David Firth

David John Firth (born 23 January 1983) is an English animator, writer, musician, actor, voice actor, filmmaker, video artist, and broadcaster. As a cartoonist, Firth's work is largely distributed via the internet, most notably through the popular Adobe Flash animation website Newgrounds and his own personal websites. Several of his works in flash animation, along with multiple music videos and works of video art, have garnered large followings.

Animation

Notable animation sequences from Firth include Salad Fingers, as well as the comedic Burnt Face Man series. A number of Firth's works have been featured by the BBC in the UK, and the BBC has hired Firth on several occasions to work on television programmes and commercials. He also created a Flash animation series called Jerry Jackson in which a cartoon character claims to be a professional animator, even though the animation is intentionally poorly crafted. The character was based on Firth's perception of internet users who would leave hateful comments on his videos.

David Firth (actor)

David Firth (born 15 March 1945) is an English actor, writer and singer for stage, film and television. Firth was a member of the original cast of Phantom of the Opera with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman.

Early life

David Firth (born David Coleman) was born in Bedford on 15 March 1945. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, the University of Sussex and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Career

Firth was with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1967–70), the Royal National Theatre (1973) and part of the original cast of the Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1986).

During his stage career, Firth was in the cast of King Lear (Old Vic, 1988), The Hunting of the Snark (1991), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Barbican Theatre, 1992), Jubilee (Barbican Theatre, 1992), Assassins (Donmar 1992), Knickerbocker Holiday (Barbican, 1993), Follies (Brighton, 1993), Forty Years On (West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1994), Love Life (Barbican Theatre, 1995), Passion (Queens, 1996), The Fix (Donmar 1997), Die Fledermaus (Arts, 1998), On A Clear Day (Barbican Theatre, 1998), Good Grief (Yvonne Arnaud, 1998), HMS Pinafore (Royal Festival Hall, 1999), Susanna's Secret (Drill Hall, 1999), Jubilee (Her Majesty's and BBC Radio 3, 1999), Der Kuhandel (Barbican and BBC Radio 3, 2000), Journey's End (Drill Hall, 2000), Cenerentola (Music Theatre London, 2001), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric, 2001), Relatively Speaking (Secombe Theatre Sutton, 2002), Our Song (tour, 2003), Coward and Others (2004), The Man Who... (Orange Tree Richmond, 2005), The Shell Seekers (tour, 2006), Yellow Lines (Oval House, 2007), Park Avenue (Lilian Bayliss Theatre, 2008), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre, 2008), and Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall, 2011).

David Firth (statistician)

David Firth (born c. 1958) is a British statistician specialising in social-science and biostatistical applications. Firth obtained his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1987 under the supervision of David Roxbee Cox.

He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver in 2012.

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David of Bulgaria

David (Bulgarian: Давид) (died 976) was a Bulgarian noble, brother of Emperor Samuel and eldest son of komes Nicholas. After the disastrous invasion of Rus' armies and the fall of North-eastern Bulgaria under Byzantine occupation in 971, he and his three younger brothers took the lead of the defence of the country. They executed their power together and each of them governed and defended a separate region. He ruled the southern-most parts of the realm from Prespa and Kastoria and was responsible for the defence the dangerous borders with Thessalonica and Thessaly. In 976 he participated in the major assault against the Byzantine Empire but was killed by vagrant Vlachs between Prespa and Kostur.

Family tree

Another theory

However, there's also another version about David’s origin. David gains the title "comes" during his service in the Byzantine army which recruited many Armenians from the Eastern region of the empire. The 11th-century historian Stepanos Asoghik wrote that Samuel had one brother, and they were Armenians from the district Derjan. This version is supported by the historians Nicholas Adontz, Jordan Ivanov, and Samuil's Inscription where it’s said that Samuel’s brother is David. Also, the historians Yahya and Al Makin clearly distinguish the race of Samuel and David (the Comitopouli) from the one of Moses and Aaron (the royal race):

David, Chiriquí

David (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈβið]) officially San José de David is a city and corregimiento located in the west of Panama. It is the capital of the province of Chiriquí and has an estimated population of 144,858 inhabitants as confirmed in 2013. It is a relatively affluent city with a firmly established, dominant middle class and a very low unemployment and poverty index. The Pan-American Highway is a popular route to David.

The development of the banking sector, public construction works such as the expansion of the airport and the David-Boquete highway alongside the growth of commercial activity in the city have increased its prominence as one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The city is currently the economic center of the Chiriqui province and produces more than half the gross domestic product of the province, which totals 2.1 billion. It is known for being the third-largest city in the country both in population and by GDP and for being the largest city in Western Panama.

David (Bernini)

David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese It was completed in the course of seven months from 1623 to 1624.

The subject of the work is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will allow David to behead him. Compared to earlier works on the same theme (notably the David of Michelangelo), the sculpture broke new ground in its implied movement and its psychological intensity.

Background

Between 1618 and 1625 Bernini was commissioned to undertake various sculptural work for the villa of one of his patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In 1623 – only yet 24 years old – he was working on the sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, when, for unknown reasons, he abandoned this project to start work on the David. According to records of payment, Bernini had started on the sculpture by mid–1623, and his contemporary biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, states that he finished it in seven months.