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Lion Gardiner
Lion Gardiner 1599-1663, English colonist in America. Under contract with patentees of Connecticut, Gardiner designed and erected (1635-36) the blockhouse at Saybrook, which he defended in the Pequot War (1636-37). He purchased (1639) Gardiner's Island from Native Americans and founded there the... Read more |
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Gardiner
Gardiner. The banker, property developer, and MP Luke Gardiner (d. 1755) was involved in urban building projects from as early as 1712. In the 1740s and 1750s he was responsible, with his son Charles, for the development of a large area of what became central Dublin. O'Connell Street,... Read more |
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner The English historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829-1902) was a major historian of the Puritan revolution. His work is a lengthy, detailed, and well-researched study of a brief but significant period in English history. Samuel Rawson Gardiner was born at Alresford,... Read more |
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John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner Conductor For the Record… Selected discography Sources Accomplished British conductor John Eliot Gardiner is noted for founding and directing the Monteverdi Choir in 1964 and its complement Monteverdi Orchestra in 1968. Although he conducted all types of music,... Read more |
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Sir Christopher Gardiner
Sir Christopher Gardiner fl. 1630-32, figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay colony. When the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1630, they found that Gardiner had preceded them. Although he was living with a woman who was not his wife, the colonists left him alone until it was... Read more |
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Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner 1493?-1555, English prelate. He was educated at Cambridge. He became secretary to Thomas (later Cardinal) Wolsey and later secured the favor of Henry VIII by a mission to Rome to further the king's plans for divorce from Katharine of Aragón. He was made bishop of... Read more |
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Dictionary of National Biography
Dictionary of National Biography. The brainchild of the publisher George Smith. The work began in 1882 with Sir Leslie Stephen as editor and the last volume appeared in 1900. Supplements and updates have followed and Oxford University Press have commissioned a new edition. The original... Read more |
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KFC Corp
KFC Corporation 1441 Gardiner Lane Louisville, Kentucky 40213 U.S.A. Telephone: (502) 874-1000 Toll Free: (800) 225-5532 Web site: http://www.kfc.com Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. Incorporated: 1955 as Kentucky Fried ChickenEmployees: 24,000Sales: $520.3 million (2007... Read more |
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Cate Blanchett
Blanchett, Cate 1969–PERSONALFull name, Catherine Elise Blanchett; born May 14, 1969, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; daughter of Robert (an advertising executive) and June (a property developer and teacher) Blanchett; married Andrew Upton (a writer, director, and producer), December 29, 1997;... Read more |
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William Hickling Prescott
William Hickling Prescott 1796-1859, American historian, b. Salem, Mass. He entered his father's law office, but was compelled by a serious eye injury to abandon law. He received medical attention on a European trip and finally, resolving to devote himself to historical writing, began a thorough... Read more |
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Deutsch's Gardiner Sounds Off.(Interview)
Peter Gardiner is a partner and chief media officer at...underutilized for the last several years. I'm talking about creatives. I spend a lot...research as good as it can be? No. Talk to Ellen Oppenheim (MPA). We'd like it faster... |
 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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two for the show; Designers double up, transforming two Minneapolis homes for...
...Bast, of Carla Bast Interior Design, and Mary Ellen Gardiner, of M.E. Gardiner Interior Design, combined Buettner's art and...there wasn't enough seating and lighting," Gardiner said. The room now has spaces for intimate conversation... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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AFTER LIFE OF LABOR, SMALL THINGS BRING JOY.(MAIN)
...laughter in her voice. The couple had three daughters: Ellen Gardiner, Anna Marie Salisbury and Karen Adams. She has seven...and is hoping a friend will be able to do it. ``I'm a news freak. I watch all the time,'' said the lively... |
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Ring Lardner and the Other. (book reviews)
...with a truly reader-responsive essay by his colleague Ellen Gardiner, who reads the narrator's monologue as her attempt...with "dialogized body . . . somatic nexus . . . the (m)Other-as-child in Ring . . . patriarchal maternity... |
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TEENAGER HELD IN COCAINE CASE $7,300 BREAK-IN MAY BE TIED TO '89 CASE...
...detectives about 5 p.m. Wednesday at Elizabeth...passenger in a car driven by Ellen F. Gardiner, 32, of 82 Washington...Gloversville. Troopers said Gardiner pulled from a gasoline...Karner Road just after 1 p.m. Work crews were dispatched... |
 "Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME)")
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Divorces
...to change name to Tamara Ellen Avery. Ronald J. Gardiner, Alexander, and Linda...custody of one child. Lisa M. Roetto, Calais, and...three children. Missy M. Roussel, Princeton...Baileyville, and Deborah M. McVicar, Eastport... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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ON THE CALENDAR
...Association Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Screening Room...will be from Exclusively Ellen and Miles Gardiner Fine Clothing for Children...dinner Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in Cardinal Stepinac Hall...Swieconka Sunday at 1 p.m. in Heritage Inn. ... |
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Outside looking in. (Rhode Island Department of Corrections Women's Facilities)
...through the first locked door and a metal detector. I'm nervous, so I read whatever is put in front of me, which...us from The Women's Review of Books - editors Linda Gardiner, Ellen Cantarow and myself - have been invited to tour the Rhode... |
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Value Driven Management.(Book Review)
Randolph A. Pohlman and Gareth S. Gardiner, with Ellen M. Heffes 2000, 240 pp $24.95 hardback This book presents a philosophy of management based on a theory of values--the things... |
 "Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)")
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Births
...to Andrew M. and Emily M. Scally Booth of Bath...Randolph. Grandparents: Lisa M. and George F. James...Beverly Hayward, West Gardiner. Farnham, Delaney Ellen, born May 28 to Jeff R...Drandin R. and Drista M. Enman Daigneault ... |
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