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Cunningham Pond
Cunningham is a surname of Scottish origin, see Clan Cunningham. Notable people sharing this surname A–C *Aaron Cunningham (born 1986), American baseball player * Abe Cunningham, American drummer *Adrian Cunningham (born 1960), Australian archivist *Alan Cunningham, British Second World War general *Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893), British archaeologist, father of the Archaeological Survey of India *Alexander Cunningham, 1st Earl of Glencairn (1426–1488), a Scottish nobleman *Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn (died 1574), a Scottish nobleman and covenanter *Alfred Austell Cunningham, American aviation pioneer * Allan Cunningham (other) or Allen Cunningham, several people *Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British Second World War admiral *Andrew Cunningham (other) or Andy Cunningham, several people *Archibald Cunningham (1879–1915), Scottish footballer * Bert Cunningham (1865–1962), American baseball player *Bertram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Cunningham
Clan Cunningham is a Scottish clan. The traditional origins of the clan are placed in the 12th century. However, the first contemporary record of the clan chiefs is in the thirteenth century. The chiefs of the Clan Cunningham supported Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Clan Cunningham feuded with the Clan Montgomery. Historically, the chief of Clan Cunningham held the title of Earl of Glencairn. However, in modern times the chief of the clan is Cunningham of Corsehill. On 18 December 2013, Sir John Christopher Foggo Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet of Corsehill, was recognized by Lord Lyon as Clan Chief after the chiefship had been vacant for over 200 years. History Origins Cunninghame in the northern part of Ayrshire. Fredric van Bassen stated that in the year 1059, King Malcolm rewarded Malcolm, son of Freskin with the Thanedom of Cunninghame. The progenitor of the family known as Cunningham was Warnebald, who rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Cunningham
William John Cunningham (born June 3, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the ''Kangaroo Kid'' for his leaping and record-setting rebounding abilities. He spent a total of 17 seasons with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers (nine as player, eight as coach), and two seasons as a player with the Carolina Cougars of the ABA. One of basketball's all-time greats, Cunningham was elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and honored by selection to both the NBA's 50th and 75th Anniversary Teams as one of its legendary players, as well as to the ABA All-Time Team. He was All-ACC, the ACC Player of the Year, and an All-American in college, later named to the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team honoring the fifty best players in Atlantic Coast Conference history. As a professional he was selected to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, an NBA All-Star, All-NBA First and Second Team, an ABA All-Star, All-ABA First Team, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Cunningham (athlete)
Clare Cunningham ( ''née'' ''Bishop'' on born 15 June 1977) is a retired Paralympic swimmer and triathlete who represented Great Britain. She was born without her left forearm. Cunningham first swam in international competition at the age of 13, at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, The Netherlands. At the 1992 Summer Paralympics, Cunningham won the Women's S9 50m freestyle event in what was then World Record time. She won silver medals in 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay events. She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics but did not win a medal. She retired from swimming after the Atlanta Paralympic games. In 2006, Cunningham turned to triathlon. Initially competing in age-group races against non-disabled triathletes, she discovered paratriathlon in 2009. Classified as a TRI-4 (arm-impaired) paratriathlete, she became the 2009 ITU European Paratriathlon Champion and 2009 World Paratriathl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal ( he, ליגת ווינר סל), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup (formerly calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Cunningham
Christian Cianan Cunningham (born November 21, 1997) is an American basketball player who last played for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He plays the forward position. Biography Cunningham was born in El Paso, Texas, and his hometown is Albuquerque, New Mexico. His parents are Viola and Paul Cunningham. He is 6' 7" (201 cm) tall, and weighs 216 pounds (98 kg). He attended Cibola High School ('15) in New Mexico. Cunningham played basketball for the Cibola Cougars, and was a first team all-district player in his junior year. Cunningham attended Jacksonville State University ('19). He played basketball for the Jacksonville State Gamecocks. In his sophomore year in 2016–17, he ranked second in the Ohio Valley Conference in blocked shots per game (1.7), third in offensive rebounds (2.9), fourth in field goal percentage (61.3), and set the JSU NCAA Division-I single-season rebounding record (275) and block record (59). In his junior year in 2017–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is a British video artist and music video director, best known for his music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and most notably Aphex Twin on videos for "Windowlicker" and " Come to Daddy", and Björk's "All is Full of Love". All were used in Chris' chapter in Director's Label. He has also created art installations and directed short movies. He was approached to direct a movie version of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel ''Neuromancer''; the project has been in development hell for more than two decades. In the 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work, and has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians. Early work After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1995 film version of ''Judge Dredd'', Stanley Kubrick head-hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence''. Cunningham worked for ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Milton Cunningham
Charles Milton Cunningham (April 2, 1877 – May 17, 1936) was a Louisiana attorney and newspaper publisher who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1915 to 1922. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Cunningham received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern State University Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU) is a public university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the Univer ..., taught briefly, and established ''The Natchitoches Times'' newspaper in 1903. He studied law, and was an unsuccessful candidate for a district judgeship in 1906. References 1877 births 1936 deaths Politicians from New Orleans Politicians from Natchitoches, Louisiana Northwestern State University alumni American newspaper publishers (people) Democratic Party Louisiana state senators Parish jurors and commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cunningham
Rear-Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ... Sir Charles Cunningham Royal Guelphic Order, KCH (1755 – 11 March 1834) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He saw action during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral (Royal Navy), rear-admiral. Early life Son of Charles and Elizabeth Cunningham, Charles Cunningham was born in Eye, Suffolk, Eye, Suffolk in 1755, and after reading ''Robinson Crusoe'' at a young age, decided on a career at sea. As the country was at peace he joined a merchant ship. While serving as a seaman, the American War of Independence broke out and Cunningham joined the Royal Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cunningham (other)
Charles Cunningham was an officer of the Royal Navy. Charles Cunningham may also refer to: * Charles Cunningham (civil servant) (1906–1998), Scottish civil servant * Charles E. Cunningham (1823–1895), American politician; Union Labor Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States, 1888 * Charles J. Cunningham (born 1932), U.S. Air Force general * Charles Milton Cunningham (1877–1936), politician, attorney and newspaper publisher in Louisiana * Charles Orin Cunningham (1872–1942), provincial politician from Alberta, Canada * Charlie Cunningham (born 1948), mountain biker from Fairfax, California * Charlie Cunningham (footballer) (1890–1942), English footballer * Charlie Cunningham (jockey) (1849–1906), 19th century Scottish Grand National winning jockey * Charlie Cunningham (musician), singer-songwriter and guitarist from Bedfordshire, England *"Chuck Cunningham", a character who appeared in the first two seasons of the sitcom ''Happy Days'' See also * Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cal Cunningham
James Calvin "Cal" Cunningham III (born August 6, 1973) is an American lawyer, politician, and retired military officer. A member of the Democratic Party and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve, he served one term as a North Carolina state senator from 2001 to 2003. Having previously run for United States Senate in a 2010 primary, Cunningham was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina, narrowly losing to incumbent Republican Thom Tillis. Early life and education Cunningham was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and grew up in Lexington, North Carolina. He attended Vanderbilt University before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy. In the summer of 1993, Cunningham attended American University and interned on Capitol Hill for a subcommittee chaired by Senator Carl Levin. Cunningham received a Master of Science in pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cade Cunningham
Cade Parker Cunningham (born September 25, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended Bowie High School in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, before transferring to Montverde Academy in Florida, where he was rated a consensus five-star recruit and among the top players in the 2020 class by major recruiting services. As a senior, he led one of the best high school teams in history and received national player of the year recognition. Cunningham committed to playing college basketball for Oklahoma State, and was named a consensus first-team All-American and Big 12 Player of the Year after his freshman season with the team. He won a gold medal with the United States at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 World Cup. He was the NBA first overall pick by the Detroit Pistons in the 2021 NBA draft. Early life and career Cunningham was born in Arlington, Texas, to Carrie and Keith Cunningham. He grew up p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brysson Cunningham
Dr Brysson Cunningham FRSE DSc MICE (1868-1950) was a Scottish civil engineer and author specialising in harbour and dock design and operation. In the early 20th century he was generally viewed as the authority in this field. Life Brysson Cunningham was born in December 1868. In 1890 he was appointed as a draughtsman at the Dock Yard, Liverpool Docks. In 1908 he moved to work with the Port of London Authority. Brysson Cunningham also lectured on Waterways, Harbours and Docks at University College, London in the early 20th century. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1917, his proposers being William Dyce Cay, Ernest Romney Matthews, Benjamin Hall Blyth, and Sir Frank Watson Dyson Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role .... He died in Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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