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Laurel (given Name)
Laurel is a unisex given name. The name is of English origin from the Latin ''Lauras'' with the meaning referring to the laurel tree. Various names related to Laurel are Laura, Lauren, Lori, and Lorraine. Another related name would be the Germanic Mythology name ''Lorelie'' which means "luring rock" and is mentioned in a German legend saying that a maiden named Lorelei, who lives upon a rock in Rhine River, lures fishermen into death by her songs. Laurel may refer to: People *Laurel Aitken (1927–2005), nicknamed the "Godfather of Ska" * Laurel Arnell-Cullen, British singer *Laurel Beckett, American biostatician * Laurel G. Bellows, American lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association *Laurel Burch (1945–2007), folk artist known for her brightly colored feline themes * Laurel Braitman (born 1978), American science historian and writer *Laurel Cronin (1939–1992), American actress *Laurel Clark (1961–2003), astronaut and doctor who flew on the last flight of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unisex
Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean gender-blindness or gender neutrality. The term 'unisex' was coined as a neologism in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. The combining prefix ''uni-'' is from Latin ''unus'', meaning ''one'' or ''single''. However, 'unisex' seems to have been influenced by words such as ''united'' and ''universal'', in which ''uni-'' takes the related sense ''shared''. Unisex then means ''shared by sexes''. Examples Hair stylists and beauty salons that serve both men and women are often referred to as unisex. This is also typical of other services and products that had traditionally been separated by sexes, such as clothing shops or beauty products. Public toilets are commonly sex segregated but if that is not the case, they are referred to as unisex public toilets. Unisex clothing includes garments like T-shirts; versions of other garments may be tailored for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Edwards
Laurel Edwards (born 1 October 1966) is an Australian television presenter, radio announcer and singer. Career Edwards' radio career began in 1992, commencing work at Brisbane radio station 4KQ, where she remained until 2022.(18 May 2017Laurel celebrates on-air milestone ''radioinfo''. Retrieved 1 September 2018. In 2005, Edwards was named as Brisbane's longest serving female breakfast radio presenter. 4KQ marked Edwards' 25th anniversary with the station in 2017. Edwards' first television job was hosting Nine Network children's program ''OK for Kids'' in 1987. she was a presenter on Seven Network travel show '' The Great Day Out''. She is the sole remaining original presenter on the show, having been with the program since it was launched as ''The Great South East'' in 1997. Lawrence, Elissa (22 May 2017Laurel Edwards: Reflections over a 25-year career ''The Courier-Mail'', News Corp Australia. Retrieved 1 September 2018. Personal life Edwards met Troy Cassar-Daley a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Nakadate
Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) is an American feminist video artist, filmmaker, and photographer. She is based in New York City. Biography Laurel Nakadate was born 1975 in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa. Nakadate graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 1998 from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She also earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 2001 for photography from Yale University. Nakadate's work is displayed in numerous collections and museums around the United States, namely the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Princeton University Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, LACMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Saatchi Collection. Nakadate's 2005 solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories", was featured in ''The New York Times'', The Village Voice', and ''Flash Art''. Art critic Jerry Saltz named her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience." Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her most famous book, “A Midwife’s Tale,” was later the basis for a PBS documentary film. Early life and education Laurel Thatcher was born July 11, 1938, in Sugar City, Idaho, to John Kenneth Thatcher, schoolteacher and superintendent as well as state legislator and farmer; and Alice Siddoway Thatcher. She graduated from the University of Utah, majoring in English and journalism, and gave the valedictory speech at commencement. In 1971, she earned a master's degree in English at Simmons College, and subsequently a doctorate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder (born 1974 in Baltimore) is an American poet and writer of children's books, including novels and picture books. She has also edited a number of literary journals and is a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. Snyder was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and holds degrees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and children. Awards and honors Twelve of Snyder's books are Junior Library Guild books: ''Any Which Wall'' (2009), ''Swan'' (2015), ''The Forever Garden'' (2017), ''Charlie & Mouse'' (2017), ''Orphan Island'' (2017), ''Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy'' (2017), ''Charlie & Mouse Even Better'' (2019), ''My Jasper June'' (2019), ''Charlie & Mouse Outdoors'' (2020), ''Charlie and Mouse Lost and Found'' (2021), ''Endlessly Ever After'' (2022), and ''Charlie & Mouse Are Magic'' (2022). ''Swan'' was named one of the best books of 2016 by Bank Street College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Schafer
Laurel Schafer is a Canadian Organic chemist. She is a full professor at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development. Schafer's research is at the intersection of organometallic and organic chemistry. Early life and education Schafer grew up on a farm in Wellesley, Ontario, Canada. She completed her BSc at the University of Guelph in 1993, and her PhD at the University of Victoria in 1999 where she worked with Prof. David J. Berg. She worked as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Prof. T. Don Tilley. Career Schafer joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2001. She was shortly thereafter the recipient of the 2004 Boehringer Ingelheim Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis and UBC's Teaching Excellence Award. In 2007, Schafer was promoted to Associate Professor and named a Sloan Fellow. In 2011, Schafer was appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Lea Schaefer
Laurel Lea Schaefer (born May 21, 1949) was Miss America 1972. A native of Bexley, Ohio, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Ohio University in June 1971. Three months later, she won the Miss America pageant. She parlayed her theatre arts and music degree into a stage career. Her training afforded her opportunities as a leading lady to actors such as Howard Keel, John Davidson, Peter Marshall, Ed Ames, Joe Namath, Giorgio Tozzi and Gordon MacRae Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986) was an American actor, singer and radio/television host who appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals ''Oklahoma!'' (1955) and '' Carousel'' (1956) and who p .... She performed in productions of such musicals and plays as ''The Music Man'', ''The Sound of Music'', ''Camelot'', ''South Pacific'', ''Showboat'', ''My Fair Lady'', ''Oklahoma'', ''Hello Dolly'', ''Carousel'', ''The King and I'', ''Guys and Dolls'', ''Anything Goes'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel McGoff
'' Kid Nation'' is a CBS reality show based around a society essentially run by kids. The cast included 40 children aged from 8 to 15 years old, and from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, cultures and religions. Alex Alexander "Alex" Wade was a 9-year-old blue district member from Reno, Nevada. He won a gold star on day 37 in episode 12. He was shown to have great intelligence in many episodes, often offering a fact or two to his companions that they did not previously know. Alex is a three-time Nevada geography champion, and represented Nevada in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 National Geographic Bee (previously called the ''National Geographic Geography Bee''). Alex is also an International Linguistics Olympiad medalist, having earned a silver medal in 2011 and a gold in 2012. He graduated from Stanford University and now works at Atlassian. Anjay Anjay Ajodha was a 12-year-old from Pearland, Texas. He was introduced in episode one as a council leader (of the blue district), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Massé
Laurel Massé (born December 29, 1951) is an American jazz singer and former member of The Manhattan Transfer. Career Massé was born in Holland, Michigan, grew up in Westchester County, New York, and lived in Europe during her teens. Early in school, she developed a fondness for classical music, particularly Beethoven, though she also cites the Beatles, Pablo Casals, and her grandfather as influences. Her grandfather sang with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, and her mother sang opera. Massé started on piano, played cello in her teens, and was her own teacher on guitar during the 1960s. She sang in the choir and belonged to rock bands in high school. She was unfamiliar with jazz until the age of 20. In 1972, Massé was working as a waitress in New York City when she stepped into a taxi driven by Tim Hauser. Massé and Hauser had the same ambition to be singers. Hauser had formed a vocal group, the Manhattan Transfer, which broke up after recording one album. Some weeks later, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Martyn
Laurel Martyn (; 23 July 1916 – 16 October 2013) was an Australian ballerina.Obituary theaustralian.com.au; Retrieved 26 December 2013. In 1933, she left Australia for England and studied with Phyllis Bedells. In 1934 she won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing (later the ) for ''Exile'', her first composition. In 1935 she became the first Australian to win the Adeline Genée Gold Medal. Martyn joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later |
Laurel Holloman
Laurel Lisa Holloman is an American painter and actress. She is best known for playing Tina Kennard in ''The L Word''. Early life Holloman is the youngest child in her family. She has two older brothers. She graduated from Saint Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school for girls in Raleigh, in 1986. She attended the University of North Carolina where she graduated with a degree in Performance Communication. She appeared in numerous theater productions in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, as well as in Chicago and London. She studied painting and sculpting at UCLA and at The San Francisco Art Institute. Career Acting After graduating from UNC, Holloman moved to Chicago to work with the Piven Theatre Workshop. She studied with John Lynn in Los Angeles, and was cast in David Orr's independent feature ''Blossom Time''. She moved to New York City in early 1994 and appeared in stage productions such as Tennessee Williams' ''The Glass Menagerie'', Carson McCullers' ''The Heart Is a Lone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Hester
Laurel Anne Hester (August 15, 1956 – February 18, 2006) was a police lieutenant with the Ocean County, New Jersey Prosecutor's Office, who came to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to her domestic partner. Her battle was shown in ''Freeheld'' (2007), the winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, and the feature film of the same name (2015), in which Hester is portrayed by Julianne Moore. Early life Laurel Anne Hester was born in Elgin, Illinois, and grew up in Florham Park, the daughter of Diana (1922–1995) and George Hester (1919–1992). She has two brothers, George II and James, and a sister, real-estate agent Lynda (Hester) D'Orio. Hester realized she was gay at a young age. Though she accepted herself, at times her sexual orientation made her feel isolated. As a child, her family often summered at the Jersey Shore, and later Hester would return to work in the area. Education After graduating in 1974 from Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
