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Alderson may refer to: Places *Alderson, Oklahoma, a US town *Alderson, West Virginia, a US town *Alderson Federal Prison Camp *Alderson, Alberta, a ghost town in Canada Other uses *Alderson (surname) People *Charles Alderson, linguist See also * Alderson drive, a fictional interstellar transport drive * Alderson disk An Alderson disk (named after Dan Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant platter with a thickness of several thousand miles. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson, Oklahoma
Alderson is a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census. History A post office was established at Alderson, Indian Territory on March 5, 1890. It was named for an employee of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad whose full name appears lost. At the time of its founding, Alderson was located in Tobucksy County, a part of the Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation.Morris, John W. ''Historical Atlas of Oklahoma'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986), plate 38. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 304 people living in the town. The population density was . There were 129 housing units at an average density of 225 per square mile (90/km). The racial makeup of the town was 67.05% White, 3.45% African American, 18.77% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.38% from other races, and 9.96% from two or more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson, West Virginia
Alderson is a town in Greenbrier and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, on both sides of the Greenbrier River. The population was 975 at the 2020 census. History Alderson is a community located along the Greenbrier River in Greenbrier County and Monroe County, incorporated in 1881. Alderson was originally settled in 1777 by "Elder" John Alderson, a frontier missionary for whom the town is named, who organized the first Baptist church in the Greenbrier Valley. In 1763, the nearby Muddy Creek settlements were destroyed by Shawnee Indians under Chief Cornstalk. Alderson is the location of the Federal Reformatory for Women, opened in 1927, the first federal prison for women. During the early 1900s, Alderson became a hub of higher education in the state. It was home to three separate institutions of higher education, including the Alderson Academy and Junior College, which eventually was integrated into Alderson-Broaddus College in 1932. The Alexander McVeigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson Federal Prison Camp
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson (FPC Alderson) is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FPC Alderson is in two West Virginia counties, near the town of Alderson. A portion of the prison is in unincorporated Monroe County, while the other portion of the prison, including the dormitories, is in unincorporated Summers County. The majority of the prison is in Summers County. Four other area towns, Hinton, Lewisburg, Ronceverte, and White Sulphur Springs, are within commuting distance of FPC Alderson. History In the 1920s, there was a shortage of federal prison space for female inmates. Women offenders either were given alternative punishments or were housed alone within all-male institutions. Prison staff and fellow inmates sexually exploited girls and women who were incarcerated in these facilities. Mabel Walker Willebran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson, Alberta
Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First World War when many other settlements in Canada and Australia changed German place names. Alderson is located approximately northwest of Suffield along the Canadian Pacific Railway main line. The City of Brooks is approximately to the northwest and the City of Medicine Hat is approximately to the southeast. It has an elevation of . History Settlers came to southeast Alberta during the great land rush of the early years of the 20th century. It was formerly a train whistle stop named Langevin and would go on to become the centre of one of Canada's worst agriculture disasters; victim of drought, fires, flies, grasshoppers and marauding rabbits. Demographics In the 1931 Census, Alderson had a population of 81. Further reading *''Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson (surname)
Alderson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Brian Alderson, Scottish footballer *Bryce Alderson (born 1994), Canadian soccer player *Dale Alderson (1918–1982), American baseball pitcher *Dan Alderson, American scientist and participant in science fiction fandom *Edward Alderson (judge) (c. 1787–1857), an English lawyer and judge *Edward Alderson (parliamentary clerk) (1864–1951), an English lawyer and public servant *Edwin Alderson, British general during Boer Wars and World War I *Frederic Alderson, English rugby union international captain *Helen Popova Alderson, Russian and British mathematician *Kristen Alderson, American actress appearing on daytime soap opera ''One Life To Live'' *Mozelle Alderson (1904–1994), American classic female blues singer *Samuel W. Alderson, inventor of the crash-test dummy *Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive Fictional characters * Elliot Alderson, lead character on the television series ''Mr. Robot'', play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Alderson
Charles Alderson (born 1946) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on language assessment. Career Alderson attended Burnley Grammar School between 1957 and 1964. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in German and French at the St Edmund Hall, Oxford of the University of Oxford in 1967. In 1972 he got a diploma in applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained a PhD degree in 1977. His PhD thesis was entitled "A Study of the Cloze Procedure with Native and Non-Native Speakers of English", supervised by Dr Alan Davies. Between 1969 and 1971 he was a lecturer in English at the University of Düsseldorf, West Germany. Between 1972 and 1974 he was British Council Lecturer in English at the University of Algiers, Algeria. In 1974 he became the Coordinator of the English language testing service at the University of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderson Drive
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven. Series Setting Formation of the CoDominium The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the ''CoDominium'' (CD), a political alliance and union between the United States of America and a revitalized Soviet Union. This union, achieved in the name of planetary stability, reigns over the Earth for over a hundred years. In that time, it achieves peace of a sort, as well as interstellar colonization, but at the price of a complete halt in both scientific and political evolution. The CoDominium (CD) is a supranational alliance of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This alliance eventually becomes a ''de facto'' planetary government, and later, an interstellar empire. Despite this, no other nations on Earth are given representation or membership. Other major powers become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
