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Fleming (surname)
Fleming is a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin, likely indicating an ultimate descent from a Flemish immigrant – though this might be so remote that no record of it remains other than the name. Military *Clas Fleming (admiral) (1592–1644), Swedish admiral * Henrik Fleming (1584–1650), Finnish-Swedish admiral *James P. Fleming (born 1943), United States Air Force pilot, Medal of Honor recipient * Jerzy Detloff Fleming (1699–1771), Saxon general and nobleman *Klaus Fleming (1535–1597), Swedish admiral * Lawrence J. Fleming (1922–2006) U.S. Air Force Major General *Richard E. Fleming (1917–1942), U.S. war hero *Valentine Fleming (1882–1917), Scottish politician and war hero Music, art and literature * Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), British musician *Andrew Fleming (born 1963), U.S. screenwriter and director *Anne Fleming (writer) (born 1964), Canadian writer *Atholl Fleming (1894–1972), British actor and radio personality * Berry Fleming (1899–1989), U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened within Britain, and the identity was not merely imported. Anglo-Saxon identity arose from interaction between incoming groups from several Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes, both amongst themselves, and with Celtic Britons, indigenous Britons. Many of the natives, over time, adopted Anglo-Saxon culture and language and were assimilated. The Anglo-Saxons established the concept, and the Kingdom of England, Kingdom, of England, and though the modern English language owes somewhat less than 26% of its words to their language, this includes the vast majority of words used in everyday speech. Historically, the Anglo-Saxon period denotes the period in Britain between about 450 and 1066, after Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Fleming (writer)
David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was an economist, cultural historian and writer on environmental issues, based in London. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs system, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. Alongside these roles, his wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, ''Lean Logic'' and ''Surviving the Future'' (published posthumously in 2016). A feature film about his perspective and legacy, ''The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?'', was released in 2020, directed by Peter William Armstrong. Family background and early life He was born in Chiddingfold, Surrey, to Norman Bell Beatie Fleming, a Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Fleming (musician)
Tommy Fleming (born 15 May 1971) is an Irish singer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s after he was asked to tour the US with Phil Coulter. He soon established himself as a solo artist and found his greatest success singing traditional Irish music, both old and contemporary. Fleming has toured extensively throughout Ireland, UK, United States, the Netherlands and Australia. Biography From an early age Fleming's natural singing talent was on show in local talent competitions and concerts. He sang in public for the first time in 1978 at a concert put on by Kilmactigue National School, which he attended. After finishing secondary school in 1990, he played the local scene with a couple of bands, but it was his meeting with composer Phil Coulter in Westport, County Mayo, that changed his career. Within a few short months of this meeting, he appeared at the Cork Opera House, and the National Concert Hall in Dublin. He then went on a tour of the United States, which included appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Fleming (actor)
Thomas Kelman Fleming, FRSAMD (29 June 1927 – 18 April 2010) was a Scottish actor, director, and poet, and a television and radio commentator for the BBC. Early life Fleming was born in Edinburgh and attended Daniel Stewart's College, where the performing arts centre was renamed in his honour shortly after his death. Career Acting career His acting career began in 1945. His first professional performance was in Robert Kemp's ''Let Wives Tak Tent'' in 1947. Along with Kemp and Lennox Milne, he co-founded the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh in 1953, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. That year he played the title role in William Gaskill's production of ''Cymbeline''. In 1965, he founded a company at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. He also became the director of The Scottish Theatre Company for most of its years in the 1980s. His film roles included a supporting part as the Catholic priest John Ballard in the period drama ''Mary, Queen of Scots'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Fleming
Shirley Fleming (1929 in New York City – 10 March 2005) was an American music critic and editor. Biography Born in New York City in 1929, she was the daughter of novelist Berry Fleming, who enjoyed popularity during the 1930s and 1940s with a series of successful works, and later in the 1980s with his ''Captain Bennett's Folly''. Shirley grew up in Augusta, Georgia, and maintained a home there throughout her life. She earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from Smith College and was a classically trained violist. From 1967 to 1991, she was the editor of the magazine ''Musical America''. She also served as editor for the publications '' High Fidelity'', '' Hi-Fi Music at Home'', and the ''American Record Guide''. In 1965 she worked as a freelance writer for ''The New York Times'' and later was on that paper's music criticism staff from 1975 to 1978. From 1978 until her death of a stroke on 10 March 2005 she wrote music criticism for the ''New York Post The ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Nangala Fleming
Rosie Nangala Fleming (born 1928) is a Warlpiri painter and sculptor. Her work is included in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ... and the Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries. In the 1970s she founded the Warlpiri Women's Museum. References External links * 1928 births Living people 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian artists 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists {{Australia-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Fleming has been nominated for 18 Grammy Awards and has won four times. Other notable awards have included the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from the French government, Germany's Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize and honorary membership in England's Royal Academy of Music. Unusual among artists whose careers began in opera, Fleming has achieved name recognition beyond the classical music world. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Tommasini, Anthony"For a Wary Soprano, Slow and Steady Wins the Race" ''The New York Times'', September 14, 1997 She has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano operatic roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. A significant portion of her career has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Fleming (writer)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Peter Fleming (31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer."Obituary Colonel Peter Fleming, Author and explorer". ''The Times'', 20 August 1971 p14 column F. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Early life Peter Fleming was one of four sons of the barrister and Member of Parliament (MP) Valentine Fleming, who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910. Fleming was educated at Eton, where he edited the ''Eton College Chronicle''. The Peter Fleming Owl (the English meaning of "Strix", the name under which he later wrote for ''The Spectator'') is still awarded every year to the best contributor to the ''Chronicle''. He went on from Eton to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in English. Fleming was a member of the Bullingdon Club during his time at Oxford. On 10 December 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson (1908†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fleming (poet)
Paul Fleming, also spelt Flemming (5 October 1609 – 2 April 1640), was a German physician and poet. As well as writing notable verse and hymns, he spent several years accompanying the Duke of Holstein's embassies to Russia and Persia. He also lived for a year at Reval on the coast of Estonia, where he wrote many love-songs. Life Born at Hartenstein, in Vogtland, Saxony, the son of Abraham Fleming, a well-to-do Lutheran pastor, Fleming received his early education from his father before attending a school at Mittweida and then the famous St. Thomas School at Leipzig. He received his initial medical training at Leipzig University, where he also studied literature and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy before gaining his medical doctorate at the University of Hamburg.John Wesley Thomas, ''German verse from the 12th to the 20th century in English translation'' (AMS Press, 1966), p. 25Friedrich Max Müller, ''Early German classics from the fourth to fifteenth century'', vol. 2 (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Fleming
Walter "King" Fleming (May 4, 1922 – April 1, 2014) was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert and Büttner, Armin "The King Fleming Discography" He was born in , . Life and career A classmate of , after playing trombone in the McKinley High School band, Fleming went on to study at the Midwest College of Music. He had already led several ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Fleming (author)
Justin Fleming (born 3 January 1953) is an Australian playwright, librettist and author. He has written for theatre, music theatre, opera, television and cinema and his works have been produced and published in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Poland and France. Fleming has been a barrister and vice president of the Australian Writers' Guild and a board member of the Australian National Playwrights' Centre. He is a member of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns, Dublin. Early life, education and career Born in Sydney in 1953, Fleming is one of the six children of Drs Justin Fleming and Gwen Fleming of Sydney, Australia. His father Justin Fleming Snr, was a pioneer vascular surgeon who served with the RAAF during World War Two. Mother Gwen Fleming (née Lusby), also a doctor, had served as one of the first women majors in the Australian Army Medical Corps during the War. The couple met while serving at Concord Military Hospital, and married soon after the war, goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacky Fleming
Jacky Fleming (born 1955, London) is an English cartoonist, whose work first became known through her pre-internet social activism postcards. Biography Fleming studied a foundation course at the Chelsea School of Art, followed by a Fine Art degree at the University of Leeds. Her first published cartoon appeared in ''Spare Rib'', and was a university essay for Professor Griselda Pollock which she handed in as a cartoon strip, and was about a girl trying to understand what society wants from her. Since then her work has featured in many books, exam papers, and publications which include ''The Guardian'', ''The Independent'', ''New Statesman'', ''New Internationalist'', ''Red Pepper'', ''The Observer'', ''Diva'', ''You'' and ''Big Issue''. Fleming's book about Charles Darwin's theory of female inferiority was the winner of the Artemisia Humour prize for '' The Trouble with Women''. Bibliography * ''The Trouble with Women'', 2016. * ''Demented'', Bloomsbury, 2004 * ''Hello Boys'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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