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Cynthia Ann Thomson
Cynthia is a feminine given name of Greek origin: , , "from Mount Cynthus" on Delos island. The name has been in use in the Anglosphere since the 1600s. There are various spellings for this name, and it can be abbreviated to Cindy, Cyndi, Cyndy, or occasionally to Thea or Thia. Cynthia was originally an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis, who according to legend was born on Mount Cynthus. Selene, the Greek personification of the moon, and the Roman Diana were also sometimes called "Cynthia". Usage It has ranked among the 1,000 most used names for girls in the United States since 1880 and among the top 100 names between 1945 and 1993. It peaked in usage between 1956 and 1963, when it was among the 10 most popular names for American girls. It has since declined in use in the United States and ranked in 806th position on the popularity chart there in 2021. It was also among the top 100 names in use for girls in Canada between 1949 and 1978, among the top 100 names in use for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Strang
William Strang (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling. Early life Strang was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, a builder, and was educated at the Dumbarton Academy. For fifteen months after leaving school he worked in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders, then in 1875, when he was sixteen, went to London. There he studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for six years. Strang had great success as an etcher and became assistant master in the etching class. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was part of its first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in '' The Portfolio'' and other art magazines. Work He worked in many techniques: etching, drypoint, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, burin engraving, lithography and woodcut. He cut a large wood engraving of a man plo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cintia Dicker
Cintia Schneider Dick (born 6 December 1986), known as Cintia Dicker, is a Brazilian model and actress. Career She has appeared in advertisements for Ann Taylor, Macy's, L'Oréal, American Eagle Outfitters, Tom Ford, Wildfox Couture, and Yves Saint Laurent, and in catalogs for Victoria's Secret, H&M, Gap, bebe stores, and Lands' End. She has been on the covers of French ''Marie Claire'', ''Elle'', ''Madame Figaro'' and Brazilian ''Vogue''/''Teen Vogue'', and was featured in the ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Edition in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Dicker has walked fashion shows including Gucci, Anna Sui, Peter Som, Matthew Williamson, Tommy Hilfiger, DSquared², Lanvin, and Dolce & Gabbana. Her career modeling and acting for ''Sports Illustrated'' and other high paying clients has allowed her to support children's charities in Brazil and she also hopes it will allow her to start her own businesses in the future. She is ranked as one of the "Top Sexiest" models in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Klitbo
Cynthia Klitbo (; born March 11, 1967) is a Mexican actress of telenovelas, theater and Mexican cinema. She is best known for her roles as Laura in Televisa's telenovela La Dueña (Mexico) (1995), as Tamara de Duval in Televisa's telenovela El privilegio de amar (1998) and as Raquela Villaseñor in the (2003) telenovela Velo de novia as well as Juana Godoy de González in Televisa's telenovela Teresa (2010 telenovela). Biography Cynthia Klitbo was born on March 11, 1967, in Fresnillo, Zacatecas to a Danish father and a Mexican mother. She began her television career in 1987 playing a secondary character in the telenovela ''Como Duele Callar'' ''Amor en Silencio,'' ''Mi Segunda Madre,'' ''Yo Compro Esa Mujer,'' and ''Cadenas de Amargura'' soon followed. After a brief hiatus in the mid-1990s, she returned to the small screen in ''La Dueña". Notable performances in ''Alguna vez Tendremos alas,'' '' El Privilegio de Amar,'' and ''La Casa en la Playa'' established Cynthia as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin (born Cynthia Mei-Ling Tse in Ganado, Arizona, United States; Chinese name: 謝 美 玲; pinyin: Xiè Měilíng; Cantonese: Tse6 Mei5ling4) is an American ethnomusicologist. She is the executive director and publisher of the Music Research Institute and MRI Press, based in Point Richmond, California. Her primary area of expertise is the music of Africa, in particular Ethiopia and Eritrea. Early life Kimberlin was born on the Navajo Nation, in Ganado, Apache County, Arizona and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. Traveling to Ethiopia, she was sent to the northern province of Eritrea, where she served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1962 to 1964. During this time she took it upon herself to conduct ethnomusicological fieldwork, although she had not yet received training in the field. She recorded many types of Eritrean and Ethiopian music (including songs of the Tigray-Tigrinya people), using a borrowed Philips reel-to-reel tap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Jane Kenyon (born February 21, 1954) is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm ''Caenorhabditis elegans''. She is the vice president of aging research at Calico Research Labs, and emeritus professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Career Cynthia Kenyon graduated valedictorian in chemistry and biochemistry from the University of Georgia in 1976. She received her Ph.D. in 1981 from MIT where, in Graham Walker's laboratory, she looked for genes on the basis of their activity profiles, discovering that DNA-damaging agents activate a battery of DNA repair genes in E. coli. She then did postdoctoral studies with Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, studying the development of ''C. elegans.'' Since 1986 she has been at the UCSF, where she was the Herbert Boyer Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Hotton
Cynthia Hotton (born 17 January 1969) is an Argentine politician, former National Deputy and candidate for Vice President. Early life Cynthia Hotton was born on 17 January 1969 in Buenos Aires to Arturo Hotton Risler, whose parents had emigrated to Argentina from Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. Political career Hotton began her political career with Ricardo López Murphy's party, Recreate for Growth, which merged with Republican Proposal. In March 2009, she launched the ''Valores para mi país'' party, formally breaking from the Republican Proposal in August of that same year. Hotton promoted the conservative party as being the emphatic opposition to the legalization of abortion. In May 2010, she was one of the primary opponents to same-sex marriage in Argentina in the Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Herrup
Cynthia Herrup is an American historian of early modern British law who holds the position of Professor of History and Law at the University of Southern California. Herrup's writings center primarily on the social history of criminal law, but she also touches upon the historical impact of gender and sexuality. Her first book, ''The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century England'', examined how communities without lawyers made decisions about law enforcement—it postulated that people as well as lawyers were important in the history of law. Her second book, ''A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven'' (1999), used a notorious trial to explore how law reflected tensions between genders and generations. She has held many fellowships, including those from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. Career Cynthia Herrup edited the ''Journal of British Studies'' from 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Harvey
Cynthia Harvey (born May 17, 1957) is an American former ballet dancer, ballet mistress and educator. She joined the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 1974 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1982. In 1986, she joined The Royal Ballet, becoming the company's first American principal dancer. She returned to ABT two years later, and retired in 1996. She then started teaching and staging ballets across the world. In 2016, she was named artistic director of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the affiliated school of ABT. She stepped down from the position in May 2022. Early life and training Harvey was born on May 17, 1957, in San Rafael, California, and raised in Novato. Her parents are divorced. Her mother, who is of Mexican descent, was an office manager. When she was ten, she attended a summer ballet class at a local YMCA. Recognising her talents, the teacher suggested Harvey's mother to have her train for ballet seriously. Harvey then trained with a local teacher, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Greiner
Cynthia Greiner (née Suggs, born February 15, 1957, in San Diego, California) is a retired female heptathlete and long jumper from the United States, who won the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, United States. She is a two-time U.S. champion (1984 and 1990). Greiner set her personal best (6300 points) in the heptathlon during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci .... International competitions External links * * * Profileat ''trackfield.brinkster.net'' * Athletes from the Past, Where Are They Now?'' article in the Aberdeen News, July 5, 2008 1957 births Living people Track and field athletes from San Diego American heptathletes American female long jumpers Olympic track and field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Gregory
Cynthia Kathleen Gregory (born July 8, 1946) is an American former prima ballerina. Career Born in Los Angeles, Gregory took up dancing when she was five, with the encouragement of her parents, who hoped exercise would stem her history of childhood illnesses. A performance by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev had inspired young Cynthia to study ballet. By age six, she was ''en pointe''; and at age seven, she first appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine. She would eventually go on to dance with Nureyev in a production of ''Romeo and Juliet,'' which he had originated with Fonteyn as Juliet. He has called Gregory "America's Prima ballerina assoluta." Much of Gregory’s early training was with Carmelita Maracci. Awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship at age 14 to study with the San Francisco Ballet, she quickly rose to soloist and became shortly thereafter a principal dancer, while also dancing with the San Francisco Opera. Gregory joined American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 1965. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Glassman
Dr. Cynthia Aaron Glassman of Alexandria, Virginia was a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as well as the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs. She served as acting chair from July 1, 2005 to August 3, 2005. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ... in 1975. External links SEC biography References * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission United States Department of Commerce officials People from Alexandria, Virginia Wellesley College alumni George W. Bush administration personnel {{Virginia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Gibb
Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. She began her career as a cast member on the musical television drama '' Fame'', based on the movie of the same name. She also appeared in the films '' Youngblood'' (1986), '' Salvador'' (1986), ''Malone'' (1987), ''Short Circuit 2'' (1988) and ''Death Warrant'' (1990). She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the film ''Gypsy'' (1993). Life and career Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and graduated from Staples High School. At the age of 14, she began assignments with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. She was on the cover of ''Vogue'' and '' Young Miss'' magazines. She was cast for her first film role, a small part as a Young Fan in Woody Allen's 1980 film ''Stardust Memories''. Gibb appeared in '' Youngblood'' starring Rob Lowe. She also played the role of Susan Martin Wyatt Carter on the soap opera ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |