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Croll is the surname of: * Alexander Angus Croll, (1811-1887) British civil engineer * Dan Croll (born 1990), British singer-songwriter * David Croll (1900–1991), Canadian politician * Doña Croll (born 1953), Jamaican-born British actress * Hacker Croll, real name François Cousteix, French computer hacker * James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change * Jimmy Croll (1920–2008), American race horse trainer * Joan Croll (1928–2022), Australian physician and radiologist * June Croll (1901-1967), U.S. labor organizer * Maria de Croll (died 1710), Swedish vocalist * Oswald Croll or Crollius (c. 1563–1609), German physician, alchemist and botanist * Sebastian Croll, 17th-century Dutchman who introduced the cruller to the Americas * William Martin Croll (1866–1929), U.S. politician from Pennsylvania In other uses * Croll Building in Alameda, California * Petzl Croll rope ascending device * Croll Glacier a glacier in Antarctica See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Angus Croll
Alexander Angus Croll (1811-1887) was a British civil engineer who patented a method of purifying town gas of ammonia. He was Sheriff of the City of London. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery. Granard Park Croll was the owner of Granard Park (or Lodge) Putney Park Lane, Roehampton. In 1872, ''The Building News and Engineering Journal'' recorded that architect W. Allen Dixon was acting for "Colonel" Croll in alterations to Granard Park and the construction of a new church in its grounds. The church was originally a Baptist chapel but it later became the Anglican church of St Margaret, Putney Park Lane.Richardson, Kenneth. (2002''The "Twenty-Five" Churches of the Southwark Diocese: An inter-war campaign of church-building.'' London: The Ecclesiological Society The Cambridge Camden Society, known from 1845 (when it moved to London) as the Ecclesiological Society, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Croll
June Croll (1901-1967) was a U.S. labor organizer most active during the interwar years. Biography June Croll was born Sonia Croll in 1901 in Odessa in the Ukraine region of Russia. During her girlhood, she emigrated illegally to Canada and then to the United States, where by the age of 12 she was working in the garment industry in New York City. It is not certain when she changed her name from Sonia to June. Croll became involved in trade unionism, organizing textile and millinery workers and leading strikes. She joined the Communist Party and by 1935 was secretary of the Anti-Nazi Federation. She later became the executive director of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women’s Clubs (ELF). The ELF was a progressive organization formed by Clara Lemlich and others to provide relief to victims of World War II, to combat antisemitism, and to provide educational programs on Jewish identity and women's rights. Croll still held this job at the time of her death in 1967. Her commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petzl Croll
A Petzl Croll is an ascending device used in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl. Its name comes from the town Crolles where Petzl's company headquarters are located but might also be a reference to the nearby cave system of the Dent de Crolles, the exploration of which triggered a lot of technical effort leading to innovation in caving equipment. Usage The Croll is normally used in the chest position and in conjunction with an upper ascender or Jumar. This configuration allows a climber, caver or rope access worker to rapidly ascend a rope. History In 1968 Bruno Dressler asked Fernand Petzl, who worked as a metals machinist, to build a rope-ascending tool, today known as the Petzl Croll, that he had developed by adapting the Jumar to the specificity of pit caving. Following these developments, Fernand Petzl started in the 1970s a small caving equipment manufacturing company Petzl Petzl is a French manufacturer of climbing gear, caving gear, wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croll Building
The Croll Building, in Alameda, California, was the site of Croll's Gardens and Hotel, famous as training quarters for some of the greatest fighters in boxing history from 1883 to 1914. James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jefferies, Jack Johnson, and many other champions all stayed and trained here. Today this building is home to 1400 Bar & Grill. The stained glass, elaborate etched windows, and carved wooden bar remain as they were when Neptune Beach was a popular attraction. The second floor of the building is currently a residential hotel, with the third floor of the building being office space. The building is registered as California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NPS-82000960). It is located at the corner of Webster Street and Central Avenue. A large "Croll's" neon sign marks the location. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Alameda County, California __NOTOC__ This is a list of the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Martin Croll
William Martin Croll (April 9, 1866 – October 21, 1929) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William M. Croll was born in Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Keystone State Normal School in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He taught school, and moved to Maxatawny, Pennsylvania, in 1889 and engaged in the general merchandise business. He moved to Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1897 and engaged in the retail clothing business and in banking. He was treasurer of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to 1912. During World War I, from 1913 to 1918, he served as naval officer at the port of Philadelphia. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912 and 1920. Croll was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924. He resumed mercantile pursuits, died in Reading, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Croll
Sebastian Croll was a Dutchman said to have been made the first commissary of Fort Orange in 1617, which was built on the site of the present-day city of Albany, New York. He was also an elder in the "Church in the Fort," which was founded by the Rev. Jonas Michaelius in 1628. The last name ''Croll'' is pronounced in Dutch, similar to the English pronunciation, but according to an upper class widow living in Hudson, New York in 1909, one Mrs. Anna R. Bradbury, ''Croll'' is pronounced as "crull" in Dutch. Thus she claimed that he introduced the cruller to the New World, and that she thus believed him to be the eponym An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''epon ... for the pastry. This belief has been repeated in other later US works. References People of New Netherland [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswald Croll
Oswald Croll or Crollius (c. 1563 – December 1609) was an alchemist, and professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. Croll received his doctorate in medicine in 1582 at Marburg, then continued studies at Heidelberg, Strasburg, and Geneva. After working as a tutor, he arrived in Prague in 1597. He remained there for two years, and again from 1602 until his death. There, through Rudolf II, he came into contact with other alchemical writers such as Edward Kelley. In 1608, Croll's opus magnum ''Basilica Chymica'' (Chemical Basilica) was first published, self-described as "containing a philosophick description, confirmed by the experience of roll'sown labours, and application of the choicest chymical remedies drawn from the light of Nature and of Grace". It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria De Croll
Maria de Croll, née Swart (died 3 November 1710) was a Swedish vocalist. She was singer of the first rank at Hovkapellet 1702-1710. Maria de Croll was married to Reinhold de Croll, organist at the Hovkapellet. She was the first female employed at the Hovkapellet. However, she was not officially counted as the first woman there, as the royal orchestra were formally banned for female members until 26 October 1726, when Sophia Schröder Sophia Schröder (Stockholm, 1712 – 29 January 1750) was a Swedish people, Swedish soprano, active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the ''Kungliga Hovkapellet'', at the royal Swedish court, the first of her gender to have been offic ... and Judith Fisher became the first women formally employed at Hovkapellet after it was officially opened for women. Maria de Croll was also one of two females employed at the Hovkapellet during the ban of females, the other one being the vocalist Anna Maria Ristell in 1714-1716. In 1710, she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Croll
Una Joan Croll (née Holliday; 15 June 1928 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian physician and radiologist who specialised in ultrasound and mammography. Outside medicine, she was an environmental activist, one of the 13 women who saved Kelly's Bush in Sydney. Early life and education Una Joan Holliday was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 15 June 1928. As an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, she competed in rowing. After completing her medical degree in 1952, she briefly worked as a pathologist in the Northern Territory but returned to Sydney afterwards. In 1955, she married Frank James Croll, a fellow medical student who specialized in cardiology, and subsequently spent thirteen years as a full-time mother to her four children, delaying her career in medicine till she was 47 years old. Environmental activism In the early 1970s, Croll became one of the 13 women environmental activists known as the "Battlers for Kelly's Bush", who campaigned against urban d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected. Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines because it deals with constructed environment including planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. The term "civil engineer" was established by John Smeaton in 1750 to contrast engineers working on civil projects with the military engineers, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various sub-disciplines of civil engineering have become recognized and much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Croll
Warren A. Croll, Jr. (March 9, 1920 – June 6, 2008), best known as Jimmy Croll, was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer. Croll was born in 1920 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with the intention of becoming a veterinarian but left to pursue his passion for racing Thoroughbreds. In 1940 he obtained his trainers' license but his racing career was interrupted by service with the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Upon the 1946 opening of the new Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, Croll relocated there and became a permanent part of that facility's annual summer campaign. In 1998, he received Monmouth Park's "Raines Distinguished Achievement Award" given in memory of trainer Virgil W. Raines to an owner or trainer who has shown a dedication to the sport of Thoroughbred racing through exemplary conduct demonstrating professionalism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Croll
James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth's orbit. Life James Croll was born in 1821 on the farm of Little Whitefield, near Wolfhill in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of David Croll, mason, and his wife Janet Geddes. He was largely self-educated. At 16 he became an apprentice wheelwright at Collace near Wolfhill, and then because of health problems a tea merchant in Elgin, Moray. In 1848 he married Isabella Macdonald, daughter of John Macdonald and Annabella Sime, of Forres. In the 1850s he managed a temperance hotel in Blairgowrie, and was then an insurance agent in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leicester. In 1859, he became a janitor at the museum of the Andersonian University in Glasgow. He was able to use the university library to get access to books, and taught himself physics and astronomy to develop his ideas. From 1864, Croll corresponde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
