7,661 research outputs found
Claire Lilian Wight Diaries, 1907-1908
No full textTwo diaries, 1907-1908 kept by Claire Lilian Wight (b. 1894) of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Claire Wight was 13 years old when she began her first diary in 1907. Claire records daily activities such as school visits, reading, attending concerts, social and family activities, vacations, taking music lessons and playing tennis and going to the YWCA. Also included are two calling cards, one of Claire's and one of her uncle as well as a newspaper clipping for the "Tennessee Colored Jubilee Singers," whose performance Claire mentions in her diary. From the Claire Lilian Wight Diaries, Mss. Acc. 2009.239, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
No full textThe thesis is a local-scale study which aims to place the Isle of Wight in the English landscape. It examines the much discussed but problematic concept of ‘islandness’, identifying distinctive insular characteristics and determining their significance but also investigating internal landscape diversity. This is the first detailed academic study of Isle of Wight land use and settlement from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century and is fully referenced to national frameworks. The thesis utilises documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. It employs the techniques of historic landscape characterisation (HLC), using synoptic maps created by the author and others as tools of graphic analysis. An analysis of the Isle of Wight’s physical character and cultural roots is followed by an investigation of problems and questions associated with models of settlement and land use at various scales. Specifically, national-scale models by Oliver Rackham and by Brian Roberts and Stuart Wrathmell are critically assessed for their value as frameworks within which Isle of Wight data may be examined, as is the local-scale Isle of Wight HLC model. Historic Ordnance Survey maps, royal surveys, manorial surveys and other sources are used to define the Isle of Wight’s territorial units and patterns of land use, enclosure and settlement; to create a new model of 1790s HLC Areas; and to construct a database listing all settlements by size and form. Nucleation and dispersion densities are calculated from this database, compared with Isle of Wight densities mapped by Roberts & Wrathmell and discussed in relation to densities elsewhere in England. Regional-scale patterns of settlement and land-use within central southern England are considered and the relevance of national-scale models of settlement and land use to this region is discussed. The origins and evolution of Isle of Wight settlements are then explored, using evidence from early sources including place-names, Domesday Book, tax lists and surveys. Subsequent analysis defines discrete cultural zones within the Isle of Wight, confirming the diversity and ancient origins of its cultural landscapes. The final chapter provides a synoptic assessment of models, emphasising the value of the local-scale 1790s HLC Areas model and recognising the compatibility of Roberts & Wrathmell’s national-scale settlement model with detailed local data for the Isle of Wight. It is found that Rackham’s model of Ancient Countryside conforms partially with local attributes but that this model may now need some revision. The paradoxical status of the Solent as both a gateway and a cultural boundary is proposed, as is the Island’s affinity with other ‘peripheral’ areas of England
The Isle of Wight, c.1750-1840: aspects of viewing, recording and consumption
No full textThe main areas of Picturesque Travel during the second half of the long eighteenth century were the Lake District, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Wight; of these locations the Isle of Wight has been the least reviewed. This study examines Island-centred historical and topographical material published 1750-1840 in conjunction with journals and diaries kept by contemporary visitors. The available archive is examined within a framework of the developing aesthetic theories of the period that surrounded the picturesque and rise of antiquarian interests, supported by more recently proposed systems of analysis.The systems and practices of viewing the Island are considered. Foremost here are the kinds of hierarchies used by the topographers in their descriptions; were they based on man made constructions, landscape qualities or status ofthe individual? Further to this, the study examines the ways in which contemporary diary and travel notes inform us of the Island and conclusions that can be drawn of the attractions and alterities that the Island presented to such a wide and varied group of people.Viewing, Recording and Consumption are common threads that run throughout this discourse. The Island is identified as a location of alterity; which provided alternative social conditions for visitors and residents from the mainland. The rural cottages, villas and mansions, built as retreats during this period are considered within this context. This study, which is not exhaustive, will begin to correct the recent neglect of academic interest and show that the Island could have a higher profile within eighteenth century cultural studies
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
No full textSouth (main) facade, showing the central portico and entrance; The building was designed by prominent Kansas City architects Wight and Wight (who also designed the approaches to the Liberty Memorial and the Kansas governor's mansion, Cedar Crest). Ground was broken in 1930, and the museum opened on December 11, 1933. The building's classical Beaux-Arts architecture style was modeled on the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thomas Wight, the brother who did most of the design work for the building said: "We are building the museum on classic principles because they have been proved by the centuries. A distinctly American principle appropriate for such a building may be developed, but, so far, everything of that kind is experimental. One doesn’t experiment with two-and-a-half million dollars." A third of the west wing was left unfinished when the building opened. Part of it was completed in 1941. The rest of the building was completed after World War II. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/8/2010
A Neoselachian shark from the non-marine Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: early Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England
No full textBulk screening of Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation strata exposed on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, southern England, has resulted in the recovery of neoselachian shark teeth referred to the scyliorhinid Palaeoscyllium. These are the first neoselachian remains from the British Wealden Group and represent the geologically oldest neoselachian yet recovered from a freshwater deposit. This is also the only known example of a non-marine occurrence of a member of the Scyliorhinidae
Leland Wight
No full textLeland Wight is the Senior Director and Deputy Program Manager for Boeing\u27s Commercial Crew Program, which is building the Commercial Crew Transportation System (CCTS) known as the CST-100 Starliner. In this role he is responsible for managing the development of a human-rated spacecraft that can transport NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station, and eventually, paying passengers to a variety of low-Earth orbit destinations.
Prior to this assignment, Wight was the Chief Engineer of the Chinook H-47 rotorcraft. In this role, he was responsible for the design and performance of the Chinook helicopter fleet, numbering more than 950 worldwide.
Wight has held a series of positions in program management and engineering leadership during his 35-year aerospace career at Boeing, including director of international programs for Chinook, and previously on P-8, which included the role of P-8I India program manager.
As the P-8I program manager, he led the full lifecycle of the program from kickoff through delivery of the first four of eight aircraft. In this capacity, he had full accountability and oversight of the $2.1 billion contract, including development, design, delivery, acceptance, certification and profitability. Additionally, his prior contributions on P-8A as the systems engineering manager and engineering focal point on the P-8I negotiations team helped mature the product line.
Wight joined Boeing in 1981 as a material and processes engineer responsible for developing new composite materials. In addition to degrees from the University of Washington, Wight also holds a master’s in engineering management from Washington State University.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2019/1057/thumbnail.jp
All the Wight Connections: A History of One Branch of the Wight Family
No full textThis Item contains 1 PDF file and 64 JPG filesThis item detail the history of part of the Wight family from around the 1600s to the early 2000s. The book itself covers 10 generations of the Wight family. The book details accomplishments of the family and does not limit itself to only Grady County rather looking at the family as they moved
Modelling the Holocene evolution of coastal gullies on the Isle of Wight
No full textGeomorphological evidence has frequently been used to infer past environmental conditions, but in recent years the emergence of landscape evolution models (LEMs) has opened the possibility of using numerical modelling as a tool in palaeo-environmental reconstruction. The application of LEMs for this purpose involves retrodictive modelling, each simulation scenario being configured with model variables (e.g. reflecting climate change) and parameters to reflect a specific hypothesis of environmental change. Plausible scenarios are then identified by matching contemporary observed and modelled landscapes. However, although considerable uncertainty is known to surround the specification of model driving conditions and parameters, previous studies have not considered this issue. This research applies a technique of accounting for the uncertainty surrounding the specification of driving conditions and model parameters by using reduced complexity 'metamodels' to analyse the full model parameter space and thus constrain sources of uncertainty and plausible retrodicted scenarios more effectively. This study applies the developed techniques to a case study focused on a specific set of coastal gullies found on the Isle of Wight, UK. A key factor in the evolution of these gullies are the relative balance between rates of cliff retreat (which reduces gully extent) and headwards incision caused by knickpoint migration (which increases gully extent). To inform the choice and parameterisation of the numerical model used in this research an empirical-conceptual model of gully evolution was initially developed. To provide a long-term context for the evolution of the gullies and to identify the relative importance of the various driving factors, the Holocene erosional history of the Isle of Wight gullies was then simulated using a LEM. In a preliminary set of simulations a 'traditional' (i.e. with no consideration of parameter uncertainty) retrodictive modelling approach was applied, in which driving variables were arbitrarily altered and observed and simulated landscape topographies compared, under various scenarios of imposed environmental change. These initial results revealed that the coastal gullies have been ephemeral in nature for much of the Holocene, only becoming semi-permanent once cliff retreat rates fall below a critical threshold at 2500 cal. years BP. Next, in an attempt to constrain more detailed erosional histories and to explore the extent to which retrodicted interpretations of landscape change were confounded by uncertainty, a Central Composite Design (CCD) sampling technique was employed to sample variations in the model driving variables, enabling the trajectories of gully response to different combinations of the driving conditions to be modelled explicitly. In some of these simulations, where the ranges of bedrock erodibility (0:03 - 0:04m0:2a)
Measuring woodland connectivity for wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) on the Isle of Wight, UK
No full textSpatial modelling approaches are increasingly used to design and direct management and conservation plans at the landscape scale. One of the main developments is buffer-radius approaches that use information on the dispersal ability of species to create buffers around distinct habitat patches to assess habitat connectivity within the landscape. In this study, Euclidean and least-cost buffers were used to predict functional ecological networks for wood cricket (Nemobius sylvestris) within the wooded landscape of the Isle of Wight, UK. Compared to the Euclidean buffer approach, the least-cost method revealed a higher number of functional networks indicating a high level of habitat fragmentation for wood cricket and similar woodland invertebrate species. Recent habitat network development increased network connectivity in 3 out of 4 cases. The results further highlight the demand for detailed information, both in terms of species specific and in terms of land cover data, for using least-cost modelling tools effectively in conservation planning
Letter from Ida L. Wight
No full textAugust 28, 1927: A handwritten letter from Ida L. Wight to Charlotte Michaud concerning an article she wrote.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/michaud-1922-1938/1021/thumbnail.jp
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