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Hool
Hool is a surname derived from Hoole. Notable people with the surname include: * Constanza Hool, (1925–2008), Mexican dancer * Lance Hool, Mexican film director * Sonny Hool Nathan Bernard "Sonny" Hool (28 January 1924 – 10 October 1988) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and Left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played fourteen times for the Ireland cricket team between 1947 and 1961, including nine fir ... (1924–1988), Irish cricketer References English-language surnames Toponymic surnames {{Surname, Hool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Hool
A lance is a spear designed to be used by a mounted warrior or cavalry soldier (lancer). In ancient and medieval warfare, it evolved into the leading weapon in cavalry charges, and was unsuited for throwing or for repeated thrusting, unlike similar weapons of the javelin and pike family typically used by infantry. Lances were often equipped with a vamplate, a small circular plate to prevent the hand sliding up the shaft upon impact, and beginning in the late 14th century were used in conjunction with a lance rest attached to the breastplate. Though best known as a military and sporting weapon carried by European knights and men-at-arms, the use of lances was widespread throughout Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa wherever suitable mounts were available. Lancers of the medieval period also carried secondary weapons such as swords, battle axes, war hammers, maces and daggers for use in hand-to-hand combat, since the lance was often a one-use-per-engagement weapon; assum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoole (surname)
Hoole is an English toponymic surname from Hoole, a suburb in Chester, Cheshire, England. Notable people with the surname include: * Daryl Hoole (born 1934), American author and public speaker * Elijah Hoole (1798–1872), English Wesleyan Methodist missionary, father of the architect of the same name * Elijah Hoole (architect) (1837–1912), English architect, son of the missionary of the same name * John Hoole (1727–1803), English translator * Ken Hoole (1916–1988), English railway historian * Rajan Hoole, Tamil human rights activist * Ratnajeevan Hoole (born 1952), electrical engineering academic See also *Hool Hool is a surname derived from Hoole. Notable people with the surname include: * Constanza Hool, (1925–2008), Mexican dancer * Lance Hool, Mexican film director * Sonny Hool Nathan Bernard "Sonny" Hool (28 January 1924 – 10 October 1988) w ... * Hoole (other) * Hooley (surname) Surnames Surnames of British Isles origin Surnames of English ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constanza Hool
Constanza Hool (6 December 1925 – 20 July 2008) was a dancer, actress and choreographer. She is credited as co-founder of the famous Ballet Folklorico de Mexico (with Amalia Hernández). She was the first woman to dance in the Taj Mahal (for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi), the Parthenon and the Santa Prisca, basilica of Santa Prisca. She had a television show in Mexico for 17 years and is reported to have been awarded the Silver Goddess (Diosa de Plata), a Mexican film and television award, 14 years in a row for best choreographer. Hool served as Artist in Residence and Director of Arts and Dance for seven years at the Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Universidad de las Americas, near the capital city of Puebla, Puebla, Puebla in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Her performance locations in Mexico included Castillo de Chapultepec, Chapultepec Castle. She also taught at the University of Illinois, the University of New Mexico and the University of California (Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonny Hool
Nathan Bernard "Sonny" Hool (28 January 1924 – 10 October 1988) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and Left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played fourteen times for the Ireland cricket team between 1947 and 1961, including nine first-class matches. Playing career Hool made his debut for Ireland against Scotland in May 1947 in a first-class match. Whilst it was an unsuccessful match with the bat, scoring a duck in each innings, he was successful with the ball in the Scottish second innings, taking 5/73 with his left-arm spin. He continued the year with matches against Yorkshire, the Craven Gentlemen and Derbyshire before a match at Lord's against the MCC where he took 5/19 in the only MCC innings, his best bowling figures for Ireland. He played just four times over the following three years, against Scotland and the MCC in 1948, against Yorkshire in July 1949 and against Nottinghamshire in July 1950 before spending four years out of the Ireland team. He returned w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
