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Steed
Steed is a working animal used as a mount (especially for warfare). Steed may also refer to: People with the name *Steed Malbranque (born 1980), French footballer *Edward Steed (born 1987), British cartoonist *Joel Steed (born 1969), American football player *Maggie Steed (born 1946), British actress *Michael Steed (born 1940), British political scientist *Paul Steed (died 2012), American video game artist * Thomas W. Steed (1904–1973), American air force commander *Tom Steed (1904–1983), American politician *Trent Steed (born 1977), Australian swimmer *Wickham Steed (1871–1956), British journalist and historian Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Emma Steed, fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe *John Steed, fictional character in the television series ''The Avengers'' *The Steed family, the fictional main protagonists of ''The Work and the Glory'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Steed Records, American record label *"The Steeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wickham Steed
Henry Wickham Steed (10 October 1871 – 13 January 1956) was an English journalist and historian. He was editor of ''The Times'' from 1919 to 1922. Early life Born in Long Melford, England, Steed was educated at Sudbury Grammar School and the universities of Jena, Berlin and Paris. While in Europe, he demonstrated an early interest in social democracy and met with a range of left-wing figures, including Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, and Alexandre Millerand. His encounters formed the basis of his first book, ''The Socialist and Labour Movement in England, Germany & France'' (1894). Foreign correspondent Appointed by Joseph Pulitzer as Paris correspondent for the New York ''World'', Steed joined ''The Times'' in 1896 as a foreign correspondent, working briefly out of Berlin before transferring successively to Rome (1897-1902) and then Vienna (1902-1913). In 1914, he moved to London to take over as foreign editor of ''The Times''. During his time in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Steed
Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed usually known as John Steed, is a fictional character and the central protagonist on the 1960s British spy series '' The Avengers'' and its 1970s sequel '' The New Avengers'', played by Patrick Macnee in both; by Donald Monat in the South-African radio series adaptation of '' The Avengers''; by Ralph Fiennes in the 1998 film of the same name and by Julian Wadham in various audio adventures from Big Finish Productions. Steed is a secret agent working for an unnamed branch of British intelligence. He was teamed with a variety of partners, including Dr. David Keel (1961), Dr. Martin King (1962), Venus Smith (1962–1963), Cathy Gale (1962–1964), Emma Peel (1965–1968), Tara King (1968–1969), Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney (1969), Purdey, and Mike Gambit (both 1976–1977). Biography Pre-Avengers Steed was born John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed sometime between 1922 and 1925 (the actor who played him, Patrick Macnee, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Steed
Thomas Jefferson Steed (March 2, 1904 – June 8, 1983) was an American politician and a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma. Early life Steed was born on a farm near in Eastland County, Texas (near Rising Star, Texas) on March 2, 1904. His family later moved to Oklahoma, where he attended school (in Konawa, Oklahoma). After only one semester of high school, he began working for the "Ada Evening News". He married Hazel Bennett in 1923, and they had two children, Roger and Richard. Roger was a Marine second lieutenant and fighter pilot and was killed in China in 1947. Career Continuing to work in journalism, Steed worked for a number of Oklahoma newspapers including the "Daily Oklahoman". Beginning in 1935 he served as an assistant to three of Oklahoma's U.S. congressmen, Percy Lee Gassaway, Robert P. Hill, and Gomer Griffith Smith. In 1938 he returned to Oklahoma and became managing editor of the '' Shawnee News-Star''. Military service After the outbreak of World War II, Steed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steed Malbranque
Steed Claude Malbranque (born 6 January 1980) is a French former professional footballer. Malbranque started his professional career with Olympique Lyonnais, before moving to England in 2001, where he had spells with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland. He returned to France in 2011 for a short spell with Saint-Étienne. In 2012, he joined Lyon for the second time. He principally played as a winger or attacking midfielder. During his second spell at Lyon he also played as a central midfielder. Club career Lyon He was a trainee at Lyon youth academy between 1995 and 1997, during which time he won the Under-15 championship twice, the Under-17 Cup and the reserve team championship. He also captained the French Under-18 side. He made his professional debut for the club in a 1–1 draw against Montpellier on 21 February 1998 aged 18. He went on to play a total of 96 games for the club, which included 12 appearances and two goals in the Champions League and seven appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Steed
Michael Steed is a British psephologist, political scientist, broadcaster, activist and Liberal Democrat politician. He was born in 1940 in Kent, where his father was a farmer. He has written extensively on political parties and elections. Education and early life He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1960, the South African authorities refused him entry to Sharpeville to deliver food aid to victims of the Sharpeville shootings. From 1963 to 1965, Steed undertook postgraduate research at Nuffield College, Oxford, under Dr. David Butler. At the same time he was active in the Young Liberals, particularly on the issue of apartheid in South Africa. He became national Vice-Chairman of the Young Liberals. Career In 1966, Steed became Lecturer in Government at Manchester University, a post he held for many years until taking early retirement through ill health. As a psephologist, he became a specialist in the detailed analys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Steed
Paul Howard Steed Jr. (November 6, 1964 – August 11, 2012) was a video game modeller and artist. He worked for Origin Systems, Electronic Arts, id Software, Wild Tangent, Microsoft's Xbox, Atari, and Exigent. He created artwork or models for several prominent game series including ''Wing Commander'' and '' Quake''. He was employed by id Software until he was fired in retaliation for conflict over the creation of ''Doom 3'' (according to John Carmack). Steed began his career with videogames in 1991 at Origin Systems, after answering a newspaper ad that said "Fantasy artist wanted". Starting as a game design sketcher, he moved up to art director then project director. Steed has indicated he "didn't touch a mouse until I was 27." He worked as an art director at Virgin Entertainment and a designer at Iguana entertainment as well. In 2000 after being fired from id Software he went to work for Wild Tangent making several dancing girl visualizers for Winamp and a third-person shoote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
