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Purdy
Purdy may refer to: People Surname *Al Purdy (1918–2000), Canadian poet *Amy Purdy (born 1979), American actress, model and Paralympic snowboarder * Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides bassist * Bill Purdy (born 1946), American rower * Brock Purdy (born 1999), American football player *Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player *Charlie Purdy (1905–1982), New Zealand boxer * Debbie Purdy (1963–2014), British music journalist, political activist and right-to-die patient *Frederick Warren Purdy (1911–1942), US Navy World War II officer * George B. Purdy, American mathematician and computer scientist * Gordon Purdy (1888–1972), Canadian politician * Hamish Purdy, Canadian art director and set decorator *Helen Purdy Beale, born Helen Alice Purdy (1893–1976), US virologist * Henry Purdy (cricketer) (1883–1943), English cricketer * Henry Purdy (politician) (c. 1744–1827), landowner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia * Henry Purdy (rugby union) (born 1994), Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Purdy
Alfred Wellington Purdy (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture." Biography Born in Wooler, Ontario, Purdy went to Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, and Trenton Collegiate Institute in Trenton, Ontario. He dropped out of school at 17 and rode the rails west to Vancouver. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Following the war, he worked in various jobs until the 1960s, when he was finally able to support himself as a writer, editor and poet.University of Toronto LibraryAl Purdy, Biography Canadian Poets Series. Retrieved on: April 19, 2008. In 1957, Purdy and his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Spenser Purdy (born 29 November 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is an American legal scholar and cultural commentator. He is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on American Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law and Democracy and its Crisis. From 2004 to 2018 Purdy was a professor at Duke University. Purdy is the author of two widely discussed books: ''For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today'' (1999) and ''Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World'' (2003). He is also the author of ''After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene'' (2015), ''The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination '' (2010), and ''A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom'' (2009). Early life and education Purdy, the son of Wally and Deirdre Purdy, was homeschooled in West Virginia until age 13, high school. He graduated from Phillips Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pid Purdy
Everett Virgil "Pid" Purdy (June 15, 1904 – January 16, 1951) was an American professional athlete who played in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League. He was a native of Beatrice, Nebraska, and attended Beloit College. He was tall and weighed . As a baseball player, Purdy was an outfielder who batted left-handed and threw right-handed. His professional career extended from 1923 through 1938 and much of it was spent in minor league baseball in his native Nebraska, where he toiled in the Class A Western League and the Class D Nebraska State League. He compiled a lifetime minor league batting average of .328 in 1,437 games. Purdy also saw 181 games of Major League service with the Chicago White Sox (1926) and Cincinnati Reds (1927–1929), batting .293 with two home runs and 59 runs batted in. Meanwhile, he played in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers in 1926 and 1927. At 5' 6", 145 pounds, Purdy is the lightest player to ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Purdy
The Cleveland Elementary School shooting (also known as the Stockton schoolyard shooting and the Cleveland School massacre) occurred on January 17, 1989, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, United States, when 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, who had an extended criminal history, shot and killed five students and wounded 32 others. As first responders arrived at the scene, Purdy committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His victims were predominantly Southeast Asian refugees. The attack was the U.S. non-college school shooting with the highest number of fatalities and injuries until the Columbine High School massacre, and of all U.S. school shootings in the 1980s, it had the largest number of victims. Shooting On Tuesday morning, January 17, 1989, an anonymous person phoned the Stockton Police Department regarding a death threat against Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California. At noon that day, Patrick Purdy, a disturbed drifter and former S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton D
Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free to Choose'' Places Australia * Milton, New South Wales * Milton, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane ** Milton Courts, a tennis centre ** Milton House, Milton, a heritage-listed house ** Milton railway station, Brisbane ** Milton Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River ** Milton Road, an arterial road in Brisbane Canada * Milton, Newfoundland and Labrador * Milton, Nova Scotia in the Region of Queens Municipality * Milton, Ontario ** Milton line, a commuter train line ** Milton GO Station * Milton (electoral district), Ontario ** Milton (provincial electoral district), Ontario * Beaverton, Ontario a community in Durham Region and renamed as Beaverton in 1835 * Rural Municipality of Milton No. 292, Saskatchewan New Zealand * Milton, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Purdy
Clair Joseph "Mike" Purdy, Jr. (January 24, 1892 – January 10, 1950) was an American football player and coach. He played in the National Football League with the Rochester Jeffersons, New York Brickley Giants, Syracuse Pros and the Milwaukee Badgers. Brickley's New York Giants are not related to the modern-day New York Giants. He also played in the Ohio League in 1919 for the Akron Pros and even recommended that Fritz Pollard Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was an American football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first African-American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the ... join the team that season. References Additional sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Purdy, Mike 1892 births 1950 deaths American football fullbacks American football halfbacks American football quarterbacks Akron Indians (Ohio League) players Brown Bears football players Milwaukee Badgers players Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Purdy
Margaret Purdy (born January 18, 1995) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With Michael Marinaro, she is the 2013 World Junior silver medalist and 2010 Canadian national junior champion. Personal life Purdy attended the University of Western Ontario from September 2014 to 2018, studying social sciences. Career Purdy started skating at age four as a hockey player and switched to figure skating at age seven. In May 2007, Purdy teamed up with Michael Marinaro to train in pairs. In the 2009–10 season, they debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and won the Canadian junior title. The pair placed eighth in The Hague at their first World Junior Championships. In the 2011–12 season, Purdy/Marinaro won their first JGP medal — bronze in Latvia — and placed fifth at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk. The following season, they won gold at their two JGP assignments, in the United States and Croatia, and qualified for the JGP Final, where they plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kym Purdy
Kym Purdy is a former Australian slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1970s. She won a bronze medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships The 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the record setting third time. It was the 15th edition. Spittal hosted the championships previously in 1963 and 196 ... in Spittal. References * Australian female canoeists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Purdy
Kenneth William Purdy (April 28, 1913 – June 7, 1972) was an American automotive writer and editor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1913, and raised mostly in Auburn, New York, by his mother after his father, songwriter William Thomas Purdy (1882–1918) (''On, Wisconsin!'') died when Ken was only six. Ken graduated in 1934 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Soon after he got his first newspaper job with the Athol, Massachusetts ''Daily News''. From there he went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to the Chicago Radio Guide, to associate editor of '' Look'', and to the United States Office of War Information as editor of ''Victory'' during World War II. He was an editor at ''Parade'', ''Car and Driver'', '' Argosy'' and ''True'' magazines between the late '40s and mid '50s. He wrote articles and fiction under the pseudonym Karl Prentiss. Purdy's main interests were automobiles and the people who drove them. Among other works, he produced 35 short stories and scores of autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Purdy
Kate Purdy is an American writer and producer of television series. She grew up in San Antonio,Texas, United States. She is known for her work as a writer on the Netflix adult animated comedy series ''BoJack Horseman'', which she also produced. She received the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation in 2017 for the BoJack episode "Time's Arrow." Purdy is also the creator and writer of the Amazon Prime Video series '' Undone''. Personal life Purdy grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Her father was a Spanish teacher and the family lived for several years in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2012, Purdy became depressed and suffered anxiety whilst working as a writer on the ''Cougar Town'' television series. She became concerned that she might have schizophrenia since her grandmother and two grand-uncles had schizophrenia. After trying various treatments, Purdy finally found benefits in indigenous and Ayurvedic medicines. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2001. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith Purdy
Dr John Smith Purdy FRSE DSO MID (1872–1936) was an early 20th-century Scots-born physician and military physician who came to fame in Tasmania and Australia. Life He was born on 31 January 1872 in Glasgow, the son of George Purdy a market gardener and his wife, Frances Smith. The family moved to Morpeth in northern England in his infancy. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Morpeth. He then studied medicine at Aberdeen University graduating MB CM in 1898. In 1899 he joined his older brother Dr James Purdy at Otaki Hospital in New Zealand. However, after only a few months he volunteered to join the Second Boer War as a Surgeon-Captain in the New Zealand Mounted Rifles.Australian Dictionary of Biography: John Smith Purdy When he was demobilised in 1902 he went to London to seek employment and obtained a post at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He undertook a Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge University. He also returned to Aberdeen for his doctorate (MD) with a thesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Purdy (hydrographer)
John Purdy (1773–1843) was an important English hydrographer. His work and influence extended beyond hydrography with the coinage of the term pharology, the study of modern lighthouses and their designs. Purdy's work ''Memoir, descriptive and explanatory, to accompany the New Chart of the Atlantic Ocean'' was adapted and improved; continuing to be released in its fifteenth edition fifty years after his death. Life The son of a bookseller at Norwich, Purdy took up the study of naval charts and similar subjects. Before 1812 he succeeded De la Rochette as hydrographer to Messrs. Laurie & Whittle, of 53 Fleet Street, London. Purdy does not seem to have taken part in hydrographic expeditions himself, and his work consisted in writing works and constructing charts based upon the reports of others; but eventually he became a leading authority of his time on hydrography. He was mainly instrumental in bringing ''Rennell's Current'' before the notice of navigators, and in 1832 James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
