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Phinney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Archie Phinney (1904–1949), Nez Perce anthropologist * Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born 1957), American racing cyclist and speed skater, married to Davis, mother of Taylor * David Phinney, American journalist and broadcaster * Davis Phinney (born 1959), American racing cyclist, married to Connie, father of Taylor *Elihu Phinney (1755–1813), American printer * Guy Carleton Phinney (1851–1893), American real estate developer * Leslie Phinney, American thermal engineer *Taylor Phinney (born 1990), American racing cyclist, son of Connie and Davis See also *Phinney Ridge, Seattle, Washington *Finney, a surname *Finnie Finnie is a surname of Scottish origin which means "sincere." Notable people with the surname include: * Dave Finnie, Canadian ice hockey goaltender *Ethel Finnie (1898–1981), American classic female blues singer *John Finnie, Scottish politicia ...
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Taylor Phinney
Taylor Carpenter-Phinney (born June 27, 1990) is an American retired professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2019 for the , and teams. Phinney specialized in time trials on the road as well as the individual pursuit on the track, winning the world title in the discipline in 2009 and 2010. Early life and amateur career Phinney was born on June 27, 1990 to former professional road cyclist and Olympic medal-winner Davis Phinney and former Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist and speed skater Connie Carpenter-Phinney. In 2007 at the age of 16, Phinney began racing on Team Slipstream's junior squad. Slipstream team manager Jonathan Vaughters signed Phinney to the team before he had competed in a race, having heard word-of-mouth reports about Phinney's ability on group rides in Boulder. It was at this time that Phinney was introduced to track cycling. In August 2007, he won the World Junior Championships time trial title. Since then, Phinney has comp ...
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Davis Phinney
Davis Phinney (born July 10, 1959) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States. He won 328 races in the 1980s and 1990s, a record for an American, including two Tour de France stages. He has worked in media since retiring as a professional cyclist. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 40. Career Racing cyclist He was a brazen sprinter and a star of the 7-Eleven Cycling Team in the 1980s and early '90s, and is the leader in race victories by an American, with 328. In 1986, he became the second American to win a stage at the Tour de France, while riding for American-based 7-Eleven. His racing career spanned two decades and included two stage victories in the Tour de France, a United States National Road Race Championships title, and the 1984 Olympic Games, Olympic Bronze Medal in the Men's 100 km Team Time Trial along with Ron Kiefel, Clarence Knickman, Roy Knickman, and Andrew Weaver (cyclist), Andrew Weaver. Aside from Greg LeMond, Phinne ...
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Elihu Phinney
Elihu Phinney (1755–1813) was the first printer in Cooperstown, New York. In the early 1790s he lived in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, where he published the '' Columbian Mercury, and Canaan Repository of Rural Knowledge''. Phinney was invited to Cooperstown by Judge William Cooper, the wealthy land developer who had established the Otsego County, New York village. There in 1795, Phinney opened a printing and publishing business. In his weekly newspaper, '' The Otsego Herald; or, Western Advertiser'', Phinney wrote that he, "in the winter of 1793, penetrated a wilderness, and broke a track, through a deep snow, with six teams, in the 'depth' of winter, and was received with a cordiality, bordering on homage." It is said that James Fenimore Cooper, Judge Cooper's son and future novelist, frequented Phinney's print shop and there, for his own enjoyment, learned the art of setting type. In fact, James Fenimore Cooper's daughter Caroline married Phinney's grandson, Henr ...
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Phinney Ridge, Seattle, Washington
Phinney Ridge is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, United States. It is named after the ridge which runs north and south, separating Ballard from Green Lake, from approximately N. 45th to N. 75th Street. The ridge, in turn, is named after Guy C. Phinney, lumber mill owner and real estate developer, whose estate was bought by the city and turned into Woodland Park in 1899. Phinney's estate had included a private menagerie, and the western half of the park became what is now the Woodland Park Zoo. Routes The rough boundaries of Phinney Ridge are Aurora Avenue N. (State Route 99) to the east, beyond which lies Green Lake and the eastern half of Woodland Park; N. 75th Street to the north, beyond which lies Greenwood; 8th Avenue N.W. to the west, beyond which lies Ballard, and N. 50th and Market Streets to the south, beyond which lies Fremont and Wallingford. Phinney Ridge's main thoroughfare, which runs atop the ridge south of N. 67th Street, is Phinney Ave ...
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Archie Phinney
Archie Phinney (September 4, 1904 – October 29, 1949) was a Nez Perce tribe, Nez Perce Indian and an anthropologist. Biography Born in Culdesac, Idaho, to Fitch Phinney, Archie Phinney was five-eighths Nez Perce, but was also proud to claim William Craig as his great-grandfather. Craig (1807–69) was a fur trapper and the first permanent white settler in the region in 1840. A 1922 graduate of Culdesac High School, Phinney attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, Lawrence. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1926 and was the first Native American to graduate from the university. He later took graduate courses in anthropology at George Washington University, New York University, and Columbia University. Phinney wrote the Nez Perce Texts, which are a collection of Nez Perce myths that he recorded from his mother, Mary Lily Phinney (Wayi'latpu). The text were written with alternating lines of English language, English and Nez Perce followed by an English ...
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Connie Carpenter-Phinney
Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born February 26, 1957) is an American retired racing cyclist and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions (both road and track cycling) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She also won the gold medal in the cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as twelve U.S. national championships. She remains the youngest American woman to compete at the Winter Olympics. Early career Before turning to cycling, Carpenter was a speed skater, one of many athletes who excelled in both sports. As a speed skater, she competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics, where she finished 7th in the 1500m. She was fourteen years old at the time, making her the youngest American female Winter Olympian. Carpenter-Phinney trained with Norwegian coach Finn Halvorsen as part of the US National speed skating team that competed in the 1972 Olympics. Other members of the team included Anne Henning and Sheila Young (Ochowicz). I ...
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Guy Carleton Phinney
Guy Carleton Phinney (1851–1893) was a real estate developer in Seattle. Career Phinney made a fortune in Canadian real estate in the later half of the 19th century. In 1881, he relocated from Nova Scotia to Seattle. Phinney was successful in the real estate, lumber, and insurance industries. He purchased land north of the city next to Green Lake and built an English-style manor. The tracts were considered suburban at the time. To attract people to the area, the estate included a menagerie and what would become Woodland Park. A private street car serviced the park from nearby Fremont. Legacy Upon Phinney's death, the city council purchased the park over the veto of Seattle's Mayor, W. D. Wood. The park was further developed and the menagerie became the Woodland Park Zoo. Phinney is the namesake of Seattle's Phinney Ridge neighborhood. In the Magnolia ''Magnolia'' is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus ''Magnolia'' depends on the taxonomic ...
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David Phinney
David Phinney is a journalism, journalist and producer based in Washington, D.C., whose work has appeared on United States Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as well as in the Los Angeles Times, Politico, The New York Times, Miami Herald, the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, and Wired. His stories on unfair labor practices and poor treatment of foreign workers contracted to do construction work in Iraq have been the subject of congressional inquiries, ongoing US Justice Department criminal probes and investigations by US Inspectors General. In 2007 his story appeared on the Project Censored list. In addition to documentary work and on-air reporting, Phinney has been a guest and analyst for the BBC, cable news programs and radio. His work includes political coverage, national affairs, war, terrorism and security. He has consulted with reporters and producers on stories for ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, The Wall Street Journal and The Washingto ...
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Leslie Phinney
Leslie M. Phinney is an American thermal engineer and an expert on microscale heat transfer, particularly involving thin films, surfaces, and boundaries between different materials. She is a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories. Education and career Phinney majored in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1990. After a year at the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar, she went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1997. She became a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997, and in 2003 moved to Sandia National Laboratories. Recognition Phinney was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010. In 2017 the Society of Women Engineers The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an international not-for-profi ...
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Finney
Finney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albert Finney (1936–2019), English actor * Alex Finney (1902–1982), English association footballer *Ben Finney (1933–2017), American anthropologist, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society *Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), American revivalist *Charles G. Finney (1905–1984), American newspaperman and writer *Christopher Finney (born 1984), British soldier * Dave Finney (1933–2022), American lawyer and politician *D. J. Finney (1917–2018), British statistician * Ernest A. Finney Jr. (1931–2017), American judge *Florence Finney (1903–1994), American politician * Gail Finney (1959–2022), American businesswoman and politician *Hal Finney (baseball) (1905–1991), Major League Baseball catcher *Hal Finney (computer scientist) (1956–2014), developer for PGP Corporation, the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann *Harry Anson Finney (1886–1966), American accountancy author *Jack Finney (1 ...
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