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Encyclopedia > Waterman

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Waterman may refer to:

  • Waterman Accounting, Income Tax Specialists WatermanAccounting.com
  • Waterman pens, a luxury pen company
  • Watermen, river workers who transferred passengers across and along the city centre rivers in Britain
  • Waterman refers to harvesters of seafood in the Chesapeake Bay region.
  • Waterman is the name of a popular online flash-animated cartoon, created by Bryan Waterman [1]
  • The term waterman (or, more recently, waterperson) is sometimes used in the extreme sports community to denote a skilled and well respected athlete of broad and multiple aquatic skill, e.g., in surfing, bodyboarding, free diving, canoe paddling, whitewater rafting, etc.

The Waterman pen company is a major manufacturer of fountain pens. ... Watermen were river workers who transferred passengers across and along the River Thames in London. ... Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio). ... The Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo The Chesapeake Bay where the Susquehanna River empties into it. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Extreme sports (now also known as action sports) is a general, somewhat hazily-defined term for a collection of newer sports involving adrenaline-inducing action. ... Buttons Kaluhiokalani at Banzai Pipeline, December 1981 Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried by a breaking wave on a surfboard. ... Bodyboarding is a form of wave riding using a bodyboard, which consists of a small roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. ... Free-diving refers to various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold diving. ... A canoe is a small boat, typically human-powered, but also commonly sailed. ... Rafting is a recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other body of water. ...

As a surname

John M. Waterman (born May 13, 1952) is a Republican member of the Indiana State Senate, representing the 39th district where he has served since 1995. ... Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – 1967) was an American physicist. ... Dennis in The Sweeney Dennis Waterman is also the name of a Little Britain character, Dennis Waterman (Little Britain). ... Hannah Waterman (born 22 July 1975 in London, England) is a British actress, daughter of Minder star Dennis Waterman. ... Pete on the cover of his autobiography I Wish I Was Me Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born in Coventry on January 15, 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. ... (From left to right) Pete Waterman, Matt Aitken and Mike Stock in 1987. ... Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka smchyrocky, (born August 26, 1988) is a teenage girl from Craig, Alaska who was charged with the first degree murder of her mother. ... Robert W. Waterman 17th Governor of California Robert Whitney Waterman (December 15, 1826 – April 12, 1891) was Governor of California from September 12, 1887 until January 8, 1891. ... Waldo Dean Waterman (June 16, 1894 - December 8, 1976) was an inventor and aviation pioneer from San Diego, California. ...

Places

Waterman is a village located in DeKalb County, Illinois. ... Watermans Bay (; post code: 6020) is a northern coastal suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. ...

Other things

Waterman Phileas fountain pen - Virtual Sky Media Group Waterman Philéas is a series of writing instruments including fountain pens, ballpens and pencils produced by the Waterman pen company. ... The Smith-Waterman algorithm is a well-known algorithm for performing local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two nucleotide or protein sequences. ... Waterman Broadcasting Tower Punta Gorda is a 462. ... Located in Brentford, alongside the banks of the River_Thames, this building is of insignificant architectural note, but that is perhaps the point? To demonstrate that the buildings most important artistic expression will be occurring inside. ...

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Waterman (2053 words)
Waterman departed Pearl Harbor on 6 March and screened the escort carrier Nassau (CVE-16) as she ferried replacement aircraft, passengers, and cargo to Kwajalein, Majuro, Tarawa, and Makin in the Mar-shalls and Gilberts.
Waterman promptly left her screening station and was the first of two escorts to come alongside and lend a hand.
Waterman continued that work of mercy until 10 September, when she departed the Tokyo area with TU 30.6.3— four LSM's and sister ship Weaver (DE-741)—bound for Shiogama, on the eastern coast of Honshu, through which port the POW's from the Sendai camp were being evacuated.
Waterman, Dennis (1099 words)
As a screen character, Waterman, whether playing in dramatic series or in comedy, is intimately dependent on a strong partner and in comedy especially mostly acts as a straight figure to the comic excesses of his partners.
Waterman was born in London in 1947 and became a child actor, appearing in the feature film Night Train To Inverness (1958) and in a West End production of the musical The Music Man. In 1961 he landed the title role of William in the children's television series William, produced by the BBC.
In portraying Waterman as a womaniser who is finally unable to control the feminine forces that he had unleashed, She Devil added an interesting new dimension to the actor's screen persona.
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