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Remington
Remington may refer to: Organizations * Remington Arms, American firearms manufacturer * Remington Rand, American computer manufacturer * Remington Products, American manufacturer of shavers and haircare products * Remington College, American chain of private schools * Remington Records, American record label * E. Remington and Sons, American manufacturer of firearms and typewriters 1816–1896 * The Remingtons, American country music group * Remington & Co, a British publisher Places United States * Remington, Indiana * Remington, Ohio * Remington, Virginia * Remington, Wisconsin * Remington, Baltimore, Maryland * Remington Ranch, Texas Antarctica * Mount Remington * Remington Glacier Other uses * ''Remington'' (album), a 2016 album by Granger Smith * ''Remington Steele'', an American television series People Given name * Remington Kellogg (1892–1969), American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum * Remington Leith, singer of fashion-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington Arms
Remington Arms Company, LLC was an American manufacturer of firearms and ammunition, now broken into two companies, each bearing the Remington name. The firearms manufacturer is ''Remington Arms''. The ammunition business is called ''Remington''. The company which was broken up was called Remington Outdoor Company. Sturm, Ruger & Co. purchased the Marlin Firearms division of the Remington Outdoor Company in 2020. Founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington (as E. Remington and Sons) in Ilion, New York, it was one of the oldest gun makers in the US and claimed to be the oldest factory in the US that still made its original product. The company was the largest rifle manufacturer in North America according to 2015 ATF statistics. The company developed or adopted more cartridges than any other gun maker or ammunition manufacturer in the world. History 19th century origins The Remington company was founded in 1816. Eliphalet Remington II (1793–1861) believed he could build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington Kellogg
Arthur Remington Kellogg (5 October 1892 – 8 May 1969) was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum. His work focused on marine mammals. Early life and career Kellogg was born in Davenport, Iowa, and quickly dropped the name "Arthur". From a young age he devoted his free time to the study of wildlife. He built up his own small collection of mounted birds and mammals and by the time he came to choose a university he had determined he would become a naturalist. Choosing the University of Kansas as it offered courses in his chosen field, he first studied entomology, later switching to the study of mammals. From 1913 to 1916 he worked under Charles D. Bunker, the curator of birds and mammals at the university's Museum of Natural History. He published his first paper as a result of his work with Bunker. Kellogg graduated in 1915 and received his M.A. the following year. After graduating, he immediately began work with the United States Bureau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliphalet Remington
Eliphalet Remington (October 28, 1793 – August 12, 1861) was an American engineer who founded what would become known as Remington Arms. Originally the company was known as ''E. Remington'' followed by ''E. Remington & Son'' and then ''E. Remington and Sons''. Early years Eliphalet Remington II was born in 1793 in the town of Suffield, Connecticut. He was the second child of four surviving children (but the only son) of Elizabeth (née Kilbourn) and Eliphalet Remington, whose family origins lay in Yorkshire, England. Eliphalet II followed in his father's footsteps and entered the blacksmith trade at the family's rural forge in Herkimer County, New York. The original family home at Kinne Corners, New York, built about 1810 and known as Remington House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Remington Company co-founder The younger Remington worked with his father in the forge, and at 23 he hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Remington
Deborah Remington (June 25, 1930 – April 21, 2010) was an American abstract painter. Her most notable work is characterized as Hard-edge painting abstraction. She became a part of the San Francisco Bay Area's Beat scene in the 1950s. In 1965, she moved to New York where her style solidified and her career grew substantially. A twenty-year retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Newport Harbor Art Museum in California, in 1983. Her work was a part of more than thirty solo exhibition and hundreds of group exhibitions including three Whitney Museum of American Art annuals. She was the descendant of artist Frederic Remington. Biography Remington was born in 1930 and grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She was the daughter of the late Malcolm VanDyke and Hazel (née Stewart) Remington. With an early inclination towards art, she enrolled in classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art as a teenager. In 1955, she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrus Remington
Cyrus C. Remington (November 10, 1824 – October 12, 1878) was an American politician and jurist. Born in Sheridan, New York, Remington and his family moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1840 and settled near Waukesha, Wisconsin Territory. He read law under Wisconsin Governor Alexander Randall and at Finch & Lynde Law Firm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory. In 1847, Remington was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar and practiced law in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He served in the Wisconsin Assembly in 1854. From 1870 to 1873, Remington served as county judge of Sauk County, Wisconsin Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territory a .... He died in Baraboo, Wisconsin.'Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,' volume 8, 1879, Biographical Sketch of Cyrus Remington, pg. 479 Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lee Remington
Charles Lee Remington (January 19, 1922 – May 31, 2007) was an American entomologist known for studies of butterflies and moths, a Yale University professor, and is considered the father of modern lepidoptery. He established a Periodical Cicada preserve in Hamden, Connecticut. He developed the insect collection at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Among species named in his honor are '' Agathymus remingtoni'' (the Coahuila giant skipper) and '' Metajapyx remingtoni'', a forcepstail. Biography Remington was born to Pardon Sheldon and Maud Remington in Reedville, Virginia, on January 19, 1922. His family then moved to St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up collecting butterflies with his father. He did his undergraduate studies at Principia College, where he received a B.S. in 1943. During his military service in World War II, he served as a medical entomologist, throughout the Pacific, researching insect-borne diseases and centipede bites in the Philippines. After the war, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Remington
Barbara Remington (23 June 1929 – 23 January 2020) was an American artist and illustrator. Born in Minnesota, she was probably best known for her cover-art for Ballantine Books' first paperback editions of J. R. R. Tolkien's novels ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' and for her Tolkien-related poster ''A Map of Middle-earth''. In an interview about her association with Tolkien's works, Remington mentions that she had not been able to get hold of the books before making the illustration, and had only a sketchy idea from friends what they were about. Tolkien, the author, could not understand why her illustration included what he thought were pumpkins in a tree, or why a lion appeared at all (the lions were removed from the cover of later editions). Remington became a huge Tolkien fan, and would have "definitely drawn different pictures" had she read the books first. The popularity of the artwork led to a large edition of the poster as well as work for similar genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Remington
Brett Giehl (born March 4, 1986), better known by the ring name Dalton Castle, is an American professional wrestler who is best known for his tenure in Ring of Honor (ROH) where he was a ROH World Champion. Giehl is a two-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion, a ROH World Television Champion and a one time ROH World Champion He is also known for his tenure in Chikara, where he wrestled under the ring names Ashley Remington and Dalton Caroline Castle. He also currently wrestles for AEW. Early life As a child, Giehl loved professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, with other favorites including Curt Hennig, Davey Boy Smith, and Frank Gotch. Giehl wrestled more than 10 years from middle school to college, representing the Greece Athena High School Trojans in 2003 and winning a varsity wrestling tournament in the 171 pound weight class in 2004. He was an amateur and NCAA wrestler, winning a New York championship in Greco-Roman wrestling and competing three times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Remington
Arthur Edward Remington (28 July 1856 – 17 August 1909) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Biography Remington was born in 1856 at New Plymouth. Due to the New Zealand Wars, the family returned to their native Jersey, where he received his education. The family returned to New Zealand in 1868, first settling in Auckland, but soon residing in Tauranga, where he first became involved in local body politics. In 1877, Remington moved to Bulls, where he was a chemist selling tooth powder, which was advanced at the time. He was declared bankrupt in 1879. Remington first stood for Parliament in the Patea electorate in 1896 and 1899, coming second both times. He also stood in the first against an "official" Liberal candidate, which allowed an opponent of the Liberal Government to win. He won the Rangitikei electorate in the 1902 general election, and held it until he died in 1909. His death triggered the , which was won by Robert William Smith. Remi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington Vernam (land Developer)
Remington Vernam (January 1843 – July 3, 1907) was an American lawyer and real-estate developer from New York, best known for founding and developing the community of Arverne, which became part of New York City in 1898, from land he had purchased in 1882. The name of Arverne was derived by his wife, Florence, who noted that her husband signed his checks as "R. Vernam". Vernam was born in Mechanicville, New York. Legacy *Public School 42, located at Beach 66th Street and Thursby Avenue, is officially named the "R. Vernam School" in his honor. *Vernam Basin, an industrial waterway in Jamaica Bay at Arverne, is also named in his honor. *Two former Long Island Rail Road stations were also named for his signature, both of which are now subway stations on the IND Rockaway Line The IND Rockaway Line is a rapid transit line of the IND Division of the New York City Subway, operating in Queens. It branches from the IND Fulton Street Line at Rockaway Boulevard, extending over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington D
Remington may refer to: Organizations * Remington Arms, American firearms manufacturer * Remington Rand, American computer manufacturer * Remington Products, American manufacturer of shavers and haircare products * Remington College, American chain of private schools * Remington Records, American record label * E. Remington and Sons, American manufacturer of firearms and typewriters 1816–1896 * The Remingtons, American country music group * Remington & Co, a British publisher Places United States * Remington, Indiana * Remington, Ohio * Remington, Virginia * Remington, Wisconsin * Remington, Baltimore, Maryland * Remington Ranch, Texas Antarctica * Mount Remington * Remington Glacier Other uses * ''Remington'' (album), a 2016 album by Granger Smith * ''Remington Steele'', an American television series People Given name * Remington Kellogg (1892–1969), American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum * Remington Leith, singer of fashio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remington Schuyler
Remington Schuyler (1884–1955) was an American painter, illustrator and writer during the early to mid twentieth century. He was born in Buffalo, New York and was named after Frederic Remington, a distant cousin of his mother and an accomplished artist from the period. After graduating from high school Schuyler went on to study at Washington University. He went on to receive scholarships to the National Academy in Rome and the Académie Julian in Paris after which he spent time studying at the Art Students League in New York with the influential draftsman, George Bridgman. In 1906 Schuyler studied with Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware. Thanks to his association with Howard Pyle, Schuyler landed his first published illustration on the cover of ''The Saturday Evening Post'', which he was soon working regularly for it along with ''Pearson's Magazine, Pearson's'' and ''Munsey's Magazine'' In 1916 Schuyler moved to 76 Huguenot Street in New Rochelle, New York, a prestigious art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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