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Enon
Enon may refer to: Places United States *Enon, Kentucky *Enon, Moniteau County, Missouri * Enon, St. Charles County, Missouri *Enon, North Carolina *Enon, Ohio *Enon Valley, Pennsylvania *Enon, Virginia *Enon, West Virginia Elsewhere * Ænon, where John the Baptist baptised * Enon, Nova Scotia, Canada * Enon, South Africa * Enon Chapel, a Baptist chapel which stood in London in the 19th century * Enon Formation, a geological formation in South Africa Other uses * Enon (band), an American indie band * Enon (robot), created by Fujitsu * ''Enon'', a 2013 novel by Paul Harding * Enon Kawatani, Japanese musician * Enon Gavin Enon Gavin is a former Gaelic footballer from County Roscommon, Ireland. He played with the Roscommon intercounty team from 1991 until 2000. In his first intercounty season he won a Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1991; he also won an ... (born 1971)), Gaelic footballer from Ireland * English National Opera North, now Opera North See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon (band)
Enon was an indie rock band founded by John Schmersal, Rick Lee, and Steve Calhoon that was active from 1999 to 2011; for most of its history, however, Enon was a three-piece outfit composed of Schmersal, Toko Yasuda, and Matt Schulz. Though situated for a time in Philadelphia, Enon was known for being part of the New York music scene. Biography Schmersal was originally in the band Brainiac and formed Enon (named after the village in Ohio, which is close to Schmersal's hometown of Dayton) with Lee and Calhoon following the death of Brainiac's singer Timmy Taylor and their subsequent disbandment. After Brainiac, Schmersal made a solo album under the name John Stuart Mill. Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon were both previous members of the band Skeleton Key, a befriended band Brainiac had toured with. Together they formed Enon. Lee created a number of percussion sounds for the band playing a "junk kit" including a Radio Flyer wagon, propane tank, and old hubcaps. After the release of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon, North Carolina
Enon is an unincorporated community in eastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The community, which is centered on Enon Baptist Church, is in the Forbush Township and in the East Bend ZIP code zone (27018). It is a Piedmont Triad community. The community is bordered by the Yadkin River and Forsyth County to the east, Huntsville and Forbush and Logan creeks to the south, Flint Hill to the north and Looney Creek to the west. History Pre-history Native Americans were living along the Yadkin River at Enon going back to at least the early Woodland period (500 B.C.-100 A.D.), according to a 1998 archeological survey. A v-shaped stone fish weir, built and used by Native Americans to trap spawning fish, was identified north of the Old U.S. 421 Bridge in Enon. Founding of community The fertile river bottoms began to draw a few European settlers who followed the Great Wagon Road in the mid-18th century. By 1850, the area included large plantations along the Yadkin Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon, Ohio
Enon is a village in Clark County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,455 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Enon is the headquarters of the Speedway gas station chain. History Enon was platted in 1838. It is named for the river Ænon, in Israel, where the story of John the Baptist baptizing people takes place. A post office called Enon has been in operation since 1838. The village was incorporated in 1850. Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom lived in Enon with his family while he was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Geography Enon is located at (39.870309, -83.934462). The village sits roughly 3 miles south of the old National Road. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. The Enon Adena Mound, also known as the Knob Prairie Mound, is Ohio's second largest conical Indian burial mound, is located in Enon. This mound is believed to have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon Formation
The Enon Formation is a geological formation found in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces in South Africa. It is the lowermost of the four formations found within the Uitenhage Group of the Algoa Basin, its type locality, where it has been measured at a maximum thickness of . Discontinuous outcrops are also found in the Worcester-Pletmos and Oudshoorn-Gamtoos Basins, including isolated occurrences in the Haasvlakte, Jubilee, and Soutpansvlakte Basins near the small town Bredasdorp. Geology The Enon Formation was formed along the southern section of South Africa during the break up of Gondwana when there was widespread erosion of rocks comprising the Cape Fold Belt. It is considered to be Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous in age although more thorough dating needs to be undertaken. It provides important geological data on the change in landscape during the break-up of Gondwana in relation to the younger and softer formations - the Kirkwood and Sundays River - which overlie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon Chapel
Enon Chapel was a building on Clement's Lane (today St. Clement's Lane) off Aldwych near the Strand in London and it was built around 1823. The upper part was dedicated to the worship of God, with the dead buried in a vault beneath, separated by a board floor. The chapel was notorious for allegations that thousands of bodies had been packed into the vault room in the space of 20 years. When the Burial Act of 1852 closed burial grounds in the centre of London, the chapel closed. It later became a theatre and dancing saloon, before being demolished. According to Sanger, the Law Courts now stand on part of the site. Burials According to George Sanger's 1910 biography ''Seventy Years a Showman'', Enon Chapel was licensed for burials in 1823, which continued until the minister died in early 1842. The vaults beneath the meeting-house were turned into a burial place, which Walter Thornbury's 1887 ''Old and New London'' says "soon became filled with coffins up to the very rafters, so t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon Kawatani
, known by the stage name , is a Japanese musician. He is the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the bands Gesu no Kiwami Otome, Indigo la End, Genie High, the instrumental band Ichikoro, and also works as a songwriter for other musicians. Biography Kawatani grew to like music when he was eight years old, when he heard T.M.Revolution's song "High Pressure" (1997). He began composing music while he was a university student at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. There, he met Masao Wada (currently known as Gesu no Kiwami Otome's bassist Kyūjitsu Kachō) at the light music club. In April 2009, Kawatani formed the band Indigo la End, mostly performing live performances in the Shinjuku, Shimokitazawa and Shibuya areas of Tokyo. Indigo la End released their debut extended play ''Sayōnara, Subarashii Sekai'' in April 2012, though the independent label Space Shower Music. In May 2012, Kawatani asked members of other bands who played at the Shimokitazawa Era liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon Valley, Pennsylvania
Enon Valley is a borough in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 297 at the 2020 census. It is part of the New Castle micropolitan area. Geography Enon Valley is located at (40.856310, -80.456192). According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 387 people, 138 households, and 105 families residing in the borough. The population density was 746.5 people per square mile (287.3/km²). There were 149 housing units at an average density of 287.4 per square mile (110.6/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 98.71% White, 0.52% African American, 0.52% Asian, and 0.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.78% of the population. There were 138 households, out of which 36.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.8% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.9% we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon, South Africa
Enon is a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is named after the biblical place mentioned in It lies east of Kirkwood and north-east of Uitenhage. Enon (formerly known as Witterivier) was formed in 1818 by the Moravian Missionary Society on request of the Area Landdrost Jacob Glen Cuyler, to serve as a buffer between the Xhosa, Tembu and Fingo tribes living outside the Cape Colony and the European farmers and towns inside the Cape Colony. The land was granted to the Missionary Society in trust, to be administrated on behalf of the Cape Colony in the interests of residents of the missionary station. Within the first 35 years of its inception it was caught in the middle of three Cape Frontier Wars and the First Anglo-Boer War, and has been evacuated on three separate occasions. Enon is referred to in the 1840s by James Backhouse in his diary. In 1909 control of the town was ceded back to the Union of South Africa The Union of South Africa ( nl, Unie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon (robot)
Enon is a personal assistant robot first offered for sale in September 2005. Enon was developed by two companies: Fujitsu Frontech Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. The six-million yen (US$60,000) rolling robot is self-guiding, with limited speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ... and synthesis. Enon can amongst others be used to provide guidance, transport objects, escort guests and perform security patrolling, according to the organization. Enon, an English acronym for "Exciting Nova On Network," can pick up and carry roughly in its arms and comes without software. External links Fujitsu References Robotics at Fujitsu Personal assistant robots Humanoid robots 2005 robots Rolling robots {{electronics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon, Nova Scotia
Enon is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island Cape Breton Island (french: link=no, île du Cap-Breton, formerly '; gd, Ceap Breatainn or '; mic, Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. The island accounts for 18. .... References Enon on Destination Nova Scotia Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{CapeBretonNS-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Harding (author)
Paul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel ''Tinkers (novel), Tinkers'' (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction"From Drum Set to Pulitzer" , SeaCoast Online, October 2010 and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors. Harding was the drummer in the band Cold Water Flat throughout its existence from 1990 to 1996. Life and career Paul Harding grew up on the north shore of Boston in the town of Wenham, Massachusetts. As a youth he spent a lot of time "knocking about in the woods," which he attributes to his love of nature.Pau ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enon Gavin
Enon Gavin is a former Gaelic footballer from County Roscommon, Ireland. He played with the Roscommon intercounty team from 1991 until 2000. In his first intercounty season he won a Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1991; he also won an All Star Award that year. He played at club level also with Clan na Gael. He won seven Roscommon Senior Football Championship medals and two Connacht Senior Club Football Championship medals. He is the former manager of the Longford based Rathcline Rathcline (; ) is a barony in County Longford, Ireland. Etymology Rathcline takes its name from the townland and parish of Rathcline (from Irish ''Ráth Claon'', " rath on the slope"). Location Rathcline is located in southwest County Longf ... GAA club, who were promoted to Senior level in 2015. References *http://hoganstand.com/roscommon/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=25305 1971 births Living people Clan na Gael (Roscommon) Gaelic footballers Roscommon inter-county Gaelic footballers< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
