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Wetherill is an English language surname, and may refer to: * Anna Wetherill Olmsted (1888–1961), American curator and museum director * Charles M. Wetherill, American chemist * Christine Wetherill (1878-1922), heiress to the Pittsburgh Paint Company, dramatist and arts patron *David Wetherill, British table tennis player *George Wetherill, American physicist *Louisa Wade Wetherill (1877–1945), American explorer and trader *Richard Wetherill, American archaeologist *Roderick Wetherill, American Army general See also * 2128 Wetherill *Fort Wetherill * Wetherill Park, New South Wales * Wetherell *Weatherall *Wetherall Wetherall is a surname, and may refer to: * David Wetherall (born 1971), English footballer * Frances Wetherall (born 1952), British sprint canoer * Frederick Augustus Wetherall (1754–1842), British Army general * George Augustus Wetherall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wetherill
Richard Wetherill (1858–1910), a member of a Colorado ranching family, was an amateur archaeologist who discovered, researched and excavated sites associated with the Ancient Pueblo People. He is credited with the rediscovery of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde in Colorado and was responsible for initially selecting the term ''Anasazi'', Navajo for ''ancient enemies,'' as the name for these ancient people. He also excavated Kiet Seel ruin, now in Navajo National Monument in northeastern Arizona, and Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Wetherill was fascinated by the ruins and artifacts of the Southwestern United States and made a living as a rancher, guide, excavator of ancient ruins, and trading post operator. He was criticized as a "pot hunter" by his archaeologist competitors, although many of the artifacts he found were sold or donated to prominent museums and his work was often financed or overseen by museums. In 1910, he was murdered in mysterious circumstances by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick Wetherill
Major General Roderick Wetherill Sr. (January 19, 1918 – June 26 − 1978) was a notable officer of the United States Army, serving from World War II through to the Vietnam War. The official Army history of the War in southeast Asia considers him to have been a "key ... commander in Vietnam". He is the son of Richard Wetherill and Elenor Jane Eckerson. Education and early career Wetherill graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1940, as had his father and both his sons, Roderick Jr. and Robert Wetherill as well as both grandsons, Chad and Brett Wetherill. While a young Lieutenant, he married Josephine Bolling, in March 1941, at a church in Waban, Massachusetts; his bride was a daughter of Army officer Alexander R. Bolling, who later became a lieutenant general and former Chief of Army Intelligence. Wetherill was working there at West Point after graduation, and residing in Highland Falls, New York, when his son, Roderick Wetherill Jr., was born on January 20, 1942. His fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Wade Wetherill
Louisa Wade Wetherill (2 September 1877 – 18 September 1945) lived with her husband and children in remote trading posts among the Navajo people in New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona for more than 25 years and became an authority on Navajo culture. She spoke the Navajo language and became expert in medicinal herbs and plants known to the Navajo, art, especially sandpainting, traditional stories, and weaving. She was known by the Navajo as ''Asthon Sosi'' or "Slim Woman." Early life and family Mary Louise Wade was born 2 September 1877 in Wells, Nevada, the daughter of Jack Wade, a U.S. Army Captain, and Julia France Rush Wade. When she was about two years old, the family moved to Mancos, Colorado. The Wetherill family lived nearby. Louisa married John Wetherill, 30 years old, on 17 March 1896 when she was eighteen. John Wetherill was one of several brothers who became interested in the ruins and artifacts left by the Ancestral Puebloans who had lived six hundred years earlier at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Wetherill
Fort Wetherill is a former coast artillery fort that occupies the southern portion of the eastern tip of Conanicut Island in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It sits atop high granite cliffs, overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay. Fort Dumpling from the American Revolutionary War occupied the site until it was built over by Fort Wetherill. Wetherill was deactivated and turned over to the State of Rhode Island after World War II and is now operated as Fort Wetherill State Park, a reservation managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Early history In 1776, an 8-gun earthwork fortification was constructed by patriot forces at the site of Dumpling Rock, which overlooks the strategic East Passage toward Newport. This old fort was occupied by American, British, and French forces for various periods of time during the American Revolutionary War. The patriots called it the Dumpling Rock Battery; the British called it Fort Dumpling Rock. The British abandoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wetherill
George Wetherill (August 12, 1925 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – July 19, 2006 Washington, DC) was a physicist and geologist and the Director Emeritus of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA. In 2000, Wetherill received the J. Lawrence Smith Medal from the National Academy of Sciences "For his unique contributions to the cosmochronology of the planets and meteorites and to the orbital dynamics and formation of solar system bodies." In 2003, Wetherill received the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the highest honor bestowed by the American Astronomical Society, "For pioneering the application of modern physics and numerical simulations to the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets." Early life and education George Wetherill was born on August 12, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wetherill benefited from the G.I. Bill to receive four degrees, the Ph.B. (1948), S.B. (1949), S.M. (1951), and Ph.D., in physics (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherill Park, New South Wales
Wetherill Park is a suburb in Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Wetherill Park is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. The recorded that Wetherill Park as having a resident population of 6,127. Just under half (47.5%) of these residents were born in Australia. The area is 11.2 km2. Most residents live in the south-east corner, the larger portion of the suburb being an industrial area. Wetherill Park sits on the southern border of Prospect Reservoir. Located partially in the suburb, the ''Smithfield-Wetherill Park Industrial Estate'' is the largest industrial estate in the southern hemisphere and is the centre of manufacturing and distribution in Greater Western Sydney. History Aboriginal culture Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal clan of the Gandangara tribe, have lived in the area for more than 30,000 years. White settlement Wetherill Park was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Wetherill Stevenson
Christine Wetherill Stevenson (April 12, 1878 – November 21, 1922) was an heiress of the Pittsburgh Paint Company and founder of the Philadelphia Art Alliance. In later years, her goal was to build her own open-air theatre and hold her own plays, an objective which she achieved shortly before her death in 1922. Establishing the Pilgrimage Theatre (now known as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre) in a rural section of Los Angeles County, she then played a major role in creating that theater's first production, ''Life of Christ'', which received significant advance newspaper coverage and was described "an American Oberammergau." Biography Born on April 12, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Christine Wetherill, she was a daughter of Samuel Price Wetherill (1846-1926) and Christine (Northrop) Wetherill (1852-1930). Her father was a descendant of Samuel Wetherill, who was a fellow member, with Betsy Ross, of the Free Quaker Meeting House. Christine Wetherill was married twic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wetherill
David Wetherill (born 22 December 1989) is a British international table tennis player who has the rare bone development disorder Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. Wetherill's hometown is Torpoint, Cornwall Wetherill completed his bachelor's degree in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in 2011. He has represented Great Britain at three international Paralympic Games, the first being Beijing in 2008 followed by London in 2012 and then 2016 Paralympic Games io 2016 He finished in the top 8 in the 2008 games. and was knocked out after his second game in 2012. Wetherill won a bronze medal in the singles and a silver medal in the team event at the 2015 European Championships. On 9 March 2016 Wetherill was officially selected as a member of the GB Paralympic Table Tennis Team for the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Wetherill has also shown support for charities, and on 28 October spent the day participating in the 'Do it for you' day with cancer patients from the Sheffield Childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wetherill Olmsted
Anna Wetherill Olmsted (1888 – February 8, 1961) was an American museum director and art critic from Syracuse, New York. She was the founder of the National Ceramic Exhibition and served as director of the Syracuse Museum of Fine Art (now the Everson Museum) from 1930 to 1957. Her work was instrumental to increasing the prominence of ceramics as an art form in the United States. Early life and education Anna Wetherill Olmsted was born in 1888, in Syracuse, New York. She was a great-granddaughter of early American art patron Charles Wetherill and studied painting at the Syracuse University College of Fine Arts. Career Olmsted briefly worked as assistant director of the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts from 1929 until 1930, when she became museum director, a position she held until 1957. After stepping down as director, she was named director emeritus and curator of decorative arts at the museum. In 1932, Olmsted founded the National Ceramic Exhibition, also known as the Cerami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wetherell
Wetherell is an English surname, and may refer to: *Sir Charles Wetherell (1770–1846), English lawyer, politician and judge *Chris Wetherell, musician in American rock bands Dealership and Citizens Here and Abroad *Elizabeth Wetherell, pen name of Susan Warner (1819–1885), American evangelical writer *Ernest Wetherell (1893–1969), Australian politician * Frank E. Wetherell, American architect *Gordon Wetherell (born 1948), British diplomat, governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands *Henry Wetherell (1775–1857), British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Hereford *Ian Colin Wetherell, birth name of Ian Colin (1910–1987), British film and television actor * Joe Wetherell (1880–unknown), English footballer *Manoli Wetherell, New York Bureau Chief Engineer for National Public Radio *Margaret Wetherell, British discourse analyst *Marmaduke Wetherell (1884–1939), British–South African actor, screenwriter and film director *Marmaduke Wetherell, British big-game hunter alleged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
