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Joseph Cooper (abolitionist)
Joseph Cooper may refer to: * Joseph Cooper (pirate) (died 1725), pirate active in the Caribbean * Joseph Cooper (broadcaster) (1912–2001), English pianist and broadcaster * Joseph Cooper (cyclist) (born 1985), New Zealand cyclist * Joseph Alexander Cooper (1823–1910), American soldier * Joseph F. Cooper, American jurist * Joseph Nargba Cooper (1918–1975), Liberian politician * Joseph Cooper, the protagonist in the 2014 film '' Interstellar'' See also * Joseph Cooper House Joseph Cooper House is located in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1695 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973, for its significance in architecture. With A fire, about 2 ..., a historic house in Camden, New Jersey, United States * Joe Cooper (other) {{hndis, Cooper, Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cooper (pirate)
Joseph Cooper (died 1725) was a pirate active in the Caribbean and the American east coast. He was best known for sailing alongside Francis Spriggs, and for the manner of his death. History Cooper's early life is not known. In 1718 he and six other pirates were tried in Philadelphia for capturing the 22-ton sloop ''Antelope'' in the Delaware River. They were released for lack of evidence. By 1725 Cooper was captain of the sloop ''Night Rambler.'' On November 14 they captured the ''Perry'' near Barbados and a French sloop the next day. Cooper took both ships to Aruba to divide the plunder, forcing their crews ashore, where the ship's doctor interceded and gave them food. The ''Perry’s'' boatswain John Upton willingly signed the pirates’ Articles and joined them. Later Upton escaped and claimed he'd been forced to sign; witnesses contradicted him and he was hung for piracy in 1729. Shortly after capturing the ''Perry'', Cooper was sailing alongside Francis Spriggs and Captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cooper (broadcaster)
Joseph Elliott Needham Cooper, OBE (7 October 1912 – 4 August 2001) was a British pianist and broadcaster, best known as the chairman of the BBC's long-running television panel game '' Face the Music''. Early career Cooper was born at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, England. He was educated at Clifton College, and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he was an organ scholar. During the 1930s he worked initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including ''Mony a Pickle'' (1938) and ''A Midsummer Day's Work'' (1939). Here his colleagues included W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Cooper had already embarked on career as a concert pianist when the outbreak of World War II forced him to give up performing for the duration of hostilities. He resumed his career in 1946, studying briefly with Egon Petri and making his London debut in 1947. As a concert pianist, Cooper made a number of succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cooper (cyclist)
Joseph Cooper (born 27 December 1985) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team . He won the New Zealand National Road Race Championships in 2015 and 2017. Major results ;2005 : Oceania Under-23 Road Championships ::5th Time trial ::6th Road race ;2007 : 2nd Time trial, Oceania Road Championships ;2008 : 5th Overall Tour of Southland ;2009 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2010 : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Southland ;2012 : 1st Mountains classification New Zealand Cycle Classic : 10th Overall Tour de Langkawi ;2013 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 1 ( ITT) New Zealand Cycle Classic : 3rd Time trial, Oceania Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour of Borneo ;2014 : 1st Time trial, Oceania Road Championships ;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : 1st Prologue New Zealand Cycle Classic : 3rd Overall Herald Sun Tour ;2016 : 2nd Time trial, Oceania Road Championships : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Alexander Cooper
Joseph Alexander Cooper (November 25, 1823 – May 20, 1910) was an American farmer, soldier, and civil servant. A Southern Unionist, he fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding units at Mill Springs, Stones River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Bentonville, and in the Knoxville and Atlanta campaigns. He had achieved the rank of Brevet Major General by the time he was mustered out in early 1866. After the war, Cooper commanded the Tennessee State Guard, a state militia organized by Governor William G. Brownlow to quell postwar violence across Tennessee. He served as an internal revenue agent during the 1870s before moving to Kansas, where he spent the final decades of his life. Early life Cooper was born on a farm in Whitley County, Kentucky, near Cumberland Falls, on November 25, 1823. He was the son of John Cooper, a War of 1812 veteran, and Hester (Sage) Cooper. He and his parents moved to Campbell County, Tennessee, the following year, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph F
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Nargba Cooper
Joseph Nargba Cooper (16 August 1918 – 22 May 1975) was a Liberian politician from Bong County who held office in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Born on 16 August 1918 in the town of Gbaudi in Zorzor District, Lofa County, he was the son of Porkpa Womma and Nowai Gbanasei. After receiving his early education in a Lutheran school at Zorzor, Cooper left in 1933 to follow his brother Charlie to Kakata, where he finished his education at a Catholic mission school. Having completed his schooling, Cooper entered the employ of the Firestone Plantation Company; here he worked until 1944, when the government hired him to become a chauffeur A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine. Originally, such drivers were often personal employees of the vehicle owner, but this has changed to speciali ... for President Tubman. Later in his government service, Cooper was the Native Adv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstellar (film)
''Interstellar'' is a 2014 epic science fiction film co-written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for mankind. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which had its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007. Caltech theoretical physicist and 2017 Nobel laureate in Physics Kip Thorne was an executive producer, acted as a scientific consultant, and wrote a tie-in book, '' The Science of Interstellar''. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot it on 35 mm movie film in the Panavision anamorphic format and IMAX 70 mm. Principal photography began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta, Iceland, and Los Angeles. ''Interstellar'' uses extensive pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Cooper House
Joseph Cooper House is located in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1695 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973, for its significance in architecture. With A fire, about 2005, destroyed the roof. The ruins of the building are planned to become a pavilion in the surrounding park. History and description The Cooper family were involved in operating ferries along the Delaware River, including from slip nearby. Joseph Cooper House is a historic site located in Pyne Point Park on 7th and Erie street in Camden. It was built by William Cooper and Joseph Cooper in 1695, this makes it the oldest structure in the city of Camden. The ten room manor was built in sections, the first in Dutch colonial style in the late 17th century was constructed from ironstone. The second part a two-story addition was built using brick imported from England in the early 18th century. The Joseph Cooper house and Pyne point park where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
