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Forman may refer to: Places: *Forman, North Dakota, city in Sargent County, North Dakota, United States * Forman, West Virginia, unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States * Forman Glacier between Mount Franke and Mount Cole, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica *Forman Park, in Syracuse, New York Surname: *A. G. Forman CBE (1910–1967), Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy * Al Forman (1928–2013), baseball umpire *Alexander A. Forman (1843–1922), American soldier in the American Civil War *Alison Forman (born 1969), Australian soccer player *Andrew Forman (1465–1521), Scottish diplomat and Archbishop *Arthur Forman (1850–1905), English schoolmaster and cricketer *Bill Forman (1886–1958), baseball player * Bruce Forman (born 1956), American jazz guitarist *Carol Forman (1918–1997), American actress *Charles William Forman (1821–1894), Presbyterian missionary in Pakistan *Christine Jones Forman, American astrophysicist *Craig Forman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forman, North Dakota
Forman is a city in and the county seat of Sargent County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 509 at the 2020 census. Forman was founded in 1883. History Forman was founded in 1883 by Cornelius Forman. In 1886, the county seat was transferred to Forman from Minor. Until 1967, Forman was the only ''town'' in North Dakota, as all other incorporated communities were either villages or cities. It had become so by a special legal process. In that year it became a city, because the state legislature declared that all incorporated communities were to be cities without distinction of rank.Laws Passed at the Session of the Legislative Assembly of North Dakota 1967 p. 763 Geography and climate Forman is located at (46.105167, -97.637227). The town surrounds a body of water known as Lake Lithia. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 504 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donnie Forman
Donald J. Forman (January 17, 1926 – May 10, 2018) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. A 5'10" guard from New York University, Forman played one season (1948–49) in the Basketball Association of America as a member of the Minneapolis Lakers. He averaged 4.1 points per game Points per game, often abbreviated PPG, is the average number of points scored by a player per game played in a sport, over the course of a series of games, a whole season, or a career. It is calculated by dividing the total number of points by nu ... and won a league championship. BAA career statistics Regular season Playoffs References External links * 1926 births 2018 deaths All-American college men's basketball players American men's basketball players Basketball players from New York City Boys High School (Brooklyn) alumni Guards (basketball) Minneapolis Lakers players NYU Violets men's basketball players {{1920s-US-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Forman
Ira N. Forman (born February 28, 1952) is a former executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council from January 1996 through June 2010. From May 2013 until January 2017 he served as the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism. Education and career In 1974, Forman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he majored in Government. Forman started his career in 1977 working as a legislative liaison for AIPAC. His title was political director. He stayed with AIPAC until 1981, when he left to go to Stanford University, where he completed an MBA in 1983. After completing his MBA went to work for the National PAC as the New York office director, which he continued until 1985. From 1990 to 1993, he served as a fellow at the Center for National Policy where he worked on the volume "Democrats and The American Idea: A Bicentennial Appraisal". He left the Center for National Policy to serve as the director of congressional relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Forman
Humphrey Forman (26 April 1888 – 21 May 1923) played first-class cricket in two matches, one each for Cambridge University and Somerset in the 1910 cricket season. He was born at Repton, Derbyshire and died at Bangkok in Thailand. Humphrey Forman was the son of Arthur Forman, a master at Repton School and himself a first-class cricketer for Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Humphrey was educated at Shrewsbury School. As a first-class cricketer, he was a lower-order batsman and a left-arm medium-pace bowler. He was quite successful as a bowler in his one first-class match at Cambridge University, taking four Kent wickets for 62 runs, more wickets than any other Cambridge bowler. He played a second match for Cambridge a week later against the Free Foresters Free Foresters Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club, established in 1856 for players from the Midland counties of England. It is a 'wandering' (or nomadic) club, having no home ground. The Free Foresters were fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Forman
Howard C. Forman (born January 6, 1946) was an American politician in the state of Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to .... Forman was born in Pittsburgh and came to Florida in 1955. He is a marketing consultant. He served in the Florida State Senate from 1989 to 2000 (district 32), as a member of the Democratic Party. References 1946 births Living people Democratic Party Florida state senators {{Florida-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jay Forman
Henry Jay Forman is both Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of California, Merced. and Research Professor Emeritus of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. He is a specialist in free radical biology and chemistry, antioxidant defense, and pioneered work in redox signaling including the mechanisms of induced resistance to oxidative stress. Biography He received his degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York and Columbia University. After holding a Post-Doctoral position at Duke University, he hed faculty positions in biochemistry, physiology, molecular pharmacology, toxicology, pediatrics, and pathology. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, the USC School of Medicine and the USC School of Pharmacy and then moved to the University of Alabama, Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Forman
Henry James Forman (February 17, 1879 – January 3, 1966) was an author famous for his 1933 book '' Our Movie Made Children'', which was a summary of the Payne Fund Studies The Payne Fund Studies were a series of studies conducted to determine the effects of movies on the behavior of children and adolescents. They were paid for by The Payne Fund, a private foundation, and performed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Th .... The book has been described as an " alarmist tome", and was responsible for publicizing the study's more negative results.Doherty, p. 322; Massey, pp. 29–30; Jowett, Jarvie, and Fuller, pp. 94–95. References Sources *Doherty, Thomas Patrick. ''Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. *Jowett, Garth S., Ian C. Jarvie, and Kathryn H. Fuller. ''Children and the movies: media influence and the Payne Fund controversy''. Cambridge University Press, 1996. *Massey, Anne. ''Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Buxton Forman
Henry Buxton Forman (11 July 1842 – 15 June 1917) was a Victorian-era bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller whose literary reputation is based on his bibliographies of Percy Shelley and John Keats. In 1934 he was revealed to have been in a conspiracy with Thomas James Wise (1859–1937) to purvey large quantities of forged first editions of Georgian and Victorian authors. Early life Henry Buxton Forman was born in Camberwell, south London on 11 July 1842, the third son of George Ellery Forman (born Plymouth in 1800, died London in 1869), a retired Royal Naval surgeon and his Rotherhithe born wife Maria Courthope. At the age of ten months his family moved to Teignmouth in Devon and he was educated at a Royal Naval School in New Cross where Edmund Gosse was a contemporary and lifelong acquaintance although not an intimate. Whilst at school he adapted the sobriquet Harry by which he was afterwards known. He returned to London in 1860 and lived with his brothersHis older broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrison Forman
Harrison Forman (1904-1978) was an American photographer and journalist. He wrote for ''The New York Times'' and ''National Geographic''. During World War II he reported from China and interviewed Mao Zedong. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Oriental Philosophy. Forman and his wife Sandra had a son, John, who later changed the spelling of his name to Foreman, and a daughter, Brenda-Lu Forman, who collaborated with her father on one of his books, and also wrote a series of children's books on given names. His collection of diaries and fifty thousand photographs are now at American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Forman who travelled to the Tibetan Plateau in 1932 and filmed the Panchen Lama at the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province, served as the Tibetan technical expert on Frank Capra's Lost Horizon ''Lost Horizon'' is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. The book was turned into a film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Edward VII, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became King-Emperor, king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayle Forman
Gayle Forman (born June 5, 1970) is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel ''If I Stay'', which topped the ''New York Times'' best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a If I Stay (film), film of the same name. Career Forman began her career writing for ''Seventeen (American magazine), Seventeen'' magazine, with most of her articles focusing on young people and social concerns. Later she became a freelance journalist for ''Details (magazine), Details'', ''Jane (magazine), Jane'', ''Glamour (magazine), Glamour'', ''The Nation'', ''Elle (magazine), Elle Magazine'', and ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan''. In 2002, she and her husband Nick took a trip around the world, in which she garnered experiences and information which later served as the basis for her first book, a travelogue, ''You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World''. In 2007, she published her first young adult novel, ''Sisters in Sanity'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gar Forman
Gar Forman is an American basketball executive who currently serves as a special advisor for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He worked in the Chicago Bulls' front office from 1998 to 2020, starting as a scout before being appointed as general manager in 2009. On June 22, 2011 Gar Forman won the NBA Executive of the Year Award, along with Miami Heat President Pat Riley. College career and scandal Forman began his coaching career in 1981 as a graduate assistant at Utah State. The next season, he was named an assistant coach at College of the Desert for the 1982-1983 season, after which he served as the team's head coach for two seasons. In 1985, he was named an assistant coach at New Mexico State. In 1987, he became an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Cal Poly Pomona. In 1988, he returned to New Mexico State, where he served in the same position. His second tenure at New Mexico State became "scandalized" when he was accused of dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
