Morse (surname)
Morse is a surname of Flemish origin from old Frisian, and may refer to:
People
* Alan Morse (born 1958), American guitarist
* Albert Pitts Morse (1863–1936), American entomologist
* Alex Morse (born 1989), American politician
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Morse Goodman Morse Lamb Goodman (27 May 1917 – 12 December 1993) was the fifth Bishop of Calgary.
Goodman was born in Rosedale, Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto. He was ordained in 1943. and was a curate at St Paul's Fort William and then ...
(1917-1993), Anglican Bishop of Calgary, Canada
* Morse Robb (1902–1992), Canadian inventor and entrepreneur
Morse Spur Morse Spur () is a spur projecting south from the Saint Johns Range between Deshler Valley and Crawford Valley in Victoria Land. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after David L. Morse, Institute for Geophysics, University of ...
Morse (provincial electoral district) Morse is a former provincial electoral division for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, centered on the town of Morse, Saskatchewan. The district was created before the 3rd Saskatchewan general election in 1912, and ...
, Saskatchewan
China
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Morse Park
Morse Park (), occupying , is an urban park located in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon.
It was completed in 1967.
Morse Point
Morse Point () is a point marking the east side of the entrance of Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. The point appears roughly charted on maps dating back to about 1900; it was roughly surveyed by Discovery Investigations personne ...
Morse, Louisiana
Morse is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 812 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Laid out in 1898 on land owned by J. M. Crabtree, Morse was settled by farmers fr ...
, a village
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Morse River (Maine)
The Morse River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 30, 2011 tidal river in Phippsburg, Maine. It flows directly into the Atlantic Ocean, west of the mouth of the ...
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Morse Township, Itasca County, Minnesota
Morse Township is a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 615 at the 2010 census.
The unincorporated community of Ball Club is located within Morse Township.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bure ...
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Morse Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Morse Township is a township in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,213 at the 2010 census.
State Highways 1 ( MN 1) and 169 ( MN 169) are two of the main routes in the township. Other routes include Saint Louis Co ...
* Morse, Texas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Morse, Wisconsin
Morse is a town in Ashland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 493 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Ballou, Cayuga, Foster Junction, and Penokee are located in the town.
Geography
According to the Un ...
, a town
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Morse (community), Wisconsin
Morse is an unincorporated community located in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States. Morse is located along the Bad River south-southeast of Mellen.
History
In 1881 the newly formed Bad River Lumbering and Improvemen ...
, an unincorporated community
Outer space
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Morse (crater)
Morse is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon and cannot be seen directly from the Earth. It lies about one crater diameter to the southwest of the larger Fitzgerald. To the west-northwest of Morse is Dante.
This i ...
, on the Moon
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Year 867 ( DCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* September 23 – Emperor Michael III is murdered, by order ...
, an asteroid
Arts and entertainment
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Inspector Morse
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series '' Inspector Morse'' (1987–2000), ...
, a fictional British detective in books by Colin Dexter and a television series
* ''Morse'', French title for the Swedish horror film '' Let the Right One In''
* ''Morse'' (album), by the New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith, 1993
Businesses
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Morse Diving
Morse Diving was an American manufacturer of diving equipment
Diving equipment is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable. This may be equipment primarily intended for this ...
, an American maker of diving equipment
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Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company
The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City. Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to ...
, a defunct American company
* C.C. Morse & Co., an American supplier of seeds and part of
Ferry-Morse Seed Company
The Ferry-Morse Seed Company is a supplier of seeds, and was at one time the largest such company in the world. It is currently part of Green Garden Products, a privately owned gardening company based in Massachusetts.
D.M. Ferry & Co.
In 1856, ...
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Morse Theater
The Morse Theater operated in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, Chicago, Illinois, U.S., from 1912 until 1930
Other uses
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Morse College
Morse College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College and the two colleges share many facilities. The current Head of College is Catherine ...
Morse station
Morse is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1358 West Morse Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station was formerly known as Rogers Park or Morse-Rogers Park. There is an entrance/exit on West ...
, a rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Morse Auditorium Alfred L. Morse Auditorium is a domed theater that is now owned by Boston University (BU) and used as an auditorium.
Built in 1906 as Temple Israel, the edifice was intended by the architect and congregation as a replica of Solomon's Temple. Bost ...
Sea-lion
In heraldry, the term sea-lion (sometimes called a morse) refers to a legendary creature that has the head and upper body of a lion, but with webbed forelimbs and a fish tail. These occur most frequently as supporters, but also occur as crests a ...
, in heraldry sometimes called morse
* Morse, an archaic English word for the
walrus
The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large pinniped, flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in ...
** Morse, an archaic word for
walrus ivory
The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the fami ...
* Morse, a clasp of a
cope
The cope (known in Latin as ''pluviale'' 'rain coat' or ''cappa'' 'cape') is a liturgical vestment, more precisely a long mantle or cloak, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colours, litu ...
* Morse chain, a
chain drive
Chain drive is a way of transmitting mechanical power from one place to another. It is often used to convey power to the wheels of a vehicle, particularly bicycles and motorcycles. It is also used in a wide variety of machines besides vehicles. ...
with inverted teeth
See also
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Morse code
Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of ...
, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps, invented by Samuel Morse
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Morse potential
The Morse potential, named after physicist Philip M. Morse, is a convenient
interatomic interaction model for the potential energy of a diatomic molecule. It is a better approximation for the vibrational structure of the molecule than the qua ...
, a model interatomic potential energy function
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Morse taper
Morse may refer to:
People
* Morse (surname)
* Morse Goodman (1917-1993), Anglican Bishop of Calgary, Canada
* Morse Robb (1902–1992), Canadian inventor and entrepreneur
Geography Antarctica
* Cape Morse, Wilkes Land
* Mount Morse, Chur ...
, a type of machine taper invented by Stephen A. Morse
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Morse theory
In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold. According to the basic insights of Marston Morse, a typical differentiabl ...
Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012 English-language masculine given names