Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson,Walter Pidgeon,Felix Bressart,Marsha Hunt,Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds. It tells the story of Edna Gladney,who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth certificates,despite the opposition of "good" citizens. The screenplay was by Anita Loos,with a story by Ralph Wheelwright. Some of the important aspects of her life fictionalized in the film are the fact that it was Edna herself who was born out of wedlock;she and Sam eloped on the eve of her marriage to someone else,and they had much more time together before his death than given them in the film.
The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China,mainly in the northwestern provinces and in the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2010 census,China is home to approximately 10.5 million Hui people. Outside China,the 170,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,the Panthays in Myanmar,and many of the Chin Haws in Thailand are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
Dungan is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in the Chu Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It is the native language of the Dungan people,a Hui subgroup that fled Qing China in the 19th century. It evolved from the Central Plains Mandarin variety spoken in Gansu and Shaanxi. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language to be officially written in the Cyrillic script. In addition,the Dungan language contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin.
'Kara Lynn Joyce,is an American former competition swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist. She competed as a member of the United States Olympic Team at the 2004,2008 and 2012 Olympics.
"Guo",written in Chinese:郭,is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated as Cok,Gou,Quo,Quach,Quek,Que,Keh,Kuo,Kwo,Kuoch,Kok,Koc,Kwee,Kwek,Kwik,Kwok,Kuok,Kuek,Gock,Koay,or Ker. The Korean equivalent is spelled Kwak;the Vietnamese equivalent is Quách.
Edna Browning Kahly Gladney was an early campaigner for children's rights and better living conditions for disadvantaged children.
Savvis is a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies that sells managed hosting and colocation services headquartered in Town and Country,Missouri. The company owns more than 50 data centers spread across North America,Europe,and Asia and provides information technology consulting. Savvis has approximately 2,500 unique business and government customers.
Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata. It received the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia. The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named Katie Takeshima,the middle child in a Japanese-American family. "Kira-Kira" means glittering or shining.
Heather Gladney is an American author whose fantasy novels include Teot's War (1987) and its sequel Bloodstorm (1989).
Chinese people in Egypt form one of the smaller groups of overseas Chinese;however,they are a very diverse community with a history reaching back for over a century.
Gongbei,is a term used by the Hui and Uyghur Muslim populations of China in the Northwestern region to indicate an Islamic shrine complex centered on the grave (qabr) of a ṢūfīMuslim murs̲h̲id ("master") or walī ("saint"),typically the founder of a menhuan. The grave itself usually is topped with a dome. Similar Islamic facilities with the same purpose,known as dargāh or türbe,can be found in several other regions of the Muslim world.
Ma Mingxin (1719–1781) was a Chinese Sufi master,the founder of the Jahriyya menhuan.
Dru Curtis Gladney was an American anthropologist who was president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and a professor of anthropology there. Gladney authored four books and more than 100 academic articles and book chapters on topics spanning the Asian continent.
The Gladney Center for Adoption in Fort Worth,Texas,US,provides adoption and advocacy services. Following its 1880s origins,when it focused on locating homes for orphans during a period of mass migration. It evolved into lobbying,international adoptions,counseling,maternity services,education and philanthropy.
James Francis Graves Gladney was an illustrator known for his cover paintings for Street &Smith pulp magazines,especially The Shadow.
Ruby Lee Piester was an American social worker and advocate for adoption rights.
Gladney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Evelyn Ratigan Smith is an American former businesswoman,former educator,and current politician from Georgia. Smith is a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives since 1997.
Jeff Gee Gladney was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for one season in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs and was a two-time all-conference selection in the Big 12.
White Noise is a 2022 absurdist comedy drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach,adapted from the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo. It is Baumbach's first directed feature not to be based on an original story of his own. The film stars Adam Driver,Greta Gerwig,and Don Cheadle. Set in the 1980s,the story follows the life of a niche academic and his family as they go through trials and tribulations,beginning with an environmental disaster near their home.
