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Kingman (other)
Kingman may refer to one of the following: Places * Kingman Reef in the northern Pacific Ocean, United States In the United States: * Kingman, Arizona * Kingman, Indiana * Kingman, Kansas * Kingman, Maine * Kingman, Ohio * Kingman County, Kansas * Kingman Museum, natural history museum and planetarium in Battle Creek, Michigan * Kingman Place Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa * Kingman Township, Renville County, Minnesota * Kingman Hall, a house in the Berkeley Student Cooperative in Berkeley, California People * Kingman Brewster Jr., a former President of Yale University and diplomat * Brian Kingman, a former Major League Baseball pitcher * Dave Kingman, a former Major League Baseball player * Dong Kingman, an American artist * Eduardo Kingman, an Ecuadorian artist * John Kingman, a British mathematician * Samuel Austin Kingman (1818–1904), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Sports * Kingman (horse), winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingman Reef
Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, geologically an atoll, east-west and north-south, in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. It has an area of 3 hectares (0.03 km2; 7.4 acres) and is one of the unincorporated territories of the United States in Oceania. The reef is administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as the Kingman Reef National Wildlife Refuge. History Kingman Reef was discovered on June 14, 1798, by the American captain Edmund Fanning, of the ship ''Betsey''. It was first described by Captain W. E. Kingman (whose name the island bears) on November 29, 1853. It was claimed in 1860 by the United States Guano Company, under the name "Danger Reef". This claim was made under the United States’ Guano Islands Act of 1856 (although there is no evidence that guano existed or was ever mined on Kingman Reef). On May 10, 1922, Lorrin A. Thurston became the first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Kingman
Brian Paul Kingman (born July 27, 1953) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1979 to 1983 for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara before signing with the Athletics in 1975. In 1979, he went 7–2 in the Pacific Coast League"Brian Kingman Minor League Statistics & History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-11-2. and made his major league debut in June. Kingman is most famous for losing 20 games in 1980. He remained the most current pitcher to do so for 23 years, until lost 21 games for the |
King's Men (other)
King's Men or Kingsmen may refer to: * King's Men (playing company), an English company of actors to which William Shakespeare belonged Music * The King's Men (Choir of King's College), a longstanding close harmony group of young men in Cambridge, England * The King's Men, an American vocal quartet formed in 1928 by Ken Darby * The Kingsmen Quartet or The Kingsmen, a Christian music group formed in 1956 * The Kingsmen (Franny Beecher), a 1958 American band formed by Franny Beecher and other moonlighting Comets of Bill Haley and the Comets * The Kingsmen, an American rock group best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie" * The Statler Brothers, previously known as The Kingsmen in the 1960s Athletics * ''Kingsmen'', the nickname of the athletic teams at Penn High School, US * ''Kingsmen'', the nickname of the men's athletic teams at California Lutheran University, US Other uses * King's Men (Númenor), Númenórean royalist faction in J. R. R. Tolkien's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingman Station
Kingman station is an Amtrak train station located in the historic Kingman Railroad Depot in Kingman, Arizona, United States. Amtrak's ''Southwest Chief'' trains stop at the Kingman station once daily in each direction. Kingman is also the transfer point for dedicated, guaranteed Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service to/from Laughlin, Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada. This station has an enclosed waiting room, but is unmanned. There are no ticket agents or Quik-Trak kiosks on site. Of the eight Arizona stations served by Amtrak (in 2020), Kingman was the third-busiest in fiscal year 2020, boarding or detraining 5,536 passengers in 2020. History The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) built the depot in 1907. The station's elevation is above sea level. The station has been a contributing property to the Kingman Commercial Historic District, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986. and Like many depots constructed by the ATSF, the building ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingman (British Horse)
Kingman (foaled 26 February 2011) is a champion British Thoroughbred racehorse who was the 2014 European Horse of the Year after winning the Irish 2000 Guineas, St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, and Prix Jacques le Marois He is owned by Khalid Abdullah and trained by John Gosden. Racing career 2013: two-year-old season Kingman's career began with a six-length win in a maiden race at Newmarket under jockey Ryan Moore. Moore was impressed by the colt but called the ante-post price for the 2000 Guineas of 10/1 an overreaction. His next race was the Group 3 Solario Stakes at Sandown Park Racecourse this time with Khalid Abdullah's new retained jockey James Doyle on board. Kingman won by two lengths from Godolphin's colt Emirates Flyer. Following the win his price for the 2,000 Guineas was again cut. Gosden shared plans for a run in the Dewhurst Stakes but these were scrapped following a bone chip. 2014: three-year-old season Following recovery from an operation to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingman (horse)
Kingman (1888–1893) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owned by Kinzea Stone of Georgetown, Kentucky and the winner of the 1891 Kentucky Derby, Phoenix Stakes and Latonia Derby. He holds the record for the slowest winning time ever recorded at a Kentucky Derby, at 2:52. Kingman was ridden in the Derby by Isaac Burns Murphy and was considered one of the best prospects for winning the 1891 American Derby. However, Kingman finished third in that race and won few races of importance thereafter. Kingman was bought by John E. Madden of Louisville, Kentucky in the latter part of 1891 for $5,000 at the Jacobin Stable , logo = JacobinVignette03.jpg , logo_size = 180px , logo_caption = Seal of the Jacobin Club (1792–1794) , motto = "Live free or die"(french: Vivre libre ou mourir) , successor = P ... dispersal sale. Kingman did not race after three years old and died in 1893 at the age of five. Pedigree Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Austin Kingman
Samuel Austin Kingman (June 26, 1818 – September 9, 1904) was an associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from February 9, 1861 to January 9, 1865, and chief justice from January 14, 1867 to December 30, 1876. Early life, education, and career Born June 26, 1818 in Worthington, Massachusetts, Kingman was educated at the common schools.Clark Bell, ed., ''The Medico-legal Journal'', Vol. 18 (1900), p. 62-63. At the age of 20 he moved to Kentucky, where he resided for eighteen years, engaged first in teaching school, where he was admitted to the bar and practiced as an attorney; held the office of county clerk and county attorney. In 1849, 1850 and 1851 he was a member of the Kentucky legislature serving as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Whig. He was one of twenty-five members of the 1950 legislature that did not draw their allotted recess payments. He had been member of the Whig Party and was the delegate from Lexington, Kentucky at the 1851 Whig S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kingman
__NOTOC__ Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by David Wallace. He is known for developing the mathematics of the Coalescent theory, a theoretical model of inheritance, which is fundamental to modern population genetics. Education and early life The grandson of a coal miner and son of a government scientist with a PhD in chemistry, Kingman was born in Beckenham, Kent, and grew up in the outskirts of London, where he attended Christ's College, Finchley, which was then a state grammar school. He was awarded a scholarship to read mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1956. On graduating in 1960, he began work on his PhD under the supervision of Peter Whittle, studying queueing theory, Markov chains and regenerative phenomena. Career a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Kingman
Eduardo Kingman Riofrío (February 23, 1913 – November 27, 1997) was an Ecuadorian artist. He is considered one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamín and Camilo Egas. Background Kingman was born in Loja, Ecuador on February 23, 1913.Eduardo Kingman (1913-1994). ''AskArt.'' (retrieved 12 April 2009) His father, Edward Kingman, had moved to Ecuador from Newton, Connecticut. Kingman was the elder brother of journalist Nicolás Kingman Riofrío. Kingman first studied under |
Dong Kingman
Dong Kingman (, 31 March 1911 – 12 May 2000) was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings, as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry. He has won widespread critical acclaim and his works are included in over 50 public and private collections worldwide, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; deYoung Museum and Art Institute, Chicago. Overview Dong Kingman was born Dong Moy Shu in Oakland, California, the son of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong. At the age of five and a half, he traveled with his family back to Hong Kong, where his father established a dry goods business. He began his formal education at the Bok Jai School, where he was given a school name in accordance with Chinese customs. Hearing that he aspired to be an artist, his instructor gave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Kingman
David Arthur Kingman (born December 21, 1948), nicknamed "Kong," "King Kong," and "Sky King", is a former Major League Baseball left fielder, first baseman, third baseman, and designated hitter who was a three-time MLB All-Star with 442 career home runs and 1,210 runs batted in (RBI) in 16 seasons. In his career, Kingman averaged a home run every 15.11 at bats, tied for 14th best all-time. The 6' 6" Kingman was a power hitter, who twice led the National League in home runs. Known for his long home runs, Kingman hit one measured at over 530 feet. Kingman struck out frequently, and posted a low batting average and on-base percentage. His 1,816 strikeouts was the fourth-highest total in MLB history at the time of his retirement. As a result of the increase in frequency of strikeouts in the intervening period, he ranked 22nd as of September 2022. Kingman finished in the top 25 voting for National League Most Valuable Player four times (1972, 1975, 1976, and 1979) and American League Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingman Brewster Jr
Kingman Brewster Jr. (June 17, 1919 – November 8, 1988) was an American educator, academic and diplomat. He served as the 17th President of Yale University and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Early life Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts,Kabaservice, 17 the son of Florence Foster (née Besse), a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College,Kabaservice, 16–17Cutter, 967 and Kingman Brewster Sr., a 1906 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College and a 1911 graduate of the Harvard Law School.Jones, 235–521Kabaservice, 16Obituary: "Kingman Brewster Jr." ''New York Times.'' November 9, 1988. He was a direct lineal descendant of Elder [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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