Espy
Encyclopedia

People

  • Cecil Espy
    Cecil Espy
    Cecil Edward Espy is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as an outfielder from 1983 and 1987-1993.-External links:*...

     (born 1963), American baseball player
  • Duane Espy
    Duane Espy
    Duane Espy began his first season with the Casper Rockies as the team's coach in 2007. This will mark his fifth year in the Colorado Rockies organization.Prior to working with the Casper Rockies, Coach Espy served as the hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball franchise. He held this post...

    , American baseball figure
  • James Pollard Espy
    James Pollard Espy
    For the fictional character, see The Magicians of Xanth.James Pollard Espy was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society...

     (1785–1860), American meteorologist.
  • Mike Espy
    Mike Espy
    Alphonso Michael "Mike" Espy is a former United States political figure. From 1987 to 1993, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was the first African American Secretary of Agriculture...

     (born 1953), American politician
  • William Gray Espy
    William Gray Espy
    William Gray Espy is an actor, best known for roles in serials such as The Young and the Restless as William "Snapper" Foster and Another World as Mitch Blake ....

     (born 1948), American actor
  • Willard R. Espy
    Willard R. Espy
    Willard Richardson Espy was a U.S. editor, philologist, writer, and poet. He is particularly remembered for his anthology of light verse and word play, An Almanac of Words at Play, and its two sequels...

     (1910–1999), American writer
  • M. Watt Espy
    M. Watt Espy
    Major Watt Espy, Jr. was an researcher and expert on capital punishment in the United States.Espy, a resident of Headland, Alabama, was an author, with John Ortiz Smykla, of The Espy Files, a database of executions carried out in the United States and preceding territories from 1608, which is the...

     and John Ortiz Smylka compiled a list of some 14634 executions under American jurisdiction (early 17th century in most states).

Places

  • Espy, Pennsylvania
    Espy, Pennsylvania
    Espy is a census-designated place in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,428 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

    , a census-designated place in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
  • "Espy", the Esplanade Hotel
    Esplanade Hotel
    The Esplanade Hotel, built 1878, is an iconic public house in St Kilda, a beachside suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is situated on St Kilda Beach, at 11 Upper Esplanade, overlooking Port Phillip Bay on a rise opposite the St Kilda Pier, and is a significant landmark of St Kilda...

     in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Other

  • ESPY Awards
    ESPY Awards
    An ESPY Award is an accolade presented by the American cable television network ESPN to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the calendar year preceding a given annual ceremony. The first ESPYs were awarded in 1993...

    , an annual awards ceremony by ESPN
  • Espy Sans
    Espy Sans
    Espy Sans is a bitmap font created by Apple Computer and used for the Newton PDA project and their eWorld online bulletin board service. It was later adapted for use in the Apple Guide help system and some versions of the iPod, particularly the iPod mini...

    , a font created by Apple Computer
  • ESPY (film)
    ESPY (film)
    is a 1974 film based on the novel of the same name by Sakyo Komatsu. The film was directed by Jun Fukuda from a screenplay by Ei Ogawa. It stars Masao Kusakari, Kaoru Yumi, Tomisaburo Wakayama, and Eiji Okada. The film was released to U.S...

    , a Japanese film adaptation of Sakyo Komatsu's novel
  • The Espy File, a database of executions
    Capital punishment in the United States
    Capital punishment in the United States, in practice, applies only for aggravated murder and more rarely for felony murder. Capital punishment was a penalty at common law, for many felonies, and was enforced in all of the American colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence...

     in the United States and the earlier colonies from 1608 to 2002 originally compiled by M. Watt Espy
    M. Watt Espy
    Major Watt Espy, Jr. was an researcher and expert on capital punishment in the United States.Espy, a resident of Headland, Alabama, was an author, with John Ortiz Smykla, of The Espy Files, a database of executions carried out in the United States and preceding territories from 1608, which is the...

     and John Ortiz Smykla and made available through the ICPSR
    Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
    ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, was established in 1962. An integral part of the infrastructure of social science research, ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction , and offers in...

     and the DPIC
    Death Penalty Information Center
    The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty by itself and others to the news media and general public...

    .


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