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Jim Dickson (actor)
James or Jim Dickson may refer to: Politicians * James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771 * James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *James Dickson (Queensland politician) (1832–1901), Australian politician and 13th Premier of Queensland * James Dickson (Irish politician) (1850–1941), Liberal MP for Dungannon 1880–1885 *James Dickson (New Zealand politician) (1854–1937), Reform Party member * James Dickson (Swedish politician) (1899–1980), MP for The Right 1941–1968 *James Hill Dickson (1863–1938), Northern Ireland politician *James Samuel Dickson (1870–1939), New Zealand politician *Jim Dickson (politician) (born 1964), English politician Sport * James Sinclair Dickson (1885–1961), Australian rules footballer *James Dickson (cricketer) (1887–1970), New Zealand cricketer *Jim Dickson (baseball) (born 1938), pitcher for the Houston Colt .45s, Cincinnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (Scottish Politician)
James or Jim Dickson may refer to: Politicians *James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771 *James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *James Dickson (Queensland politician) (1832–1901), Australian politician and 13th Premier of Queensland * James Dickson (Irish politician) (1850–1941), Liberal MP for Dungannon 1880–1885 *James Dickson (New Zealand politician) (1854–1937), Reform Party member * James Dickson (Swedish politician) (1899–1980), MP for The Right 1941–1968 *James Hill Dickson (1863–1938), Northern Ireland politician * James Samuel Dickson (1870–1939), New Zealand politician *Jim Dickson (politician) (born 1964), English politician Sport * James Sinclair Dickson (1885–1961), Australian rules footballer *James Dickson (cricketer) (1887–1970), New Zealand cricketer * Jim Dickson (baseball) (born 1938), pitcher for the Houston Colt .45s, Cincinnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (botanist)
James (Jacobus) J. Dickson (1738–1822) was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his ''Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae'', a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles''Jacobi Dickson Fasciculus (-fasciculus quartus) plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniæ''. MS. notes. 4 fasc. pl. XII. Prostant venales apud auctorem; G. Nicol: Londini, 1785-1801. 4º. (2 copies in the British Library) He is also the author of ''Collection of Dried Plants, Named on the Authority of the Linnaean Herbarium and Other Original Collections''. The plant genus ''Dicksonia'' is named after him. Life He was born at Kirke House, Traquair, Peeblesshire, of poor parents, and began life in the gardens of the Earl of Traquair. While still young he went to Jeffery's nursery-garden at Brompton, and in 1772 started in business for himself in Covent Garden. Dickson made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aramoana Massacre
The Aramoana massacre was a spree shooting that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, northeast of Dunedin, New Zealand. Resident David Gray killed 13 people including local police Sergeant Stewart Graeme Guthrie, Stewart Guthrie, one of the first responders to the reports of a shooting, after a verbal dispute between Gray and his next-door neighbour. After a careful house-to-house search the next day, police officers led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (now known as the Special Tactics Group) located Gray, and shot and injured him as he came out of a house firing from the hip. He died in an ambulance while being transported to hospital. Television news carried live reports from the scene. At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand's history, being surpassed 29 years later by the Christchurch mosque shootings. After the shootings, sweeping changes were made to New Zealand's firearms legislation in 1992, including 10-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Dickson (producer)
James Dickson (January 17, 1931 - April 19, 2011) was born in Los Angeles, California, son of a diesel engineer in the United States Navy. He was an avid sailor as a teenager, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 before he embarked on a career in the recording industry as a self-taught record producer and band manager. Before producing the first Elektra Records Bluegrass records he produced his first record, an LP on his own label, Vaya. He eventually sold the rights of Lord Buckley's 1955 album ''Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes'' to Elektra and it was in print for another 25 years. Jim Dickson was the lone individual behind Elektra Records Los Angeles Bluegrass albums. In 1962 he produced his first bluegrass record for Elektra called ''Dian and the Greenbriar Boys'' by the Greenbriar Boys and a Hollywood country singer, Dian James.Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985. Print. While working on the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chills
The Chills are a New Zealand rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980. The band is essentially the continuing project of singer/songwriter Martin Phillipps, who is the group's sole constant member. For a time in the 1990s, the act was billed as Martin Phillipps & The Chills. In the 1980s and 1990s, The Chills had some significant chart success in their homeland and were a cult band in other parts of the world as one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin sound. History Early years and first breakup (1980–1983) Singer-songwriter Martin Phillipps formed The Chills in 1980 with his sister Rachel Phillipps on keyboards and Jane Dodd on bass after the demise of his punk band, The Same. The Chills' bio on Billboard.com/ref> Also included in the initial lineup were guitarist Peter Gutteridge and drummer Alan Haig. Phillipps's earlier band, the Same, had formed in 1978 and performed alongside punk bands Toy Love and The Enemy. The Chills were initially signed by Flying Nun Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (musician)
James or Jim Dickson may refer to: Politicians *James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771 *James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *James Dickson (Queensland politician) (1832–1901), Australian politician and 13th Premier of Queensland * James Dickson (Irish politician) (1850–1941), Liberal MP for Dungannon 1880–1885 *James Dickson (New Zealand politician) (1854–1937), Reform Party member * James Dickson (Swedish politician) (1899–1980), MP for The Right 1941–1968 *James Hill Dickson (1863–1938), Northern Ireland politician * James Samuel Dickson (1870–1939), New Zealand politician *Jim Dickson (politician) (born 1964), English politician Sport * James Sinclair Dickson (1885–1961), Australian rules footballer *James Dickson (cricketer) (1887–1970), New Zealand cricketer * Jim Dickson (baseball) (born 1938), pitcher for the Houston Colt .45s, Cincinnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson Dickson
James Robertson Dickson or James R:son Dickson (10 March 1810 – 4 July 1873) was a Swedish shipping and logging businessman. He was a partner in ''James Dickson Co'' who ran shipping and logging in Sweden. He was involved in unsuccessful court cases that accused his company of sawing up timber belonging to the crown at Baggböle in northern Sweden. Life Dickson was born in Gothenburg in 1810. He was the eldest of four children born to Scotsman Robert Dickson (1782–1858) and Wilhelma Charlotta Dickson née Murray. He was a partner in ''James Dickson Co'' who ran shipping and logging in Sweden. The business employed the largest merchant fleet in Sweden with offices in both Gothenburg and London. James Robertson Dickson was involved in establishing timber sawing and loading stations in many of the rivers of Norrland.Scots in Sweden Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jameson Dickson
James Jameson Dickson (17 September 1815 – 14 November 1885) was a Scottish Swedish logging industrialist and philanthropist. Life Dickson was born in 1815 in Gothenburg. He was the son of James Dickson Sr. James Dickson Sr and his brother had established a timber export business that returned with British cotton goods to Sweden in exchange for the sawn timber. foretagsamheten.se, retrieved 21 May 2014 Dickson Jr was educated at . The Dickson business employed the largest merchant fleet in Sweden with offices in both Gothenburg and London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James G
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] |
James Bell Dickson
James Bell "Jim Bell" Dickson (January 19, 1923 - April 8, 1944), a native of Aberdeen, Mississippi, was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces. James Bell Dickson was killed in action April 8, 1944, flying his Mustang fighter-plane P-51B, tail number 43-7147, YF-X. Lt. Dickson was assigned to the 358th Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th AAF Fighter Station at Steeple Morden, England. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross which was pinned on by Colonel Jesse Anton of Covington, Kentucky. On April 8, 1944, above and around Haulerwijk (the Netherlands) a heavy air battle arose between a number of German and American fighter planes. During the fight that unfolded an American aircraft went down. Either hit by enemy-fire or as a result of exposing the plane to too many G-forces, fact is that it disintegrated while still in the air. The pieces crashed into a stretch of farmland about 1 km. southeast of Haulerwijk. The pilot, James Bell Dickson, was found still strapped in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (merchant)
James Dickson (3 February 1784 – 17 November 1855) was a Scottish-Swedish merchant, industrialist, banker and philanthropist active in Gothenburg, Sweden. He served as a ''kommerseråd'' (member of the Swedish National Board of Trade). Life James Dickson was the son of the merchant James Dickson and Christina Murray, the brother of Robert Dickson, and the father of James Jameson Dickson and Oscar Dickson. James Dickson was first employed in the Dickson family office in Edinburgh in 1798, but emigrated to Sweden in 1809, seven years after his older brother Robert, and settled in Gothenburg, where he was granted Swedish citizenship on 1 March 1810. He was an ambitious businessman, who in 1816 founded the firm James Dickson & Co, one of the wealthiest of the many Gothenburg trading companies. Dickson served as principal of the Gothenburg Savings Bank (1829-1833) and in 1831 he became a member of the Health Committee of Gothenburg, created to deal with the expected arrival o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Dickson (baseball)
James Edward Dickson (born April 20, 1938) is an American retired professional baseball player, primarily a relief pitcher, who appeared in 109 games in the major leagues for the Houston Colt .45s, Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Athletics over all or parts of four seasons from to . Born in Portland, Oregon, he threw right-handed, batted left-handed, and was listed as tall and . He attended Clark College and the University of Oregon. Playing career Dickson spent his first four years in professional baseball in the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm system until he was drafted by the Colt .45s, a first-year expansion team, after he won ten games in the Class B Three-I League in 1961. He debuted for Houston in July 1963, and in his third appearance he earned his first major league save with 1 innings of scoreless relief, preserving Bob Bruce's 4–2 victory over the Milwaukee Braves on July 5. He gave up no runs and only one hit in his first four outings, but poor performances against t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
