Charles Armstrong (rugby Union)
Charles Armstrong may refer to: People Politicians * Charles F. Armstrong (Pennsylvania politician) (1865–1934), American politician * Charles F. Armstrong (Illinois politician) (1919–1965), member of the Illinois House of Representatives * Charles Armstrong (politician) (fl. 2006–2017), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives Sports * Charles Armstrong (rower) (1881–1952), American rower who won a medal at the 1904 Summer Olympics * Charles Armstrong (baseball) (1914–1990), American professional baseball player and football coach *Charlie Armstrong (footballer) (1883–1954), Australian rules footballer *Charlie Armstrong (American football) (1923–2002), American football halfback and fullback *Chuck Armstrong (fl. 1960s–2014), U.S. Navy officer and president of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club Other people *Charles Armstrong (physician) (1886–1967), American physician in the U.S. Public Health Service * Charles Armstrong (British Army off ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles F
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (politician)
Charles L. Armstrong is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, having represented District 30 in the capital city of Little Rock from 2013 to 2017. Education Armstrong earned his BS in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Elections *2012 – Redistricted to District 30, with District 33 Representative Fred Allen running for Arkansas Senate and District 30 incumbent Republican Representative Bruce Westerman redistricted to District 22, Armstrong placed first in the three-way May 22, 2012 Democratic Primary with 964 votes (58.4%), won the June 22 runoff election with 321 votes (57.8%), and was unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election. *2000 – When the District 56 seat was left open, Armstrong ran in the three-way 2000 Democratic primary but lost to Joyce Elliott, who went on to win the November 7, 2000 General election. *2006 – Redistricted to District 33, when Representa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (rower)
Charles Ewing Armstrong (October 23, 1881 – March 12, 1952) was an American rower who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Philadelphia 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 .... In 1904, he was part of the American boat that won the gold medal in the men's eight. References External links * * * 1881 births 1952 deaths Rowers from Philadelphia Rowers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing American male rowers Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics {{US-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (baseball)
Charles (Pee Wee) Armstrong (December 13, 1914 – January 27, 1990) was an American professional baseball player and coach. Early life Armstrong was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Central High School in Jackson before attending Mississippi State University from 1934 to 1937, where he lettered in football, baseball and basketball (1934–36). He was All-SEC in 1935 and named Best Athlete in 1937. Professional career Armstrong played professional baseball with the Jackson Senators in 1937–38 where he played catcher to future Boston Redsox pitcher and MLB Hall of Famer, Dave "Boo" Ferriss. He coached Mississippi State football in 1938 and was a coach and Athletics Director at Belzoni High School in 1939–40. Armstrong was also a Southeastern Conference football and basketball official in the 1950s and 1960s, and later officiated football and basketball at the junior college level before retiring. He was a lifelong resident ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charlie Armstrong (footballer)
Charles Stanley Armstrong (10 March 1883 – 2 June 1954) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). He later served in World War I. In May 1919, an unidentified former Melbourne footballer, wrote to the football correspondent of ''The Argus'' as follows: ::"In 1914 the Melbourne football team, after its junction with the University, was a fine team, and succeeded in reaching the semi-finals.Out of this combination the following players enlisted and served at the front:— C. Lilley (seriously wounded), J. Hassett, H. Tomkins (severely wounded), J. Evans (seriously wounded), W. Hendrie, R. L. Park, J. Doubleday (died), A. Best, C. Burge (killed) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charlie Armstrong (American Football)
Charles Andrew Armstrong (April 20, 1919 – July 20, 2001) was an American football halfback and fullback. Armstrong was born in Hickory, Mississippi, in 1919 and attended Newton High School in Newton, Mississippi. He played college football at Mississippi College from 1938 to 1940. He was the leading scorer in the Dixie Conference in both 1939 and 1940 and was selected as the first-team quarterback on the 1940 All-Dixie Conference football team. In October 1940, the ''Clarion-Ledger'' wrote: "Armstrong is the answer to any coach's prayer as a triple-threat back. He does a large part of the running, practically all of the punting, and gives his roommate, Bob Majure, a helping hand with the passing attack of the Tribesmen." Armstrong was selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the 12th round (103rd overall pick) of the 1941 NFL Draft, but he never played in the NFL. He instead served in the military in the South Pacific during World War II World War II or the S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chuck Armstrong
Charles G. Armstrong is an American attorney and former officer of the United States Navy, best known for his 28-year tenure as president of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club, a position from which he stepped down on January 31, 2014. Early life Armstrong was born in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1964, he earned an engineering degree from Purdue University, followed by a law degree from Stanford University in 1967. Shortly after graduation, Armstrong began his three-year career in the navy. Seattle Mariners Armstrong was employed as general counsel for George Argyros' California real estate business when the latter purchased the Mariners from the team's original ownership group, led by entertainer Danny Kaye, in 1981. Argyros immediately brought Armstrong to Seattle to serve as the team's president. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (physician)
Charles Armstrong (September 25, 1886 – June 23, 1967) was an American physician in the U.S. Public Health Service. He coined the name Lymphocytic choriomeningitis in 1934 after isolating the hitherto completely unknown virus. He discovered in 1939 that poliovirus can be transmitted to cotton rats, and started self-tests with nasal spray vaccination. Education In 1905 Charles Armstrong graduated from Alliance High School and went on to Mount Union College Preparatory School from 1905–1906. He took a B.S. degree from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio in 1910. In 1915 he graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School, with an M.D. degree and did a General Internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital until 1916. Civilian career On October 16, 1916, he was commissioned to the U.S. Public Health Service and served for six weeks at the Immigration Station, Ellis Island, New York. From November 1916 to September 1918, he was Medical Officer on the United States Coast Guard Cutter (C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (British Army Officer)
Brigadier Charles Douglas Armstrong (11 June 1897 – 11 December 1985) was a British Army officer in World War I and World War II. In the latter conflict he was the head of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) liaison mission to the Chetnik forces of Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia from July 1943 to early 1944. Early life Armstrong was born on 11 June 1897 and was educated at Cheltenham College. After attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the East Surrey Regiment in April 1915 during the First World War. Seconded to the Machine Gun Corps, he served in France from 1916 to 1918, where he was twice wounded and, in March 1918, made a prisoner of war. Repatriated in December 1918, by which time the war was over due to the armistice with Germany, he served in North Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1919 and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for gallantry. The citation for his MC, appearing in ''The London Gazette'' in January 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Disappearance Of Charles Armstrong
Charles Armstrong was a 55 year old labourer from Crossmaglen who disappeared on 16 August 1981. It is suspected that he was abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA, a victim of enforced disappearance. No reason, in this case, has ever been publicly given. Armstrong and his wife Kathleen had five children. Armstrong's body was retrieved in July 2010, in a bog near Aughrim More and his funeral took place on 18 September 2010. Disappearance On the day Armstrong disappeared, his wife walked with their daughters to Mass, where they had planned to meet him after he drove a friend to it. He did not appear and it was only when they got home that they discovered that he had not met their friend. Initially, it was thought that he had had an accident, so his family and friends searched the area, but there was no sign of him. The next day, a friend phoned the family to tell them that his car had been found outside a cinema in Dundalk. His name did not appear on a list of nine people whos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Armstrong (ethnographer)
Charles Armstrong (born 14 September 1971) is a British ethnographer, entrepreneur and author. He is primarily known for his work on social analytics, emergent democracy and electronically mediated organisations. Armstrong serves as CEO of the social analytics business Trampoline Systems, as custodian of think tank CIRCUS foundation and as director of the non-profit One Click Orgs. Early education Born in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, Armstrong's family moved to Cornwall in 1978. Armstrong attended the state primary school in the village of Lanner before being awarded a scholarship and an assisted place to Truro School in 1983. In 1988 the family moved to Gloucestershire where Armstrong gained academic and musical scholarships to study at Cheltenham College. In 1990 he was awarded a choral scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where his uncle, grandfather and great-grandfather had also studied. Armstrong graduated with a degree in Social and Political Science in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles K
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |