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Willis
Willis may refer to: Places United States * Willis, Florida, an unincorporated community * Willis, Kansas, a city * Willis, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Willis, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Willis, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * Willis, Texas, a city * Willis, Floyd County, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Willis, Russell County, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Willis River, a tributary of the James River in Virginia Elsewhere * Willis, Grenada, a town * Willis Island, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Australia * Willis Islands, South Georgia Islands Arts and entertainment Works * ''Giselle'' or ''The Willis'', a ballet (in the ballet, the Willis are a group of supernatural women) * ''Le Villi'' (''The Willis'' or ''The Fairies''), an opera-ballet composed by Giacomo Puccini * ''Willis'' (album), by The Pietasters Fictional characters * Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s American sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes'' * Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis, Kansas
Willis is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 24. History Willis had its start as a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A post office opened in Willis in 1882 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1960. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 69 people, 22 households, and 17 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 29 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 78.26% White, 5.80% African American, 13.04% Native American, and 2.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.70% of the population. There were 22 households, out of which 45.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.6% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis High School
Willis High School is a public high school in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. It is a part of the Willis Independent School District. In 2022, the school received a C grade from the Texas Education Agency. History The school was opened in 1995 and replaced the previous Willis High School now known as Lynn Lucas Middle School. In 2004 the school had about 1,440 students. Ben Cooper was the principal until 2006. That year, Tim Patton became the principal. On June 10, 2010, he was reassigned to a position in the district's headquarters. In 2023 the school had an enrollment of 2,496. Demographics In the 2022–2023 school year, there were 2,521 students enrolled at Willis High School. The ethnic distribution of students was as follows: * 49.6% White * 37.4% Hispanic * 8.2% African American * 1.0% Asian * 0.3% American Indian * 0.3% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander * 3.3% Two or More Races 57.3% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis, Texas
Willis is a city in Montgomery County, Texas, Montgomery County, Texas, United States, located eight miles north of Conroe, Texas, Conroe in north central Montgomery County. The city began to develop in 1870 after what is now the Union Pacific Railroad built track through the area. As a part of the Piney Woods, the Willis economy has historically been driven by lumber, agriculture, and the manufacture of lumber and agriculture equipment. From the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, it produced tobacco as a commodity crop. Competition from Cuba reduced its contribution to the economy. The population was 6,431 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and was estimated to be 6,964 in 2023. In 2008, after Willis's population passed 5,000, the city established a Home rule in the United States, home rule city charter. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.04%) is water. History Before the foundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Building, Ipswich
The Willis Building (originally the Willis Faber & Dumas regional headquarters) in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman after establishing Foster Associates. Constructed between 1970 and 1975 for the insurance firm now known as Willis Towers Watson, it is widely considered a landmark in the development of the 'high tech' architectural style. The building houses some 1,300 office staff in open-plan offices spread over three floors. Location The bulbous floor plan of the office block reflects the layout of the available site in the centre of Ipswich, which is sandwiched between several road junctions and the Grade I listed Unitarian Meeting House . Thus two of the town's Grade I listed buildings stand side by side. Design The centre of the building is constructed from a grid of concrete pillars, 14 m (46 ft) apart, supporting cantilevered concrete slab floors. The curtain wall exterior is clad in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Street
Willis Street is a prominent street in the central business district of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Along with Courtenay Place, Manners Street and Lambton Quay, the lower reaches of Willis Street form part of the "Golden Mile", Wellington's primary entertainment and retail district. Willis Street is one of the four 'quarters' of downtown Wellington, the others being centred on the Cuba Quarter, Courtenay Place and Lambton Quay. The two tallest buildings in Wellington, the Aon Centre (Wellington) (formerly known as BNZ Tower) and the Majestic Centre, are both located on Willis Street. There is a large number of heritage buildings registered by Heritage New Zealand Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (initially the National Historic Places Trust and then, from 1963 to 2014, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust; in ) is a Crown entity that advocates for the protection of Archaeology of New Zealand, ancest ... in Willis Street, including St John's Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis (surname)
Willis is a surname of English people, English, Norman French people, French, and Scottish people, Scottish origin. The oldest extant family of the name, the Willes family of Warwickshire, formerly of Newbold Comyn and Fenny Compton, has used the spellings 'Willis,' 'Willys,' and 'Wyllys' and appear in records from 1330. In this case, the name derives from the name ''de Welles'' (under which name the family were Lincolnshire noblemen) which comes from the Normans, Norman name ''de Vallibus'' (meaning 'of the valley'), which in turn was derived from the ''Vaux'' family tree. The Vaux family, established in England by Harold de Vaux, a close relative of William the Conqueror, appears in French records from 794. They had held power in their own right and through royal intermarriages. There are other derivations of the name, including, particularly in Scotland, 'son of William/ Will' (whereby the name has developed from 'Wills', and is similar to 'Wilson' and other related names); becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis (given Name)
Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to the following people: Men *Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor * Willis B. Burns (1851–1915), American businessman and politician *Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning *Willis Carto (1926–2015), American far right activist and Holocaust denier *Willis Conover (1920–1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America * Willis Gibson (born 2010), American ''Tetris'' player * Willis Goldbeck (1898–1979), American screenwriter and film director * Willis Hall (1929–2005), English playwright and radio and television writer *Willis Harman (1918–1997), American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist and writer * Willis A. Hawkins (died 1886), justice of the Georgia Supreme Court * Willis Nichols Hawley, American soldier * Willis Hudlin (1906–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher * Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Group Holdings
Willis Group Holdings plc was a multinational risk advisor, insurance brokerage and reinsurance brokerage company headquartered in the Willis Building in London. It was the third-largest insurance broker worldwide by revenues. In 2016, the company acquired Towers Watson and was renamed Willis Towers Watson. History In 1828, Henry Willis began selling imported goods for commission on the Baltic Exchange in London. In 1841, he began brokering insurance for the cargoes of commodities he sold on commission. He expanded to marine insurance and founded Henry Willis & Company shortly thereafter. In 1896, the company expanded to the U.S. market through a relationship with Johnson & Higgins. In 1898, the company merged with Faber Brothers (founded in 1886) to form Willis Faber. In 1928, it merged with Dumas & Wylie (founded in 1843) to create Willis, Faber & Dumas. In the 1950s, the company's actuary business grew significantly as private pensions gained usage. The company was li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis & Co
Willis & Co. is a piano manufacturer, formerly founded in 1884 by Alexander Parker Willis and based in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. A retailer of Willis & Co. in Canada was sold by the Willis family in 1967, and went out of business in 1979. The global branch was merged with the Landshut Willis company in Germany. History In 1884, a retailer of Willis & Co. was established in Quebec, Montreal by Alexander Parker Willis. In 1900, Willis & Co. acquired the major shares of the Lesage & Fils piano factory. In 1907, Willis & Co. purchased controlling interest in the Lesage Piano Company and the firm started producing “Willis & Company” brand pianos full time. In 1910, at its peak, Willis & Co. made close to 3000 pianos each year. In 1967, the Canadian retailer was vended by the Willis family, and the global branch was merged with the Landshut Willis company in Germany. On August 30, 1976, brand Willis ( registered number:DE948592) was approved by German Patent and Trade Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Building (London)
The Willis Building is a commercial skyscraper in London named after the primary tenant, Willis Group. It is located on Lime Street, London, Lime Street in the City of London financial district. The building was designed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Norman Foster and developed by British Land. It stands opposite the Lloyd's building and is tall, with 26 storeys. It features a "stepped" design with setbacks rising at and . In total, there are of office floor-space, most of which was pre-let to the insurance broker Willis. History The Willis Building was constructed between 2004 and 2008 under the management of Mace and represented a significant addition to the City of London skyline at the time, becoming its fourth-tallest building after Tower 42, 30 St Mary Axe and CityPoint. The core was topped out in July 2006 and the steelwork completed in September that year. Cladding began in July 2006 and the structure was externally completed by June 2007. It was inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Tower
The Willis Tower, formerly and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-storey, story, skyscraper in the Chicago Loop, Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world, world's tallest building, a title that it held for nearly 25 years. It is the List of tallest buildings in the United States, third-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the List of tallest buildings in the world, 23rd-tallest in the world. Each year, more than 1.7 million people visit the Skydeck observation deck, the highest in the United States, making it one of Chicago's most popular tourist destinations. The building occupies a site bound by Franklin Street, Jackson Boulevard, Wacker Drive, and Adams Street. Graham and Khan designed the building as nine square "Tube (structure), tubes" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Fortress 2
''Team Fortress 2'' (''TF2'') is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation in 2007. It is the sequel to the 1996 ''Team Fortress'' Mod (video gaming), mod for ''Quake (video game), Quake'' and its 1999 remake, ''Team Fortress Classic''. It was released in October 2007 as part of ''The Orange Box'' for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox 360, and was ported to the PlayStation 3 in December 2007. It was released as a standalone game for Windows in April 2008, and updated to support macOS in June 2010 and Linux in February 2013. It was made free-to-play in June 2011, and is distributed online through Valve's digital retailer, Steam (service), Steam. Players join one of two teams—RED and BLU—and choose one of nine character classes to play as in game modes such as capture the flag and King of the Hill (game), king of the hill. Its development was led by John Cook and Robin Walker (game designer), Robin Walker, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
