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Meeks Cabin Reservoir
Meeks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Places *Meeks, Georgia People * Aaron Meeks, American actor * Brian Meeks, Jamaican poet * Dale Meeks, English actor * David Meeks, Arkansas state representative * Geoff Meeks, (b. 1949), British accounting scholar * Gregory W. Meeks, African American congressman * James Meeks, Illinois State Senator, Minister of Salem Baptist Church * Jeremy Meeks (born 1984), American fashion model and convicted criminal * Jodie Meeks, American basketball player * Joseph Meeks, 19th century furniture maker * Michael Meeks (other) * Quenton Meeks (born 1996), American football player * Ron Meeks, American football player * Stephen Meeks, Arkansas state representative * Travis Meeks, American musician * William Hamilton Meeks, III (b. 1947), American mathematician * Randy Meeks, a character from the ''Scream'' films * Shorty Meeks and Brenda Meeks, characters from ''Scary Movie'' See also * Meek (surname) * "The Meeks," a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeks, Georgia
Meeks is an unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ... in Johnson County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. History The first permanent settlement at Meeks was made ca. 1888. A post office called Meeks was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1954. The community has the name of Henry Meeks, an early settler. References Unincorporated communities in Johnson County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) {{JohnsonCountyGA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quenton Meeks
Quenton Meeks (born June 20, 1997) is an American football cornerback for the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League (UFL). He played college football at Stanford. Early years Meeks attended Del Norte High School in San Diego, California. He committed to Stanford University to play college football. College career Meeks played at Stanford from 2015 to 2017. After his junior season in 2017, he decided to forgo his senior year and enter the 2018 NFL Draft. During his career he had 115 tackles, seven interceptions and two touchdowns. Professional career Jacksonville Jaguars Meeks signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent on April 30, 2018. He was waived on September 1, 2018 and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on October 6, 2018. On August 31, 2019, Meeks was waived by the Jaguars. Los Angeles Chargers On October 1, 2019, Meeks was signed to the Los Angeles Chargers practice squad. He signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamique Holdsclaw
Chamique Shaunta Holdsclaw (born August 9, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) most recently under a contract with the San Antonio Silver Stars. She announced her retirement from the Los Angeles Sparks on June 11, 2007, though she eventually came out of retirement to play with the Atlanta Dream for the 2009 WNBA Season. Holdsclaw was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018. High school years Holdsclaw grew up playing basketball. While attending Christ the King Regional High School in Queens, New York, she played for the school's women's basketball team, and led them to four straight New York State Championships in basketball. Holdsclaw was named a High School All-American by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1995, scoring eight points. College years Holdsclaw went to the University of Tennessee from 1995 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meek (surname)
Meek is a surname of Scottish origins. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Stewart Meek (1871–1943), British bird collector and naturalist * Alexander Beaufort Meek (1814–1865), American politician, lawyer, writer and poet * Barbara Meek (1934–2015), American actress * Bill Meek (1922–1998), American football coach * Carrie P. Meek (1926–2021), American politician from Florida * Chantal Meek (born 1978), English-born Australian canoeist * Donald Meek (1878–1946), Scottish character actor * Emil Weber Meek (born 1988), Norwegian performer of martial art (MMA) * Evan Meek, American baseball pitcher * Fielding Bradford Meek (1817–1876), American geologist and paleontologist * James Meek (minister) (1742–1810), Scottish minister * James Meek (author), British novelist and journalist * Janice Meek, ocean rower * Jeffrey Meek (born 1959), American actor * Jerry Meek politician * Joe Meek (1929–1967), British record producer and composer * Joseph Meek (181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scary Movie
''Scary Movie'' is a 2000 American slasher parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and written by Marlon and Shawn Wayans (who both also star), alongside Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Starring Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth, Kurt Fuller, Regina Hall, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, and Dave Sheridan, it follows a group of teenagers who accidentally hit a man with their car, dump his body in a lake and never talk about it again. A year later, someone wearing a Ghostface mask and robe kills them one by one. The film is a parody of multiple genres including the horror, slasher, and mystery film genres. Several 1990s films and TV shows are also spoofed, and the script primarily follows the plot of the slasher films ''Scream'' and ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''. Some films and TV shows like ''Halloween'', '' The Shining'', '' Friday the 13th'', ''The Usual Suspects'', ''The Sixth Sense'', ''The Blair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scream (1996 Film)
''Scream'' is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, and Drew Barrymore. Released on December 20, it follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Campbell) and her group of friends in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who become the targets of a mysterious killer in a Halloween costume known as Ghostface. The film satirizes the clichés of the slasher genre popularized in films such as ''Halloween'' (1978), '' Friday the 13th'' (1980) and Craven's own ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984). ''Scream'' was considered unique at the time of its release for featuring characters aware of real-world horror films who openly discussed the clichés that the film attempted to subvert. Inspired by the real-life case of the Gainesville Ripper, ''Scream'' was influenced by Williamson's passion for horror films, esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hamilton Meeks, III
William Hamilton Meeks III (born 8 August 1947 in Washington, DC) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and minimal surfaces. Meeks studied at the University of California, Berkeley, with bachelor's degree in 1971, master's degree in 1974, and Ph.D. in 1975 with supervisor H. Blaine Lawson and thesis ''The Conformal Structure and Geometry of Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces in R ^ 3 ''. He was an assistant professor in 1975–1977 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1977–1978 at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), and in 1978–1979 at Stanford University. From 1979 to 1983 he was a professor at IMPA. He was from 1983 to 1984 a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1984 to 1986 a professor at Rice University with the academic year 1985–1986 spent as a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1986 to 2018 he has been the George David Birkhoff Professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Meeks
Travis Shane Meeks (born April 27, 1979) is an American musician and the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for acoustic rock band Days of the New. At age 17, Meeks was signed to Geffen Records, and from 1997 to 2001 his band of rotating musicians experienced mainstream success with three studio albums. Early life and career Meeks was born on April 27, 1979, in Charlestown, Indiana. His parents divorced when he was two, and he lived with his grandmother and father. Meeks' father was a musician. At a young age, he began playing guitar and wrote songs and performed covers by age 8. Between ages 11 to 15, he went to various rehabilitation centers and a year in special schooling. During that time, Meeks formed an experimental rock band called Bad Dreemz which included Jesse Vest and Mat Taul. They then formed Dead Reckoning, which was a heavy metal music, heavy metal band that sounded similar to Pantera. In 1995, Meeks moved to Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville, and Dead Reckoning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Meeks
Stephen Meeks (born October 30, 1970) is an American politician serving as a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 67th district in Faulkner County since 2011. Political career Election Meeks was elected in the general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... on November 2, 2010, winning 55 percent of the vote over 45 percent for Democratic candidate Eddie Hawkins. He represented the 47th district. Meeks was reelected in 2012 with 73% of the vote, representing the 67th district. He ran unopposed in 2014 and 2016. He was reelected in 2018 with 79% of the vote, and in 2020 with 75% of the vote. References Meeks, Stephen Living people 21st-century American politicians 1970 births {{Arkansas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Meeks
Ron Meeks (born August 27, 1954) is a former gridiron football player and coach. His son is former Stanford cornerback Quenton Meeks. Meeks played high school football for the Robert E. Lee Generals in Jacksonville, Florida. Meeks played college football at Arkansas State University and in the professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Ottawa Rough Riders and Toronto Argonauts. Meeks started coaching in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys in 1991 and coached for the Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins and St. Louis Rams, before joining the Indianapolis Colts in 2002. He resigned as the Colts defensive coordinator on January 20, 2009. He was hired as the defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Meeks (other) , British software developer
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Michael Meeks may refer to: * Michael Meeks (basketball) (born 1972), Canadian former basketball player * Michael Meeks (software developer) Michael Meeks is a British software developer. He is primarily known for his work on GNOME, OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice. He has been a major contributor to the GNOME project for a long time working on its infrastructure and associated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Meeks
Aaron Joseph Meeks (born April 26, 1986) is an American actor. He was born in Watts, California, and is best known for his role as Ahmad Chadway on the Showtime television series ''Soul Food'' (2000−04). During his acting career, Meeks was awarded two NAACP Image Awards and received three Young Artist Award nominations. Career Meeks stated acting in childhood as a member of the Cornerstone Theater Company troupe. His brother, Andrew, was also a child actor. Aaron made his screen debut in 1999 on medical drama '' Diagnosis: Murder'', playing an abused young boy. In 2000, Meeks appeared as Herman D. Washington in the Showtime movie ''A Storm in Summer'', starring opposite Peter Falk. Their characters form an unlikely friendship. One reviewer found Meeks' performance "impressive." He earned a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001 for his work in this film. Meeks portrayed a young Cassius Clay in '' Ali: An American Hero'' (2000) and acted in the Gregory Hines television film '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
