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Davis (given Name)
Davis, according to one source, derives from the French ''Devis''. Davis is a masculine given name which may refer to: People A *Davis Agesa (born 1995), Kenyan footballer *Davis Allen (1916–1999), American interior designer *Davis Allen (American football) (born 2001), American football player *Davis Arinaitwe (born 1987), Ugandan cricketer *Davis Atkin (born 2001), Australian field hockey player B *Davis Evan Bedford (1898–1978), British physician *Dāvis Bertāns (born 1992), Latvian basketball player *Davis Bitton (1930–2007), American historian *Davis Eugene Boster (1920–2005), American diplomat *Davis Burleson (born 2003), American social media personality C *Davis Carpenter (1799–1878), American politician *Davis Cheek (born 1999), American football player *Davis Chenge (born 1991), Kenyan rugby union footballer *Davis Chiramel (born 1960), Indian priest *Davis Chirchir (born 1960), Kenyan politician *Davis Cleveland (born 2002), American actor *Davis Coombe, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Library
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Alexis Rossi, Anand Chitipothu, and Rebecca Malamud, Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation. Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books. Book database and digital lending library Its book information is collected from the Library of Congress, other libraries, and Amazon.com, as well as from user contributions through a wiki-like interface. If books are available in digital form, a button labeled "Read" appears next to its catalog listing. Digital copies of the contents of each scanned book are distributed as encrypted e-books (created from images of scanned pages), audiobooks and streaming audio (created f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Coombe
Davis Coombe is an American documentary film editor, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on ''The Social Dilemma'', ''Casting JonBenet'', ''Chasing Coral'' and '' Saving Face''. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motio .... Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coombe, Davis Living people Documentary film editors American documentary film directors American documentary film producers Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Fisher
Davis Fisher (born November 21, 1997) is an American professional motorcycle racer. He competes in the AMA Pro Flat Track championship since 2014, winning the GNC2 championship in 2015 and competing in the GNC1 Championship in 2016. AMA Pro Flat Track Fisher raced in the AMA Pro Flat Track Series beginning in 2014 at the age of just 16. He scored TK wins and TKT podiums in his rookie year, finishing the championship in second place, just one point shy of Champion Kyle Johnson. In 2015, Fisher clinched the GNC2 championship with two rounds remaining. Aside from three mechanical DNFs, he placed no lower than second in any of the races for the season. X Games Harley-Davidson Flat-Track Fisher competed in the 2016 X Games Harley-Davidson Flat-Track, qualifying 17th in practice, placing 3rd in his heat race, and placing 8th in the final—all aboard his Harley-Davidson XG750R. Superprestigio of the Americas Fisher was invited to participate in the inaugural Superprestigio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Filfred
Davis Filfred (born 1967) is an American politician for the Navajo Nation Council Delegate in the Utah Navajo Section. Davis Filfred succeeded the position of retiring Navajo Councilman, Mark Maryboy on the Navajo Nation election process. Davis Filfred serves the same Navajo Nation districts along with Kenneth Maryboy for his Navajo Nation Council Councilman seat. Filfred also works with Rebecca M. Benally in helping create a more efficient process for the Navajo Nation educational system. Davis Filfred is also a United States Marine Corps Veteran of the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991). Life Filfred graduated from White Horse High School in 1985 and studied one year at the College of Eastern Utah in Blanding, UT. He also spent three years at Utah Technical College in Salt Lake City, Utah and received an A.A.S. Degree in Residential and Industrial Wiring. Filfred frequently volunteers his time as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America. Military life Thru 1990 to 1994, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Elkins
Davis Elkins (January 24, 1876 – January 5, 1959) was a United States senator from West Virginia. Biography Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish–American War he enlisted as a private in the First West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, becoming assistant adjutant general in 1898. Elkins was an industrialist with interests in railroads, banking, utilities, and coal mining; he was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Stephen B. Elkins, and served from January 9 to January 31, 1911, when a successor was elected. During World War I he served as a major with the 7th Division of the United States Army in France, 1917–18. He was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Earle
Dr. Eric 'Davis' Earle (died 24 December 2016) was a Canadian nuclear physicist. A Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar, he worked at Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River and helped organize Sudbury Neutrino Observatory as part of the project team whose director, Arthur B. McDonald, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.Pennell, Josh. ''The Telegram'' (St John's, Nfld). 2015-10-2Newfoundlander helps win Nobel Prize for physicsaccessed: 25 November 2015]. He received an honorary doctor of science degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2004 Early life Davis was son of Mildred and Guy Earle, born November 26, 1937, and raised in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland. His father was the final captain of the SS Kyle and part-owner of the Earle Freighting Service. Davis said “My father tried to get me to join him in the codfish business in Carbonear, but I didn’t want to go work with my father at 20. I thought I needed to see a bit of Canada,” a goal th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Ducart
Davis Ducart (active from c. 1761, died 1780/81), was an architect and engineer in Ireland in the 1760s and 1770s. He designed several large buildings and engineering projects. He had associations with the canal builders of the time and the mining industry and worked on many projects in the County Tyrone coalfield. Early life and identity His origins are uncertain, but thought to be Piedmontese and/or Sardinian. No relatives were mentioned in his will. Richard Killeen (2012) states that Ducart was an architect from Sardinia. Major projects in Ireland In Limerick Ducart produced the plan of plots to be leased in the Georgian extension of the city known as Newtown Pery and also those of the Custom House (1769), now home to the Hunt Museum. Other Buildings * Castletown Cox, County Kilkenny. *Brockley Park, County Laois. *Castlehyde House, County Cork. *Drishane House, County Cork. *Kilshannig, County Cork. *Lota Lodge, County Cork. *Mayoralty (or Mansion) House, Cork, County Cork. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Drewiske
Davis Anthony Drewiske (born November 22, 1984) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Los Angeles Kings and Montreal Canadiens. Playing career Davis played his youth hockey for the Hudson Raiders Youth Hockey Association. Drewiske attended High School in Hudson, Wisconsin. His accomplishments included 1 State title and was the recipient of the Wisconsin High School Mr. Hockey Award in 2003 having successfully recovered from a neck fracture in the previous season. Undrafted, Drewiske started his junior career with Des Moines Buccaneers of the USHL before joining the University of Wisconsin in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Drewiske captained and tied for first on the team in goals for defenseman in his last season with the Badgers. On April 1, 2008, Drewiske signed an entry-level contract with the Los Angeles Kings. He was then assigned to affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Doi
Davis Doi (born 1957) is a animation director and producer known for numerous American animated series and television films, as well as various ''Scooby-Doo'' and ''Care Bears'' video productions. He has been a part of many Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network original productions. Career He did assistant animation to Ralph Bakshi films, ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''American Pop''. He produced the Hanna-Barbera animated series '' SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''. He co-produced with Larry Houston the second season of ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest''. His work also includes ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', ''The Smurfs'' and several other Hanna-Barbera animated cartoons. Doi has received three Emmy Award nominations, one in 1994 for ''The Town Santa Forgot'' and two in 1998 for ''Cow and Chicken'' and '' Dexter's Laboratory''. He was also nominated for a CableACE Award in 1996 for ''The Chicken from Outer Space'', an animated short with the main characters from the eventual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Deza
Davis Joseph Deza Mauricio (born 26 March 1992 in Lima) is a Peruvian football midfielder who currently plays for the Peruvian Primera División club Universitario de Deportes Club Universitario de Deportes, popularly known as Universitario or simply as La "U", is a Peruvian football club located in Lima. The club was founded in 1924 under the name Federación Universitaria by students of the National University of S .... External links * at goal.com References 1992 births Living people Peruvian footballers Association football midfielders Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Footballers from Lima {{Peru-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Rich Dewey
Davis Rich Dewey (April 7, 1858December 13, 1942) was an American economist and statistician. He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his well-known younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the Massachusetts state board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests (1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission (1904) on industrial relations. Dewey became managing editor of the ''American Economic Review'' in 1911. He wrote and published: * ''Syllabus on Political History since 1815'' (1887) * * ''Employees and Wages: Special Report on the Twelfth Census'' (1903) * ''National Problems'' (1907) The primary library for the MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Daniel
Robert Andrykowski (born March 1, 1961) is an American country music artist who records under the name Davis Daniel. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of Mercury Records: 1991's ''Fighting Fire with Fire (album), Fighting Fire with Fire'', 1994's ''Davis Daniel (album), Davis Daniel'', and 1995's ''I Know a Place (Davis Daniel album), I Know a Place''. In that same time span, seven of his singles entered the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Top 40 hits "Picture Me", "For Crying Out Loud (song), For Crying Out Loud" and "Fighting Fire with Fire (song), Fighting Fire with Fire." Biography Robert Andrykowski was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on March 1, 1961. Over time, his family moved to Nebraska, and subsequently to Denver, Colorado. As a teenager, he found work singing at various nightclubs throughout Denver, Colorado. By the late 1980s, he moved to Nas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
