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Cotten
Cotten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ann Cotten (born 1982), American-born Austrian writer *Elizabeth Cotten (1893–1987), American musician and singer-songwriter *Gerald Cotten (1988-2018), Canadian CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga Fintech Solutions * James Cotten (born 1974), American actor, film director, producer and writer * Joanna Cotten, American country music singer * Joni Cotten (born 1953), American curler * Joseph Cotten (1905–1994), American actor * Lyman A. Cotten (1874–1926), American naval officer ** USS ''Cotten'', warship named after him *Mike Cotten (born 1939), American football player *Sallie Southall Cotten (1846–1929), American writer and clubwoman ** SS ''Sallie S. Cotten'', Liberty ship named after her *Sonia Cotten (born 1974), Canadian writer See also *Cotton (surname) Cotton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, derived from place names such as Coton, Cottam and Cotham, which in turn are named for the Old English word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of '' The Philadelphia Story'' and ''Sabrina Fair''. He then gained worldwide fame in three Orson Welles films: '' Citizen Kane'' (1941), ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1942), and '' Journey into Fear'' (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay. Cotten went on to become one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as ''Shadow of a Doubt'' (1943), ''Gaslight'' (1944), ''Love Letters'' (1945), '' Duel in the Sun'' (1946), ''Portrait of Jennie'' (1948) for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, ''The Third Man'' (1949) and '' Niagara'' (1953). One of his final films was Michael Cimino's '' Heaven's Gate'' (1980). Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten ( Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking". Early life Cotten was born in 1893U.S. Federal Census, Chapel Hill. 1870, 1880, 1900. to a musical family near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in an area that would later be incorporated as Carrboro. Her parents were George Nevill (also spelled Nevills) and Louisa (or Louise) Price Nevill. Elizabeth was the youngest of five children. She named herself on her first day of school, when the teacher asked her name, because at home she was only called "Li'l Sis". By the age of eight, she was playing songs. At age nine, she was forced to quit school and began work as a domestic wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sallie Southall Cotten
Sallie Southall Cotten (June 13, 1846 – May 4, 1929) was an American writer and clubwoman, based in North Carolina. She helped to organize the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. She was the organization's fifth president, and wrote the federation's anthem, as well as a history of the federation. Early life and education Sallie Swepson Sims Southall was born in Lawrenceville, Virginia, the daughter of Thomas J. Southall and Susanna Sims Southall. She was raised in the home of an uncle in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. She attended Wesleyan Female College (which closed during her time there, in the tumult of the American Civil War) and Greensboro Female College, graduating from the latter in 1863. Career In her mid-forties, Sallie Cotten accepted an appointment from governor Elias Carr to serve as one of North Carolina's managers at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. "I had never traveled much, and felt utterly unprepared," she confessed to the ''Charlotte Obs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Cotten
Quadriga Fintech Solutions was the owner and operator of QuadrigaCX, which was believed to be Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange. In 2019 the exchange ceased operations and the company filed for bankruptcy with C$215.7 million in liabilities and about C$28 million in assets. The company's CEO and founder, Gerald William Cotten, allegedly died in 2018 after traveling to India. Up to C$250 million (US$190 million) in cryptocurrency owed to 115,000 customers was missing or could not be accessed because only Cotten held the password to off-line cold wallets. Quadriga likely never invested the funds entrusted to it, according to Chainalysis, a cryptocurrency tracking firm. Either the funds were never received or quickly went missing. "What Quadriga really did with the money that customers gave it to buy Bitcoin remains a mystery," according to Chainalysis. Ernst & Young was appointed as an independent monitor while Quadriga was granted temporary legal protection from its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Cotten
USS ''Cotten'' (DD-669) was a of the United States Navy, named for Captain Lyman A. Cotten (1874–1926). ''Cotten'' was launched 12 June 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. L. A. Cotten, widow of Captain Cotten; and commissioned 24 July 1943. World War II Departing Norfolk, Virginia 9 October 1943, ''Cotten'' arrived at Pearl Harbor 31 October. Here she joined the 5th Fleet, and on 10 November sortied for the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, screening the escort carriers providing air support and patrolling against submarines off Tarawa. Returning to Pearl Harbor 7 January 1944, she sailed with the vast Fast Carrier Task Force (then TF 58, later 3rd Fleet's TF 38) on 16 January for air strikes on the Marshalls on 29 and 30 January. Based at Majuro, ''Cotten'' participated in the Truk raid of 16 and 17 February; supported the landings at Emirau Island; and screened the carriers as they launched str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joni Cotten
Joni Cotten (born May 21, 1953, in North Chicago, Illinois) is an American curler from Mount Prospect, Illinois. Curling career In 1997 Cotten won the United States Women's Championship while playing second for Patti Lank. As national champions they represented the United States at the 1997 World Women's Championship, finishing 7th. Cotten again won the US Championship in 2000, this time playing second for Amy Wright. At the 2000 World Championship the US women tied for 6th place with Germany and Denmark. At the 2001 World Championship Cotten played as alternate with skip Kari Erickson, Debbie McCormick, Stacey Liapis, and Ann Swisshelm. The team finished 6th. Cotten continued to play alternate for team Erickson as they won the 2001 United States Olympic Trials and competed as Team USA at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the Olympics they finished 4th, losing to Team Switzerland in the semifinals and Team Canada in the bronze medal match. Cotten played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cotten
James Cotten (born February 12, 1974) is an American actor, film director, film producer, and writer. Early life Cotten was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas., – James Cotten, IMDb later moving to Sallisaw, Oklahoma. While working at a local television station in , Cotten produced a story on a film being shot in the area, '''' (1995). He was cast as a bomber pilot. Film career Cotten first studied film making at the London International Film School, in London, England. He later studied at |
Ann Cotten
Ann Cotten (born 1982 in Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer. Life and work At the age of five, Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents, who are both biochemists who worked in Vienna. She finished university there in 2006 with a work about concrete poetry. At the same time she first emerged as a poet at poetry slams. In 2007 Cotten, whose work has been published in anthologies and poetry journals, found considerable success as a writer with her first book, ''Fremdwörterbuchsonnette'', which was published at Suhrkamp. Other books with Suhrkamp are ''Florida-Räume'' in 2001, ''Der schaudernde Fächer'' in 2013, ''Verbannt! Versepos'' in 2016. Some of Cotten's poems have been translated into English and published in journals like ''burning deck'' (USA). In 2010 she collaborated with visual artist Kerstin Cmelka in a book called ''I, Coleoptile'' containing original English poetry and film stills, published by Broken Dimanche Press. The book ''Lather in Heaven'', publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Cotten
Michael Barry Cotten (born December 12, 1939) is a former American football player who was the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns and the Quantico Marines in the early 1960s. He was an All-Southwest Conference back in 1961 and the Outstanding Back in the 1962 Cotton Bowl. Early life Mike Cotten was born in Uvalde, Texas in 1939 but after moving with his family to Amarillo in 1943 he landed in Austin in 1946, with a 1-year detour to Abilene in 1949, and went to high school in Austin and, by coincidence lived in the same neighborhood as Darrell Royal at the time. He was an All-District, All-State and All-America quarterback who led Austin High School to the state semi-finals and their last playoff win in of the 20th Century. Widely recruited, the only campus he visited was Texas. He also played catcher and center field on the school's state championship baseball team. In 1957, he tied the state record for most doubles in the playoffs with 2, a record that wasn't broke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Cotten
Joanna Cotten (born in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American country music singer. Cotten's debut single, "The Prize," peaked at number 60 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. Cotten recorded 21 songs for an unreleased album for Warner Bros. Records. She split from the label in December 2007 after the release of a digital-only extended play. Cotten has continued to record and tour. From 2013 to 2022, she was a member of Eric Church's band, until she quit in July 2022. Discography Studio albums Extended plays Singles References External links * *Joanna Cottenon Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ... American women country singers American country singer-songwriters Living people Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee Warner Records artists Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Cotten
Sonia Cotten (born September 13, 1974) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec. She was born in Rouyn-Noranda Rouyn-Noranda ( 2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The city of Rouyn-Noranda is a coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census ... and studied human resource management, editorial practices and business communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Cotten was employed at the Maison de la culture Pointe-aux-Trembles and at the Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue. In 2002, she published her first poetry collection ''Changer le Bronx en or''. She has also contributed to various poetry magazines. In 2015, she received the Prix Geneviève-Amyot for her poem ''Pour Jean-Paul Daoust''. Selected works * ''Nique à feu'' (2006) * ''Mon chef c’est mon cœur'' (2009) * ''Ovalta'' (2011) * ''Marcher dans le ciel'', children's book (2015) Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lyman may refer to: Places Ukraine * Lyman, Ukraine United States * Lyman, Iowa * Lyman, Maine * Lyman, Mississippi * Lyman, Nebraska * Lyman, New Hampshire * Lyman, Oklahoma * Lyman, South Carolina * Lyman, South Dakota * Lyman County, South Dakota * Lyman, Utah * Lyman, Washington * Lyman, Wyoming Other uses * Lyman (crater), a lunar impact crater * Lyman (name) * Lyman series of hydrogen spectral lines See also * Liman (other) * Lyman High School (other) Lyman High School may refer to: * Lyman Memorial High School, Lebanon, Connecticut * Lyman High School (Florida), Longwood, Florida * Lyman High School (South Dakota), Presho, South Dakota * Lyman High School (Wyoming), Lyman, Wyoming See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
