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Toren Atkinson
Toren may refer to: People *Carl-Axel Torén (1887–1961), a Swedish equestrian *Märta Torén (1925–1957), a Swedish actress *Toren Smith (1960-2013), a Canadian translator of manga Fictional characters *Graf Toren, DC Comics character *Sandrilene fa Toren book character created by Tamora Pierce Places and buildings *Toren van Goedereede *Toren de Vlinder *KEMA Toren *Koningin Juliana Toren *Nieuwe Toren, Kampen *Vesteda Toren Works * Toren (video game), ''Toren'' (video game), 2015 video game {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl-Axel Torén
Carl-Axel Oscar Torén (8 March 1887 – 21 October 1961) was a Swedish Army officer and Equestrianism, horse rider who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He finished 13th in the Equestrian at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping, individual jumping event with his horse ''Falken''. Early life Torén was born on 8 March 1887 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of major general Gabriel Torén (1858–1919) and his wife Mary Hummel. He first trained in sprint running, but then changed to horse riding, as his father was an equestrian official and organizer of equestrian events at the 1912 Olympics. He became Swedish champion in running 400 meters in 1906 and broke the Scandinavian record in the same in 1906. Torén had four brothers. One of them, Helge (1891–1954), competed internationally in middle-distance running and held a national record over 800 m. Career Torén was commissioned as an officer with the rank of ''underlöjtnant'' in the Life Regiment Hussars in 1910. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märta Torén
Märta Torén (21 May 1925 – 19 February 1957) was a Swedish stage and film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Torén's father was a Swedish military officer, and for three years, during World War II, she was a secretary in the Swedish war office. After studying at the Stockholm Royal Dramatic Theater's Royal Dramatic Training Academy, Torén began her career on the stage and from 1947 she appeared in films. She appeared on the cover of the June 13 issue of ''Life Magazine'' in 1949. Torén appeared in 11 American film productions during her brief career. One of her roles was opposite Humphrey Bogart in ''Sirocco'' (1951), and she also co-starred with Dana Andrews in ''Assignment – Paris! ''Assignment – Paris!'' is a 1952 American Cold War film noir directed by Robert Parrish and starring Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders and Audrey Totter. Premise Paris-based ''New York Herald Tribune'' reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) i ...'' (1952). On Sunday February 17, 1957 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toren Smith
Toren V. Smith (April 12, 1960 – March 4, 2013) was a Canadian manga translator and founder of Studio Proteus. Early life Smith learned to read by the age of four, and by the age of 12 had won his first award for writing from the Calgary Stampede and Exhibition. By thirteen he had sold his first magazine article, an examination of body morphology in deep sea fishes, which included drawings by himself. In 1974 his science fair project in physics with Martin Brock won first place in the Physics category and they moved on to competition in London, where they took an Honorable Mention. Brock also introduced Smith to comics, which would become a lifetime passion. Smith had already been drawing for years, mostly influenced by newspaper strips such as '' B.C.'' and ''Andy Capp'', but now he began to look at the work of Jack Kirby and Walt Kelly. Upon entering high school, Smith became interested in what would now be called extreme sports. He participated in caving, motorcycle racing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graf Toren
Guy Gardner, one of the characters known as Green Lantern, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, usually in books featuring the Green Lantern family of characters, and for a time (late 1980s through mid 1990s) was also a significant member of the Justice League family of characters. He usually appears in books featuring the Green Lantern Corps, an intergalactic police force in which Gardner has usually been depicted as a member. Gardner's original design was based on actor Martin Milner. Finn Wittrock will portray Gardner in the upcoming live action HBO Max series ''Green Lantern''. Publication history Guy Gardner was created by John Broome and Gil Kane in ''Green Lantern'' #59 (March 1968), although the character was changed significantly in the 1980s by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton who turned him into a jingoistic parody of an ultra-macho "red-blooded American male". This latter remains the character's archetype to this date. Englehart reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandrilene Fa Toren
''Circle of Magic'' is a quartet of fantasy novels by Tamora Pierce, set in Emelan, a fictional realm in a pseudo-medieval and renaissance era. It revolves around four young mages, each specializing in a different kind of magic, as they learn to control their extraordinary and strong powers and put them to use. It is followed by another quartet, '' The Circle Opens'', which takes place four years later, and the standalone book ''The Will of the Empress'', which takes place several years after that. '' Melting Stones'' and ''Battle Magic'' are also set in the same universe, but they feature only Briar. Series *'' Sandry's Book'' (1997, also published as ''The Magic in the Weaving'') The four recover from their disastrous lives and move to Discipline Cottage. After just starting lessons, the four must spin their magics together to save themselves from disaster. *''Tris's Book'' (1998, also published as ''The Power in the Storm'') Things are finally settling down and the four have bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toren Van Goedereede
The Toren van Goedereede (;In isolation, ''Toren'' and ''van'' are pronounced and , respectively. Goederede Tower) is a gray square brick tower in Goedereede, Netherlands, high, belonging to the Catharina church. It was built in 1512. From 1552 to 1912 the tower served as a lighthouse, and went through various changes during this period. Today it has been restored and is a museum, housing a carillon. Church tower The original tower was part of a large parish church in the then-prosperous fishing and trading port. Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens (1459–1523), the future Pope Adrian VI, was pastor of the church. During a great fire in Goedereede in 1482 the old "Katharina Church" and its tower were destroyed. A new church was erected in 1512 beside a giant new tower, which still stands today. A large bell that sounded the hours was cast in 1519, with the Latin inscription, ''Est mea vox grata, quia sum Maria vocata et Georgius Waghevens Me fecit Anno Domini MCCCCCXVIII'' (My voice i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toren De Vlinder
Toren may refer to: People *Carl-Axel Torén (1887–1961), a Swedish equestrian * Märta Torén (1925–1957), a Swedish actress * Toren Smith (1960-2013), a Canadian translator of manga Fictional characters *Graf Toren, DC Comics character *Sandrilene fa Toren book character created by Tamora Pierce Places and buildings *Toren van Goedereede * Toren de Vlinder *KEMA Toren *Koningin Juliana Toren *Nieuwe Toren, Kampen *Vesteda Toren The Vesteda tower is located in Eindhoven and was finished in 2006. At tall and 28 floors it is the fourth highest building in Eindhoven. It bears a resemblance to the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City N ... Works * ''Toren'' (video game), 2015 video game {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEMA Toren
KEMA Toren is a broadcasting tower built of reinforced concrete at Arnhem, Netherlands. It was built in 1969 by KEMA for communicating between high voltage substations throughout the Netherlands. It is now used for public radio and TV broadcasting. It is also known as TenneT Toren, after TenneT, the present owner of the tower. See also * List of towers Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ... External links * Page at emporis.comPage at SkyscraperCityPhoto at nederlandonline Communication towers in the Netherlands Towers in Gelderland Buildings and structures in Arnhem Towers completed in 1969 1969 establishments in the Netherlands 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands {{Europe-mast-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koningin Juliana Toren
Julianatoren (English: ''Juliana Tower'') is an amusement park which is located in the municipality of Apeldoorn. The park is built around the Queen Juliana Tower, which was built in 1910, and is currently a rijksmonument (listed building). The tower was built next to Het Loo Palace, to celebrate the birth of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at the palace in 1909. Volkskrant
''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000.
Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...
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Nieuwe Toren, Kampen
The Nieuwe Toren (New Tower) is located at the Oudestraat in the city of Kampen, in the Netherlands. This Carillon tower was built in the period between 1649-1664 partly according to a design by Philips Vingboons. The lower brick-built part was erected by the Edam mill maker (Master carpenter) Dirck Janzn. The design for the lantern was made by Philips Vingboons, which may have originally been intended for the Town hall now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. The construction work went through many setbacks, the work even came to a standstill during the period 1655-1660. It was declared a Dutch National Monument (''Rijksmonument'') in 1972.Rijksmonument report Carillon The Tower houses a carillon which originally was cast and composed by François Hemony. Hemony cast 30 bells in 1659/62, which, with the exception of one little bell that was replaced in 1790 by L Haverkamp, are still present. During the first years, these Hemony bells were located in the Tower of the Kamper Town Hall, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesteda Toren
The Vesteda tower is located in Eindhoven and was finished in 2006. At tall and 28 floors it is the fourth highest building in Eindhoven. It bears a resemblance to the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L .... In 2007 it was awarded the '' BNA Building of the Year plaque'' ( nl), by the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects ( nl). File:Vestedatoren, Vestdijk, Eindhoven.jpg File:Vestedatoren, Eindhoven - zijkant.jpg File:Vestedatoren Eindhoven.JPG File:Vesteda Toren Eindhoven.jpg Residential skyscrapers in the Netherlands Residential buildings completed in 2006 Towers in North Brabant Buildings and structures in Eindhoven {{Netherlands-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
