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Sorby is an English family name and may refer to the following people: * Angela Sorby, American poet, professor and literary scholar * Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), English microscopist and geologist * Sunniva Sorby, Norwegian-Canadian expeditioner, historian and guide * Thomas Sorby (1856–1930), English international footballer * Thomas Charles Sorby (1836-1924), English architect who emigrated to Canada * Warren Sorby (born 1965), Fijian Olympic swimmer See also * Sorby Research Institute The Sorby Research Institute was a research facility that operated in the UK during and immediately after the Second World War in Sheffield, England. The Institute mostly investigated questions of nutrition. This was an important consideration i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Name
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Sorby
Angela Sorby is an American poet, professor, and literary scholar. Biography She was born in Seattle, Washington and teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her main teaching areas are American literature and creative writing and main academic interests are American poetry, popular culture, and children's literature. She is particularly interested in how poetry engages with children and childhood. Selected works *''Distance Learning'' ( New Issues Press, 1998); *''Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry'' (University Press of New England, 2005) *'' Bird Skin Coat'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009). *''Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry'', co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 *''The Sleeve Waves]'' (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 Literary awards *Felix Pollak Prize *John Fiske Poetry Prize, University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (10 May 1826 – 9 March 1908) was an English microscopist and geologist. His major contribution was the development of techniques for studying iron and steel with microscopes. This paved the way for the mass production of steel. Biography Sorby was born at Woodbourne, near Sheffield in Yorkshire, and attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early on developed an interest in natural science. One of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in Yorkshire. In 1847, when he was 21, his father died, leaving him a comfortable private income. He immediately established a scientific laboratory and workshop at his home. He subsequently dealt with the physical geography of former geological periods, with the wave-structure in certain stratified rocks, and the origin of slaty cleavage. He took up the study of rocks and minerals under the microscope, and published an important memoir, "On the Microscopical Structure of Crystals", in 1858 (''Quart. Journ. Geol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunniva Sorby
Sunniva Sorby is an expeditioner, historian, guide, citizen scientist, and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She is best known for her membership of the first women's team to reach the south pole in 1993. Biography Sorby was born in Tønsberg, Norway and raised in Canada. She completed her BA economics at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Canada. She is an experienced expeditioner, historian, guide, citizen scientist, and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Polar engagement Sorby works as a guide and historian of Antarctica, having visited the continent more than 100 times and also having skied across the Greenland icecap, across King George Island, Antarctica, and skied to the South Pole. Her journey to the South Pole, which she reached on 14 January 1993, was as a member of the first women's team (under the leadership of Ann Bancroft) to do so. Sorby co-founded Hearts in the Ice, a social media project aimed at engagement on climate change a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sorby
Thomas Heathcote Sorby (16 February 1856 – 13 December 1930) was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance for England. Football career Sorby was born in Sheffield, the fourth of ten children of Thomas Austin Sorby (1823–1885) and Dorothy Heathcote (1826–1904). His father was a partner in Robert Sorby and Sons, the family business, described as "Edge Tool Manufacturers". He was educated at Cheltenham College and played for various Sheffield football clubs including the Thursday Wanderers and Sheffield, claimed to be the oldest football club in the world. He also represented the Sheffield FA. His solitary England appearance came when he was one of five new players selected for the match against Wales at the Kennington Oval on 18 January 1879. The match was played in a blizzard and both captains agreed to play halves of only 30 minutes each. This was the first match between the two countries — Wales had previously only played three international matches, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Sorby
Thomas Charles Sorby (1836-1924) was a British architect, who emigrated to Canada in 1883, where he mostly worked in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia. Thomas Charles Sorby was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and studied architecture in London. He was a pupil of Charles Reeves, with whom he designed Salford County Court. He emigrated to Canada in 1863. Notable buildings * Lambeth Magistrates Court, London (1869) * Mount Stephen House, a hotel in Field, British Columbia Field is an unincorporated community of approximately 169 people located in the Kicking Horse River valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, within the confines of Yoho National Park. At an elevation of , it is west of Lake Louise along ... (1886) References 1836 births 1924 deaths Architects from Yorkshire Canadian architects People from Wakefield British emigrants to Canada {{architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Sorby
Warren Sorby (born 28 August 1965) is a native of Fiji and an Olympic swimmer. He competed in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, California in the men's 100 meter freestyle, men's 100 meter backstroke, men's 100 meter butterfly, and men's 200 meter individual medley. He then went on to compete in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ... in the men's 50 meter freestyle and men's 100 meter freestyle. References External links * 1965 births Living people Fijian male swimmers Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji Swimmers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games Olympic swimmers for Fiji Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Fijian people of British descent {{Fiji-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
