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Casper
Casper may refer to: People * Casper (given name) * Casper (surname) * Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque * Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426 * David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper * Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician * DJ Casper (born 1971), American musician Places in the United States * Casper, Wyoming, a city * Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming Entertainment * Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of ''The Maltese Falcon (novel), The Maltese Falcon.'' * Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics ** Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character *** Casper (film), ''Casper'' (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost *** ''Casper: A Spirited Beginning'', a direct-to-video prequel of the 1995 film *** ''Casper Meets Wendy'', a direct-to-v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to the development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. Casper is located in east central Wyoming. History The city was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California and Mormon trails. The area was the location of several ferries that offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s. In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations. The government soon posted a military garrison nearby to protect telegraph and mail service. It was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William O. Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (rapper)
Benjamin Griffey (born 25 September 1982), better known by his stage name Casper, is a German American rapper signed to Sony Music. Early life Casper was born in Lemgo in North Rhine-Westphalia to a German mother and an American father, Arlen Griffey, who was a soldier stationed in Lemgo. His family moved to Augusta, Georgia, in the United States, when he was two weeks old, where he lived in a trailer park."Casper Interview" (German). juice.de. Retrieved 29 July 2012 At the age of 11, he moved back to Germany and settled in with his mother and younger sister. Despite his mother being German, he had not been raised bilingually and therefore struggled at school initially. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (given Name)
Casper (with the same sounding Kasper) is a family and personal name derived from Aramaic that means "Treasurer". The origins of the name have been traced as far back as the Old Testament and variations of the name have been adopted by a variety of cultures and languages. Origins The name is derived from Gaspar which in turn is from an ancient Chaldean word, "gizbar", which according to Strong's Concordance means "treasurer". in Strong's Concordance The word "gizbar" appears in the Hebrew version of the Old Testament Book of Ezra (1:8). In fact, the modern Hebrew word for "treasurer" is still "gizbar" ( גזבר). By the 1st century B.C. the Septuagint gave a Greek translation of "gizbar" in Ezra 1:8 as "gasbarinou" (literally, "son of Gasbar"). The transition from "Gizbar" to "Caspar" and "Kaspar" can thus be summarized as: Gizbar→Gasbar→Gaspar→Caspar→Kaspar... with "C" being a misreading of the manuscript "G" and "K" having the same phonetic value as "C". There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper (video Game)
''Casper'' is a series of action-adventure games based on the 1995 film of the same name. Two different games were released in 1996 and 1997 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, by different publishers, in different regions. A third game was released for the 3DO (the final release for that system), Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color, published by Interplay Productions. There was also a Game Boy game developed by Bonsai. A PC game, ''Casper: The Interactive Adventure'', and a Game Boy Advance game, simply titled ''Casper'', were released in 1997 and 2002 respectively serving as sequels. A hack/remake of the PlayStation version was released by an independent game developer for free under the handle Retro Active Games in 2021. It follows the same story beats, but with entirely new puzzles and layouts. Windows/Macintosh game The first PC game based on the film was the ''Casper Brainy Book'' which was developed by Knowledge Adventure and was released in May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
