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Wooster (other)
Wooster may refer to: Places India * Wooster Nagar, a small fishing village in the state of Tamil Nadu United States * Wooster, Arkansas, a town in Faulkner County * Wooster, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Wooster, Kosciusko County, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Wooster, Scott County, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Wooster, Ohio, a city in Wayne County * Wooster, Baytown, Texas * Wooster Square, a neighborhood in the city of New Haven, Connecticut * Wooster Township, Wayne County, Ohio Schools in the United States * College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio * Earl Wooster High School, in Reno, Nevada * Wooster High School (Ohio), in Wooster, Ohio * Wooster School, in Danbury, Connecticut Groups and organizations * Wooster Collective, an online street art website * The Wooster Group, a New York-based U.S. ensemble of theatre and media artists * Wooster Warriors, a former U.S. ice hockey team Other uses * Wooster Island, an island in the Housatonic R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooster Nagar
Wooster Nagar is the name of a small fishing village in Chengalpattu district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Dedicated 3 January 2007, the village consists of 26 homes built with funds donated by citizens of Wooster, Ohio USA.''In Touch South India'', Headlines from the U.S. Consulate General, Chennai, Feb-Mar 2007, Vol. IV, Issue 1. In recognition of these donations, the village residents renamed their village Wooster Nagar. "Nagar" is from Sanskrit and means city. The village is located at Pudupattinam, just inland from the Indian Ocean coastline, an hour south of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu. Village residents, employed as inland waters fishermen, saw their nearby homes completely destroyed by the December 2004 tsunami which hit, among other areas, the eastern coast of India. References External linksA blog which includes a May 2008 visit to Wooster Nagar.*College of Wooster The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio. Founded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooster Warriors
The Wooster Warriors were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the Mid-Atlantic Hockey League (MAHL). The team was one of the inaugural members of the MAHL while based in Wooster, Ohio, with home games at the Alice Noble Ice Arena for their first season in 2007–08. In April 2008, it was announced the team would relocate to Trenton, Michigan Trenton is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. At the 2010 census, the city population was 18,853. A Shawnee village was built in the area by war chief Blue Jacket after the 1795 Treaty of Greenville. The area later became the site ..., for the second season with home games at the 1,000-seat Kennedy Recreation Center under the name Trenton Warriors. The MAHL and the Warriors folded before its second season in September 2008. References External links Trenton Warriors Mid-Atlantic Hockey League teams Ice hockey teams in Michigan {{Michigan-sport-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wooster
The following is a list of recurring and notable fictional characters featured in the Jeeves novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. Anatole Anatole is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being the supremely skilled French chef of Aunt Dahlia at her country house Brinkley Court. He is mentioned in many of the stories and is often praised as "God's gift to the gastric juices". A small, rotund man, Anatole has a large moustache; Bertie Wooster notes that the ends of Anatole's moustache turn up when he is happy and droop when he is upset. Originally from Provence, Anatole speaks English with a mixed fluency, having learned much of his English from Bingo Little and an American chauffeur from Brooklyn. Anatole previously worked for the Littles but entered Aunt Dahlia's employment in " Clustering Round Young Bingo". The only cook known to be able to make food that agrees with Tom Travers's digestion, he was relied on to such an extent that Tom Travers post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertie Wooster
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster is a fictional character in the comedic Jeeves stories created by British author P. G. Wodehouse. An amiable English gentleman and one of the "idle rich", Bertie appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to save Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward situations. Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have been described as "one of the great comic double-acts of all time". Bertie is the narrator and central figure of most of the Jeeves short stories and novels. The two exceptions are the short story "Bertie Changes His Mind" (1922), which is narrated by Jeeves, and the novel ''Ring for Jeeves'' (1953), a third-person narration in which Bertie is mentioned but does not appear. First appearing in " Extricating Young Gussie" in 1915, Bertie is the narrator of ten novels and over 30 short stories, his last appearance being in the novel '' Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'', published in 1974. Inspiration The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooster And Davis
''Wooster and Davis'' -- Lieutenant Stanton Hall Wooster (April 1, 1895, Connecticut – April 26, 1927) and Lieutenant Commander Noel Guy Davis (December 25, 1891, Salt Lake City, Utah – April 26, 1927) were two United States Navy (USN) airmen who made an attempt to fly the Atlantic Ocean from New York-to-Paris in the spring of 1927. The men were trying to win the $25,000 dollar Orteig Prize offered by New York hotelier Raymond Orteig for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Competitors for the prize were French World War One ace Rene Fonck and his crew of three, USN Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence Chamberlain w/plane owner Charles Levine, and a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh. On the Paris side of the Atlantic their competitors were another World War One French ace, Charles Nungesser, and his navigator Francois Coli. Wooster and Davis flew a Keystone ''Pathfinder'' (N-X179) plane called ''American Legion''. Newsreel footage taken of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Wooster
Reginald Wooster (19 January 1903 – 12 September 1968) was an English cricketer. Wooster was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Kettering, Northamptonshire. Wooster made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against Dublin University in 1925. In his match, he took the wicket of James Wills for the cost of 23 runs from 9 overs. He followed this up by scoring 6 runs in Northamptonshire's only innings of the match, before being dismissed by James Willis. In Dublin University's second-innings, Wooster took 5 wickets for the cost of 54 runs from 13 overs. Wooster's final three wickets were taken with consecutive balls and this is the only case of a bowler getting a hat-trick in his only first class match. Despite this, he never played for Northamptonshire again. According to Keith Walmsley author of Brief Candles, a book about cricketers who only played in one first-class match, Wooster was invited to play for Northamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Wooster
Louise Catharine Wooster (June 12, 1842 – May 16, 1913), better known as Lou Wooster, was a famous madam in Birmingham, Alabama. Her colorful character and her care for the sick and dying during the cholera epidemic of 1873 endeared her to the Birmingham community. The shocking true story of the Birmingham Madam The "Lou Wooster Public Health Award" is named in her honor. Overview Louise Wooster was born on June 12, 1842, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to William Wooster and Mary Chism Wooster. Her father died in 1851 and Mary Wooster remarried. A few years later, Lou's stepfather abandoned the family and took their money with him. Mary Wooster died a few years later virtually destitute. By her middle teens, Lou was an orphan with nothing to rely on but the mercy of relatives. During this time, she was abused, attempted suicide, and her older sister became a prostitute. She later wrote that she "fell, step by step, until at last I was beyond redemption". In 1873, Lou was a well-pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Wooster
Fred L. J. Wooster (5 January 1938 – 1 November 1993) was one of the founders of the Saanich Lacrosse Association in Saanich, British Columbia, and a well known local figure for lacrosse. Wooster devoted much of his time and work behind the scenes organizing box lacrosse clubs and developing players in the Victoria, British Columbia area. Notably, Wooster played for the Victoria Shamrocks The Victoria Shamrocks are a Senior A box lacrosse team, based in Victoria, British Columbia. The team competes in the 7-team Western Lacrosse Association (WLA). The Shamrocks entered the former Inter-City Lacrosse League, which is now the WLA, i ... during the 1950s and early 1960s, maintaining ties to the organisation throughout his life. He also held executive positions with the British Columbia Lacrosse Association, including president from 1972 to 1973. In 1987, Fred Wooster was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. ReferencesCanadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wooster
Edward Wooster (1622 in England – July 8, 1689) was an English early settler of Colonial America, and "the first permanent settler in Derby", Connecticut. In 1642, Wooster enters the record as one of the first colonists of Milford, Connecticut. In 1651, he received permission to settle an area known as "Paugusset". In 1669, he was appointed constable of Paugusset. He served the settlement in a variety of ways, but earned the nickname (and a bounty from the town) as the "wolf killer" for helping to drive the predators out of the area. In 1659, he petitioned the court in New Haven New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 ... for pay for the seven wolves he had killed in or near "Paugassett" which was what Derby was called at that point. Ironically, Wooster lived in the area a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wooster
David Wooster ( – May 2, 1777) was an American general who served in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. He died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Several cities, schools, and public places were named after him thereafter. He has been called "a largely forgotten hero of the Revolution." Early years David Wooster was born in Stratford, in the British colony of Connecticut. He entered Yale College in 1735, and graduated in 1738.Robertson, p. 39 In 1739, following the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain, he joined the colonial militia as a lieutenant, but apparently saw no action. In 1741 he was named lieutenant of a ship of the ''guarda-costa'', or coast guard, which the colony had established to protect against potential Spanish attack.Robertson, p. 40 He was later promoted to captain. On March 6, 1745, Wooster married Marie Clapp, the daughter of Yale's president, Thomas Clapp. They went on to have four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Whiting Wooster
Charles William Whiting Wooster, was a Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1780, the grandson of General David Wooster. Wooster went to sea at an early age. During the War of 1812, he served on board the U.S. privateer ''Saratoga''. Having earned substantial prize money and gained significant influence, he was named captain of the Port of New York and New Jersey, Port of New York after the war. With the death of his young wife, he chose to join the fight for independence in Chile. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wooster, Charles Whiting Chilean Navy officers 1780 births 19th-century deaths Military personnel from New Haven, Connecticut Chilean Navy personnel of the Spanish American wars of independence People of the War of 1812 19th-century Chilean Navy personnel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooster Lake
Wooster Lake is a lake in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It is located near Illinois Route 134 and Wilson Road, predominantly in unincorporated Ingleside, northeast of the Village of Volo, northwest of the Village of Round Lake, and southeast of the Village of Fox Lake. Characteristics The Lakes Management Unit of the Lake County Health Department provided a 2003 Summary of Wooster Lake describing Wooster as a glacially-formed, non-public (private) lake encompassing approximately with a shoreline of . It is reported to have a maximum depth and a average depth, the 4th deepest (on average) of the inland, private lakes in Lake County, Illinois. It is part of the Fish Lake drainage of the Fox River watershed. The Fish Lake Drain flows from Fish Lake into Fischer Lake, then into Wooster. Water leaves Wooster by a small creek along the northern shoreline and flows into Duck Lake, eventually draining into the Fox River. Though the private lake has significant depth, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
