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Dinwoody Creek
Dinwoodie or Dinwoody may refer to: People * David Dinwoodie (born 1965), American anthropologist * Hubert Dinwoodie (1896–1968), Royal Air Force officer * James Dinwiddie (astronomer) (1746 - 1815), Scottish natural philosopher * Tom Dinwoodie (born 1954), entrepreneur and inventor Other uses * Dinwoodie railway station, former railway station near Lockerbie, Scotland * Dinwoody Glacier, located in the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming * Henry Dinwoody House, late Victorian house located in Salt Lake City, Utah * Dinwoody Formation The Dinwoody Formation is a geologic formation in Montana. It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Montana * Paleontology in Montana Paleontology in Montana refers to pale ..., geologic formation in Montana See also * Leofric Hay-Dinwoody (fl. 1925–1932), Anglican priest * Dunwoody (other) * Dinwiddie (other) * Dinwoodey {{disambiguation, sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dinwoodie
David W. Dinwoodie (born November 11, 1961) is an American anthropologist specializing in the Chilcotin First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. He teaches anthropology at the University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 .... University of New Mexico. Retrieved January 2011 Bibliography * Dinwoodie, David (1999) ''Authorizing Voices: Going Public in an Indigenous Language.'' Cultural Anthropology 13(2):193-223. 1998. * Dinwoodie, David (1999) '' Textuality and the ‘Voices ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Dinwoodie
Wing Commander Hubert Dinwoodie, (24 March 1896 – 28 August 1968) was an officer in the Royal Air Force and a recipient of the George Cross shortly after the end of the Second World War for defusing bombs in Germany in 1946. First World War Dinwoodie was commissioned a second lieutenant (on probation) in the 3rd Battalion of the Dorset Regiment on 8 June 1915, and following training was confirmed in his rank on 14 December. He was seconded to the 1/76th Trench Mortar Battery on 6 April 1916. During the First World War he won the Military Cross (MC) in May 1916 while attached to the 1/76th Trench Mortar Battery: Dinwoodie was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant on 9 June 1916, and to the acting rank of captain on 15 October. He was appointed an assistant instructor at a trench mortar school on 7 November, with the acting rank of captain, and relinquished his temporary lieutenancy on 8 November. He was promoted to the permanent rank of lieutenant on 1 July 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dinwiddie (astronomer)
James Dinwiddie (born 8 December 1746 in Dumfries – died 19 March 1815 in Pentonville) was a Scottish physicist, astronomer, inventor and natural philosopher. He was an early example of a science popularizer, giving tours and experimental demonstrations across England and Ireland. He travelled and resided in Calcutta, India and travelled to China along with George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Lord Macartney as part of the Macartney Embassy to lecture on physics and promote British astronomical techniques. Life and work Dinwiddie was born on 8 December 1746 in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Tinwald near Dumfries Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the ... where his parents John Dinwoody and Catharine Riddick were farmers. One of five children, he was born shortly after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Dinwoodie
Thomas Linn Dinwoodie (born November 15, 1954) is a cleantech entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of SunPower Corporation Systems (formerly PowerLight Corporation). He holds a long-standing interest in accelerating the transition to clean energy and other climate-sustaining practices. Dinwoodie is also an architect. Early business initiatives From 1978 to 1983, Dinwoodie was a research assistant at the MIT Energy Laboratory, where he authored numerous papers on the economics and policy of distributed solar and wind generation, as well as flywheel energy storage. In 1981, Dinwoodie was awarded a contract from the U.S. DOE for development of an ultra-low-cost, polymer solar thermal collector. He was founder, president and CEO of TDEnergy, a wind power developer in the U.S. Northeast, from 1982 to 1988. TDEnergy constructed one of the earliest New England wind power facilities in Canaan, NH. Dinwoodie then founded PowerLight Corporation in 1994, and served as its CEO and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinwoodie Railway Station
Dinwoodie railway station was a station which served the rural area around the settlement of Dinwoodie, 6 miles north of Lockerbie in Applegarth parish, Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. The nearest station for Dinwoodie is now at Lockerbie. History Opened by the Caledonian Railway on 10 September 1847, or 15 February 1848 is another suggested opening date for the station. It became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923 and was then closed by British Railways in 1960. Dinwoodie derailment On 25 October 1928 an accident took place in LMS days near Dinwoodie due to signaller error and fatigue which resulted in a collision from the rear involving two trains. A derailment occurred and the train fell some height from the embankment. Four people were killed and five injured. The two drivers and two firemen died instantly when their double-headed passenger ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinwoody Glacier
Dinwoody Glacier is located in Shoshone National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the east side of the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range. Completely within the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, Dinwoody Glacier is one of the largest glaciers in the American Rocky Mountains, and as of 1989 was ranked fourth in area. In a 1989 study which examined repeat photography and stream flow analysis, Dinwoody Glacier was determined to have retreated rapidly between 1958 and 1983, though most of the reduction has been in the thickness of the glacier rather than its surface area. In the same 25-year period, the glacier lost an average of in thickness. Radar mapping of 72 locations on the glacier resulted in an average thickness of and a maximum measured depth of . The 1989 study was commenced to examine the impact on water supplies to streams and rivers from glacier retreat of both Dinwoody and Gannett Glaciers. See also * List of glaciers in the United States This is a list of glac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dinwoody House
The Henry Dinwoodey House, at 411 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah, is a Late Victorian house that was designed by Richard Kletting, architect of the Utah State Capitol. It was built in 1890 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The house exhibits characteristics of both Queen Anne Style architecture, with its asymmetrical facade and corner turret, and Romanesque Revival style Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ..., including rough-hewn stone, squat columns, and foliated carvings. It was built as a home for Sara Kinersley, the third polygamous wife of Henry Dinwoodey, a Mormon. It is historically significant mostly for its connection to Henry Dinwoodey, owner of a very successful furniture business in Utah and the broader Intermou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinwoody Formation
The Dinwoody Formation is a geologic formation in Montana. It preserves fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ... dating back to the Triassic period. See also * List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Montana * Paleontology in Montana References * Triassic geology of Nevada Triassic geology of Utah Triassic geology of Wyoming {{Triassic-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leofric Hay-Dinwoody
Leofric Matthew Hay-Dinwoody was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century. He was successively Precentor of Inverness Cathedral, Rector of Holy Trinity, Elgin Elgin may refer to: Places Canada * Elgin County, Ontario * Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario * Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario ... and Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness from 1925 until 1932.''Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000'' Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark Notes Scottish Episcopalian clergy Deans of Moray, Ross and Caithness {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunwoody (other)
Dunwoody may refer to: *Dunwoody, Georgia, United States, a city ** Dunwoody High School ** Dunwoody (MARTA station), an elevated train station * Dunwoody College of Technology, a vocational college in Minneapolis, Minnesota * Dunwoody (surname) *Dunwoodie, Yonkers Dunwoodie is a neighborhood in Yonkers, New York, noted for being the home of St. Joseph's Seminary and College on Valentine Hill. Dunwoodie (proper) is located north of the Seminary, while Dunwoodie Heights includes the seminary and what is sout ... * Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie), also known as Dunwoody {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinwiddie (other)
Dinwiddie may refer to: * Ettleton, a village in the Scottish Borders * Dinwiddie, Indiana, unincorporated community * Dinwiddie County, Virginia, a county in Virginia, United States ** Dinwiddie, Virginia Dinwiddie is an unincorporated community, census-designated place, and the county seat of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.” It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 619. History The town was the site o ..., the county seat of Dinwiddie County * Fort Dinwiddie (1755–1789), a fort for the Virginia Militia during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War * Dinwiddie (surname) See also * * * Dinwoodie (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
