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| Alexander Calder |
United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Alexander Calder |
Alexander Calder (July 22 1898 - November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, and tapestry, and designed carpets. (references) |
| Alexander Milne Calder |
Alexander Milne Calder (1846 - 1923) was a American sculptor. (references) |
| Alexander Stirling Calder |
Alexander Stirling Calder (January 11 1870 – 1945) was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. In 1885 at age 16 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under the renowned Thomas Eakins. In 1890 Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu and then was accepted in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he entered the atelier of Alexandre Falguière. In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia and began his career as a sculptor in earnest. Throughout out his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Phladelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Students Art League, also in NYC. (references) |
| Calder Freeway |
Calder Freeway M79 is a freeway linking Melbourne to Bendigo. Originally just a short spur of the Tullamarine Freeway linking to the Calder Highway in Keilor, it has been extended to Kyneton subsuming all the older Calder highway stretches. It continues beyond as Calder Highway A79 through Bendigo to Mildura. The Victorian Government hopes to complete the duplication of the Calder Hwy from Melbourne to Bendigo by the end of 2006. (references) |
| Calder Memorial Trophy |
The Calder Memorial Trophy, is a National Hockey League trophy, presented annually to the best rookie of the year as voted upon by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association at the end of the regular season. It is named after Frank Calder, the president of the NHL from its inception in 1917 to his sudden death in 1943. (references) |
| Calder Park, Victoria |
Calder Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. (references) |
| Calder Race Course |
Calder Race Course is a racetrack in Florida in the United States. (references) |
| Calder v. Jones |
Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could assert personal jurisdiction over the publisher of a national magazine which published an allegedly libelous article about a resident of that state, and where the magazine had wide circulation in that state. (references) |
| Calder Valley (UK Parliament constituency) |
Calder Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. (references) |
| Campbell Calder |
Campbell Carlyle Calder was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or London, Ontario in 1948. In 1950, he was a candidate in the Ontario Liberal leadership convention, placing fourth. He served only one term in the legislature leaving in 1951 when he was defeated by Progressive Conservative John Robarts. (references) |
| David Calder (pioneer) |
David Orson Calder (1823 - 1884) was a prominent early pioneer settler in Utah. (references) |
| Edmonton Calder |
Edmonton Calder is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada. (references) |
| Finlay Calder |
Finlay ("Fin") Calder, rugby player, was born on August 20, 1957 at Haddington. He played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. His last game was against New Zealand in the 1991 Rugby World Cup. (references) |
| Frank Arthur Calder |
Frank Arthur Calder, OC , OBC , L.Th , DD (born August 3, 1915) is an Aboriginal politician in Canada, and is the first status Indian to be elected to any Canadian parliament. (references) |
| Frank Calder |
Frank Calder (November 17, 1877-February 4, 1943) was the first NHL President (1917-1943). The Calder Memorial Trophy was named after him. (references) |
| Kyle Calder |
Kyle Calder (born January 5, 1979 in Mannville, Alberta, Canada) is a left winger currently (2005) with the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL. (references) |
| Louis Calder Center |
The Louis Calder Center (LCC) is the biological field station of Fordham University. The Calder Center is a protected forest preserve located in Armonk, New York (45km N of New York City), and is the only full-time ecological research field station in the New York metropolitan area. (references) |
| Mr. Calder and Mr. Berens |
Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens are fictional counterspies created by the British mystery and thriller writer Michael Gilbert. They have appeared in two collections of stories, Game without Rules and Mr. Calder & Mr. Behrens. When Game without Rules first appeared in 1967, the New York Times critic Anthony Boucher called it the second best collection of spy stories ever written, next only to Somerset Maugham's Ashenden: Or the British Agent. Later that year Boucher changed his mind to write that Game without Rules was even better than Ashenden. (references) |
| Richard Calder |
Richard Calder (born 1943) started his career with the CIA career as a radio operator straight out of the US Navy. It was in that lowly role that he found himself trapped for several days inside the CIA's base in Benghazi, Libya, during riots in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. His chief at the time was Thomas Tweeten, who rose to become Deputy Director for Operations (DDO). Tweeten always seemed to have time to listen to what Calder had to say. (references) |
| Richard Calder (writer) |
Richard Calder (born 1956, London) is a notable British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London, but who spent over a decade in Thailand (1990-1997) and the Philippines (1999-2002). (references) |
| Robert Calder |
Admiral Robert Calder (1745-1 September 1818) was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. (references) |
| Sam Calder |
Stephen Edward (Sam) Calder (b. 10 August 1916) was a member of the Australian House of Representatives, decorated World War II flying ace and founder of one of the more successful political parties in Australia’s history. (references) |
| Simon Calder |
Simon Calder is a British travel writer. He is the travel editor for the Independent. Books he has written include the Traveller's Survival Kit series and Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes. He has contributed to several BBC travel and holiday shows and is currently co-hosting Departure Lounge on BBC One. (references) |
| William Calder Marshall |
William Calder Marshall is a Scottish sculptor. (references) |
| William M. Calder |
William Musgrave Calder (March 3, 1869 - March 3, 1945) was a United States politician from New York State. (references) |
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