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Gowen (other)
Gowen may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Alan Gowen (1947β1981), rock keyboardist * Bradford Gowen (1946β), American pianist * Clonie Gowen (1971β), American poker player * Francis I. Gowen (1855β1927), American industrialist * Franklin B. Gowen (1836β1889), president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad * James Robert Gowen (1784β1862) English horticulturist and New Zealand Company director * John Whittemore Gowen (1893β1967), American biologist * Zach Gowen (1983β), American wrestler Places * Gowen, Michigan, United States, an unincorporated community * Gowen, Oklahoma, United States, an unincorporated community * Boise Airport, Idaho, United States, also known as Gowen Field * Gowen County, New South Wales, Australia Other uses * Major Gowen, a fictional character in the BBC sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Gowen Cypress #REDIRECT Cupressus goveniana ''Cupressus goveniana'', now reclassified as ''Hesperocyparis goveniana'', with the common names Californian c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Gowen
Alan Gowen (19 August 1947 – 17 May 1981) was an English fusion/ progressive rock keyboardist, best known for his work in Gilgamesh and National Health. History Gowen was born in North Hampstead, northwest London. He joined Assagai in 1971 before going on to found Sunship in 1972 with Jamie Muir (drums, also from Assagai) and Laurie Baker (bass). The band also included Allan Holdsworth on guitar. He formed Gilgamesh in 1973 and started a collaboration with Hatfield and the North, eventually founding National Health with Hatfield and the North's keyboardist Dave Stewart in 1975. Gowen left National Health in 1977, though returned briefly for the recording sessions of their first album. In 1978, Gowen formed Soft Heap with Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, and Pip Pyle. With Dave Sheen replacing Pyle, the band toured as Soft Head in the summer of 1978. He also recorded a second Gilgamesh album that year. Gowen re-joined National Health in 1979-1980 and also continued wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Gowen
Bradford Gowen (born November 11, 1946) has received national attention since winning first prize in the 1978 Kennedy Center/ Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano with CΓ©cile Staub Genhart and composition with Samuel Adler. He later studied piano with Leon Fleisher and with Dorothy Taubman. After winning the American music prize, Mr. Gowen made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall and recorded an album of American music for New World Records; in Spring 1998 this recording, Exultation, was re-released as a CD with additional, newly recorded pieces included. On Memorial Day 1980, he performed Aaron Copland's Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer; the next year he performed several more times with that orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Shostakovich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clonie Gowen
Cycalona "Clonie" Gowen (born November 6, 1971) is an American professional poker player, based in Dallas, Texas. Early life Gowen was born in Florida, and grew up in Kiowa, Oklahoma. Her first name was inspired by the fact that she was born while a tornado (cyclone) moved through the region. She won Miss Teen McAlester, Oklahoma, at age 15, and as a teenager moved to Corsicana, Texas. She was a member of the varsity basketball team and placed seventh in state high jump. Poker Gowen was introduced to poker by her boyfriend's father, and started playing while living in Dallas, driving to Shreveport, Louisiana, on the weekends. She finished tenth in a World Poker Tour (WPT) event in late 2002, before gaining national recognition in 2003, winning the televised WPT Ladies' Night event. Over the next five years, Gowen added ten more top-40 finishes in WPT and World Series of Poker events. She has not been active in tournament events since a high finish in the 2009 Aussie Millions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis I
Francis I or Francis the First may refer to: * Francesco I Gonzaga (1366β1407) * Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414β1450), reigned 1442β1450 * Francis I of France (1494β1547), King of France, reigned 1515β1547 * Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1510β1581), reigned 1543β1571 * Francis I, Duke of Nevers (1516β1561), reigned 1539β1561 * Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (1517β1545), reigned 1544β1545 * Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541β1587), reigned 1574β1587 * Francis I of Beauharnais (died 1587), leading noble of the French House of Beauharnais * Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena (1610β1658), reigned 1644β1658 * Francis I RΓ‘kΓ³czi (1645β1676), elected prince of Transylvania * Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708β1765), reigned 1745β1765 * Francis I (Erbach-Erbach) (1754β1823), Count of Erbach * Francis I of the Two Sicilies (1777β1830), reigned 1825β1830 * Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, also known as Francis I, Empe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin B
Franklin may refer to: People * Franklin (given name) * Franklin (surname) * Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class Places Australia * Franklin, Tasmania, a township * Division of Franklin, federal electoral division in Tasmania * Division of Franklin (state), state electoral division in Tasmania * Franklin, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Gungahlin * Franklin River, river of Tasmania * Franklin Sound, waterway of Tasmania Canada * District of Franklin, a former district of the Northwest Territories * Franklin, Quebec, a municipality in the MontΓ©rΓ©gie region * Rural Municipality of Franklin, Manitoba * Franklin, Manitoba, an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale, Manitoba * Franklin Glacier Complex, a volcano in southwestern British Columbia * Franklin Range, a mountain range on Vancouver Island, British Columbia * Franklin River (Vancouver Island), British Columbia * Franklin Strait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Gowen
James Robert Gowen (1784β1862) was an amateur English botanist and horticulturist, who was secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) from 1845 to 1850, treasurer until 1855, a landowner in the Wairau Valley in 1848, was still paying rates in Nelson in 1862 and was a director of the New Zealand Company from 1840 to 1854. He was a lay member of the Lunacy Commission from 1842 to 1844 and patron of the Nelson Agricultural and Horticultural Society in 1845. The RHS lists 12 rhododendron varieties created by Gowen between 1826 and 1842 at Highclere Castle, on the Berkshire-Hampshire border, the home of the second Earl of Carnarvon, who was RHS Vice-President from 1829 to 1833. James Carton was head gardener at Highclere. At the request of Gowen, Carton's Rhododendron, a variety bred in 1825 was named after the gardener, by Professor John Lindley. In 1831 Lindley also named Govenia orchids after Gowen. Gowen Cypress, a Monterey conifer, was named after him by the RHS f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Whittemore Gowen
John Whittemore Gowen (September 5, 1893 β September 14, 1967) was an American biologist and geneticist. Biography Gowen was born in Evinston, Florida, on September 5, 1893, to Charles Hayes and Gertrude Whittemore Gowen. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Maine in 1914 and 1915, respectively. His advisor for his master's degree was Raymond Pearl. In 1917, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where his advisors were Edmund Beecher Wilson and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Gowen then worked as a biologist at the Maine Agricultural Experimental Station until 1926, when he joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as a research associate. In 1937, Gowen joined the faculty of Iowa State College as a professor of genetics. He was head of the Department of Genetics there from 1948 to 1959. In 1964, he retired from Iowa State to become Professor of radiation biology and genetics at Colorado State University, a position he held until his death. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zach Gowen
Zachary Mark Gowen (born March 30, 1983) is an American professional wrestler and promoter. Gowen competed for World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Gowen's left leg was amputated when he was eight years old. He is the only one-legged competitor ever to compete in WWE. Early life Gowen was diagnosed with cancer as a child, and lost his left leg due to amputation at the age of eight. He was a fan of professional wrestling from a young age, and cites Shawn Michaels and Rey Mysterio as two of his favorite wrestlers. Zach is an alumnus at Churchill High School in Livonia, Michigan, Class of 2001. Professional wrestling career Early career After being trained by Truth Martini, Gowen made his professional wrestling debut on March 16, 2002, in a loss to Martini. While training Gowen made the decision to wrestle without his prosthetic leg as he found it difficult to wrestle with the "dead weight". Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2003, 2005, 2006) Gowen fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowen, Oklahoma
Gowen is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Latimer County, Oklahoma, United States. The community is located to the south of U.S. Route 270 and west-southwest of Wilburton. Gowen has a post office with ZIP code 74545. The post office at Gowen, Indian Territory opened on January 13, 1894. The community was named for lawyer Francis I. Gowen. At the time of its founding, Gowen was located in the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.; Morris, John W. ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986), plate 38. The Census Bureau defined a census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ... (CDP) for Gowen in 2015; the 2010 population within the 2015 CDP boundary is 244 and contains 118 housing uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boise Airport
Boise Airport (Boise Air Terminal or Gowen Field) is a joint civil-military airport in the western United States, south of downtown Boise in Ada County, Idaho. The airport is operated by the city of Boise Department of Aviation and is overseen by an airport commission. It is the busiest airport in the state of Idaho, serving more passengers than all other Idaho airports combined and roughly ten times as many passengers as Idaho's second busiest airport, Idaho Falls Regional Airport. Boise is a landing rights airfield requiring international general aviation flights to receive permission from a Customs and Border Protection officer before landing. In addition to being a commercial and general aviation airport, Boise also functions concurrently as a USAF military facility as used by the 124th Fighter Wing (124 FW) of the Idaho Air National Guard on the Gowen Field Air National Guard Base portion of the airport. The 124 FW operates the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. The Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowen County, New South Wales
Gowen County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the east of the Castlereagh River in the area to the east of Gilgandra, to Coonabarabran in the north-east. This includes land on both sides of the Newell Highway. The origin of the name Gowen County is unknown. Parishes within this county A full list of parishes found within this county; their current LGA LaGuardia Airport is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering , the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. ... and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: References {{reflist Counties of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
