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Chris Turner

Christopher J. Turner (born 1933), former Governor of the Turks and Caicos and of Montserrat


19th-century French art

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one further, rejecting once and for all a belabored style (and the use of mixed colors and black), for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light (in part inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner).

Admiral Turner

Richmond K. Turner (1885 – 1961) served in the United States Navy during World War II

Carreg Cennen Castle

Ownership of the castle passed to the Vaughan and Cawdor families, and from the 18th century it started to attract artists (Turner sketched the castle in 1798).

Chris King

Christopher J. King (born 1976), former Pennsylvania state representative

Christopher J. Date

He left IBM in 1983 and has written extensively of the relational model, in association with Hugh Darwen.

Christopher J. H. Wright

In 1988 Wright returned to the U.K. as academic dean at All Nations Christian College, an international training centre for crosscultural mission.

Christopher J. Holcroft

He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications, majoring in journalism and communication technology at the University of Technology, Sydney, later completing his Masters degree in Communications (Organisational Communication) at Charles Sturt University.

Christopher J. King

After the 2002 election, King was appointed by Governor Ed Rendell to serve as a member of Rendell's Education Transition Team.

Christopher J. Monckton

A further scholarship in literature and the fine arts took him to a cultural foundation at Vence in France.

Christopher J. O'Hara

Chris has served on the faculties of the Shenandoah Arts Academy (Winchester, VA), the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (Lenox, MA), the Festival de Musica de Camara (Aguascalientes, Mexico), the International Institute and Festival at Round Top (Round Top, TX), and the South Shore Conservatory (Hingham, MA).

Christopher J. Waild

Co-wrote the 2007 American independent feature film Dog Days of Summer directed by Mark Freiburger.

Christopher J. Yorath

Yorath Island in the South Saskatchewan River is named in his honor; coincidentally, Yorath's 1913 planning proposal suggested that the island be used as part of the river crossing for one of his proposed Encircling Boulevards.

In 1913 Yorath emigrated from England to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada to take on the role of commissioner of Saskatoon and city treasurer during the war years.

Christopher Ward

Christopher J. Ward, American politician, former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee

Daniel M. Buechlein

Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until October 18, 2012 when Pope Benedict appointed Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. Archbishop-Elect of Indianapolis.

Day G. Turner

On that day, in Dahl, Luxembourg, Turner led his squad in the defense of a house against an intense German attack.

Donald F. Turner

He headed Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Dunstanburgh Castle

Turner painted Dunstanburgh many times, usually rising at dawn to do so.

Frederick W. Turner

He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography.

Gerry P. Little

During his 19 years as Chief of Staff for State Senator Leonard T. Connors Jr., Assemblyman Christopher J. Connors and former Assemblyman Jeffrey Moran, Freeholder Little worked closely with 9th District legislators on numerous bills.

Harlech Castle

In the late-18th and 19th centuries, the picturesque ruins of Harlech began to attract visits from prominent artists, including John Cotman, Henry Gastineau, Paul Sandby, J. M. W. Turner and John Varley.

Harry Turner

Harry E. Turner (1927–2004), member of the Ohio House of Representatives

John Pye

In 1805 Pye was entrusted by Heath with the execution of a plate of Inveraray Castle from a drawing by J. M. W. Turner.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Joseph Gandy

His architectural fantasies owe a clear debt to Piranesi and play upon historical, literary and mythological themes with a feeling for the sublime that is the equal of his contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and John Martin.

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Lubbock High School

Morris W. Turner, Class of 1950 (1931–2008), businessman; mayor of Lubbock, 1972–1974

M. H. Holcroft

Christopher Holcroft followed in his grandfather's footsetps in journalism and writing.

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Mars Hills

The name was proposed in 1977 by New Zealand geologist Christopher J. Burgess in association with the Viking Hills and because of the color resemblance to that of the planet Mars.

Morris W. Turner

He worked to insure the success of the since-named Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, the Canyon Lakes project, and the George and Helen Mahon Public Library, named for former U.S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock.

He was hence part of the council, along with Mayor Jim Granberry, charged with the rebuilding of Lubbock after the widespread destruction caused by the storm.

Neoplatonism

The Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Porphyry has been referred to as in fact being orthodox Platonic philosophy by scholars like John D. Turner.

Nomad software

Early Nomad development was in particular inspired by C. J. Date's influential An Introduction to Database Systems, itself first published in 1975.

Painter of Light

J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), a British landscape artist commonly known as 'The Painter of Light'

Parrish Avenue Bridge

The previous bridge in this location, built in 1906, was designed by C.A.P. Turner's engineering firm.

Ramsay Richard Reinagle

Reinagle wrote the scientific and explanatory notices to Turner's Views in Sussex published in 1819, and the life of Allan Ramsay in Allan Cunningham's Lives of the British Painters.

Ron Turner

Ronald L. Turner, chairman and chief executive officer of Ceridian Corporation

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Samuel William Reynolds

He also engraved a great number of portraits and compositions by Dance, Jackson, William Owen (1769–1825), Stephanoff, Bonington, Sir Robert Ker Porter, and others, and was one of the artists employed by Turner on his Liber Studiorum.

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent and Francesco Guardi.

Takeuchi Seihō

After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama–Shijo school with Western forms of realism borrowed from the techniques of Turner and Corot.

The Third Manifesto

The Third Manifesto (1995) is Christopher J. Date's and Hugh Darwen's proposal for future database management systems, a response to two earlier Manifestos with the same purpose.

Walter J. Turner

Born in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and a warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and a woman of long golden hair, Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College.

Wartling

H.J.C. Turner, born in Wartling in 1850, the son of the curate, he played in the first rugby international in 1871.

Whitworth Art Gallery

The gallery focuses on modern artists, and the art collections include works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ford Madox Brown, Eduardo Paolozzi, Francis Bacon, William Blake, David Hockney, L. S. Lowry, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, and a fine collection of works by J.M.W. Turner.

William H. Turner, Jr.

At the age of 26, Turner went into business on his own as a trainer and found early success with the Thoroughbred racehorse Salerno, who won the Remsen Stakes in 1967.

Yorath

Christopher J. Yorath (1879-1932), commissioner of Saskatoon and city treasurer During World War I


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