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Menges (other)
Menges may refer to: * Mengeš, a town in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia ** Municipality of Mengeš, the municipality centred on the Slovenian town * NK Mengeš, a former football club from the Slovenian town * Saint-Menges, a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France * USS Menges (DE-320), an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II ; People * Jim Menges (born 1951), American volleyball player * Chris Menges (born 1940), an English cinematographer and film director (son of Herbert Menges and nephew of Isolde Menges) * Constantine Menges (1939–2004), an American scholar, author, professor, and Latin American specialist for the CIA * Emily Menges (born 1992), American soccer player * Franklin Menges (1858–1956), a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * Herbert Menges (1902–1972), an English composer and conductor (father of Chris Menges and brother of Isolde Menges) * Herbert Hug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mengeš
Mengeš (; german: Mannsburg''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 28.) is a settlement in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Mengeš. It is located approximately fifteen kilometers from the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. It includes the hamlets of Zavrti, Veliki Mengeš (german: Großmannsburg), Mali Mengeš (german: Kleinmannsburg), and Pristava. Name Mengeš was first attested in written sources in 1154–56 as ''Meingosburg'' (and as ''Mengospurch'' in 1214–20, ''Mengozesburc'' in 1226, and ''Meingospurch'' in 1243). The Slovene name is a clipped form of Middle High German ''Meingos(purch)'', which is a compound of ''Meingoz'' (a personal name) + ''purch'' 'castle', thus meaning 'castle belonging to Meingoz'. In the past the German name was ''Mannsburg''. Church The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Archangel Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Menges
Franklin Menges (October 26, 1858 – May 12, 1956) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Franklin Menges was born at Menges Mills, York County, Pennsylvania. He attended Baugher Academy Preparatory School in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Gettysburg College in 1886. He became an instructor in chemistry and physics at Gettysburg College from 1886 to 1896, and then head of the science department of York High School from 1897 to 1903. He was a lecturer at farmers' institutes in Pennsylvania and other states from 1898 to 1918, and represented the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the World's Fair in 1904. He made a soil survey of the State of Pennsylvania, and was the author of numerous articles on scientific agriculture. In 1914, his book, ''Soils of Pennsylvania'' was published. Menges was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Menges
Louis John Menges (October 30, 1888 – March 10, 1969) was an American politician, businessman, and amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Menges was born in East St. Louis, Illinois and went to the East St. Louis parochial and public schools. In 1904 he was a member of the Christian Brothers College team, which won the silver medal in the soccer tournament. He played all four matches as a goalkeeper. He served in the United States Army during World War I. Menges served in the Illinois Senate from 1935 to 1943 and was a Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic .... He was the owner and builder of movie theaters. References 1888 births 1969 deaths Sportspeople from East St. Louis, Illinois Businesspeople from Illinois Milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Heinrich Menges
Karl Heinrich Menges (April 22, 1908 – September 20, 1999) was a German linguist known for his advocacy of the Altaic hypothesis. He was a faculty member at Columbia University in New York and subsequently at the University of Vienna. Menges was born in Frankfurt, where he was educated at the Lessing Gymnasium. He studied in Frankfurt and Munich and earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1932. William H. Honan"Karl H. Menges, 91, and Expert On Central Asian Languages" ''The New York Times'', September 25, 1999. Politically identifying as a Catholic centrist, he resisted the Nazi regime, distributing leaflets. In 1936 he was arrested by the Gestapo and interrogated for five hours; on a tip-off from a classmate, after being released pending trial he fled to Czechoslovakia, after the annexation of the Sudetenland moving on to Turkey. Menges taught at Columbia University in New York for 36 years, from 1940 to 1976. He had been invited to teach Slavic languages; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Menges
Joyce Menges is a retired Americans, American actress. She starred in Robert Butler (director), Robert Butler's ''Now You See Him, Now You Don't'' as well as in the TV show ''To Rome with Love (TV series), To Rome With Love'' starring John Forsythe. Joyce's son is Jimmy Tamborello, the composer for the electronic indie pop band The Postal Service. Filmography External links * 1948 births Living people Actresses from Los Angeles American film actresses 20th-century American actresses People from Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles 21st-century American women {{US-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isolde Menges
Isolde Marie Menges (16 May 189313 January 1976) was an accomplished English violinist who was most active in the first part of the 20th century. Life The daughter of George Menges, a native of Germany, she was born in Sussex, England. Her parents both played the violin and operated a music school. Menges became a student of Leopold Auer and Carl Flesch. She concertised widely, as soloist and with the Menges Quartet (founded by her in 1931) and Quintet, in locations such as Darmstadt (at 14 years of age), Liège, Wiesbaden, Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, and throughout England, Scotland, Canada and the United States. Her Quartet gave a complete cycle of Beethoven quartets in Wigmore Hall in London in 1938, and another in Oxford. She gave concerti with noted orchestras and conductors such as the New Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Henry J. Wood, and London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter, and the Royal Philharmonic Society. In 1916 she played the Brahms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Hugo Menges
Menges may refer to: * Mengeš, a town in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia ** Municipality of Mengeš, the municipality centred on the Slovenian town * NK Mengeš, a former football club from the Slovenian town * Saint-Menges, a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France * USS Menges (DE-320), an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II ; People * Jim Menges (born 1951), American volleyball player * Chris Menges (born 1940), an English cinematographer and film director (son of Herbert Menges and nephew of Isolde Menges) * Constantine Menges (1939–2004), an American scholar, author, professor, and Latin American specialist for the CIA * Emily Menges (born 1992), American soccer player * Franklin Menges (1858–1956), a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * Herbert Menges (1902–1972), an English composer and conductor (father of Chris Menges and brother of Isolde Menges) * Herbert Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Menges
Herbert Menges OBE (27 August 190220 February 1972) was an English conductor and composer, who wrote incidental music to all of Shakespeare's plays. Life and career Siegfried Frederick Herbert Menges was born in Hove on 27 August 1902. His father was German and his mother British.Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. 5, p. 709 His elder sister was the violinist Isolde Menges.Music Web International accessed 15 March 2015. Herbert appeared in public as a violinist at the age of four. He later abandoned the violin for the piano, and he studied at the under |
Emily Menges
Emily Townsend Menges (born July 28, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) for Portland Thorns FC, with whom she won the 2016 and 2021 NWSL Shield and also the 2017 and 2022 NWSL Championships. She also plays for Melbourne Victory in the Australian W-League. She previously played for the Long Island Fury in the second-division Women's Premier Soccer League, with whom she won the 2009 national championship. Early life Menges was born in Garden City, New York and attended Garden City High School. She played for the Albertson Fury '91, winning three consecutive Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) State Open Cups from 2009 to 2011. Georgetown Menges attended Georgetown University. She finished her college career as one of the most decorated players in program history, earning the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award and NSCAA First Team All-American honors in 2013, in addition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality Of Mengeš
The Municipality of Mengeš (; sl, Občina Mengeš) is a municipality in the eastern part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Mengeš. It is located approximately fifteen kilometers from the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are .... Mengeš became a municipality in 1995. Settlements In addition to the municipal seat of Mengeš, the municipality also includes the settlements of Dobeno,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Menges
Constantine C. Menges (September 1, 1939 – July 11, 2004) was an American scholar, author, professor, and Latin American specialist for the White House's US National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. Menges was born in Turkey on September 1, 1939, the day that Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. His parents sent him to the United States in 1943. Menges attended college in Prague. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and a doctorate in political science from Columbia University. He helped German refugees escape over the Berlin Wall and organized civil resistance after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the Prague Spring Menges worked to ensure equal voting rights in Mississippi and During the Nixon and Ford administrations, he was deputy assistant for civil rights in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. From 1981 until 1983, he worked for the director of the CIA as the national intelligence officer for Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Menges
Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers. Life and career Menges was born in Kington, Herefordshire, the son of the composer and conductor Herbert Menges. He began his career in the 1960s as camera operator for documentaries by Adrian Cowell and for films like ''Poor Cow'' by Ken Loach and '' If....'' by Lindsay Anderson. '' Kes'', directed by Ken Loach, was his first film as cinematographer. He was also behind the camera on Stephen Frears' first feature film '' Gumshoe'' in 1971. After several documentaries and feature films like ''Black Beauty'' (1971), ''Bloody Kids'' (1978), ''The Game Keeper'' (1980), ''Babylon'' (1980) and ''Angel'' (1982) he became notable for more ambitious works for which he was critically acclaimed. In 1983 he received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth film '' Local Hero'' and only a year later won his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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