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Pease Air Force Base
Pease, in Middle English, was a noun referring to the vegetable pea; see that article for its etymology. The word survives into modern English in pease pudding. Pease may also refer to: People * Pease family (Darlington), a prominent family in Darlington, UK * Al Pease (1921–2014), Formula One driver * Sir Alfred Pease, 2nd Baronet (1857–1939), English Liberal Party politician * Alfred Pease (musician) (1838–1882), composer * Arthur Pease (MP) (1837–1898), English MP * Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet (1866–1927), 1st Baronet and British coal magnate and railway director * Arthur Stanley Pease (1881–1964), U.S. professor of Classics and amateur botanist * Bas Pease (1922–2004), British physicist *Bob Pease (1940–2011), analog integrated circuit design expert * Claire Pease (born 2009), American artistic gymnast * Don Pease (1932–2002), U.S. Representative from Ohio * Edward Pease (other), several people * Elisha M. Pease (1812–1883), Texas governor * Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Scholarly opinion varies, but the University of Valencia states the period when Middle English was spoken as being from 1150 to 1500. This stage of the development of the English language roughly coincided with the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages. Middle English saw significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and orthography. Writing conventions during the Middle English period varied widely. Examples of writing from this period that have survived show extensive regional variation. The more standardized Old English literary variety broke down and writing in English became fragmented and localized and was, for the most part, being improvised. By the end of the period (about 1470), and aided by the movabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harl Pease
Harl Pease Jr. (April 10, 1917 – October 8, 1942) was a United States Army Air Corps officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during World War II. Pease Air National Guard Base is named for him. Biography Pease was born and raised in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from Tilton School, a college-preparatory school. He then attended the University of New Hampshire, where he became a brother of Theta Chi fraternity. In 1939, he graduated with a degree in business administration and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June 1940 and awarded pilot rating upon completion of flight training at Kelly Field, Texas. Pease was assigned to the 19th Bombardment Group (19th BG) as a B-17 pilot at Albuquerque Army Air Base, and in October 1941 flew with the group to Clark Field in the Philippines. As part of the Far East Air Force, Pease was present at Clark Field when i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Pease
Patsy Pease is an American actress. She is most known for her role as Kimberly Brady on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. Career Pease's first soap opera role was as waitress Cissie Mitchell Sentell on the soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'', a role she played from 1978 until 1980. In 1984, Pease debuted as Kimberly Brady on the NBC daytime soap opera ''Days of Our Lives''. Her character was part of a popular supercouple in her love affair and eventual marriage to Shane Donovan (played by Charles Shaughnessy). Pease was on contract with ''Days Of Our Lives'' until 1992 and again from 1996 to 1998. In 1990 she took maternity leave, returning from late 1991 to December 1992 after her child was born. Pease has reprised the role in guest appearances multiple times since. In 2015, Pease joined the cast of the soap opera web series '' The Bay'' in the role of Lola Baker. In 2016, she was nominated for an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actress in a Drama, and a Daytime Emmy Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lute Pease
Lucius Curtis "Lute" Pease Jr. (March 27, 1869 – August 16, 1963), was an American editorial cartoonist and journalist. He was cartoonist for the '' Newark Evening News'' from 1914 to 1954, and received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Born in Winnemucca, Nevada, to parents Lucius Curtis Pease and Mary Isabel (Hutton) Pease, Lute was one of five children. From the age of five he was raised by grandparents in Charlotte, Vermont, after the death of his parents. He graduated from the Franklin Academy in Malone, New York, in 1887, and moved out west, where he worked for several years as a ranch-hand in California, miner in Colorado, horticultural salesman and bicycle shop manager in Oregon. He took part in the Klondike Gold Rush, and was an occasional correspondent for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' between 1897 and 1901. He was then cartoonist and reporter for the '' Portland Oregonian'' from 1902 to 1905, where he published a notable interview with Mark T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Pease
Kenneth George Pease (born 5 August 1943) is a British forensic psychologist and criminologist. He is a visiting professor at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London, a visiting professor at the University of Loughborough and an honorary visiting fellow at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester. Previous positions he has held include Head of School of Sociology and Social Policy at the Ulster Polytechnic from 1981 to 1983, professor of criminology at the University of Huddersfield (where he founded the Applied Criminology Group in 1995), the University of Manchester (where he was appointed to a professorial chair in 1990), the head of the Home Office's Policing and Reducing Crime Unit from 1999 to 2000, advisor to the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme from 2000 to 2003, associate professor at the University of Saskatchewan and consultant criminologist at the Correctional Service of Canada, working i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford
Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford (25 December 1921 – 4 April 2013) was a British hereditary peer and a member of the Pease family (Darlington), Pease family. He was the eldest son of Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford and his wife Veronica Margaret Noble. He was educated at Eton College, Gordonstoun and the Open University. He married 1953, Margaret Theophila Radcliffe Tyndale, (born 1925) daughter of Henry Edmund Guise Tyndale, M.B.E. by Ruth Isabel Walcott Radcliffe. The couple had two daughters, Hon. Joanna Ruth Miriam Pease (born 1959) and Hon. Virginia Claire Margaret Pease (born 1960). He succeeded to the title on his father's death in 1971. References 1921 births 2013 deaths People educated at Eton College People educated at Gordonstoun Alumni of the Open University People educated at West Downs School Pease family, Joseph Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Hereditary peers removed under the House of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford
Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971) was a British hereditary peer and member of the Pease family. Family He was the only son of the Liberal peer Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford and his wife Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet He married 1921, Veronica Margaret Noble, (died 1995) daughter of Sir George John William Noble, 2nd Baronet. Their children were: * Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford (1921-2013) * George Pease, 4th Baron Gainford (1926-2022) * John Michael Pease (1930–2007) Career Pease was educated at Eton College and reached the rank of Major Major most commonly refers to: * Major (rank), a military rank * Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits * People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames * Major and minor in musi ... in the British Army. He fought in both world wars before becoming Baron in 1943. He died in September 1971. Arms References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet
Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1st Baronet (23 June 1828 – 23 June 1903) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1865 to 1903. Biography Pease was a member of the Pease family (Darlington), Darlington Pease family, being the son of Joseph Pease (railway pioneer), Joseph Pease and his wife Emma Gurney, daughter of Joseph Gurney of Lakenham Grove, Norwich. His father was a Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer of Darlington, and M.P. for South Durham from 1832 to 1841. Pease was educated at the Quaker run Lawrence Street school in York, (which later became Bootham School). He was a banker, an owner of coal and ironstone mines in Durham and Yorkshire, and a director of numerous companies, including the family's original woollen mill business Henry Pease & Co., the family bank J & JW Pease, The Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, the locomotive manufacturers Robert Stephenson and Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pease (railway Pioneer)
Joseph Pease (22 June 1799 – 8 February 1872) was a British proponent and supporter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, one of first public railway systems in the world, and was the first Religious Society of Friends, Quaker permitted to take his seat in Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament. Life Joseph Pease joined his father Edward Pease (railway pioneer), Edward and other members of the Pease family (Darlington), Pease family in starting the Stockton and Darlington Company. In 1826 he married Emma Gurney, youngest daughter of Joseph Gurney of Norwich. They had twelve children, amongst whom, were Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet, Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, his eldest son, and Arthur Pease (1837-1898), his fourth son. Joseph's fifth child, Elizabeth Lucy Pease, married the agricultural engineer and inventor John Fowler (agricultural engineer), John Fowler, a pioneer in the application of steam power to agriculture. In 1829 Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pease (other) (1860–1943), British businessman and Liberal politician
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John Pease may refer to: * John Pease (sociologist) (born 1936), associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park * John Pease (American football) (1943–2021), retired football coach * Beaumont Pease, 1st Baron Wardington (John William Beaumont Pease, 1869–1950), British banker See also *Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943), known as Jack Pease, was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a member of H. H. Asquith's Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Pease
Joachim Pease (born 1842, date of death unknown) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the American Civil War. Biography Although Joachim Pease has been referred to as a native of Long Island, New York, recently unearthed records in the National Archives show that when he enlisted in the United States Navy as an Ordinary Seaman on January 12, 1862 for a three-year hitch, he listed his birthplace as Fogo Island which is probably Fogo Island, Cape Verde. He was described as twenty years old, five feet, six and a half inches tall, with black hair and eyes and a "negro" complexion. Joachim Pease enlisted in the Navy from New Bedford, Massachusetts, not New York City, as commonly reported, and served on board during the Civil War. On June 19, 1864, off the coast of Cherbourg, France, ''Kearsarge'' battled the Confederate sloop-of-war . In a report on the third division, he was described: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943), known as Jack Pease, was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a member of H. H. Asquith's Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served as Chairman of the BBC between 1922 and 1926. Background and education Pease was born in Darlington, County Durham (a member of the Darlington Peases), the second and youngest son of Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet, of Hutton Hall, Guisborough, and Mary, daughter of Alfred Fox. He was the younger brother of Sir Alfred Pease, 2nd Baronet, the nephew of Arthur Pease and the first cousin of Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet, and Herbert Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton. He was educated at Grove House School, a Quaker school, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Political career Pease served as Mayor of Darlington from 1889 to 1890. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tyneside in 1892, a seat he held until 1900. He contested and won a by-electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
