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Cresson Pass
''Cresson'' is the French word for ''watercress''. It may refer to: ; Places * Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187, in what now is Israel, near Nazareth * Cresson, Pennsylvania, a United States borough * Cressona, Pennsylvania, a United States borough * Cresson Township, Pennsylvania, a U.S. township * Cresson, Texas, a United States city ; People * Cresson Kearny, U.S. survival guide writer * Charles Cresson, American Olympic tennis player * Édith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France. * Elliott Cresson, American philanthropist ** Elliott Cresson Medal, scientific award of the Franklin Institute * Ezra Townsend Cresson, American entomologist * Margaret French Cresson, (b. 1889 - d. 1973), sculptress * Warder Cresson, religious enthusiast * William Penn Cresson, (d. 1932) Architect, writer and diplomat ; Other uses * Cresson (wasp), a wasp in the family Crabronidae See also * Cressonsacq, a village and commune in France * Montcresson, a commune in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cresson
''Cresson'' is the French word for ''watercress''. It may refer to: ; Places * Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187, in what now is Israel, near Nazareth * Cresson, Pennsylvania, a United States borough * Cressona, Pennsylvania, a United States borough * Cresson Township, Pennsylvania, a U.S. township * Cresson, Texas, a United States city ; People * Cresson Kearny, U.S. survival guide writer * Charles Cresson, American Olympic tennis player * Édith Cresson, former Prime Minister of France. * Elliott Cresson, American philanthropist ** Elliott Cresson Medal, scientific award of the Franklin Institute * Ezra Townsend Cresson, American entomologist * Margaret French Cresson, (b. 1889 - d. 1973), sculptress * Warder Cresson, religious enthusiast * William Penn Cresson, (d. 1932) Architect, writer and diplomat ; Other uses * Cresson (wasp), a wasp in the family Crabronidae See also * Cressonsacq, a village and commune in France * Montcresson, a commune in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Cresson Medal
The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848. The endowed award was to be "for some discovery in the Arts and Sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, or for some new process or combination of materials in manufactures, or for ingenuity skill or perfection in workmanship." The medal was first awarded in 1875, 21 years after Cresson's death. The Franklin Institute continued awarding the medal on an occasional basis until 1998 when they reorganized their endowed awards under one umbrella, The Benjamin Franklin Awards. A total of 268 Elliott Cresson Medals were given out during the award's lifetime. See also * List of engineering awards * List of physics awards This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics. The list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montcresson
Montcresson () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Loiret department The following is the list of the 325 communes of the Loiret department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Loiret {{Loiret-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cressonsacq
Cressonsacq () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Oise {{Oise-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cresson (wasp)
''Cresson'' is a South American genus of kleptoparasitic wasps in the family Crabronidae The Crabronidae are a large paraphyletic group (nominally a family) of wasps, including nearly all of the species formerly comprising the now-defunct superfamily Sphecoidea. It collectively includes well over 200 genera, containing well over 9 .... Species *'' Cresson mariastea'' Packer, 2021 *'' Cresson parvispinosus'' (Reed, 1894) *'' Cresson salitrera'' Packer, 2021 References Crabronidae {{apoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Penn Cresson
William Penn Cresson (September 17, 1873 – May 12, 1932) was an American architect, author, diplomat, and husband of sculptor Margaret French Cresson (1889–1973). Education Born in Claymont, Delaware, Cresson studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1895 until graduation in 1897. Shortly after graduation, Cresson moved to France to study at the influential École des Beaux-Arts until 1902, when he went on to become a student at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. Career Cresson arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1905 where he practiced Architecture for two or three years. During this time, he worked in partnership with fellow American architect Nathan C Wyeth at their architecture firm "Wyeth & Cresson" whose offices were located at 1517 H Street, N.W within Washington, D.C. It was during this time that he was involved in a number of building designs including the current Embassy of Ireland in Washington. In 1907, Cresson left Washington to become a cattle ranc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warder Cresson
Warder Cresson (July 13, 1798 – November 6, 1860), later known as Michael Boaz Israel ben Abraham (), was an American diplomat. He was appointed the first Consulate General of the United States, Jerusalem, U.S. Consul to Jerusalem in 1844. Biography Warder Cresson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Quaker parents John Elliott (1773–1814) and Mary Cresson. He was descended from Pierre Cresson, one of the early settlers of Harlem, Haarlem, New York City, New York, whose grandson, Solomon, migrated to Philadelphia in the early 18th century. Cresson married Elizabeth Townsend, with whom he had six children, and ran a farm in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. In 1830 he published a pamphlet entitled ''Babylon the Great Is Falling! The Morning Star, or Light from on High'', in which he deplored the extravagance and evil tendencies of the times, and exhorted all Quakers to lead a better and less wayward life. He went through a period of strong religious upheav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret French Cresson
Margaret French Cresson (1889–1973) was an American sculptor, and daughter of sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931). She studied under Abastenia St. Leger Eberle and George Demetrius, focusing her art on marble busts and portrait heads. Her works were exhibited in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and other museums and galleries. Margaret French was painted by many artists who were friendly with her father, and many of these portraits may be found today at Chesterwood in Massachusetts, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. One important portrait, documented as in the house in 1970, is missing, but is known from a photograph. In December 1912, the Swiss-born American portrait painter Adolfo Müller-Ury painted a bust length portrait of Margaret, which was exhibited by him in New York in March and April 1913 after having been donated to the French family that January. In 1942, she was elected into the National Academy of Design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Townsend Cresson
Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, in Byberry – 19 April 1926, in Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in the Hymenoptera order of insects. He wrote ''Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico'' Philadelphia: Paul C. Stockhausen, Entomological printer (1887) and many other works. His son Ezra Townsend, Jr. (1876–1948) was also an entomologist but a specialist in Diptera. Cresson also documented many new species including ''Nomada texana ''Nomada texana'' is a species of bee native to the southern and western United States and other parts of North America (including Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sover ...''. References * Essig, E. O. 1931 ''A History of Entomology''. -New York, Macmillan Company. *Mallis, A. 1971 ''American Entomologists''. Rutgers Univ. Press New Brunswick 343-348, Portr. *Osborn, H. 1937 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliott Cresson
Elliott Cresson (March 2, 1796 – February 20, 1854) was an American philanthropist who gave money to a number of causes after a brief career in the mercantile business. He established the Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1848, and helped found and manage the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, today's Moore College of Art and Design. Cresson was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and a strong supporter of the Philadelphia branch of the American Colonization Society, a group fighting slavery that relocated former slaves and free African Americans to colonies in Liberia.The Franklin Institute. Donors of the Medals and their histories''The Elliott Cresson Medal - Founded in 1848 - Gold Medal''. Retrieved on July 13, 2009. Cresson was called "the most belligerent Friend the Society ever had." Early career Cresson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 2, 1796, the first child of John Elliott Cresson and Mary Warder Cresson. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watercress
Watercress or yellowcress (''Nasturtium officinale'') is a species of aquatic flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. Watercress is a rapidly growing perennial plant native to Europe and Asia. It is one of the oldest known leaf vegetables consumed by humans. Watercress and many of its relatives, such as garden cress, mustard, radish, and wasabi, are noteworthy for their piquant flavors. The hollow stems of watercress float in water. The leaf structure is pinnately compound. Small, white, and green inflorescences are produced in clusters and are frequently visited by insects, especially hoverflies, such as ''Eristalis'' flies. Taxonomy Watercress is listed in some sources as belonging to the genus ''Rorippa'', although molecular evidence shows those aquatic species with hollow stems are more closely related to ''Cardamine'' than ''Rorippa''. Despite the Latin name, watercress is not particularly closely related to the flowers popularly known as nasturtiums (''Trop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édith Cresson
Édith Cresson (; née Campion; born 27 January 1934) is a French politician from the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so. She was the only woman to be prime minister until 2022, when Élisabeth Borne was appointed. Other than her breakthrough gender role, Cresson’s term was uneventful. Her political career ended in scandal as a result of corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology. French Prime Minister Cresson was appointed to the prime ministerial post by President François Mitterrand on 15 May 1991. She soon became strongly unpopular among the electorate and had to leave office after less than one year, following the Socialists' poor showing in 1992's regional elections. Her premiership is one of the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic. Her strong criticism of Japanese trade practices, going so far as to compare the Japanese to "yellow an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
