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Heidi (given Name)
Heidi is a Germanic feminine given name. It became an internationally popular first name as a direct result of the Swiss children's book, ''Heidi''. It can sometimes be an affectionate diminutive of the name Adelheid (English: Adelaide), which means "nobility" or, more loosely, "of noble birth". The name began to be used in the English-speaking world shortly after the 1937 Shirley Temple movie adaptation of the novel. In German-speaking countries, Heidi is also used as a diminutive for other names, such as Heidrun, Heidelinde, and Heidemarie. Given name A–F *Heidi Alexander (born 1975), British politician *Heidi Allen (born 1975), British politician *Heidi Andersson (born 1981), Swedish armwrestler * Heidi Andreasen (born 1985), Faroese swimmer * Heidi Androl (born 1980), candidate for ''The Apprentice:Los Angeles'' (US Season 6, 2005) *Heidi Astrup (born 1972), Danish handball player *Heidi Baker (born 1959), American missionary in Africa *Heidi Barrett (born 1958), California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.1 million native speakers; Low German, considered a separate collection of Standard language, unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Burge
Heidi Ann Horton (née Burge; November 11, 1971) is a former American professional women's basketball player. She is the twin sister of Heather (Burge) Quella. Early life As a 5-month-old in 1972, Heidi Burge was found to have a second aorta wrapped around and constricting her windpipe which needed to be removed through open-heart surgery. At the time, she was given only a 50-50 chance of survival. Prior to starting high school, the Burge family moved to Palos Verdes Estates, California so that the sisters could attend Palos Verdes High School. Although Burge was not originally interested in playing basketball, as she preferred theater and volleyball, after being asked to try out by the ladies basketball coach her freshman year, she quickly fell in love with the game. Burge brought success to the team, transforming the Sea Kings into Southern Section 3-A champions in 1987 and concluding her high-school career second on the school's all-time list of girls' scorers with 1,183 poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Harris
Heidi Harris is an American talk radio host and author. Her show was a two-time winner of the Electronic Media Award (EMA) for Best Local Radio Talk Show. Harris was AM 840 KXNT Las Vegas station's morning host from 2015 to 2017, heard weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., where she also spent 1999 to 2005 as one of Las Vegas’s predominant conservative broadcasters. She also hosts and produces the podcast "Vegas Characters" that features Las Vegas personalities. Career ''The Heidi Harris Show'' aired weekday mornings from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on CBS-owned AM 840 KXNT in Las Vegas. A native of Las Vegas and former professional singer and HR recruiter, she began her radio career at KDWN in Las Vegas in 1998. She moved across town to KXNT in 1999, initially as a fill-in host, weekend host and then co-host of a morning drive show from 2001 to 2006. She hosted her own show at KDWN from 2007 to 2012, before leaving for a radio job in Los Angeles. ''The Heidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Harley
Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. Career Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Alec Marantz. Harley is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology. She has published over thirty articles on morphological theory, syntax, and semantics, including articles in the journals ''Language'', ''Linguistic Inquiry'', ''Lingua'', ''Morphology Yearbook'', and '' Studia Linguistica.'' She is the editor of three volumes of collected papers, the editor of two special issues of journals, and is the author of a textbook on morphological theory (Harle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Groskreutz
Heidi Skletroz Groskreutz (born September 3, 1981) is an American ballroom dancer, specializing in the fields of Latin and swing dancing. She is known for making the final in the second season of the Fox TV series '' So You With Think You Can Dance''. Biography Heidi Groskreutz, born September 3, 1981, is a dancer from Cliffside Park, New Jersey, and raised in Newport Beach, California. She specializes in Latin and swing dancing, and as of 2006, is a six-time U.S. Open Swing Dance champion. She has also the winner of the World Invitation Swing Dance Championship and many other top NASDE events. Popularly, she is best known for being a top four finalist in the second season of the ''So You Think You Can Dance'' competition (which was won by her cousin Benji Schwimmer). Since six years old, Groskreutz and her cousin Benji, longtime dance partners, have been winning national swing dance titles together. They are both Mormons, and when Schwimmer left to serve a mission in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Grande Røys
Heidi Grande Røys (born 6 May 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She became Minister of Modernisation in 2005, renamed to Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg. She was replaced by Rigmor Aasrud Rigmor Aasrud (born 26 June 1960) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oppland during the terms 1993–1997, 1997–2001 and 2001–2005. When the se ... in 2009. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Roys, Heidi Grande 1967 births Living people Government ministers of Norway Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Women government ministers of Norway 21st-century Norwegian politicians 21st-century Norwegian women politicians Women members of the Storting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Foss
Heidi Foss is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer. In 2001 she won a Canadian Comedy Awards honoring her achievements in the field of comedy writing for the Canadian television comedy program This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Her film and television credits include: * Arthur - Mary Moo Cow/Patty Jones (voice role) * Fries with That? - actress/ writer * Obsessed (a 2002 TV drama directed by John Badham) as a prison guard * Misguided Angels * In Thru The Out Door * Doctor*ology * Fix and Foxi * Timothy Goes to School * Radio Active * She's So Funny - writer/performer * Funny Girls - writer/performer Foss has appeared on Comedy Now!, the Just for Laughs television show, Daily Planet, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, and The Mike Bullard Show. She has provided her voice talents to the animated shows Arthur Arthur is a common male given name of Brittonic languages, Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam. She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and is often referred to as the " Hollywood Madam". Fleiss has also worked as a columnist and was a television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media. Early life Fleiss was born and raised in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her father, Paul M. Fleiss (1933–2014) was a pediatrician and her mother, Elissa (née Ash) was an elementary school teacher. Their marriage ended in divorce. She has a brother, Jesse, and had another brother, Jason, who drowned. She also has three sisters: Amy, Kim, and Shana. Prostitution and tax evasion At the age of 22, Fleiss began managing a prostitution ring under Madam Alex after meeting her in 1987 via Fleiss's film-director boyfriend Iván Nagy. Fleiss stated in 2002 that Alex and she had "a very intense relationship" and that she "was kind of like the daughter she loved and hated, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Li Feldman
Heidi Li Feldman is an American professor of law at Georgetown Law. Her areas of research are torts, ethics, political philosophy, and legal theory. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Education Feldman attended Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990, she earned a Juris Doctor from University of Michigan Law School. While in law school, Feldman worked as an associate editor and article editor of the ''Michigan Law Review''. She was a member of the Order of the Coif. Feldman completed a doctorate in philosophy from University of Michigan in 1993. Her 1993 dissertation was titled ''Legal judgement, thick concepts, and objectivity''. Feldman's doctoral advisor was Peter Railton. Career Feldman worked as an assistant professor at University of Michigan Law School from 1991 to 1998. She taught courses on torts, ethics, and law and objectivity. Her research topics are tort law, political philosophy, ethics, and legal theory. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi-Elke Gaugel
Heidi-Elke Gaugel (born 11 July 1959 in Schönaich) is a retired female German athlete who specialized in the 400 m. Biography Gaugel competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, United States, where she won the bronze medal with her team mates Heike Schulte-Mattler, Ute Thimm and Gaby Bußmann in the women's 4 × 400 m relay event. She married the middle-distance runner Harald Hudak. During the time she resided in Japan with her husband, she worked for NHK Radio 2's German radio course as a teacher.German radio course text 2001, NHK Publishing Co., Ltd She represented the club VfL Sindelfingen VfL Sindelfingen is a German sports club from Sindelfingen, Baden–Württemberg. The club was founded in 1862 and has more than 9,000 members, making it one of biggest sports clubs in Germany. VfL Sindelfingen has departments for various sports .... References External links * * 1959 births Living people People from Böblingen (distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi W
''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' (german: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and ''Heidi: How She Used What She Learned'' (german: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-old girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle). ''Heidi'' is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. Plot Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her maternal grandmother and aunt Dete in Maienfeld, in the Grisons, after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's brother-in-law and sister). Shortly after the grandmother's death, Dete is offered a good job as a maid in the big city, and takes 5-year-old Heidi to her pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Crowter
Heidi Crowter is an English disability rights advocate. Crowter campaigns for the anti-abortion group Don't Screen Us Out, challenging the Abortion Act 1967 which she views as discriminatory against fetuses with disabilities. Early life Heidi Crowter was born to Liz and Steve Crowter. Soon after her birth her parents discovered she had Down syndrome. Crowter has had leukemia, pneumonia, and kidney failure. She had cardiac surgery shortly after her birth. Crowter has two older brothers and a younger sister. At the age of 16, Crowter was a victim of internet trolling and harassment related to her Down syndrome. Career Crowter works at a hair salon in Coventry managing its social media accounts and working with children. Crowter is involved in the campaign Don't Screen Us Out. Crowter and two others sued the Department of Health and Social Care alleging that the Abortion Act 1967 was discriminatory by allowing for the abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome and other diagnoses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
