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Horner Confederation
Horner is an English and German surname that derives from the Middle English word for the occupation ''horner'', meaning horn-worker or horn-maker, or even horn-blower. People *Alison Horner (born 1966), British businesswoman *Arthur Horner (other), several people *Billy Horner (born 1942), English footballer and manager *Bob Horner (born 1957), American baseball player *Brigitta Horner (1632-1640), German child witch: see Witchcraft accusations against children *Chris Horner (born 1971), American bicyclist *Christopher C. Horner, American attorney and author *Christian Horner (born 1973), team principal of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team *Chuck Horner (born 1936), American General *Constance Horner (born 1942), American public official and businesswoman *Craig Horner (born 1983), Australian actor *Cynthia Horner, American writer and magazine editor *David Horner (born 1948), Australian military historian *Francis Horner (1778–1817), Scottish politician and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' specifies the period when Middle English was spoken as being from 1150 to 1500. This stage of the development of the English language roughly followed the High to the Late Middle Ages. Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period varied widely. Examples of writing from this period that have survived show extensive regional variation. The more standardized Old English language became fragmented, localized, and was, for the most part, being improvised. By the end of the period (about 1470) and aided by the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Horner
Henry Horner (November 30, 1878 – October 6, 1940) was an American politician. Horner served as the 28th Governor of Illinois, serving from January 1933 until his death in October 1940. Horner was noted as the first Jewish governor of Illinois. Early life Horner was born Henry Levy to Solomon Abraham Levy and Dilah Horner in Chicago. He assumed the Horner surname after his parents divorced in 1883. He attended the University of Chicago. Horner attended IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and received his LLB in 1898. Horner was a lawyer and served as a probate judge from 1915 to 1931. Political career First elected governor in 1932, Horner served during the difficult years of the Great Depression. Because of a fiscal crisis in Illinois during his first term in office, he was forced to ask the General Assembly for new tax revenue. In 1933, he signed Illinois's first permanent sales tax law into effect with an inaugural rate of 2.0%. Horner also signed a bill in 1935 increasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Horner
Stephanie Horner (born March 19, 1989) is a competition swimmer from Canada. She is a butterfly and freestyle specialist. Career After having won four medals at the 2007 Pan American Games, Horner competed for her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Horner also made the 2011 Canadian World Championships team, qualifying in the 400-metre individual medley event at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China. In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the open water swim event. In April 2017, Horner was named to Canada's 2017 World Aquatics Championships team in Budapest, Hungary. Honours In 2012 Horner was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (french: Médaille du jubilé de diamant de la reine Elizabeth II) or The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2012 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Horner
George Reginald "Red" Horner (May 28, 1909 – April 27, 2005) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1928 to 1940. He was the Leafs captain from 1938 until his retirement. He helped the Leafs win their third Stanley Cup in 1932. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1965. Born in Lynden, Ontario, Horner spent all of his time playing in Toronto, Ontario. As a junior player, he played for the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey League. In his NHL career, he had the role of enforcer and retired with 42 goals, 110 assists and 1,264 penalty minutes in 490 regular season games. His election to the Hockey Hall of Fame has been considered rather controversial, as until his final two seasons was not considered the best defenseman on his own team, let alone in the NHL. His contemporaries for most of his career were the Hall of Famers King Clancy and Hap Day, who were the best defensemen on his team. It seems to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Horner
Philip Matthew Horner (born 10 November 1966) is an English former professional footballer. He is now a qualified physiotherapist and works at his former playing club Blackpool. Career Horner was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. He began his career with Leicester City in 1983, but he only made ten league appearances in five years at Filbert Street and spent a short spell on loan at Rotherham United in the 1985–86 season. In 1988, he joined Halifax Town, then managed by Billy Ayre. Horner followed Ayre to Blackpool when the latter became manager of the Tangerines in 1990. In six years at Bloomfield Road he made 187 league appearances, scoring 22 goals. He joined non-League Southport on loan in the 1995–96 season. After finishing his professional playing career at Bloomfield Road, Horner returned to Southport on a permanent basis while he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in physiotherapy. He finished his playing career with Lancaster City in the 1999–2000 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Horner
Penelope (Penny) Horner (born 20 June 1939 in London) is a British former film and television actress. Life and career Penelope Horner began her acting career in 1956 in the British film comedy '' A Touch of the Sun''. Other small roles followed in films such as ''A King in New York'' and '' The Nun's Story''. In 1961, she played the Anne Rider in the Edgar Wallace film '' The Daffodil Mystery'' as well as Julie Denver in ''Locker Sixty-Nine'' in 1962. During the 1960s and 1970s she became a regular face in some of the popular spy adventure series of the day, including ''The Saint'', '' The Avengers'' and ''The Persuaders!''. She starred alongside Jack Palance in the 1974 television adaption of ''Dracula'' directed by Dan Curtis. In the 1980s, she appeared as Sarah Hallam in the second and third season of the BBC soap opera ''Triangle''. She retired in 1986. Penelope married 3 times : * David Korda (1962 - ?) ( divorced before 1981) * Rex Berry (1981 - ?) * Bjørn Morisse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Gerald Horner
Norman Gerald Horner (1882–1954) was a physician, surgeon, and medical editor. Biography After education at Tonbridge School, N. Gerald Horner matriculated in October 1899 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating there B.A. in 1902, M.B. and B.Chir. in 1910, M.A. in 1919, and M.D in 1922. At St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1906. After qualification, he was, for a brief time, a house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and then was appointed a house physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was from 1911 to 1915 an assistant editor at ''The Lancet'' under the editorship of Sir Samuel Squire Sprigge. Horner served from 1914 to 1919 as a captain in the RAMC and during WW I was in France for two years. On the editorial staff of the British Medical Journal, he was from 1917 to 1928 an assistant editor (under Sir Dawson Williams) and from 1928 to 1946 editor-in-chief, as successor to Williams, who died in 1928. Horner retired in 1946 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Horner
Leonard Horner FRSE FRS FGS (17 January 1785 – 5 March 1864) was a Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer. He was the younger brother of Francis Horner. Horner was a founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh, now Heriot-Watt University and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Academy. A 'radical educational reformer' he was involved in the establishment of University College School. As a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories, Horner arguably did more to improve the working conditions of women and children in North England than any other person in the 19th century. Early life and education His father, John Horner, was a linen merchant in Edinburgh, and partner in the firm of Inglis & Horner. Leonard, the third and youngest son, attended the High School and entered the University of Edinburgh in 1799. There in the course of the next four years he studied chemistry and mineralogy, and gained a love of geology from ''Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Horner
John Henry "Jack" Horner (July 20, 1927 – November 18, 2004) was a Canadian rancher, politician, and Cabinet minister. Life and career Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", Horner was born in Saskatchewan, the fifth child in a family of six boys and three girls. His mother's uncle had been a prisoner of Louis Riel's provisional government. His father, Ralph Horner, was a failed Conservative candidate who was appointed to the board of directors of Canadian National Railways by the government of R. B. Bennett in 1931, and then to the Senate of Canada in 1933. Jack Horner moved to Alberta at the age of 18 to manage a ranch purchased by his father and then bought his own ranch in 1947. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 federal election from the rural central Alberta riding of Acadia, when the Progressive Conservative Party of which he was a member won the biggest majority government in Canadian history. Horner was an avid supporter of Prime Minister Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Horner
Johann Friedrich Horner (27 March 1831 – 20 December 1886) was an ophthalmologist based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Biography Horner was born in Zurich. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1854, he continued his studies in Vienna, where he learned ophthalmoscopy from Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal (1818–1884), and in Berlin, where he served as an assistant to ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe (1828–1870). It was during this time that Horner decided to become an ophthalmologist himself. He returned to Zurich in 1856, and later opened his own eye clinic named "Hottinghof". Horner became a full professor of ophthalmology in 1873. After his death in 1886, his position at the University of Zurich was filled by Otto Haab (1850–1931). Horner's syndrome, a disorder of the sympathetic nervous system, was named after him following his description of the condition in 1869. His name is also associated with "Horner's muscle", the lacr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Caspar Horner
Johann Caspar Horner (Zürich, 12 March 1774 – Zürich, 3 November 1834) was a Swiss physicist, mathematician and astronomer. Life At the beginning he wanted to be a priest, but later he went to Göttingen, where he learnt astronomy. Then he traveled throughout the world for three years on behalf of the Russians. After the journey he took two years in Saint Petersburg with the cataloging the items he had found. He discovered a method for approaching the roots of equation with unknown factor in a higher power. His findings were published under the titles ''Über die Curven zweiten Grades'' and ''Die fünf regelmässigen Körper''. He wrote some other works also on the field of astronomy. In 1805 Johann Caspar Horner visited Japan with the Prussian Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, as a scientist to the Krusenstern mission that also brought the Russian ambassador Nikolai Rezanov to Japan. Horner made a hot air balloon out of Japanese paper (washi), and made a demonstration in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Horner (other)
John Horner may refer to: * John Henry Horner, also known as ''Cactus Jack'' (1927–2004), Canadian rancher, politician, and former cabinet minister * John M. Horner (1821–1907), founder of Union City, California * John S. Horner (1802–1883), American politician * Sir John Francis Fortescue Horner (1842–1927), British barrister * John Horner (British politician) (1911–1997), British firefighter, trade unionist and politician * John Horner (organist) (1899–1973), organist, choirmaster and music teacher in South Australia * John Horner (police officer), American chief of police of Los Angeles in 1885 * John R. Horner (born 1946), American paleontologist * John Horner (Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford) (1792–?), Oxford college head * John Horner, a fictional character in ''The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle'', a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle See also * Jack Horner (other) Jack Horner may refer to: *'' Little Jack Horner'', a nursery rhyme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
