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James Powell (shooting Victim)
James Powell may refer to: Sports * Jay Powell (baseball) (James Willard Powell, born 1972), Major League Baseball pitcher * Jim Powell (baseball) (1859–1929), Major League Baseball player *Jim Powell (sportscaster), announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves *Jimmy Powell (golfer) (1935–2021), PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1792) (1792–1870), English cricketer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1899) (1899–1973), English cricketer * James Powell (cricketer, born 1982), Welsh cricketer Music *Jimmy Powell (musician) (1914–1994), American jazz saxophonist *Jimmy Powell (singer) (born 1942), British rhythm and blues singer Science * James L. Powell (born 1936), American geologist and environmentalist *James R. Powell (physicist), American physicist Fiction and poetry * Jim Powell (British novelist) (born 1949) *Jim Powell (poet), American poet, translator, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow, classicist * James Powell (author) (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Powell (baseball)
James Willard "Jay" Powell (born January 9, 1972) is an American former baseball pitcher who last played for the Atlanta Braves. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in , but did not sign. Following his junior year at Mississippi State, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round (19th pick overall) in and signed. He played for the Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, and Texas Rangers before signing with the Atlanta Braves in January of . His last game was on July 29, 2005, when he fractured his humerus. Powell was the winning pitcher of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series The 1997 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1997 season. The 93rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians and the National L ... for the Florida Marlins. He also has the most consecutive seasons pitched without a losing record among pitchers who primarily pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powell (historian)
Jim Powell is Senior Fellow at a libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., with which he has been associated since 1988. He has also done work for the Manhattan Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the National Right to Work Committee and Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. Powell is an author on the history of liberty. He wrote three books that reported findings about the unintended consequences of major presidential policies. Altogether he has written eight books and is perhaps best known for ''FDR's Folly'', which has been praised by Nobel Laureates Milton Friedman and James M. Buchanan, Harvard historian David Landes and historian Thomas Fleming. Powell's books have been translated into Japanese. He has contributed several hundred articles for an unusually broad array of publications. He has given talks internationally as well as at Harvard, Stanford and other universities across the United States. Biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powell (filmmaker)
Jim Powell is an American documentary film producer. A graduate of Kent State University, Powell is the producer of award-winning documentaries ''The Arnolds of Owen County'' and ''Space Camp''. He also received awards for his performance in ''Missions-in-Motion''. In 2006, Powell and his wife produced ''Children of the Storm'', a documentary detailing the experiences of children who survived Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost .... References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Powell, Jim [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Powell And Sons
The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well known as a result of the 19th-century Gothic Revival and the demand for stained glass windows. History Early years In 1834 James Powell (1774–1840), then a 60-year-old London wine merchant and entrepreneur of the same family as the founder of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, purchased the Whitefriars Glass Company, a small glassworks off Fleet Street in London, believed to have been established in 1680. Powell, and his sons Arthur and Nathanael, were newcomers to glass making, but soon acquired the necessary expertise. They experimented and developed new techniques, devoting a large part of their production to the creating of church stained glass windows. The firm acquired a large number of patents fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Powell (author)
James Powell (born 1932) is a Canadian author of mystery and humorous short stories. Many of his 130 stories have been published in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. He has been nominated twice for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for the Best Short Story and, in 1989, won the Ellery Queen Readers' Award for the story "A Dirge for Clowntown" featuring Inspector Bozo of the Clowntown Police. Powell's occasionally dark sense of humor and developed irony has led to him being noted by Marvin Lachman as "The S.J. Perelman of the mystery story...outrageous, hilarious satires, international crime and surprise endings." Powell's most loved characters include Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock of the RCMP and the four generation family of San Sebastiano detectives, The Ganelons. The author was born in Toronto, attended the University of Toronto and taught and studied in France for three years. He has worked on publications in New York City as well as in Rock Island, Illinois. A collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powell (poet)
Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Career Powell's poetry of 1977-2007 is collected in It Was Fever That Made The World (1989) and Substrate (2009). He has translated the poetry of Sappho (1993, rev. 2007 and 2019) and selections from other ancient Greek and Latin lyric poets, and published essays and reviews. Thom Gunn and Robert Duncan were teachers, mentors and friends; he was a member of Duncan's Homer Group. He was poet-in-residence at Reed College (1988–90), a graduate student instructor at University of California, Berkeley (1981-1987), a MacArthur Fellow (1993–98), the Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ... (2005), and 2014 recipient of the Oscar Williams an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powell (British Novelist)
Jim Powell (born 17 May 1949 in London) is a British novelist, and is a direct descendant of the 19th-century novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Education Jim Powell was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he has a master's degree in history. He stood as a candidate for the Conservative Party against Geoffrey Robinson in the Coventry North-West constituency in the British General Election of 1987. Publications Jim Powell's first novel, ''The Breaking of Eggs'', was published in 2010. It deals with the impact of fascism and communism on 20th-century Europe. The novel was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels. It was reviewed in The New Zealand Herald ''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers .... Powell's second novel, ''Trading Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James L
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powell (baseball)
James Edwin Powell (August 30, 1859 – November 20, 1929) was a professional baseball first baseman A first baseman, abbreviated 1B, is the player on a baseball or softball team who fields the area nearest first base, the first of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. The first baseman is responsible for the majori ... in 1884 and 1885. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, and died in Butte, Montana. External links 1859 births 1929 deaths Richmond Virginians players Philadelphia Athletics (AA) players Major League Baseball first basemen Baseball players from Richmond, Virginia 19th-century baseball players Richmond Virginians (minor league) players Charleston Seagulls players Sioux City Corn Huskers players Omaha Lambs players Butte Smoke Eaters players {{Baseball-first-baseman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Powell (singer)
Jimmy Powell (13 October 1942 – 13 May 2016) was a British soul and rhythm and blues singer who recorded and performed throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and is best remembered as the lead singer of Jimmy Powell and the 5 Dimensions, a group that briefly included Rod Stewart. Early life and career Powell was born in Selly Oak, Birmingham, and attended Turves Green School in the city. He began singing in his teens with a local skiffle group, and then a beat group, the Jumping Jacks, before forming his own band, the Detours, around 1959. In 1961, he became a professional singer when he joined the Rockin' Berries. The group toured and performed in clubs in Germany, including a residency at the Star-Club in Hamburg, before returning to London where they were auditioned by producer Jack Good. Good offered Powell a solo recording contract, and he left the group a few months later. His first record, a cover version of Buster Brown's US rhythm and blues hit "Sugar Babe", wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Powell (musician)
James Theodore Powell (October 24, 1914 – February 16, 1994) was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax. He played on two recording dates with Billie Holiday for Columbia. The first, in February 1940, was with a band comprising Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Carl Frye and Powell on alto saxophones, Kermit Scott (musician) on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Hal West on drums. The second recording session was in May 1941, again with Eldridge, together with Lester Boone, Ernie Powell, and Jimmy Powell on alto saxophones, Eddie Heywood on piano, Paul Chapman on guitar, Grachan Moncur on bass, and Herbert Cowans on drums. In December 1944, he recorded with Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra, with Oscar Pettiford, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Thomas Crump, Wardell Gray, Dizzy Gillespie, Chippy Outcalt, and Trummie Young, among others. The album was released in 1960 as ''Mr "B"''. In 1945, he recorded in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
