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Richard Reid (other)
Richard Reid (born 1973) is a British convicted terrorist who attempted to detonate a shoe bomb. Richard Reid may also refer to: *Richard Reid (cricketer) (born 1958), New Zealand cricketer *Richard Gavin Reid (1879–1980), Canadian politician * Richard Reid (Northern Ireland politician), Northern Irish politician for Mid Ulster *Richard Reid (actor) (born 1984), British actor * Richard Reid (entertainment reporter) (born 1968), American-Australian entertainment reporter and winner of ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australia season 5)'' * Ric Reid (born 1969), New Zealand cyclist *Richie Reid (born 1956), Irish hurler * Richie Reid (hurler, born 1993), Irish hurler See also *Richard Read (born 1957), American journalist * Richard Read Sr., British-born artist sent to Australia as a convict *Richard Reed (born 1973), British businessman * Richard F. Reed (died 1926), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi * Rick Reed (other) *Reed Richards, also known as Mr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reid
Richard Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the "Shoe Bomber", is the perpetrator of the failed shoe bombing attempt on a transatlantic flight in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalized and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of al-Qaeda. On 22 December 2001, Reid boarded American Airlines Flight 63 between Paris and Miami, wearing shoes packed with explosives, which he unsuccessfully tried to detonate. Passengers subdued him on the plane, which landed at Logan International Airport in Boston, the closest US airport. He was arrested, charged, and indicted. In 2002, Reid pleaded guilty in US federal court to eight federal criminal counts of terrorism, based on his attempt to destroy a commercial aircraft in flight. He was sentenced to three life terms plus 110 years in prison without parole and was transferred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reid (cricketer)
Richard Bruce Reid (born 3 December 1958) is a former New Zealand international cricketer, who played nine One Day Internationals between 1988 and 1991. His father, John Reid, played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1949 to 1965. Reid was born in Lower Hutt, Wellington. He attended Scots College, Wellington Scots College is an independent (private) Presbyterian school. It is located in the suburb of Strathmore Park, Wellington, New Zealand. Under the leadership of an Executive Headmaster, the College comprises three schools, the Preparatory School ..., where he captained the first XI. He later became a cricket and rugby administrator. References External links * 1958 births Living people New Zealand One Day International cricketers New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers Gauteng cricketers Wellington cricketers Cricketers from Lower Hutt People educated at Scots College, Wellington {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid (17 January 1879 – 17 October 1980) was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935. He was the last member of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) to hold the office, and that party's defeat at the hands of the upstart Social Credit League in the 1935 election made him the shortest serving premier to that point in Alberta's history. Born near Glasgow, Scotland, Reid worked a number of jobs as a young adult—including wholesaler, army medic (during the Second Boer War), farmhand, lumberjack and dentist—and immigrated to Canada in 1903. He involved himself in local politics and joined the recently formed UFA, which nominated him to run in the 1921 provincial election as its candidate in Vermilion. The UFA won the election, and Reid served in several capacities in the cabinets of premiers Herbert Greenfield and John Edward Brownlee, where he established a reputation for competence and fiscal conservatism. When a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reid (Northern Ireland Politician)
Richard Reid is a former Ulster unionist politician. Reid worked as a farmer in Pomeroy, County Tyrone. An evangelical Protestant, he became friendly with Norman Porter, secretary of the National Union of Protestants. In 1950, he arranged a meeting at the town courthouse for Monica Farrell, and through this, became acquainted with Ian Paisley. He subsequently joined Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, and, although there was no local congregation, he became a church elder. In 1975, Reid stood for Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party in Mid Ulster, and was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. He was also elected to Cookstown District Council at the 1977 Northern Ireland local elections. From the 1980s on, Reid withdrew from formal politics, but he was active in the Orange Order, where he became known as a leading traditionalist during the Drumcree conflict The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reid (actor)
Richard Alan Reid (born 29 September 1984) is a film and television producer, director and media executive. He currently serves as Head of Studio at BuzzFeed Inc and Executive Vice President of Global Content at BuzzFeed, Complex Networks and HuffPost. Reid attended the Reading Blue Coat School and the Redroofs Theatre School in Berkshire. He later became a member of The National Youth Theatre in London, attended New York Film Academy, University of Sussex and graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara. Career Formerly an Actor, Reid's acting credits include ''Love, Wedding, Marriage'', '' William & Kate: The Movie'', ''Frat Pack'', ''Tulip Fever'' with Christoph Waltz, '' Criminal'' with Kevin Costner, Sony Pictures' ''Austenland'', which was part of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, ''The Legend of Hercules''., '' There's Always Woodstock'', '' The Brits Are Coming'' with Uma Thurman, ''Battle Drone'', '' NCIS'' (2012 episode "The Good Son"), and The Weinstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reid (entertainment Reporter)
Richard Reid is an Australian-based American entertainment reporter.Knox, David (23 November 2017Richard Reid: 'Take my throne!' ''TV Tonight''. Retrieved 14 January 2019. He is known for his daily Hollywood gossip segment on the Nine Network's breakfast program ''Today'' from 2006 until 2015. During this time, he was also the resident style expert on Nine's makeover show, ''Domestic Blitz'' and appeared on other Nine programs such as '' 20 to One''. More recently, he has been a regular contributor to Network Ten's morning program, ''Studio 10''. In 2015, Reid appeared on the fourth season of Nine's reality show, ''The Celebrity Apprentice Australia''. In 2019, Reid appeared on the fifth season of Network Ten reality show, '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''. Biography Hired as an entertainment reporter for Northwest Cable News in Seattle, Washington, Richard caused a stir in 1999 when he became the first openly gay on-air personality in the region. He quickly b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ric Reid
Richard Dickson (Ric) Reid (born 20 November 1969 in Auckland) is a New Zealand road cyclist who competed for New Zealand in the road race events at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... External links * * 1969 births Living people New Zealand male cyclists Olympic cyclists of New Zealand Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand Cyclists from Auckland Road racing cyclists 20th-century New Zealand people {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Reid
Richard "Richie" Reid (born 1956) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a wing-back for the Kilkenny and Dublin senior teams. Born in Ballyhale, County Kilkenny, Reid first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of nineteen when he first linked up with the Kilkenny under-21 team. He made his senior debut during the 1978 championship. Reid immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won one All-Ireland medal and two Leinster medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion. At club level Reid is a one-time All-Ireland medallist with Ballyhale Shamrocks. In addition to this he has also won one Leinster medal and two championship medals. With Faughs Reid won two championship medals. His nephew, T. J. Reid, is a seven time All-Ireland medallist with Kilkenny. Throughout his career Reid made 11 championship appearances. His retirement came following the conclusion of the 1989 championship. Playing career Club In 1979 Reid enjoyed his firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Reid (hurler, Born 1993)
Richard Reid (born 4 April 1993) is an Irish hurler who plays for Kilkenny Senior Championship club Ballyhale Shamrocks and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team. He usually lines out at midfield, and was nominated to become captain of the Kilkenny Senior hurlers for the 2022 season. Playing career Ballyhale Shamrocks Reid joined the Ballyhale Shamrocks club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage before eventually joining the club's top adult team in the senior grade. On 23 October 2011, Reid lined out in goal when Ballyhale Shamrocks faced James Stephens in the championship final for the third time in five years. The game ended in an 0-11 to 1-08 draw. Reid was again selected in goal for the replay a week later but ended on the losing side following a 1-20 to 0-15 defeat. Reid lined out in a second successive final on 11 November 2012. He maintained a clean sheet and secured his first winners' medal after a 0-16 to 0-12 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Read
Richard Read (born 1957) is a freelance reporter based in Seattle, where he was a national reporter and bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2019 to 2021. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a senior writer and foreign correspondent for ''The Oregonian,'' working for the Portland, Oregon newspaper from 1981 to 1986 and 1989 until 2016. Read has reported from more than 60 countries and all seven continents, covering wars in Cambodia and Afghanistan and disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. He won his first Pulitzer in 1999, ''The Oregonians first in 42 years, for explaining the Asian financial crisis by following a container of french fries from a Northwest farm to the Far East, in a series that ended with riots presaging the Fall of Suharto. Early life Read was born in St Andrews, Scotland, to Katharine Read and Arthur Hinton Read, a mountaineer and St. Andrews University mathematics professor wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Read Sr
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick (nickname), Dick", "Dickon", "Dickie (name), Dickie", "Rich (given name), Rich", "Rick (given name), Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", "Ricky (given name), Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Reed
Richard John Reed, (born 13 February 1973) is a British businessman, entrepreneur and public speaker. He is the co-founder of Innocent Drinks (founded in 1999 ), an international company producing fresh fruit smoothies and vegetable pots sold in various outlets around the world, and of Jamjar Investments (founded 2012).Ruthven, Hunter"Innocent Drinks founders invest in child car seat though Jam Jar fund" ''Real Business'', 31 May 2015. He pioneered "wackaging" – quirky messages on packaging – of products such as smoothies. Biography Richard Reed was born in 1973 in Kirkheaton, West Yorkshire, and grew up in Mirfield. He attended Batley Grammar School and went on to study geography at St John's College, Cambridge (1991–94), after which he worked as an account manager in an advertising agency for four years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
