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Workmen
Workman may refer to: * Workman (horse) * Workman (surname), an English surname * Workman keyboard layout, an alternative English keyboard layout for ergonomic usage * Workman Publishing Company, an American publisher * Workman Township, Minnesota, United States See also * Worker (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workman (horse)
Workman was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1939 Grand National. Background Bred by a Dr. P. J. O'Leary in County Cork, Workman was a very large, powerful brown gelding sired by Cottage out of the Argentinian-bred mare Cariella. Cottage, bred by Baron Edouard de Rothschild in France, went on to sire two more Grand National Winners Lovely Cottage 1946 and Sheila's Cottage in 1948. Workman was sold as a two-year-old for forty guineas and went into training in Ireland. Early career After winning a long distance steeplechase at Punchestown Racecourse in 1936 he was bought for 1500 guineas by the millionaire match manufacturer Sir Alexander Maguire and sent to be trained by Jack Ruttle at Hazelhatch Stud near Celbridge, County Kildare. There was a phrase coined after the great win " MacMoffat was no match for the Workman from the Hatch". He was the first all Irish horse to win the English Grand National, trained, owned, bred and ridden. 1939 Grand Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workman (surname)
Workman is a surname coming from the Old English word ''we(o)rcmann'', meaning workman or laborer generally. List of people with surname Workman *Ariel Winter (born 1998), American actress (born Ariel Workman) *Bill Workman (1940–2019), American politician from South Carolina and economic development consultant *Brandon Workman (born 1988), American baseball player * Charles Workman, Murder Inc. contract killer, took part in killing of Dutch Schultz *Charles H. Workman (1873–1923), English singer and actor * C. Lindsay Workman, American character actor often credited as Lindsay Workman * C. Noel Workman, American college sports coach * E. J. Workman (1899–1982), American atmospheric physicist *Fanny Bullock Workman (1859–1925), American mountaineer and geographer * Hank Workman (1926-2020), American Major League Baseball player *Hawksley Workman (born 1975), stage name of Canadian rock musician Ryan Corrigan *Haywoode Workman (born 1966), retired NBA player and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workman Keyboard Layout
A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard. is the actual positioning of keys on a keyboard. is the arrangement of the legends (labels, markings, engravings) that appear on those keys. is the arrangement of the key-meaning association or keyboard mapping, determined in software, of all the keys of a keyboard; it is this (rather than the legends) that determines the actual response to a key press. Modern computer keyboards are designed to send a scancode to the operating system (OS) when a key is pressed or released: this code reports only the key's row and column, not the specific character engraved on that key. The OS converts the scancode into a specific binary character code using a "scancode to character" conversion table, called the keyboard mapping table. This means that a physical keyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
