|
Eakins
Eakins is an English surname. People with this name include: *Dallas Eakins (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey defenseman and head coach *Jim Eakins (born 1946), American basketball player *John Eakins (1923/4–1998), Canadian politician *Peter Eakins (born 1947), Australian rules footballer *Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851–1938), American artist, wife of Thomas Eakins *Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), American artist See also *Eakin Eakin is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bruce Eakin, Canadian ice-hockey player * Chris Eakin, British newsreader *Cody Eakin, Canadian ice-hockey player *Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American economist * Harvey Eakin, forme ... {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken ''en masse'', the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of contemporary Philadelphia; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. In addition, Eakins produced a number of large paintings that brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Macdowell Eakins
Susan Hannah Eakins ( Macdowell; September 21, 1851 – December 27, 1938) was an American painter and photographer. Her works were first shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was a student. She won the Mary Smith Prize there in 1879 and the Charles Toppan prize in 1882. One of her teachers was the artist Thomas Eakins, who later became her husband. She made portrait and still life paintings. She was also known for her photography. After her husband died in 1916, Eakins became a prolific painter. Her works were exhibited in group exhibitions in her lifetime, though her first solo exhibition was held after she died. Early life She was the fifth of eight children of William H. Macdowell, a Philadelphia engraver and photographer, who also a skilled painter. He passed on to his three sons and five daughters his interest in Thomas Paine and freethought. Both Susan and her sister, Elizabeth, displayed early interest in art, which was encouraged by their fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Eakins
Dallas Franklin Eakins (''né'' Yoder; February 27, 1967) is an American professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously served as the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL. Early years Eakins' mother, Carol Ploof, was a native of Macon, Georgia. His birth father was a Native American, Ted Yoder, who Eakins believes was Cherokee. Both parents split up shortly after his birth. Ploof later married Jim Eakins, a Canadian long-distance truck driver, and Dallas subsequently adopted his stepfather's last name. In October 1974, Eakins' family relocated to Peterborough, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1980 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Peterborough. Playing career Eakins played 4 seasons in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for the Peterborough Petes, being named the captain in his final year and also the team's best defenseman that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eakins
John F. Eakins (December 8, 1922 - September 16, 1998) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990 who represented the riding of Victoria—Haliburton. He served as a Cabinet Minister in the government of David Peterson. Background Eakins was born in Mariposa Township in Victoria County, Ontario and educated in Lindsay, Ontario. Eakins was a barber and hairdresser. Eakin was predeceased by his wife, Iris, who died in the mid-1980s and they had three children. Politics He served as a councillor in Lindsay for three years, and as Mayor for six. As Mayor, he led the twinning of the Town of Lindsay with Nayoro, Hokkaido, and Japan in 1969. Eakins was also a governor of Fleming College, and a member of the Royal Canadian Legion. He also served as Warden of Victoria County, Ontario. He first sought election to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative Glen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Eakins
James Scott Eakins (born May 24, 1946) is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time American Basketball Association champion. A 6'11" center from Brigham Young University, Eakins was selected in the fifth round of the 1968 NBA draft by the San Francisco Warriors and in the 1968 ABA Draft by the Oakland Oaks. Known as "Jimbo", Eakins played eight seasons (1968–1976) in the ABA as a member of the Oakland Oaks, Washington Caps, Virginia Squires, Utah Stars, and New York Nets. He won ABA championships in 1969 with the Oakland Oaks and in 1976 with the New York Nets. Eakins also represented Virginia in the 1974 ABA All-Star Game. After the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, Eakins played in the NBA until 1978 as a member of the Kansas City Kings, San Antonio Spurs, and Milwaukee Bucks. In his ABA/NBA career, he scored 8,255 points and grabbed 5,578 rebounds. Career statistics ABA Regular season , - , align="left" , 1968–69 , align="left" , Oakland , 78 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Eakins
Peter Eakins (16 February 1947 – 4 July 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victoria Football League (VFL) during the early 1970s. Eakins started his career in Western Australia at the Subiaco Football Club, making his debut in 1966. He was a good spoiler of the ball and had an exceptionally long kick. First selected to represent his state in 1968, Eakins became a regular at interstate contests and won a Tassie Medal for his performance at the 1969 Adelaide Carnival as well as getting selected to the All-Australian team as a centre half-back. Collingwood recruited him soon after and he was a back pocket In the sport of Australian rules football, each of the eighteen players in a team is assigned to a particular named position on the field of play. These positions describe both the player's main role and by implication their location on the gro ... in their losing 1970 VFL Grand Final side. His time in Victoria was hindered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eakin
Eakin is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bruce Eakin, Canadian ice-hockey player *Chris Eakin, British newsreader *Cody Eakin, Canadian ice-hockey player *Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American economist * Harvey Eakin, former NASCAR Cup Series driver * Jake Lee Eakin, American murder *John R. Eakin (1822–1885), Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court *Kay Eakin (1917–1993), American football player *Kevin Eakin, American football quarterback *Michael Eakin, American judge * Richard M. Eakin (1910–1999), American zoologist * Richard R. Eakin (born 1938), chancellor of East Carolina University *Robert Eakin (1848–1917), American judge *Sue Eakin (1918–2009), American professor *William Eakin (1828–1918), Canadian politician See also *Eakins *Justice Eakin (other) Justice Eakin may refer to: * John R. Eakin, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court *Michael Eakin J. Michael Eakin (born 1948) is an American lawyer, who served as a Justi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
