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Lynette Clemetson
Lynnette, also spelled Lynette, is a feminine given name. People * Lynette Boggs (born 1963), American politician * Lynnette Brooky (born 1968), New Zealand golfer * Lynette Chico (21st century), Puerto Rican fashion model and actress * Lynnette Cole (born 1978), Miss USA 2000 * Lynette Coleman (born 1964), Australian Paralympic athlete * Lynette Curran (born 1945), Australian actress * Lynnette Ferguson, New Zealand academic * Lynette Fromme (born 1948), American former prisoner * Lynette Horsburgh (born 1974), Scottish snooker player * Lynette Lancini (born 1970), Australian composer * Lynette Lithgow (1950–2001), Trinidad and Tobago journalist * Lynette Roberts (1909–1995), Welsh poet * Lynette Sadleir (born 1963), Canadian synchronized swimmer * Lynnette Seah (born 1957), Singaporean violinist * Lynette Wallworth, Australian artist and filmmaker * Lynette Washington (21st century), American jazz vocalist * Lynette White (1967–1988), Welsh murder victim * Lynette Wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eluned
Eluned ()"Eluned." Behind the Name. Mike Campbell. Retrieved 15 January 2013. . is a feminine given name and may refer to: *Saint Eluned, a 5th-century saint from Brecon, Wales *Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), Welsh writer *Eluned Morgan (author) (1870–1938), Welsh-language author from Patagonia *Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely (born 1967), Welsh Labour member of the European Parliament *Eluned Parrott (born 1975), Welsh Liberal Democrat politician *Eluned Phillips (1914–2009), the only woman to win the bardic crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales twice *Eluned Woodford-Williams (1913–1984), British geriatrician See also *Luned, a variant of ''Eluned'' References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Lithgow
Lynette Pearson (16 April 1950 - 11 December 2001), known professionally as Lynette Lithgow), was a Trinidad-born, British-based newsreader and journalist who is best remembered for her career as a newsreader for BBC News. Lithgow's first media job was as a broadcaster for Radio Television Brunei during the 1970s. During the 1980s, she moved to Britain. After working as a presenter for Midlands Today and a continuity announcer for Granada Television, Lithgow moved to London as a newsreader for the national BBC News in 1988. Lithgow joined the BBC's world television service on its launch in 1991 and also presented BBC 2's Newsview. Lithgow was the first BBC newsreader to announce the resignation of Margaret Thatcher around 9:45 AM, interrupting an edition of People Today, on 22 November 1990. Lithgow quit the BBC in 1996 upon gaining a law degree from Oxford University. She subsequently moved to the business news channel CNBC Asia (based in Singapore), where she worked until h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Scavo
Lynette Scavo is a fictional character on the series ''Desperate Housewives''. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman, who won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the role in 2005, and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for 2005 to 2007. While show creator Marc Cherry based Bree Van de Kamp's family on his teenage years, he based Lynette's on his childhood life. Other actresses who claim to have auditioned for the show include Alex Kingston, who was apparently turned down for being too curvy. Storylines Backstory Lynette Lindquist was the eldest of three daughters born to Stella and her husband, Mr. Lindquist. After he died, their mother had a series of unpleasant and unstable boyfriends and a drinking problem. She also beat her children and had cancer, when Lynette was 13 years old. Lynette told her that this was a punishment from God. Stella marries Glenn Wingfield, whom Lynet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Witches
is a Japanese media mix originally created by Fumikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. The franchise has since been adapted into several light novel, manga, and anime series and various video games. The series revolves around teenage girls who use machines attached to their legs to do aerial combat. The OVA preview episode was released in January 2007. The televised anime series later aired between July and September 2008. A second season aired between July and September 2010. A film adaptation was released on March 17, 2012, and a three-part OVA series was released between September 2014 and May 2015. A third season aired from October to December 2020. A spin-off of the original series titled ''Brave Witches'' aired from October to December 2016, and a second spin-off titled ''Luminous Witches'' aired from July to September 2022. Plot On an alternate Earth during the World War II era, the world has been invaded by a mysterious a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Strike Witches Characters
The ''Strike Witches'' mixed-media project features an extensive cast of characters created by Fumikane Shimada. The series takes place in an alternate Earth in the mid-20th century and revolves around a group of teenage girls who use machines equipped to their legs known as Striker Units to do aerial combat. The characters are named after real-life pilots whilst their Striker Units are based on actual aircraft. The main character of the manga and anime series is Yoshika Miyafuji, and the main character of the light novel series is Tomoko Anabuki, both of whom are witches from the Fuso Empire. In the anime and manga series, Yoshika joins the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, an international military squadron which also includes Minna-Dietlinde Wilcke, Mio Sakamoto, Charlotte E. "Shirley" Yeager, Lynette Bishop, Perrine H. Clostermann, Erica Hartmann, Gertrud Barkhorn, Francesca Lucchini, Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen, and Sanya V. Litvyak. In the light novel series, Tomoko joins the Suomus I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Knowe
Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, and published from 1954 to 1976. It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, England. In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there. For the fourth book in the series, '' A Stranger at Green Knowe'' (1961), Boston won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. She was a commended runner up for both the first and second books. Some of the stories feature Toseland, a boy called Tolly for short, and his great-grandmother Mrs. Oldknow. Green Knowe is inhabited by the spirits of people who lived there in ages past, and more than one of the spirits Tolly knows as children later grow into adults. Other supernatural entities in the series include the children's dog, Orlando; a demonic tree-spirit, Green Noah (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette (Arthurian Character)
In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as ''Linnet'', ''Linette'', ''Lynet'', ''Lynette'', ''Lyonet'') is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also ''Linesse'', ''Lioness'', ''Lionesse'', ''Lyones'', ''Lyonorr'', ''Lyonors''), whose lands are besieged by the Red Knight. The young Gareth picks up the quest, eventually marrying Lyonesse, while Lynette becomes the lady of his brother Gaheris. In ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' They are most famously depicted by Thomas Malory in ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', where they are sisters of Gringamore (''Guinguemar'') from Avalon. In ''Book IV: The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney'', Dame Lynette comes to court asking for assistance against the Red Knight of the Red Lands. Since Lynette refuses to reveal her name for reasons which are not explained, she is presented with a kitchen servant instead of a champion. He says his name is Beaumains, but he is really King A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, who are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Her paintings often are presented in solo exhibitions. Early life and career Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Her parents worked as nurses for the National Health Service after emigrating from Ghana. Yiadom-Boakye attended Central St. Martins College of Art and Design; however, she did not enjoy her time there and so, moved to Falmouth College of Art where she eventually was awarded her undergraduate degree in 2000. She then completed an MA degree at the Royal Academy Schools in 2003. In 2010, her work was recognised by Okwui Enwezor, who gave her an exhibition at Studio Museum in Harlem. She was among those nominated for the Turner prize in 2013. In addition to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Woodard
Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is a retired American basketball Hall of Fame player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodard made history by becoming the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters and who, at age 38, began playing as one of the oldest members in the newly formed American women's professional basketball league, the WNBA. While at Wichita North High School, Woodard won two state basketball titles. Woodard went on to play college basketball with the University of Kansas (KU) in 1978, playing there until 1981. She was a four-time All-American at KU, and she averaged 26 points per game and scored 3,649 points in total during her four years there, and was the first KU woman to be honored by having her jersey retired. She is major college basketball's career women's scoring leader. In 1981, she was signed by an Italian team, UFO Schio (Vicenza), to participate in their league. In 1984, she was a member of the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Lynette White
Lynette Deborah White (5 July 1967 – 14 February 1988) was murdered on 14 February 1988 in Cardiff, Wales. South Wales Police issued a photofit image of a bloodstained, white male seen in the vicinity at the time of the murder but were unable to trace the man. In November 1988, the police charged five black and mixed-race men with White's murder, although none of the scientific evidence discovered at the crime scene could be linked to them. In November 1990, following what was then the longest murder trial in British history, three of the men were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. In December 1992, the convictions were ruled unsafe and quashed by the Court of Appeal after it was decided that the police investigating the murder had acted improperly. The wrongful conviction of the three men has been called one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent times. The police insisted that the men had been released purely on a legal technicality, that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Washington
Lynette Washington is an American jazz vocalist. She was the winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal Competition in 2005. Biography Washington is a native New Yorker and has had a career that has taken her across the globe. Her travel has also enabled her to learn to sing in quite a few international languages. Her singing style is heavily rooted in the jazz, R&B, and gospel arenas. Lynette began her early professional singing career performing in Russian nightclubs throughout New York City and Europe. She recorded on the early GRP releases of jazz trumpeter Tom Browne as well with her own R&B/Dance group Touché on Emergency Records. She has worked with artists such as Aretha Franklin, U2, and Peter Gabriel and was featured lead singer in New Voices of Freedom appearing in U2's Rattle & Hum, BBC's One World, One Voice, and Lenny Kravitz's "Give Peace A Chance" on Virgin Records. Lynette has also recorded radio commercials and appeared in national TV commercials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist and filmmaker, known for her use of emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR), and interactive installations. She is known for her 2016 VR project ''Collisions'', which tells of the "collision" between Aboriginal Australians and western culture in the form of British nuclear testing at Maralinga in the 1950s. She has won two Emmy Awards for her work: one for ''Collisions'' and one for ''Awavena''. Early life and education Wallworth attended the UNSW Art & Design. Media, themes and practice Wallworth's works span virtual reality 360 film, feature documentary, and digital fulldome and interactive video installations. Wallworth's work reflects on the connections between people and the natural world. She often works in series or meditations on one theme, and her works experiment with using the latest technology. She aims to build a sense of community, compassion, revelation and wonder. The environments often rely on interaction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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