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Dapper Dan (other)
Dapper Dan may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Daniel B. Burnett Jr. (1905–1976), wing designer of the ''Spirit of St. Louis'' plane flown by Charles Lindbergh * Frank Daley (1908–1968), Canadian hockey player * Dan Howley (1885–1944), American baseball player *Dapper Dan (designer) (born 1944), African-American fashion designer and haberdasher Daniel Day Arts and entertainment * Dapper Dan The Magnetic Man, a 1950s era toy *A song by South Florida-based rapper Ski Mask the Slump God on his 2018 mixtape '' Beware the Book of Eli'' *"Dapper Dan" Greco, a character in the 1947 Bowery Boys film ''News Hounds'' Sports * Dapper Dan (horse), an American racehorse of the 1960s *Dapper Dan Open, a former PGA Tour professional golf tournament *Dapper Dan Charities, Pittsburgh's oldest (since 1936) and largest sports charity *Dapper Dan (wrestler), retired professional wrestler and trainer of UWE pro wrestling academy in Holloway, Louisiana. See also *The Dapper Dans, a barbershop quartet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel B
''Daniel'' is an anonymous Old English poem based loosely on the Biblical Book of Daniel, found in the Junius Manuscript. The author and the date of ''Daniel'' are unknown. Critics have argued that Cædmon is the author of the poem, but this theory has been since disproved. ''Daniel'', as it is preserved, is 764 lines long. There have been numerous arguments that there was originally more to this poem than survives today. The majority of scholars, however, dismiss these arguments with the evidence that the text finishes at the bottom of a page, and that there is a simple point, which translators assume indicates the end of a complete sentence. ''Daniel'' contains a plethora of lines which Old English scholars refer to as “hypermetric” or long. Daniel is one of the four major Old Testament prophets, along with Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The poet even changed the meaning of the story from remaining faithful while you are being persecuted to a story dealing with pride, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Daley
Francis Patrick Denis "Dapper Dan" Daley (August 28, 1908 - October 15, 1968) was a Canadian ice hockey player. In his career, which lasted from 1928 to 1945, he mainly played in various minor leagues, but also played 5 regular season and 2 playoff games for the Detroit Cougars of the National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ... in the 1928–29 season. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs External links * 1908 births 1968 deaths Canadian ice hockey centres Canadian ice hockey left wingers Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players Cleveland Falcons players Cleveland Indians (IHL) players Detroit Cougars players Detroit Olympics (IHL) players Hershey Bears players London Tecumsehs players Philadelphia Ramblers players Seattle Iro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Howley
Daniel Philip "Dapper Dan" Howley (October 16, 1885 – March 10, 1944) was a Major League Baseball manager with the St. Louis Browns and the Cincinnati Reds. His first year as manager of the Browns saw his team lose 94 games and finish games behind the legendary 1927 New York Yankees. He stayed two more years in St. Louis, with his best year coming in , finishing in third place. In 1929, he was hired by the Reds, but he averaged 95 losses in three years, leading to his dismissal. He finished his career with a lifetime 397–524 record (.431 winning percentage). He was a four-time manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League, leading the team in 1918, 1923–1926, 1933, and 1937, winning the league pennant in 1918 and 1926. Howley was inducted into the International League Hall of Fame. Prior to his managing career, Howley was a major league catcher for part of the season for the Philadelphia Phillies. He later served as a coach for the Detroit Tigers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Dan (designer)
Daniel Day (born August 8, 1944), known as Dapper Dan, is an African American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York. His influential store, Dapper Dan's Boutique, operated from 1982 to 1992 and is most associated with introducing high fashion to the hip hop world, with his clients over the years including Eric B. & Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa, LL Cool J, and Jay-Z. In 2017, he launched a fashion line with Gucci, with which he opened a second store and atelier, Dapper Dan's of Harlem, in 2018. Dan is included in ''Time''s 100 Most Influential People of 2020. Early life Dan was born in Harlem, New York, in 1944, and he was born at home with his grandmother as a midwife. He grew up on 129th and Lexington Avenue with three brothers and three sisters. His father, Robert, was a civil servant and his mother, Lily, a homemaker. All nine of them lived in a three bedroom apartment. He recalls horses and buggies still on the streets in his early childhood, in the post-World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Dan The Magnetic Man
Wooly Willy is a toy in which metal filings are moved about with a magnetic wand to add features to a cartoon face. The toy was originally manufactured in Smethport, Pennsylvania and was launched on the toy market in 1955. It remains in production as of 2016. Funny Face, Betty Brunette, and Dapper Dan were similar toys. The Woolly Willy trademark is currently held by the Beloit, Wisconsin-based company PlayMonster, formerly known as Patch Products, which purchased the Smethport Specialty Company in 2008. Description Creation The artwork for the first Wooly Willy was created by artist Leonard Mackowski of Bradford, Pa. His signature is found hidden in the grass on the reverse side. Launch Priced at US$0.29, Wooly Willy was successfully launched on the market in 1955. A buyer for G. C. Murphy dime store chain initially purchased six dozen of the toy and expected not to sell them for a year. The buyer called Herzog just two days later and ordered 12,000 for nationwide distributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beware The Book Of Eli
''Beware the Book of Eli'' (stylized in all caps) is the third mixtape by American rapper Ski Mask the Slump God. It was officially released on May 11, 2018, by Victor Victor Worldwide and Republic Records, after it was originally released on May 1, 2018 on SoundCloud, but was quickly taken down by his management at the time. Recording sessions took place from 2017 to 2018, which features production from Murda Beatz, Timbaland, Jimmy Duval and Natra Average, among others. The album features guest appearances from Rich the Kid, Ronny J, Danny Towers and SahBabii. Track listing Credits adapted from Tidal Tidal is the adjectival form of tide. Tidal may also refer to: * ''Tidal'' (album), a 1996 album by Fiona Apple * Tidal (king), a king involved in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim * TidalCycles, a live coding environment for music * Tidal (servic .... Notes * All tracks are stylized in all caps, except "DoIHaveTheSause?". For example, "Suicide Season" is stylized as "SUICID ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Hounds
''News Hounds'' is a 1947 film directed by William Beaudine and starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. It is the seventh film in the series. Plot Slip is a copy boy for a newspaper, but dreams of having his own byline. Sach is an aspiring photographer for the same paper. The two of them come across a plot to fix sporting events and go undercover to expose the gangsters. Gabe, who is working for the gangsters, has a story of Slip's published which brings a libel suit against the paper because of lack of evidence. The lawsuit goes to trial, and at the last minute Gabe, who is feeling remorse, retrieves photographs that would back the story and gets them to Slip in time for them to be presented as evidence. Cast The Bowery Boys * Leo Gorcey as Terrance J. Montgomery 'Slip' Mahoney * Huntz Hall as Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones * Bobby Jordan as Bobby * William Benedict as Whitey * David Gorcey as Chuck Remaining cast * Gabriel Dell as Gabe * Bernard Gorcey as Louie Dumbrowski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Dan (horse)
Dapper Dan (foaled 1962 in Kentucky) was an American racehorse who was bred by Dorothy Dorsett Brown and owned and raced by Ogden Phipps. He had an outstanding sophomore season, finishing second or fourth in five stakes races. The son of Ribot and grandson of Nasrullah is remembered for his closing finishes to place second in the 1965 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Racing career As a three-year-old, Dapper Dan finished second in three of his first four stakes races that spring. In March, he placed second in the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack. He then ran fourth in the Wood Memorial Stakes. On the first Saturday of May in the 1965 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Dapper Dan faded to near the back of the pack early and closed to finish second to Lucky Debonair. He ran the last quarter mile in track record time of 23 1/5 seconds. That record stood until Secretariat's :23 flat in 1973. In the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes. Dapper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Dan Open
The Dapper Dan Open was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour that was played intermittently in the 1930s and 1940s. It was sponsored by Dapper Dan Charities, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based charitable organization founded in 1936 as a businessman's sports club by ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' sports editor Al Abrams. Dapper Dan evolved into one of western Pennsylvania's premier sports charities with six fund raising events throughout the year, including Pittsburgh's oldest, largest and most-prestigious annual sports banquet. The organization awarded its top honor to golfer Arnold Palmer in 1960. Arnold Palmer's first ever PGA tournament was the Dapper Dan when he was just 16 years old. The tournament was played at the Wildwood Country Club in Allison Park, Pennsylvania in 1939. After a break of nine years, the tournament resumed in 1948 at the Alcoma Country Club in Pittsburgh. Winners Dapper Dan Open *1949 Sam Snead Dapper Dan-Alcoma Tournament *1948 Vic Ghezzi Dapper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Dan Charities
The Dapper Dan Charities were founded by ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' editor Al Abrams in 1936. It is one of the oldest nonprofit and fundraising community sports clubs in the world and the oldest in Western Pennsylvania. The foundation fundraises for its charities primarily through the annual "Dapper Dan Banquet". Started in 1936, the first few banquets honored such regional figures as Art Rooney, Jock Sutherland and John Harris. In 1939, the banquet began an annual tradition of naming the region's "Sportsman of the Year" and in 1999 the "Sportswoman of the Year". In recent decades, all charitable contributions raised by the banquet go to the Boys and Girls club of Western Pennsylvania, which directly funds activities and equipment for nearly 7,000 youths annually. The organization also presently sponsors the annual Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic. Previous fundraisers included the occasional Dapper Dan Open golf tournament in the 1930s and 1940s, World Heavyweight Titles hosted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dapper Dans
The Dapper Dans are a barbershop quartet that performs at Disneyland in Anaheim, California (since 1959), at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort (since 1971), and at Hong Kong Disneyland in Lantau Island, Hong Kong (from 2005 to 2008). A quartet (from the UK) also performed at Disneyland Paris from the opening in 1992 until 1995 and were known as The Main Street Quartet. The Paris quartet, known as “Nickelodeon” before joining the park, comprised Martin Baker, Mark Grindall, Steve Green and Jim Mullen. The quartet continued together after leaving Disney and still sing together from time to time. The Bass, Mark Grindall, still works extensively in Barbershop as a successful vocal coach and choral director. In the 1993 ''The Simpsons'' episode ''Homer's Barbershop Quartet'', The Be Sharps' singing voices were partly provided by the Dapper Dans. Before working on the episode, Jeff Martin had seen one of the quartet's performances and enjoyed it. When the episode' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Hogan
"Dapper" Danny Hogan (c. 1880 - December 4, 1928) was an Irish-American organized crime figure, political fixer, and the boss of Saint Paul, Minnesota's Irish Mob both before and during Prohibition. Following Hogan's 1928 murder by car bomb, his former position as leader of organized crime in St. Paul was taken over by Lithuanian Jewish gangster and former Hogan associate Harry Sawyer and his ally, corrupt police chief Big Tom Brown. They did not share Hogan's distaste for unnecessary violence. Their collusion with both the Dillinger and Barker-Karpis Gangs resulted in some of the most infamous crimes of the Depression era and in the rise of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover. Early life According to his death certificate, Daniel Hogan was born c. 1880 to Irish Catholic parents in California. Hogan was first arrested in Los Angeles for "room prowling" in 1905 and accordingly served a sentence at San Quentin. He went on to also serve prison terms in Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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