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Groves
Groves may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * The Groves, an area of York, England * Groves, Texas, U.S., a city * Groves High School (other), several schools * Groves Stadium, home of BB&T Field, an American football venue in Winston-Salem, North Carolina Ships * USS ''Groves'' (DE-543), a U.S. Navy destroyer escort cancelled during construction in 1944 * USS ''Stephen W. Groves'' (FFG-29), a U.S. Navy guided-missile frigate in commission since 1982 Other uses * The Groves family, a prominent British theatre family dating back to the Regency era. * Groves (surname), including a list of people with the surname * '' Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', an earlier version of ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' See also * * :Sacred groves, various places considered sacred groves * Grove (other) * Graves (other) Graves is the plural of grave, a location where a dead body is buried. Graves or The Graves may also refer to: Geography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groves Family
The Groves family is a British theatre family which traces its roots to the Regency era. Its descendants include actors of the Victorian stage, the British Music Hall, Broadway theatre and motion pictures. Lineage The can be traced back to Charles Groves (1807—1866) and Martha Bigg (1822—1915). Bigg began her acting career playing children’s roles in London’s West End in 1830, appearing in ''Peter Bell the Wagonner'' at the Royal Cobourg Theatre (today The Old Vic) and in the title role of ''Tom Thumb'' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. She married Groves in 1841 and together they toured the provinces, acting, producing and devising shows over the next two decades, simultaneously raising a family of ten children while travelling and working in theatres across Britain and Ireland. Victorian Generation Charles Groves (1843—1909) born in Limerick, Ireland. He performed as a pantomime clown, dramatic actor and comedian in London’s West End and on Broadway. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Groves
The Groves is a district of York, England, covering the area just north of the city centre between Huntington Road and Haxby Road. The district is near York Hospital and the city ring road. In the 19th century the area was populated by poor working-class inhabitants of long rows of back-to-back houses. It consists largely of close-knit terraces, the majority of which date from the first two decades of the 20th century. In the early 1960s, a large number of very small terraced houses were demolished to make way for flats and maisonettes which were built between Garden Street, Penleys Grove/Townend Street and Lowther Street; this area has a residents' association. The Groves area contains a mixture of privately owned and rented properties, and council housing Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council estates, council housing, or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groves, Texas
Groves is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,335 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont– Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. History In 1886, Sam Courville moved his family from a Sabine Lake settlement in Port Arthur to a new home on of land. It was in that same general area around 1911 that John Warne Gates purchased additional tracts of land. The land was conveyed to the Griffing brothers of Port Arthur in 1916, and three years later Griffing Brothers Nursery employee Wiley Choate supervised the planting of several thousand pecan trees on a tract. In 1921, the Port Arthur Land Development Company took control of the site and divided the land into a residential subdivision known as "Pecan Grove". The name was later changed to "Groves", after development representative and pioneer Port Arthurian Asa Groves. A post office was established in 1927 and a school opened in 1929. A public library opened the following year. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groves High School (other)
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Groves High School may refer to: * Groves High School (Georgia), Garden City, Georgia * Birmingham Groves High School, Beverly Hills, Michigan * Port Neches–Groves High School, Port Neches, Texas * Webster Groves High School, St. Louis, Missouri *Grove Park School, Wrexham, Wales See also * Grove High School (other) * Grove School (other) Grove School, or a name similar, may refer to one these schools: U.S. * Grove School (Connecticut) * The Grove School in California * Grove High School in Oklahoma * Cary-Grove High School in Illinois * Grove City High School in Ohio U.K. * Grove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groves Stadium
Truist Field at Wake Forest is a football stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The stadium is just west of Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park, home of the Wake Forest baseball team. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons. The stadium opened in 1968 and holds 31,500 people. It is the smallest football stadium, by capacity, in both the ACC and in all Power 5 conferences. Previously known as Groves Stadium, in September 2007, Wake Forest University and BB&T, which was headquartered in Winston-Salem, announced a 10-year deal to officially rename the stadium BB&T Field starting with the first 2007 home game against Nebraska. The deal was part of a larger development process to secure funds for stadium renovations and upgrades. On July 8, 2020, the name of the stadium was changed to Truist Field at Wake Forest following a merger between BB&T and SunTrust. History The former stadium name of Groves F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Groves (DE-543)
USS ''Groves'' (DE-543) was a proposed World War II United States Navy ''John C. Butler''-class destroyer escort that was never completed. ''Groves'' was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. Her construction was cancelled on 5 September 1944 before she could be launched. The incomplete ship was scrapped. References *Navsource Naval History: Photographic History of the U.S. Navy: Destroyer Escorts, Frigates, Littoral Warfare Vessels {{DEFAULTSORT:Groves (DE-543) John C. Butler-class destroyer escorts Proposed ships of the United States Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Of The United Kingdom
Theatre of United Kingdom plays an important part in British culture, and the countries that constitute the UK have had a vibrant tradition of theatre since the Renaissance with roots going back to the Roman occupation. Beginnings Theatre was introduced from Europe to what is now the United Kingdom by the Romans and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose (an example has been excavated at Verulamium). By the medieval period, theatre had developed with the mummers' plays, a form of early street theatre associated with the Morris dance, concentrating on themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood. These were folk tales re-telling old stories, and the actors travelled from town to town performing these for their audiences in return for money and hospitality. Medieval theatre: 500–1500 The medieval mystery plays and morality plays, which dealt with Christian themes, were performed at religious festivals. The most important work of lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regency Era
The Regency era of British history officially spanned the years 1811 to 1820, though the term is commonly applied to the longer period between and 1837. George III of the United Kingdom, King George III succumbed to mental illness in late 1810 and, by the Regency Act 1811, his eldest son George IV of the United Kingdom, George, Prince of Wales, was appointed prince regent to discharge royal functions. When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent succeeded him as George IV. In terms of periodisation, the longer timespan is roughly the final third of the Georgian era (1714–1837), encompassing the last 25 years or so of George III's reign, including the official Regency, and the complete reigns of both George IV and his brother William IV of the United Kingdom, William IV. It ends with the accession of Queen Victoria in June 1837 and is followed by the Victorian era (1837–1901). Although the Regency era is remembered as a time of refinement and culture, that was the prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groves (surname)
Groves is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * The Groves family, a British theatre family * Andrew Groves, British fashion designer * Anthony Norris Groves, British missionary * Cady Groves (1989-2020), American singer-songwriter * Charles Groves, British actor * Charles Groves, British conductor * Colin Groves (1942–2017), Australian primatologist * Cornelia Groves, American preservationist (1926–2021) * Don Groves, Australian journalist for ''IF Magazine'' * Eddy Groves, Australian businessman * Fred Groves, British actor * Frederick Groves (other) * George Groves (boxer), English boxer * Harold Groves (1897-1969), American politician * Herbert Stanley "Bert" Groves, Aboriginal Australian activist in the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship and Aborigines Progressive Association * Herta Groves, British hat designer * James Grimble Groves (1854–1914), British brewer and politician * Jennifer Choe Groves, American Federal Judge * John Grove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grove's Dictionary Of Music And Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the History of music, history and Music theory, theory of music. Earlier editions were published under the titles ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', and ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians''; the work has gone through several editions since the 19th century and is widely used. In recent years it has been made available as an Web resource, electronic resource called ''Grove Music Online'', which is now an important part of ''Oxford Music Online''. ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' was first published in London by Macmillan and Co. in four volumes (1879, 1880, 1883, 1889) edited by George Grove with an Appendix edited by John Alexander Fuller Maitland, J. A. Fuller Maitland in the fourth volume. An In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
