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Poindexter (surname)
Poindexter is a Jèrriais surname most commonly found in the United States, but originally from the island of Jersey between Britain and France, where it survives in its original form of Poingdestre. Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Alan G. Poindexter (1961–2012), American astronaut, son of John Poindexter * Anthony Poindexter (born 1976), American football coach * Buster Poindexter, pseudonym of American rock musician David Johansen (born 1950) * Camilla Poindexter, American reality television personality and model * Charles Poindexter (born 1942), American politician from Virginia * Doug Poindexter (1927–2004), American country musician * George Poindexter (1779–1853), American politician * Hildrus Poindexter (1901–1987), epidemiologist and scientist * James Poindexter (born 1949), American sport shooter * James Preston Poindexter (1819–1907), American civil rights activist * Jennings Poindexter (1910–1983), American baseball player * Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jèrriais
(french: Jersiais, also known as the Jersey Language, Jersey French and Jersey Norman French in English) is a Romance language and the traditional language of the Jersey people. It is a form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, an island in the Channel Islands archipelago off the coast of France. Its closest relatives are the other Norman languages, such as , spoken in neighbouring Guernsey, and the other . Use of has been in decline over the past century, as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration on Jersey. There are very few people who speak as a mother tongue and, owing to the age of the remaining speakers, their numbers decrease annually. Despite this, efforts are being made to keep the language alive. The language of Sark, Sercquiais, is a descendant of the brought by the Jersey colonists who settled Sark in the 16th century, with mutual intelligibility with the Norman language of mainland Normandy. is often called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph B
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( he, יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As a '' rosh yeshiva'' of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav, as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. Rabbinic literature sometimes refers to him as הגרי"ד, short for "The great Rabbi Yosef Dov". He served as an advisor, guide, mentor, and role-model for tens of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader. He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism. Heritage Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on February 27, 1903, in Pruzhany, Imperial Russia (later Poland, now Belarus). He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Phantom
''Danny Phantom'' is an American animated superhero action adventure television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows Danny Fenton, a teenage boy who, after an accident with an unpredictable portal between the human world and the "Ghost Zone", becomes a human-ghost hybrid and takes on the task of saving his town (and the world) from subsequent ghost attacks using an evolving variety of supernatural powers. Danny is aided in his quest by his two best friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, and later, his older sister Jazz, who for most of the series' run are among the only people who know of his double life. Throughout its run, ''Danny Phantom'' received five Annie Award nominations and positive reviews. In the recent years, it has received renewed attention and critical acclaim from critics and audiences, being considered by many as Hartman's best and most acclaimed work. Additionally, ''Danny Phantom'' has spawned video games, home video releases, toy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Carter-Killmaster
''Nick Carter-Killmaster'' is a series of spy adventures published from 1964 until 1990, first by Award Books, then by Ace Books, and finally by Jove Books. At least 261 novels were published. The character is an update of a pulp fiction private detective named Nick Carter, first published in 1886. No actual author is credited for the books, with the Nick Carter name being used as a house pseudonym. Volumes varied between first-person and third-person narratives. Authors known to have contributed entries in the series are Michael Avallone, Valerie Moolman, Manning Lee Stokes, Dennis Lynds, Gayle Lynds, Robert J. Randisi, David Hagberg, and Martin Cruz Smith. The name Nick Carter was acknowledged by the series as having been inspired by the early 20th century pulp fiction detective of the same name in the 100th Killmaster volume (labelled ''Nick Carter 100'') which included an essay on the earlier Nick Carter and included a Nick Carter detective short story alongside a Kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullseye (comics)
Bullseye is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A psychopathic assassin, Bullseye uses the opportunities afforded by his line of work to exercise his homicidal tendencies and to work out his own personal vendetta against Daredevil (Marvel Comics character), Daredevil. He is also an enemy of the Punisher. Although he possesses no Superpower (ability), superpowers, Bullseye is able to use almost any object as a lethal projectile, be it weapons like shuriken and Sai (weapon), sai or seemingly harmless objects like playing cards and pencils. His marksmanship is uncanny, at a nearly supernatural level. The character has been adapted into various forms of media relating to Daredevil. He has been portrayed by Colin Farrell in the Daredevil (film), 2003 film adaptation and by Wilson Bethel as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in the 2018 Daredevil (season 3), third season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Daredevil (TV series), ''Daredevil'' television adap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge Of The Nerds
''Revenge of the Nerds'' is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, and Bernie Casey. The film's plot chronicles a group of nerds at the fictional Adams College trying to stop the ongoing harassment by the jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas, in addition to the latter's sister sorority, Pi Delta Pi. Plot Best friends and nerds Lewis Skolnick and Gilbert Lowe enroll in Adams College to study computer science. The Alpha Betas, a fraternity that includes most of the Adams football team, carelessly burn down their own house and, urged by Coach Harris, take over the freshman dorms, literally throwing the freshmen out into the street. Dean Ulich designates temporary living space in the gymnasium and allows the freshmen to rush the fraternities. Lewis, Gilbert, and several other nerds fail to join fraternities, but are able to secure a dilapidated house near campus and repair it as a residence. The Alpha Betas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix The Cat (TV Series)
''Felix the Cat'' is an American animated television series featuring the cartoon character of the same name. Like The Van Beuren Corporation before, Joe Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced Felix's now-famous item of the "Magic Bag of Tricks", a satchel that can assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wants, and several new main characters such as Felix's arch-enemy, The Professor and his bulldog sidekick Rock Bottom. The cartoons are divided into two parts, with the first part ending in a cliffhanger resolved after a commercial break. A second Felix series, ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat'', aired on CBS in 1995–1997. Background In 1954, Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix's new owner to begin a new series of Felix cartoons for television. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorcerer
''The Sorcerer'' is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was the British duo's third operatic collaboration. The plot of ''The Sorcerer'' is based on a Christmas story, ''An Elixir of Love'', that Gilbert wrote for ''The Graphic'' magazine in 1876. A young man, Alexis, is obsessed with the idea of love levelling all ranks and social distinctions. To promote his beliefs, he invites the proprietor of J. W. Wells & Co., Family Sorcerers, to brew a love potion. This causes everyone in the village to fall in love with the first person they see and results in the pairing of comically mismatched couples. In the end, Wells must sacrifice his life to break the spell. The opera opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique in London, where it ran for 178 performances. It was considered a success by the standards of that time and encouraged the collaborators to write their next opera, ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. ''The Sorcerer'' was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Poindexter
Steve Poindexter (born 1965) is an American house producer and DJ. He is best known for his 1989 track "Work That Mutha Fucker", which is considered to be one of the first Chicago ghetto house tracks. Early life Poindexter was born in 1965. His father was a jazz drummer and his mother was a backup singer for Mahalia Jackson. In 1975, at the age of ten, Poindexter started DJing for Saturday night parties held at Mendel High School on the South Side of Chicago. Career Inspired by Jesse Saunders' "On and On", Poindexter and his cousin John Hunt started experimenting with drum machines and began creating edits to play at parties. Poindexter's first record, the '' Work That Mutha Fucker'' EP, came out in 1989 as the first release on his and Armando's label Muzique Records. The title track, built on the Casio RZ-1 drum machine and featuring Poindexter's repeated "work that motherfucker" vocal sample, is considered to be an iconic ghetto house Ghetto house or booty house is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Poindexter (politician)
Robert Poindexter was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. Biography Birth records disagree on his birthplace as being either New York state or Tennessee and he may have been enslaved until 1860. The 1870 census listed him as a New York native aged 38, but 1869 bank records list him as 47 and from Sullivan County, Tennessee. The bank records also list his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War in Company F of the 78th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops. He was a member of the 1868 Louisiana constitutional convention representing Assumption Parish, Louisiana. He also a member of the 1867 Louisiana constitutional convention and a signature to the document produced. Poindexter was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in June 1868 as a Republican representing Assumption, Lafourche and St. Landry Parish's. He served from 1868 until 1870 and then later was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Poindexter
Robert Poindexter (September 25, 1897 – June 8, 1930), nicknamed "Roy", was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s. Poindexter made his Negro leagues debut in 1924 with the Birmingham Black Barons. He went on to play for the Chicago American Giants during their 1926 Colored World Series championship season. In 1927 and 1928, Poindexter was back with Birmingham, and tossed a no-hitter for the Black Barons against his former Chicago team in 1928. He died in Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ..., in 1930 at age 32. References External links anSeamheads 1897 births 1930 deaths Place of birth missing Birmingham Black Barons players Chicago American Giants players Memphis Red Sox players Baseball pitchers 20th-century African-Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pony Poindexter
Norwood "Pony" Poindexter (February 8, 1926, New Orleans, Louisiana – April 14, 1988, Oakland, California) was an American jazz saxophonist. Poindexter began on clarinet and switched to playing alto and tenor sax. In 1940 he studied under Sidney Desvigne, and following World War II attended the newly founded Candell Conservatory of Music in Oakland, California. From 1947 to 1950 he played with Billy Eckstine. In 1950 he played in a quartet with Vernon Alley. From 1951 to 1952, he was with Lionel Hampton and in 1952 he played with Stan Kenton. Neal Hefti wrote the tune "Little Pony", named after Poindexter, for the Count Basie Orchestra. Through the end of the 1950s Poindexter played extensively both as a leader and as a sideman, recording with Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, T-Bone Walker, and Jimmy Witherspoon. In the early 1960s he began playing the soprano sax as well. He recorded with Eric Dolphy and Dexter Gordon on a session for Epic Records around 1962. From 1961 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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