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Zabriskie
Zabriskie is a surname, anglicized from Polish Zaborowski or Zabrzyski. Notable people with the surname include: People *Albert Zabriskie, originally Albrycht Zaborowski (1638–1711), American colonial settler * Andrew C. Zabriskie (1853–1916), American businessman * Chris Zabriskie (born 1982), American composer *Christian Brevoort Zabriskie (1864–1936), American businessman *David Zabriskie (born 1986), American amateur wrestler *David Zabriskie (born 1979), American cyclist * Frank Zabriskie (1933–2021), Scottish astronomer * George Zabriskie Gray (1837–1889), American priest *Grace Zabriskie (born 1941), American actress * Louise Zabriskie (1872–1957), American nurse * Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead (1911–1998), American actor * Steve Zabriskie (born 1947), American sports announcer * Stewart Clark Zabriskie (1937–1999), American bishop * Virginia M. Zabriskie (1927–2019), American art dealer Places * Ackerman-Zabriskie-Steuben House, River Edge, New Jersey *Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zabriskie
David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship seven times. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his web site. In 2005, he became the third American to wear the leader's yellow jersey at the Tour de France, after winning the prologue of that year's Tour. However, later admissions of drug use during that time caused him to be stripped of his stage win and the resulting yellow jersey. On October 10, 2012 – while a member of the squad – it was announced by USADA that he would be suspended for six months for admissions of doping during his time with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zabriskie (wrestler)
David Zabriskie (born December 19, 1986) is a retired American amateur wrestler and current wrestling coach for Elevation Fight Team in Denver. Zabriskie wrestled for the Iowa State Cyclones and is a three-time Big 12 Conference champion, three-time All-American in NCAA Division I collegiate wrestling, and won the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in the 285lb weight class in 2010. Early life Zabriskie began wrestling in 1996 while in the 4th grade, but did not continue after that season. He would return to the sport in 1999 to give wrestling a second try for the Branchville Bombers. It was then that Zabriskie started to find his love for the sport. Wrestling career High school ;2000-2005 Zabriskie wrestled for High Point Regional High School in Wantage Township, New Jersey under head coach John Gardner. As a freshman Zabriskie wrestled at 171lbs on Junior Varsity for the Wildcats, he would not break the varsity starting lineup until the following year. As a So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Zabriskie
Grace Zabriskie (' Caplinger; born May 17, 1941) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Palmer in ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991; 2017) and its film prequel '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'' (1992), Lois Henrickson in ''Big Love'', as well as in cult films such as two of David Lynch's films: Juana Durango in '' Wild at Heart'' (1990) and Visitor #1 in '' Inland Empire'' (2006). Other film roles include ''Nickel Mountain'' (1984), ''Child's Play 2'' (1990), and ''The Grudge'' (2004). She is also known for her recurring roles in '' Seinfeld'' and '' Charmed''. Early life Zabriskie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Marion Grace (''née'' Zabriskie), of Wyckoff, New Jersey, and Roger Thomas "Tom" Caplinger. Her mother had distant Polish and Dutch ancestry, and was a relative of James Zabriskie, a 19th-century railroad industrialist and early pioneer of California. Zabriskie has said that her family was visited by Tennessee Williams, Gore Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrycht Zaborowski
Albrecht Zaborowskij (also rendered Saboroweski; Anglicisation, anglicized as Albert Zabriskie; 1638–1711) of Prussia (present-day Poland and Russia) settled in what is now New Jersey on August 31, 1662. Early life and emigration Saborowski, a Lutheran, was born in 1638, perhaps in the Prussian town of Insterburg. After the Thirty Years' War upheavals in Europe, he decided to emigrate to America, as one of the pioneers of European colonization within the area of present-day New Jersey. In 1662 "Albert Saboriski, from ''Enghestburgh'' Prussia" arrived on board the Dutch ship ''De Vos''(The Fox) to New Amsterdam (present-day New York City). New Amsterdam Due to his good knowledge of Native Americans in the United States, Native American languages, mostly Lenape languages, he became a translator and Mediation, mediator in negotiations between the colonists and Native American tribes, specifically the Lenape. He came into possession of a large estate within the Province of New Jerse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zabriskie Gallery
The Zabriskie Gallery was founded in New York City by Virginia Zabriskie in 1954. Early years Virginia Zabriskie started the art gallery with a one-dollar down payment. It had formerly been the Korman Gallery, a cooperative that included the painters Pat Adams and Clinton Hill (a New York School artist). Zabriskie Gallery, France By the 1980s, Zabriskie had two galleries in New York (one for painting and one for sculpture) and another in Paris. The Paris gallery focused on photography and allowed for a "lively exchange" between American and French artists during the 1980s and 1990s. She was honored in 1999 with the Medaille de la Ville de Paris. Artists Artists who have exhibited in the Zabriskie Gallery include Abraham Walkowitz (Zabriskie held his correspondence and papers). Zabriskie was a supporter of the work of Elie Nadelman and is credited with "rescuing him from neglect." Pat Adams held her first solo show there, and her 2005 exhibition ''Pat Adams Paintings 1954–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ackerman-Zabriskie-Steuben House
The Steuben House is a noted example of Bergen Dutch sandstone architecture, located at New Bridge Landing on the Hackensack River in River Edge, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It was confiscated from Loyalist Jan Zabriskie, and served as a military headquarters through much of the Revolutionary War. General George Washington made it his headquarters, September 4 to 17, 1780. Following the war, it was given to Major General Baron von Steuben, who occupied it from 1783 to 1788. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1970, for its significance in architecture and military history. With The Steuben Estate Complex, a national historic district, was listed on December 9, 1980, for its significance in architecture, exploration/settlement, and invention. In addition to the Steuben House, the district includes three historic buildings moved from other sites. With Named the Ackerman–Zabriskie–Steuben House, it was listed as pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Zabriskie
Chris Zabriskie (born March 10, 1982, in Olympia, Washington) is an American composer and musician. Biography Chris Zabriskie got his musical start in noise-rock duo Struggleburger, but went solo unexpectedly at a show in 2001 when the other members of the band did not show up. Between 2006 and 2009, Zabriskie released three vocal albums under the name lo-fi is sci-fi. In 2009, he turned his attention towards instrumental music, first releasing ''The Dark Glow of the Mountains''. The album's stark electronic minimalism was a departure from his previous work. Two more instrumental albums, ''I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor'' and ''Preludes'' followed in the same year. He continues to release new ambient music on a regular basis. Zabriskie self-releases his albums on his website and is also a vocal supporter of BitTorrent and file sharing. In the past, he has admitted to leaking his own records to various torrent sites in advance of their release dates. As of March 2009, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Zabriskie
Louise Zabriskie (1887 – 12 December 1957) was a registered nurse and the founder and director of Maternity Consultation Service, which offered free health services to expectant mothers in Manhattan. She authored textbooks on nursing and obstetrics, including the well regarded ''Nurses Handbook of Obstetrics'', as well as the popular pre-natal and early parenting manual ''Mother and Baby Care in Pictures''. Career Louise Zabriskie was born in Preston City, Connecticut. She attended Northfield Seminary and Columbia University, and received her nursing degree from the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, now the Cornell University - New York Hospital School of Nursing. In 1913 she began working at the New York Lying-In Hospital, where she was as a public health nurse and later night supervisor until 1916. In 1922 Zabriskie was seriously injured in a car accident, breaking her neck, and was subsequently paralyzed from the neck down. Despite this accident she continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Clark Zabriskie
Stewart Clark Zabriskie (November 7, 1937 – September 13, 1999) was second diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada from 1986 to 1999. Early life and education Zabriskie was born on November 7, 1937, in White Plains, New York, the son of Cornelius Zabriskie and Florence I. Caffrey. He was educated at the Mount Herman Prep School in New York. He also graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1958 and the General Theological Seminary in 1963. He also received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary in 1986. On September 14, 1963 he married Sarah Kirby Miller at Calvary Church, New York City. Ordained ministry He was ordained deacon and priest in 1963. He served as assistant to the rector of the Church of the Incarnation in New York City between 1963 and 1965. He became rector of St Mary's Church in Scarborough, New York between 1966 and 1969. In 1969 be served as assistant to the rector of St John's Church in Pleasantville, New York and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Brevoort Zabriskie
Christian Brevoort Zabriskie (October 16, 1864 – February 8, 1936) was an American businessman and vice president of Pacific Coast Borax Company. Zabriskie Point on the northeasternmost flank of the Black Mountains east of Death Valley, located in Death Valley National Park is named after him. Early years Christian Brevoort Zabriskie was born at Fort Bridger in Wyoming Territory, where his father, Capt. Elias B. Zabriskie, was stationed. The Zabriskie family descended from Albrycht Zaborowski (Albert Zabriskie), a Polish immigrant from Angerburg (Węgorzewo) in Ducal Prussia, who settled in New Jersey in 1662 alongside a Dutch community. Young Zabriskie attended various schools while growing up and at a very early age went to work as a telegrapher for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad at Carson City, Nevada. He was too restless and ambitious to stay in one place for very long and soon moved to Candelaria, Nevada, and worked for the Esmeralda County Bank. Being an act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zabriskie House (other)
Zabriskie House may refer to: Nebraska * Edgar Zabriskie Residence, Omaha, Nebraska New Jersey * Zabriskie-Steuben House, River Edge, New Jersey * Albert J. Zabriskie Farmhouse, Paramus, New Jersey * Garret Zabriskie House, Haworth, New Jersey * Nicholas Zabriskie House, Washington Township, New Jersey * Rathbone–Zabriskie House, Ridgewood, New Jersey * John A. L. Zabriskie House, Ridgewood, New Jersey * Van Voorhees–Quackenbush House, Wyckoff, New Jersey * Zabriskie House (Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey), Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey * Zabriskie-Christie House, Dumont, New Jersey * Zabriskie-Kipp-Cadmus House, Teaneck, New Jersey * Zabriskie Tenant House The Zabriskie Tenant House was a historic house of the American colonial architecture style called Dutch Colonial on Dunkerhook Road in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, adjacent to the Saddle River County Park. The Zabriskie ..., Paramus, New Jersey See also * Zabriskie, a surname {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zabriskie Tenant House
The Zabriskie Tenant House was a historic house of the American colonial architecture style called Dutch Colonial on Dunkerhook Road in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, adjacent to the Saddle River County Park. The Zabriskie family, who farmed much of the area to the east of the Saddle River (Passaic River), built the home to house their domestic workers. It was one of the few structures left in New Jersey directly related to free African American communities in the state, and was a remnant of an African American Dunkerhook community that (until the early 20th century) included several homes and an A.M.E. Church. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1984. Developers Sal and Marcello Petruzella made a proposal to demolish the house and subdivide the land for the development of larger stylized houses with no reference to the historical community. In spite of the house's listing on the National Register of Historic Places, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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