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Kenyon
Kenyon may refer to: Names * Kenyon (given name) * Kenyon (surname) Places * Kenyon, Cheshire, United Kingdom, a village * Kenyon, Minnesota, United States, a city * Kenyon, Rhode Island, United States, a village * Kenyon, former name of Pineridge, California, United States * Kenyon Peaks, Antarctica * Mount Kenyon, Antarctica Other uses * Kenyon Medal, awarded in recognition of work in the field of classical studies and archaeology * Baron Kenyon, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain * Kenyon & Kenyon, American law firm specializing in intellectual property * Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio * Kenyon Bridge, a historic covered bridge in Cornish, New Hampshire * the title character of ''Daisy Kenyon'', 1947 film starring Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda See also * ''The Kenyon Review'', American literary journal * Kinyon (other) * Kenyan ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is set in a rural setting and uses a semester-based academic calendar. The campus is home to the Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC), which has over 380 acres and hosts seven different ecosystems. The BFEC also provides academic opportunities including the Summer Science Scholars program. There are more than 120 student clubs and organizations on campus, including 8 fraternities and sororities. Kenyon athletes are called ''Owls'' (previously the ''Lords'' and ''Ladies'') and compete in the NCAA Division III North Coast Athletic Conference. Notable alumni include six Rhodes Scholars, 10 Marshall Scholarship winners, 12 Truman Scholarship winners, and numerous Watson Fellowship holders and Fulbright scholarship recipients. Famous graduates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Kenyon
''Daisy Kenyon'' is a 1947 American romantic-drama film by 20th Century Fox starring Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, and Dana Andrews in a story about a post-World War II romantic triangle. The screenplay by David Hertz was based upon a 1945 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Janeway. The film was directed and produced by Otto Preminger. Having opened to restrained reception, ''Daisy Kenyon'' has seen reappraisal, and now enjoys a minor cult following for its realistic treatment of a typically melodramatic plot. Plot Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant, overbearing and successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara, who is married and has two children. He breaks a date with Daisy one night, and she goes out with a widowed war veteran named Peter Lapham. O'Mara and his wife, Lucille, fight constantly, about his job, the upbringing of their two daughters, and his cheating. That same night, Dan takes his wife and 13-year-old daughter to New York's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon (surname)
Kenyon is a surname of English origin. The name first appears in English heraldry, the first known holder being Jordan Kenyon, Lord of Winwick, Cheshire. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Stephen Kenyon (1867–1943), Australian civil engineer and polymath * Arthur Kenyon (footballer) (1867–1895), English footballer * Basil Kenyon (1918–1996), South African rugby union player * Carol Kenyon (born 1959), British singer * Cecelia Kenyon (1923–1990), American political scientist * Cynthia Kenyon (born 1954), American molecular biologist * Dean H. Kenyon (born c. 1939), American biologist and proponent of intelligent design * Don Kenyon (1924–1996), English cricketer * Doris Kenyon (1897–1979), American actress and singer * Dorothy Kenyon (1888–1972), American lawyer * E. W. Kenyon (1867–1948), American evangelist and president of a Bible Institute * Elmer A. Kenyon (1870–1922), American politician * Frederick C. Kenyon (1867–1941), American zoologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kenyon Review
''The Kenyon Review'' is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. ''The Review'' was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959. ''The Review'' has published early works by generations of important writers, including Robert Penn Warren, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Flannery O'Connor, Boris Pasternak, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Hecht, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, Derek Walcott, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Linda Gregg, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, and Ha Jin."History" the ''Kenyon Review'' Website, Retrieved January 26, 2007 The magazine's short stories have won more |
Baron Kenyon
Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, in the County of Flint, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1788 for the lawyer and judge Sir Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baronet. He served as Master of the Rolls and as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Kenyon had already been created a Baronet, of Gredington in the County of Flint, in 1784. His grandson, the third Baron, briefly represented St Michael's in the House of Commons. His grandson, the fourth Baron, held minor office in the governments of Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour and David Lloyd George and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire. In 1912 Lord Kenyon assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Tyrell. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 2019. Barons Kenyon (1788) *Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) *George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon (1776–1855). Kenyon College was named after him. * Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon (1805–1869) *Lloy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon & Kenyon
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP was a law firm specializing in intellectual property law. It competed with other IP specialty firms, as well as with most general practice firms that have IP practices. The firm had offices in New York, Washington DC, and Silicon Valley. It provided its global clientele with litigation, prosecution, licensing and counseling services. The firm was particularly known for litigating high-stakes patent cases. In 2016, Kenyon dissolved and 55 of its attorneys were hired by Andrews Kurth, which then renamed itself to Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP to reflect the firm's expanded expertise in intellectual property and technology. History In January 1879, the firm was founded in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ... as Browne & Witter through the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon Bridge
The Kenyon Bridge, also known as the Blacksmith Shop Bridge, is a historic covered bridge spanning Mill Brook near Town House Road in Cornish, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1882, it is one of New Hampshire's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Description and history The Kenyon Bridge is located in a wooded rural setting, a short way east of Town House Road about south of its junction with Center Road. It spans Mill Brook in a roughly east-west orientation. It is long and wide, with a roadbed long and wide. The bridge rests on dry-laid stone abutments. The bridge's multiple kingpost trusses are sheltered by a sheet metal roof, with vertical plank siding covering the lower 1/3 of the trusses. Each truss consists of 28 panel sections between 29 posts. The bridge was built in 1882 by James Frederick Tasker (1826–1903), a local builder well known for his bridges. Its historic name, Blacksmith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon, Cheshire
Kenyon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Croft, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 259. History Kenyon was recorded as ''Kenien'' in 1212. ''Kenian'' in 1258 and ''Kenyan'' in 1259. It was sparsely populated, in 1901 the population was 329. Governance Kenyon was a township within the historic borders of Lancashire in Winwick ecclesiastical parish and part of Lowton until the reign of Henry III. It became part of Leigh Poor Law Union. In 1866 Kenyon became a separate civil parish, in 1933 the civil parish was abolished and became part of Golborne parish and Urban District. Golborne Urban District was dissolved in 1974 and its area divided, the Culcheth and Newchurch wards (south of the old Kenyon Junction station and Kenyon Hall) became part of Warrington District in Cheshire, the rest became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester. Geography K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon (given Name)
Kenyon is a masculine given name, which may refer to: *Kenyon Coleman (born 1979), American former National Football League player *Kenyon Cox (1856–1919), American painter, illustrator, muralist, writer and teacher *Kenyon Clutter, murdered in 1959, written about in Truman Capote's novel ''In Cold Blood'' *Kenyon Green (born 2001), American football player *Kenyon Hopkins (1912–1983), American film composer *Kenyon Martin (born 1977), National Basketball Association player *Kenyon Martin Jr. (born 2001), American basketball player and son of Kenyon *Kenyon Nicholson (1894–1986), American playwright and screenwriter * Kenyon Painter (1867–1940), American banker, big game hunter, art collector and philanthropist *Kenyon Peard (1902–1994), British Royal Navy rear-admiral *Kenyon Rasheed (born 1970), American former National Football League player *Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan-Morgan OBE (27 October 1873 – 21 August 1933) was a Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon, Minnesota
Kenyon is a city in southwestern Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, located along the North Fork of the Zumbro River. It was founded in 1856 and named in honor of Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is se .... It is known for the Boulevard of roses on main street, which is the namesake of the town festival "Rosefest" held every August. The population was 1,815 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Minnesota State Highways Minnesota State Highway 56, 56 and Minnesota State Highway 60, 60 are two of the main routes in the city. Minnesota State Highway 246 is immediately north of Kenyon. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon, Rhode Island
Kenyon is a small village in the town of Richmond, Rhode Island, Richmond near its border with the town of Charlestown, Rhode Island, Charlestown in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Overview The population was 136 at the 2010 United States Census. The southern border of Kenyon is the Pawcatuck River. Its ZIP code is 02836. The equally small village of Shannock Historic District, Shannock is located nearby. References Villages in Washington County, Rhode Island Villages in Rhode Island {{RhodeIsland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenyon Medal
The Kenyon Medal is awarded every two years by the British Academy 'in recognition of work in the field of classical studies and archaeology'. The medal was endowed by Sir Frederic Kenyon and was first awarded in 1957. List of recipients SourceBritish Academy *1957 – John Beazley *1959 – Michael Ventris (posthumously) *1961 – Edgar Lobel *1963 – Carl Blegen *1965 – Eduard Fraenkel *1967 – Maurice Bowra *1969 – Denys Page *1971 – E. R. Dodds *1973 – A. S. F. Gow *1975 – Ronald Syme *1977 – Rudolf Pfeiffer *1979 – Bernard Ashmole *1981 – Arnaldo Momigliano *1983 – Arthur Dale Trendall *1985 – D. R. Shackleton Bailey *1987 – Martin Robertson *1989 – F. W. Walbank *1991 – Homer Thompson *1993 – Kenneth Dover *1995 – John Boardman *1997 – Robin G. M. Nisbet *1999 – Brian B. Shefton *2001 – ''no award'' *2002 – Martin Litchfield West *2003 – Nicolas Coldstream *2005 – Fergus Millar *2007 – Geoffrey Lloyd *2009 – James Noel Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
