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Edmond
Edmond is a given name related to Edmund. Persons named Edmond include: * Edmond Canaple (1797–1876), French politician * Edmond Chehade (born 1993), Lebanese footballer * Edmond Conn (1914–1998), American farmer, businessman, and politician * Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1892), French writer * Edmond Etling (before 1909–1940), French designer, manufacturer * Edmond Halley (1656–1742), English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist * Edmond Haxhinasto (born 1966), Albania, Albanian politician * Edmond Maire (1931–2017), French labor union leader * Edmond Rostand * Edmond James de Rothschild * Edmond O'Brien * Edmond Panariti * Edmond Robinson *Edmond Tarverdyan, controversial figure in MMA In fiction * Edmond Dantès, The main character in 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas. * Edmond Elephant, a character from Peppa Pig * Edmond Honda, a character from the ''Street Fighter'' series * Edmond, a character from Rock-A-Doodle * Edm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Tarverdyan
Edmond Tarverdyan is an Armenian mixed martial arts (MMA) trainer who co-owns Glendale Fighting Club in Glendale, California. He has trained former UFC Bamtamweight Champion Ronda Rousey, Travis Browne, Jake Ellenberger, boxer Art Hovhannisyan and Edmen Shahbazyan. Career Edmond Tarverdyan has being praticising martial arts since he was 16, this resulted in Tarverdyan winning the WBC International Muay thai title. After retiring from professional fighting Taverdyan took up teaching MMA. Media Tarverdyan was a coach on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rousey vs. Team Tate. Controversy Edmond Tarverdyan credentials as a professional fight trainer and the quality of his boxing training have often drawn ridicule and mockery from the media and the MMA community. Tarverdyan got into trouble with the California State Athletic Commission The California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) regulates amateur and professional boxing, amateur and professional kickboxing and professional mixed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Robinson
Edmond Robinson, Jr. (born February 23, 1992) is an American football linebacker for the Arlington Renegades of the XFL. He played college football at Newberry. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round of the 2015 NFL Draft. Early years Robinson was born to parents, Edmond Robinson, Sr. and Rev. Annabelle Robinson, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He was raised in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, home to the last working tea plantation in the United States. He attended St. Johns High School in Johns Island, South Carolina, where he was a three-sport athlete in football, basketball and track. College career At Newberry, Robinson started 29 of 41 games, finishing his career with 200 tackles (137 solos), 2.5 sacks for minus 23 yards, 23.5 stops for losses of 80 yards and three quarter-back pressures. He also caused two fumbles and recovered three others, advancing two for a total of 16 yards. In 2013, Robinson was named All-South At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond (film)
''Edmond'' is a 2005 American thriller film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring William H. Macy, based on the 1982 play ''Edmond'' by David Mamet. Mamet also wrote the screenplay for the film. ''Edmond'' features Julia Stiles, Rebecca Pidgeon, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, Joe Mantegna, Bai Ling, Jeffrey Combs, Dylan Walsh and George Wendt in supporting roles. It was screened at several film festivals from September 2005 to May 2006, and had a limited release on July 14, 2006. Plot Edmond Burke is a middle-aged New York City businessman who visits a tarot fortune teller on the way home. The fortune teller, a little startled, tells him that "you are not where you belong". He decides to make changes in his life, beginning by leaving his wife. At a bar, Edmond tells a fellow patron that he has not had sex in a while and that marriage took away his masculinity. The man gives him the address to a strip club, where Edmond is kicked out by a bouncer for not paying for a stripper's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Halley
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, Halley catalogued the southern celestial hemisphere and recorded a transit of Mercury across the Sun. He realised that a similar transit of Venus could be used to determine the distances between Earth, Venus, and the Sun. Upon his return to England, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society, and with the help of King Charles II, was granted a master's degree from Oxford. Halley encouraged and helped fund the publication of Isaac Newton's influential ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' (1687). From observations Halley made in September 1682, he used Newton's laws of motion to compute the periodicity of Halley's Comet in his 1705 ''Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets''. It was named after him upon its predicted return in 1758, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond O'Brien
Eamon Joseph O'Brien (September 10, 1915 – May 9, 1985) was an American actor and film director. His career spanned almost 40 years, and he won one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. O'Brien was a character actor of American cinema, and performed in ''The Barefoot Contessa'' (1954) and ''Seven Days in May'' (1964), the former of which won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the latter of which he received a nomination in the same category. His other notable films include ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1939), ''The Killers'' (1946), '' A Double Life'' (1947), ''White Heat'' (1949), ''D.O.A.'' (1950), ''The Hitch-Hiker'' (1953), ''Julius Caesar'' (1953), ''1984'' (1956), ''The Girl Can't Help It'' (1956), ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' (1962), ''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966), ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969), and ''The Other Side of the Wind'' (2018). Early years Born Eamon Joseph O'Brien in Brooklyn, New York, he was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Maire
Edmond Maire (; 24 January 1931 – 1 October 2017) was a French labor union leader. He was the secretary general of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) from 1971 to 1988. He was dismissive of strike actions and supported a more equal division of labour. Early life Edmond Maire was born on 24 January 1931 in Épinay-sur-Seine near Paris. His father was a railroad employee for the SNCF at the Gare du Nord, and his mother was a housewife. He was raised as a devout Roman Catholic alongside six siblings. Maire was educated at the Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour in Paris and did not go to university. He began working at 18 and took evening classes in chemistry at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. He subsequently did his military service. Career Maire began his career as a chemist for Pechiney in Aubervilliers near Paris. He quit his job to focus on activism. After he retired from the CFDT, he became the chief executive of Villages Vacances Familles, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Haxhinasto
Edmond Haxhinasto (born 16 November 1966) is an Albanian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Albania from 2011 to 2013. Early life and education Edmond Haxhinasto was born in Tirana on 16 November 1966. Haxhinasto graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of History and Philology, English Chair in 1989 with a Diploma in English. His postgraduate education includes a Master of Business Administration from the International Executive Center, Brdo, Slovenia in 1996. In 2000, he completed a Master of Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Career After a brief engagement in educational and national youth organizations, worked as Head of Foreign Relations at the Parliament of the Republic of Albania from September 1991 to July 1992. From 1993 to 1997 was engaged in the private sector. From August 1997- July 1999 served at the Office of the Prime Minister as Head of Coordination Department. He was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (, , ; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism and is known best for his 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac''. Rostand's romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century. Another of Rostand's works, ''Les Romanesques'' (1894), was adapted to the 1960 musical comedy ''The Fantasticks''. Early life Rostand was born in Marseille, France, into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist, a poet who translated and edited the works of Catullus, and a member of the Marseille Academy and the Institut de France. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, France. Career When Rostand was twenty years old, his first play, a one-act comedy, ''Le Gant rouge'', was performed at the Cluny Theatre, 24 August 1888, but it was almost unnoticed. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Panariti
Edmond Panariti (born 1 June 1960) is an Albanian academic and politician, who is the former minister of foreign affairs and the former minister of agriculture and rural development. Early life and education Panariti was born in Tirana on 1 June 1960. He studied veterinary medicine and graduated from the University of Agriculture in Tirana in 1984. He obtained a PhD in 1993 and the title of his thesis is "Tissue distribution and milk secretion of 131 I in ruminants following their experimental exposure". Career Panariti holds academic degrees, including associate professor (1996) and full professor of toxicology (2000). He began his career as a researcher at the Department of Radiobiology of the Institute of Veterinary Research in Tirana (1984-1989). He served as the head of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at the Institute of Veterinary Research (1992-1995). Then he worked as the head of the food safety section at the Institute of Public Health (1996-1998). He became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Chehade
Edmond Joseph Chehade ( ar, ادمون جوزيف شحاده; born 30 September 1993) is a Lebanese footballer and former futsal player who plays as a forward for club Nejmeh. Club career Born in Zgharta, Lebanon, Chehade moved to Batroun. He began playing football for Chekka in the Lebanese Third Division, before moving to futsal, playing for Tripoli Fayhaa and Sadaka, with whom he won the 2012–13 league title. Chehade returned to play football, joining Salam Zgharta in the 2015–16 Lebanese Premier League. On 11 September 2019, Nejmeh announced the signing of Chehade for a fee of USD$150,000. International career Chehade played for the Lebanon national futsal team. He made his international debut for the national football team in 2016, in a friendly against Palestine. Personal life In 2014, Chehade represented Lebanon for the first season of the reality show ''The Victorious'', finishing among the finalists. Honours Sadaka (futsal) * Lebanese Futsal Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond De Goncourt
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (; 26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Biography Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot de Goncourt and Annette-Cécile de Goncourt (née Guérin) were minor aristocrats who died when he and his brother Jules de Goncourt were young adults. His father was a former cavalry officer and squadron commander in the Grande Armée of Napoleon I, and his grandfather Jean-Antoine Huot de Goncourt had been a deputy in the National Assembly of 1789. Edmond attended the pension Goubaux, the Lycée Henri IV, and the Lycée Condorcet. At the Lycée Condorcet, he studied rhetoric and philosophy from 1840 to 1842, followed by the study of law between 1842 and 1844. After their mother's death in 1848, the brothers inherited an income which enabled them to live independently and pursue their artistic interests. Edmond was able to leave a treasur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Etling
Edmond Laurent Etling (before 1909 – around 1940) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, designer, and a manufacturer of high-quality decorative objects made of bronze, ceramics and art glass in the Art Deco style. He owned ''La Societe Anonyme Edmond Etling'' (English: Edmond Etling Limited Company) for manufacturing, his foundry was named ''Edmond Etling & Cie,'' and sometimes the products are referred to as "Etling Glass". His gallery, ''Galerie Béranger'' was located Paris (however there are discrepancies on the exact address). Biography His company ''La Societe Anonyme Edmond Etling'', founded in Paris in 1909, manufactured decorative object and commissioned sculptors and artists, including Georges Béal, Demétre Chiparus, Claire Colinet, Armand Godard, Geneviève Granger, Marcel Guillard, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière, Géza Hiecz, Fanny Rozet, and Lucille Sévin. Other artists worked with Etling when casting their statuettes including Aurore Onu, Marcel Bouraine, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
