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Hoot
Hoot or Hoots may refer to: Publications * ''Hoot'' (novel), a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen * ''Hoot'', a 1996 children's novel by Jane Hissey * ''Hoot'' (comics), a British magazine published from 1985 to 1986 * ''The Brandeis Hoot'', a student newspaper at Brandeis University Film and TV * ''Hoot'' (film), a 2006 film based on the Carl Hiaasen novel * Hoots the Owl, a ''Sesame Street'' Muppet * "Hoots" (''Adventure Time''), a television episode * Hoot an Owl character on the Australian children's television show ''Giggle and Hoot'' Music * ''Hoot'' (EP), a 2010 mini-album by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation ** "Hoot" (song), a song by Girls' Generation from the mini-album As a nickname * Hoot Evers (1921–1991), American Major League Baseball player * Hoot Gibson (other), various people * Hoot Hester (1951–2016), American country and bluegrass musician * Hoot Sackett, American baseball head coach at Oklahoma State University in 1920–1921 Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot (novel)
''Hoot'' is a 2002 mystery/suspense novel, recommended for ages 9–12, by Carl Hiaasen. The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003. Plot The main character Roy Eberhardt moves from Montana to Florida and into the fictional town of Coconut Cove, where a 7th grader, Dana Matherson, starts to bully him. On the bus to school, Roy sees a boy running barefoot outside. Roy tries to leave the bus, but Dana viciously chokes and strangles him. He escapes after punching Dana in the face, breaking his nose, and then exiting the bus. However, Roy can't catch the running boy because a golf ball hits Roy in the head. Vice-Principal Viola Hennepin suspends Roy from the bus for two weeks and orders him to write an apology to Dana. Roy calls for a truce, but Dana refuses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot Evers
Walter Arthur "Hoot" Evers (February 8, 1921 – January 25, 1991) was an American baseball outfielder, scout, coach, and executive. Evers played professional baseball from 1941 to 1942 and 1946 to 1956, including 12 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1941, 1946–1952, 1954), Boston Red Sox (1952–1954), New York Giants (1954), Baltimore Orioles (1954, 1956), and Cleveland Indians (1955–1956). Evers missed the 1943, 1944, and 1945 seasons due to military service during World War II. He was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1948 and 1950. During the 1950 season, he compiled a .323 batting average with 67 extra-base hits and led the American League with 11 triples. Multiple broken bones, beanings, and other injuries slowed his production after the 1950 season. After his playing career ended, Evers worked for the Cleveland Indians as a scout, coach, and farm system executive from 1957 to 1970. He then served as the Detroit Tigers' di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heart Of Ohio Tole (HOOT)
The Society of Decorative Painters (SDP) was formed in 1972 to promote interest in decorative painting. Decorative painting includes all styles of painting including Tole painting or Rosemaling. The organization is a "not-for-profit" organization but it does not have tax exempt status. In 2008, the Society was responsible for finding an artist to paint Christmas ornaments for use in the White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. .... In 2009, SDP members helped produce holiday decorations for use in the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. After 50 years, the Society disbanded in December of 2022. Artist certification The Society of Decorative Painters offers a certification program for either Certified Decorative Artists (CDA) or Master Decorativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot (torpedo)
The Hoot ( fa, حوت; ''Whale'') is an Iranian supercavitation torpedo claimed to travel at approximately , several times faster than a conventional torpedo. It was claimed to have been successfully test-fired from a surface ship against a dummy submarine during the Iranian military exercise "Great Prophet" () on 2 April 2006 and 3 April 2006. Iran test-fired the torpedo within its territorial waters in the Strait of Hormuz in May 2017. The official Iranian news agency IRNA claims the torpedo was produced and developed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (). Most military and industry analysts have concluded that the Hoot is reverse engineered from the Russian VA-111 Shkval supercavitation torpedo which travels at the same speed. See also * List of supercavitating torpedoes A supercavitating torpedo is a torpedo using the effect of supercavitation to create a bubble around the torpedo to move at high velocity under water. The following is a list of supercavitating torpedoes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot, Texas
Hoot is an unincorporated community in Bowie County, Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ..., United States. Hoot is south of Texarkana. References Unincorporated communities in Bowie County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{BowieCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot Sackett
Hoot Sackett was an American college baseball coach. He was the head coach at Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ... from 1920 to 1921. In the 1921 season his Cowboy squad played a tough schedule, eight against Missouri Valley Conference schools, two with Southwest Conference teams, and several smaller state colleges. According to a Tulsa World article from 1921 the opposition was "as stiff as any encountered by A&M in recent years".The Morning Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 179, Ed. 1, Monday, March 28, 1921, Newspaper, March 28, 1921; digital images, (http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc77678/ : accessed May 28, 2014), Oklahoma Historical Society, The Gateway to Oklahoma History, http://gateway.okhistory.org; creditin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot Hester
Hubert Dwane "Hoot" Hester (August 13, 1951 – August 30, 2016) was an American fiddle player, multi-instrumentalist, and country music and bluegrass artist. He was born on a small farm near Louisville, Kentucky, on August 13, 1951. Hester played with a number of well-known bands, and later became a session musician and a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry's staff band. Hester was also a featured performer at the NAMM Show during the time it was held in Nashville c. 1993 and 2004. Career Hester had played backup for a number of country music recording artists, among them Alabama, Hank Williams Jr., Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Randy Travis, Bill Monroe, Vern Gosdin, and Ricky Van Shelton. He had also recorded with Manhattan Transfer and Ray Charles. Hester was the former fiddler and founder of a Nashville-based Western swing band, named the Time Jumpers. He appears on the band's debut album, On the Air. For many years Hester was a fiddle player for the Grand Ole Opry's staff ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot Gibson (other)
Hoot Gibson (1892–1962) was an American rodeo performer, actor, and film director. Other persons with this nickname include: * Bob Gibson (1935–2020), Major League Baseball pitcher * Claude "Hoot" Gibson (born 1939), American football player and coach * Harvey "Hoot" Gibson (1934–2015), pilot of TWA Flight 841 (1979), a Boeing 727 involved in an in-flight incident in 1979 * Ralph Gibson (fighter pilot) (1924–2009), fighter pilot * Robert L. Gibson (born 1946), NASA astronaut * Ward Gibson (1921–1958), American professional basketball player * Weldon B. Gibson (born 1917), Economics researcher at SRI International * Robert Gibson (wrestler) Robert Gibson (born Ruben Gibson, July 19, 1958) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known as one half of the tag team known as The Rock 'n' Roll Express, with Ricky Morton. He has competed in singles competition also, and has won va ... (born 1958), American professional wrestler {{human name disambiguation, Gibson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot (song)
"Hoot" () is the lead single from ''Hoot (EP), Hoot'', the third Extended Play, EP of Koreans, South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. It became the ninth hit song for the group, topped the chart in their nation. "Hoot" was released on October 25, 2010. A Japanese-language version was also released on their first Japanese album, ''Girls' Generation (2011 album), Girls' Generation'' on June 1, 2011. Background "Hoot" was originally titled "Bulletproof" and written with English lyrics. It was composed by Danish songwriter-producers Martin Michael Larsson and Lars Halvor Jensen, of Deekay, together with British songwriter Alex James, with the intention of creating an "exciting up-tempo record for a female artist or group". The song demo was written and recorded in the UK, with Nina Woodford singing the vocal, and then finished and mixed in Denmark. Their publisher, Pelle Lidell of Universal Music Publishing Group, successfully pitched the song to S.M. Entertainment for Girls' Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Hissey
Jane Hissey (born 1952) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for her series of children's books '' Old Bear and Friends,'' which became the basis for a BAFTA award-winning television series ''Old Bear Stories'', episodes of which were released on VHS by Carlton Video. Biography Hissey was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School for Girls. She studied Design and Illustration at Brighton. She taught Art at a sixth form college A sixth form college is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and the International Baccalaureate Di ... until the birth of her first child. Hissey and her husband Ivan live in East Sussex. They have three children, Owen, Alison and Ralph. Old Bear Hissey has written that "Old Bear" was given to her as a baby by her grandmother. During her childhood he was a main f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoot (EP)
''Hoot'' (; subtitled ''009'') is the third extended play by the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. The extended play contains five songs and was released on 27 October 2010, by SM Entertainment. The album is listed by Gaon Album Chart as the third best-selling album of 2010 in South Korea, with 163,066 copies sold. Composition Contributions to the album's production came from Wheesung, Jinu (Hitchhiker), Kenzie and the former Roommate and Nadia member Hwang Hyun. The title song, "Hoot", was composed by the Danish songwriter-producers Martin Michael Larsson and Lars Halvor Jensen, of Deekay, together with the British songwriter Alex James, with the intention of creating an "exciting up-tempo record for a female artist or group". It was originally titled "Bulletproof" and written with English lyrics. "Mistake" is the second track and a R&B ballad with lyrics by Kwon Yuri which is about a girl who can't move on from a relationship with a guy who asked her to "wait" for him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giggle And Hoot
''Giggle and Hoot'' was an Australian children's television "wrap-around" program block that aired on the ABC Kids channel. The series was produced from 2009 to 2019, with the final episodes airing in 2020, and depicted the adventures of Jimmy Giggle (played by Jimmy Rees) and his best friend, Hoot the Owl (played by Damian Wagland). It also aired on ABC from 2009 to 2011. In later seasons, they were joined by a second owl called Hootabelle (played by Jemma Armstrong) along with other friends and their toys. Characters Jimmy Giggle In the program, Jimmy Giggle is shown to enjoy mending objects and a talent for creating new things out of everyday items; for instance, he used a bath to make a bed, and the walls of his house were sewn and buttoned together. He also has a magic button that he relies on which never works. A dinosaur named ''Giggleosaurus'' is Jimmy Giggle's favourite toy. He plays several musical instruments, including the ukulele, double bass, baritone saxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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