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Hanson (surname)
Hanson is an Anglicized English surname of Scandinavian And German origin, created from the two words Hans and son (son of Hans). Spoken in English by a German or Swedish immigrant to America, for example, the sound of Hans' son comes out sounding like Hansson, shortened to Hanson. In this same example, an immigrant from Norway would have a different accent, resulting in the sound of Hans' sen, or Hanssen, shortened to Hansen. People with the name include: A * Alexander Hanson (actor) (born 1961), Norwegian-born British actor * Alexander Contee Hanson (1786–1819), American lawyer * A. M. Hanson (born 1969), English artist and photographer * Alf Hanson (1912–1993), British football player * Aline Hanson (1949–2017), Saint Martin educator and politician * Ann Meekitjuk Hanson (born 1946), Canadian politician, commissioner of Nunavut * Ann-Louise Hanson (born 1944), Swedish singer * Arin Hanson (born 1987), American animator, voice actor, Internet personality B * Bever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hanson (footballer)
Christian Hanson (born 3 August 1981) is an English former footballer. A left-footed central defender, he represented England at schools and youth level. He played for a host of non-League clubs, and picked up his greatest honour by winning the FA Trophy with Grays Athletic in 2006. Once contracted to Middlesbrough, he played a handful of games in the Football League for Cambridge United, Torquay United, Port Vale, and Leyton Orient. Career Hanson began his career as a trainee with his local club, Middlesbrough, turning professional in August 2000. His development was interrupted by injury and he joined Cambridge United on loan on 22 March 2001, making his Second Division debut on 31 March in a 4–1 defeat away to Peterborough United. In all he played eight games for the club before returning to the Riverside Stadium. On 5 September 2001, he played as a triallist for Grimsby Town reserves against Blackpool reserves and later in the month joined Portsmouth on trial, but neithe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTAL-FM
KTAL-FM (98.1 MHz, "98 Rocks") is a classic rock music radio station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, with studios in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC Debtor in Possession. Its studios are located just north of downtown Shreveport, and the transmitter is in Vivian, Louisiana. The station is a former sister station of KCMC and KTAL-TV, all of which were owned for many years by WEHCO Media WEHCO Media, Inc., based in Little Rock, AR is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers, cable television systems, and internet service. Walter E. Hussman, Jr. (born 1947), is the president. Hussmann is the grandson of ... until the company sold its broadcasting assets. On-air personalities * Tom Michaels * Greg The Nukeman Hanson * Bobby Cook * Gary Newell * Lonnie Haskins External linksOfficial Website* {{coord, 32.903, N, 94.006, W, type:landmark_region:US_source:FCC, display=title TAL-F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Hanson
Glen Hanson is an openly gay (Adult website) Canadian-born caricaturist and cartoonist, who works primarily in illustration and animation. He is best known as co-creator of the comic strip ''Chelsea Boys'' with Allan Charles Neuwirth. His illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications around the world including ''British Vogue, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Maxim'', and ''Variety''. His animation work can be seen on the television series ''Babar'', ''Beetlejuice'', ''Daria'', '' Freaky Stories'' and ''Spy Groove'' (for which he received an Annie Award in 2000). Hanson studied animation at the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Hanson was awarded a certificate of excellence from the American Institute of Graphic Arts for his work on Blink 182's ''The Mark, Tom and Travis Show'' album cover. In 2009, he designed and directed the animated music video "Ghost Town" for Universal Music recording artists Shiny Toy Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Hanson
Gillian Coysh Hanson FRCP FRCA (25 March 1934 – 23 May 1996) was a British physician who specialised in intensive care and the treatment of diabetes mellitus. She established and led the intensive care unit at Whipps Cross Hospital from 1968 to 1993. Career Gillian Coysh Hanson was born in 1934 to John Hanson, a metallurgist and chemist. She attended the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London (now part of UCL Medical School), graduating in 1957. She worked at Whipps Cross Hospital as a medical registrar and research fellow. Her early research focused on a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, which was then being used to treat gas gangrene and tetanus. Hanson led the establishment of an intensive care unit (ICU) at Whipps Cross Hospital, and when it opened in 1968, she was appointed the physician in charge of the unit. This made her the first consultant physician placed in charge of a British ICU, and the youngest consultant in London at the time. The ICU at Whipps Cross b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Hanson
Melvin "Fritz" Hanson (July 13, 1914 – February 14, 1996) was a Canadian football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Calgary Stampeders. Hanson was signed by the Blue Bombers for $125 a game and free room and board, which was a considerable sum in the cash-strapped dirty thirties. Nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost", "Twinkle Toes" and the "Perham Flash", Hanson was one of the pioneers of football in Western Canada and a huge star at the time. Although he weighed only he used his incredible quickness to evade defenders. He helped lead the Blue Bombers to the first Grey Cup victory by a western Canadian team in 1935 and won again with the Bombers in 1939 and 1941. In the 1935 Grey Cup Game Hanson had an incredible 334 punt return yards on 13 returns, a record that still stands today, including a sensational 78-yard return for the winning touchdown. He played with Winnipeg from 1935 through 1946 then spent two years playing for the Calgary Stampeders, where he won a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Hanson
Frederick John Hanson, (26 May 1914 – 26 October 1980) was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force from 1972 to 1976. Early life Hanson was born in Orange, New South Wales, on 26 May 1914 and was educated at Christian Brothers College, Burwood. He worked as a manufacturing jeweller's assistant and a transit porter before joining the police force in 1936. He served in the Second World War with the Royal Australian Air Force from 1942 until 1946. He was rapidly promoted through the police ranks, becoming assistant commissioner in 1968 and deputy commissioner in early 1972. His nickname in the force was "Slippery". Career Hanson was promoted to commissioner on 15 November 1972, having been recommended for the role by his predecessor, Norman Allan, whose term had been tarnished by corruption allegations. Upon taking office, Hanson reportedly sacked 28 corrupt officers and announced that he saw drugs as the biggest problem facing police. As commissioner, Hanson reorga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hanson
Edward William Hanson (February 12, 1889 – October 18, 1959) was a United States Navy Vice admiral and the governor of American Samoa from June 26, 1938, to July 30, 1940. As Governor of American Samoa, Hanson believed that the native Samoans had a good way of life, and did little to interfere with established practices on the islands. Early years and World War I Edward William Hanson was born on February 12, 1889, in Alexandria, Minnesota. He attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and graduated in 1911 with the rank of Ensign. With the entry of the United States into World War I, LTJG Hanson was appointed as commanding officer of , a , which patrolled Manila Bay in the summer of 1917. Hanson was ordered to Gibraltar in the same year. During the voyage to Europe, which was longer than 11,000 miles, USS ''Dale'' was under very unfavorable weather conditions. Hanson managed to sail ''Dale'' without serious damage, so the ship was ready for immediate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Hanson (baseball)
Erik Brian Hanson (born May 18, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. During an 11-year baseball career, he pitched for the Seattle Mariners (1988–1993), Cincinnati Reds (1994), Boston Red Sox (1995), and Toronto Blue Jays (1996–1998), and was known for possessing an excellent curveball. Amateur career Raised in Kinnelon, New Jersey, Hanson played high school baseball for coach Lew Watts at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. He attended Wake Forest University, and in 1984 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Professional career Hanson won a career high 18 games for the Mariners in 1990 and was a 1995 American League The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league ... All-Star selection for the Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Hanson
Einar Hanson (; Stockholm, Sweden – ; Santa Monica, California), also known as Einar Hansen, was a Swedish silent film actor. Career Discovered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre by director Mauritz Stiller, handsome and sophisticated, he was in 1927 ideally positioned to take over from the late Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's "great screen lover". Upon his arrival in Hollywood in 1925, along with Stiller and the director's other protégée Greta Garbo, Hanson starred opposite some of the era's leading ladies, including Pola Negri and Corinne Griffith. Hanson was destined for even bigger and better things at Paramount Pictures, who had bought his original five-year contract from Universal Studios. He showed great progress opposite Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in '' Children of Divorce'', as well as ''The Woman on Trial'' and ''Barbed Wire'' both with Pola Negri, and ''Fashions for Women'' (all 1927), directed by Dorothy Arzner. Death On June 3, 1927, Hanson was on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 – January 6, 1996) was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota. He spent most of his career in South Florida. He was known for his life-sized realistic sculptures of people. He cast the works based on human models in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo, and bronze. Hanson's works are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Smithsonian. Education Duane Elwood Hanson was born January 17, 1925, in Alexandria, Minnesota. After attendance at Luther College and the University of Washington, he graduated from Macalester College in 1946. Following a period where he taught high school art, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills in 1951. Career and style Around 1966 Hanson began making figural casts using fiberglass and vinyl. Works that first brought him to notice were of figures gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hanson (other)
David Hanson or Dave Hanson may refer to: Politicians * David Hanson (politician) (born 1957), British politician, MP from Delyn, Wales * Dave Hanson (politician) (born 1960/1961), Canadian politician, MLA for Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, Alberta Sportspeople * Dave Hanson (footballer) (born 1968), former football striker * David Hanson (ice hockey) (born 1954), ice hockey player, most famous for his role in ''Slap Shot'' Others * David Hanson (computer scientist), American software engineer * David T. Hanson, environmental photographer * David Hanson (producer), British television producer * David Hanson (robotics designer) (born 1969), American sculptor and robotics researcher * David J. Hanson (born 1941), American sociologist * David Hanson, guitarist with progressive rock band GoodThunder See also * David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson is a Denmark, Danish programmer, and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development Software framework, fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
