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Kasten Fredrik Ferdinand De Pont
Kasten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bob Kasten (born 1942), U.S. Republican politician * G. Randy Kasten, attorney and author * Jeremy Kasten, American filmmaker *Karl Kasten (1916–2010), painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area *Kasten Antell (1845–1906), Finnish politician *Lloyd Kasten (1905–1999), American Hispanist, medievalist, lexicographer, and Lusophile *Sam Kasten, comic actor in Yiddish Theater *Stan Kasten (born 1952), president, and part-owner, of the Los Angeles Dodgers *Tim Kasten (born 1983), German international rugby union player See also *Hoher Kasten, mountain in the Appenzell Alps, overlooking the Rhine in Eastern Switzerland *Kasten bei Böheimkirchen, town in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria *Kasten-brust armour Kasten-brust armour (german: Kastenbrust — "box-shaped breast") — is a German form of plate armour from the first half of 15th century. Kasten-brust armo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Kasten
Robert Walter Kasten Jr. (born June 19, 1942) is an American Republican politician from the state of Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Representative from 1975 to 1979 and as a United States Senator from 1981 to 1993. Background Kasten was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended the Milwaukee Country Day School before graduating in 1960 from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1964 from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and received his M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1966. He served in the Wisconsin Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972. Elected office Kasten was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1972. In 1974, he was elected to the House of Representatives after defeating incumbent Glenn R. Davis in a Republican primary election. He was reelected in 1976. He ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1978 , but lost the Republican nomination to Lee S. Dreyfus. Kasten ran for the United States Senate in 1980 and narrowly de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Kasten
Jeremy Craig Kasten (born March 25, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. Kasten is best known for his arthouse horror pieces, which range from psychological horror films such as ''The Attic Expeditions'' (2001) and '' The Dead Ones'' (2010) to Grand Guignol, such as his re-imagining of Herschell Gordon Lewis’s classic splatter film ''The Wizard of Gore'' (2007) and his contribution to the horror anthology film ''The Theatre Bizarre'' (2011). Other work includes the zombie film '' All Soul’s Day: Dia de los Muertos'' (2005) and the drug-fueled vampire film '' The Thirst'' (2006). Early life Kasten was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up performing in local television and theater with his family. He attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he was in an acting ensemble with Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett. In his junior year, Kasten and his friends (street artist Maya Hayuk and producer Daniel Griffiths) appeared in John Waters’ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Kasten
Karl Albert Kasten (March 5, 1916 – May 3, 2010) was a painter-printmaker-educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Early life Kasten, fourth child of Ferdinand Kasten and his wife Barbara Anna Kasten, grew up in San Francisco's Richmond District.John O'Hara - The Chronicle 11-22-2002 He was a student of art from an early age and regularly competed with his older brother Fred in battleship drawing contests. Fred eventually gave up but Karl continued. At times, Kasten's art seemingly got in the way of his schoolwork and his sixth grade teacher was driven to send a note home: "Dear Mr. Kasten, Do something about your son. All he wants to do is draw. He's not paying attention in school" Fortunately, his father sent a note back to the teacher: "Let him draw." The same year, with financial help from his older brother Fred, Karl furthered his artistic advancement at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and his explorations of art continued from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasten Antell
Per Kasten Samuel Antell (12 May 1845, Helsinki – 20 July 1906) was a Finnish politician and colonel. He was a member of the Senate of Finland The Senate of Finland ( fi, Suomen senaatti, sv, Senaten för Finland) combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in the independent Finland from 1917 to 1918. The body that would beco .... 1845 births 1906 deaths Politicians from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish military personnel Finnish senators Members of the Diet of Finland {{Finland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Kasten
Lloyd August Wilhelm Kasten (April 14, 1905 – December 13, 1999) was an American Hispanist, medievalist, Lexicography, lexicographer, and Lusophile. Lloyd Kasten joined the faculty of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin in 1931 and spent the next 68 years pursuing and promoting research on the language and literature of medieval Spain. He produced, usually in collaboration with other scholars, editions of several works of medieval Spanish literature, and he led the teams of scholars who compiled the most thoroughly documented dictionary of the Old Spanish language in existence today. In addition, he played a key role in promoting and expanding the study of Portuguese in the United States. Early life Kasten was born in 1905 in Watertown, Wisconsin, where his first language was German. In 1926 he received his bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in economics (or "commerce"), but he was already interested in languages, and he continued his studies at W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Kasten
Sam Kasten (1865 " ''New York Times''. 5 March 1953. p. 27. or 21 April 1869Zylbercweig, Zalmen (1969). Kestin, Sem Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater. vol. 6. Mexico City; New York: Elisheva. cols. 6122-6129 (in Yiddish) – 4 March 1953) was a comic actor in . A 1925 '''' article singled out his and |
Stan Kasten
Stan Kasten (born February 1, 1952) is the former president of the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals, and the current president and part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Long involved in Atlanta professional sports, he also served as general manager of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and president of the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers. Early life and education Kasten was born to a Jewish family, the son of Holocaust survivors, Sylvia and Nathan Kasten.''Los Angeles Times'': "Dodgers' Stan Kasten shaped by his father's unforgettable lessons - The team president's father survived fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Kasten
Tim Kasten (born 27 January 1983) is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He made his debut for Germany in a game against Sweden in 2004. Kasten was born in Hannover, and has played rugby since 1986,Tim Kasten profile at totalrugby.de accessed: 2 March 2010 first for the and later, after the club was unable to field a youth team, for the . In 2003–04 he spent a season with |
Hoher Kasten
The Hoher Kasten is a mountain in the Appenzell Alps, overlooking the Rhine in Eastern Switzerland. It is located on the border between the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and St. Gallen. The summit is easily accessible with a cable car starting at Brülisau, south of Appenzell. A revolving restaurant, offering panoramic views, has been built on the top. Ascents to Hoher Kasten and the neighbouring summit Kamor were already described in the early 19th century.Johann Rudolf Steinmüller: Beschreibung der schweizerischen Alpen- und Landwirthschaft', Steinersche Buchhandlung, 1802. See also *List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transport This is a list of mountains of Switzerland above 800 metres whose summits are accessible by public transport. This list includes mountains with a topographic prominence of at least 30 metres that have a station above the height of their key col an ... References External links Cable car and panoramic restaurant (German)< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasten Bei Böheimkirchen
Kasten bei Böheimkirchen is a town in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P .... Population References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kasten bei Boheimkirchen Cities and towns in St. Pölten-Land District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasten-brust Armour
Kasten-brust armour (german: Kastenbrust — "box-shaped breast") — is a German form of plate armour from the first half of 15th century. Kasten-brust armour was a style of early gothic armour widely used in the Holy Roman Empire. Typical harness construction consists of: a grand-bascinet helm or a bicoque helmet, box-shaped cuirass, gauntlets with a long cuff and a rectangular cutout and a plate skirt known as a tonlet. Only four verified breastplates are known to have survived until today and are housed in Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, German Historical Museum in Berlin,Goll, M. (2008). Eine bisher unbekannte Kastenbrust des berliner Zeughauses. and Rathaus Museum of Vienna. Kasten-brust armour is widely represented by paintings and statues of the first half of the 15th century. A style featuring a sharp ridge at the apex of the breastplate first shows up in art during the first decade of the 15th century. By 1420 a more rounded sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
