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Hanna (Irish Surname)
Hanna or Hannah is an Irish and Scottish surname, ultimately of Irish origin from O'Hannaidh, or descendants of the lowland Clan Hannay. Hanna (ܚܲܢܵܐ) is also an Assyrian surname, a shortened form of ''Yohannan'', the Aramaic equivalent for John. Notable people with the surnames include: Hanna * Arthur Dion Hanna (1928–2021), Governor-General of the Bahamas * Billy Hanna (c. 1929–1975), Northern Irish loyalist and Ulster Volunteer Force leader * Charles Hanna (1889–1942), American politician * Ciara Hanna (born 1991), American actress and model * David Blyth Hanna (1858–1938), Canadian railway executive * Delphine Hanna (1854–1941), American physical education professor * Edward Joseph Hanna (1860–1944), American bishop * Gabbie Hanna (born 1991), American Internet personality * Gertrud Hanna (1876–1944), German activist and politician * Gila Hanna (born 1934), Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics * Jack Hanna (born 1947), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrud Hanna
Gertrud Hanna (1876–1944) was a German activist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and represented it at the Prussian Parliament. She also assumed various positions in different organizations. Following the Nazi rule in Germany she was dismissed from all of her posts and committed suicide in 1944. She described herself and other colleagues as follows: "We are in the first place Party members, secondly unionists, and finally, if at all feminists." Biography Hanna was born in Berlin on 22 August 1876 into a working class family and had two sisters. She left school at 14 and began to work in a publishing house. She joined a union of unskilled workers and became secretary of the Berlin workers' committee in 1907. Next year she joined the SPD. She was elected as the head of the workers' committee in 1909. Between 1909 and 1933 she was a member of the general commission of the trade unions and the federal executive committee of the German trade uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Hanna
Lucy Hanna is an American artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California. Hanna directed the film ''Shaken & Stirred'' (2009) and has photographed Mia Zapata, a Seattle singer that fronted the punk band The Gits. Life and work Hanna moved from Wichita, Kansas, to Seattle, Washington, in 1989 and photographed the Seattle music scene during the 1990s. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Sculpture and has attended the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) studying under artist Tony Labat and filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt. Hanna's photographs of Mia Zapata Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was an American musician who was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits. After gaining praise in the emerging grunge scene, Zapata was murdered in 1993 while on her way home fr ..., a Seattle singer that fronted the punk band The Gits, were included prominently in the 2008 documentary film ''The Gits'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since 2010, she has recorded as the Julie Ruin. In 2009, Hanna made her zines, art pieces, photography, video, music, journals, and other material which focus on the early formation of the Riot Grrrl movement available at the Fales Library at New York University. A documentary film about Hanna was released in 2013 by director Sini Anderson, titled ''The Punk Singer'', detailing Hanna's life and career, as well as revealing her years-long battle with Lyme disease. Hanna is married to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys. Life and career 1968–1988: Early life and feminism Hanna was born November 12, 1968, in Portland, Oregon. At age three, her family moved to Calvert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hanna
Kate Hanna (born 1 October 1996) is an Australian field hockey player. Hanna made her international debut for Australia in April 2015, in a test series against China. Early life Kate Hanna was born in Constitution Hill, New South Wales. She attended Catherine McAuley Westmead, where after graduating she was awarded a one-year development scholarship with Australia's national hockey team, the Hockeyroos. Career Hanna plays the position of forward in field hockey. At 16 years old, Hanna was named to the New South Wales hockey team for the first time, competing for the Australian Hockey League The Australian Hockey League (AHL) was Australia's premier national domestic ... national title. Her team won the national title in October 2014.
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John Hanna (Indiana Politician)
John Hanna (September 3, 1827 – October 24, 1882) was a United States Representative (1877 to 1879) and United States Attorney (1861 to 1866) from Indiana. Early years John Hanna was born on September 3, 1827, near Indianapolis. He pursued classical studies and graduated from the Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1850. He studied law, was admitted to the bar. Career Hanna commenced practice in Greencastle. He was mayor of Greencastle from 1851 to 1854. Bleeding Kansas He moved to Kansas in 1857 and in December of that year was elected to its Territorial legislature. He served from 1857 to 1858. In 1858, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he introduced and secured passage (over the Governor's veto) of an act that repealed the 1855 law "To punish offenses against slave property", effectively making expansion of slavery in Kansas impossible. He returned to Indiana in 1858. U.S. Attorney In 1860, he was an Indiana elector for Abraham Lincoln. He was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John G
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] |
John A
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hanna (loyalist)
James Andrew Hanna (c. 1947 – 1 April 1974), also known as Red Setter,Steve Bruce, ''The Red Hand'', Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 141 was a senior member of the Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) until he was shot dead by fellow members, for being an alleged informer. Journalists Joe Tiernan and Kevin Myers described him as having been the senior military leader of the UVF. Tiernan also suggested that he was part of a UVF unit that planted car bombs in Dublin in December 1972 and January 1973 which left three people dead and 145 injured. Tiernan claimed that Hanna was controlled by four British Army Intelligence Corps officers who frequently visited his home in Lisburn. Ulster Volunteer Force Hanna was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in about 1947, and was raised in the Protestant religion. Physically he was tall and red-haired, and possessed an outgoing, friendly personality. He lived in his native Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenn Hanna
Jennifer Ann Hanna (born January 22, 1980) is a Canadian curler from Nepean, Ontario. She curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the . Career Early competitive career Hanna competed at the 1998 Canadian Juniors, losing in the final to New Brunswick's Melissa McClure. Despite this, she was named as the tournament's second team all-star skip. In 2002, as a second for Anne Merklinger, Hanna finished second at the Ontario Championships. In 2003, as a vice-skip for Darcie Simpson, she finished second and at the 2004 Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts, she finished third in her first year skipping, after finishing first in the round robin. She was invited by Sherry Middaugh, the 2004 Ontario champion, to be the team's "fifth player" at the 2004 Scott Tournament of Hearts. Hanna did not, however, play any games. 2005 Provincials and Scott Tournament of Hearts In the 2005 Ontario Women's Curling Championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hanna (judge)
James McLean Hanna (October 25, 1816 – January 15, 1872)Minde C. Browning, Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt,Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices, ''Indiana Law Review'', Vol. 30, No. 1 (1997), section reproduced iIndiana Courts Justice Biographies page was an American politician, lawyer, and judge from the state of Indiana who served in the Indiana State Senate and as a Justice on the Indiana Supreme Court. Biography Early life and education Born in Franklin County, Indiana to a prominent local family, Hanna worked on the family farm throughout his childhood. Despite having only a few months of formal education, Hanna was a voracious reader. Following an apprenticeship in Brookville, Hanna gained his license to practice law in 1841 and moved to Bowling Green. Judicial service, political career, and later life A Democrat, Hanna first became involved in Indiana politics after he was appointed Governor James Whitcomb's personal secretary. Hanna served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hanna
James Hanna (born July 14, 1989) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He was drafted in the sixth round (186th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma. Early years Hanna attended Coram Deo Academy where he played six-man football at wide receiver, helping the team achieve a 9-2 and an 11-1 record in his two years there. After his sophomore season he transferred to Flower Mound High School, where he played the traditional eleven-man football at wide receiver. As a junior, he tallied 20 receptions for 330 yards (16.5-yard average) and 2 touchdowns. As a senior, he had 53 receptions for 764 yards (14.4-yard average) with 11 touchdowns, 17 carries for 131 yards, 5 punt returns for 145 yards and one touchdown (71 yards) and 6 kickoff returns for 181 yards and one touchdown. He received honorable-mention All-state and Class 5A/Region 1 District VI Offensive MVP honors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
