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Smith
Smith may refer to: People and fictional characters * Metalsmith, or simply smith, a craftsman fashioning tools or works of art out of various metals * Smith (given name) * Smith (surname), a family name originating in England ** List of people with surname Smith, including fictional characters * Smith (artist) (born 1985), French visual artist Arts and entertainment * Smith (band), an American rock band 1969–1971 * ''Smith'' (EP), by Tokyo Police Club, 2007 * ''Smith'' (play), a 1909 play by W. Somerset Maugham * ''Smith'' (1917 film), a British silent film based on the play * ''Smith'' (1939 film), a short film * '' Smith!'', a 1969 Disney Western film * ''Smith'' (TV series), a 2006 American drama * ''Smith'', a 1932 novel by Warwick Deeping * ''Smith'', a 1967 novel by Leon Garfield and a 1970 TV adaptation Places North America * Smith, Indiana, U.S. * Smith, Kentucky, U.S. * Smith, Nevada, U.S. * Smith, South Carolina, U.S. * Smith Village, Oklahoma, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People With Surname Smith
Smith is one of the most common surnames in the English-speaking world. Following is a list of notable people with the surname Smith. People A * A. Hyatt Smith (1814–1892), American politician * A. Ledyard Smith (1901–1985), American archaeologist * Abby Hadassah Smith (1797–1879), American suffragist * Abigail Smith (fl. 1990s–2010s), New Zealand academic * Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975), American attorney, trade commissioner, and Foreign Service officer * Ahmaad Smith (born 1983), American football player * Ainias Smith (born 2001), American football player *AJ Smith, American songwriter and musician * Akili Smith (born 1975), Canadian and American football player * Aldon Smith (born 1989), American football player * Aleck Smith (1871–1919), American baseball catcher * Ali Smith (born 1962), Scottish novelist and writer * Ambrose Smith (died 1584), English textile merchant and landowner * Amos Smith (1944–2025), American chemist and academic * Anne Curtis-Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (surname)
Smith is an occupational surname originating in England. It is the most prevalent surname in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and the fifth most common surname in Ireland. In the United States, the surname Smith is particularly prevalent among those of English, Scottish, and Irish descent, but is also a common surname among African-Americans, which can be attributed either to African slaves having been given the surname of their masters, or to being an occupational name, as some southern African-Americans took this surname to reflect their or their father's trade. 2,442,977 Americans shared the surname Smith at the time of the 2010 census, and more than 500,000 people shared it in the United Kingdom as of 2006. At the turn of the 20th century, the surname was sufficiently prevalent in England to have prompted the statement: "Common to every village in England, north, south, east, and west";Bardsley. ''English and Welsh Surnames''. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (artist)
Smith (stylized as SMITH; born 1985) is a French transdisciplinary artist-researcher. Smith experiments with and explores the links between contemporary humanity and its boundary figures - ghosts, mutants, hybrids - engaging his own body and that of his collaborators - writers, astronauts, shamans, engineers, designers, performers or composers - in indisciplinary projects. Disturbing genres, languages and disciplines, Smith proposes curious works, in the etymological sense of cura: curiosity and care for the world around us, the terrestrial and the celestial, the human and the non-human, the visible and the invisible, imagination and fiction. Thermal cameras, drones, neon lights, implantations of electronic chips and subcutaneous meteorites, atomic mutations or trance practices characterise his fluid work composed with technological and spiritual means that incorporate the dimensions of mystery and dream. Early life and education Born in 1985 in Paris, France. Smith has a degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (given Name)
Smith is a male given name, derived from the similarly named surname. Notable people with the name include: * Smith Alford (-1949), American college football player and coach * Smith D. Atkins (1836-1913), American army general * Smith Bagley (1935-2010), American businessman and Democratic Party executive * Smith Ballew (1902-1984), American singer-songwriter * Smith Barrier (1916-1989), American sports journalist * Smith A. Boughton (1810-1888), American physician and political activist * Smith W. Brookhart (1869-1944), American U.S. Senator for Iowa * Smith Cho, American actress * Smith Churchill (1838-1902), English cricketer and clergyman * Smith Clark (-1876), American lawyer and legislator * Smith Curtis (1855-1949), Canadian lawyer and politician * Smith Dharmasaroja (1937-), Thai government official * Smith Dun (1906-1979), Burmese lieutenant general * Smith Ely Jr. (1825-1911), American politician and 82nd Mayor of New York City * Smith Hart (1948-2017), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (play)
''Smith'' is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was becoming a successful dramatist. The play was first seen in London in 1909. In the play, Thomas Freeman returns after years abroad to his sister Rose, and gets to know the fashionable social set who meet at her home; he eventually finds that the parlourmaid has the most merit of any in the household. History After the success of '' Lady Frederick'', his plays ''Mrs Dot'' and ''Jack Straw'' were soon staged. Maugham wrote: "Their success made the managers eager to take other plays... "; three subsequent plays "were written on commission to suit certain actors, ''Penelope'' for Marie Tempest, ''Smith'' for Miss Marie Lohr and Robert Loraine and '' The Land of Promise'' for Irene Vanbrugh.... They established me as the most popular dramatist of the day".''The Collected Plays of W. Somerset Maugham'', volume 1. Heinemann, 1961. Preface, pages xi, xiii. The play was first produced in London at the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Glacier
Smith Glacier ( is a low-gradient Antarctica, Antarctic glacier, over 160 km (100 mi) long, draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea. A northern distributary, Kohler Glacier, drains to Dotson Ice Shelf but the main flow passes to the sea between Bear Peninsula and Mount Murphy, terminating at Crosson Ice Shelf. Location The Smith Glacier originates on the north slopes of Toney Mountain, and flows northeast past the Kohler Range. The Kohler Glacier, a distributary, splits off from the Smith Glacier and flows north into the Maumee Ice Piedmont and the Dotson Ice Shelf to the west of the Bear Peninsula. The main Smith Glacier flows past the southeast of the Bear Peninsula, past the Davis Ice Rise, to the Amundsen Sea. Davis Ice Rise . An ice rise, long, near the terminus of Smith Glacier, southeast of Mayo Peak, Bear Peninsulat. Mapped by USGS from USN aerial photographs taken 1966 and Landsat imagery taken 1972-73. Named by US-ACAN after Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Township (other)
Smith Township may refer to the following places: In Canada *Smith Township, Peterborough County, Ontario (historic, now part of Selwyn township) In the United States Arkansas * Smith Township, Cleveland County, Arkansas * Smith Township, Cross County, Arkansas * Smith Township, Dallas County, Arkansas * Smith Township, Lincoln County, Arkansas * Smith Township, Saline County, Arkansas Indiana * Smith Township, Greene County, Indiana * Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana * Smith Township, Whitley County, Indiana Kansas * Smith Township, Thomas County, Kansas Missouri * Smith Township, Dade County, Missouri * Smith Township, Worth County, Missouri *and also: May/Smith Township, Laclede County, Missouri North Carolina * Smith Township, Duplin County, North Carolina North Dakota * Smith Township, Towner County, North Dakota Ohio * Smith Township, Belmont County, Ohio * Smith Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Pennsylvania * Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (band)
Smith was an American rock band formed in 1969 in Los Angeles, California. They had a blues-based sound and scored a Top 5 hit in the United States in 1969 with the Burt Bacharach song "Baby It's You", featuring Gayle McCormick on lead vocals. The record sold over one million copies between July and October 1969, out-charted popular versions by the Beatles and the Shirelles, and was awarded a gold record by the Recording Industry Association of America. Beginnings The group evolved from a band featuring two of the same members called "The Smiths" (not to be confused with the 1980s band with a similar name). They attempted to chart their song "Now I Taste the Tears", produced and arranged by Ron Budnik, but the track had a melancholy sound and was not commercially successful. Subsequently, Gayle McCormick (who had started her career singing songs by Tina Turner, Etta James and others) was added as a front woman and lead vocalist. The group was discovered in a Los Angeles nightcl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Sound, Newfoundland And Labrador
Smith Sound is a zigzag 24 kilometre inner region of Trinity Bay. This sound is one of the longest portions of inshore waterways in Newfoundland, located on its north-eastern coast in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Bonavista Peninsula is to the north of the sound, while Random Island is to the south. The waters that make up the sound is a continuous channel that encircles Random Island, broken only by a narrow channel located at Clarenville where a causeway was built to provide access to the communities on Random Island. The channel on the south side of Random Island is North West Arm. Early history The area was visited seasonally by fishermen in the 18th century, and first settled in the 19th century. On September 5, 1822, William Cormack sailed through Smith Sound to explore the region with Sylvester Joe, a Mi'kmaq guide. Cormack's account of his travels were published in 1824 and republished in 1856. Permanent residents settled in during the 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Sound
Smith Sound (; ) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ... and Nunavut's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Baffin Bay with Kane Basin and forms part of the Nares Strait. On the Canadian side it extends from Cape Sabine in the north to Cape Isabella in the south. On the Greenland side of the sound were the now abandoned settlements of Etah and Annoatok. History The first known visit to the area by Europeans was in 1616 when the '' Discovery'', captained by Robert Bylot and piloted by William Baffin, sailed into this region. The sound was originally named ''Sir Thomas Smith's Bay'' after the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smythe. By the 1750s it regularly appeared on maps as ''Sir Thomas Smith's Sound'', thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith (EP)
Smith EP is a four-track EP that was released by Canadian indie group Tokyo Police Club on October 23, 2007 in Canada and November 6, 2007 in the US. A download version of the Smith EP was originally available in the Spring of 2007 with only the first three songs and a different cover. Reviews Reviews of the EP were positive but disappointed by the release of an even shorter EP than A Lesson in Crime instead of a full-length LP album. Pitchfork Media gave a 6.8 rating commenting that "as the indie world collectively holds its breath for the TPC full-length, they first punch us in the gut with the Smith EP, a three-song, eight-minute release that could pass for a free iTunes preview." Chart gave a review of 5/5 but "deduct d/nowiki> one point for making everyone wait for the LP". RegnYouth remarked that the EP "makes up for lack of quantity with the quality of the songs" and "one listen and the wait for that LP will only get more frustrating". UKULA Magazine agrees, saying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith Sound (British Columbia)
Smith Sound is a sound on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located to the south of Rivers Inlet and between the Queen Charlotte Strait region (S) and Fitz Hugh Sound (N). Smith Sound is the traditional home and territory of the Gwa'sala group of Kwakwakaʼwakw, who are today organized with the 'Nak'waxda'xw (Nakoaktok) into the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations band government. Indian reserve In Canada, an Indian reserve () or First Nations reserve () is defined by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." ...s on Smith Sound and Smith Inlet under their governance are: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
