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CEC
CEC could stand for: Canadian Engineering Competition, an annual competition of undergraduate engineering students in Canada.Career Education CorporationCation exchange capacity, an important concept for soil sciencesThe Charismatic Episcopal ChurchCranbrook Educational CommunityCenter for Elephant ..
Ceca
Svetlana Ceca Ražnatović, née Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Цеца Ражнатовић, née Величковић, June 14, 1973, Žitorađa, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) is the most popular Serbian singer, since the mid 1990s the major star in the most of the Balkans, her p..
Ceca 2000
"Ceca 2000" is Ceca's tenth album. It contains the following songs: DokazOproštajna večeraCrni sneg (feat. Aca Lukas)Ja ću prvaSviće danVeć viđenoCrvenoBrat i sestraVotka sa utehomDrugarice (feat. Luna)Ako te ona odbije ..
Ceca Madzarevic
This article is part of the Classical guitar series (Please move this template to the end of the page) [[Portal:Classical guitar|Classical guitar Portal]] - Classical guitar - History of the classical guitar - Vihuela - Baroque guitar - Early romantic guitar - Romantic guitar - Modern classical..
Ceccano
Ceccano is a town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. Lazio · Communes of the province of Frosinone Acquafondata | Acuto | Alatri | Alvito | Amaseno | Anagni | Aquino | Arce | Arnara | Arpino | Atina | Ausonia | Belmonte Castello | Boville Ernica | Broccostella | Campoli Appe..
Ceccano, Italy
Ceccano is a central Italian hill town with origins as as ancient Volscian citadel (it surrendered to the Romans in 424. "The History of Rome, Book II," Theodor Mommsen, (Kessinger Publishing, 2004), p. 112.) ..
Cecchetti method
The Cecchetti method of ballet instruction was created by Enrico Cecchetti (1850-1928). The method traditionally has eight grades with examinations. Grades one through four were added after Cecchetti died. Grades five through eight correspond to his original levels. Grades one through four are com..
Cecco Angiolieri
Cecco Angiolieri (1260 - c. 1312) was an Italian poet. Biography Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260, son of Angioliero, who was himself the son of Angioliero Solàfica who was for several years a banker to Pope Gregory IX; his mother was Lisa de' Salimbeni, from a powerful Senese family. I..
Cecco d'Ascoli
Cecco d'Ascoli (1257-1327), the popular name of Francesco degli Stabili (sometimes given as Franceso degli Stabili Cichus), a famous Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet, Cecco (in Latin, Cichus) being the diminutive of Francesco, and Ascoli, in the marshes of Ancona, the place of the philo..
Cecco del Caravaggio
The Flute Player Cecco del Caravaggio, c. 1615-1620 Oil on canvas, 103 × 138 cm Ashmolean Museum Cecco del Caravaggio (active c.1610-mid 1620s), is the name used for an artist working in Rome in the early decades of the 17th century, an important early follower of Caravaggio. He has bee..
Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern (b. 30 September 1981 in Dublin, Ireland, where she continues to live) is an author and the daughter of current Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. She reaped great success with her three published novels, and has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies. She has a ..
Cecelia Cichan
Cecelia Marie Cichan (born April 10, 1983, now known as Cecelia Marie Cichan-Lumpkin) is best known as the 4-year-old girl who was the only survivor of the August 16, 1987 crash of a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which occurred during the takeoff phase from Detroit M..
Cecelia Condit
Cecelia Condit is an internationally renowned filmmaker whose work focuses on the contrast between the everyday world and the realm of fairytales. She considers herself a storyteller, often with a commentary on modern society; from topics such as female aging to the imaginary world of children. Con..
Cecelia Holland
Cecelia Anastasia Holland is an American historical novelist. Contents 1 Biography2 List of works2.1 Series2.1.1 Corban Loosestrife2.2 Standalone novels3 External links Biography She was born December 31, 1943 in Henderson, Nevada, and began writing at the age of ..
Cecenowo (PKP station)
Cecenowo Location City/Town Cecenowo District Address Adjacent stations Preceding station(s) Wolinia Following station(s) None Info Water tower present No Locomotives depot present No Platforms in use None Station building present No History Opened Previo..
Ceceo
Ceceo is a phenomenon in the Spanish language whereby the voiceless interdental fricative (International Phonetic Alphabet /θ/, the "th" in think) is used in place of the voiceless dental fricative /s/. In that respect, it is not unlike a lisp. In standard Castilian Spanish, the letter s is al..
CeCe Peniston
CeCe Peniston (born September 6, 1969 in Dayton, Ohio) is a female American dance music singer. Contents 1 Career and life2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles3 External link4 See also Career and life She became one of the most successful dance club artists of all tim..
Cece Sammy
Cece Sammy (born in Trinidad) is a British vocal coach. She has worked with artists from 19 Management and Sony/BMG, including Will Young, Charlotte Church and S Club. She also works closely with the Seth Riggs Organisation, who has helped train artists such as Madonna and Stevie Wonder. She has a..
CeCe Winans
CeCe Winans, (born Priscilla Winans on October 8, 1964), is an American gospel singer. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her first solo album, the Gold certified Alone in His Presence, was released in 1995 and earned her a Grammy Award and 2 Dove Awards including the coveted Female Vocalist of ..
Cecidomyiidae
Cecidomyiidae (sometimes misspelled Cecidomyidae) is the correct name for the insects known as gall midges or gall gnats. They are flies (Order Diptera). As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls. These are very frag..
Cecil
Cecil is the name of some places in the United States of America: Cecil, GeorgiaCecil, OhioCecil, PennsylvaniaCecil County, MarylandCecil is also a common first and last name Chuck Cecil former NFL playerCecil Fielder: former Detroit Tigers starCecil Demske: "handsome bassist extraordinaire"Cecil is..
Cecil, Georgia
Cecil is a town in Cook County, Georgia, United States. The population was 265 at the 2000 census. Geography Cecil is located at [31°2′50″N, 83°23′36″W] (31.047092, -83.393416)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a ..
Cecil, Ohio
Cecil is a village in Paulding County, Ohio, United States. The population was 216 at the 2000 census. Geography Cecil is located at [41°13′9″N, 84°36′10″W] (41.219177, -84.602783)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the villag..
Cecil, Wisconsin
Cecil is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 466 at the 2000 census. Geography Cecil is located at [44°48′34″N, 88°27′8″W] (44.809442, -88.452323)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the vill..
Cecil-Bishop, Pennsylvania
Cecil-Bishop is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,585 at the 2000 census. Geography Cecil-Bishop is located at [40°19′20″N, 80°11′29″W] (40.322303, -80.191384)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According..
Cecil-Ross Society
The Cecil-Ross Society was a communist educational foundation operated by the former majority of the Communist Party of Canada after they were forced to terminate their association with the party in 1992 in a political and legal dispute following the fall of the Soviet Union. The society had been fo..
Cecile de Brunhoff
Cecile de Brunhoff (October 16, 1903 – April 7, 2003) was a French storyteller and the co-creator of the Babar stories. She told the stories to her son when he was sick, and her husband Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated the children's books that became popular world-wide. ..
Cecile Laveau-Perrin
In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Cecile Laveau-Perrin is a friend to Anafiel Delaunay and Phèdre nó Delaunay. A tall and slender woman with fine bones, graying golden hair, and pale blue eyes, Cecile is a former adept of Cereus House, who made her marque and set up her own house afte..
Cecile Licad
Cecile Licad is a Filipino classical pianist. Licad began her piano studies at the age of three with her mother, Rosario Licad, and later studied with the highly regarded Rosario Picazo. At the age of seven, she made her debut as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines. Cecile L..
Cecile Ousset
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006. } French pianist, born in Tarbes, and gave her first r..
Cecilia
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. "Cecilia" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel, from their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. When released as a single, it reached #4 in the US charts. The "Cecilia" of the title is a clearly capricious lover, causing both anguish and jubilation to the sin..
Cecilia, Louisiana
Cecilia is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,505 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Demographics4 External links Geography Cecilia is located at [30°20′11″N, 91°50′52″W] (..
Cecilia (Ace of Base song)
"Cecilia" is a song from Ace of Base's third record titled Flowers. It was released as a single in Italy and Spain in the spring of 1999. Italy 12" Vinyl (Many Records MN04812) 1. Cecilia (Ole Evenrude Radio Mix)2. Cecilia (Ole Evenrude Mix)3. Cecilia (In Da Nite Mix) Spain Promo CD (POLYDOR SPAI..
Cecilia (band)
Cecilia is a pop-rock band based in New York. The band was originally from the Washington, DC area, but now all band members live in Astoria, Queens. While not a religious group, the band chose the name Cecilia from Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music and of the blind. Contents 1 History2..
Cecilia (disambiguation)
Cecilia may refer to: "Cecilia", a song by Simon and GarfunkelSaint CeciliaCecilia (band)Cecilia Tan, writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to..
Cecilia Altonaga
Cecilia Marie Altonaga (born December 26 1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is the first Cuban-American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States. She was nominated for the position in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida by George W. Bush on January 15 2003..
Cecilia Alvear
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Cecilia Andersson
Cecilia Andersson (born October 4, 1982) is an ice hockey goalie from Sweden. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. ..
Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli The Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli (born 4 June 1966, Rome) is a popular opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her Mozart and Rossini roles as well as for her performances of lesser-known Baroque music. Bartoli is considered a lyric and dramatic coloratura,..
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855–-September 7,1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she received the bulk of her art training at the Academie Julien in Paris. During her time in Paris she studied under painters T..
Cecilia Bolocco
Cecilia Carolina Bolocco Fonck (May 19, 1965) is a Chilean television entertainer and personality, and a former Miss Universe. Bolocco was born in Santiago, Chile to Enzo Bolocco, a businessman, and Rose Marie Fonck. Bolocco attended primary and secondary school at the Santiago College. She took ..
Cecilia Cheung
--> Cecilia Cheung Cecilia Cheung (Hanzi: 張栢芝 pinyin: Zhãng Băi Zhī, Cantonese: Cheung Pak Zhi, born May 24, 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and singer of Chinese ancestry with one-quarter British descent [[Citing sources citation needed]]. She is affectionately k..
Cecilia Colledge
Cecilia Colledge (born November 28 1920) was a British figure skater. She was the 1937 World Champion, 1936 Winter Olympics silver medalist, four-time British Champion (1935-1938) and three-time European Champion (1937-1939). Her rivals were Sonja Henie of Norway and her teammate Megan Taylor. She ..
Cecilia Cubas
Cecilia Cubas, the daughter of former Paraguayan President Raúl Cubas, was found dead on February 16, 2005, underneath a house near Asunción, nearly five months after she was kidnapped. Cecilia Cubas, 32, was abducted by gunmen two blocks from her home in Asunción in September 2004, sparking a ..
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Cecilia Dart-Thornton is a fantasy writer, and lives in Australia. Her novels include The Bitterbynde series. Her website is at [The official website of Cecilia Dart-Thornton] ..
Cecilia Dougherty
There are two notable people named Cecilia Dougherty: S. Cecilia Dougherty was an alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania in 1940.Cecilia Dougherty is a filmmaker who creates short films which focus on the themes of lesbianism and popular culture. This is a [disa..
Cecilia Dougherty (filmmaker)
Cecilia Dougherty (sometimes credited as Cecilia Doughterty) creates short films which focus on the themes of lesbianism and popular culture. While her early work places lesbians in a cultural territory separate from mainstream society, other projects portray the lesbian experience in terms of comm..
Cecilia Eggleston
Rev Elder Cecilia Eggleston serves the gay affirming Metropolitan Community Church in Europe and Africa. Having co-founded Living Springs Metropolitan Community Church in Bath, England, Rev Eggleston has ministered within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities for over fifteen years..
Cecilia Ferrazzi
Cecilia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) was a Counter-Reformation Catholic prototype social worker, whose life was extensively involved with establishment and maintenance of women's houses of refuge in seventeenth century Italy. Born in Venice to a relatively prosperous artisanal family, Ferrazzi aspired to b..
Cecilia Fire Thunder
Cecilia Fire Thunder (born October 24, 1946, Pine Ridge, South Dakota) has worked as a nurse, and served as tribal president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota from her electoral win on November 2, 2004 up until her impeachment on June 29, 2006. Contents 1 Family2 Organizations ..
Cecilia Gallerani
Cecilia Gallerani (1473-1536) was one of the lovers of Ludovico Sforza, Il Morro. She was the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Lady with an Ermine." While posing for the painting, she came to appreciate Leonardo and came to understand him. Cecilia invited Leonardo to meetings in which..
Cecilia High School (Louisiana)
Cecilia High School |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Motto | |- ! Established | 1922 |- ! Type | Public secondary |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Affiliations | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! President | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Principal | |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Headmaster | |- class="..
Cecilia Keaveney
Cecilia Keaveney (born November 1968) is an Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician and former teacher. A member of the Fianna Fáil party, Keaveney was first elected to Dáil Éireann in a by-election on 2 April 1996 following the death of Neil Blaney TD. She was re-elected in the 1997 and 2002 gener..
Cecilia Malmström
Anna Cecilia Malmström (born 15 May 1968 in Stockholm) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Liberal People's Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. She..
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is a Filipina author of historical fiction based in California, U.S.A.. She was born in Cebu, Philippines, attended St. Theresa's College in Cebu and in San Marcelino, Manila. She also went to Maryknoll College in Quezon City from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelor o..
Cecilia Månsdotter
Cecilia Månsdotter, wife of Erik Johansson (Vasa) and mother of Gustav Eriksson (Vasa), was born around 1476 in Eka, Lillkyrka or what is now known as Eka, Örebro (Swedish: Örebro Län) in Sweden. She was the oldest of the two children from Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Baner) and Magnus Karlsson (Eka). S..
Cecília Meireles
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (1901-1964) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and teacher. She was one of the most famous female poets who ever wrote in the Portuguese language. External links [Cecilia Meireles][Cecilia Meireles] (in Portuguese)[Cecilia Meireles]..
Cecilia Montiel
Production designer of feature films, born Lima, Peru, 1955. Montiel studied architecture and moved to Los Angeles in 1978, where she was a contemporary of Lorenzo O'Brien and Alex Cox. She worked as an art director on a variety of films including Cox's WALKER. Her first film as a designer was ..
Cecilia of Leiningen
Born in 1988 she is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria through Prince Alfred.(skipped her father Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen.) |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10 1900 – December 7 1979) was a British-American astronomer. She was born Cecilia Payne in England and studied botany, physics and chemistry at Cambridge University. She left England for the United States in 1922. In 1925, she became the first person to earn a..
Cecilia Renata of Austria
Cecilia Renata, Queen of Poland. Coat of arms of Cecylia Renata Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria (de: Cäcilia Renata von Habsburg, Erzherzogin von Österreich) (July 6, 1611 - March 24, 1644) was a daughter of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, of the House of Habsburg, and Maria An..
Cecilia Reyes
Cecilia Reyes is a Marvel Comics character who was briefly a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Carlos Pacheco, she first appeared in X-Men #65 (June 1997). A Puerto Rican-American medical doctor, she had the mutant ability to project a force field around her body. Un..
Cecilia Roth
Cecilia Roth (born Cecilia Rotemberg on 8 August, 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine actress. After working in Argentina in several films she moved to Spain, where she made films with Pedro Almodóvar, among others. She lived with Argentine musician Fito Páez for some years, with wh..
Cecilia Suárez
Cecilia Suárez (born November 22, 1971 in Tampico, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican actress who has played roles in a number of mostly Spanish language films and television series since 1997. Her debut was in the Gerardo Pardo-produced Table dance. She has since been in films such as Sexo, pudor y lágri..
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press, the first press devoted primarily to erotic science fiction and fantasy. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the director of media relations for the New England Leather Alliance.[1] She also writes ..
Cecilia Todd
Cecilia Todd (born March 4, 1951 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a singer and cuatro player. From very young the love by music wakes up in Cecilia, initially fed by her familiar group. At the age of 12, she already integrated a musical trio in the school San José de Tarbes and her intense activity as ..
Cecilia Torudd
Cecilia Torudd, (born 1942) is a Swedish cartoonist. She is the daughter of Albert Levan and is the author of Ensamma mamman. She is also known for her long standing contributions to Kamratposten. ..
Cecilia Underwood, Duchess of Inverness
Cecilia Underwood, Duchess of Inverness (nèe Cecilia Letitia Gore) (c1785 - 1 August, 1873) was the second wife of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, the sixth son of King George III. As their marriage was in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, it was considered legally void, and..
Cecilia Vennersten
Cecilia Vennersten, born Birgitta Cecilia Vennersten-Ingemanson in 1970 is a Swedish musician. Her career started with a second place in the Swedish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Det Vackraste. Her first album named Cecilia Vennersten released the same year was a great suc..
Cecilia Zhang
Photo of Cecilia Zhang Dong-Yue Zhang (張東嶽, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Dōngyuè, March 30 1994 — October 20 2003), known as Cecilia Zhang, was a 9-year-old girl who went missing from her Toronto, Ontario, Canada family home in fall 2003, making Canadian and international headlines. Her ..
Cecilienhof
Schloss Cecilienhof is in the Northern part of the New Gardens in Potsdam, close to the Jungfernsee lake. It was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany built it for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Cecilie of the house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Th..
Cecilie Skog
Cecilie Skog (born August 8 1974) is a Norwegian adventurer from Ålesund. She works as a nurse and as of July 8 2006 is the only woman to have reached the top of the highest mountains of every continent, in addition to reaching the South Pole and North Pole. She is also the first woman to have walk..
Cecilio Báez
Cecilio Báez was President of Paraguay December 8 1905 - November 25 1906. List of Presidents of Paraguay ..
CeCILL
CeCILL (from "CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre") is a Free Software license adapted to both International and French legal matters, in the spirit of and retaining compatibility with the GNU General Public License. It was jointly developed by a number of French agencies: the Commissariat à l'Énergie ..
Cecilton, Maryland
Cecilton is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The population was 474 at the 2000 census. Geography Cecilton is located at [39°24′11″N, 75°52′10″W] (39.402919, -75.869430)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the to..
Cecily
Cecily may refer to: Cecily Adams, the daughter of sitcom actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide EfantisCecily Lefort, heroine of World War IICecily Neville, Duchess of York and mother of two KingsCecily von Ziegesar, American author of novels written for teenagers ..
Cecily (Goodies episode)
Cecily is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. This episode is also known by the title: Servants Contents 1 Cast2 Plot3 Notes4 Broadcasting date5 External link Cast Regular cast Tim Brooke-Taylor as "Tim"Graeme Garden as "Graeme"Bill Oddie..
Cecily Adams
Cecily April Adams (February 6, 1958 – March 3, 2004) was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of sitcom actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis, and the sister of actress/TV executive Stacey Adams. She was married to actor/writer Jim Beaver; their daughter was born in 2001. Adams is well-k..
Cecily Brown
Cecily Brown (born 1969 in London) is a British painter. Her education includes a BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London (1989-93), drawing and Printmaking classes, Morley College, London between the years 1987-89 and a B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England (198..
Cecily Lefort
Cecily Margot Lefort (April 30, 1900 – May 1, 1945) was a heroine of World War II. Born in London, England of Scottish ancestry, Lefort lived on the coast of Brittany in France from the age of 24 with her French husband, Dr. Alex Lefort. When World War II broke out she fled occupied France an..
Cecily Neville
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (3 May, 1415 – 31 May, 1495) was the mother of two Kings: Edward IV of England and Richard III of England. Cecily Neville was a daughter to Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland. Her maternal grandparents were John o..
Cecily of York
Cecily of York (March 20, 1469 - August 24, 1507) was the third daughter of Edward IV of England and his Queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. Cecily was a younger sister of Elizabeth of York and Mary of York, and an older sister of Edward V of England; Margaret of York; Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Du..
Cecily Polson
Cecily Polson is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Martha O'Dare in the television series E Street. She is set to appear in the 2006 horror film, See No Evil, with wrestler Kane. External link ..
Cecily von Ziegesar
Cecily von Ziegesar (born 27th June 1970) is an American author of novels written for teenagers. She grew up in New York and attended a private girls' school. Her first book was Gossip Girl written in 2002, which made her famous. The book, which proved to be a success, dealt with drugs, sex, and alc..
Cecil (soil)
The Cecil soil series is an Ultisol which is extensive in the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States. It extends from Virginia through North Carolina (where it is the state soil), South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. It has developed over igneous rock such as granite, and metamorphic rock..
Cecil A. Alport
Dr. Cecil A. Alport was an English internist (1880-1959) who first identified the Alport syndrome in a British family in 1927. ..
Cecil Abbott
Cecil Roy Abbott was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia from 10 October 1981 to 28 February 1984. He succeeded James Travers Lees to the position and was himself succeeded by John Keith Avery. Cecil Abbott joined as a cadet in 1941 and graduated to the Police Force in 1945..
Cecil Adams
Cecil Adams is a pseudonym identifying the unknown authors of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader since 1973, which has since been syndicated in thirty newspapers in the United States and Canada, and available online. Billed as the “World&rsq..
Cecil Aldin
Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (April 28 1870 - January 6 1935) was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings of animals and rural life. Born in Slough, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Solihull Grammar School. He studied anatomy at South Kensington, and animal painting un..
Cecil Alec Mace
Cecil Alec Mace (1894 - 1971) was a British philosopher & psychologist. Literary works Psychology of Study, 1932 ()..
Cecil Aynsley
Cecil Aynsley (born 1902 in Charters Town, Queensland, died 1975) was an Australian rugby league player for Queensland and also represented Australia on four occasions scoring one try in each game. His position of choice was on the Wing. Aynsley began his rugby league career playing for Brisbane s..
Cecil B. Demented
Cecil B. Demented is a film directed by John Waters. It revolves around the fictional Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), whose public persona is that of a sweet and considerate woman, but who in reality is demanding and mean. Whitlock is kidnapped by the manic title character (Stephen Dorff) and his..
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. Contents 1 Film career2 Private life3 Heart problems4 Trivia5 Legacy Honor6 Filmography (As Director)7 Bibliograph..
Cecil B. Moore
Cecil Bassett Moore was a Philadelphia lawyer and influential city activist during the U.S. Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Born in West Virginia, Moore served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. In 1947, after his discharge at Fort Mifflin, Moore moved to Philadelphia and studied Law..
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 – January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Contents 1 Photography2 Stage and film design3 Later life4 Exhibitions5 References6 ..
Cecil Beck
Sir Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck (3 December 1876 – 22 March 1932) was a minor British politician. He was educated at Haileybury and the University of Cambridge. In 1912 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into methods of appointment in the Civil Service. He ..
Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth
Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth (1869-1948) was an English Liberal politician. He was created the 1st Baron Harmsworth of Egham in the County of Surrey in 1939. He was the younger brother of the 1st Viscount Northcliffe and 1st Viscount Rothermere. His niece Christabel Bielenberg became a best selling a..
Cecil Brown
Cecil Brown is the author of the book Suez to Singapore, which describes the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6410 Hollywood Blvd. for his contribution to radio. [[Citing sources citation needed]] ..
Cecil Burke
Ces BurkeNew Zealand (NZ) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Legbreak googly Tests First-class Matches 1 60 '''Runs scored 4 959 Batting average 2.00 17.43 100s/50s -/- -/2 Top score 3 51* Balls bowled 66 12757 Wickets 2 200 Bowling..
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law is an American Bar Association accredited law school and is the only law school in Memphis, Tennessee. The school has been associated with the University of Memphis since the law school's formation in 1962. The school was named in honor of former University pre..
Cecil C. Rousseau
Cecil C. Rousseau is a mathematician and author who specializes in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a professor at The University of Memphis. He has an Erdős number of 1, and is among Erdős top 10 co-authors. To his students and colleagues, he's known lovingly as C2R. External links [..
Cecil Caldwell
Cecil Caldwell (born February 27, 1977) is an Arena Football League offensive lineman/defensive lineman for the Philadelphia Soul. College career Caldwell attended the University of South Carolina, where he finished his career with 14.5 sacks and 189 tackles. As a senior, he was also voted a team c..
Cecil Charles Worster-Drought
Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–27 October, 1971) was an English physician. He discovered and named Worster-Drought syndrome. ..
Cecil Chesterton
Cecil Edward Chesterton (1879 – 1918) was an English journalist, known particularly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal, and British anti-Semitism. He also wrote on political matters, and during World War I as pro-war ..
Cecil Clementi
Sir Cecil Clementi Sir Cecil Clementi (Chinese Translated Name 金文泰) (1875 - 1947) was a British colonial administrator, who became Governor of Hong Kong. Contents 1 Early life and education2 Governor of Hong Kong3 Governorship of the Straits Settlements4 Personal ..
Cecil Clementi Smith
Sir Cecil Clementi Smith G.C.M.G. (1840 - February 6,1916, was a British colonial administrator. He was Lieutenant Governor of Ceylon before being appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1887 to 1893. He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus christi cambridge, and in 1862 he was el..
Cecil Collins
Cecil Collins (1908-1989) was a British artist originally associated with the Surrealist movement. He was born in Plymouth on 23 March, 1908 and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Plymouth Docks. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Plymouth School of Art. In 1927 he won a scholarship to the RC..
Cecil Cooper
Cecil Celester Cooper (born December 20, 1949 in Brenham, Texas) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1971 through 1987, Cooper played for the Boston Red Sox (1971-76) and Milwaukee Brewers (1977-87). He batted and threw left handed. Career In a 17-season career, Cooper posted a..
Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605-1675), who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county s..
Cecil Court
Cecil Court on a weekday afternoon. Cecil Court is a short but tranquil Victorian pedestrian street in London linking Charing Cross Road and St. Martin's Lane. A concentration of early film companies in the Court led to the nickname Flicker Alley, but it has become better known among bibliophil..
Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil Dale Andrus (born August 25, 1931 in Hood River, Oregon) is a former United States Secretary of the Interior and Democratic Governor of Idaho. He served a combined 14 years as governor (1971-1977 and 1987-1995) and as Interior secretary during the Jimmy Carter Administration. Andrus served a..
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972) was an Anglo-Irish poet born in Ballintubber, County Laois, Ireland, the son of the Rev. Frank Cecil Day Lewis and Kathleen Squires. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford, wher..
Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor
Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor (July 1735 – March 14, 1793) was a Welsh peer. She was the daughter of William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. Her mother was the daughter and heir of Adam de Cardonnel, British Secretary of War. Under the special remainder in the creation of the barony for h..
Cecil Dillon
Cecil Dillon (Born - April 26, 1908 in Toledo, Ohio, USA) was an American Professional Hockey Right Winger who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings. Contents 1 Playing career2 Awards & achievements3 Records4 Career stat..
Cecil Dixon
Cec DixonSouth Africa (RSA) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm medium Tests First-class Matches 1 33 '''Runs scored - 184 Batting average - 5.93 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 27 Balls bowled 240 - Wickets 3 106 Bowling aver..
Cecil Doggette
Cecil Doggette is an Arena Football League defensive specialist for the Columbus Destroyers. High School Years Doggette attended Bayside High School in Queens, New York, and was a standout in football and track. NCAA College Career At West Virginia University, Doggette was a two-year starter. ..
Cecil F. Poole
Cecil F. Poole (July 25, 1914 - November 12, 1997) was a prominent African American lawyer and federal judge. Poole was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a young man, Poole was interested in music. For a short time during high school he was a member of a si..
Cecil Fielder
Cecil Grant Fielder (born September 21, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is a former Major League Baseball player who was a popular slugger with the Toronto Blue Jays (1985-88), Detroit Tigers (1990-96), New York Yankees (1996-97), Anaheim Angels and Cleveland Indians (both in 1998). ..
Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney
Cecil FitzMaurice (1919-1998) was the 8th modern Earl of Orkney. ..
Cecil Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
The Right Honourable Cecil George Saville Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool (November 7 1846–March 23 1907) was a British peer. Foljambe was born in 1846, the son of George Foljambe and Lady Selina Jenkinson (daughter of Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool). He married firstly, Louisa How..
Cecil Foster
Where Race Does Not Matter. Cecil Foster (born September 26, 1954) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and sociologist. Born in British Town, Barbados, he emigrated to Canada in 1979. Currently, he lives in Rockwood, Ontario and serves as a professor of sociology and anthropology at the Universit..
Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander
Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (Early April 1818 Dublin - 12 October 1895 Derry) was an Irish-born hymnwriter and poet who wrote in English. She was born the daughter of Major John Humphreys and Elizabeth (nee Reed). She began writing verse in her childhood. Her religious work was strongly influ..
Cecil Franks
Cecil Simon Franks (born June 1, 1935) is an academic from Manchester, United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness from the 1983 UK General Election until the 1992 UK General Election. His election was somewhat of a surprise, given that he was a Conservative Party candid..
Cecil Frank Powell
Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 - August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. His collaborato..
Cecil G. Murgatroyd
Cecil G. Murgatroyd (1958-2001) was a long-running satirical political candidate in Australia and New Zealand and held citizenship. He also ran for parliament in both countries, often running against the Prime Minister of the time (a seat traditionally popular with protest party and joke party candi..
Cecil Gant
Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 - February 4, 1951) was an American Blues singer & pianist. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Gant worked local clubs through the mid 1930's up until the Second World War, when he enlisted in the US Army. Though his piano was blues-based, vocally he was a crooner of consider..
Cecil Gordon
Cecil Gordon Born: June 21 1941 Birthplace: Horse Shoe, North Carolina Awards: NASCAR Cup statistics 450 races run over 17 years. Best Cup Position: 3rd - 1971, 1973 (Winston Cup) First Race: 1968 Pickens 200 (Greenville-Pickens Speedway) Last Race: 1985 Miller High Li..
Cecil Gordon Lawson
Cecil Gordon Lawson (December 3, 1851 - June 10, 1882), was an English landscape painter. The youngest son of William Lawson of Edinburgh, a well-regarded portrait painter, and of a mother also known for her flower pieces, he was born near Shrewsbury. Two of his brothers (one of them, Malcolm, a c..
Cecil Graves
Sir Cecil Graves (died January 2 1957) was joint Director-General of the BBC with Robert W. Foot from January 26 1942 (aged 51) to September 6 1943. He joined the BBC as an administrator in 1926, having previously been a professional soldier. Robert Foot became the sole Director-General after he lef..
Cecil Green
This article is about the racing driver. For the educational philanthropist, see Cecil Howard Green. Cecil Green (born September 30, 1919 - died July 29, 1951) was an open wheel race car driver (Indy 500 only) from Dallas in the United States. He participated in 2 grands prix, debuting on May 30, ..
Cecil Griffiths
Cecil Richmond Griffiths (January 20, 1901 - July 29, 1973) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Cecil Griffiths from Neath, Wales made his only appearance at the Olympic Games, while running the opening leg in the British 4x400 m relay team at..
Cecil H.J. Harcourt
Rear Admiral Sir Cecil H.J. Harcourt GBE KCB (Chinese Translated Name 夏愨) (1892-1959) was a British naval commander, who became the head of a provisional military government in Hong Kong from September 1945 to April 1946. Harcourt played a key role in the quick restoration of order in the colony..
Cecil H. Underwood
Cecil Harland Underwood (born November 5, 1922) is an American Republican Party politician from West Virginia, known for the length of his career. He was governor of West Virginia from 1957 until 1961 and from 1997 until 2001. He ran for reelection in 2000 but was defeated by Bob Wise. Interestingl..
Cecil Hargett
Sen. Cecil Hargett Cecil Hargett is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixth Senate district, including constituents in Jones and Onslow counties. A real estate investor from Jacksonville, North Carolina, Hargett is currently (2003-2004 session..
Cecil Harold Sewell
''For other people and things named "Sewell", see Sewell (disambiguation) Photo by Terry Macdonald Cecil Harold Sewell was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealt..
Cecil Hart
Cecil Hart (November 28, 1883 in Bedford, Quebec - 1940) was a head coach of the Montreal Canadiens. Cecil helped lead the team to two Stanley Cups in 1930 and 1931. Cecil's father, David Hart donated the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1923. ..
Cecil Harvey
Cecil Harvey is a fictional character in the Square Co., Ltd. RPG Final Fantasy IV for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). He is of the typical hero archetype with both strengths he uses to thwart adversity and flaws he must overcome during the course of the game. Cecil is one..
Cecil Havers
Sir Cecil Havers, KC (1889 - 1977) was an English barrister. Cecil Havers led a legal dynasty and rose to become a High Court judge. His son Michael Havers became Lord Chancellor, his daughter Elizabeth Butler-Sloss became a High Court judge and his grandson Philip Havers is a Queen's Counsel. Anot..
Cecil Healy
Cecil Healy (born November 28 1881 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, died August 29 1918 Somme, France) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1900s and 1910s, who won silver in the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He also won gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay. He was ..
Cecil Heftel
Cecil Heftel was Congressman from Hawai'i between 1976 and 1986. He retired after losing a gubernatorial race to John D. Waihee. Cecil Landau Heftel, popularly known as Cec Heftel (born September 30, 1924), is a politician and businessman from Hawai'i. He served in the United States House of..
Cecil Henry Foott
Cecil Henry Foott, CB, CMG (16 January 1876 – 27 June 1942) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. He was educated as an engineer, and serving with distinction through the great war was six times mentioned in dispatches. He commanded the 4th Division A.M...
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Hepworth (March 19 1874 – February 9 1953) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter, he was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s. Born in Lambeth, South London, his father was a famous magic lantern showman. He became ..
Cecil Hills, New South Wales
Cecil Hills is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. External links Suburbs and localities within the City of Liverpool | South-western Sydney | Sydney Ashcroft | Austral | Badgerys Creek | Bringelly | Busby | Cartwright | Casula | Cecil Hills | Chipping Norton | Den..
Cecil Hotel
The Cecil Hotel was a grand hotel in the Strand in London, England. When it opened in 1896 it was the largest hotel in Europe with six hundred rooms. The proprietor later went bankrupt and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Cecil was demolished in Autumn 1930. Shell Mex House was built on the ..
Cecil Howard Green
Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a founder of Texas Instruments. With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped foun..
Cecil Humphery-Smith
Cecil Raymond Julian Humphery-Smith, OBE, FSA, is a British genealogist and heraldist. It was Humphery-Smith who brought the concept of family history to the world of genealogy with his 1957 lecture "Introducing Family History." In 1961, he founded the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies ..
Cecil J. Edmonds
Cecil J. Edmonds was a British political officer who served with the British Expeditionary Forces in Mesopotamia and western Persia, and later in the civil administration of Iraq. From 1935 to 1945 he was adviser to the Minstry of Interior in Iraq. Edmonds laid down his observations and experiences ..
Cecil Jacobson
Cecil Byran Jacobson (born October 2, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was an American fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients. In the 1960s, Jacobson, who was a researcher and Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Unit at George Washington University Medical School, claimed th..
Cecil John Kinross
Photo submitted by Greg Ward Photo by Terry Macdonald Cecil John Kinross (born Feb 17, 1896 at Dews Farm, Harefield, Middlesex - June 21, 1957) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awar..
Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes. Cecil Rhodes. Cecil John Rhodes (July 5 1853 – March 26 1902Death Of Mr. Rhodes, The Times, 27 March 1902; pg. 7) was British businessman, mining magnate, politician and the colonizer of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. Rhodesia (later Northern an..
Cecil Kellaway
Cecil Kellaway (August 22, 1893 – February 28, 1973), born in Cape Town, South Africa, was a British actor. With his jovial, twinkly-eyed looks, he resembled a full-grown leprechaun, so it's not surprising that he'd play such a role in the 1948 film The Luck of the Irish—and win an Osc..
Cecil King
Cecil King (1921 - 1986) was an Irish abstract-minimalist painter. Born Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland, King was largely self-taught as an artist. He had his first one-man show in 1959, but worked as a businessman and did not become a full-time artist until 1964. While he began painting in an e..
Cecil L'Estrange Malone
Cecil John L'Estrange Malone, usually known as Cecil L'Estrange Malone, was a left wing member of the United Kingdom House of Commons and Britain's first communist Member of Parliament. Born on 7 September 1890 in Dalton Holme, Yorkshire, Malone was a rector's son. He joined the Royal Navy in 1905..
Cecil Lavery
Cecil Patrick Lavery (6th October 1894 – 31 December 1973) was an Irish lawyer, Fine Gael Party politician and judge. He was elected as a TD and then as a Senator, and served as Attorney-General before being appointed as a Supreme Court judge. Lavery was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first..
Cecil Lay
Cecil Lay is a Saint Lucian politician representing the Vieux Fort North constituency for the Saint Lucia Labour Party. ..
Cecil Leeson
Cecil Leeson, a musician and teacher was widely credited with establishing the saxophone as a legitimate concert instrument. In 1937, Mr. Leeson was the first saxophonist to play at Town Hall in New York City. He was also one of the first saxophonists to appear as a soloist with major American symp..
Cecil Leitch
Charlotte Cecilia Pitcairn Leitch (1891-1977) was a British golf champion. She was born in Silloth, Cumbria County, England, the daughter of a local physician and one of three sisters who excelled at the game of golf. Nicknamed "Cecil", in 1914 she won the first of her four British Ladies Amateur G..
Cecil Leonard Knox
Photo submitted by Gerald Napier - (from the Royal Engineers Library with permission) Cecil Leonard Knox (9 May 1889-4 February 1943) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British an..
Cecil lewis
Cecil Arthur Lewis (March 29, 1898 – January 27, 1997) was a British fighter pilot who flew in World War I. Author of the aviation classic "Sagittarius Rising," Lewis joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, after lying about his age. In 1916, he flew the Morane Parasol in combat and won the Militar..
Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore
Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore(20 March 1873-2 March 1949) was the son of Sir Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore and Anne Elizabeth Honoria Gladstone. Educated at Wellington College he held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Tyrone. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenan..
Cecil Mack
Cecil Mack (1883 - 1944), born Richard McPherson, American composer, lyricist and music publisher. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Mack co-founded the Gothum-Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1905, likely the first black owned music publishing company in the city of New York. In 1907 he wrote the lyri..
Cecil Madigan
Cecil Thomas Madigan (15 October, 1889 - 14 January, 1947) was an Australian explorer and geologist born in Renmark, South Australia. After attending Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, he won a scholarship to study geology at Oxford. In 1911 he was invited to go as meterologist on the Australasia..
Cecil Marshall
Cecil MarshallCanada (Can) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm Medium Tests ODIs Matches - 2 '''Runs scored - 10 Batting average - 5.00 100s/50s - -/- Top score - 8 ..
Cecil Maxwell
Cecil Reginald Napp Maxwell (Paddington 21 May 1913 - Taunton, Somerset 25 September 1973) was an English cricketer. Cecil Maxwell represented the Gentlemen versus the Players at Lord's in 1935. He played in 44 first-class matches for Nottinghamshire (1936-1939), M.C.C. (1938-1939), Middlesex (1946..
Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee (born May 19, 1935) is an American post-bop jazz bassist. McBee was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After studying to be a music teacher he began his musical career conducting a military band. In 1959 he played with Dinah Washington, and in 1963 joined Paul Winter's folk-rock group. His jazz c..
Cecil McGivern
Cecil McGivern CBE (born May 22 1907 in Newcastle, UK; died January 30 1963 in Buckinghamshire, UK) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s. The son of Irish immigrants, McGivern was educated at St Cuthbert's ..
Cecil Monro
Cecil Monro was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Cecil Murphy
Cecil Murphy was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil O. Samuelson (born August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-..
Cecil Park, New South Wales
Cecil Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. External links Suburbs and localities within the City of Fairfield | South-western Sydney | Sydney Abbotsbury | Bonnyrigg | Bonnyrigg Heights | Bossley Park | Cabramatta | Cabramatta Heights | Cabramatta West | Cabr..
Cecil Parker
Cecil Parker (1897 – 1971) was a British character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1933 and 1969. Born Cecil Schwabe in Hastings, Sussex, he began his theatrical career in London in 1922 after serving in World ..
Cecil Parkinson
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (born September 1 1931), is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet minister. He had relatively humble origins, being the son of a railway worker and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancashire, England. He became MP for Enfield We..
Cecil Philip Taylor
Cecil Philip Taylor (1929 - 1981) was a twentieth-century British playwright. Cecil was born in Glasgow, came to Newcastle upon Tyne, the city where his mother had grown up, in 1955, and lived at 30 Lindale Road, Fenham, for many years. His first play was Aa Went to Blaydon Races (1962), while Pet..
Cecil Price
Cecil Ray Price (born about 1937 - died May 6, 2001) was linked to the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. At the time of the murders, he was 27 years old and the deputy sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 21, 1964, Price stopped a blue Ford station w..
Cecil programming language
Cecil is a pure object-oriented programming language that was developed by Craig Chambers at the University of Washington in 1992 to be part of the Vortex project there. Cecil has many similarities to other object-oriented programming languages, most notably Objective-C, Modula-3, and Self. The mai..
Cecil Purdy
Cecil John Seddon Purdy, (Born March 27 1906 Port Said Egypt - Died November 6 1979 Sydney Australia) was an Australian chess International Master (IM) and inaugural World Correspondence Chess champion. As a child he moved with his family from Egypt to New Zealand, then to Tasmania, Sydney, back t..
Cecil Reginald Noble
Photo submitted by Martin Hornby - (Gallaher Cigarette Cards) Photo by Phil Payne - Mar 2000 Cecil Reginald Noble was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealt..
Cecil Rhodes (disambiguation)
Cecil Rhodes may refer to: Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902), businessman, namesake for former RhodesiaCecil T. Rhodes, Texas state representative, 1937–1945 ..
Cecil Roberts
Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892-20 December 1976) was an English journalist and novelist. He worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Post during World War I, as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the Nottingham Journal. In 1922 he stood f..
Cecil Roderick Fry
Cecil Roderick Fry was a member of the Fry family whom ran the J. S. Fry & Sons business after World War I. Fry was son of Joseph Storrs Fry, the heir of the company. [[Citing sources citation needed]] ..
Cecil Roth
Cecil Roth, (London, 1899–1970) was a Jewish historian and educator. He was educated at the University of Oxford (Ph.D., 1924) and was reader in Jewish Studies there from 1939 to 1964. Thereafter he was visiting professor at Bar-Ilan Univerisity, Israel (1964–1965), and at the City University ..
Cecil Sapp
Cecil Sapp (born December 23, 1978 in Miami) is a football player. He plays either half back or full back for the Denver Broncos. He went to Colorado State University. External link [Club bio] ..
Cecil Sharp
Cecil James Sharp (1859-1924) was the founding father of the folklore revival in England in the early twentieth century, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them. Cecil Sharp was a music teacher and composer in..
Cecil Smith
Cecil Smith Hedstrom was a Canadian figure skater. In 1930, she won the silver medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in singles. She also competed in pairs with Melville Rogers. Competitive Highlights: Singles 1924 Olympics - 6th1928 Olympics - 5th1930 World Championships - 2nd Competit..
Cecil Spring-Rice
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (February 27, 1859 - February 14, 1918) was a British diplomat. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Spring-Rice went on to become the British Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran (1900), Commissioner of Public Debt in Cairo (1901) and Chargé d'Affaires in St. Peter..
Cecil Street
Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was a prolific English writer of detective novels. He produced two long series; one under the name of John Rhode featuring the forensic scientist Dr Priestley, and another under the name of Miles Burton featuring the investigator Desmond Merrion. Under the name..
Cecil Sturgeon
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since July 2006. } Cecil Sturgeon (born on June 27, 1919 in Carnduff, S..
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor (born in New York City March 15 or 25, each date often cited, 1929) is an American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman). His first recording Jazz Advance was released in..
Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Fort Worth, Texas. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Co..
Cecil Township, Pennsylvania
Cecil Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 9,756 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 68.4 km² (26.4 mi²). 68.2 km² (26.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) o..
Cecil Travis
Cecil Howard Travis (August 8, 1913 - July 4, 1999) was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1933 to 1947. He spent his entire career with the Washington Senators. He was born in Riverdale, Georgia. One of the best young shortstops of the late 1930s and early 1940s, Travis enjoye..
Cecil Turtle
Cecil Turtle is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of films. Though he made only three theatrical appearances, Cecil is remarkable in that he is one of the very few characters who was actually able to consistently best Warners' studio star, Bugs..
Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe
Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (9 February 1863 — 1 August 1949) was a missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir. Born to a land-owning family in 1863, Tyndale-Biscoe was educated at Bradfield College, and then Jesus College, Cambridge. At university he coxed the winning crew in the 1884 Boat Race ..
Cecil Upshaw
Cecil Lee Upshaw Jr. (October 22 1942 - February 7 1995) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a nine-year career (1966-1969, 1971-1975). Born in Spearsville, Louisiana, he played with the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros, both of the National League, and the ..
Cecil Valentine De Vere
--> Cecil Valentine De Vere (1845-1875) was the pseudonym of Cecil Valentine Brown, the winner of the first official British Chess Championship, in 1866. He played chess effortlessly and elegantly without recourse to chess study or theory; in this respect he was not unlike Capablanca. His meteoric..
Cecil Wakeley
Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, 1st Baronet KBE CB (5 May 1892- 5 June 1979) was President of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was made a baronet in 1952. Wakeley was the son of Percy Wakeley (1860-1954) and his first wife Mary Sophia "May" Pembrey (1865-1940). He married Elizabeth Muriel Nichol..
Cecil Walker
Sir Alfred Cecil Walker was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast. He became involved in Unionist electoral politics in the 1970s being elected to Belfast City Council in 1977. He ran unsuccessfully for the Belfast North constituency in 1979, narrowly losing to John McQuade of t..
Cecil Wedgwood
Major Cecil Wedgwood DSO (1863-3 July 1916) was a British soldier and partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm. Wedgwood was the only son of Godfrey Wedgwood and his first wife Mary Jane Jackson Hawkshaw, who died shortly after he was born. He was the great-great-grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwo..
Cecil Whig
The Cecil Whig Newspaper: Cecil County, Maryland's newspaper of record since 1841 Founded - 1841 http://www.cecilwhig.com/ Mailing Address - PO Box 429, Elkton, MD 21922-0429 Street Address - 601 Bridge Street, Elkton, MD 21921 Telephone - 410-398-3311 out of state call: 800-220-3311 FAX - 41..
Cecil Williams
A. Cecil Williams (born 1929, San Angelo, Texas) is an American minister of the United Methodist Church. He was one of the first five African American graduates of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in 1955. Williams became the pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist C..
Cecil William Buckley
Cecil William Buckley (7 October 1830 - Funchal, Madeira 7 December 1872) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 24 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Royal N..
Cecil Wingfield
Cecil Wingfield was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. ..
Cecil Womack
Cecil Womack (born Cecil D Womack on 25 September, 1947, in Cleveland, Ohio) is one of the famous musical Womack brothers. Although lesser known than his elder brother Bobby, he has had some success as a songwriter and recording artist. Womack and his brothers were a gospel group. They changed th..
Cecil Woodham-Smith
--> Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (née Fitzgerald) (April 29, 1896 – March 16, 1977) was an acclaimed British historian and biographer. Her reputation rests on four popular classics of history, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era. Early life Cecil Woodham-Smith was born in..
Cecina
Cecina is the name of a town in the Italian Province of Livorno: Cecina (Italy)an Italian river: Cecina (river)a Spanish culinary specialty made of beef: Cecina (meat)a Tuscan culinary specialty made of chickpea flour: Farinata This article is based on a translation of an article from the [Ger..
Cecina (meat)
In Spanish, cecina means "meat that has been salted and dried by means of air, sun or smoke". The word comes either from the latin siccus (dry) or from the celtic ciercina related to modern Spanish "cierzo" or Northern wind. The best known cecina is Cecina de León, which is made of the hind legs o..
Cecotropes
Cecotrope Cecotropes, originally spelled "caecotrophes", and also called "night faeces", are the product of the cecum, a part of the digestive system in lagomorphs and a few species of rodent. Cecotropes are passed through the intestines and subsequently eaten for added nutrients in a process known ..
Cecropia
This article is about the tropical plant. It is also an old name for the Acropolis, Athens. In North America, the moth species Hyalophora cecropia is known as a "Cecropia Moth". Cecropia is a genus of about 25 species of trees in the nettle family Urticaceae. They are native to tropical South and ..
Cecrops I
The name Cecrops means 'face with a tail' and it is said that this mythical Greek king, born from the earth itself, had his top half shaped like a man and the bottom half in serpent or fish-tail form. He was first king and founder of Athens itself, though preceded in the region by earth-born Actaeu..
Cecrops II
Cecrops II was son of Pandion I and inherited the Athenian throne from his brother Erechtheus. He was succeeded by his son Pandion II (though Pandion II has also been said to be his nephew, the son of Erechtheus). |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Cecum
Gray's Fig. 1043 - Superior ileocecal fossa. The cecum or caecum is a pouch connected to the large intestine and the ileum. It is separated from the ileum by the ileocecal valve (ICV) or Bauhin's valve, and is considered to be the beginning of the large intestine and part of the colon. The ..
Cecylia Maria Radziwiłł
Cecylia Maria Radziwiłł Noble Family Radziwiłł Coat of Arms Trąby Parents Aleksander Ludwik RadziwiłłLucricia Marie Strozzi Consorts Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski Children with Mikołaj Hieronim SieniawskiAdam Mikołaj SieniawskiJoanna SieniawskaTeofilia Sieniawska Date of..
Cec Cinder
Cec Cinder, Ph.D. was in on the early formation the U.S. Free Beach Movement back in the early 70's. He chaired the first Free Beaches Committee that met in California and was active in obtaining or trying to obtain legal nude beaches throughout the state. This is a fight that continues today. Dr...
Cec Linder
Cec Linder as the archeologist Doctor Matthew Roney in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958-59). Cec Linder (sometimes credited as Cecil Linder; born March 10 1921 in Galica, Poland; died April 10 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian film and television actor of Po..
Cec Thompson
Cec Thompson was born in Leeds the son of a mother from Durham and a Trinidadian father. His father died when he was very young and his childhood was spent in a succession of orphanages. Thompson took up rugby league when working near Hunslet in Leeds. He turned out to have a natural talent for the..
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