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Waterhouse (other)
Waterhouse may refer to: People *Waterhouse (surname) Places * Waterhouse, Tasmania, a locality in Australia * Waterhouse Island (other) * Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica ** Waterhouse F.C., a football club based in the Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica * Waterhouse Museum in New Jersey Other uses * Waterhouse Company, a coachbuilder located in Webster, Massachusetts * Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an annual prize awarded by the South Australian Museum See also * Little Waterhouse Lake, Tasmania, Australia * PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international professional services firm * TD Waterhouse, a Canadian financial services corporation * Waterhouse's swamp rat Waterhouse's swamp rat (''Scapteromys tumidus'') is a semiaquatic rodent species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, where it lives in freshwater and salt marshes, as well as open grassland of ..., a rodent species from South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse (surname)
Waterhouse From old German / Dutch, meaning a house by water. Most common in the Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire regions Old English locational surname. Notable people with this surname include A * Agnes Waterhouse (c. 1503 – 1566), first woman executed for witchcraft in England * Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), English architect * Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), British poet and musician * Annie Waterhouse ( 1814 – 1896), English illustrator, engraver, woodcutter and teacher B * Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), American physician * Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894), English sculptor and natural history artist * Bertrand James Waterhouse (1876–1965), Australian architect * Bill Waterhouse (1922–2019), Australian barrister and bookmaker C * Charles Waterhouse (other), several names :* Charles Owen Waterhouse (1843–1917), English entomologist :*Charles Waterhouse (artist) (born 1924), American painter, illustrator and sculptor :* Charles Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse, Tasmania
Waterhouse is a rural locality in the local government area of Dorset in the North-east region of Tasmania. It is located about north-east of the town of Scottsdale. History Waterhouse was gazetted as a locality in 1959. Etymology The locality is believed to have been named Waterhouse due to its proximity to Waterhouse Island, which was named after Captain Henry Waterhouse of the '' Reliance'' by Captain Matthew Flinders. Geography Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ... forms the western and part of the northern boundaries. The Great Forester River forms part of the southern boundary. Road infrastructure The B82 route (Waterhouse Road) enters from the south-west and runs north-east and east before exiting in the north-east. Route C832 (Old Waterho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse Island (other)
Waterhouse Island may refer to: * Little Waterhouse Island, Australia * Waterhouse Island (Tasmania) Waterhouse Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a granite island situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The Waterhouse Island Group includes the Waterhouse, ..., Australia * Waterhouse Island (Antarctica), a small island near Davis Station named for Medical Officer Dr Robbin Waterhouse in 1971. {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse District Of Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. In the Americas, Kingston is the largest predominantly English-speaking city in the Caribbean. The local government bodies of the parishes of Kingston and Saint Andrew were amalgamated by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation Act of 1923, to form the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC). Greater Kingston, or the "Corporate Area" refers to those areas under the KSAC; however, it does not solely refer to Kingston Parish, which only consists of the old downtown and Port Royal. Kingston Parish had a population of 89,057, and St. Andrew Parish had a population of 573,369 in 2011 Kingston is only bordered by Saint Andrew to the east, west and north. The geographical border for the parish of K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse F
Waterhouse may refer to: People *Waterhouse (surname) Places * Waterhouse, Tasmania, a locality in Australia * Waterhouse Island (other) * Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica ** Waterhouse F.C., a football club based in the Waterhouse district of Kingston, Jamaica * Waterhouse Museum in New Jersey Other uses * Waterhouse Company, a coachbuilder located in Webster, Massachusetts * Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an annual prize awarded by the South Australian Museum See also * Little Waterhouse Lake, Tasmania, Australia * PricewaterhouseCoopers, an international professional services firm * TD Waterhouse, a Canadian financial services corporation * Waterhouse's swamp rat, a rodent species from South America * Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat, a species of bat from Central America * Waterhouses (other) * William H. Waterhouse House, a historic home in Maitland, Florida * {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse Museum
The Waterhouse Museum was located in Toms River, New Jersey. The museum exhibited art by Colonel Charles Waterhouse, a U. S. Marine veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJ ... during World War II.Third Marine Division Association, Inc. ''CALTRAP'', vol. 52, no. 2 (March/April 2008), p. 1, 6 & 10. The works at the museum depicted military scenes from the American Revolutionary War to the present with a focus on the Marine Corps. When the museum closed, the majority of Waterhouse's body of work was gifted to the United States Marine Corps. The Museum included: *Colonel's Studio *Conference Gallery *Foyer Gallery *Illustration Gallery *Main Gallery *Studio Gallery See also * Marine Corps Museums * United States Marine Corps History D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse Company
The Waterhouse Company of Webster, Massachusetts were coachbuilders making high quality custom bodies for chassis supplied by the major automotive businesses. Waterhouse was founded in 1928 by Charles L Waterhouse (1870-1953) with his sons Moses Sargent Waterhouse and Charles L Waterhouse junior. Charles L Waterhouse senior had been a key employee at Judkins and the brothers had spent some years there.Hugo Pfau, ''The Coachbuilt Packard'', Darlton Watson, London 1973 When demand was high in 1929 they received an order from Packard's export department for a car to be exhibited at the Paris salon. It was a very short notice order which no other coachbuilder would accept. The new body attracted the attention of Packard's president and orders for duplicates followed. The doors were closed on the coachbuilding section in 1933 but they continued to make small boats and during World War 2 supplied marine ordnance and, after the war, furniture. Waterhouse also put their custom bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, formerly the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, is a biennial competition for artists, with a science theme, organised by the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, South Australia. History The prize was established in 2002 and named after Frederick George Waterhouse, who was the first curator of the Museum. He discovered 40 new species of fish along the SA coastline, collected plants, insects, reptiles, birds and mammals and was an avid naturalist. The annual competition changed its name to "Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize" in 2013. It offered a total prize pool of in that year. The competition was not held in 2015 due to a consultative review on the nature of the competition. However, a retrospective exhibition, ''Magnified: 12 years of the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize'', exhibiting all winners thus far, took place at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra. It was held again in 2016, and has been held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Waterhouse Lake
Little Waterhouse Lake is a freshwater coastal lagoon in the Waterhouse Conservation Area of north-eastern Tasmania, Australia. In 1982 it was designated a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. Description The Ramsar site encompasses Little Waterhouse Lake, its adjacent floodplain to the south, with the marshland extending downstream of the lake. The lake lies near Bass Strait behind coastal dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...s and receives its water from local catchment runoff. It has high floral diversity, with over 40 species of aquatic and semi-aquatic plants. The site also supports the threatened Growling Grass Frog and Dwarf Galaxias. See also * List of reservoirs and dams in Tasmania * List of lakes in Tasmania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG. PwC firms are in 157 countries, across 742 locations, with 284,000 people. As of 2019, 26% of the workforce was based in the Americas, 26% in Asia, 32% in Western Europe and 5% in Middle East and Africa. The company's global revenues were $42.4 billion in FY 2019, of which $17.4 billion was generated by its Assurance practice, $10.7 billion by its Tax and Legal practice and $14.4 billion by its Advisory practice. The firm in its recent actual form was created in 1998 by a merger between two accounting firms: Coopers & Lybrand, and Price Waterhouse. Both firms had histories dating back to the 19th century. The trading name was shortened to PwC (stylized p''w''c) in September 2010 as part of a rebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TD Waterhouse
TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. is a Canadian financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and owned by Toronto-Dominion Bank. The company does business through several divisions, TD Direct Investing, TD Wealth Financial Planning, and TD Wealth Private Investment Advice. The TD Waterhouse brand was also formerly used for TD's American and British brokerages. History TD's original brokerage, Greenline Investor Services, was established in 1984. Greenline Investor Services merged with Gardiner Group Stockholders in 1987, becoming the first Canadian bank to purchase seats on the Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Alberta stock exchanges. In 1993, Greenline Investor Services acquired the operations of Marathon Brokerage, a Canadian discount brokerage. The TD Waterhouse brand originated as an American brand for discount brokerage when TD purchased Waterhouse Securities in 1996. The name TD Waterhouse was formed and was used for TD's British, Canadian, and American brokera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterhouse's Swamp Rat
Waterhouse's swamp rat (''Scapteromys tumidus'') is a semiaquatic rodent species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, where it lives in freshwater and salt marshes, as well as open grassland of the pampas. Its karyotype A karyotype is the general appearance of the complete set of metaphase chromosomes in the cells of a species or in an individual organism, mainly including their sizes, numbers, and shapes. Karyotyping is the process by which a karyotype is disce ... has 2n = 24, substantially lower than its closest relative '' S. aquaticus'' with 2n = 32. References Scapteromys Mammals described in 1837 {{Cricetidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
