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Dick Smith (drummer)
Dick Smith may refer to: Sportspeople American football *Dick Smith (offensive lineman) (1912–1980), offensive lineman in the NFL *Dick Smith (defensive back) (1944–?), defensive back in the NFL *Dick Smith (tackle), All-American football player for the University of Minnesota Association football (soccer) * Dick Smith (footballer, died 1909), English football player for Manchester United * Dick Smith (footballer, born 1877) (1877–1959), English football player for Burnley * Dick Smith (footballer, born 1889) (1889–1939), English football player for Stoke Baseball * Dick Smith (third baseman) (born 1927), MLB third baseman with the Pittsburgh Pirates *Dick Smith (NL outfielder) (1939–2012), MLB outfielder with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets *Dick Smith (AL outfielder) (born 1944), MLB outfielder with the Washington Senators Other sports *Dick Smith (boxer) (1886–1950), British boxer *Dick Smith (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league player Others *Dick S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (offensive Lineman)
Richard Scott Smith (January 24, 1912 – April 5, 1980) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Boston Redskins, Chicago Bears, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ .... 1912 births Sportspeople from East Chicago, Indiana Players of American football from Indiana American football offensive linemen Boston Redskins players Chicago Bears players Philadelphia Eagles players 1980 deaths {{offensive-lineman-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (entrepreneur)
Richard Harold Smith (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian entrepreneur, aviator and philanthropist. He holds a number of aviation world records and is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, ''Australian Geographic'' and Dick Smith Foods. He was selected as 1986 Australian of the Year. In 2010, he founded the media production company Smith&Nasht with the intention of producing films about global issues. In 2015, he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia. He is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Early life Smith's father was a salesman and sometime manager at Angus & Robertson's bookstore. He started a business that failed when Smith was 17, and his mother a housewife. His maternal grandfather was pictorialist photographer Harold Cazneaux. As a child, Smith was considered academically hopeless and, having a speech defect, called himself "Dick Miff". From his home in East Roseville, Smith attended primary school at Roseville Public School at which, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Smith (other)
Richard Smith may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854), American playwright * Richard Smith (silent film director) (1886–1937), American silent film director * Richard Smith (screenwriter), Scottish screenwriter, film director, BAFTA-winning writer of ''Trauma'' * Richard Smith (artist) (1931–2016), English painter * Richard Bernhard Smith (1901–1935), American composer who wrote the lyrics to "Winter Wonderland" * Richard Smith (American guitarist), jazz guitarist in California * Richard Smith (English guitarist) (born 1971), English-born fingerstyle guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee * Richard John Smith (1786–1855), British actor * Richard Langham Smith (born 1947), British academic, head of music at the Open University * Richard Curson Smith, British television director and producer * Richard H. E. Smith II, American software engineer, computer consultant and science fiction fanzine publisher * Richard Zane Smith, American sculptor * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VTech CreatiVision
The Video Technology CreatiVision is a hybrid computer and home video game console introduced by VTech in 1981 and released in 1982. It was built by the Finnish company Salora. It costs $295 Australian Dollars. The hybrid unit was similar in concept to computers such as the APF Imagination Machine, the older VideoBrain Family Computer, and to a lesser extent the Intellivision game console and Coleco Adam computer, all of which anticipated the trend of video game consoles becoming more like low-end computers. It was discontinue in 1986. History The CreatiVision was distributed in many European countries, including most German-speaking countries like West Germany, Austria and Switzerland and also Italy, South Africa, in Israel under the Educat 2002 name, as well as in Australia and New Zealand under the Dick Smith Wizzard name. Other names for the system (all officially produced by VTech themselves) include the FunVision Computer Video Games System, Hanimex Rameses (both rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Idaho Gubernatorial Election
The 1970 Idaho gubernatorial election took place on November 3 to elect the governor of Idaho, concurrently with other scheduled governor races, as well as Idaho's two congress members in the House of Representatives and a number of statewide offices. Incumbent Republican governor Don Samuelson sought re-election to a second consecutive term as governor. Although he faced a primary challenger, former state senator Dick Smith, he received more than 58 percent of the primary vote, and thus secured the party's re-nomination. The Democratic nominee, Cecil Andrus, had previously run for governor in 1966, after Democratic nominee Charles Herndon was killed in a plane crash in the central Idaho mountains in mid-September. Andrus faced two competitors in the primary: state representative Vernon Ravenscroft and attorney Lloyd Walker. In the party primary, Andrus won a plurality of 29,000 votes (46 percent), and earned the Democratic nomination. During the general election campaign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (software)
Richard H.E. Smith II is a Chicago, Illinois- and Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based software engineer, computer consultant and a science fiction fanzine publisher. Science fiction fandom As a science fiction fan, Smith, with his wife, Leah Zeldes Smith, was 1993 winner of the Down Under Fan Fund and delegate to Swancon 18, the Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Perth, Australia, as well as to fan centers throughout the country. He has been selected as fan guest of honor by numerous science fiction conventions, including Windycon (1995), ArmadilloCon (1995), First Contact (1998), ConQuesT (2000), Whatcon (1985) and Corflu (1991), and has been a toastmaster at such conventions as ConFusion and a frequent speaker and panelist on subjects related to fandom, fan publishing, science fiction and technology. The Smiths' fanzine '' STET'' was a three-time Hugo Award nominee. In the 1980s, Smith published the Hogu Award-winning title, ''Uncle Dick's Little Thing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (make-up Artist)
Richard Emerson Smith (June 26, 1922 – July 30, 2014) was an American special make-up effects artist and author, (nicknamed "The Godfather of Make-Up")Fowler, Brandi; Marquina, Sierra (November 13, 2011)"Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones, & Dick Smith Receive Honorary Academy Awards" E! Online. known for his work on such films as ''Little Big Man'', ''The Godfather'', ''The Exorcist'', ''Taxi Driver'', ''Scanners'' and ''Death Becomes Her''. He won a 1985 Academy Award for Best Makeup for his work on ''Amadeus'' and received a 2012 Academy Honorary Award for his career's work. Early life Smith was born in Larchmont, New York, the son of Coral (née Brown) and Richard Roy Smith.Doug Tomlinso"Dick Smith Biography (1922–)" Film Reference. Retrieved October 2, 2012. He attended the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut and Yale University, where he studied pre-med, with the intention of entering dentistry, although he majored in zoology. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith Foods
Dick Smith Foods was a food brand created by Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith to provide Australian owned and produced alternatives to products from foreign-owned food companies. Generally, the brand focused on producing local alternatives to products with large market shares like Kraft peanut butter and Vegemite. However, Dick Smith Foods did not manufacture its own food products; instead, it sourced products from other Australian-owned companies, which licensed the Dick Smith Foods brand label. Dick Smith Foods also donated a portion of its profits to charitable causes. On 26 July 2018, Dick Smith announced that the business would close in 2019, blaming competition from German supermarket Aldi. History Dick Smith Foods was formed in 1999 largely in response to the high market share of international companies such as Kraft, and the increasingly frequent take-over of previously Australian-owned companies including Arnott's and Pauls. In particular, Smith was concerned that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (retailer)
Dick Smith Holdings Limited (formerly Dick Smith, Dick Smith Electronics or DSE) was an Australian chain of retail stores that sold consumer electronics goods, hobbyist electronic components, and electronic project kits. The chain expanded successfully into New Zealand and unsuccessfully into several other countries. The company was founded in Sydney in 1968 by Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Dick Smith and owned by him and his wife until they sold 60% to Woolworths Group (Australia), Woolworths in 1980, and the remaining 40% two years later. In 2012, Dick Smith had 263 stores around Australia. It also had 62 stores around New Zealand, including 20 in Auckland. The company closed its stores in 2016, four years after its acquisition by Anchorage Capital Partners, though the Dick Smith name continues as an online brand operated by Kogan.com. History Early years The business started in 1968 in a small $15-rent-per-week premises in a car park in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (rugby League)
Dick Smith was a rugby league player who represented New Zealand in one test match in 1932 against England on the wing. In the process he became the 218th player to represent New Zealand. He also played rugby league for Auckland. He was a member of the North Shore Albions (also named Devonport United), and the Newton Rangers clubs. His brother was Jack Smith, the New Zealand rugby league representative of the late 1930s, they were both the nephews of the well known sportsman of the 1890s-1910s George Smith. Early life Dick Smith was born Walton Victor Roy Smith but later became known as Dick with his initials often being recorded as "R. Smith" and "R.W. Smith" in team lists and match reports throughout his career. He was born on July 26, 1911, to Walton Smith and Clara Evelyn Smith (née Green). He had an older brother named Richard Frederick Smith born in 1909, and a younger brother Charles Ernest Smith born in 1918, though Charles was better known as Jack Smith. Jack also w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (defensive Back)
Richard Henry Smith (born June 18, 1944) is an American football former defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Northwestern University and was selected in the ninth round of the 1966 AFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The tea .... References 1944 births Living people Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ohio American football defensive backs Northwestern Wildcats football players Washington Redskins players {{defensiveback-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Smith (boxer)
Richard Smith (10 February 1886 – 8 January 1950) was a British light heavyweight and heavyweight boxer who was British light heavyweight champion between 1914 and 1916 and again in 1918. He fought under the name Dick Smith. Career Born in Woolwich, London, Dick Smith served in the armed forces in India where he won several services boxing championships, and he also won police boxing titles while a member of the police force. As an amateur he won successive A.B.A heavyweight titles in 1912 and 1913. He had his first professional fight in January 1914, a challenge to Dennis Haugh for his British light heavyweight title, which he lost in a controversial points decision. He met Haugh again two months later, this time winning on points over 20 rounds to take the title. He was due to fight French champion Georges Carpentier in May 1914 but the fight was postponed after Carpentier was kicked by a horse. They were due to fight in November 1914 but the fight was cancelled. Smith, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
