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John Christensen (maler)
John Christensen can refer to: * John Christensen (baseball) (born 1960), American baseball player * John Christensen (field hockey) (born 1948), New Zealand hockey player * John Christensen (swimmer) (1915–1996), Danish swimmer See also * Jon Christensen (musician) (born 1943), Norwegian jazz drummer * Jon Christensen (journalist) (active from 2012), American environmental historian, journalist, and editor * Jon Christensen (politician) Jon Lynn Christensen (born February 20, 1963) is an American politician and corporate executive who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Early life Jon Lynn Christensen was born on February 20, 1963 in St. Paul, Ne ...
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John Christensen (baseball)
John Lawrence Christensen (born September 5, 1960) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1984 and 1988. New York Mets Christensen was originally drafted by the California Angels out of Troy High School in Fullerton, California in the 16th round of the 1978 MLB draft, but elected instead to attend California State University, Fullerton. The New York Mets then selected him in the second round of the 1981 MLB draft. After batting .313 at Triple-A Tidewater in 1984, he debuted with the Mets as a September call-up, batting .273 with three runs batted in and two runs scored with the big league club. Two blockbuster trades Christensen's numbers tailed off considerably in 1985; he batted only .212 with the Tidewater Tides, and .186 with the Mets. Following the season, the Mets traded Christensen to the Boston Red Sox along with Calvin Schiraldi, Wes Gardner and La Schelle Tarver for Bob O ...
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John Christensen (field Hockey)
John Hansen Christensen (born 29 April 1948) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the New Zealand national team that won the gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was born in Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / .... References External links * 1948 births Living people New Zealand male field hockey players New Zealand field hockey coaches Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Field hockey players from Christchurch Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics {{NewZealand-fieldhockey ...
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John Christensen (swimmer)
John Christensen (25 May 1915 – 8 March 1996) was a Danish freestyle swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp .... References External links * 1915 births 1996 deaths Danish male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Denmark Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Copenhagen {{Denmark-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Jon Christensen (musician)
Jon Ivar Christensen (20 March 1943 – 18 February 2020) was a Norwegian jazz drummer. He was married to actress, minister, and theater director Ellen Horn, Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) and was the father of singer and actress Emilie Stoesen Christensen. Career In the late 1960s, Christensen played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell. He also was a central participant in the jazz band Masqualero, with Arild Andersen, and they reappeared in 2003 for his 60th anniversary. (in Norwegian) He appears on many recordings on the ECM label with such artists as Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Bobo Stenson, Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, including the seminal 1975 ''Solstice'', Barre Phillips, Arild Andersen, Enrico Rava, John Abercrombie, Michael Mantler, Miroslav Vitous, Rainer Brüninghaus, Charles Lloyd, Dino Saluzzi Jakob Bro, and Tomasz Stanko. Christensen was a member of the Keith Jarrett "European Quartet" of the 1970s ...
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Jon Christensen (journalist)
Jon Allan Christensen (born 1960) is an American freelance journalist with a focus of writing about California, from his Venice home in coastal Los Angeles County. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he periodically teaches a class, Environmental journalism, for undergraduate Environmental Science majors at UCLA. In January 2020 he authored an op-ed opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times about bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands, which would harm endangered native wildlife and rare native wildflowers, as well as removing living soil. Biography Christensen was the Executive Director at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and a doctoral student at Stanford University, then quit his PhD History program, when he moved south to Los Angeles County in 2012, to join the staff of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. At UCLA he was the editor of ''Boom: A Journal of California'' from 2013 to 2016. ...
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