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Thwing (other)
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Thwing may refer to: Places * Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, English village, United Kingdom People * Alfred L. Thwing (1876–1945), American lawyer and politician * Annie Haven Thwing, (1851–1940), American historian and children's author * Charles Franklin Thwing, (1853–1937), American clergyman and educator * Edward Thwing (1635–1600), English Catholic priest and martyr * Thomas Thwing, (1635–1680), English Catholic priest and martyr * John Twenge, (1319–1379), sometimes called John Thwing See also * Thing (other) * Thring, a surname * Twing Twing.com was a search engine before the end of 2008 specializing in internet forum content, located in Jersey City, New Jersey, with data centers around the world. Twing.com used vertical searching as a forum search service that seeks out comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thwing, East Riding Of Yorkshire
Thwing is a village and civil parish in the Yorkshire Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Description Thwing is located in the Yorkshire Wolds about west of the North Sea coast at Bridlington.Ordnance Survey. 1:25000. 2009 The village has a 12th-century Norman Church (All Saints), and a pub known as ''The Falling Stone'', previously ''The Rampant Horse'', before 1976 the ''Raincliffe Arms''. It rises from about in the north-east corner of the parish to a high point of in the south-west. The parish covers an area of . The civil parish is sparsely populated, with, according to the 2011 UK census, a population of 203, the same as the 2001 UK census figure. The main settlements are the village of Thwing and the smaller hamlet of Octon. There are farmsteads at Octon Grange, The Wold Cottage, and Willy Howe farm. Land use is almost entirely agricultural, predominately enclosed fields. There is a private crematorium, East Riding Crematorium, at Octon Crossroads, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred L
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher * Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario * Alfred Island, Nunavut * Mount Alfred, British Columbia United States * Alfred, Main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Haven Thwing
Annie Haven Thwing (July 4, 1851 – June 5, 1940), also known as A.H. Thwing or Anne Haven Thwing, was an American historian and children's author. Her book for children, ''Chicken Little'', with illustrations by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, appeared in 1899; as the title suggests, the book re-tells the old story of a chicken who believes the sky is falling. As an historian Thwing compiled an enormous card index of subjects related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts. She donated the index to the Massachusetts Historical Society, where the cards "occupied seventy-four library drawers in the catalog room." She also created a 3-dimensional model of the town of Boston as it appeared in 1775, based on her research. The model now resides on public display in the Old South Meeting House. In 1920 her book on Boston history, ''The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822'', reached the ''Boston Globe'' best-seller list. At the time the book sold for five dollars. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Franklin Thwing
Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing (November 9, 1853 – August 29, 1937) was an American clergyman and educator. Birth He was born in New Sharon, Maine on November 9, 1853. He graduated from Harvard University in 1876, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1879. He then served as a pastor in churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Reverend Thwing became president of Adelbert College and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1899, as president of Western Reserve, he signed a petition to President William McKinley to mediate the conflict between Great Britain and the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. In 1909 was a member of the National Negro Committee The National Negro Committee (formed: New York City, May 31 and June 1, 1909 - ceased: New York City, May 12, 1910) was created in response to the Springfield race riot of 1908 against the black community in Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, Il ..., the precursor to the NAACP. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thwing
Edward Thwing ( - 26 July 1600) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. Life Edward Thwing was born about 1565, the second son of Thomas Thwing of Heworth, York and Jane (née Kellet, of York), his wife. He was related to the 14th-century saint John Thwing of Bridlington. Thwing went to the English College at Reims in the summer of 1583. Then he spent some time with the Jesuits at Pont-à-Mousson. He returned to Reims in July, 1585, where he remained until September 1587. He then went to Rome to complete his studies. He returned to Reims because of ill health and became a reader of Greek and Hebrew, and a professor of rhetoric and logic. He was ordained priest at Laon on 20 December 1590. In November 1592, he went to Spa suffering from an ulcer in the knee. He returned to the English College, which had in the meantime been transferred from Reims to Douai. He was sent on the English mission in 1597. He seems to have been immediately arrested and charged under the Jesuits, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thwing
Thomas Thwing (1635–1680) was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr, executed for his supposed part in the Barnbow Plot, an offshoot of the fabricated Popish Plot invented by Titus Oates. His feast day is 23 October. Early life His father was George Thwing, Esq. of Kilton Castle, Brotton, and Heworth Hall. His mother was Anne, daughter of Sir John Gascoigne and his wife Anne Ingleby, and sister of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 2nd Baronet, of Barnbow Hall, Barwick in Elmet. Both parents were Yorkshire recusants. The martyr Edward Thwing was his great-uncle. Thomas was born at Heworth Hall, Heworth, York, and educated at St Omer and at the English College (Douai), ordained a priest and sent to minister at the English Mission in 1665, which he did for roughly 14 years. Until April 1668, he was chaplain at Carlton Hall, the seat of his cousins, the Stapleton family. He opened a school at Quosque, the Stapletons' dower-house. He lived on Hepworth Lane, in Carlton, Selby. In 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Twenge
John Twenge (Saint John of Bridlington, John Thwing, John of Thwing, John Thwing of Bridlington) (1320–1379) is an English saint of the 14th century. In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation for great holiness and for miraculous powers. St John of Bridlington was commended for the integrity of his life, his scholarship, and his quiet generosity. He was the last English saint to be canonised before the English Reformation. Life Born in 1320 in the village of Thwing on the Yorkshire Wolds, about nine miles west of Bridlington,Wilson, Mike. "St John of Bridlington", Bridlington.net he was of the family Twenge, which during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thing (other)
Thing or The Thing may refer to: Philosophy * An object * Broadly, an entity * Thing-in-itself (or ''noumenon''), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant * Thing theory, a branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture History * Thing (assembly), also spelled as ''ting'' or ''þing'', a historical Germanic governing assembly * The Thing (listening device), a Soviet bug used during the Cold War for eavesdropping on the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union * The Thing (art project), a 1990s community-based in New York City Film and television * ''The Thing from Another World'', often referred to as ''The Thing'', 1951 science fiction film based on the novella ''Who Goes There?'' * '' The Thing'' (1982 film), a remake of the 1951 film, directed by John Carpenter, more closely following the original novella ''Who Goes There?'' * '' The Thing'' (2011 film), a prequel to the 1982 film * Thing ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thring
Thring is a surname of British origin. It may refer to: *Edward Thring (1821–1887), British educator *F. W. Thring (1883–1936), Australian filmmaker *Frank Thring (1926–1994), Australian actor *Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), British hymn writer *Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818–1907), British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman *J. C. Thring (1824–1909), British football rulemaker *Sir Arthur Thring (1860–1932), British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman *Meredith Thring (1915–2006), British inventor See also * Our Thing (other) * Thang (other) * Thing (other) * Things (other) * Thwing (other) Thwing may refer to: Places * Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, English village, United Kingdom People * Alfred L. Thwing (1876–1945), American lawyer and politician * Annie Haven Thwing, (1851–1940), American historian and children's aut ... {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |