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Ash-Shakur Nafi-Shahid Stevenson (born June 28, 1997) is an American professional boxer.He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes from featherweight to lightweight, and since 2023 has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight title.
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. [1] Renowned as the "Father of Railways", [2] Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
In 1977, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease devoted most of one issue to Stevenson's work in which psychiatrist Harold Lief described Stevenson as "a methodical, careful, even cautious, investigator, whose personality is on the obsessive side...Either he is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known ... as 'the Galileo of the 20th century. ' " [5] When philosopher Leonard Angel ...
Daguerreotype portrait of Stevenson as a child Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row. Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897).
George Raymond Stevenson (25 May 1964 – 21 May 2023) was a Northern Ireland-born English actor, best known for his film and television work. He had a starring role as legionary Titus Pullo on the BBC/HBO television series Rome (2005–07), and portrayed two Marvel Comics characters: Frank Castle / The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone (2008) and The Super Hero Squad Show and Volstagg in the ...
Stevenson's father was a post office worker in Ilford, London, United Kingdom. [3] He grew up with a sister, Debris Stevenson, and a brother. [5] As a child, Stevenson worked as a paperboy, and attended Ilford County High School until 2003 when he was expelled at age 16 due to a "drug-related transgression". [3]
Stevenson was born in Crane Lane off Dame Street, Dublin, the son of John Stevenson, a Scottish coach builder and violinist. [2] His parents died when he was young and he was taken in by a Mr. Gibson, of the firm of Gibson and Woffington in Grafton Street, instrument-makers.
Louis Charles "B. W." Stevenson (October 5, 1949 – April 28, 1988) [2] (originally known as Buckwheat Stevenson) was an American country pop singer and musician, working in a genre now called progressive country.