wiktionary Hick may refer to Surname Benjamin Hick , 1790 1842 , a mechanical engineer Graeme Hick , born 1966 , an English cricketer John Hick , born 1922 , a philosopher of religion and theologian Pentland Hick born 1919 , a British entrepreneur, author, and publisher W. E. Hick , 1912 1974 , a British psychologist Nickname Hick Cady , 1886 1946 , a baseball player Hick Carpenter , 1855 1937 , a baseball player See also Hicks disambiguation Hicks surname Yokel , as a derogatory stereotype Hick film Hick film , directed by Derick Martini disambig de Hick ... more details
File Hick s Cayes 01.jpg thumb Aerial view of one of the Hick s Cayes Hick s Cayes Spanish Cayos Hicks are a group of uninhabited Islands in the South of Chetumal Bay , between St. George s Caye and Caye Chapel , about halfway between Belize City and San Pedro Town . Belize stub commonscat coord 17 40 N 88 08 W source kolossus eswiki display title Category Uninhabited islands of Belize es Cayos Hicks ... more details
File Hick s Mill geograph.org.uk 148008.jpg thumb Hick s Mill Hick& 39 s Mill is a hamlet in Cornwall , England , UK. ref name GM cite map title Maps publisher Google Maps accessdate 19 September 2011 ref It is about a mile southeast of Trewen on the River Inny. ref Ordnance Survey One inch Map of Great Britain Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186 . 1961. ref References Reflist Cornwall state collapsed Category Hamlets in Cornwall Cornwall geo stub coord missing Cornwall ... more details
morefootnotes date March 2011 Image Benjamin Hick.jpg right thumb Portrait of Benjamin Hick, Founder of Hick Hargreaves & Co. Benjamin Hick 1790 1842 was a mechanical engineer. He was born at Leeds in 1790 and trained at Fenton, Murray and Wood , the well known makers of steam engines, textile machines and other machinery. In 1810 Hick moved to Bolton as manager of Rothwell s Union Foundry. It later became known as Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell . The firm made stationary steam engine s, a number of which were featured by John Farey, Jr. in the second volume of his Treatise on the Steam Engine , 1827 as well as general engineering products such as crane machine crane s. In 1830 they made the locomotive Union for the Bolton and Leigh Railway . Hick had married in 1814 and with his wife had two sons who he trained as engineers. In 1833 they set up their own manufactory, Benjamin Hick and Sons ... of them. Benjamim Hick died at Bolton 9 September 1842. A photograph of a bust of Ben Hick is shown below. gallery File Ben Hick bust in Soho Iron Works 1.JPG gallery Hick, Hargreaves & Co The firm ... William Hargreaves and the firm was renamed Hick, Hargeaves & Co.. Locomotive building continued until ... Hick Hargreaves of Bolton had been placed where it had been combined with the Edwards High Vacuum ... detail.php?id 52 Hick Hargreaves old gate pillars located here ref The Bolton site of Edwards Limited ... steam ejector, feed heater and de aeration technology of the old Hick Hargreaves business as a Process ... and John Hick in A biographical dictionary of Railway Engineers , 1978, pp 104 and 112 3 A. P. Woolrich ... 63 106 Mike Chrimes, article Hick, Benjamin, in A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers , 2002, 322. Site devoted to Hick Hargreaves & Co. http basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk mjh1hlc HICKHAR 01.htm Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hick, Benjamin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1790 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1842 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hick, Benjamin Category ... more details
20th century philosophy color B0C4DE Image and Caption Information name John Harwood Hick birth date ... influenced Professor John Harwood Hick born Yorkshire , England , 20 January 1922 ref name University of Birmingham http www.birmingham.ac.uk staff profiles tr hick john.aspx University of Birmingham ... Theology title John Hick Man of Many Mysticisms ref Life John Hick was born on 20 January 1922 ... at the University of Manchester . Hick initially pursued a law degree at the University of Hull ... into membership of the Religious Society of Friends Quakers in Britain. Career Hick s academic positions ... 2008 02 25 work ref While at the University of Birmingham Hick played important roles in a number ... at the University of Birmingham , Hick became a founder, as well as the first chair, for the group ... for religious instruction in city schools. ref Hick, John. A Pluralist View. More Than One Way? Four ... Author.asp?AuthorID 219 Gifford Lecture Series Biography John Hick ref During his teaching stay at Princeton Seminary, Hick recalls that he began to depart from his conservative religious standings ... historicity of the Virgin Birth . ref Hick, John. A Pluralist View. More Than One Way? Four Views on Salvation ... examination of his own Christology, which would contribute to Hick s understanding of religious pluralism ... on March 5, 2008. ref Hick delivered the 1986 87 Gifford lectures ref name giffordlectures and in 1991 ... 2008 02 25 ref Hick has twice been the subject of heresy proceedings. In 1961 or 1962, he was asked ... was sustained by the Judicial Committee of the General Assembly, and Hick became a member of the Presbytery see Christian heresy in the 20th century . Hick s philosophy Robert Smid states that Hick ... the Career heading and his interaction with people of non Christian faiths through those groups, Hick ... Christians who clearly espouse values that are revered in Christianity to an eternity in hell. Hick ... receive salvation. Hick has notably been criticized by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who currently ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Encounter with a Hick is a short story by Jonathan Brand from Harlan Ellison s science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions . A young man is explaining to a police officer why an old man he was sitting with dropped dead. The man states that his father is a creator , and owns several planets. He was on a date with a girl whose father is also a creator. The date is an attempt by both fathers to unite their families. The titular hick arrives, and the man shows him a brochure that advertises his father s business. Aggravated, the man proudly proclaims his religious beliefs, but collapses when he discovers the man is the creator s son. DEFAULTSORT Encounter With A Hick Category 1967 short stories Category Science fiction short stories Category Dangerous Visions short stories Sf story stub ... more details
Image Hick Cady.jpg thumb 200px Hick Cady Forrest Leroy Hick Cady January 26, 1886 March 3, 1946 was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox 1912 1917 and Philadelphia Phillies 1919 . Cady batted and threw right handed. He was born in Bishop Hill, Illinois . In a seven season career, Cady was a .240 batting average hitter with one home run and 74 run batted in RBI in 355 games played . Cady died in a hotel fire in Cedar Rapids, Iowa , at age of 62. Post Season Appearances 1912 World Series 1915 World Series 1916 World Series Sources http www.baseball almanac.com players player.php?p cadyhi01 Baseball Almanac http www.baseballlibrary.com baseballlibrary ballplayers C Cady Hick.stm Baseball Library http www.baseball reference.com c cadyhi01.shtml Baseball Reference 1912 Boston Red Sox 1915 Boston Red Sox 1916 Boston Red Sox Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cady, Hick ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American baseball player DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1886 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1946 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cady, Hick Category 1886 births Category 1946 deaths Category People from Bishop Hill, Illinois Category Boston Red Sox players Category Philadelphia Phillies players Category Major League Baseball catchers Category Baseball players from Illinois Category Accidental deaths in Iowa US baseball catcher 1880s stub ... more details
citation style date July 2011 Hick s Law , named after British psychologist William Edmund Hick , or the Hick Hyman Law for Ray Hyman , describes the reaction time time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has. The Hick Hyman Law assesses cognitive information capacity in choice reaction experiments. The amount of time taken to process a certain amount of bits in the Hick Hyman Law is known as the rate of gain of information. Given n equally probable choices, the average reaction time T required to choose among them is approximately math T b cdot ... yielding the information theoretic entropy. Hick s Law is similar in form to Fitts s law . Intuitively, one can reason that Hick s Law has a logarithm ic form because people subdivide the total ..., rather than considering each and every choice one by one, requiring linear time. Hick s Law is sometimes ... a menu , scanning of each word in the list is required, consuming linear time, so Hick s law does not apply ... may be able to use a subdividing strategy that works in logarithmic time. For Hick s Law and Fitts s law ... 1985 . File EN HICK.png right thumb Roth s application of Hick s law br Bit is the unit of math log ..., psychologists began to see similarities between this phenomenon and the Information Theory. Hick .... Zeitschrift fuer experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie , 11, pp. 616 622. in German ref Hick ... as possible. While Hick was stating that the relationship between reaction time and the number ... The stimulus response compatibility is known to also affect the choice reaction time for the Hick ... of Practice Sources Further reading Original work Hick, William E. On the rate of gain of information ... Seow, Steven C. 2005 . Information Theoretic Models of HCI A Comparison of the Hick Hyman Law and Fitts ... hicks law Usability Glossary Hick s Law Category Experimental psychology Category Human computer interaction de Hicksches Gesetz fr Loi de Hick ko sv Hicks lag ... more details
Edwin Pentland Hick , born 21 July 1919, is a United Kingdom British entrepreneur , author , publisher , and veteran of World War II . Hick is today best known for founding the Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire ref http www.flamingolandforce.co.uk xtra history History of the Flamingo, accessed 18 December 2007 ref ref http www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk features The third man on the.1856457.jp John Thorpe, Yorkshire Evening Post, 2 November 2006, Accessed 18 December 2007 ref Military service Hick served with the 8th army as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1939 to 1945. Pentland Hick Cinemas After World War II , he left the army and returned to his hometown of Scarborough, North Yorkshire , where he was given shares in the failing Aberdeen Walk Picture House when his father, a solicitor, was able to arrange for a client to grant a mortgage for it. He renamed the cinema The Gaiety and turned it around financially. He built the business into Pentland Hick Cinemas, ref http www.kingsdr.demon.co.uk cinemas lmwyke.htm Bradford Low Moor and Wyke Cinema History, Colin Sutton, 2004. Accessed 18 December 2007 ref a chain of seven cinemas including the Wyke Star . ref http www.merciacinema.org gaz 20A C.htm Mercia Cinema Society s History of Cinemas and Music ... During the 1950s, Hick was also writing Samuel French published two of his one act plays, The Singing ..., North Yorkshire . Zoo and Theme Park In 1959 Hick sold the cinema chain and bought a bankrupt country ... so. Hick floated the park on the London Stock Exchange in 1965 as Associated Pleasure Parks, and renamed ... Leisure which shortly afterward collapsed in an embezzlement scandal, leaving Hick broke. The park ... Theme Park and Zoo . Now without capital, Hick tried many activities without notable success, until ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hick, Pentland ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1919 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hick, Pentland Category 1919 births ... more details
Image 200405Perm JochenHick res.jpg thumb Jochen Hick on a film festival at Perm , 2004 Jochen Hick born April 2, 1960 is a German film director and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films, also specialising in LGBT subjects. In 1994 he founded the film and TV production company GALERIA ALASKA PRODCTIONS, ref http www.galeria alaska.de ref based in Hamburg and Berlin. He worked and produced for several production companies and TV channels and contributed to TV documentary programs such as ARD Exclusiv or SPIEGEL TV Reportage. 2007 2010 he is as well editor in chief, head of program acquisitions and co programming director of TIMM, ref http www.timm.de ref the first TV channel for gay male audiences in German speaking countries, which has been on the air since November 1, 2008. ref http www.imdb.com name nm0382569 ref His most recent film is the 2008 documentary East West Sex & Politics , about Nikolai Alekseev s attempts to organise the 2007 Moscow Pride event. ref http www.imdb.com title tt1176103 ref Filmography div col The Good American 2009 East West Sex & Politics 2008 Deutschland Ein Herbstm rchen 2007 Hallelujah 2006 Rainbow s End 2006 Am Ende des Regenbogens 2005 TV Cycles of Porn Sex Life in L.A., Part 2 2005 Talk Straight The World of Rural Queers 2003 No One Sleeps 2000 Sex Life in L.A. 1998 Menmaniacs The Legacy of Leather 1995 Welcome to the Dome 1992 Via Appia 1990 Gerd Hansen, 55 1987 Moon Over Pittsburgh 1985 Die Gedaechtnisluecke 1982 div col end Awards and prizes The Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival for TALK STRAIGHT The World Of Rural Queers ref http www.galeria alaska.de ref External links imdb name 0382569 Jochen Hick References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hick, Jochen ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT Hick, Jochen Category German film directors Category Living people Category 1960 births de Jochen Hick ... more details
Film IMDb refimprove date October 2011 Infobox film name Hick image alt caption director Derick Martini producer Steven Siebert br Christian Taylor br Charles DePortes br Jonathan Cornick br screenplay Andrea Portes based on based on Hick Andrea Portes starring Chlo Moretz br Juliette Lewis br Blake Lively br Alec Baldwin br Rory Culkin br Eddie Redmayne br Anson Mount br Shaun Sipos br Ray McKinnon actor Ray McKinnon br Dave Vescio music Bob Dylan , Larry Campbell cinematography Frank Godwin editing Mark Yoshikawa studio Stone River Productions br Lighthouse Entertainment br Taylor Lane Productions released Film date 2011 9 Toronto International Film Festival TIFF runtime country Film US language English budget gross Hick is a dramatic feature film directed by Derick Martini , based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes . It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. ref name tiff cite web url http tiff.net filmsandschedules tiff 2011 hick title Hick Derick Martini publisher Toronto International Film Festival date 2011 archiveurl http liveweb.archive.org http tiff.net filmsandschedules tiff 2011 hick archivedate October 4, 2011 accessdate October 4, 2011 deadurl no Additional http www.webcitation.org 62BlOplbB WebCitation archive October 4, 2011 ref ref name Lambert2011 Citation title Hick premiere photos 36th Toronto International Film Festival url http www.digitalhit.com galleries 40 580 year 2011 author Lambert, Christine journal DigitalHit.com accessdate 2012 01 03 ref It is scheduled for a Spring 2012 theatrical release by Phase 4 Films Plot A 13 year old Nebraska girl, Luli Chlo Moretz , runs away from her alcoholic parents, bringing along a pistol. After she is taken under the wing of grifter Glenda Blake Lively , who ... References reflist External links IMDb title 1205558 Hick DEFAULTSORT Hick Category 2010s drama films ... Category Films shot in Nevada Category Films shot in North Carolina id Hick film ... more details
Infobox cricketer playername Graeme Hick female image WorcestershireCCCplayer1.jpg country England fullname Graeme Ashley Hick nickname Hicky, Ash living true dayofbirth 23 monthofbirth 5 yearofbirth 1966 ... http www.cricketarchive.com Archive Players 1 1988 1988.html CricketArchive Graeme Ashley Hick ... sport1 hi cricket counties 6760899.stm title Hick reaches run scoring landmark publisher BBC News ... in international cricket, a view based on comparison of Hick s overall first class batting average of 52.23 vis vis his Test average of 31.32. At one time Hick s bowling was a significant force ... that his ideal slip cordon would comprise Mark Taylor cricketer Mark Taylor , Ian Botham and Hick ... 178 ref Hick was granted a benefit season by Worcestershire in 1999, which raised over 345,000 ref ... Graeme Hick accessdate 2006 09 25 publisher CricketArchive ref he was also awarded a testimonial ... title Hick awarded testimonial accessdate 2006 09 25 date 2005 11 08 publisher Cricinfo ref Hick retired from county cricket at the end of the 2008 season, ref cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk sport1 hi cricket counties worcestershire 7593454.stm title Hick to retire at end of season accessdate ... Hick joins the ICL accessdate 2008 11 01 date 2008 11 01 publisher Cricinfo ref Early life Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia now Harare , Zimbabwe into a tobacco farming family, Hick was at first more interested ... Graeme Hick ref Aged just 16, Hick played three minor one day cricket one day games for Zimbabwe ... Dean Jones cricketer Dean Jones in the second match at Mutare . Hick was included in the Zimbabwean ... 1983, Hick made his first class cricket first class debut for Zimbabwe against Young West Indies ... to help set up a narrow the result in cricket three wicket victory . Eight days later Hick made his ... , Hick took his maiden first class wicket, bowling Sri Lankan cricket team Sri Lanka Test batsman ..., Hick made his maiden first class fifty when he scored 57 against a Sri Lanka n XI, and in March 1984 ... more details
Infobox MLB player name Hick Carpenter image HCarpenter2.jpg position Third baseman bats Right throws Left birth date Birth date 1855 8 16 birth place Grafton, Massachusetts death date death date and age 1937 4 18 1855 8 16 death place San Diego, California debutdate May 1 debutyear By 1879 debutteam Syracuse Stars National League Syracuse Stars finaldate July 31 finalyear By 1892 finalteam St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Browns stat1label Batting average stat1value .259 stat2label Hit baseball Hit s stat2value 1,202 stat3label Run baseball Run s stat3value 720 stat4label Stolen base s stat4value 158 teams nowiki nowiki Syracuse Stars National League Syracuse Stars By 1879 Cincinnati Reds 1876 1880 Cincinnati Reds By 1880 Worcester Ruby Legs By 1881 Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Red Stockings By 1882 &ndash By 1889 St. Louis Cardinals St. Louis Browns By 1892 highlights nowiki nowiki American Association 19th century American Association pennant 1882 Warren William Hick Carpenter August 16, 1855 &ndash April 18, 1937 was an United States American Major League Baseball third baseman from Grafton ... League, Hick left Major League Baseball, but did make a one game comeback with the St ... 27 5 collecting a club record 33 hits. Hick and John Reilly baseball Long John Reilly each ... Charley Jones ref On July 1, 1884, Hick had 5 hits, including 2 home runs and 2 Double baseball ... . ref http www.baseballlibrary.com ballplayers player.php?name Hick Carpenter 1855 The Baseball Library ref Sometimes referred to Old Hickory or Old Hick , he ended up in San Diego, California , where ... Red Stockings Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Carpenter, Hick ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Warren William Old Hickory Old Hick SHORT DESCRIPTION Major League Baseball player ... OF DEATH San Diego, California DEFAULTSORT Carpenter, Hick Category 1855 births Category 1937 deaths ... Hoosiers minor league players sh Hick Carpenter ... more details
Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name Hypnotic Hick series List of Woody Woodpecker theatrical cartoons Woody Woodpecker image HypnotcihickTITLE.jpg caption director Don Patterson animator Don Patterson br William E. Garity story artist Hugh Harman br Homer Brightman animator Ken Southworth br Ray Abrams animator Ray Abrams br Raymond Jacobs animator Raymond Jacobs br Art Landy br Laverne Harding br Robert Bentley animator Robert Bentley br Herman Cohen br Gil Turner voice actor Dallas McKennon Dal McKennon br Grace Stafford musician Clarence Wheeler producer Walter Lantz studio Walter Lantz Productions distributor Universal Studios Universal International release date September 26, 1953 color process Technicolor runtime 6 22 movie language English preceded by Belle Boys followed by Hot Noon or 12 O Clock for Sure Hypnotic Hick is the 50th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on September 26, 1953, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Studios Universal International . Plot While happily roller skating, Woody gets bullied by an angry Buzz Buzzard Dallas McKennon Dal McKennon who has just avoided being served a summons . Thinking the woodpecker might want to seek mild revenge on Buzz, law officer I. Gypem also McKennon tells Woody he will pay him a dollar to serve Buzz with the summons. Image Hickbuzzard.jpg thumb 250px left Woody effectively hypnotizes Buzz Buzzard in Hypnotic Hick , the sole ... he is a hungry Giant mythology giant and Gypem is a tasty ham sandwich . Notes Hypnotic Hick was the sole ... Lenburg Google Books publisher Books.google.co.uk date accessdate 2011 12 18 ref Hypnotic Hick ... the de facto version, regularly appearing until 1961 s Franken Stymied . Hypnotic Hick was also the first ... up beginning with Stage Hoax . Hypnotic Hick has a special opening sequence which highlights the presence ... Productions shorts Category Woody Woodpecker films Category 1950s 3D films pt Hypnotic Hick ... more details
MedalTableTop MedalCountry AUS MedalSport Rowing at the Summer Olympics Men s Rowing MedalCompetition Olympic Games MedalBronze 1996 Summer Olympics 1996 Atlanta Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics Lightweight Double sculls MedalSport Rowing World Championships MedalBronze 1990 World Rowing Championships 1990 Tasmania LM4x MedalGold 1991 World Rowing Championships 1991 Vienna LM4x MedalGold 1992 World Rowing Championships 1992 Montreal LM2x MedalGold 1993 World Rowing Championships 1993 Ra ice LM2x MedalSilver 1994 World Rowing Championships 1994 Indianapolis LM4 MedalBronze 1995 World Rowing Championships 1995 Tampere LM2x MedalSilver 1999 World Rowing Championships 1999 St. Catharines LM2x MedalBottom Bruce Hick born 20 August 1963 in Rockhampton, Queensland is an Australian rower. References FISA 4655 http www.sports reference.com olympics athletes hi bruce hick 1.html Profile at sports reference.com Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hick, Bruce ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Rower DATE OF BIRTH 20 August 1963 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hick, Bruce Category 1963 births Category Living people Category Australian rowers Category Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Category Olympic bronze medalists for Australia Category Olympic rowers of Australia Australia rowing bio stub Australia Olympic medalist stub ... more details
This article is a part of Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft . Please see Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Merlin image caption Infobox Aircraft Type type High performance sailplane national origin United Kingdom manufacturer designer W. E. Hick first flight 2 February 1936 introduced retired status primary user more users Limited to three in total separate using br produced years in production number built 1 program cost Total program cost unit cost Incremental or flyaway cost for military or retail price for commercial aircraft developed from variants with their own articles The Hick Merlin was a high performance small sailplane built in the United Kingdom in the mid 1930s. It was a wooden, single seat, parasol wing aircraft. Only one was built. Design and development The Merlin, originally known as the Kestrel , was designed and built by W. E. Hick of the Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle Glider Club. It took three years to complete, first flying on 2 February 1936 from the Club s Moat Law site. ref name Ellison It was a wooden single seat high performance glider with a parasol wing of three parts. The long outer panels were continuously tapered and the centre section had an uncovered strip above the fuselage , with the open cockpit not far below the underside of the wing. The wing was braced by a single lift strut on either side from the bottom of the fuselage to the outer centre section, assisted by flying wires . The aileron s reached to the wing tips where the whole wing surface rotated, the leading edge acting as an aerodynamic balance there were no flap aircraft flaps or air brake aircraft airbrakes . ref name Ellison ref name S&G The fuselage was rounded and tapered towards the rear. The tail surfaces had straight leading edge s and curved trailing edge s the rudder was described as automatic . The Merlin landed on a simple central skid which ran along the fuselage underside from the nose to below the ... more details
John Hick 2 July 1815 2 February 1894 was an English Conservative Party UK Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Hick was the eldest son of Benjamin Hick, a civil engineer, and his wife Elizabeth Routledge, daughter of William Routledge of Elvington Yorkshire. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and became a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers and partner in the engineering firm of Benjamin Hick & Son, later Hick, Hargreaves, & Co. He was a Justice of the Peace J.P. , Governor of Bolton Grammar School, a member of the Society of Arts, and a liberal patron of the fine arts. ref name Debretts http www.archive.org stream debrettshouseo1870londuoft page 142 mode 2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870 ref At the United Kingdom general election, 1868 1868 general election Hick was elected Member of Parliament MP for Bolton UK Parliament constituency Bolton . He held the seat until 1880. ref rayment hc b 4 ref He was a liberal Conservative and was in favour of education based on religion. Hick died at the age of 78. Hick married Margaret Bashall, eldest daughter of John Bashall of Farington Lodge, near Preston on 24 June 1846. ref name Debretts References Reflist External links hansard contribs mr John Hick John Hick s start s par uk s bef before William Gray Conservative politician William Gray br Thomas Barnes MP Thomas Barnes s ttl title Member of Parliament for Bolton UK Parliament constituency Bolton years United Kingdom general election, 1868 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1880 1880 with William Gray Conservative politician William Gray with2 John Kynaston Cross s aft after John Pennington Thomasson br John Kynaston Cross s end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Hick, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION English Conservative politician ... Hick, John Category 1815 births Category 1895 deaths Category UK MPs 1868 1874 Category UK MPs 1874 ... more details
William Edmund Hick 1 August 1912 &ndash 20 December 1974 was a United Kingdom British psychology psychologist , who was a pioneer in the new sciences of experimental psychology and ergonomics in the mid 20th century. Hick trained as a doctor, taking the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MB and BS degrees of the University of Durham in 1938, and the Doctor of Medicine MD of the same University in 1949. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1941, leaving in 1944 when he moved to University of Cambridge Cambridge to join the Medical Research Council UK MRC s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Applied Psychology Unit at the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory. He was appointed Reader academic rank Reader by the University of Cambridge in 1953, and was also a Fellow of St. John s College, Cambridge St. John s College . He was a founding member of the Experimental Psychology Group and served as its President in 1958, when it became the Experimental Psychology Society . He was also a founder member of the Ergonomics Society and a member of the Ratio Club . Probably his most famous contribution to experimental psychology was his paper On the rate of gain of information Hick, 1952 , which later became known as Hick s law , and widely depended upon in the study of human information processing, for instance using the Jensen Box . References cite journal author Hick, W. E. and Bates, J. A. V. year 1949 title The Human Operator of Control Mechanisms journal Inter departmental Technical Committee on Servo Mechanisms, Great Britain, Shell Mex House pages 37 cite journal author Hick ..., A. T. year 1975 title Obituary William Edmund Hick journal Ergonomics volume 18 issue 2 pages 251 252 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hick, W.E. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION ... Hick, W.E. Category 1912 births Category 1974 deaths Category British psychologists Category Alumni ... stub de William Edmund Hick ... more details
Taxobox name Uta Hick s bearded saki ref name msw3 MSW3 Groves pages 147 id 12100361 ref status EN status system iucn3.1 status ref ref name iucn IUCN2008 assessors Veiga, L. M., Silva Jr., J. S., Ferrari, S. F. & Rylands, A. B. year 2008 id 43892 title Chiropotes utahickae downloaded 3 January 2009 ref regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Primate s familia Pitheciidae genus Chiropotes species C. utahicki binomial Chiropotes utahicki binomial authority Philip Hershkovitz Hershkovitz , 1985 range map Uta Hick s Bearded Saki area.png range map caption Uta Hick s Bearded Saki range Uta Hick s bearded saki , Chiropotes utahicki , is an Endangered species endangered species of bearded saki , a type of New World monkey . It is Endemic ecology endemic to Brazil , where restricted to the Amazon Rainforest Amazon between the Xingu River Xingu and Tocantins River s. ref name msw3 It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the more easternly black bearded saki C. satanas , but its back is pale brownish. ref name Silva Silva Jr., J. S. and Figueiredo, W. M. B. 2002 . Revis o sistem tica dos cuxi s, g nero Chiropotes Lesson, 1840 Primates Pithecidae . Livro de Resumos do XO. Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Primatologia, Amaz nia A ltima Fronteira 21. Bel m, Brazil. ref ref name Bonvicino Bonvicino, C. R., Boubli, J. P., Otaz , I. B., Almeida, F. C., Nascimento, F. F., Coura, J. R. and Seu nez, H. N. 2003 . Morphologic, karyotypic, and molecular evidence of a new form of Chiropotes primates, pitheciinae . American Journal of Primatology 61 3 123 133. ref The specific name zoology specific name is often modified to utahickae , ref name msw3 but this has been discouraged. ref Brandon Jones, D., Duckworth, J. W., Jenkins, P. D., Rylands, A. B., and Sarmiento ... 1541 41 48. ref References Wikispecies Chiropotes utahicki Uta Hick s Bearded Saki reflist Pitheciidae nav Category Sakis and uakaris newworld monkey stub ca Saqui barbut d Uta Hick de Uta Hick Saki ... more details
Image Benjamin Hick.jpg right thumb Portrait of Benjamin Hick, Founder of Hick Hargreaves & Co. B. Hick and Sons , later known as Hick, Hargreaves & Co , was a British engineering company, based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton , England . ref P. W. Pilling, Hick Hargreaves and Co., The History of an Engineering Firm c. 1833 1939, a Study with Special Reference to Technological Change and Markets Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985 , p. 20 ref ref Short Histories of Famous Firms, Messrs. Hick, Hargreaves and Co. , Reprint from The Engineer, June 25th and July 30th 1920 ref Benjamin Hick had originally been a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell and set up his company in partnership with this sons, John and Benjamin in 1832. Benjamin however very soon left the firm. The first locomotive was built in 1833, followed by several more over the remainder of the decade, including an unconventional gear driven steam rail carriage. A number were built for export to USA America . Between 1837 and 1840 the company became a subcontractor for Edward Bury and Company , supplying engines to the Midland Counties Railway , the London and Birmingham Railway , the North Union Railway ... Lickey Incline , and Hick built three similar ones for the line. Between 1844 and 1846 the firm ... p. 309. ref Hick, Hargreaves & Co After the death of Benjamin the elder in 1842, the firm continued ..., of which they made a large number. John Hick retired in 1868. William Hargreaves died in 1889 and, under a new directorship, the firm, which had been known as Hick, Hargreaves and Company for some ... Linde sells BOC Edwards ref into which Hick Hargreaves of Bolton had been placed where it had ... of the old Hick Hargreaves business as a Process Vacuum part of Edwards Limited. References Reflist ..., P W 1985 Hick Hargreaves and Co., The History of an Engineering Firm c. 1833 1939, a Study with Special ..., 1985 External links http www.centralbolton.com members detail.php?id 52 Hick Hargreaves old ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name The Original Dixie Hick Type ep Artist Cledus T. Judd Cover Originaldixiehick.jpg Released Genre country music Country , parody music parody Length Start date 2003 11 11 Label Koch Entertainment LP Audium Koch Producer Cledus T. Judd, Chris P. Cream Clark Reviews Last album A Six Pack of Judd br 2003 This album The Original Dixie Hick br 2003 Next album Bipolar and Proud br 2004 The Original Dixie Hick is an extended play EP released by country music parodist Cledus T. Judd in late 2003. Tracks 1, 3, and 4 are all parodies of Celebrity Brad Paisley song Celebrity by Brad Paisley , while track 2 is a parody of Chris Cagle s Chicks Dig It . All four parodies were inspired by the various Dixie Chicks controversies in 2003. This was also his first album for Koch Entertainment after leaving Monument in 2003. Track listing Martie, Emily & Natalie The Chicks Did It Natalie Toby vs. Natalie Chart performance class wikitable Chart 2003 Peak br position U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums align center 62 U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers align center 39 U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums align center 28 Cledus T. Judd DEFAULTSORT Original Dixie Hick Category Cledus T. Judd albums Category 2003 EPs Category E1 Music EPs ... more details
chinese name Chao Contains Chinese text Infobox Officeholder name Chao Hick Tin image imagesize office Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court term start 11 April 2008 term end Incumbent predecessor successor office2 Attorney General of Singapore term start2 11 April 2006 term end2 10 April 2008 predecessor2 Chan Sek Keong successor2 Woon Cheong Ming Walter office3 Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court term start3 2 Aug 1999 term end3 10 Apr 2006 predecessor3 successor3 office4 Judge of Supreme Court term start4 15 Nov 1990 term end4 1 Aug 1999 predecessor4 successor4 office5 Judicial Commissioner term start5 1 Oct 1987 term end5 14 Nov 1990 predecessor5 successor5 birth date birth place death date death place nationality Singapore spouse relations children residence alma mater University College London religion Chao Hick Tin zh s p Zh o X Sh n is an appellate judge and former Attorney General of Singapore . He was born in Singapore and studied at Catholic High School, Singapore Catholic High School . He received his legal education at University College London , where he obtained his Bachelor and Masters of Law degrees in 1965 and 1966 respectively. He was called to the Bar as a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1965. In 1967, he joined the Attorney General s Chambers, Singapore where he rose to become a Senior State Counsel in 1979. Chao was appointed the Head of the Civil Division in the Attorney General s Chambers in 1982 and held that post until his elevation to the Supreme Court, Singapore Supreme Court bench on 1 October 1987 as Judicial Commissioner . His elevation to the position of a Judge of the Supreme Court followed on 15 November 1990. On 2 August 1999, he was appointed as a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court. On 11 April 2006 he stepped down from the court ... 2008 04 11 ref Notes reflist 2 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chao, Hick ... Chao, Hick Tin Category Attorneys General of Singapore Category Singaporean Judges of Appeal ... more details
STICKS NIX HICK PIX was a headline printed in Variety magazine Variety , a newspaper covering Hollywood and the entertainment industry, on July 17, 1935, over an article about the reaction of rural audiences to movies about rural life. It is one of the most famous headline s ever to appear in an American publication. Using a form of headlinese that the newspaper called slanguage , Sticks Nix Hick Pix means that people in rural areas wikt the sticks the sticks reject nix motion pictures pix about rural life Yokel hick s . The conventional wisdom of the movie industry was that themes of upper class life would not be popular in the countryside according to the article, this assumption was incorrect. According to Robert Landry of the Variety staff, the headline was written by Lyn Bonner Fact date December 2008 however, Sime s Site a site for people associated with Variety , named after the paper s founder credits it to Abel Green . ref cite web first Peter last Besas url http www.simesite.net abel.asp title Abel Green obituary publisher Simesite date accessdate 2009 06 05 ref Because it was the lead headline of the paper, it was printed in all capital letters. Standard style for other Variety headlines was initial capital letters on virtually all words. Fame The headline is one of a handful that have entered the lore of journalism, as described in this essay ref cite web first Hugh last Mullian url http www.allworth.com Samples J craft1.pdf title Breaking Out from the Herd publisher Allworth Press format PDF archivedate 2006 03 13 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20060313170523 http www.allworth.com Samples J craft1.pdf ref by longtime Associated Press reporter Hugh Mulligan cquote Down the years, some of journalism s most famous headlines have brilliantly suggested what happened and have coaxed the reader to find out more WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG written for Variety by Claude ... headline of all time Category Headlines Category 1935 in the United States de Sticks nix hick pix ... more details
refimprove date May 2011 Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell was an engineering company in Bolton , England . Set up in 1830, the partners became interested in the production of steam locomotives after the Rainhill Trials . The first engine was a 2 2 0 for the Bolton and Leigh Railway , followed by three more the following year for American railways. In that year, 1832, Benjamin Hick left to set up his own business, and the firm then became Rothwell and Company. A further order for America was fulfilled in 1833, then for a couple of years the firm was occupied with pumps and stationary engines. From 1936 steam locomotives became their main business. Up to 1840 they produced 56, 28 of which went abroad. Of note is a 4 2 0 for the South Carolina Railroad to the design of Horatio Allen . This had convert 4 ft 6 in m adj on drivers, with a swivelling front bogie, and reputed to have worked for 35 years. A deal of sub contract work came from Edward Bury and Company . From 1841, the company began a batch of engines for the broad gauge Great Western Railway . The largest order came in 1847 for 28 2 2 2 engines for the London and South Western Railway . Possibly the most remarkable were some 4 2 4 locomotive 4 2 4 T engines for the Bristol and Exeter Railway with convert 9 ft m adj mid diameter unflanged driving wheels, and two ball and socket swivelled bogies. They weighed 42 tons and achieved speeds of 82 mph, the fastest engines of the time. The quality of the company s products brought in repeat orders. Many of the engines were still in service twenty years later. From 1857 the engines were to Alexander Allan s design and were similar to the Old Crewe type. These were sold to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway and the Eastern Counties Railway . The last to be built were four broad gauge engines for the Bristol and Exeter Railway and two Saddle tank locomotive saddle tank s for the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway . In the face of reduced business and increasing competition, the company ... more details
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