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Fenton (name)
Fenton is both a surname and a male given-name originating, literally-meaning "fen/marsh town", is the name of several English places, popular in the United States and New Zealand. It is also a name of Irish-Gaelic origin; ''Ó Fionnachta'' (see Finnerty) or ''Ó Fiachna'' 'descendant of Fiachna', an old personal name Anglicized as ''Feighney'' and sometimes mistranslated as 'Hunt' (see Fee). Notable people with the name include: People with the surname Fenton Actors and actresses * Lavinia Fenton (1708-1760) * Leonard Fenton (1926-2022) * Simon Fenton Fictional characters * Fenton, a 'young gentleman' in Shakespeare's '' The Merry Wives of Windsor'' * Harry Fenton, character in ''Peaky Blinders'' * Lord Fenton, character in '' Scarlett'' * Fenton Crackshell, aka GizmoDuck from ''DuckTales'' * Fenton, the Death Sheep from Hell, the subject of the song "Sheep Marketing Ploy" by Tom Smith * Fenton Mewley, character from the animated TV show ''Home Movies'' * Fenton Hard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs, and the marsh is sometimes called a carr. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals. This biological productivity means that marshes contain 0.1% of global sequestered terrestrial carbon. Moreover, they have an outsized influence on climate resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That '70s Show
''That '70s Show'' is an American television Period piece, period teen sitcom that aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focuses on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979. The main teenage cast members were Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama, and Lisa Robin Kelly. The main adult cast members were Debra Jo Rupp, Kurtwood Smith, Don Stark, Tommy Chong, and Tanya Roberts. In 1999, the show was remade for the ITV (TV network), ITV network in the United Kingdom as ''Days Like These (TV series), Days Like These'' using almost verbatim scripts with minor changes to cultural references. Cast Young cast *Topher Grace as Eric Forman (That '70s Show), Eric Forman (seasons 1–7; special guest season 8): Eric is a nice person, physically slight and somewhat clumsy. He has a fast wit a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Fenton
William Robert Fenton (9 October 1923 – 10 January 2013), known as Bob Fenton, was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Biography Fenton was born on 9 October 1923 at Napier, and was educated at Hastings High School. He served in World War II in the New Zealand Army and in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. In 1951, he married Dorothy Alice Ferrier, and the couple went on to have five children. Fenton was a regional governor of the New Zealand chapter of Jaycees in 1960, and a world governor of Junior Chamber International. Fenton was strongly opposed to political interference in sport and held strong views on the rugby matches between South Africa and New Zealand. In the , Fenton stood for National in the electorate and defeated the incumbent, Labour's Richard Mayson. In the , he was in turn defeated by Labour's David Butcher. Between 1979 and 1987, Fenton served as deputy chair of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission. In 1977, Fenton was awarded the Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Stardust
Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor. Performing first as Shane Fenton in the 1960s, Jewry had a moderately successful career in the pre-Beatles era, hitting the UK top 40 with four singles in 1961–62. However, he became better known for singles released in the 1970s and 1980s as Alvin Stardust, a character he began in the glam rock era, with hits including the UK Singles Chart-topper "Jealous Mind", as well as later hits such as "Pretend" and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly". Early life and career Bernard William Jewry was born 27 September 1942 in Muswell Hill, then in Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Haringey). Having moved at a young age to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his mother ran a boarding house frequented by musicians and entertainers appearing locally, Jewry attended the Southwell Minster Collegiate Grammar School (now Southwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fenton (musician)
Paul Fenton (born 4 July 1946 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England) is an English drummer, best known for his work with T. Rex. After leaving Christie, he started playing drums for T. Rex in 1973, after being recommended to Marc Bolan by his producer Tony Visconti. He also toured briefly with Marc Bolan & T. Rex in 1974, and played additional drums with Davy Lutton on the songs "Solid Baby", "Funky London Childhood", and "Visions Of Domino". Fenton also played in Carmen, a progressive rock band with a flamenco focus. The band released three albums between 1973 and 1975. Fenton along with Mickey Finn, formed a T. Rex tribute band in 1997, named Mickey Finn's T-Rex. After the death of Finn in 2003, Fenton continued to play drums for the band, which now performs named more simply as T-Rex. In 2008, a petition signed by the likes of David Bowie, Roy Wood and Tony Visconti called for Paul Fenton to change the band's name in order to make it clear that it was a tribute act, not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Fenton
Julian Fenton (born Julian John Bramley 21 May 1964 in Marylebone, London) is an English rock drummer, composer and teacher, formerly of 1990s rock bands Kinky Machine and Mansun. Following the split of Kinky Machine in 1995, Fenton briefly joined Mansun in 1996, filling in between the band's original drummer Hib's departure and Andie Rathbone's recruitment. Fenton notably performed with the group at that years T in the Park and has also toured with The Lightning Seeds, Duran Duran, ABC, TJ Johnson and His Band, A-ha, Jimmy Ruffin and Arthur Brown. Fenton's stepfather, Neil Aspinall was tour manager and personal assistant for The Beatles and was regarded by some, including George Harrison, as "The Fifth Beatle". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fenton
George Richard Ian Howe (born 19 October 1949), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer. Best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, he has received five Academy Award nominations, several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards, and a Classic BRIT. He is one of 18 songwriters and composers to have been made a Fellow of the Ivors Academy (formally BASCA). He has frequently collaborated with the directors Richard Attenborough, Nora Ephron, Alastair Fothergill, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Ken Loach, Andy Tennant, Neil Jordan and Terry Gilliam. Early life and career George Fenton was born in 1949 in Bromley, Kent, one of five siblings. He was educated at Carn Brea School and St Edward's School, Oxford. He began learning the guitar at the age of 8 and at St Edwards studied the organ with Peter Whitehouse. He did not attend music college but continued to study with Pete Whitehouse and subsequently with the ethn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Fenton
Carl Fenton was a pseudonym of Walter G. Haenschen, American bandleader, composer, and radio musician. Name origin The Carl Fenton Orchestra (AKA "Carl Fenton’s Orchestra") was a title given to Brunswick Records studio bands through the 1920s. The name was invented by Brunswick music director Walter Gustave "Gus" Haenschen shortly after taking the position for their brand-new American division. Later, the name was taken by violinist Ruby (Rubin) Greenberg. Haenschen, whose own name was considered ill-suited for commercial recordings, haphazardly chose the name "Fenton" after the town of Fenton, Missouri, near his hometown of St Louis, Missouri. He attended Washington University. He told an interviewer "How do you find a name? Just pull it out of a hat." The first name "Carl" was likely selected by Brunswick's office staff. Early recordings The earliest songs recorded by Carl Fenton's Orchestra were ''Karavan'' and ''Romance'', from October 1919. Brunswick Records release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Fenton (correspondent)
Thomas Trail Fenton (born 8 April 1930) is a former television correspondent who retired in 2004 after a 34-year career with CBS News. Fenton graduated from Dartmouth College in 1952 with a B.A. in English and was an officer in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1961, serving on destroyers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. His Navy service placed him in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1952, and in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis. Career in journalism After leaving the Navy, Fenton began his career in journalism as a domestic and foreign correspondent for the ''Baltimore Sun'', where he worked from 1961 to 1969. While with the ''Sun'', he reported on affairs in the Middle East and Europe, including the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1968 "Days of May" in Paris. His 1968 reporting earned Fenton an award from the Overseas Press Club. Fenton joined CBS News as a Rome-based correspondent in 1970, and conducted the first interview with hostages taken that year by the Palesti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Fenton
Anthony Fenton is a Canadian independent print and radio journalist and writer. He has been a regular contributor to '' The Dominion'' and Z Communications, and is currently a doctoral student at York University. Education Fenton earned a BA in political science from the University of Alberta in 2002 and an MA in political economy from York University in 2011. His master's thesis primarily took a wide-angled look at Canadian lawyers and law firms, aiming to investigate the functions they perform for Canadian government and business elites, as well as for the capitalist system globally. He is currently undertaking doctoral research at York. Work Fenton maintains a long-running interest in Haiti. At the end of 2005, he and Dennis Bernstein exposed the links of journalist Régine Alexandre, who at the time was working freelance for the Associated Press and ''The New York Times'', to the US National Endowment for Democracy. The AP consequently severed its ties with Alexandre. Fenton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudd's Passion
"Mudd's Passion" is the tenth episode of the first season of the American animated science fiction television series '' Star Trek: The Animated Series''. It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on November 10, 1973, and was written by Stephen KandelThis story was expanded into a novelette by science-fiction author Alan Dean Foster as part of the collection Star Trek Log Three' (1975) (). who had written the previous "Mudd" episode, ''The Original Series''s "I, Mudd", as well as the teleplay for Gene Roddenberry's first "Mudd" episode, "Mudd's Women". In this episode, the ''Enterprise'' brings aboard con-artist Harry Mudd who spreads a fast-acting love potion on the ship. The story features actor Roger C. Carmel voicing an uncredited reprise of his live-action role as Harry Mudd. Plot The starship ''Enterprise'' receives orders to arrest Federation outlaw Harry Mudd, who is accused of selling fake love-crystals. Intercepting Mudd on the mining colony of Mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I, Mudd
"I, Mudd" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek''. Written by Stephen Kandel (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on November 3, 1967. The crew of the ''Enterprise'' has a second encounter with the conman Harry Mudd ( Roger C. Carmel), first seen in the season one episode "Mudd's Women". Mudd is now the supreme ruler of a planet of androids who cater to his every whim. Although Kandel is the credited writer on the episode, David Gerrold performed an uncredited rewrite. The final script was heavily revised by the staff, and Gerrold admits that only one original idea of his made it into the final episode. He also claims producer Gene L. Coon offered to put the matter of credit up for Writers Guild arbitration but that he declined. Plot An alien android posing as a Starfleet lieutenant and identifying himself as Norman, hijacks the ''Enterprise'' by sealing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
