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David Cook (other)
David Cook may refer to: Entertainment * David Cook (game designer) (active since 1980s), American game designer for TSR * David Cook (singer) (born 1982), winner of the seventh season of ''American Idol'' * David Cook (writer) (1940–2015), British novelist, screenwriter, and TV presenter * David Essex (David Albert Cook, born 1947), British pop and rock singer * David L. Cook (born 1968), American Christian singer and comedian Politics * David Cook (Arizona politician) (active since 2016), member of the Arizona House of Representatives * David Cook (Arkansas politician) (born 1950), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives * David Cook (Northern Ireland politician) (1944–2020), politician of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland * David Cook (Texas politician) (born 1971), member of the Texas House of Representatives and former mayor of Mansfield, Texas * Dave Cook (politician) (1941–1993), British communist politician and climber Sports * David Cook (cricketer) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (game Designer)
David "Zeb" Cook is an American game designer, best known for his work at TSR, Inc., where he was employed for over fifteen years. Cook designed several games, wrote the '' Expert Set'' for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', worked as lead designer of the second edition of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'', and invented the Planescape setting for ''AD&D''. He is a member of the Origins Hall of Fame. Early life Cook was born in East Lansing, Michigan, and grew up on a farm in Iowa. His father was a farmer and college professor. In junior high school, Cook played wargames such as Avalon Hill's ''Blitzkrieg'' and ''Afrika Korps'': "I was primarily a wargamer, but there wasn't any role-playing available then." In college, he was introduced to the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game through the University of Iowa gaming club. Cook earned his B.A. in English (with a Theater minor) in 1977. He married his high school sweetheart, Helen, with whom he had one son, Ian. Cook became a high school t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (cyclist)
David Cook (born 12 January 1969) is a British former cyclist. Cook competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He also represented England in the road race, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... References External links * 1969 births Living people British male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Great Britain Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Darlington Cyclists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for England {{UK-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, ''Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)'', in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and ''The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse'' in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory. David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His most recent single, "The Day That David Bowie Died" entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The track appears on his double album, ''Vaga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David C
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and Lyre, harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges David and Jonathan, a notably close friendship with Jonathan (1 Samuel), Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (literary Critic)
David Cook (1929 – 30 March 2003) was a British academic, literary critic and anthologist. As a professor of literature at the Universities of Makerere and Ilorin, he played an important role in encouraging literature in East Africa.Gaaki KigamboMakerere's beautiful mind, ''The Independent'', 19 May 2009. Life David Cook was educated at Birkbeck College, London, graduating from the University of London in 1954 with a first-class degree in English literature, and completing a MA in 1956. He then taught at the University of Southampton until 1962, when he became a lecturer at Makerere University. He became Senior Lecturer in 1965, and Professor and Head of department in 1967. From 1977 to 1989 he was Professor of English and Head of the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of Ilorin.Raji, Wumi, "Tribute to David Cook", ''Research in African Literatures'', Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 3-5. Works * (ed.) ''Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology'', Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (historian)
David Cook is an American historian and professor of the history of Islam at Rice University. Cook earned his PhD at the University of Chicago. Cook is noted among scholars of Islam for his "diligent reading and clear translations" of Islamic texts. Books * ''Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic''. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2003, in the series "Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam". * ''Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature''. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. * ''Understanding Jihad''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. * ''Martyrdom in Islam''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ..., 2007. * ''Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks'' (with Olivia Allison). Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (Blockbuster Founder)
Blockbuster LLC, formerly known as Blockbuster Video, was an American-based provider of home video and video game rental services. Services were offered primarily at video rental shops, but later alternatives included DVD-by-mail, streaming media, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. Previously operated by Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., the company expanded internationally throughout the 1990s. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of 9,094 stores and employed approximately 84,300 people: 58,500 in the United States and 25,800 in other countries. Poor leadership and the impact of the Great Recession were major factors leading to Blockbuster's decline, as was the growing competition from Netflix's mail-order service, video on demand, and Redbox automated kiosks. Significant loss of revenue occurred during the late 2000s, and the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010. The following year, its remaining 1,700 stores were bought by satellite television pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (artist)
David Wayne Cook is an American painter, sculptor and installation artist working primarily with found objects. He has also coauthored a book, ''Lemonade for the Lawnboy'', that later became a play. Cook works primarily with found objects - tar, litter, rebar, cement, scrap metal and wire, light fixtures, plaster, shredded tires, mufflers, vines - and occasionally vegetation. He has a warm relationship with Duck Tape because of his use of their product in his flower bombing. He often paints to music, once on public display, and has a series of paintings based on music. Career In 1998 David became the featured artist at “Around the Coyote”, a well-known art festival/competition in Chicago. His work was included in the curator's choice in that competition. Around that time, his work was displayed in several galleries in Illinois, including Yello Gallery and Dramaticus Fine Art Gallery . In addition to painting and sculpture, Cook is known for ''flower bombing'', planting tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (racing Driver)
David Cook (born 3 April 1975) is a British former racing driver, most notable for winning the British Formula Renault Championship in 1996, and for entering the International Formula 3000 series briefly in 1997 and 1998, driving for the family-run DC Cook Motorsports team. Racing career Born in Rotherham, Cook made his auto racing debut in 1994 in the Formula Vauxhall Junior series. For 1995, he stepped up into the Formula Renault UK series, finishing seventh overall, whilst also entering two rounds of the Championnat de France Formule Renault for Lewis Motorsport. He remained in the British series for 1996, taking the title with three wins. He also entered two rounds of the British Formula Two Championship, driving for Super Nova, and also entered the Formula Renault Eurocup, finishing sixth overall, with one win. For 1997, he entered six of the ten rounds of the International Formula 3000 series, driving for the family-run DC Cook Motorsports team, without scoring any points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (cricketer)
David Roland Cook (born 2 September 1936) is a former English cricketer. Cook was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire. Cook made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Oxford University in 1962. He next appeared for the county in first-class cricket in 1967 against Middlesex in the County Championship. Cook made seven further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Kent in the 1968 County Championship. In his total of nine first-class appearances, he scored 108 runs at an average of 13.50, with a high score of 28 *. With the ball, he took 23 wickets at a bowling average of 23.21, with best figures of 4/66. Cook also made a single List A appearance for Warwickshire against Somerset in the 1967 Gillette Cup. His only wicket in the match was that of Mervyn Kitchen, while with the bat he was run out for 3, with Somerset winning by 23 runs. Cook also played rugby union for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Cook (singer)
David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American rock singer-songwriter. Cook rose to fame after winning the seventh season of ''American Idol'' in 2008. Prior to ''Idol'', Cook formed a high school band that released three studio albums and four live albums before releasing his first solo independent album, ''Analog Heart''. After winning ''American Idol'', he released his debut single " The Time of My Life", which entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 charts at number three and at number two on the ''Billboard'' Canadian Hot 100, selling over 1.4 million copies and being certified platinum by the RIAA. His major-label self-titled debut album was released on November 18, 2008, and has also since been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album produced two top twenty singles; "Light On" and " Come Back to Me". His second major album ''This Loud Morning'' was released on June 28, 2011. The album produced two singles; " The Last Goodbye" and "Fade into Me". ''This Quiet Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Cook (politician)
David John Scott Cook (4 August 1941 – 25 February 1993) was a British communist activist, also known as a rock climber. Born in Warrington, Cook grew up in Solihull, and was educated at Solihull Grammar School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He then became a teacher in Leeds and was active in the Young Communist League, eventually becoming its full-time National Organiser, based in London.Graham Stevenson,Cook Dave, ''Compendium of Communist Biography'' Involved in rock climbing since his school days, Cook became a prominent writer on the subject. In particular, he championed the role of cultural history in writing on mountaineering, and on the importance of including feminist perspectives.Terry Gifford, ''Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice'', p.167 In 1974, Cook became the party's national election agent, then the following year, he was appointed as National Organiser of the CP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
