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David Miller (actor)
David Miller may refer to: Academics and scientists * David Miller (engineer), aerospace engineer at MIT and NASA * David Miller (entomologist) (1890–1973), New Zealand entomologist, university lecturer and scientific administrator * David C. Miller (1917–1997), epidemiologist who cared for Albert Schweitzer * David Miller (philosopher) (born 1942), British philosopher * David Miller (political theorist) (born 1946), professor at Oxford * David Miller (physician), pioneer in the home birth movement in Australia * David Miller (sociologist) (born 1964), British sociologist * David A. B. Miller (born 1954), professor at Stanford University * David Philip Miller (born 1953), social historian of science * David S. Miller (born 1974), computer programmer * David W. Miller, scholar of the "faith at work" movement Arts and entertainment * David Miller (architect) (born 1944), Seattle architect * David Miller (director) (1909–1992), American film director * David Miller (Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (engineer)
David W. Miller is an American aerospace engineer who is the current Jerome Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2015. He is currently on a leave of absence from MIT to be a VP and the Chief Technology Officer to The Aerospace Corporation. He has worked on multiple NASA projects and served as NASA Chief Technologist. Early life and education Dr. Miller received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at MIT. MIT Professor After graduation in 1988, Dr. Miller became a Research Associate for MIT's Aero/Astro. He was promoted to Principal Research Scientist and Assistant Professor before becoming an Associate Professor in 1997. He flew experiments on the Space Shuttle, including STS-48, STS-62, and STS-67 missions. He is faculty for and the former director of the Space Systems Laboratory (MIT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Alan Miller
David Alan Miller (born 1961) is a multi-Grammy Award-winning American symphony orchestra conductor, and since 1992, music director of the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Miller served as assistant and associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1987–92 and music director of the New York Youth Symphony from 1982-88. He is currently also Artistic Advisor to The Little Orchestra Society in New York City. Early career and education Miller was raised in the Los Angeles area. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He then earned a master's degree in orchestral conducting from The Juilliard School. Miller was appointed Assistant Conductor of the New York Youth Symphony in 1981 and then ascended to the music directorship the following year while he was still a student at Juilliard. He was also a two-term conducting fellow and, later, Associate Director at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. In 1987, he was appointed Assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (Iowa Politician)
David P. Miller (born November 24, 1946) was an American farmer, lawyer, and politician. Born in Batavia, Jefferson County, Iowa, Miller served in the United States Army. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1969 and from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1973. He practiced law in Fairfield, Iowa. Miller was also a farmer and the owner of the Batavia Grain, Inc. Miller was also involved with the Republican Party. From 1999 to 2007, Miller served in the Iowa State Senate The Iowa Senate is the upper house of the Iowa General Assembly, United States. There are 50 seats in the Iowa Senate, representing 50 single-member districts across the state of Iowa with populations of approximately 60,927 per constituency, . E .... Notes 1946 births Living people People from Jefferson County, Iowa University of Denver alumni University of Iowa College of Law alumni Businesspeople from Iowa Farmers from Iowa Iowa lawyers Republican Party Iowa state senators { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wynn Miller
David Wynn Miller (1949 – 2018), also styled :David-Wynn: Miller or David-Wynn: Miller, was an American tool and die welder, pseudolegal theorist, and leader of a tax protester group within the sovereign citizen movement. A self-proclaimed judge, Miller is best known for creating a version of the English language to be used by people involved in judicial proceedings. He asserted that his constructed language, which is purportedly based on mathematics and includes unorthodox grammar, spelling, punctuation and syntax, constitutes the only "correct" form of communication in legal processes. His views also include a variation of the strawman theory. People seeking remedy with Miller's syntax in court have not met with success. His language is incomprehensible to most people and the pleadings that use it are routinely rejected by courts as gibberish. Since Miller's death, his language has seen continued usage by other people within the sovereign citizen movement. Origin story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (Canadian Politician)
David Raymond Miller (born December 26, 1958) is an American-Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 63rd mayor of Toronto from 2003 to 2010. Following his career in politics, Miller briefly returned to law before serving as president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) from 2013 to 2017, after which he began working as the director of international diplomacy at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. Background Miller was born in San Francisco, California. His American father, Joe Miller, died of cancer in 1960, and his English mother Joan returned with her son to Thriplow, south of Cambridge. Miller spent his earliest years in England before moving to Canada with his mother in 1967. He attended Lakefield College School on a scholarship. Miller completed a four-year undergraduate degree at Harvard University, graduating '' summa cum laude'' in Economics in 1981. He earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David V
David V ( ka, დავით V, ''Davit' V''; died 1155), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a 7th king of Georgia in 1154 before his death in 1155 He was an elder son of King Demetre I. Fearing that Demetre would make his younger son Giorgi an heir to the throne, David attempted a revolt in 1130. Ultimately, he forced his father to abdicate and David became a king in 1154 or 1155. The Georgian and Armenian chronicles are confused about the length and nature of David V’s reign and disagree over the circumstances of his mysterious death. According to the Armenian chronicler Vardan Areveltsi, he ruled for a month and was murdered by his nobles, Sumbat and Ivane Orbeli, who had made a secret agreement with George, David’s younger brother. The Armenian Stepanos Orbelian, a descendant of the Orbeli clan, writing shortly after Vardan, claims David reigned for two years and denies any family involvement in the murder of the king and says that George had sworn to his reigning brother th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David N
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 Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), 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 Philistin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lee Miller (academic)
David Lee Miller (born 1951) is a scholar of English Renaissance Literature. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. His works include ''The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queen'', (Princeton UP, 1988); ''Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness'' (Cornell UP, 2003); three edited books; and about two dozen refereed articles that have appeared in scholarly journals such as ''Modern Language Quarterly'', ''English Literary History'', and ''Publications of the Modern Language Association''. He is one of four general editors of ''The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser'', a new scholarly edition under contract to Oxford University Press. Miller's work has been especially devoted to the canon of Edmund Spenser, a contemporary of Shakespeare's whose ''Faerie Queene'' is considered one of the two or three greatest epic poems An epic poem, or simply an epic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (poet)
David Miller (born 1950) is a writer, poet, literary critic, and editor. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he has lived in London since 1972. Miller has published over fifty books and pamphlets. His first books were '' The Caryatids'' (Enitharmon Press) and ''South London Mix'' (Gaberbocchus Press), both published in 1975. His subsequent works include ''The Story'' (Arc Publications, 1976), ''Unity'' (Singing Horse Press, 1981), ''Pictures of Mercy'' (Stride, 1991), ''Stromata'' (Burning Deck Press, 1995), ''Collected Poems'' (University of Salzburg Press, 1997), ''Art and Disclosure'' (Stride, 1998), ''Spiritual Letters'' (1-12) (hawkhaven press, 1999) and ''The Waters of Marah'' (Singing Horse 2003, Shearsman 2005). His writing has been celebrated in ''At the Heart of Things: the poetry and prose of David Miller'' (Stride 1994). Other discussions of his writing can be found in an essay by Robert Hampson in ''New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible'', ed. R. Hampson and Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Miller (editor)
David Miller is a British writer and journalist based in Wimbledon, London. Journalism David Miller has contributed to many publications including the magazines ''Film Review'', ''TV Zone'' and '' Starburst'' (where his work includes interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Tom Baker and Ray Harryhausen). Until 2007 he was editor of the UK-based horror genre magazine '' Shivers''. He then became editor for the last few issues of ''The Poirot Collection'', a partwork which presented the ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' television episodes. He is currently editor of ''The Agatha Christie Collection'' partwork for Chorion, which brings together and presents the newer episodes of ''Poirot'' and ''Marple''; the 1983 series '' Partners in Crime'', and Agatha Christie film adaptations such as the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films and the all-star adaptations of ''The Mirror Crack'd'', and ''Murder On The Orient Express''. Books David Miller co-wrote the book ''They Came From Outer Space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley Miller
David Wiley Miller (born April 15, 1951, Burbank, California) is an American cartoonist whose work is characterized by wry wit and trenchant social satire, is best known for his comic strip '' Non Sequitur'', which he signs Wiley. ''Non Sequitur'' is the only cartoon to win National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards in both the comic strip and comic panel categories, and Miller is the only cartoonist to win an NCS Divisional Award in his first year of syndication. Editorial cartoons A California native, Wiley studied art at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked for several Hollywood educational film studios before relocating to North Carolina in 1976 to work as an editorial cartoonist and staff artist for the ''Greensboro News & Record''. In 1978, Wiley was hired by the Santa Rosa, California "Press Democrat" as staff artist and editorial cartoonist. ''Fenton'' (1982) was his first syndicated strip. In 1985, he was hired as an editorial cartoonist at the ''San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Prince Miller
David Prince Miller (1809–1873) was a British showman and magician who founded several Adelphi Theatres: in at least Glasgow, Coatbridge and Dumbarton. Conceptual he created the idea of reduced Shakespeare plays, creating plays which lasted 20 minutes, an idea later followed by the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Life From around 1825 he appeared as an illusionist in small theatres and halls in England and southern Scotland. He came to Glasgow in July 1839 from Dalkeith, setting up a show on Glasgow Green during the Glasgow Fair. Other acts at the same fair included John Henry Anderson. Although Miller only charged one penny for entrance, he netted £70 during the Fair (the equivalent of £7,500 in 2020) and was able to reinvest this money in his travelling show which he took to Stirling Cupar, Dundee, Perth. Kirkcaldy, St Andrews and Dunfermline. He over-wintered in Airdrie before starting the circle again in 1840. In 1842 (using his profits from the travelling show) he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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