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Ragon
Ragon may refer to: People Surname * Charles Ragon de Bange (1833–1914), French artillery officer and Polytechnician * Heartsill Ragon (1885–1940), United States Representative from Arkansas * Henriette Ragon (1918–2015), stage name Patachou, French singer and actress * Jean-Marie Ragon (1781–1862), French freemason, author, and editor * Michel Ragon Michel Ragon (24 June 1924 – 14 February 2020) was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature. Biography Ragon was born into a poor family on 24 June 1924 in Marseille, but spent ... (1924–2020), French art and literature critic and writer * Phillip Ragon, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder and current CEO of InterSystems Given name * Ragon Perera (born 1985), Sri Lankan cricketer Other uses * Ragon Institute, a medical institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Ragon
Michel Ragon (24 June 1924 – 14 February 2020) was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature. Biography Ragon was born into a poor family on 24 June 1924 in Marseille, but spent much of his childhood in Fontenay-le-Comte. After his father died when he was eight, Ragon moved to Nantes with his mother. Here, he discovered the works of Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jules Verne, Andre Gide, and others. He discovered a passion for arts at the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, as well as classical music at the Théâtre Graslin. In 1943, at age 19, Ragon met the poets of the École de Rochefort, such as Jean Bouhier and René-Guy Cadou, as well as painter James Guitet. Due to his writings, he was wanted by the Gestapo, but escaped before he was to be captured. He returned to Nantes in 1944, but left for Paris the following year. It was in Paris where Ragon became a renowned modern art and literature critic. He would often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Ragon
Phillip Terrence "Terry" Ragon is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded InterSystems and is the current CEO. Early life and education The son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Ragon was born in Arizona. He grew up in a variety of states and graduated from high school in Bogota, Colombia. He graduated from MIT in 1971 with a B.S. in physics. Career In 1978, Phillip Ragon founded InterSystems Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop and sell database management and healthcare information systems. He is currently the CEO and owner. Ragon is a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and a member of MIT Corporation (the governing body of MIT), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Jameel Clinic. In 2020, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, Forbes ranked Ragon No. 378 on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America. Philanthropy In March 2017, Ragon, and wife Susan, signed The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Ragon
Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies (born 25 February 1781 at Bray-sur-Seine, died 1862 at Bruges) was a Freemason, author and editor. Biography Jean-Marie Ragon was born at Bray-sur-Seine. His father worked as a notary. He was initiated into Freemasonry in 1804 at Bruges where his duties as paymaster in the imperial administration had led him. He worked as a member of a team charged with the critical examination of dictionaries for the ''Journal Grammatical'' and published a method of reading. He was also the editor of the first French Masonic revue, ''Hermes.''. Masonic career Jean-Marie Ragon was initiated into the lodge Les amis du Nord at Bruges, which at that time was administered as a department of France. He likewise belonged to the lodge Le Phœnix of the Grand Orient de France and to the Rite of Memphis-Misraim, as well as to the Order of the Temple of Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat. He founded and presided over the celebrated Parisian lodge Les Vrais Amis, which late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heartsill Ragon
Heartsill Ragon (; March 20, 1885 – September 15, 1940) was a United States representative from Arkansas and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Education and career Born on March 20, 1885, in Dublin, (an unincorporated community in Cane Creek Township, Logan County), Arkansas, Ragon attended the common schools, Clarksville High School, the College of the Ozarks (now the University of the Ozarks) in Clarksville and graduated from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1908 from the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1908 and entered private practice in Clarksville, Arkansas from 1908 to 1923. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913. He was district attorney in Clarksville from 1916 to 1920. Party political posts Ragon was Secretary of the Democratic Arkansas state convention in 1918, Chairman o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ragon De Bange
Charles Ragon de Bange (17 October 1833 – 9 July 1914) was a French artillery officer and Polytechnician. He invented the first effective obturator system for breech-loading artillery, which remains in use. He also designed a system of field guns of various calibers which served the French Army well into World War I: the ''Système de Bange''. Career De Bange breech obturator system Many attempts had been made at developing breech-loading cannons, but had only partial success sealing of the breech. When fired, hot gases and burning gunpowder could escape, losing power and potentially burning the operating crew. Rifles, with smaller loads and thus less stress, were able to use rubber in O-rings as on the Chassepot rifle. The same principle of breech sealing applied on cannons was not as easy to develop. Several materials were able to hold the pressure and heat of cannon fire, but did not expand like rubber, thereby failing to provide a tight seal. The most successful of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Ragon
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. Patachou In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote ''J'ai oublié de vivre'' for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à -choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they sang the duet "Maman, papa". She was the first to interpret other songs he composed such as "Le bricoleur", "La chasse aux papillons", etc. The evening she sang them for the first time, she suggested her audience stay to the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragon Perera
Ragon Perera (born 19 May 1985) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Panadura Sports Club in Tier B of the 2018–19 Premier League Tournament The 2018–19 Premier League Tournament was the 31st season of first-class cricket in Sri Lanka's Premier Trophy. The tournament started on 30 November 2018 and concluded on 10 February 2019. Fourteen teams took part in Tier A of the competiti ... on 9 May 2019. References External links * 1985 births Living people Sri Lankan cricketers Panadura Sports Club cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
