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Tip (nickname)
Tip is the nickname of: * R. E. Foster (1878-1914), English cricketer and footballer * Tip Logan (1927-2007), Canadian football player * Tip Marugg (1923-2006), Dutch-Curaçaoan writer and poet * Aaron S. Merrill (1890-1961), American vice admiral * Tip O'Neill (1912-1994), American politician * Tip O'Neill (baseball) (1858-1915), Canadian Major League Baseball player * Tip Snooke (1881-1966), South African cricketer * Tip Tipping (1958-1993), English film and television stuntman and actor * Tip Williams (1900-1974), Welsh cricketer See also * Tipper Gore Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (née Aitcheson; born August 19, 1948) is an American social issues advocate, activist, photographer and author who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was married to Al Gore, the 45th vi ... (born 1948), American author, photographer, and social issues advocate, wife of former Vice President Al Gore Lists of people by nickname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip Logan
John Robert Logan, nicknamed Tip Logan (November 30, 1927 – November 25, 2007), was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger Cats The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Fiel .... He won the Grey Cup with them in 1953. Born in Fort Erie, Ontario, he previously attended Queen's University. Logan later worked as an insurance agent in Hamilton. He died in 2007. References Hamilton Tiger-Cats players Players of Canadian football from Ontario Sportspeople from Fort Erie, Ontario 1927 births 2007 deaths {{Canadianfootball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip Marugg
Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg (16 December 1923 in Willemstad, Curaçao – 22 April 2006) was a Dutch-Curaçaoan writer and poet of Venezuelan/ Swiss heritage. His novel ''De morgen loeit weer aan'' (1988) was nominated for a major Dutch literature prize. schrijversinfo.nl His style is best characterized as a variation on magic realism. Marugg also wrote several poems (published in literary magazines as well as his book of poems ''Afschuw van Licht'') and a ''Dikshonario Erotiko''; a dictionary of all words with an erotic meaning used in Papiamentu
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Aaron S
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Knowledge of Aaron, along with his brother Moses, exclusively comes from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Bible and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt ( Goshen). When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman ("prophet") to the Pharaoh (). Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Aaron died before the Israelites crossed the Jordan river. According to the Book of Numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 47th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts, as a Democrat from 1953 to 1987. The only Speaker to serve for five complete consecutive Congresses, he is the third longest-serving Speaker in American history after Sam Rayburn and Henry Clay in terms of total tenure and longest-serving in terms of continuous tenure (Rayburn and Clay served multiple terms in the Speakership). Born in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, O'Neill began campaigning at a young age, volunteering for Al Smith's campaign in the 1928 presidential election. After graduating from Boston College, O'Neill won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he became a strong advocate of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies. He became Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1949 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip O'Neill (baseball)
James Edward "Tip" O'Neill (May 15, 1860 – December 31, 1915) was a Canadian professional baseball player from approximately 1875 to 1892. He began playing organized baseball in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, and later played ten seasons in Major League Baseball, principally as a left fielder, but also as a pitcher, for four major league clubs. While playing with the St. Louis Browns (later renamed The St. Louis Cardinals) from 1884 to 1889, O'Neill helped the club compile a 516–247 record while also winning four pennants and the 1886 World Series. O'Neill won two American Association batting championships during those years and became the second person in major league history to hit for a triple crown, leading the league in 1887 with a .435 batting average, 14 home runs and 123 runs batted in (RBIs). He also rewrote the major league record book, establishing new records in at least eight categories, including the highest batting average (originally .492, adjusted to .435), on-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip Snooke
Sibley John "Tip" Snooke (1 February 1881 – 14 August 1966) played Test cricket for South Africa as an all-rounder, captaining the side to victory 3–2 against England in a five-Test series in South Africa in 1909–10. He played in 26 Test matches, playing the first 23 between 1906 and 1912, and he was recalled aged 41 for three further Test matches against England in South Africa in 1922–23. Snooke was born in St Mark's, Tembuland. He scored 1,008 Test runs at a batting average of 22.39, including one century against Australia at Adelaide in 1910–11, and took 35 Test wickets at a bowling average of 20.05, with best figures of 8/70 in an innings and 12/127 for a match, both against England at Johannesburg in 1905–06. Four years later against England at Cape Town, he dismissed two batsmen – Wilfred Rhodes and David Denton – in the very first over of a Test match, a feat that was not repeated until nearly ninety years later. He played 124 first-class cricket matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip Tipping
Tip Tipping (13 February 1958 – 5 February 1993) was an English film and television stuntman and actor. Biography Prior to his career as a stuntman, Tipping served in the Royal Marines and 21st SAS Regiment. He appeared in television series such as '' Doctor Who'', ''The New Statesman'', ''Bottom'', ''The Bill'' and ''Poirot'', and films including '' Never Say Never Again'' (1983), '' Batman'' (1989), '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989) and '' Aliens'' (1986, in a credited role as Private Crowe). Tipping died on 5 February 1993, aged 34, in a parachuting accident at Brunton, near Alnwick, Northumberland, while filming for the BBC documentary series ''999''. He is interred in the churchyard at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wadhurst Wadhurst is a market town in East Sussex, England. It is the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which also includes the hamlets of Cousley Wood and Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France. Situation Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tip Williams
Lewis Erskine Wyndham 'Tip' Williams (28 November 1900 – 24 April 1974) was a Welsh cricketer. Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born at Bonvilston, Glamorgan. He was educated in his early years at the Oratory School. Williams made his first-class debut for Glamorgan in 1928 against Oxford University. From 1928 to 1930, he made 4 first-class appearances, with his final first-class appearance for the county coming against Oxford University. In his 4 first-class matches, he scored 145 runs at a batting average of 24.16, with a single half century One half ( : halves) is the irreducible fraction resulting from dividing one by two or the fraction resulting from dividing any number by its double. Multiplication by one half is equivalent to division by two, or "halving"; conversely, ... high score of 53 *. In the field he also took a single catch Through his close links to the county club, he was influential in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipper Gore
Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (née Aitcheson; born August 19, 1948) is an American social issues advocate, activist, photographer and author who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was married to Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, although they separated in 2010. In 1985, Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), which advocated for labeling of record covers of releases featuring profane language, especially in the heavy metal, punk, and hip hop genres of music. Throughout her decades of public life, she has advocated for placing advisory labels on music (leading critics to call her a censor), mental health awareness, women's causes, children's causes, LGBT rights, and reducing homelessness. Early life and education Born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson in Washington, D.C., Tipper Gore is the daughter of John Kenneth "Jack" Aitcheson, Jr., a plumbing-supply entrepreneur and owner of J & H Aitcheson Plumbing Supply, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
