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McBee Wildlife Management Area
McBee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cecil McBee (born 1935), American jazz musician *Deron McBee (born 1961), American actor * Lee McBee (1951–2014), American blues musician and singer * Pryor McBee (1901–1963), American baseball player * Rives McBee (born 1938), American golfer *Thomas Page McBee Thomas Page McBee (born 1981) is an American transgender journalist and amateur boxer. He was the first transgender man to box in Madison Square Garden, which he discusses in ''Amateur''. His first book, '' Man Alive'', won a Lambda Literary Award ..., American author * Vardry McBee (1775–1864), American businessman, philanthropist and city founder See also * McBee, South Carolina * Royal McBee, early computer manufacturer * McBee cards, pre-electronic technique for data storage and retrieval {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee (born May 19, 1935) is an American jazz bassist. He has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since the 1970s, but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums. Biography Early life and career McBee was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. He studied clarinet at school, but switched to bass at the age of 17, and began playing in local nightclubs. After gaining a music degree from Ohio Central State University, McBee spent two years in the U.S. Army, during which time he conducted the band at Fort Knox. In 1959, he played with Dinah Washington, and in 1962 he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he worked with Paul Winter's folk-rock ensemble between 1963 and 1964. New York His jazz career began to take off in the mid-1960s, after he moved to New York, when he began playing and recording with a number of significant musicians including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean (1964), Wayne Shorter (1965–66), Charles Lloyd (1966), Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deron McBee
Deron Michael McBee (born August 23, 1960) is an American actor and sportsman, known for playing Motaro in '' Mortal Kombat: Annihilation'' and as Malibu on '' American Gladiators''. Career Deron McBee toured the professional racquetball circuit for three years. McBee was an original Gladiator on '' American Gladiators'', performing under the name Malibu. McBee appeared for one season on the show and returning several years later for the live tour. McBee is known for (as Malibu) his blond hair, tanned skin, and surfer persona. McBee has trained in karate at the Billy Blanks World Karate Studio, and hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship with Anthony De Longis. As an actor McBee has generally been cast in action movies, usually in roles which allow him to use his fighting skills to portray a villain. For example, in '' Enter the Blood Ring'', he portrays the wrestler Gregor. His most notable film role is that of Motaro in the second '' Mortal Kombat'' film, '' Mortal Kom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee McBee
Lee McBee (March 23, 1951 – June 24, 2014) was an American electric blues musician, singer and harmonica player from Kansas City, Missouri. Though he was primarily a regional blues act in the midwest, McBee gained national attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his work with Mike Morgan and the Crawl and with his band the Passions. These bands toured the United States, Canada and Europe and recorded on major blues labels. McBee grew up in Kansas City and collected blues and soul records throughout the 1960s. In 1969, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and worked in many blues and blues rock bands, including Bob Wire and the Worm Ranch Wranglers, Screaming Lee and the Rocktones, Used Parts, and the Lynch-McBee Band, up to 1982. During this period, McBee worked as a fat dropper at the Stokely plant in Lawrence and later as a cook at the Cornucopia Café, in Lawrence, Kansas. Beginning in 1982, McBee moved to Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles and recorded and performed with Bon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pryor McBee
Pryor Edward McBee (June 20, 1901 – April 19, 1963) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who appeared in one game as a reliever for the 1926 Chicago White Sox."Pryor McBee Statistics and History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved January 7, 2012. The '''' reported in 1926 that McBee's income from baseball was "merely incidental" because he "owns some Oklahoma oil lands." McBee was one-eighth and an enrolled member of the |
Rives McBee
Rives McBee (pronounced "Reeves") (born October 31, 1938) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour. Amateur career McBee was born in Denton, Texas, and has called nearby Irving home for most of his life. As an amateur he qualified for the 1966 U.S. Open at Olympic Club. He "startled the golf world" when he tied the U.S. Open record with a 65. He eventually finished T-13. It was his best performance at a major championship. Professional career He played on the PGA Tour from 1966 to 1971, before accepting a job as the head golf professional at Las Colinas Country Club in Irving. He was a founding member of the Northern Texas Junior Golf Association, and a former Northern Texas PGA ''Teacher of the Year''. McBee won the club pro's national title in 1973. McBee competed on the Senior PGA Tour from 1989 to 1997, winning three times. Professional wins (4) Regular career wins (1) *1973 PGA Club Professional Championship Senior PG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Page McBee
Thomas Page McBee (born 1981) is an American transgender journalist and amateur boxer. He was the first transgender man to box in Madison Square Garden, which he discusses in ''Amateur''. His first book, '' Man Alive'', won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Personal life McBee was born in Hickory, North Carolina, in 1981 and grew up outside of Pittsburgh. McBee has noted that he "knew ewasn't a girl before eknew much of anything." However, he also did not resonate with men's "jockeying power dynamics or aversion to hugs." Although he decided in college that he did not want to take hormones, his breasts caused him stress, so in his twenties, he opted for top surgery. After the surgery, he decided he was neither a man nor a woman. However, two years later, he realized that although he "didn't connect with the cultural expectations of ''Being a Man'', eknew that ed grown up and become one." He began hormone replacement therapy when he was 30 years old and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vardry McBee
Vardry Echols McBee (June 19, 1775 – January 23, 1864) was an American saddlemaker, merchant, farmer, entrepreneur and philanthropist who has frequently been called, "the father of Greenville, South Carolina". Youth McBee, the youngest of ten children, was born to an impecunious Revolutionary War officer in the Spartanburg District of South Carolina and reared in Thicketty. After working on his parents' farm as a teenager, in 1794, he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, a saddler and postmaster in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Briefly a clerk at a grocery in Charleston, South Carolina, and a pioneer farmer with his parents in Logan County, Kentucky, McBee returned to Lincolnton as a saddler and merchant, where he prospered and, in 1804, married Jane Alexander, the daughter of a prominent local family. They had nine children, seven of whom survived to maturity. McBee may also have had children by a slave mistress. McBee's putative black son, Wilson Cooke, was a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McBee, South Carolina
McBee is a town in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 867. McBee is approximately northwest of Florence and northeast of Columbia. History Origin McBee was named after a railroad executive, V.E. "Bunch" McBee, born July 26, 1849, in Greenville County, South Carolina. Bunch McBee was one of South Carolina's leading forces in the building of railroads, was responsible for the Columbia to Hamlet, North Carolina, line, which runs through McBee, and was at one time superintendent of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. 20th century In 1900, McBee's first railroad depot was built. About one year later on October 8, 1901, McBee was incorporated. On June 30, 1901, McBee Presbyterian Church was built, the first church in McBee. Six years later in 1907 McBee's second church, McBee Methodist Church, was built. After the Seaboard's Columbia-to-Cheraw line was completed in 1900, McBee grew so quickly that a new depot became a hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal McBee
The Royal Typewriter Company is a manufacturer of typewriters founded in January 1904. It was headquartered in New York City with its factory in Hartford, Connecticut. History The Royal Typewriter Company was founded by Edward B. Hess and Lewis C. Myers in January 1904 in a machine shop in Brooklyn, New York. The next year, Hess and Myers turned to Thomas Fortune Ryan, to whom they demonstrated a prototype typewriter. Their machine had numerous innovations including a friction-free, ball-bearing, one-track rail to support the weight of the carriage, a new paper feed, a lighter and faster typebar action, and complete visibility of the words as they are typed. Ryan put up $220,000 in exchange for financial control. In March 1906 the first Royal typewriter, the Royal Standard, was sold. The Royal Standard was set apart from its competition by its 'flatbed' design. With demand increasing, Royal purchased 5¼ acres in Hartford, Connecticut, as the new site for its manufacturing faci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
