Mitchell may refer to:

People[link]

Places[link]

Australia[link]

• Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory
• Mitchell, Queensland
• Mount Mitchell, Queensland
• Mitchell, Northern Territory
• Division of Mitchell, a federal Australian Electoral Division in north-west Sydney, New South Wales
• Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia), a state electoral district in South Australia
• Electoral district of Mitchell (Western Australia) a state electoral district in Western Australia

Canada[link]

• Mitchell, Ontario
• Mount Mitchell (Alberta) in Jasper National Park of Canada
• Mitchell, Manitoba
• Mitchell Bay, Nova Scotia
• Mitchell Island, British Columbia
• Mitchell Island (Nunavut)

United Kingdom[link]

• Mitchell, Cornwall
• Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)

United States of America[link]

• Mitchell, Georgia
• Mitchell, Illinois
• Mitchell, Indiana
• Mitchell, Iowa
• Mitchell, Nebraska
• Mitchell, Oregon
• Mitchell, South Dakota

Companies[link]

• Mitchell Camera Corporation, which manufactured the cameras which shot the majority of Hollywood movies and early television shows from the 1930s-1990s
• Mitchell Corporation, a Japanese video game company
• Mitchell International, Inc., a software and information service provider, located in San Diego, California
• Mitchell (automobile), an automobile built in Racine, Wisconsin from 1903-1923

Film and television[link]

• Mitchell (film), a 1975 action film

Ships[link]

• USC&GS Mitchell, a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey launch in commission from 1919 to 1944
• NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration survey ship in commission from 1970 to 1995 which had previously served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC&GS Mount Mitchell from 1968 to 1970

Other uses[link]

• B-25 Mitchell, an American World War II-era bomber aircraft
• Billy Mitchell Award, a Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program award
• Mitchell College, a private college, located in New London, Connecticut
• Mitchell movement, a type of duplicate bridge table movement

See also[link]

• Mitchell County (disambiguation)
• Mitchell Township (disambiguation)
• Mount Mitchell (disambiguation)
• Mitchellville (disambiguation)

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Edgar Dean Mitchell
NASA Astronaut
Nationality	American
Status	Retired
Born	(1930-09-17) September 17, 1930 (age 81) Hereford, Texas
Other occupation	Test Pilot
Rank	Captain, USN
Time in space	9d 00h 01m
Selection	1966 NASA Group
Missions	Apollo 14
Mission insignia

Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Biography[link]

Mitchell was born in Hereford, Texas.^[1] He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He was also a member of DeMolay International and has been inducted into its Hall of Fame.

Mitchell earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1952.^[1] The following year he joined the US Navy where he trained as a pilot and flew off the aircraft carriers USS Bon Homme Richard and USS Ticonderoga. He later qualified as a research pilot and taught at the Navy's research pilot school. While on active duty in the Navy, he earned a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] He currently resides in suburban West Palm Beach, FL.

Mitchell is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, and carried one of the order's badges to the Moon; it is now kept at his home chapter of Kappa Sigma at Carnegie Mellon University.

NASA career[link]

Mitchell studies a map while walking on the Moon, February 6, 1971

Mitchell was selected to be an astronaut in 1966 and was seconded from the Navy to NASA. He was designated as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 10, and flew as lunar module pilot on Apollo 14, where he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Apollo 14 was Mitchell's only spaceflight. He remained with NASA until 1972, when he retired from the Navy.

After NASA[link]

Ed Mitchell was awarded honorary doctorates from the New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Edgar Mitchell was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970 by President Richard Nixon.

On June 29, 2011, the United States Government filed a lawsuit against Mitchell in the United States District Court in Miami, Florida after discovering that he possessed a camera used by the Apollo 14 crew on the moon, and had put the camera up for auction at the British auction house Bonhams. The litigation asked that the camera be returned to NASA. Mitchell's position was that NASA had given him the camera as a gift upon the completion of the Apollo 14 mission. Bonhams has withdrawn the camera from auction.^[2] In October, 2011, prosecutors and Mitchell reached a settlement agreement, under which Mitchell gave up any claims to the camera and agreed to return it to NASA, which in turn would donate it for display at the National Air and Space Museum. ^[3]

Other interests[link]

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. On his way back to earth during the Apollo 14 flight he had a powerful Savikalpa samadhi experience^[4], and also claimed to have conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth.^[5] The results of said experiments were published in the Journal of Parapsychology in 1971.^[6] In early 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has found unproductive, including consciousness research and psychic events.

Remote healing[link]

Mitchell says that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer helped him heal kidney cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a biopsy, "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma." Adam worked (distantly) on Mitchell from December 2003 until June 2004, when the "irregularity was gone and we haven't seen it since".^[7]

Views on UFOs[link]

Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is "90 percent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets"^[8] and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out".^[9] Dateline NBC conducted an interview with Mitchell on April 19, 1996, during which he discussed meeting with officials from three countries who claimed to have had personal encounters with extraterrestrials. He offered his opinion that the evidence for such "alien" contact was "very strong" and "classified" by governments, who were covering up visitations and the existence of alien beings' bodies in places such as Roswell, New Mexico. He further claimed that UFOs had provided "sonic engineering secrets" that were helpful to the U.S. government. Mitchell's book, The Way of the Explorer, discusses his journey into mysticism and space.^[10]

In 2004 he told the St. Petersburg Times that a "cabal of insiders" in the U.S. government were studying recovered alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing U.S. presidents after John F. Kennedy.^[11] He said, "We all know that UFOs are real; now the question is where they come from."^[12]

On July 23, 2008 Edgar Mitchell was interviewed on Kerrang Radio by Nick Margerrison. Mitchell claimed the Roswell crash was real and that aliens have contacted humans several times, but that governments have hidden the truth for 60 years stating, "I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real." In reply, a spokesman for NASA stated, "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue."^[13][14]

In an interview with Fox News on July 25, 2008, Mitchell clarified that his comments did not involve NASA, but quoted unnamed sources, since deceased, at Roswell who confided to him that the Roswell incident did involve an alien craft. Mitchell also claims to have subsequently received confirmation from an unnamed intelligence officer at the Pentagon.^[15][16]

Edgar Mitchell, February 2009

Other projects[link]

Edgar Mitchell appears in the documentaries In the Shadow of the Moon, The Phoenix Lights...We Are Not Alone, and The Living Matrix.

Mitchell has written several articles and essays,^[17] as well as two books. In The Way of the Explorer, Mitchell proposed a dyadic model of reality.^[18]

He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin^[19] and is a member of INREES.

Mitchell is one of the initial supporters of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly – which would be a first step towards a "world parliament".^[20]

Honors and awards[link]

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Polish Wikipedia.

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (1970)
• NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• Navy Astronaut Wings
• Navy Distinguished Service Medal

In media[link]

1998 HBO TV series From the Earth to the Moon – played by Gary Cole

Books[link]

• The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds (1996), G. Putnam & Sons, hardcover, ISBN 0-399-14161-8, 2008 paperback edition: ISBN 1-56414-977-3, audio cassette edition: ISBN 1-57270-019-X
• Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (1974), G. Putnam & Sons, ISBN 0-399-11342-8

References[link]

• New Mexico Museum of Space History

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Edgar Mitchell's home page
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: Apollo 14
• Edgar Mitchell MP3 audio – from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Samadhi in Space interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell in ascent magazine
• "Release all information on UFOs & ETs", an interview with Mitchell in Soul Travel Magazine
• Edgar Mitchell, member of INREES Institute for Research of Extraordinary Experiences

Shay Mitchell
Mitchell at the 38th People's Choice Awards 2012
Born	Shannon Ashley Mitchell (1987-04-10) April 10, 1987 (age 25) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2009–present
Website
www.shaymitchell.com

Shannon Ashley "Shay" Mitchell (born April 10, 1987) is a Canadian actress and model. She stars in the ABC Family series, Pretty Little Liars as Emily Fields.

Early life[link]

Born to a Filipino mother Precious Mitchell, and Irish/Scottish father Mark Mitchell, Shay is a native of Toronto, Ontario. She has one younger sibling, a brother, Sean Mitchell. Even as a young child, Mitchell was interested in the performing arts, declaring to her parents that she would pursue such a career. Mitchell began dance lessons at the age of five, and she and several of her classmates toured the city to compete with a variety of other dance schools.

At the age of 10, Mitchell's family moved west to Vancouver, British Columbia. Within a year of their arrival, an international modeling agency held an open casting call for teen and pre-teen girls who were vying for representation. Mitchell was one of the girls selected.^[1]

Career[link]

By her late teens, Mitchell had successfully modeled for a variety of companies in cities as varied as Bangkok, Hong Kong and Barcelona, but she later returned to Toronto to study acting. After signing with her first theatrical agency, Mitchell appeared in the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation and booked several national commercials.

Mitchell also landed a recurring role in the Disney XD series Aaron Stone. She has featured in the music video for recording artist Sean Paul's song "Hold My Hand", appeared in the Global series Rookie Blue, and modeled for the American clothing company, American Eagle Outfitters. Her most prominent role is playing Emily Fields in Pretty Little Liars on ABC Family where she had originally auditioned for the role of Spencer Hastings.^[2].

In January 2011, Mitchell signed a contract with Procter & Gamble to be the spokesperson for the Pantene Nature Fusion shampoo line.^[3]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Missy Franklin

Personal information
Full name	Melissa Jeanette Franklin
Nickname(s)	Missy the missile
Nationality	USA
Born	(1995-05-10) May 10, 1995 (age 17) Pasadena, California
Height	6 ft 1.5 in (1.87 m)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Backstroke, freestyle, medley
Club	Colorado Stars (STAR-CO)
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for the  United States World Championships (LC) Gold 2011 Shanghai 200 m backstroke Gold 2011 Shanghai 4×200 m freestyle Gold 2011 Shanghai 4×100 m medley Silver 2011 Shanghai 4×100 m freestyle Bronze 2011 Shanghai 50 m backstroke World Championships (SC) Silver 2010 Dubai 200 m backstroke Silver 2010 Dubai 4×100 m medley

Melissa "Missy" Jeanette Franklin (born May 10, 1995) is an American swimmer. She is a five-time medalist (three gold, one silver, one bronze) at the World Aquatics Championships and a two-time silver medalist at the World Short Course Championships. As part of the American team, she holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay (short course).^[1] Individually, she currently holds the world record in the 200-meter backstroke (short course) and the American record in the 200-meter backstroke (long course).^[2][3]

Franklin's success have earned her the FINA Swimmer of the Year award in 2011.

Personal[link]

Franklin was born in Pasadena, California in 1995, the daughter of Dick and D.A. Franklin at 7.10 lbs. She began swimming at the age of five at the urging of her mother. She is a part of the class of 2013 at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado.^[4] Her father works for Rocky Mountain Cleantech Open, which helps develop clean technology startup entrepreneurs, and her mother is a family physician.^[5] Both of Franklin's parents are originally from Canada. Because Franklin has dual citizenship, Franklin's mother suggested she represent Canada to ease the pressure on making a national team because of the depth of USA Swimming. However, Franklin refused, citing her patriotism towards the United States.^[6] Franklin says God has blessed her with an excellent swimmer's body. Her height of 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) towers above most female swimmers (Franklin's father stands over 6 ft 1 in and her mother is 5 ft 4 in). Also, she has women's size 13 feet: "We call them built-in flippers," says her father Dick.^[7] She has been coached by Todd Schmitz from the Colorado Stars club team since she was 7 years old.^[8] Franklin says her favorite athlete is Natalie Coughlin.^[9]

Swimming career[link]

Early career[link]

At the age of 13, Franklin competed at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, but did not qualify to swim in any events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her best result was 37th place in the 100-meter freestyle.^[10][11][12]

2010[link]

At the 2010 National Championships, Franklin competed in six individual events, and qualified to swim at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships by finishing second in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke^[13][14] At the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Franklin finished fourth in the 100-meter backstroke and did not make the A final for the 50 and 200-meter backstroke.^[15][16][17] Franklin earned the first international medals of her career at the 2010 FINA Short Course World Championships in Dubai. In the 200-meter backstroke, Franklin finished in second place behind French swimmer Alexianne Castel.^[18] Franklin also earned a silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay for her contribution in the heats.^[19] For her performance in 2010, she won the Breakout Performer of the Year Award at the seventh annual Golden Goggle Awards.^[20]

2011[link]

2011 World Championships[link]

In her first long course world championship meet at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, Franklin won a total of five medals, three gold, one silver, and one bronze. In her first event, the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, Franklin won a silver medal with Natalie Coughlin, Jessica Hardy, and Dana Vollmer in a time of 3:34.47. Swimming the second leg, Franklin had a split of 52.99, the second-best among all participants.^[21] Franklin won her first individual medal, a bronze, in the 50-meter backstroke, finishing behind Russian Anastasia Zuyeva and Japanese Aya Terakawa.^[22] Shortly after the 50-meter backstroke final, Franklin competed in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Dagny Knutson, Katie Hoff, and Allison Schmitt and won gold ahead of Australia and China in a time of 7:46.14. Franklin's leadoff time of 1:55.06 was faster than the winning time of Italian Federica Pellegrini in the individual 200-meter freestyle final (1:55.58).^[23] After setting the national record in the semifinals of the 200-meter backstroke (2:05.90), Franklin dominated the field in the final with a time of 2:05.10, breaking her own national record and winning gold. This was Franklin's first individual world title, and her time in the final was the third-fastest effort of all time.^[24] Shortly after the 200-meter backstroke final, Franklin competed in the 4×100-meter medley relay with Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, and Dana Vollmer and won gold with a time of 3:52.36, over three seconds ahead of second-place finisher China. Swimming the freestyle leg, Franklin had a split of 52.79, the fastest in the field. The final time of 3:52.36 for the medley relay was the second-fastest effort of all time, just behind the Chinese-owned world record of 3:52.19.^[25] For her performance at these championships, she won the Female Athlete of the Year, Female Race of the Year (200-meter backstroke), and the Relay Performance of the Year (4×100-meter medley relay) Award at the eight annual Golden Goggle Awards.^[26] She was also named the best female swimmer for 2011 by FINA Aquatics World Magazine.^[27]

2011 National Championships[link]

Three days after the 2011 World Aquatics Championships ended in Shanghai on July 30, Franklin flew to Palo Alto, California to compete at the 2011 National Championships, which began on August 2. At these championships, Franklin competed in four individual events, and the 4×100 and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Franklin won the first national titles of her career in the 100-meter backstroke and freestyle.^[28][29] She also placed 4th in the 200-meter individual medley and 12th in the 50-meter freestyle.^[30][31]

First world records[link]

Towards the end of 2011 in October, at the 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup, Franklin set the first world record of her career in the 200-meter backstroke (short course), bettering the previous record of 2:00.18 held by Shiho Sakai with a time of 2:00.03. In breaking the record, Franklin became the first female to break an individual world record since the high-tech bodysuits were banned in January 2010.^[2] Franklin's second world record came at the 2011 Duel in the Pool in December. In the 4×100-meter medley relay, Franklin combined with Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, and Dana Vollmer to break the previous American-owned world record in a time of 3:45.56, bettering the previous record of 3:47.97. Swimming the freestyle leg, Franklin had a split of 51.32.^[1]

Personal bests[link]

Long course[link]

As of August 7, 2011.

Short course[link]

As of October 23, 2011.

World records[link]

^a Record set in a short course pool.

^b Short course record with Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, and Dana Vollmer.

References[link]

External links[link]

• USA Swimming bio: Missy Franklin
• Missy Franklin at the United States Olympic Committee
• Missy Franklin on Twitter

Records
Preceded by Shiho Sakai	Women's 200 metres backstroke world record holder (short course) October 22, 2011 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by Therese Alshammar	FINA Swimmer of the Year 2011	Succeeded by Incumbent

Radha Mitchell
Mitchell at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell (1973-11-12) 12 November 1973 (age 38) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988–present

Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell (born 12 November 1973) is an Australian actress. Her film roles include Pitch Black, Finding Neverland, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Silent Hill, and The Crazies.

Early life[link]

Mitchell was born in Melbourne. Her mother is a model turned designer, and her father is a filmmaker. She had a spiritually inclined upbringing, drawing from Hindu culture by her parents.

Her first name, Radha, is of Hindu origin and is the name of the soulmate to Lord Krishna. The other parts of her name coming from an Indian origin are Rani ("Queen") and Ananda ("Joy"). She attended the private St Michael's Grammar School.

Career[link]

Mitchell began her career starring on ABC TV's Sugar and Spice in 1988. Progressing to Neighbours in 1994, Mitchell played two separate characters over her three-year stint on the show.

In 1997 she starred in two films, High Art and Everything Put Together, both Independent Spirit Award winners. Other films—including Pitch Black opposite Vin Diesel, Phone Booth opposite Colin Farrell, and Man on Fire opposite Denzel Washington—soon followed.

Mitchell gained recognition for her performance in the Academy Award–winning Finding Neverland, which co-starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. This performance earned the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture.

Mitchell then took the title role in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, followed by a part with Josh Hartnett in Mozart and the Whale and then starred in the movie adaptation of the videogame Silent Hill, which co-starred Laurie Holden and Sean Bean. Though the horror film received mixed reviews from critics, it opened number one at the box office with over $20 million in box office loot.^[1] In 2008, Mitchell starred in Rogue with Michael Vartan, as well as Henry Poole Is Here opposite Luke Wilson and The Children of Huang Shi opposite Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.

For her role in Claire McCarthy's The Waiting City, Mitchell won Best Actress in October 2010 at the Antipodes Film Festival, in St. Tropez, France.^[2]

She stars on the upcoming ABC drama series Red Widow.^[3]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

	Australia portal
	Biography portal

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