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McComas
McComas is a surname. Comas is the reduced version of the surname which is the plural form of the Catalan word ''como'' originating from the Gaulish ''cumba'' meaning ''valley''. Notable people with the surname include: *Alice Moore McComas (1850–1919), American author, editor, lecturer, reformer *Campbell McComas, Australian comedian, writer, and actor *Daniel F. McComas, American politician * David McComas, American space scientist *Edward O. McComas (1919–1954), American flying ace during World War II * Francis McComas (1875–1938), Australian-born artist * George W. McComas (1841–1928), American politician *James Douglas McComas, former president of three U.S. universities *J. Francis McComas, American science fiction editor *Kendall McComas, American child actor *Lorissa McComas, American nude model *Louis E. McComas, American politician * Walter R. McComas (1879–1922), American politician and lawyer *William McComas (1795–1865), American politician and lawyer from V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McComas
William McComas (1795 – June 3, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Virginia Senate, United States House of Representatives and voted against secession in the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. During the American Civil War, although some of his sons enlisted on opposing sides and West Virginia was created, he continued to serve as a federal judge in Union-held territory.CongBio, M000352 Early and family life Born near Pearisburg, Virginia, Pearisburg in Giles County, Virginia in 1795 to Elisha McComas (1770 - 1849) and his wife Ann French McComas (1776 - 1850), McComas was descended from long-established Virginia families who had helped fight in the American Revolutionary War. He had several brothers and sisters. McComas attended local private schools, then Emory and Henry College, in Emory, Virginia. He married twice. His first wife, Mildred Ward McComas bore at least six sons and two daughters who survived to adulthood. After his first wife's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis McComas (painter)
Francis McComas (1875–1938) was an Australian-born artist who spent most of his adult life in California, receiving some national recognition. He was one of the few California artists invited to exhibit in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York. Biography Early life Francis John McComas was born in Fingal, a small town in a valley of the same name in north east Tasmania. He studied art at the Sydney Technical College and the Sydney Art School. He arrived in San Francisco in 1898, having worked his way across the Pacific as a merchant seaman. Personal life He married a wealthy San Franciscan, Marie Louise Parrott, on June 28, 1905. But within three or four years he began avoiding spending time with his wife. In 1909, they made a few short visits to their home on the Monterey Peninsula, but Parrott spent most of that year in their home in Mill Valley, while her husband, who experienced repeated episodes of ill health, worked at his studio in San Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas McComas
James Douglas McComas (December 23, 1928 – February 10, 1994) was 14th President of Mississippi State University from 1975-1985, the 12th President of the University of Toledo from 1985 to 1988, and the 13th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, from 1988 to 1993. McComas taught Vocational Agriculture in the 1950s and later served as head of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education at New Mexico State University from 1966 to 1967; dean of the College of Education, at Kansas State University, from 1967 to 1969; and dean of the College of Education at University of Tennessee from 1969 to 1975 when he was named president of Mississippi State. President of Virginia Tech McComas was hired to guide Virginia Tech back into smooth waters after the fallout from a controversial land deal and an athletic scandal led to the resignation of William Edward Lavery. He assumed his new duties on September 1, 1988. From the beginning of his administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McComas
David John McComas (born May 22, 1958) is an American space plasma physicist, Vice President foPrinceton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and leads the Space Physics at Princeton Group aPrinceton University.He had been Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at the Southwest Research Institute, Adjoint Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and was the founding director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is noted for his extensive accomplishments in experimental space plasma physics, including leading instruments and missions to study the heliosphere and solar wind: IMAP, IBEX, TWINS, Ulysses/SWOOPS, ACE/SWEPAM, and Parker Solar Probe. He received the 2014 COSPAR Space Science Award and the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal. Biography McComas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, Harold McComas, was a World War II Veteran, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Moore McComas
Alice Moore McComas (, Moore; June 18, 1850 – December 19, 1919) was an American author, editor, lecturer and reformer. She was a pioneer suffragist in California and served as president of the Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Association. During the various suffrage campaigns, McComas contributed articles to over seventy newspapers and magazines, and she was well known throughout the west as an educator and lecturer. She was accredited with being the first woman to conduct a department for women in a daily paper in California, and the first woman to address a state Republican ratification meeting. She was one of the earliest organizers of the Free Kindergarten Association and of clubs for working women, and was prominent in many movements for civic welfare. She was Associate Editor of ''The Household Journal'' of California and author of several books, among them ''The Women of the Canal Zone'' and ''Under the Peppers''. McComas contributed travel sketches to many magazines. She died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorissa McComas
Lorissa McComas (November 26, 1970 – November 3, 2009) was an American actress and Glamour photography, glamour model. Early life McComas graduated from Princeton High School (Sharonville, Ohio), Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio in 1988. She was an education major at Miami University before she started striptease, stripping and modeling. Early career and acting In 1990, McComas was arrested, along with another stripper, on charges of prostitution by Hamilton County, Ohio police. She had allowed a guest at a bachelor party to tuck a dollar bill into a garter just above her knee; this was treated as a form of prostitution under the very strict Cincinnati ordinances of that time. By 1994, she was the owner of Extasy Entertainment, a company that provided strippers to clients in the Cincinnati area. Cincinnati had no strip bars during this time period. Death McComas died on November 3, 2009. Filmography *''Project Viper'' (2003) *''Raptor (film), Raptor'' (2001) - Lol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell McComas
Geoffrey Campbell McComas AM (2 May 19528 January 2005) was an Australian comedian, writer and actor. Early life and education McComas attended Caulfield Grammar School and Scotch College in Hawthorn, Melbourne, and studied law and arts at Monash University. Career After practising law for several years, he became one of Australia's most renowned public speakers and comedians. McComas's start in comedy was in May 1976, when he made his famous hoax lecture at Monash pretending to be Glanville Williams, "alternative professor of English law at University of Cambridge". The lecture was given to around 450 students, though it has often been remarked that thousands of people claim to have attended the lecture. Even those who knew Williams were reportedly fooled by the hoax. McComas then made a professional career out of similar stunts, hired by various organizations to perform in character as a "guest speaker". McComas is probably best known to the wider general public, however, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendall McComas
Kendall McComas (October 29, 1916 – October 15, 1981) was an American child actor. Career Born in Holton, Kansas, McComas first appeared in the '' Mickey McGuire'' short subjects series as a member of Mickey McGuire's gang and stayed throughout the series run in the silent era. He also played the role of Stinky Davis in some of the series' earliest sound shorts. In 1931, he joined the ''Our Gang'' series, first appearing in the 1932 Our Gang short ''Readin' and Writin'''. McComas stayed with Our Gang for a full year and left the series after appearing in the 1932 short ''Birthday Blues''. Even though he was well into his teens during his ''Our Gang'' tenure, McComas was very short for his age and thus capably portrayed his grade-school-age character Breezy aka Brisbane. Breezy's mother refers to him as "Brisbane" in the films ''Readin' and Writin''' and '' Spanky'', the only shorts in which that name appears; the kids refer to him as "Breezy," presumably as a nickname for Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McComas, West Virginia
McComas is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. McComas is southwest of Matoaka. An early variant name was Mora. Notable person *Mike Hodge (1947–2017), actor ('' Law & Order'') and former President of SAG-AFTRA The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA, stylized as SAG·AFTRA ) is an American labor union representing approximately 160,000 film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, recordi ... New York local; born in McComas. References Unincorporated communities in Mercer County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Coal towns in West Virginia {{MercerCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan MacThomas
Clan MacThomas is a Highland Scottish clan and is a member of the Clan Chattan.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 258 - 259. History Origins of the Clan The progenitor of the Clan MacThomas was Thomas, who was a Scottish Gaelic speaking Highlander. He was known as ''Tomaidh Mòr'' and it is from him that the clan takes its name. He was a grandson of William Mackintosh, 7th chief of Clan Mackintosh and 8th chief of the Chattan Confederation.Andrew MacThomas of Finegand, The History of the Clan MacThomas, 2009, various pages. Thomas lived in fifteenth century when the Clan Chattan had become so large that it was unmanageable, so Thomas took his clan from Badenoch, across the Grampian Mountains to Glen Shee where they re-settled. Here they flourished and became known as McComie, McColm and McComas which are phone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comas (surname)
Comas is one of the Catalan surnames. It is the plural form of the Catalan word ''como'' which is derived from the Gaulish word ''cumba'' meaning valley. McComas is the Irish version of the surname. Notable people with the surname are as follows: * Alex Comas (born 1971), Colombian football player * Antoni Comas i Pujol (1931–1981), Spanish Catalan literary historian and academic * Arnau Comas (born 2000), Spanish football player * Arseni Comas (born 1961), Spanish Catalan football player * Érik Comas (born 1963), French Formula One driver * Jaime Comas (1936–2021), Spanish screenwriter and film producer * Jaume Comas (born 1974), Spanish basketball player * Joan Comas Pausas (1913–2009), Spanish painter and architect * Jorge Comas, multiple people * Josep Comas i Solà (1868–1937), Spanish Catalan astronomer * Juan Comas (1900–1979), Spanish Mexican anthropologist * Lautaro Comas (born 1995), Argentine football player * Lillian Comas-Díaz, American psychologis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaulish
Gaulish was an ancient Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine). In a wider sense, it also comprises varieties of Celtic that were spoken across much of central Europe ("Noric language, Noric"), parts of the Balkans, and Anatolia ("Galatian language, Galatian"), which are thought to have been closely related. The more divergent Lepontic language, Lepontic of Northern Italy has also sometimes been subsumed under Gaulish. Together with Lepontic and the Celtiberian language, Celtiberian spoken in the Iberian Peninsula, Gaulish helps form the geographic group of Continental Celtic languages. The precise linguistic relationships among them, as well as between them and the modern Insular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
