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a Private university, private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition. Known as Calvin College for most of its history, the school is named after John Calvin, the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, Protestant Reformer. History The Christian Reformed Church in North America founded the school on August 4, 1876, as part of ''Calvin College and Theological Seminary'' (with the seminary becoming Calvin Theological Seminary) to train church ministers. The college and seminary began with seven students, in a rented upper room on Spring Street, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The initial six-year curriculum included four years of literary studies and two years of theology. In 1892, the campus moved to the intersection of Madison Avenue and Frank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming the state's Governor of Massachusetts, 48th governor. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight as a man of decisive action. Coolidge was elected the country's 29th vice president of the United States, vice president the next year, succeeding the presidency upon the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924 United States presidential election, 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government Conservatism in the United States, conservative distinguished by a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor, receiving the nickname "Silent Cal". Though his widespread p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Company
The Calvin Company was a Kansas City, Missouri-based advertising, educational and industrial film production company that for nearly half a century was one of the largest and most successful film producers of its type in the United States. Origins Forrest ("F. O.") Calvin from Pleasanton, Kansas studied journalism and advertising at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s. In 1928, F. O. drew a briefly-used version of the KU mascot, the Jayhawk. After graduating from college, F. O. went to work for an advertising agency in Kansas City, doing direct mail advertising and commercial art and finding both rough-going. However, his tenure at that agency did lead to an interesting discovery. The ad agency was occasionally using a 16 mm movie camera to make little advertising films for its clients. This was an almost unheard-of practice, as the 16 mm film format was at the time reserved mostly for home movies, though it was convenient and inexpensive and perfect for educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin (given Name)
Calvin is a masculine given name. It has been particularly popular among American Protestants, who may be baptized as John Calvin to honor the religious leader, although in the judgement of the Oxford Dictionary of First Names, the modern given name "owes its popularity as much to the New York fashion designer Calvin Klein . 1942as to the theologian".''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Calvin". Notable people with this name include: * Calvin Abrams (1924–1997), Major League Baseball outfielder * Calvin Abueva (born 1988), Filipino professional basketball player * Calvin Anderson (born 1996), American football player * Calvin Andrew (born 1986), English footballer * Calvin Borel (b. 1966), thoroughbred horse jockey * Calvin Broadus, or his stage name Snoop Dogg (born 1971), American rapper * Calvin Chen (born 1980), member of the Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit * Calvin Cheng (born 1975), fashion mogul * Calvin Galusha Coolidge (1815–1878 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Cycle
The Calvin cycle, light-independent reactions, bio synthetic phase, dark reactions, or photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle of photosynthesis is a series of chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen-carrier compounds into glucose. The Calvin cycle is present in all photosynthetic eukaryotes and also many photosynthetic bacteria. In plants, these reactions occur in the stroma, the fluid-filled region of a chloroplast outside the thylakoid membranes. These reactions take the products ( ATP and NADPH) of light-dependent reactions and perform further chemical processes on them. The Calvin cycle uses the chemical energy of ATP and reducing power of NADPH from the light dependent reactions to produce sugars for the plant to use. These substrates are used in a series of reduction-oxidation reactions to produce sugars in a step-wise process; there is no direct reaction that converts several molecules of to a sugar. There are three phases to the light-independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Calvin
Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character appearing in Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series of science fiction short stories. According to I, Robot, Susan Calvin was born in the year 1982 and died at the age of 82, either in 2064 or 2065. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., posited as the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century. She was the main character in many of Asimov's short stories concerning robots, which were later collected in the books ''I, Robot'' and ''The Complete Robot''. Fictional character biography According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated. At 16, she wrote the first of many papers on robotics, a Physics-1 paper entitled "Practical Aspects of Robotics". This was after attending a Psycho-Math seminar at which Dr Alfred Lanning of US Robots demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice. As quoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin, Oklahoma
Calvin is a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 294 at the 2010 census. History The present community of Calvin was established in 1895, when the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (C O & G) laid a line through the Choctaw Nation between McAlester (then in Indian Territory) and Oklahoma City (then in Oklahoma Territory). The community was initially called "Riverview", for its location on the south bank of the Canadian River. The Riverview post office was established on March 21, 1895, with John Wilbur as postmaster. The town (and post office) name was changed to Calvin in June, 1895, to honor the Choctaw landowner, Calvin Perry. The Choctaw Nation Town Site Commission surveyed Calvin's site and divided it into 350 lots, which were put up for sale. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin (surname)
Calvin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Calvin (1918–1975), American comic actor * Hiram Augustus Calvin (1841–1932), Canadian businessman and politician * John Calvin (1509–1564), theologian, Protestant reformer and proponent of Calvinism * Idelette Calvin (died 1549), wife of John Calvin * Katherine Calvin, American earth scientist * Kathy Calvin (born 1949), chief executive officer of the United Nations Foundation * Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist; discoverer of the Calvin Cycle (see below) * Samuel Calvin (1811–1890), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * Samuel Calvin (geologist) (1840–1911), American geologist * Tom Calvin (1926-2020), former National Football League halfback * William H. Calvin (born 1939), American neurophysiologist * Wyn Calvin Wyn Calvin MBE OStJ (born Joseph Wyndham Calvin-Thomas; 28 August 1925 – 25 January 2022), known affectionately as "The Clown Prince of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin Township, Michigan
Calvin Township is a civil township of Cass County, Michigan, Cass County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,037 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Calvin Township's first public school was built in 1834. Calvin Township was organized in 1835 and named for Calvin Britain who represented Cass County in the state legislature. Calvin Township along with Cass County generally was part of the Underground Railroad. In 1850 Calvin Township's population was 25.3% African-American.Ernestine K. Enomoto and David L. Angus. "African American School Attendance in the 19th Century: Education in a Rural Northern Community, 1850-1880" in ''The Journal of Negro Education'', Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 42-51 Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 3.41%, is water. Calvin Township is the location of the Calvin crater, Calvin impact event, impact crater. Communities *Brownsville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvin (horse)
Calvin (1872–1879) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1875 Belmont Stakes. Besides the Belmont, Calvin won two other stakes races as a two and three year old horse. He was euthanized in 1879 after contracting tetanus. Background Calvin was foaled in 1872, and was a brown stallion sired by Tipperary. He was bred by Price McGrath. Tipperary was sired by Ringgold and his dam was Roxana by the imported stallion Chesterfield.Hogan ''Index to Stakes Winners'' p. 686 Calvin's dam was Lucy Fowler, who was sired by imported Albion. Lucy's dam was an unnamed mare sired by imported Leviathan. Calvin was a full brother to the stakes winner Aaron Pennington, who was foaled in 1871. Lucy was also the dam of the stakes winning Tom Bowling, who was sired by Lexington and was foaled in 1870.Hogan ''Index to Stakes Winners'' p. 313 Racing career As a two-year-old, Calvin won the 1874 July Stakes. During his three-year-old year, Calvin won the ninth running of the Belmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
