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Frink (surname)
Frink is a surname of North German origin. People with the surname * Albert Frink, American businessman and politician * Bill Frink (1926–2005), American sportscaster * Charles N. Frink (fl. 1860–1896), Wisconsin insurance executive and Populist legislator * Daniel A. Frink (1835–1885), American politician * Elisabeth Frink (1930–1993), English sculptor and printmaker * Fred Frink (1911–1995), American baseball player * John Frink (born 1964), American writer and TV producer * John M. Frink (1855–1914), Washington State politician and businessperson * Orrin Frink (1901–1988), American mathematician who introduced Frink ideals * Pat Frink (1945–2012), American basketball player * Stephen Frink (born 1978), American underwater photographer See also * Frink (other) * Golden Frinks Golden Asro Frinks (August 15, 1920 – July 19, 2004) was an American civil rights activist and a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) field secretary who represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Germanic Languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also referred to as the Nordic languages, a direct translation of the most common term used among Danish, Faroese, Icelandic,Elfdalian,Norwegian, Gutnish, and Swedish scholars and people. The term ''North Germanic languages'' is used in comparative linguistics, whereas the term Scandinavian languages appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close enough to form a strong mutual intelligibility where cross-border communication in native languages is very common. Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries speak a Scandinavian language as their native language,Holmberg, Anders and Christer Platzack (2005). "The Scandinavian languages". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John M
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Frink
Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink Jr., is a new recurring character in the Animated cartoon, animated television series ''The Simpsons''. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the 1991 episode "Old Money (The Simpsons episode), Old Money". Frink is Springfield (The Simpsons), Springfield's nerdy scientist and professor and is extremely intelligent, though somewhat Mad scientist, mad and socially inept. Frink often tries to use his bizarre inventions to aid the town in its crises but they usually only make things worse. His manner of speech, including the impulsive shouting of nonsensical words, has become his trademark look, trademark. Frink was originally depicted as an evil scientist in "Old Money," since he was trying to secure funding for a death ray. When Azaria ad libitum, ad-libbed a voice for the character, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's Julius Kelp character from ''The Nutty Professor (1963 film), The Nutty Professor''. The staff liked the voice and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Frinks
Golden Asro Frinks (August 15, 1920 – July 19, 2004) was an American civil rights activist and a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) field secretary who represented the New Bern, North Carolina SCLC chapter. He is best known as a principal civil rights organizer in North Carolina during the 1960s. Frinks was also a United States Army veteran who fought in World War II and worked at the U.S. naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. After his military career, he began promoting equality for African Americans through organized demonstrations. Frinks' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement brought early civil rights victories to North Carolina, and his willingness to engage in nonviolent, direct action served as a catalyst for civil rights movements in Edenton and nearby towns. After becoming a field secretary of the SCLC, Frinks built a close relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and often worked with the civil rights leader in organizing desegregation movements until Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frink (other)
Frink or frinks may refer to: Places * Frink, Florida, an unincorporated community * Frink Park, a park in Seattle, Washington * Mount Frink, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada People * Frink (surname) * Golden Frinks (1920–2004), African-American civil rights activist Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Frank Frink, a fictional character in ''The Man in the High Castle'' television series, whose family name was originally "Fink" * Professor Frink, a fictional character in ''The Simpsons'' Other uses * Frink (programming language), named after Professor Frink (''The Simpsons'') * Frink ideal In mathematics, a Frink ideal, introduced by Orrin Frink, is a certain kind of subset of a partially ordered set. Basic definitions LU(''A'') is the set of all common lower bounds of the set of all common upper bounds of the subset ''A'' of a par ..., in mathematics, a certain kind of subset of a partially ordered set * Frink Medal, an award for Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Frink
Stephen Frink (born 1949) is a prolific underwater photographer, wildlife photographer, photo journalist, editor and publisher. Frink has contributed to ''Skin Diver magazine'' and ''Scuba Diving magazine''. He is currently the publisher of ''Alert Diver magazine'', an upscale quarterly publication for the Divers Alert Network. Frink was born in Iowa and moved to Illinois in his youth. he was a competitive swimmer in his youth. He moved to Key Largo, Florida in 1978. In Key Largo, he maintains a small studio for underwater photo services, as well as camera rentals, film processing, and dive tours. Frink has his own stock photo agency, Stephen Frink Collection. Frink has been commissioned by commercial clients including Oceanic, Canon, Nikon, American Express, Rolex, and Victoria's Secret. In March 2020 he was named Photographer of the Week by Dive Photo Guide. He is a "Canon Explorer of Light," and the only marine photographer within this select group of professionals. His work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Frink
Patrick Edward Frink (February 18, 1945 – May 6, 2012) was an American basketball player. He played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Early life Pat Frink grew up in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, in a single-parent family with his older brother, Mike, and their mother, Madge, who worked several jobs at a time. The brothers never knew their father. Frink attended Wheat Ridge High School, where he starred as a 6'4" shooting guard. He earned all-state honor and all American honors. College career He played collegiately at the University of Colorado from 1965 to 1968. There he played alongside his older brother, Mike Frink. For his career, he scored 1,288 points (17.4 per game) and grabbed 251 rebounds (3.4 per game). He led the team in scoring all three seasons he played for the Buffs. He was named second team All-Big Eight Conference his junior and senior years and was a second team Academic All-American in 1968. NBA career Following his graduation from Colora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orrin Frink
Orrin Frink Jr. (31 May 1901 – 4 March 1988). was an American mathematician who introduced Frink ideals in 1954. Frink earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1926 or 1927 and worked on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University for 41 years, 11 of them as department chair. His time at Penn State was interrupted by service as assistant chief engineer at the Special Projects Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during World War II, and by two Fulbright fellowships to Dublin, Ireland in the 1960s. Aline Huke Frink, his wife, was also a mathematician at Penn State. Their son, also named Orrin Frink, became a professor of Slavic languages at Ohio University and Iowa State University.. Selected publications * * * See also *Petersen's theorem In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, Petersen's theorem, named after Julius Petersen, is one of the earliest results in graph theory and can be stated as follows: Petersen's Theorem. Every cubic, bridgeless gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frink
John Frink (born May 5, 1959) is an American television writer and producer. He has written several episodes of the American animated sitcom ''The Simpsons'', many of which he co-wrote with his former writing partner Don Payne. Frink and Payne started their career in television writing for the short-lived sitcom ''Hope and Gloria''. They wrote their first episode of ''The Simpsons'' in 2000, and Frink still works on the show as a writer and executive producer. Early life and career Frink was born in 1959 in Whitesboro, New York. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, he holds a degree in creative writing. Frink began his career as a writer for several sitcoms together with his writing partner at the time, Don Payne. The two met at UCLA, where Frink was the boss of the Media Laboratory in which Payne worked. Payne has said to the website TheFutonCritic.com that "one day we were both trying to write individually so I said, 'why don't we pool our resources and wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics known as the Delegates of the Press, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 500 years, OUP has primarily focused on the publication of pedagogical texts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Frink
Frederick Ferdinand Frink (August 25, 1911 – May 19, 1995) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. Frink was born on August 25, 1911, in Macon, Georgia, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He played in two games in his major league career, with no at bats. Frink died on May 19, 1995, in Miami Springs, Florida Miami Springs is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The city was founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, "The Father of Naval Aviation", and James Bright, during the famous "land boom" of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estat .... External links 1911 births 1995 deaths Major League Baseball outfielders Philadelphia Phillies players Baseball players from Macon, Georgia Baseball players from Miami-Dade County, Florida {{US-baseball-outfielder-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Frink
Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink (14 November 1930 – 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her ''Times'' obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form". Early life Elisabeth Frink was born in November 1930 at her paternal grandparents' home The Grange in Great Thurlow, a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. Her parents were Ralph Cuyler Frink and Jean Elisabeth (née Conway-Gordon). Captain Ralph Cuyler Frink, was a career officer in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and among the men of the cavalry regiment evacuated from Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940. She was raised in a catholic household. The Second World War, which broke out shortly before Frink's ninth birthday, provided context for some of her earliest artistic works. Growing up near a military airfield in Suffolk, she heard bombers returning from their internecine mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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