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Ardis
Ardis may refer to: * Ardis (given name) * Ardis, Ottoman Empire * Ardis (retailer), a supermarket chain in Algiers, Algeria * Ardis Furnace, an abandoned experimental blast furnace in Michigan *Ardis Publishing, a Russian-English publishing company * Advanced Radio Data Information Services (ARDIS), a wireless data network * Ardiz-e Olya or Ardīs, Iran People with the surname *Jim Ardis Jim Ardis (born May 25, 1959) is an American corporate executive and politician who served as mayor of Peoria, Illinois from 2005 to 2021. Prior to becoming mayor, he had previously served on the Peoria City Council from 1999 through 2005. Ardis ..., mayor of Peoria, Illinois {{Disambiguation, surname Irish feminine given names Scottish feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ardis
Jim Ardis (born May 25, 1959) is an American corporate executive and politician who served as mayor of Peoria, Illinois from 2005 to 2021. Prior to becoming mayor, he had previously served on the Peoria City Council from 1999 through 2005. Ardis is the second-longest serving mayor in city history behind Edward Nelson Woodruff. Background When Ardis was 10, his father, Jim Ardis Jr., became a Peoria city councilman, serving from 1969 to 1973. His grandfather, John Bulger, had been Peoria County clerk. Ardis graduated from high school at Spalding Institute in 1977 and from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Science in industrial technology in 1982. Ardis owned O'Leary's Restaurant from 1994 to 1997. From 1999 to 2006, Ardis worked in sales for Univar; from 2006 to 2010, he was Midwest Vice President of ELM Locating. Since 2010, he has been Executive Director of Corporate Strategies for Peoria-based Axis, Inc., part of Jupiter Strategic Technologies Pvt. Ltd. of Bang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardis Furnace
The Ardis Furnace is an abandoned experimental blast furnace located at the northeast corner of Aragon and Antoine Streets (accessible from US-2) in Iron Mountain, Michigan, United States. The Ardis Furnace was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Description The furnace as originally built was a huge metal tube, long and in diameter, lined with firebrick and installed at a slight incline. The tube was held in place by a series of concrete supports of graduated height. The tube was rotated with an electric motor, and refined iron was collected at the lower end of the tube. However, after the project was abandoned the furnace fell into disrepair, and only the ruins of the concrete supports remain. History In 1908, Iron Mountain resident John T. Jones built this experimental blast furnace to test the Step Furnace Process he developed to extract iron from low-grade ore. Jones named it the "Ardis Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardis Publishing
Ardis Publishing (the name of the original company is Ardis Publishers, which is the correct name for the company up until 2002), began in 1971, as the only publishing house outside of Russia dedicated to Russian literature in both English and Russian, Ardis was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan by husband and wife scholars Carl R. Proffer and Ellendea C. Proffer. The Proffers had two goals for Ardis: one was to publish in Russian the "lost library" of twentieth-century Russian literature which had been censored and removed from Soviet libraries ( Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Nabokov, among others); the other was to bring translations of contemporary writers working in the Soviet Union to the West. Ardis has published around 400 titles, roughly half in English, half in Russian. Ardis became important in the Soviet Union, and then acclaimed in the new Russia, because it published, in Russian, many works which could not be published there until the dawn of Glasnost. Such authors as N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardis (given Name)
Ardis is a female first name of Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ... and Scottish origin. Its meaning is '' fervent'' or “blooming meadow” as a variation of Ardyce. Retrieved November 20, 2008 Notable people with the name include: * Ardis Fagerholm (born 1971), a Swedish pop singer * Ardis Joan Krainik (1928 – 1997), an American mezzo-soprano opera singer References {{giv ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardis (retailer)
Ardis is a supermarket chain in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. The first hypermarket was opened in 2012 in Mohammedia, the second was opened in Bir El Djir Bir El Djir is a town located close north-east of Oran in the Oran Province, Algeria. According to the 2009 census it has a population of 171,883. University Bir El Djir hosts the University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed 2022 Mediterranean Game ..., Oran in 2016. It is owned by Arcofina Group. References Retail companies established in 2012 Buildings and structures in Algiers Tourist attractions in Algiers {{Algeria-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardis, Ottoman Empire
Ardis was a small town in the Ottoman Empire 35 miles north-west of Diyarbakir. It laid along the Tigris River The Tigris () is the easternmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, and empties into the P ... which was a good way to travel and trade. Dilay Hatun became the head of the town in 1793 after the previous leader died sometime during the Tripolitanian civil war. The town no longer exists due to urbanization in the 1800s. References {{coord missing, Turkey Former populated places in Turkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
