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Moos
Moos may refer to: People Surname * Alexandre Moos (born 1972), Swiss mountain biker * Bill Moos, American athletic director * Carl Moos (1878–1959), Swiss artist * Carolyn Moos (born 1978), American basketball player * David Moos (born 1965), Canadian-born art curator * Dietmar Moos, West German slalom canoeist * Gerald Moos, West German slalom canoeist * Gustave Moos (1905–1948), Swiss Olympic cyclist * Heinrich Moos (1895–1976), German Olympic fencer * Jeanne Moos, American journalist * Julie Moos (born 1966), Canadian photographer and art writer * Ludwig von Moos (1910–1990), Swiss politician * Lotte Moos (1909–2008) German-born poet and playwright * Malcolm Moos (1916–1982), American political scientist * Nanabhoy Ardeshir Framji Moos, 19th-century of Colaba Observatory in Mumbai, India * Peder Moos (1906–1991), Danish furniture designer * Salomon Moos (1831–1895), German otologist First name * Moos Linneman (born 1931), Dutch Olympic boxer * Moos (singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moose
The moose (in North America) or elk (in Eurasia) (''Alces alces'') is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the only species in the genus ''Alces''. It is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal forests and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the Northern Hemisphere The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ... in temperate to subarctic climates. Hunting and other human activities have caused a reduction in the size of the moose's range over time. It has been reintroduced to some of its former habitats. Currently, most moose occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Moos
David Moos (born 1965) is the president of David Moos Art Advisory and a co-founder of The Museum Exchange. Career Moos was born in Toronto. He completed his bachelor's degree in art history at McGill University, Montreal and master's degree and doctorate in art history from Columbia University, New York. From 1998 to 2004, Moos was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. In this position, he organized the traveling exhibitions ''Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture'', '' William Wegman: Fashion Photographs'', ''Yayoi Kusama: Early Drawings from the Collection of Richard Castellane, '' Jonathan Lasker'': Selective Identity'', and ''Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City.'' He has worked with many other artists including Michael Awad, Willie Cole, Jessica Diamond, Stephen Hendee, Lonnie Holley, Luis Jimenez, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Mark Lewis, Beatriz Milhazes, Orlan, Tony Scherman, Frank Thiel, and Lawrence Weiner. From 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Moos
William H. Moos (born circa 1951) is an American former college athletics administrator and college football player. He served as the athletic director at the University of Montana from 1990 to 1995, the University of Oregon from 1995 to 2007, Washington State University from 2010 to 2018, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 2017 to 2021. Moos played college football at Washington State from 1969 to 1972. Early life Moos was born and raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in rural Washington, then moved to Olympia at age fourteen when his father was named director of agriculture for governor Daniel J. Evans. Moos graduated from Olympia High School and played college football at Washington State under head coach Jim Sweeney. In his senior season in 1972, Moos was one of two offensive tackles named to the All-Pac-8 team, and he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history in 1973. Administrative career Oregon Moos served as assistant athletics director at his alma mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Moos
Carolyn Moos (; born May 23, 1978) is an American former collegiate and professional basketball player. Moos won a gold medal playing for the United States in the Junior Olympics traveling to Frankfurt, Slovakia, Brazil and Chetumal. She lived in France for a time where she played professional basketball after completing her B.A. at Stanford. In the WNBA she played for Miami Sol (2002). Moos has an M.A. from USC and is a nutritional consultant and personal trainer. Early life and high school Moos was born on May 23, 1978 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Melinda and Charles Moos. She has an older brother, Dan Moos. During her youth, she was a dedicated show horse jumper from the age of nine until she turned thirteen, along with enjoying tennis, soccer, hockey, swimming and dance. She began playing basketball in the sixth grade as even in her youth, she was quite tall, standing over six feet tall at 13 years old. She was influenced by her family and her older broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moos (mountain)
The Moos is a mountain range in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany. Its highest points are the ''Siedigkopf'' () and the ''Mooskopf'' (), actually the ''Geisschleifkopf''. The Moos is the local mountain or ''Hausberg'' of Gengenbach and Oppenau. The Moos separates the valleys of the Rench and the Kinzig in an east-west direction. At the same time the Nordrach valley and theformerly free imperial valley of the Harmersbach rise on it and flow in a north-south direction. Due to its formerly dense and dark afforestation, the Moos is the scene of numerous legends and legendary figures. A leading character that appears time and again is the ''Moospfaff'', an old monk from All Saints' Abbey, who on his way to an extreme unction lost the host and now searches around leads people astray whilst he tries to find the host. The fictional character Simplicius Simplicissimus, who is commemorated on a monument, from the novel ''Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus'' by Hans Jakob Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Moos
Malcolm Charles Moos (April 19, 1916 – January 28, 1982) was an American political scientist, speechwriter and academic administrator. He was a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University for two decades. As a speechwriter, Moos wrote President Dwight Eisenhower's final warning about the influence of the military-industrial complex in 1961. Moos then served as the president of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1974. Early life Moos was born on April 19, 1916 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California at Berkeley. Career Moos first taught at the University of Minnesota. He was a fellow at the University of California and a research assistant at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Wyoming in 1942, followed by Johns Hopkins University for 21 years. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Moos
Jeanne Moos (born May 21) is an American national news correspondent for CNN. She is based at the network's studios in Manhattan. Biography A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moos originally wanted to pursue a career in print journalism, but while attending the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (where she earned a bachelor's degree in TV-Radio), she decided to go into the television business instead. In 1976, she landed her first major job in television at WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York, as the station's first female correspondent. During her tenure at WPTZ, she covered local and national stories, including the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. In 1981, she joined CNN as a reporter. It was there that she covered stories ranging from political corruption to the United Nations during the 1991 Gulf War. In the 1990s, Moos began to report on unusual and off-beat soft news stories, which is her current trademark. In 1995, she began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moos (singer)
Moos is a French singer (born 1974) and had a great success with the song " Au nom de la rose". Biography Moos was born in Toulouse to Moroccan parents and raised in the multiethnic neighborhood of Mirail, where different styles are mixed: African raï, funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ..., R&B. He first performed a song on Radio Toulouse, then released his first single in 1998, "Qui me donnera des ailes" ("Who Will Give Me Wings"), which was frequently played on French radio. His greatest success was the second single "Au Nom de la rose", released in 1999, which was both number one in France and Belgium (Wallonia) for several months. ''Le Crabe est érotique'', his first and only album to date, hit success being ranked among the best-selling albums in France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Moos
Margarete Charlotte Moos (née Jacoby; 9 December 1909 – 3 January 2008) was a German-born politically active poet and playwright. Early life Daughter of Samuel and Luise Jacoby, she was born in Berlin on 9 December 1909. She soon showed her talent as a writer, when, in 1919, her essay on eastern European refugees was published in the '' Berliner Tageblatt'' and she was thanked personally by the editor, Theodor Wolff. After a brief period at the school of the Berlin State Theatre she worked as assistant to a photographer and then in the Workers' Theatre. Here she met left-wing economist Siegfried Moos, "Siege", whom she married in 1932. Emigration and travels After Hitler's rise to power in 1933 it was necessary for Lotte and Siege to flee Germany, and initially they settled in Paris, but soon moved to London. Lotte's ambition to study at LSE was frustrated by the fact that her German qualifications were not recognised. In 1936 the British government refused to renew her vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Moos
Carl Moos, otherwise Karl Franz Moos (29 October 1878 – 9 July 1959), was a German and Swiss artist and illustrator, notable for his Art Deco travel and sporting posters, particularly of skiing. Life Moos was born in Munich in Bavaria, Germany, the son of Franz Moos, a portrait painter. He trained in commercial art in Munich and worked as an illustrator for, among others, the ''Münchener Tagespresse''. He also established himself as a creator of postcards and posters.Weber, Alexander:Moos, Karl Franz, in: ''Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS)'', version of 17 September 2007 (accessed 13 March 2022) He was a member of the Munich commercial artists' group '' Die Sechs'', together with Friedrich Heubner, Valentin Zietara, Emil Preetorius Emil Preetorius (15 March 1827 – 19 November 1905) was a 19th-century journalist from St. Louis. He was a leader of the German American community as part owner and editor of the ''Westliche Post'', one of the most notable and wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Moos
Julie Moos (born 1966) is a Canadian photographer and art writer. Moos' work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and curated by Lawrence Rinder. Moos's work has been shown at the Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House (formerly known as The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu), the Mint Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society of Chicago and elsewhere. Moos's approach to photography explores worlds of opposites. By pairing subjects side by side in various series including "Friends and Enemies" and "Domestics", she allows the viewer to compare individuals through an unrestrained formalism that asks us to see the equality of all people. Series Monsanto In a series titled "Monsanto", Moos photographs American farmers who cultivate their crops using Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) manufactured by the Monsanto Company. The series was created during her residence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moos In Passeier
Moos in Passeier (; it, Moso in Passiria ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Passeier Valley. It is located in South Tyrol, northern Italy, about northwest of the province's capital Bolzano, on the border with Austria. Geography As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 2,174 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. The word ''Moos'' means bog or wetland in Austro-Bavarian dialects of German. Moos in Passeier borders the following municipalities: Partschins, Ratschings, Riffian, St. Leonhard in Passeier, St. Martin in Passeier, Schnals, Tirol and Sölden (in Austria). History Coat-of-arms The emblem represents three argent and sharp peaks, silhouetted against the azure sky and the vert grass, which symbolizes the position of the municipality. The coat of arms was granted in 1967. Society Linguistic distribution According to the 2011 census, 99.58% of the population speak German, 0.33% Italian and 0.09% Ladin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
