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Bowers
Bowers may refer to: Persons * Bowers (surname) Places ;Antarctica * Bowers Mountains * Bowers Piedmont Glacier ;United Kingdom * Bowers, Staffordshire, England * Bowers Gifford, Essex, England ;United States * Bowers, Delaware * Bowers, Indiana * Bowers, Pennsylvania * Bowers, Wisconsin * Bowers House (other), several structures * Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California * Bowers Stadium, Sam Houston University, Texas Other uses * Bowers & Wilkins, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom * USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) * '' Bowers v. Hardwick'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision * '' Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', a 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision * Bowers Coaches, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England * Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers * Betty Bowers, a fictional character See also * Bauer (other) Bauer is a German surname meaning "peasant" or "farmer". For notable people sharing the surname Bauer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers & Wilkins
Bowers & Wilkins, commonly known as B&W, is a British company that produces consumer and professional loudspeakers and headphones. The company was founded in 1966 in Worthing, West Sussex, England. In October 2020, it was acquired by Sound United, a holding company who owns several other audio brands. History Early years Bowers & Wilkins began as a radio and electronics shop in Worthing. It was started after World War II by John Bowers & Roy Wilkins, who had met while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals during the war. The shop expanded to include televisions retail, a rentals business and a service department run by Peter Hayward. When the shop began supplying public address equipment to schools and churches in Sussex, Bowers became increasingly involved in the design and assembly of loudspeakers, eventually setting up a small production line in workshops behind the shop. 1960s In 1966, Bowers founded a separate company, B&W Loudspeakers Ltd., marking a shift away fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Gifford
Bowers Gifford is a small village within the district of Borough of Basildon, Basildon, in Essex, England. It is located to the east of Pitsea and to the west of South Benfleet. Bowers Gifford was formerly a civil parish, however it is now part of the civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet. Toponymy The place-name 'Bowers Gifford' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Bura'', meaning 'cottages', from the Old English ''bur'', in modern English ''bower''. The 'Gifford' element relates to its lords of the manor. The village has been known by other various names: Bures; Bures Tany; Bures iuxta Magna Bemflete; Bures by Pithesey; Buris; Burisgiffard; Burys; Bowers; Borys; Bewars. History Before the Norman Conquest the land was owned by Westminster Abbey, but by the Domesday Book of 1086 it was under the control of three tenants: the abbey, Ralph Peverell, Walter the Deacon and Lord Grim the Reeve. It was reported that the population was a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers (surname)
The surname Bowers is of Saxon origin, derived from the word 'bur' meaning 'a chamber; a cottage; a shady recess'. Adding 'er' to the end of topographical terms was common in south east England.Surname Database Accessed 7 January 2012 An alternative origin is " a maker of bows". Accessed 7 January 2012 Persons * Barney Bowers (born 1959), British football player * Bryan Bowers< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Stadium
Elliott T. Bowers Stadium is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The stadium has been home to the Sam Houston State University Sam Houston Bearkats football team since 1986. Previously, the team played their homes games at Pritchett Field, which currently plays host to the University's women soccer team. The Bearkats are members of Conference USA (CUSA). History Bowers stadium was named in honor of Dr. Elliott T. Bowers, a former president of Sam Houston State University. The stadium is located on campus at Sam Houston State University. The address for Bowers Stadium is 620 Bowers Blvd, Huntsville, Texas. Renovations In 2012, brand-new orange chairbacks were installed, replacing the older chairbacks previously in their place along with new parking lot locker rooms. In April 2013, The stadium added a video replay system scoreboard, an elevator leading up to the press box, and guest suites in the place of the old coach's press box section. New video graphic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Bowers
Deven Green (born January 31, 1975) is a Canadian comedian and model who produces comedy parody videos, including as the satirical character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America's Best Christian". Early life and career Green was born and raised in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada, and holds dual Canadian–U.S. citizenship. She began working as a professional figure skater and later started her comedy career at The Second City in Toronto. She has acknowledged comedian Harland Williams as giving her a big break in Canada by casting her in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stand-up comedy show ''Comics!''. Career Parody work Green portrays the satirical character Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America's Best Christian", created and written by writer Andrew Bradley. Green's comedic work also includes videos that offer her comic parodies and commentary of existing footage of other entertainers. Green is best known in this genre for her viral video parody of "Welcome to My Home" starring soap op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Coaches
Bowers Coaches was a bus company based in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, England. The company operated bus and coach services in Cheshire East, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester from 1952 until 2012. In its later years, it was a subsidiary of Centrebus and in 2012 it was merged with the Dove Holes depot of Trent Barton to form High Peak Buses. History Bowers Coaches was founded in 1952 by Eric Bower as a coach operator. In 1957, the charter operations of Park Hire Garages & Motors were acquired. It later expanded into local bus operation, particularly after Bus deregulation in the United Kingdom, the deregulation of local bus services in 1986. Based in the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak district of Derbyshire, it operated services centred on the towns of Buxton, Glossop and New Mills extending to some surrounding areas such as the town of Marple, Greater Manchester, Marple in Stockport and Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Ashbourne in the Derbyshire Dales. In June 2007, the busines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers V
Bowers may refer to: Persons * Bowers (surname) Places ;Antarctica * Bowers Mountains * Bowers Piedmont Glacier ;United Kingdom * Bowers, Staffordshire, England * Bowers Gifford, Essex, England ;United States * Bowers, Delaware * Bowers, Indiana * Bowers, Pennsylvania * Bowers, Wisconsin * Bowers House (other), several structures * Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California * Bowers Stadium, Sam Houston University, Texas Other uses * Bowers & Wilkins, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom * USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) * '' Bowers v. Hardwick'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision * '' Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', a 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision * Bowers Coaches, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England * Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers * Betty Bowers, a fictional character See also * Bauer (other) Bauer is a German surname meaning "peasant" or "farmer". For notable people sharing the surname Bauer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bowers (DE-637)
USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637/APD-40) was a of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Robert K. Bowers (1915-1941), who was killed in action aboard the battleship during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The ship was laid down on 28 May 1943 at San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ..., California, by the Bethlehem Steel Company; launched on 31 October, sponsored by Mrs. Eunice Bowers, the mother of Ensign Bowers; and commissioned on 27 January 1944. The ship served in World War II in the Pacific War, Pacific Service history World War II From 15 February to 15 March 1944, the new destroyer escort carried out shakedown cruise, shakedown training out of San Diego and then returned north to San Francisco for post-shakedown avail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers House (other)
Bowers House may refer to: ;in the United States ''(by state then city)'' * Bowers House, an intentional community in the form of a student co-op in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois * John S. Bowers House, Decatur, Indiana * Bowers House (Wichita, Kansas), listed on the NRHP in Sedwick County * Jerathmell Bowers House, Lowell, Massachusetts * Jonathan Bowers House, Lowell, Massachusetts * Joseph Bowers House, Amasa, Michigan * Bowers Mansion, Reno, Nevada * Bowers–Livingston–Osborn House, Parsippany, New Jersey * Dr. Wesley Bowers House, Southampton, New York * Bowers-Tripp House, Washington, North Carolina * Hoffman-Bowers-Josey-Riddick House, Scotland Neck, North Carolina * Dovel-Bowers House, Pickerington, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County * George W. and Hetty A. Bowers House, Portland, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum is an art museum located in Santa Ana, California, Santa Ana, California. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 100,000 objects, and features notable strengths in the areas of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Native American art, the art of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and California plein-air painting. The Bowers organizes and hosts special exhibitions from institutions throughout the world, and travels exhibitions nationally and internationally. The museum has a second campus two blocks south of the main site, Kidseum, a children's museum with a focus on art and archaeology. The Bowers Museum and Kidseum are located in Santa Ana 6.4 km (four miles) south of Disneyland. History Ada Elvira Bowers and her husband, Charles W. Bowers, a late 19th-century Orange County citrus grower and land developer, donated the land on which the museum stands to the city of Santa Ana as well as $100,000 to build the museum. The building was completed in 1932 but was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Mountains
Bowers Mountains () is a group of north–south trending mountains in Antarctica, about long and wide, bounded by the coast on the north and by the Rennick Glacier, Canham Glacier, Black Glacier and Lillie Glacier in other quadrants. They are west of the Usarp Mountains, north of the Freyberg Mountains, northeast of the Concord Mountains, east of the Anare Mountains. Exploration and naming The seaward end was first sighted in February 1911 from the ''Terra Nova'', under Lt. Harry L.L. Pennell, Royal Navy, and was subsequently named "Bowers Hills" in honour of Henry Robertson Bowers who perished with Captain Robert Falcon Scott on their return from the South Pole in 1912. The feature was photographed from United States Navy aircraft in 1946-47 and 1960–62, and was surveyed and mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1962–63. The name was amended to Bowers Mountains upon USGS mapping which showed the group to be a major one with peaks rising to nearly . Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
