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Beatrice Gafner (born 19 November 1964 in Beatenberg) is a Swiss former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
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Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in line of succession to the British throne, she is now ninth.
Princess Beatrice, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Beatrice was also the last of Queen Victoria's children to die, nearly 66 years after the first, her elder sister Alice.
Beatrice Peak is a peak located on the Continental Divide on the border of Banff and Kootenay National Parks, between Stanley Peak and Mount Ball. The mountain was named in 1912 by the Alpine Club of Canada after Beatrice Shultz who climbed the mountain that year.
Photographing Fairies is a 1997 British fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyi's 1992 novel Photographing Fairies. The film explores some of the themes of folklore, such as possession, paganism, animism, hallucinogens, parapsychology and fairies. It was inspired by the Cottingley Fairies hoax, and was released in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1997.
Marmolada is a mountain in northeastern Italy and the highest mountain of the Dolomites. It lies between the borders of Trentino and Veneto. The Marmolada is an ultra-prominent peak (Ultra), known as the "Queen of the Dolomites".
Barnby Moor is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 257, increasing to the 2011 Census to 278. The village is about three miles north of East Retford.
Sue Gafner is a former professional female bodybuilder of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Katherine Creag Gafner was a Filipino-American television journalist. She worked for WNBC for a decade prior to her death. Before that, she worked for NY1, WTVH, and WNYW. She won several awards for her journalism.
Raymond Gafner was an ice hockey player, referee, and a member of the IOC between 1969 and 1990.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, CBE, DSO was a British soldier and mountaineer, and President of the Alpine Club from 1935 to 1938. After a distinguished military career he defended classical mountaineering against what he saw as unhelpful trends in the sport for speed.
Cynometra lenticellata is a flowering tropical tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to tropical semi-deciduous rainforest and gallery forests in northern Queensland, some of the Torres Strait Islands, and New Guinea. Common names include: silk handkerchief tree, cascading bean, and native handkerchief tree.
The Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots were established in 1959 along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, above the treeline in an alpine tundra habitat. The plots were used by Beatrice Willard of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado from 1959 to about 1999 in a long-term study of the alpine ecosystem. Willard's dissertation and updates, as well as her book Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra were highly influential in studies of alpine and tundra ecology. Her recommendations were used by the National Park Service in its management of the high alpine areas of the park. Willard's work continued after she moved on to other work, and for the last twenty years she made informal visits to the plots.
Beatrice "Bettie" Willard was an American botanist who specialized in studies on the ecology and botany of high alpine tundra, as well as arctic tundra. Willard's studies influenced public policy with her studies, which centered on plant life at high altitudes. Willard was responsible for the establishment of the Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots above the treeline in Rocky Mountain National Park, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In later years she was an adviser to U.S. presidents Nixon and Ford as the first woman on the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
Foofwa d’Imobilité is a Swiss dancer and choreographer. He lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, and Brooklyn, New York.
Béatrice Filliol is a former French alpine skier who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics.
Beatrice Brunnbauer is an Austrian female deaf alpine skier. She represented Austria at the 2015 Winter Deaflympics and competed in the women's slalom, giant slalom, Super-G, super combined and downhill events.
Switzerland competed at the 1988 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria. 32 competitors from Switzerland won 23 medals including 8 gold, 7 silver and 8 bronze and finished 5th in the medal table.
Beatrice Scalvedi is a swiss former alpine skier who won the silver medal in downhill at the World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2016 and started one World Cup race in the same year.
Lana Jo Chapin is an American Paralympic alpine skier. She represented the United States in Para-alpine skiing at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Paralympics. She won three medals, including two silver and a bronze.
Beatrice Berthet is a Swiss Paralympic skier. She represented Switzerland in Paralympic Alpine skiing at the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games, 1988 Paralympic Winter Games, and 1992 Paralympic Winter Games. She won two bronze medals in Innsbruck 1988.
