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Michael Foster (other)
Michael or Mike Foster may refer to: Entertainment * Michael Foster (American writer) (1904–1956), novelist, journalist, and cartoonist * Michael Foster (agent) (born 1958), British former talent agent and political candidate * Michael Foster (musician) (born 1964), American drummer of the rock band FireHouse * M. A. Foster (Michael Anthony Foster, 1939–2020), American author/writer * Michael Lewis Foster, American filmmaker Politics * Mike Foster (American politician) (1930–2020), American politician * Michael Foster (Hastings and Rye MP) (born 1946), British politician * Mike Foster (Worcester MP) (born 1963), British politician * Mike Foster (Canadian politician), of Toronto, Ontario * Michael Abu Sakara Foster, Ghanaian agronomist and politician Sports * Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1972), English cricketer * Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1973), Australian cricketer * Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1979), former English cricketer * Mike Foster (foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (American Writer)
Michael Foster (1904-1956) was an American novelist, journalist, screenwriter and cartoonist. Personal Foster was born August 29, 1904, in Hardy, Arkansas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Foster. His nickname was "Gully." He was a graduate of the University of Washington and the Chicago Art Institute. Foster married his literary agent, novelist Jane Hardy of New York. Their children were Peter Michael Foster and Garrett Ann Foster of San Francisco. Foster died of a stroke on March 25, 1956, in Reno, Nevada. Career Foster began his journalism career with the ''Brooklyn Eagle.'' He was a reporter and cartoonist for newspapers in Salina, Kansas; Los Angeles, California, and, by 1937, Seattle, Washington. In 1926, he was working on the '' Los Angeles Express,'' a daily newspaper. A friend, Charles Harris Garrigues, wrote that Foster writes, paints, and has been called the second most promising of the young poets in America by the Lit Dig 'Literary Digest">Literary_Digest.html ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (footballer)
Michael Foster (born 5 September 1985) is a Papua New Guinean football player who plays as a midfielder for Hekari United, and for the Papua New Guinea national team. He currently is the record-holder for the most caps for the Papua New Guinea national team, with 27, having made his senior international debut aged 17. He was also part of the historic Hekari United side which won the 2009–10 OFC Champions League, becoming the first club outside of Australia and New Zealand to represent Oceania Football Confederation, Oceania at the FIFA Club World Cup. He has won four domestic titles, two with Hekari United and two with Lae City F.C., Lae City FC. Early life Foster was born in Lae, in the Momase Region of the country. He is the son of former international Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper Max Foster (footballer), Max Foster. Club career Early career It is likely Foster began his career around 2003 at Mopi (Papua New Guinea), Mopi, a club based in his hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXXchurch
XXXchurch.com is a non-profit Christian website that aims to help those who struggle with pornography. It ministers to porn industry performers and consumers. The organization describes itself as a "Christian porn site designed to bring awareness, openness and accountability to those affected by pornography." Florida Gulf Coast University. Organizational history The organization launched in January 2002 when the founders, Mike Foster and Craig Gross, set up a booth inside the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas to promote the website as an alternative to porn, and it continues to attend porn conventions worldwide. The group has given out thousands of Bibles with "Jesus Loves Porn Stars" on the cover at these conventions, a facet of their ministry which has been featured in American national media. The organization has received support from prominent Christian pastors such as Bill Hybels, Craig Groeschel and Rick Warren. Pornographic film director James DiGiorgio took pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (Tolkien Scholar)
Michael Foster (b. 1947), known as Mike Foster, is an emeritus professor of English, and a Tolkien scholar. In 1978 he pioneered the teaching of Tolkien studies at university level. Biography Michael Alan Foster was educated at Spalding High School. He obtained his first degree in Arts at Marquette University in 1968, and that year became a teacher at Spalding High School. He then took a Master's degree at Marquette. In 1971 he joined the staff of the English department of Illinois Central College in Peoria, Illinois, eventually becoming a professor there. In addition, he worked as a journalist for the Peoria Journal Star. He taught there until he retired in 2005. While at Illinois Central College he taught fantasy literature from 1974, and a special studies course focusing entirely on J. R. R. Tolkien from 1978. This represented what in the context of sceptical attitudes was "a rare success" in the early history of Tolkien research; Foster later documented his teaching appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (folklorist)
Michael Dylan Foster is a professor of Folklore and the current Chair of the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at the University of California, Davis. He has taught in some capacity since 1989, starting in Japan teaching the English language on the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme, returning to the United States to teach Japanese folklore and literature. In addition to his academic career, which has mainly focused on Japanese literature and culture, he has published several short stories, articles, and novels. Much of his work on Japanese folklore has centered on tales of the supernatural—the strange and the weird. That is the subject of his first book, ''Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai'', which received the Chicago Folklore Prize in 2009. He is the current editor of the Journal of Folklore Research. Education Foster studied English in his undergraduate institution of Wesleyan University, and graduated with Honors. For hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael John Foster (scoutmaster)
Michael John Foster (born 12 January 1952) is an English priest, youth leader and an historian of scouting and other youth organisations. He was Grand Scoutmaster of the Order of World Scouts and Grand Scoutmaster and formerly the Chief Commissioner of the British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts. He is an ordained Anglican priest and, until 2020 when he retired, was a parish priest. Early Scouting career He became a Wolf Cub in 1960, with a scout group registered with The Boy Scouts Association and was then a Boy Scout A Scout (in some countries a Boy Scout, Girl Scout, or Pathfinder) is a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement. Because of the large age and development span, many Scouting associations have split ... registered with the same association in 1967 but left in 1971 owing to the sweeping changes of the Advance Party Report introduced within the Scout Association. Career in the Order of World Scouts In 1977, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (philosopher)
Michael Beresford Foster (1903–1959) was a tutor in philosophy of Oxford University's Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church. For a period up until his death he was the chairman of the British Student Christian Movement of Great Britain, Student Christian Movement. He was one of A. J. Ayer's tutors at Oxford, but their relationship is remembered more as a source of strained feelings than of scholarly fellowship. His disparate works on political science and various doctrines of Christianity (especially the Doctrine of Creation, doctrine of creation) have influenced philosophers such as George Grant (philosopher), George Grant, who had, when writing his doctoral thesis, in fact visited with Foster in England. Education His elementary schooling took place at a Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Merchant Taylors' School. He then proceeded to St John's College, Oxford, gaining a lifetime friend and colleague John Mabbott. In 1927–1928 he studied under Richard Kroner in Dresde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (physiologist)
Sir Michael Foster (8 March 1836 – 29 January 1907) was an English physiologist. He was instrumental in organizing the Cambridge Biological School and acted as Secretary of the Royal Society. Biography Foster was born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, in March 1836, the son of Michael Foster, FRCS. He was educated at Huntingdon Grammar school and University College School, London. After graduating in medicine in 1859, he began to practise in his native town, but in 1867 he returned to London as teacher of practical physiology at University College London, where two years afterwards he became professor. In 1870 he was appointed by Trinity College, Cambridge, to its praelectorship in physiology, and thirteen years later he became the first occupant of the newly created chair of physiology in the university, holding it till 1903. One of his most famous students at Cambridge was Charles Scott Sherrington who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1932. He married first, in 1864, Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster (English Judge)
Sir Michael Foster (1689–1763) was an English judge. Life Foster was the son of Michael Foster, an attorney, and was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 16 December 1689. After attending the free school of his native town, he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, 7 May 1705. He does not appear to have taken any degree. He was admitted a student of the Middle Temple on 23 May 1707, and was called to the bar in May 1713. Meeting with little success in London, he retired to Marlborough, whence he afterwards removed to Bristol, where as a local counsel he gained a great reputation. In August 1735 he was chosen recorder of Bristol, and in Easter term 1736 became a Serjeant-at-law. He held the post of recorder for many years, and upon his resignation in 1764 was succeeded by Daines Barrington. During Foster's tenure of office several important cases came before him. In the case of Captain Samuel Goodere who was tried for the murder of his brother, Sir John Dineley Goodere, 2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Foster Jr
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= * Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael G
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I * Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Foster (footballer)
Michael Sydney Foster (born 3 February 1939) is an English former footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Colchester United and Millwall. He was also signed to Leicester City and Norwich City, though he made no appearances for those clubs. Career Born in Leicester, Foster came through the ranks at hometown club Leicester City, but was never selected for the first team. He transferred to Colchester United nominally in 1961, making his professional debut on the opening day of the 1961–62 season in a 3–0 victory over Stockport County at Layer Road. He scored his first goal for the club on 26 August during a 2–2 draw away at Oldham Athletic. During his single season with the U's, Foster made 36 league appearances, scoring eight goals and assisted Colchester to promotion to the Third Division. His final goal for the club came on 23 March 1962, the opening goal of a 2–0 victory against Mansfield Town. He made his final Colchester appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
