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Croll
Croll is the surname of: * Alexander Angus Croll, (1811-1887) British civil engineer * Dan Croll (born 1990), British singer-songwriter * David Croll (1900–1991), Canadian politician * Doña Croll (born 1953), Jamaican-born British actress * Hacker Croll, real name François Cousteix, French computer hacker * James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change * Jimmy Croll (1920–2008), American race horse trainer * Joan Croll (1928–2022), Australian physician and radiologist * June Croll (1901-1967), U.S. labor organizer * Maria de Croll (died 1710), Swedish vocalist * Oswald Croll or Crollius (c. 1563–1609), German physician, alchemist and botanist * Sebastian Croll, 17th-century Dutchman who introduced the cruller to the Americas * William Martin Croll (1866–1929), U.S. politician from Pennsylvania In other uses * Croll Building in Alameda, California * Petzl Croll rope ascending device * Croll Glacier a glacier in Antarctica See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Croll
Daniel Francis Croll (born 18 July 1990) is a British singer-songwriter. He began his career in 2011 when he was named Songwriter of the Year by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund while attending the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His debut album '' Sweet Disarray'' was released in 2014 by the Universal Music Group subsidiaries Deram Records/Decca Records (UK) and Capitol Records (US). Since that time, he has released a number of works with Communion Music including the studio albums ''Emerging Adulthood'' (2017) and ''Grand Plan'' (2020). Since 2018, he has been based in the United States. Career Early career Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, Croll moved to Liverpool when he was 18 to attend the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). While at LIPA, he won the national Songwriter of the Year award from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund and was one of eight students picked to have a one-to-one with LIPA founder Paul McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney. Crol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Croll
Una Joan Croll (née Holliday; 15 June 1928 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian physician and radiologist who specialised in ultrasound and mammography. Outside medicine, she was an environmental activist, one of the 13 women who saved Kelly's Bush in Sydney. Early life and education Una Joan Holliday was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 15 June 1928. As an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, she competed in rowing. After completing her medical degree in 1952, she briefly worked as a pathologist in the Northern Territory but returned to Sydney afterwards. In 1955, she married Frank James Croll, a fellow medical student who specialized in cardiology, and subsequently spent thirteen years as a full-time mother to her four children, delaying her career in medicine till she was 47 years old. Environmental activism In the early 1970s, Croll became one of the 13 women environmental activists known as the "Battlers for Kelly's Bush", who campaigned against urban d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Croll
David Arnold Croll, (born Davud Avrum Croll; March 12, 1900 – June 11, 1991) was a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Windsor, Ontario twice. He entered provincial politics in the 1930s, and served as minister of public works and municipal affairs in the Mitch Hepburn government. He won election to the House of Commons of Canada in 1945. In 1955 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada, becoming the first Jewish Senator. He served as a senator until his death, on June 11, 1991, a few hours after what would be his last senate sitting. Early life Croll was born in Moscow, Russia and was brought to Canada with his family as a young boy, at which point his name was anglicized. Croll became a lawyer and entered politics serving as mayor of Windsor, Ontario from 1931 to 1934 during the worst days of the Great Depression. He made his reputation as a social reformer when he insisted the city go into deficit in order to provide relief programs for the unemployed and des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doña Croll
Doña Croll (born 29 August 1953) is a Jamaican-born British actress. She is best known for her roles in British television soap opera playing Pearl McHugh in Channel 5's ''Family Affairs'', Vera Corrigan in the BBC Vera Corrigan ''Doctors'', and as Emerald Fox in ''EastEnders''. She also played the regular role of nurse Adele Beckford in series 8 of Casualty (1993 to 1994). An experienced stage actress, Croll is known most notably as playing the first black Cleopatra on the British Stage in Talawa Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'' in 1991. In 2013, Croll returned to the stage with Talawa Theatre Company to play the part of Kate Keller in their production of Arthur Miller's '' All My Sons'', starring alongside Don Warrington. Croll received good notices for her portrayal. ''All My Sons'' was revived by Talawa Theatre Company in 2015, and Croll reprised her role of Kate Keller, again receiving good notices for her portrayal of "a wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petzl Croll
A Petzl Croll is an ascending device used in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl. Its name comes from the town Crolles where Petzl's company headquarters are located but might also be a reference to the nearby cave system of the Dent de Crolles, the exploration of which triggered a lot of technical effort leading to innovation in caving equipment. Usage The Croll is normally used in the chest position and in conjunction with an upper ascender or Jumar. This configuration allows a climber, caver or rope access worker to rapidly ascend a rope. History In 1968 Bruno Dressler asked Fernand Petzl, who worked as a metals machinist, to build a rope-ascending tool, today known as the Petzl Croll, that he had developed by adapting the Jumar to the specificity of pit caving. Following these developments, Fernand Petzl started in the 1970s a small caving equipment manufacturing company Petzl Petzl is a French manufacturer of climbing gear, caving gear, wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Croll
Warren A. Croll, Jr. (March 9, 1920 – June 6, 2008), best known as Jimmy Croll, was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer. Croll was born in 1920 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with the intention of becoming a veterinarian but left to pursue his passion for racing Thoroughbreds. In 1940 he obtained his trainers' license but his racing career was interrupted by service with the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Upon the 1946 opening of the new Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, Croll relocated there and became a permanent part of that facility's annual summer campaign. In 1998, he received Monmouth Park's "Raines Distinguished Achievement Award" given in memory of trainer Virgil W. Raines to an owner or trainer who has shown a dedication to the sport of Thoroughbred racing through exemplary conduct demonstrating professionalism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Angus Croll
Alexander Angus Croll (1811-1887) was a British civil engineer who patented a method of purifying town gas of ammonia. He was Sheriff of the City of London. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery. Granard Park Croll was the owner of Granard Park (or Lodge) Putney Park Lane, Roehampton. In 1872, ''The Building News and Engineering Journal'' recorded that architect W. Allen Dixon was acting for "Colonel" Croll in alterations to Granard Park and the construction of a new church in its grounds. The church was originally a Baptist chapel but it later became the Anglican church of St Margaret, Putney Park Lane.Richardson, Kenneth. (2002''The "Twenty-Five" Churches of the Southwark Diocese: An inter-war campaign of church-building.'' London: The Ecclesiological Society The Cambridge Camden Society, known from 1845 (when it moved to London) as the Ecclesiological Society, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hacker Croll
François Cousteix, better known as Hacker Croll, is a French self-taught cracker who is notable for hacking Twitter in July 2009. He was in close contact with reporters from TechCrunch who published numerous articles about the information obtained and the incident itself. He remained anonymous until his arrest in March 2010. Attack on Twitter Croll obtained access to many of Twitter's high-profile executives' numerous Internet accounts. The infiltration was made easy when the targets passwords and usernames were the same for both personal and business accounts. This led to a domino effect whereby all accounts were hacked including their PayPal and iTunes accounts. He obtained over 300 pages of sensitive documents including Twitters financial projections and meeting notes. TechCrunch reports TechCrunch first reported the hack which included a screenshot of Twitter founder Evan Williams' Facebook page and speculation as to the true extent of the attack on July 16. It includes a stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Croll
James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth's orbit. Life James Croll was born in 1821 on the farm of Little Whitefield, near Wolfhill in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of David Croll, mason, and his wife Janet Geddes. He was largely self-educated. At 16 he became an apprentice wheelwright at Collace near Wolfhill, and then because of health problems a tea merchant in Elgin, Moray. In 1848 he married Isabella Macdonald, daughter of John Macdonald and Annabella Sime, of Forres. In the 1850s he managed a temperance hotel in Blairgowrie, and was then an insurance agent in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leicester. In 1859, he became a janitor at the museum of the Andersonian University in Glasgow. He was able to use the university library to get access to books, and taught himself physics and astronomy to develop his ideas. From 1864, Croll corresponde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected. Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines because it deals with constructed environment including planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. The term "civil engineer" was established by John Smeaton in 1750 to contrast engineers working on civil projects with the military engineers, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various sub-disciplines of civil engineering have become recognized and much of military engineering has been absorbed by civil engineering. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Croll
June Croll (1901-1967) was a U.S. labor organizer most active during the interwar years. Biography June Croll was born Sonia Croll in 1901 in Odessa in the Ukraine region of Russia. During her girlhood, she emigrated illegally to Canada and then to the United States, where by the age of 12 she was working in the garment industry in New York City. It is not certain when she changed her name from Sonia to June. Croll became involved in trade unionism, organizing textile and millinery workers and leading strikes. She joined the Communist Party and by 1935 was secretary of the Anti-Nazi Federation. She later became the executive director of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women’s Clubs (ELF). The ELF was a progressive organization formed by Clara Lemlich and others to provide relief to victims of World War II, to combat antisemitism, and to provide educational programs on Jewish identity and women's rights. Croll still held this job at the time of her death in 1967. Her commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria De Croll
Maria de Croll, née Swart (died 3 November 1710) was a Swedish vocalist. She was singer of the first rank at Hovkapellet 1702-1710. Maria de Croll was married to Reinhold de Croll, organist at the Hovkapellet. She was the first female employed at the Hovkapellet. However, she was not officially counted as the first woman there, as the royal orchestra were formally banned for female members until 26 October 1726, when Sophia Schröder Sophia Schröder (Stockholm, 1712 – 29 January 1750) was a Swedish people, Swedish soprano, active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the ''Kungliga Hovkapellet'', at the royal Swedish court, the first of her gender to have been offic ... and Judith Fisher became the first women formally employed at Hovkapellet after it was officially opened for women. Maria de Croll was also one of two females employed at the Hovkapellet during the ban of females, the other one being the vocalist Anna Maria Ristell in 1714-1716. In 1710, she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
