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Kingsley (surname)
Kingsley is an English surname. Written in Old English as ''Cyningesleah'', this locational surname roughly means "from the king's wood, glade or meadow," and derives from the Old English words ''Cyning'' (King) and ''leah'' ( woodland clearing).Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press People with the surname "Kingsley" include A *Adam Kingsley (born 1975), Australian rules footballer *Alois Kingsley (born 1969), Papua New Guinean politician *Anna Kingsley (1793–1870), American slave * Atta Boafo Daniel Kingsley, Ghanaian politician B * Ben Kingsley (born 1943), English actor * Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Indigenous American writer * Bob Kingsley (1939–2019), American radio personality * Burton L. Kingsley (1879–1944), American businessman and politician C *Calvin Kingsley (1812–1870), American bishop *Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English novelist *Charles Kingsley (tennis) (1899–1996), English tennis player D *David R. King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Cox may refer to: * Cox (surname), including people with the name Companies * Cox Enterprises, a media and communications company ** Cox Communications, cable provider ** Cox Media Group, a company that owns television and radio stations ** Cox Automotive, an Atlanta-based business unit of Cox Enterprises * Cox Models, aka Cox Hobbies * Cox Sports, a regional sports network that served the United States New England region until 2012 Places Antarctica * Cox Glacier * Cox Nunatak * Cox Peaks * Cox Point * Cox Reef United States * Cox, Florida * Cox, Missouri * Cox College (Georgia), a defunct private women's college located in College Park, Georgia * Cox College (Missouri), a private college in Springfield, Missouri * Cox Furniture Store, c. 1890, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida * Cox Furniture Warehouse, a historic site in Gainesville, Florida * Cox Run, a tributary of Little Muncy Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania * Cox site Elsewhere * Cox Island, Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kingsley
Elizabeth S. Kingsley (née Seelman) (1871 – June 8, 1957) was an American puzzle constructor, famous as the inventor of the double-crostic. Kingsley was born in Brooklyn and attended Wellesley College (Class of 1898). While she was working as a teacher in Brooklyn in 1933, she created the double-crostic, a form of acrostic puzzle that includes features of a crossword puzzle, and eventually sold it to the '' Saturday Review''. Michelle Arnot describes how she invented it, after a Wellesley reunion at which she "despaired that students embraced twentieth-century scribblers like James Joyce":Tailoring a crossword grid, she stretched its boundaries to create a rectangle. Taking an excerpt from a favorite author, she filled in the grid reading left to right only; words were separated by black squares and continued below and to the left when necessary. Each blank square was assigned a number from 1, at the top left, to 178, at the bottom right corner. Her first selection was six lines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
