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Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick is an Irish (Ulster) and Scottish surname, and occasionally a given name, possibly a branch of the Cenél nEógain of the Northern Uí Néill. The name traditionally relates to a church ("kirk") dedicated to Saint Patrick.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). pp. 411 - 412. Surname * Alexander Kirkpatrick (1849-1940), British professor of Hebrew and biblical commentator * Alexander Kirkpatrick (rugby union) (1898-1971), New Zealand rugby union player * Andrew Kirkpatrick (lawyer) (1756–1831), Chief Justice of New Jersey Supreme Court * Andrew Kirkpatrick (judge) (1844–1904), U.S. District Court for New Jersey, grandson of Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831) (''above'') * Andrew Kirkpatrick (politician) (1848–1928), South Australian politician * Andy Kirkpatrick (born 1971), British climber and writer * Ann Kirkpa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Kirkpatrick
Ann Leila Kirkpatrick (born March 24, 1950) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the United States representative from since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2017. Kirkpatrick was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007. First elected to Congress in 2008 in , Kirkpatrick was unseated in 2010. She regained her seat in a close race in 2012 and was reelected in 2014. Kirkpatrick ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 and was defeated by incumbent Republican John McCain. In 2018, she was elected to Congress in ; she was reelected in 2020. On March 12, 2021, Kirkpatrick announced she would not seek reelection in 2022. Early life and early political career Kirkpatrick was born on March 24, 1950, and raised on an Apache Indian reservation near McNary, Arizona. Her parents were European Americans who lived and worked on the reservation. Her mother was a teacher, and her father was a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick
Barbro A. Owens-Kirkpatrick (born in Helsinki 1946) is an American diplomat. Early life and education Owens-Kirkpatrick earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland. She received her Master of Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Career Owens-Kirkpatrick joined the United States Department of State and was one of two State Department Political Officers deployed to support the 82nd Airborne Division during the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Owens-Kirkpatrick served at Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassies in Barbados and the West Indies. She also served as Political Officer in El Salvador 1986-88 and as Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In 1989 she graduated from the U.S. Army War College. From 1992-93, she was Deputy Director of the Office of International Security Operations (PM/ISO) in the Bureau of Political-Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Kirkpatrick
Gary Kirkpatrick (August 19, 1941 - February 22, 2021) was an American concert pianist from Junction City, Kansas. Kirkpatrick received his Bachelor of Music at Eastman School of Music and his artist's diploma from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Kirkpatrick was a member of the award-winning Vehrder Trio, composed of a rare violin, clarinet and piano. The ensemble commissioned over 100 pieces, including five triple concertos, by such composers as Alan Hovhannes, Gunther Schuller, Ned Rorem and many others. They have recorded over 15 installments in the Making of a Medium CD Series. Recently, Kirkpatrick was a member of The Halcyon Trio, a trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano. The instrumentation of this ensemble was invented by Mozart in his Kegelstatt Trio K. 498 for the same instrumentation known as Kegelstadt. The movie composer Lalo Schiffrin, composer of the theme from ''Mission: Impossible'', was commissioned to compose a triple concerto for the Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick
Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick (1933–1986) was an African-American musician, civil rights activist, and minister from Haynesville, Louisiana. In late 1964 he was a co-founder of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed black self-defense group, in the small industrial mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana, to protect the black community against white violence. Together with Earnest "Chilly Willy" Thomas, Kirkpatrick also founded Deacons chapters in other cities of Louisiana, and in Mississippi and Alabama. An associate of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Kirkpatrick was a singer/songwriter, serving as director of folk culture. Beginning in 1968, he recorded three albums with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. One was a recording of the 1978 Louisiana Folk Fest, an annual event which Kirkpatrick had conceived and regularly hosted, to preserve and celebrate musical culture. He used music to teach African-American history, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Kirkpatrick
Ethel Kirkpatrick (1869–1966) was a British painter, printmaker and jeweller. She was a marine and landscape painter, mainly working in oil and watercolour but also producing woodcuts. Early life and training Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick, was the second daughter of Mary Ann Rosa Kirkpatrick (nee Marriott) and Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick. Her older sister was Ida Marion Kirkpatrick who introduced her to art. Their father, after leaving a position in the Indian Army, worked in the prison service, later as governor of Exeter, Newgate and then Wormwood Scrubs prisons. Kirkpatrick studied at the Royal Academy School and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . Working life Both Ethel and her older sister Ida travelled to artist’s colonies in St Ives, Cornwall and Walberswick, Suffolk. Thus they both appear in biographical lists of Suffolk artists and Cornwall artists. After their father died, a large studio was built for the sisters behind the house in London in which they were li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Kirkpatrick
Donald L. Kirkpatrick (March 15, 1924 – May 9, 2014) was Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in the United States and a past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). He is best known for creating a highly influential 'four level' model for training course evaluation, which served as the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation in 1954. Kirkpatrick's ideas were published to a broader audience in 1959 in a series of articles in the ''US Training and Development Journal'', but they are better known from a book he published in 1994 entitled ''Evaluating Training Programs''. Other books that he has written on training evaluation include ''Transferring Learning to Behavior'' and ''Implementing the Four Levels''. Four Levels of Learning Evaluation Kirkpatrick's four levels are designed as a sequence of ways to evaluate training programs. Many practitioners believe that as you proceed through each of the levels, the evaluation becomes more difficult an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David G
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Dusty
Slim Dusty, AO MBE (born David Gordon Kirkpatrick; 13 June 1927 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs. Slim Dusty "released more than a hundred albums, selling more than seven million records and earning over 70 gold and platinum album certifications". He was the first Australian to have a No. 1 international hit song, with a version of Gordon Parsons' "A Pub with No Beer". He received 38 Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kirkpatrick (producer)
David Paul Kirkpatrick (born June 29, 1951) is an American film producer, studio executive and writer. He is widely known for his career at Paramount Pictures where he started as a story editor, oversaw the studio's exclusive development deal with Eddie Murphy and eventually became President of the Motion Picture Group. In 2006, The New York Times called Kirkpatrick a “kingmaker” for his shepherding of Hollywood talent. Kirkpatrick was chief of production at two studios at the same time, Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures. Kirkpatrick founded the MIT Center for the Future of Storytelling in 2008 and the Story Summit in 2019. He has authored several books, including ''The Address of Happiness'', ''The Dog'' with Steven James Taylor, and ''The Adventures of Merlin'' to be published in 2023. Biography Kirkpatrick was raised in Hudson, Ohio. In 1969, he graduated from Hudson High School. In 2015, he was inducted into the school's Distinguished Hall of Fame. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Kirkpatrick
Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick (1872–1957) was a British civil engineer. Cyril Kirkpatrick was born in London in 1872. Kirkpatrick was Chief Engineer for the Port of London and formed the engineering firm of Kirkpatrick and Partners in 1924. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between November 1931 and November 1932. Between 1938 and 1942 Kirkpatrick drew many plans to Maryport sea wall and harbour. Kirpatrick's firm was also involved with the construction of concrete caissons for the Mulberry Harbours used following the Normandy Landings during the Second World War. He served as president of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1950. Kirkpatrick's firm merged with Scott and Wilson to form Scott & Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners in 1951. This firm later became the Scott Wilson Group Scott Wilson Group plc was a global integrated design and engineering consultancy with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. Founded as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conilee Kirkpatrick
Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948) is an American electronics engineer. Education and career Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969 and earned a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, with the dissertation ''Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon''. She worked for General Electric on storage tube technology in the 1970s, and became director of advanced technology implementation for Rockwell International's Microelectronics R&D Center. As a senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation, she developed an artificial neural network on an integrated circuit, to be used as an AI accelerator. She later became a vice president of HRL Laboratories, and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council. Along with her professional work in engineering, Kirkpatrick has been active in mentoring Southern California middle-school girls in engineering. Recognition Kirkpatrick was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
