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Farnsworth (surname)
Farnsworth is a surname which may refer to: People * Alice Hall Farnsworth (1893–1960), American astronomer * Bill Farnsworth (1887–1966), Australian rugby league footballer, brother of Viv * Charles S. Farnsworth (1862–1955), American general in World War I, Chief of Infantry * Christopher Farnsworth (born 1971), American novelist and screenwriter * Daniel D. T. Farnsworth (1819–1892), American politician, briefly second Governor of West Virginia * Dave Farnsworth (born 1951), American politician * David Farnsworth, American Loyalist and British agent during the American Revolutionary War, hanged for attempting to undermine the American economy by counterfeiting money * Dr. Dean Farnsworth, developer of the Farnsworth Lantern Test, used to screen for color blindness * E. Allan Farnsworth (1928–2005), American legal scholar * E. L. Farnsworth (1863–1940), American politician * Eddie Farnsworth, American politician who first assumed office in 2001 * Edward Farnsworth ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Hall Farnsworth
Alice Hall Farnsworth (October 19, 1893 – October 1, 1960) was an American astronomer. She was director of John Payson Williston Observatory at Mount Holyoke College from 1936 until her retirement in 1957. Early life Alice Hall Farnsworth was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts,Farnsworth Papers Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. the youngest of four children of Frederick Tudor Farnsworth and Anna Caroline Tufts Farnsworth. As a child, she was an active reader of '''' magazine, submitting contest entries and winning prizes. Farnsworth studied astronomy under |
Joe Farnsworth
Joseph Allen Farnsworth (born February 21, 1968, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer. Farnsworth was one of five sons born to trumpeter and bandleader Roger Farnsworth; one of the brothers played saxophone in Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Ge ...'s band. He attended High School in Jakarta International School in Jakarta, Indonesia. He studied at William Paterson College, studying under Harold Mabern and Art Taylor, Arthur Taylor and receiving his BMus in 1990. Following this he played with Junior Cook (1991), Jon Hendricks (1991), Jon Faddis (1992), George Coleman, Cecil Payne (1993 and subsequently), Annie Ross, and Benny Green (pianist), Benny Green (1995). He has played in the group One for All (band), One for All since 1995 with David H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viv Farnsworth
Viv Farnsworth (1889–1953) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played for Newtown Jets, Newtown, Western Suburbs Magpies, Wests, New South Wales state rugby league team, New South Wales and Australia national rugby league team, Australia, he also represented Australasia rugby league team, Australasia. He primarily played as and is considered one of the Australia's finest footballers of the 20th century Biography Playing career As a youth, Farnsworth played for New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union, Petersham Rugby Club in inner-western Sydney but he switched to the new professional code in 1909 and played for Newtown from 1910. He was regarded as an outstanding centre and, alongside his brother, Bill Farnsworth, Bill, was selected for New South Wales in 1910. Farnsworth was a member of the New South Wales Rugby Football League season 1910#Final, 1910 premiership winning Newtown team in the try-less final against South Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Farnsworth
Terry Farnsworth (born 27 August 1942) is a Canadian former Olympic judoka. He won a Canadian national judo championship in 1972 and 1973, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and won a gold medal at the 1969 Maccabiah Games and a silver medal at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Biography Farnsworth was born in Portland, Maine, and is Jewish. He graduated high school and attended two years of a pre-college program in Canada, and then lived in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, from the ages of 20 to 26 years old. There, he studied at Chuo University. He has lived in Bois-des-Filion, Canada. Judo career Farnsworth earned a black belt in judo in Montreal, and then moved to Tokyo to practice judo. At the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel, Farnsworth won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight class. He won the 1972 Canadian Championships U-93 in Halifax, Canada. Farnsworth competed in the men's half-heavyweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics, coming in 7th. He defeated Imre Varga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Farnsworth (Quaker)
Richard Farnworth or Farnsworth (died 1666) was an English Quaker writer of tracts. Life Farnworth was born in the north of England, and appears to have been a labouring man. In 1651 he attended the Quaker yearly meeting at Balby in Yorkshire, where he resided, when he was convinced by the preaching of George Fox. Joining the Society of Friends, became a minister. For some time he seems to have attached himself to Fox, with whom he visited Swarthmore in 1652. During this year he interrupted a congregation at a church in or near Wakefield, but was permitted to leave without molestation. In 1655 Farnworth was put out of a church in Worcester for asking a question of Richard Baxter, who was preaching, and in the same year was imprisoned at Banbury for not raising his hat to the mayor. He was offered his release if he would pay the gaoler's fees, which he refused to do on the ground that his imprisonment was illegal, when he was offered the oath of abjuration, and on his declining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Farnsworth (politician)
Richard "Dick" Farnsworth is an American politician from Maine. Farnsworth, a Democrat, served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1996 to 1998 for District 32, then part of Portland. He chose not to seek re-election in 1998. In 2012, Farnsworth again sought election to the Maine House of Representatives, this time from the renamed District 117, also part of Portland. He won and was sworn in for a second time in December 2012. Farnsworth earned a B.S. in education from Ohio State University, a Master's in Divinity from Boston University and an Ed.D. from Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba .... References External links State House Profile Official Facebook Page Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Politicians from Portland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Farnsworth
Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1978 for Best Supporting Actor for ''Comes a Horseman,'' and in 2000 for Best Actor in ''The Straight Story'', making him the oldest nominee for the award at the time. Farnsworth was also known for his performances in ''The Grey Fox'' (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, as well as ''Anne of Green Gables'' (1985); Sylvester (1985), and '' Misery'' (1990). Early life Farnsworth was born on September 1, 1920, in Los Angeles, California. His mother was a homemaker and his father was an engineer. Career Farnsworth gradually moved into acting in Western movies. He made uncredited appearances in numerous films, including ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939), '' Red River'' (1948), ''The Wild One'' (1953), and ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956). In 1960, credited as Dick F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert M
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philo Judson Farnsworth
Philo Judson Farnsworth (9 January 1832, in Westford, Vermont – 14 February 1909, in Clinton, Iowa) was a United States physician who worked in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He practised at Saint-Armand, Quebec, Philipsburg, Canada, until 1860, in which year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was in Lyons, Iowa, in 1862-66, then went to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1870 was elected to the chair of materia medica and diseases of children in the University of Iowa. He was a member of several medical societies, and has contributed frequently to professional journals, chiefly to the ''Medical and Surgical Reporter'' of Philadelphia. He has also paid some attention to local geology and archaeology. He read a paper on the “Therapeutics of Ammonia” before the American Medical Association in 1873, and one on “Indian Mounds” before the Iowa National History Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system.Burns, R. W. (1998), ''Television: An international history of the formative years''. IET History of Technology Series, 22. LondonThe Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) p. 370. . Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Like many fusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul R
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
