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Jepson Manual Online
Jepson may refer to: __NOTOC__ Buildings in the United States * Jepson Center for the Arts in Savannah, Georgia * Jepson Herbarium, Botanical Natural History Museum, University of California, Berkeley * on the University of Richmond campus: ** Jepson Hall ** Alice Andrews Jepson Theater ** Jepson Alumni Center Places in the United States * Jepson Island, Connecticut * Jepson Peak, a mountain in Southern California's San Bernardino Mountains * Jepson Prairie, a protected prairie in the Sacramento Valley of California * Mount Jepson, a mountain along the border between California's Inyo and Fresno counties People * Jepson (surname), including a list of people Other uses * Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA * Jepson's Farm and Jepson's Gate of Anglezarke, a civil parish in Lancashire, England * The Jepson Laurel, the oldest known living laurel tree * ''The Jepson Manual'', California plant identification often referred to as simply Jepson * Jepson School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jepson Center For The Arts
Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy. The museum currently contains a collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the 1818 Telfair Academy (formerly the Telfair family home); the 1816 Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, which are both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2006. Buildings Each of the museum’s three buildings houses a collection corresponding to the era in which it was built. Telfair Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglezarke
Anglezarke is a sparsely populated Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is an agricultural area used for sheep farming, also site of reservoirs that were built to supply water to Liverpool. The area has a large expanse of moorland with many public footpaths and bridleways. The area is popular with walkers and tourists, it lies in the West Pennine Moors in Lancashire, sandwiched between the moors of Withnell and Rivington, and is close to the towns of Chorley, Horwich and Darwen. At the 2001 census it had a population of 23. At the 2011 Census the population is included within Heapey civil parish. The area was subjected to depopulation after the reservoirs were built. Toponymy Anglezarke is derived from the Old Norse name ''Anlaf'' and the Old Norse ''erg'', a 'hill pasture or shieling'. The elements together mean 'Anlaf's hill pasture'. In 1202 it was recorded as 'Andelevesarewe'. By 1225 this had become 'Anlavesargh'. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jepsen
Jepsen is a Danish–Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Jep" (equivalent of Jacob). A homonymous form is Jebsen. The surname Jepsen has alternate spellings, including the English language ''Jepson''. Jepsen may refer to: Surname * Aage Jepsen Sparre (1462–1540), Danish priest, Archbishop of Lund * Allan K. Jepsen (born 1977), Danish football player * Carly Rae Jepsen (born 1985), Canadian singer/songwriter * George Jepsen (born 1954), Attorney General of Connecticut * Glenn Lowell Jepsen (1903–1974), American paleontologist * Les Jepsen (born 1967), American basketball player * Kevin Jepsen (born 1984), American baseball player * Maria Jepsen (born 1945), German, first woman to become a Lutheran bishop in the Evangelical Church in Germany and worldwide * Marie Jepsen (1940–2018), Danish politician * Mary Lou Jepsen Mary Lou Jepsen (born 1965) is a technical executive and inventor in the fields of display, imaging, and computer hardware. Her contributions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jepson Claim
This is a list of special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims and about the different categories of claims, i.e. product or apparatus claims (claims referring to a physical entity), and process, method or use claims (claims referring to an activity), see Claim (patent), section "Basic types and categories". ''Beauregard'' In United States patent law, a ''Beauregard'' claim is a claim to a computer program written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out a process. This type of claim is named after the 1995 decision ''In re Beauregard''. The computer-readable medium that these claims contemplate is typically a floppy disk or CD-ROM, which is why this type of claim is sometimes called a "floppy disk" claim. In the past claims to pure instructions were generally considered not patentable bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby League Conference
The Rugby League Conference (RLC) (also known as the Co-operative Rugby League Conference as a result of sponsorship from The Co-operative Group), was a series of regionally based divisions of amateur rugby league teams spread throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The RLC was founded as the 10-team Southern Conference League in 1997, with teams from the southern midlands and the south east, but has subsequently, rebranded and expanded both geographically and numerically to include around 90 teams stretched across almost the whole of Great Britain from Aberdeen in northern Scotland down to Plymouth on the south coast of England. The aim of the RLC was initially to provide regular fixtures for new clubs based outside the 'heartland' of rugby league, although as the playing standards increased, it also accepted teams from the 'heartlands'. The hope is that, at least some of these clubs, would eventually progress to become semi-professional clubs that could one day join the 'tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Richmond
The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Virginia. It is a primarily undergraduate, residential institution with approximately 4,350 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of Richmond School of Law and the School of Professional & Continuing Studies. It is classified among "Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus". History The University of Richmond traces its history to a meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia held on June 8, 1830. The BGAV resolved "that the Baptists of this State form an education society for the improvement of the ministry." Thus, the Virginia Baptist Education Society was instituted. However, the society did not have enough funds for a proper school yet. In the meantime, they asked their vice-president, Rev. Edward Baptist, "to accept into his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jepson Manual
''The Jepson Manual'' is a flora of the vascular plants that are either native to or naturalized in California. Botanists often refer to the book simply as ''Jepson''. It is produced by the University and Jepson Herbaria, of the University of California, Berkeley. Its second edition is the basis of the online Jepson eFlora. History *1923: Willis Linn Jepson – ''Manual of the Flowering Plants of California'' *1958, 1968: Philip Alexander Munz – ''A California Flora and Supplement'' *1993: James Craig Hickman (editor) – ''The Jepson Manual, Higher Plants of California'' (TJM93) *2012: Bruce Gregg Baldwin – ''The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, 2nd edition'' (TJM2) *2010−ongoing: The Jepson Online Interchange for California Floristics − Jepson eFlora (TJM2) – ''online''. Preceding works ''The Jepson Manual'' also follows Philip A. Munz and David D. Keck in their ''A California Flora and Supplement'' of 1958 and 1968. Like other florae, ''The Jepson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbellularia
''Umbellularia californica'' is a large hardwood tree native to coastal forests and the Sierra foothills of California, and to coastal forests extending into Oregon. It is endemic to the California Floristic Province. It is the sole species in the genus ''Umbellularia''. The tree was formerly known as ''Oreodaphne californica''. In Yuki, it is called pōl’-cum ōl. In Oregon, this tree is known as Oregon myrtle, while in California it is called California bay laurel, which may be shortened to California bay or California laurel. It has also been called pepperwood, spicebush, cinnamon bush, peppernut tree, headache tree, mountain laurel, and balm of heaven. The tree's pungent leaves have a similar flavor to bay leaves, though stronger, and it may be mistaken for bay laurel. The dry wood has a color range from blonde (like maple) to brown (like walnut). It is considered an excellent tonewood and is sought after by luthiers and woodworkers. The tree is a host of the pathogen tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jepson Art Institute
Jepson Art Institute, founded in 1945 by artist Herbert Jepson, was an art school located at 2861 West 7th Street in the Westlake district of central Los Angeles, California. It flourished from 1947 to 1953 — becoming an important center for experimental figure drawing, art theory (aesthetics) and printmaking. Prior to this, Jepson served as an instructor at L.A.'s esteemed Chouinard Art Institute for a dozen years. The Jepson Art Institute closed in 1954. Faculty On the faculty, internationally acclaimed figurative artists Rico Lebrun and Francis de Erdely attracted students who later achieved distinction in their own fields such as sculptor Marisol Escobar ("Marisol"), painters Frederick Hammersley and Delmer J. Yoakum, illustrator David Passalaqua, art director Richard Bousman, and architectural sculptor Malcolm Leland. Show business luminaries of the period such as Vincent Price, Zero Mostel and comedian Fannie Brice (artist/instructor William Brice's mother) often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Britain, British British America, colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. A strategic port city in the American Revolution and during the American Civil War, Savannah is today an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's Georgia (U.S. state)#Major cities, fifth-largest city, with a 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. Census population of 147,780. The Savannah metropolitan area, Georgia's List of metropolitan areas in Georgia (U.S. state), third-largest, had a 2020 population of 404,798. Each year, Savannah attracts millions of visitors to its cobblestone streets, parks, and notable historic buildings. These buildings include the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jepson (surname)
Jepson is an English language patronymic surname meaning " Geoffrey’s son". The prefix "Jep" is also the diminutive given name. Jepson has alternate spellings, including Jepsen and Jephson. Jepson as a given name is rare. Notable people with the surname Jepson include: * Arthur Jepson (1915–1997), English first-class cricketer and football goalkeeper * Benjamin Jepson (1832–1914), American music educator * Bert Jepson (1902–1981), footballer * Brian Jepson (born 1970), American voice actor * Duncan Jepson, British solicitor in Hong Kong * Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), English novelist * Harry Benjamin Jepson (1870–1952), American organist and composer * Harry Jepson (1920–2016), English rugby league player * Helen Jepson (1904–1997), American opera singer * Herbert Jepson (1908–1993), American artist and founder of the Jepson Art Institute * Jack Jepson, New Zealand footballer * James Jepson Binns (1855–1928), English pipe-organ builder * Jim Jepson (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Jepson
Mount Jepson is a 13,390-foot-elevation (4,081 meter) summit located on the shared boundary of Fresno County and Inyo County in California, United States. Description The peak is set on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Palisades area. It straddles the border shared by Kings Canyon National Park and John Muir Wilderness. It is situated southwest of Big Pine, southeast of line parent Mount Sill, and northwest of proximate parent Palisade Crest. Mount Jepson ranks as the 74th-highest peak in California, and topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Elinore Lake in approximately one mile. The John Muir Trail passes below the south base of the peak, providing an approach option. History The first ascent of the summit was made July 3, 1939, by Don McGeein, and Chet and Evelyn Errett. This mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1971 by the United States Board on Geographic Names to honor Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
