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Hoover (surname)
Hoover is the Anglicized version of the German and Dutch surname ''Huber'', originally designating a landowner or a prosperous small farmer. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Hoover (1928–2014), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Bob Hoover (1922–2016), airshow and test pilot, author * Brad Hoover (born 1976), American football fullback * Charles Franklin Hoover (1865–1927), American physician * Colleen Hoover (born 1979), American author * Dave Hoover (1955–2011), American comic book artist and animator * Dave Hoover (American football), American football coach * Dick Hoover (baseball) (1925–1981), American Major League Baseball player * Dick Hoover (1929–2009), American professional bowler * Dorothy Haines Hoover (1904–1995), Canadian artist * Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926), inventor of the computerized telephone switching system * Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st president of the United States * Herbert Hoover Jr. (1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huber
Huber is a German-language surname. It derives from the German word ''Hube'' meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess, granting them the status of a free tenant. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria and Switzerland where it is the surname of approximately 0.3% of the population. Variants arising from varying dialectal pronunciation of the surname include Hueber, Hüber, Huemer, Humer, Haumer, Huebner and (anglicized) Hoover. People with the surname Huber A *Adam Huber (born 1987), American actor and model. *Alexander Huber (born 1968), German climber and mountaineer *Alexander Huber (football) (born 1985), German football player * Alyson Huber (born 1972), Californian legislator elected to the State Assembly in 2008 *Anja Huber (born 1983), German skeleton racer *Anke Huber (born 1974), German tennis player *Anthony Huber (born 1994), killed in the Kenosha unrest shooting B *Bruno Huber (1930–1999), Swis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamar Hoover
Chester Lamar Hoover (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served two stints as the head football at Fairmount College—now known as Wichita State University—in Wichita, Kansas, from 1916 and 1917 and again from 1921 to 1922 and as head football coach at Oklahoma City University from 1923 to 1924. Prior to coaching at Fairmount, Hoover attended Baker University, where he was regarded as one of their top athletes. In the 1906–07 basketball season, Hoover, described as "one of the outstanding guards of the midlands", lead the Baker team to an undefeated season, under coach Phog Allen. Hoover's final season at Fairmont began promisingly but ended with disappointing losses. Hoover was born in Peabody, Kansas and was a veteran of World War I. Hoover died on December 18, 1944, at Veterans' Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma Muskogee () is the thirteenth-largest city in Oklahoma and the county seat of Muskogee County. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hoover Company
The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom; and, mostly in the 20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Hoover North America was once part of Maytag, but was sold by Maytag's new owners Whirlpool Corporation in 2007 to Hong Kong multinational manufacturing company Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover International had already split from Hoover North America in 1993, and was acquired by Candy in 1995, which was acquired by Haier in 2019. In addition to producing floorcare products, Hoover was also an iconic domestic appliance brand in Europe, particularly well known for its washing machines and tumble dryers in the UK and Ireland, and also had significant sales in many parts of Europe. Today, the Hoover Europe brand, as part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevin Hoover
Stevin Ray Hoover (born October 10, 1948) is an American businessman, writer, philosopher, and former investment manager who wrote a Young Adult/Middle Grade novel entitled THE HANNAH CHRONICLES that was published in 2010. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Hoover, in 1989, founded Hoover Capital Management, Inc., a well respected investment management firm where he was CEO from 1989 to 2002. He also founded and ran the Chestnut Fund LP, a hedge fund. Hoover was a highly regarded Boston-based investment manager whose reputation as a registered investment advisor was enhanced by the respect of other prominent investment advisors such as Peter Lynch. Hoover had a very respected and successful 26-year history in the investment business. Biography Early years Stevin Hoover was born in 1948 in Franklin, Pennsylvania, (population 7,300) located in Venango Countin northwestern Pennsylvania. He lived in Franklin until 1966, when he left for the Millard School, a preparatory schooloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JSTOR
JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. , more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to JSTOR. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge. JSTOR's revenue was $86 million in 2015. History William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain a comprehen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brodiaea Appendiculata
''Brodiaea appendiculata'', the appendage brodiaea or appendage cluster-lily,) is an uncommon species of plant in the genus ''Brodiaea''. ''Brodiaea appendiculata'' is endemic to California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ..., where it grows in the mountain foothills in the north part of the state. References * External links Calflora Database: ''Brodiaea appendiculata'' (Hoover's brodiaea, Hoover Appendage brodiaea) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Francis Hoover
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinton Kyle Hoover
Quinton Kyle Hoover (born 1996) is an American YouTuber, creator and proprietor of the YouTube channel and web series Quinton Reviews. Hoover produces video essays on various topics, usually pop culture. His best-known work includes his coverage of the ''Garfield'' franchise and a series of hours-long videos covering ''iCarly'' and its spin-offs. YouTube career From 2019 to 2020, Hoover published two videos detailing his discovery of archived copies of Jim Davis's past work ''Jon'', a precursor to ''Garfield''. Hoover traveled to Muncie, Indiana, in order to get scans of the historical strips, and published a video about his trip on the channel. In June 2021, Hoover published a five-hour video called "iBinged iCarly", with a recap of the series with his own commentary. He also published a video with a discussion on the career and works of YouTuber Lucas Cruikshank, who starred in an episode of ''iCarly'', and a series of further videos on ''iCarly'' and its related series ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hoover (baseball)
Paul Chester Hoover (born April 14, 1976) is an American professional baseball coach and former catcher. He is currently the bench coach for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Hoover played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Florida Marlins, and the Philadelphia Phillies. He was listed as standing tall, and weighing . Professional career Tampa Bay Devil Rays In 1994 Hoover was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 64th round of the MLB draft, however he did not sign. Hoover was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 23rd round (714th overall) of the 1997 MLB draft, with whom he signed on June 6, 1997. Hoover made his MLB debut on September 8, 2001, as a pinch hitter for Tampa Bay in a game against the Oakland Athletics; he singled to left field in his first MLB plate appearance. Hoover appeared in three games with Tampa Bay during 2001, and in five games during 2002. Florida Marlins Hoover next played in the major leagues in 2006, with the Florida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hoover (poet)
Paul Hoover (born 1946) is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His work has been associated with innovative practices such as; New York School and language poetry. After many years as poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2003. He lives in Mill Valley, California. He is widely known as editor, with Maxine Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing, published once a year in association with San Francisco State University. He is also known for editing the anthology Postmodern American Poetry, 1994. A second edition of the anthology was published in 2013. Hoover wrote the script for the 1994 independent film ''Viridian'', directed by Joseph Ramirez, which was screened at The Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hamburg Film Festival. He served as curator of a poetry series at the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Hoover
Nathan Hoover (born May 24, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for BC Borisfen of the Belarusian Premier League. He played college basketball for Wofford. High school career Hoover grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Arlington High School, where he averaged 15 points per game as a sophomore. Hoover averaged more than 25 points per game during junior and senior seasons. He was one of three finalists for Tennessee Mr. Basketball as a senior. Hoover committed to play college basketball for Wofford, the first school to offer him a scholarship. College career In his collegiate debut, Hoover scored 18 points against LSU. Hoover averaged 7.8 points, and 2.4 rebounds per game as a freshman. He was named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team. As a sophomore, Hoover mainly came off the bench and averaged 11.0 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game. He helped Wofford reach the NCAA Tournament during his junior season, teaming with Fletcher Magee to f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Hoover
Natalie Hoover is an American voice actress based in Los Angeles and Dallas. She has done voicework for anime, video games, and other audio productions. Career In 2010, Hoover was deemed as the Japanator New York Anime Festival and Comic Con voice acting contest winner. In 2012, she was chosen to voice ''Lady S'' in the short film ''Kick-Heart'' by the creator and director of the film Masaaki Yuasa himself. In anime, Hoover is known as the voice of Nana Sakurai from '' Prince of Stride: Alternative'', Jintsū from ''Kancolle'' Tomoyo in Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, and Georgette Lemare from '' Brave Witches''. In video games, she is known for her performances as Sonia Nevermind from '' Danganronpa 2'', Ryubence from ''The Witch and the Hundred Knight'', Tiara from ''Fairy Fencer F'', Adelheid from '' Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven'', Monophanie from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, and Ayn Felice from ''Tales of Zestiria is an action role-playing game. It is the fifteent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
