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Raymond Hill (California)
Raymond Hill or Ray Hill may refer to: * Raymond Hill (musician) (1934–1996), American R&B saxophonist who played on "Rocket 88" * Raymond Hill (formerly Bacon Hill), the hill on which was located Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, California * Raymond Hill, founder and lead developer of uBlock Origin browser extension * Ray Hill (American football) (1975–2015), American football player * Ray Hill (British activist) (1939–2022), British political figure * Ray Hill (American activist) Ray Hill (October 13, 1940 – November 24, 2018) was an American activist for LGBT rights and for police, law enforcement and prisoner issues. An ex-convict, he was also the subject of multiple documentary films. Personal life Early life ... (born 1940), activist from Houston, Texas {{disambiguation Hill, Raymond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hill (musician)
Raymond Earl Hill (April 29, 1933 – April 16, 1996) was an American tenor saxophonist and singer, best known as a member of Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in the 1950s. He also recorded as a solo artist for Sun Records and worked as a session musician. Life and career Hill was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents, Henry and Ollie Mae Hill, ran cafés in Clarksdale as well as a juke joint north of Lyon that featured Delta blues musicians such as Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk. Hill learned to play the saxophone by getting Houston Stackhouse to strum the chords on his guitar then finding the corresponding notes on his saxophone. Hill joined Ike Turner's band in the late 1940s, first the Tophatters big band and then the smaller Kings of Rhythm. He was Turner's regular tenor saxophone player at the band's first recording sessions at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service in March 1951, which produced the R&B classic "Rocket 88." The record was credited to Kings of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Hotel (Pasadena, California)
The Raymond Hotel was a hotel in South Pasadena, California, and first major resort hotel of the San Gabriel Valley. Largely a winter residence for wealthy Easterners, it was built by Mr. Walter Raymond of Raymond & Whitcomb Travel Agency of Boston, Massachusetts. The hotel was built atop Bacon Hill which lies between Pasadena and South Pasadena and was renamed Raymond Hill with the opening of the hotel in 1886. The original hotel, a grand and unequivocal Victorian edifice was burned to the ground in 1895. A second building, of a later and more fireproof style, was erected in 1901 and equally replaced the older in grandeur. The hotel was foreclosed following the Great Depression and was razed for commercial development. History "Pasadena Paradise" War Veterans, Health Seekers, and Tourists In 1883, Walter Raymond had ventured west to the young community of Pasadena, California, described as a sleepy village of 1,500 people. Seeking to excite business in the transcontinental tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UBlock Origin
uBlock Origin (; "" ) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking. The extension is available for Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Pale Moon, as well as versions of Safari prior to 13. uBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites and is reported to be much less memory-intensive than other extensions with similar functionality. uBlock Origin's stated purpose is to give users the means to enforce their own (content-filtering) choices. uBlock Origin is actively developed and maintained by its creator and lead developer Raymond Hill. History uBlock uBlock was initially named "μBlock" but the name was later changed to "uBlock" to avoid confusion as to how the Greek letter μ (Mu/Micro) in "μBlock" should be pronounced. Development started by forking from the codebase of HTTP Switchboard along with another blocking extension called uMatrix, designed for advanced users. uBlock was developed by Raymond Hill to use c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hill (American Football)
Raymond Millous Hill (August 7, 1975 – August 6, 2015) was a college and professional American football player. He was a defensive back at Michigan State, and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL), splitting three seasons between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, and was part of their Super Bowl XXXVI championship season. He suffered a leg injury during the 2001 preseason, and was placed on injured reserve for the entire season. His younger brother Renaldo Hill, also played in the NFL. Early years Hill attended Chadsey High School in Detroit, Michigan, where he was a three-year starter at defensive back. College career Hill was a three-year starter (1995–1997) for the Michigan State Spartans under head coach Nick Saban. Hill finished his Spartan career with 115 solo tackles, six interceptions, and four forced fumbles. A second-team All-Big Ten Conference selection in 1997, Hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hill (British Activist)
Raymond Hill (2 December 1939 – 14 May 2022) was a former leading figure in the British far right who went on to become a well-known informant. A sometime deputy leader of the British Movement and a founder member of the British National Party, Hill also secretly worked for ''Searchlight'' in feeding information about the groups' activities. Early years Born in Mossley, Lancashire, Hill was educated at the local Church of England primary school and at Stamford Secondary School in Ashton-under-Lyne. He spent three years in the army in the 1950's. Ray moved to Leicester in 1965 where he met Glennis and they were married in June 1966. Their first daughter Suzanne Marion was born a year later in July 1967. British Movement Hill made his first steps in the far right in the latter 1960s with a local group called the Anti-Immigration Society (AIMS), promptly switching to the larger Racial Preservation Society to which AIMS was closely linked. From there he met Colin Jordan and soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Hill (American Activist)
Ray Hill (October 13, 1940 – November 24, 2018) was an American activist for LGBT rights and for police, law enforcement and prisoner issues. An ex-convict, he was also the subject of multiple documentary films. Personal life Early life Ray Hill was born on October 13, 1940, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in downtown Houston when the family was living in Houston Heights. Hill had a brother, who died before Ray was born, and two sisters.Tappe, Renee. "An Interview with Ray Hill." The oH Project; Oral Histories of HIV/AIDS in Houston, Harris County, and Southern Texas. September 29, 2016. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/93722/wrc07911_transcript.pdf?sequence=1 Both of Hill's parents were labor organizers, his father with the AFL–CIO and his mother with the Teamsters, which Hill says is what started his fervent interest in civil rights. Hill was a teenage Baptist evangelist from age 13 to 17. Hill attended Galena Park High School in Houston, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
