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New Hampshirite
The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in U.S. state of New Hampshire: Aeronautics and aviation * Jay C. Buckey (born 1956), astronaut * Michael Durant (born 1961), pilot – native * Thaddeus Lowe (1832–1913), 19th-century balloonist – native * Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), astronaut * Lee Morin (born 1952), astronaut – native * Richard A. Searfoss (1956–2018), astronaut * Alan Shepard (1923–1998), astronaut; first American in space – native Arts and literature * Eric Aho (born 1966), painter * Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), poet, novelist, travel writer * Minnie Willis Baines (1845-unknown), author - native * Russell Banks (born 1940), novelist * Lucy Barnes (1780-1809), writer- native * Amy Beach (1867–1944), composer – native * Brian Sidney Bembridge (born 1973), artist, designer – native * Adelaide George Bennett (1848-1911), teacher, poet - native * Henry Ames Blood (1836–1900), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the fifth smallest by area and the tenth least populous, with slightly more than 1.3 million residents. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city. New Hampshire's motto, " Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries. It is well known nationwide for holding the first primary (after the Iowa caucus) in the U.S. presidential election cycle, and for its resulting influence on American electoral politics, leading the adage "As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation". New Hampshire was inhabited for thousands of years by Algonquian-speaking peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide George Bennett
Adelaide George Bennett (, George; November 8, 1848 – October 10, 1911) was an American teacher, poet, and botanist of the long nineteenth century. She is remembered for her poems which described Native American life and the Red Pipestone Quarry. Early life and education Adelaide George was born in Warner, New Hampshire, November 8, 1848. Her childhood was passed near Kearsarge Mountain. Her parents were Gilman C. (1820-1894) and Nancy B. George. A sister, H. Maria George Colby, was well known in literary circles. The sisters inherited literary talents from ancestors connected with Daniel Webster. The father, Gilman, was a son of James and Hannah (Church) George, and a descendant of James George, who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1653. He was a captain in the state militia in 1843–44, town clerk from 1868 to 1872, and selectman from 1885 to 1888. He was master of Warner Grange, president of the Kearsarge Agricultural Association, and was the first worshipful ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Chandler (writer)
Matt Chandler (born 1972) is an American author of more than 70 books for young children, including ''Side-by-Side Baseball Stars: Comparing the Game's Greatest Players'', which was selected by the American Society of Journalists and Authors as its 2015 Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year. Books Chandler has published 60+ children's books, working primarily with Capstone Publishers Capstone is a publisher of children’s books and digital products. Capstone focuses on the educational market. They also sell to the trade market and internationally. Capstone publishes nonfiction, fiction, picture books, interactive books, audi ..., as well as with Cherry Lake Publishing, Callisto Media and Sports Illustrated Kids. Ghosts and Haunted Titles *''Alcatraz'' (a "You Choose" Adventure) *''The World's Most Haunted Places'' *''Ghosts of the Alamo and Other Hauntings of the South'' *''Bachelor's Grove Cemetery and Other Haunted Places of the Midwest'' *''Famous Ghost Stories of Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson Davis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Carleton Coffin
Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 – March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, war correspondent, author and politician. Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E. Griffis, referred to him as "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth." Life A descendant of Tristram Coffin who arrived in the American colonies from England in 1642, Charles Carlton Coffin was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on July 26, 1823. Growing up in rural New Hampshire, he was home-schooled by his parents and briefly attended Pembroke Academy and Boscawen Academy. Village life revolved around the church, and in his teens Charles went to work in a lumbering operation and with $60 from his earnings, he purchased an organ which he gave to the church, and became the first organist. During an illness in 1841–42, he had purchased a book about surveying which had a profound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', '' The Song of the Lark'', and ''My Ántonia''. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ''One of Ours'', a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luella J
Luella may refer to: * Luella, Georgia, U.S. * Luella, Texas, U.S. *Luella Garvey House a designer house in Reno, Nevada, U.S. * Luella High School Locust Grove, Georgia, U.S. * Luella Island, an uninhabited Canadian arctic island * Luella, a fashion label started by Luella Bartley *''Luella'', a 1983 album by jazz flautist James Newton People with the given name * Luella Bartley (born 1974), an English fashion designer, magazine editor and former journalist *Luella Bates (1897–1985), the first woman truck driver (American) * Luella Buros (1901–1995), American painter * Luella Clay Carson (1866-1933), a former university president in Oregon and California * Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), American author, hymn writer *Luella Costales, American politician and member of the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives *Luella Creighton (1901–1996), a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer *Luella Klein (1924–2019), an American obstetrician-gynecologist and professor *Luella Mundel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Carver
Lisa Crystal Carver (born November 9, 1968, Dover, New Hampshire), also known as Lisa Suckdog, is an American writer known for her writing in ''Rollerderby''. Through her interviews, she introduced the work of Vaginal Davis, Dame Darcy, Cindy Dall, Boyd Rice, Costes (her ex-husband with whom she performed as Suckdog), Nick Zedd, GG Allin, and Liz Armstrong to the public. A collection of notable articles from the zine was published as ''Rollerderby: The Book''. She started touring with the performance art band Psycodrama when she was 18 years old. It was also at this time that she became a prostitute, which has been a major theme in her writings over the years.''Rollerderby''. Published by Lisa Crystal Carver. She began touring with Costes a year later, and would also tour without him when he was in France. She toured the U.S. and Europe six times, the last time in 1998. The noise music soap operas included audience interaction including dancing and mock-rape of audience members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bryson
William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. between 1995 and 2003, and holds dual American and British citizenship. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011. Bryson came to prominence in the United Kingdom with the publication and accompanying television series of ''Notes from a Small Island'' (1995), an exploration of Britain. He received widespread recognition again with the publication of '' A Short History of Nearly Everything'' (2003), a book widely acclaimed for its accessible communication of science. In October 2020 he announced that he had "retired" from writing books, although in 2022 he recorded an audiobook for Audible, entitled 'The Secret History of Christmas'. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Elizabeth Brown
Emma Elizabeth Brown (October 18, 1847 – ?), pen names B. E. E. and E. E. Brown, was an American author of prose, biographies, and poetry. She was also an artist. Early life and education Emma Elizabeth Brown was born in Concord, New Hampshire, October 18, 1847. She was the daughter of John Frost and Elizabeth (Evans) Brown. Her father had no sons, his brother Henry never married, and, her grandfather Brown having been an only son, Emma was the last of her line to bear the family name. As stated by the late Henry Brown, who was a genealogist, this family of Brown in New England was of German origin, and the early spelling of the name was Braun. Through her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Susannah Frost Brown, Emma traced her descent from Edmund Frost, Ruling Elder of the church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Elder Frost, said to have been son of John Frost, of Ipswich, England, came over in the ship ''Great Hope'' in 1635, and was made freeman at Cambridge, March 3, 1630. He died in Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Brown
Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his Thriller (genre), thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels ''Angels & Demons'' (2000), ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), ''The Lost Symbol'' (2009), ''Inferno (Brown novel), Inferno'' (2013), and Origin (Dan Brown novel), ''Origin'' (2017). His novels are treasure hunts which usually take place over a period of 24 hours.Brown. Witness statement, pp. 17, 21. They feature recurring themes of cryptography, art, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 57 languages and, as of 2012, have sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, ''Angels & Demons'', ''The Da Vinci Code'', and ''Inferno'', have been Robert Langdon (film series), adapted into films, while one of them, ''The Lost Symbol'', was adapted into a television show. The Robert Langdon novels are deeply engaged with Christian themes and historical fiction, and have generated controversy as a result. Brown states on h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Bradlee Jr
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba ( he, שמעון בר כוכבא). Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
