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A. B. Raj
A.B. Raj is an Indian director of Malayalam movies. Since the mid 1970s he has directed some 40 movies within the genre. Filmography Manase Ninakku Mangalam (1984)Ningalil Oru Sthree (1984)Thaalam Thettiya Tharattu (1983)Aakrosam (1982)Kazhu Maram (1982)Adima Changala (1981)Agni Saram (1981)Vazhi..
A. B. Rogers
Rogers in the 1880's, from the CPR Archive Albert Bowman Rogers (28 May 1829–4 May 1889), commonly known as Major A.B. Rogers, was an American surveyor now best remembered for his discovery of the Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada. Contents 1 Early life2 CPR surveys3&nbs..
A. Bruce Bielaski
Alexander Bruce Bielaski Alexander Bruce Bielaski (1884–February, 1964) was an American lawyer and director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the Federal Bureau of Investigation). Bielaski was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. He received a law degree from The George Washington Uni..
Abárzuza
Abárzuza is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. External link [ABARZUZA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] () ..
ABR
ABR is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: Abercynon North railway station (National Rail code: ABR) in the United KingdomAberdeen Regional Airport (IATA airport code: ABR) in Aberdeen, South Dakota, United StatesAddress Base RegisterAssociativity-Based Routing pr..
Abra
Abra can mean: Saint AbraAbra province, a province in the PhilippinesAbra (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video game franchiseAbra (boat), a traditional boat made from wood used to transfer people in the Dubai creekAbra (mollusc), a genus of bivalve mollusc belonging to Family Semelidae, S..
Abraam Bishop of Fayoum
St. Abraam (1829-1914 A.D.), the Departed Bishop of Fayoum and Giza, Egypt, and "Friend of the Poor", is a well-known modern-day Coptic Orthodox saint. Contents 1 Biography2 Miracles3 Source4 External links Biography The child Paul (Boulos) Gabriel was born in 1545 A.M. (182..
Abracadabra
Abracadabra (sometimes spelled Abrakadabra) is a word used as an incantation, considered by some to be the phrase that is pronounced most universally in other languages without translation. Contents 1 History2 Etymology2.1 ''\"I create as I speak\"''2.2 The curse and the pest..
Abracadabra (album)
Abracadabra is the twelfth album by American rock band The Steve Miller Band, released in 1982. Track listing "Keeps Me Wondering Why" (Mallaber/Lewis)"Abracadabra" (Miller)"Something Special" (Mallaber/Turner/Douglass)"Give It Up" (Miller)"Never Say No" (Mallaber/Massaro/Lewis)"Things I Told Yo..
Abracadabra (Album)
ABC moved to the EMI label, where they recorded the LP Abracadabra, a tightly produced fusion of early 1990s techno sounds and 1970s dance grooves which was met with muted critical approval and appreciation from the band's fan base. "Love Conquers All", the first single, barely placed in the UK ch..
Abracadabra (disambiguation)
Abracadabra is an incantation often used by magicians. Abracadabra has several other meanings as a proper name: Abracadabra (album), a 1982 album by Steve Miller Band"Abracadabra" (song), title track of the 1982 album by Steve Miller BandAbracadabra (game), a 2004 card game from Mayfair GamesAbra ..
Abracadabrella
Abracadabrella is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) that mimics flies. Etymology From Abracadabra. Species Abracadabrella birdsville Zabka, 1991 (Queensland)Abracadabrella elegans (L. Koch, 1879) (Queensland)Abracadabrella lewiston Zabka, 1991 (South Australia) ..
Abracadaver
Abracadaver is a record label imprint formed by the metal band Cradle of Filth in 2001. Release History Bitter Suites to Succubi - Cradle of Filth (2001)Live Bait for the Dead - Cradle of Filth (2002) ..
Abraha
Abraha (died 570) was a governor of the territories in Arabia for the Axumite Kingdom, and later king of modern Yemen. Abraha was one of the commanders of king Kaleb's army sent to conquer southern Arabia around 520. Kaleb made Sumuafa' Ashawa' his viceroy for these territories, but after several ..
Abrahadabra
Thelema [WikiProject_ThelemaWikiProject Thelema] Core topics The Book of the Law Aleister Crowley True Will · 93 Magick Mysticism Thelemic mysticism The Great Work Holy Guardian Angel The Gnostic Mass Thelemic texts Works of Crowley The Holy Books Organisations ..
Abraham
"Abram" redirects here. For , see . Tomb of Abraham Abraham (ca. 1900 BC/BCE אַבְרָהָם "Father/Leader of many", Standard Hebrew Avraham, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇrāhām; Arabic ابراهيم Ibrāhīm; Ge'ez አብርሃም ʾAbrəham) is regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israe..
Abraham's bosom
Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22,23) refers to the custom of reclining on couches at the dining table, which was prevalent among the Jews, an arrangement which brought the head of one person almost into the bosom of the one who sat or reclined above him. To "be in Abraham's bosom" thus meant to enjoy ..
Abraham's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
Abraham's Cove is a small community of about 100 people in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on the island of Newfoundland, along St. George's Bay, on the Port au Port Peninsula. According to the local population, the site was first settled in the late 1800s by the Du..
Abraham, Martin & John
"Abraham, Martin & John" is a 1968 song written by Dick Holler. It is a tribute to the memories of icons of social change Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. It was written as a response to the assassinations of King and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Each of the first thre..
Abraham-Isaac-Jacob
Abraham-Isaac-Jacob (Trachystemon orientalis) is a perennial herb of the family Boraginaceae. Native to eastern Europe, it is frequently grown as an ornamental for its early blue-violet flowers and large leaves. It quickly spreads to provide a dense groundcover. The name can also refer to several..
Abraham-joseph Bénard
Fleury [Abraham Joseph Bénard] (1750-1822), French actor of the Comédie-Française, was one of the greatest comedians of his time. He was born at Chartres on the 26th of October 1750, and began his stage apprenticeship af Nancy, where his father was at the head of a company of actors a..
Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac force
In electrodynamics, the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac force is the force experienced by a relativistic charged particle due to an electromagnetic field. It is a modification of the Abraham-Lorentz force, which describes the same effect, but does not account for the effects of special relativity. Definiti..
Abraham-Lorentz force
The Abraham-Lorentz force is the average force on an accelerating charged particle caused by the particle emitting electromagnetic radiation. It is applicable when the particle is travelling at small velocities. The extension to relativistic velocities is known as the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac force. T..
Abraham-men
The Abraham-men (alternative spellings: Abram-Man or Abraham Cove) were a class of lunatics allowed out of restraint, in the Tudor and Stuart periods, to roam about England and beg; in reality, they were a set of impostors who wandered about the country pretending to be mad. The phrase can be tra..
Abraham-Minkowski controversy
The Abraham-Minkowski controversy is a physics debate concerning electromagnetic momentum within dielectric media. The preponderance of evidence in the debate suggests that the Abraham equation is correct [1], but some investigators disagree. Two equations exist describing momentum transfe..
Abrahamic conceptions of God
Judaism, Christianity and Islam see God as a being who created the world and who rules over the universe. God is usually held to have the properties of holiness (separate from sin and incorruptible), justice (fair, right, and true in all His judgments), sovereignty (unthwartable in His will), omn..
Abrahamic mythology
Abrahamic mythology is a term used in comparative mythology to refer to those aspects of religious belief and tradition common to the Abrahamic religions, as distinct from those of the "Pagan religions" from which most mainstream research in this field suggests they developed. Contents 1 Con..
Abrahamic religion
map showing the prevalence of "Abrahamic" (purple) and "Dharmic" (yellow) religions in each country. In the study of comparative religion, an Abrahamic religion is any of those religions deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ("Father/Leader ..
Abrahamic religions on God and gender
This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional religious views, and modern views of these faiths, especially as to how modern feminism has influenced the theology of these religions. Monotheists hold a belie..
Abrahamites
The Abrahamites were a sect of deists in Bohemia in the 18th century, who professed to be followers of the pre-circumcised Abraham. Believing in one God, they contented themselves with the Decalogue and the Paternoster. Declining to be classed either as Christians or Jews, they were excluded from th..
Abrahams guarantees
The Abrahams Guarantees are a set of contractual guidelines that class library implementors and clients use when reasoning about exception safety in C++ programs. The rules apply to class implementations (components) in the presence of exceptions; they are as follows: The basic guarantee: that the ..
Abraham & Straus
Abraham & Straus (or A&S), now defunct, was a major New York City department store, based in Brooklyn, New York. Federated Department Stores eliminated the A&S brand shortly after its 1994 acquisition of R.H. Macy & Co. Most A&S stores took the Macy's name, although a few became part of Stern's, ..
Abraham (Avi) Loeb
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an American/Israeli theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. He is currently a professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Loeb was born in Israel in 1962 and took part in the elite national program "Talpiot" before receiving a graduate degree in Pla..
Abraham (film)
Abraham is a television movie based on the life of the prophet Abraham. Storyline Abram lives in Haran, a rich city. His wife Sarah is childless, and their only heir is Abram's nephew Lot. Once day Abram hears the voice of God, who says that Abram must leave Haran and travel to an unknown land. God..
Abraham (Hebrew Bible)
Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, "father/leader of many"; Standard Hebrew transliteration: Avraham; Tiberian vocalization: ʾAḇrāhām; Arabic: ابراهيم, Ibrāhīm; Ge'ez: አብርሃም, ʾAbrəham; 1685 BCE?–1510 BCE?;) is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites, recognize..
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Abraham Ribicoff Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress and as President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Born in New Britain, Connecticut to a Jewis..
Abraham Abell
Abraham Abell (1783–1851) was an Irish antiquarian. Early career Abell was born into a Quaker business family of long standing. He was successful in business and noted for his charity. He served as treasurer of the Cork Dispensary and Humane Society. Cultural interests He had a great intere..
Abraham Abramson
Abraham Abramson (1752 or 1754, Potsdam - 28 July 1811, Berlin) was a Prussian coiner. Son of the coiner Jacob Abraham, he created most of the famous medals of Prussia of the time. He depicted among others Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Wieland, Sulzer and Euler. Sources Allgemeine Deutsche Biographi..
Abraham Abulafia
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia (Hebrew: אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה) was born in Saragosa in 1240, and died sometime after 1290, in Comino, Maltese archipelago. He was the founder of a unique kabbalah (mystical tradition), known as "ecstatic kabbalah" or qabbalah nevu'it. He was a stud..
Abraham Acker
Abraham Acker (1703–1773) was the son of a famous Colonial American and father of a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Contents 1 Biography2 Legacy3 Burial location4 Footnotes Biography The youngest of three sons of Wolfert Acker (1667-1753) and Maretje Sibouts..
Abraham Acton
Photo submitted by Franklyncards Abraham Acton (17 December, 1893—16 May, 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was 22 years old..
Abraham Adan
Avraham (English transliteration: Abraham) "Bren" Adan was an Israeli army general who served in the military between 1947 - 1973. He was born in Kfar Gileadi, British-Mandate Palestine in 1926. He joined the Jewish self-defense force, the Palmach, in 1943, before the country of Israel declared it..
Abraham Adrian Albert
Abraham Adrian Albert (November 9, 1905 – June 6, 1972) was a mathematician of Russian ancestry. A first generation American, he was born in Chicago and most associated with that city. He received his BS in 1926, Master's in 1927, and PhD in 1928(at the age of 22), all from the University of ..
Abraham Afewerki
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Abraham Amigo
Abraham Amigo was a noted rabbi of Sepharadi descent. He lived in Palestine during the middle of the seventeenth century CE. Abraham was a contemporary of Moses ben Nissim Benveniste, the younger, author of the responsa, "Sefer Pene Mosheh." For his piety and learning, Amigo was highly respected by ..
Abraham Angermannus
Abraham Andersson, usually known under the Latin form of his name, Abrahamus Andreæ Angermannus or just Abraham Angermannus (dead in October 1607) was the fourth Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1593 to 1599. He was described as bold and outspoken. Angermannus was born a..
Abraham Armand
Abraham Armand was a priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii, in the company of Alexis Bachelot, Patrick Short and six lay brothers. He became..
Abraham Avinu Synagogue
Abraham Avinu Synagogue in Hebron was built by Rabbi/Hakham Malkiel Ashkenazi in the Jewish Quarter of Hebron in 1540. This domed structure represented the physical center of the Jewish Quarter of Hebron, and became the spiritual center of the Jewish Community there and a major center for the stud..
Abraham a Sancta Clara
Abraham a Santa Clara Abraham a Sancta Clara (July, 1644-December 1, 1709), Austrian divine, was born at Kreenheinstetten, near Messkirch. His lay name was Ulrich Megerle. In 1662 he joined the Catholic order of Discalced Augustinians, and assumed the religious name by which he is known. In ..
Abraham B. Venable
Abraham Bedford Venable (November 20, 1758– December 26, 1811) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Prince Edward County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both the U.S. House (1791-1799) and the U.S. Senate (1803-1804). External link [biographic sketch at U.S. Congres..
Abraham Baldwin
Abraham Baldwin Abraham Baldwin (November 23, 1754—March 4, 1807) was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate ..
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is a coeducational college specializing in agriculture, located in Tifton, Georgia. It is a part of the University System of Georgia, and is named for Abraham Baldwin, the first president of the University of Georgia, Georgia's first university. Abraham Baldw..
Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi
Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi (Abraham son of [Rabbi] Hiyya the 'President' ) (1070–1136?) was a Spanish Jewish mathematician and astronomer, also known as Savasorda (from the Arabic Sâhib as-Shurta). He lived in Barcelona during his life. He is remembered in the world of mathematics f..
Abraham Beame
Abe Beame in mid-career Abraham David Beame (known as Abe Beame) (March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) was mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977. As such, he presided over the city during the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s, during which the city was almost forced to declare bankruptcy. C..
Abraham Begeyn
Abraham Begeyn (1650- ) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle in the manner of Nicholas Berchem. His principal residence was at Berlin, where his works were greatly prized, and, according to Houbracken, he was principal painter to the elector of Brandenburg, afterwards king of Prussia. In man..
Abraham Benrubi
Abraham Rubin Hercules Benrubi (born October 4, 1969 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA) is an actor best known for his regular appearances as Jerry Markovic on the long-running US TV drama ER, and his first role as Larry Kubiac, or "Kube", one of the stars of the early 1990s series Parker Lewis Can't Los..
Abraham Bentes
Abraham Ramiro Bentes (1912 – 1990), was a Brazilian Army commander and linguist. Born in Itaituba, Pará State in Northern Brazil, he was the offspring of Jewish immigrants from Morocco. Bentes joined the Brazilian Army in the 1930s and after a long distinguished career reached the post of four-..
Abraham ben Abraham
The history of Abraham ben Abraham, also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn) Potocki (Pototzki or Pototski) is a controversial subject. According to Jewish traditions he is regarded as someone known even to the revered Jewish Talmudic sage, the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah (Eliyahu) Ben Solomo..
Abraham ben David
You may be looking for Abraham ibn Daud, a twelfth century Spanish-Jewish philosopher and historian. Abraham ben David was a Jewish, French commentator on the Talmud. He was born in Provence, France, about 1125 CE; died at Posquières, 27 November 1198 CE. He was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaa..
Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna
Abraham ben Elijah of Wilna was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Lithuania. He was born in Vilna about 1750 and died there on December 14, 1808. He was the son of Elijah, the Vilna Gaon, the most famous Talmudist of modern times, he was educated under the supervision of his father, who was opposed to..
Abraham ben Jacob
Abraham ben Jacob, better known under his Arabic name of Ibrahim ibn Yaqub was a 10th century Sephardi Jew, a traveller, merchant and chronicler from Moorish-ruled Ṭurṭūšah in Al-Andalus, though he may also have lived in Cordova. Between 965 and 971 he travelled throughout Western and Central ..
Abraham Berge
Abraham Berge Abraham Theodor Berge (January 20, 1851–July 10, 1936) was a Norwegian politician representing Venstre, the social liberal party, and later Frisinnede Venstre, a right-of-centre party. Born in Lyngdal in present-day Vest-Agder, he was Prime Minister of Norway from 1923 to 1..
Abraham Bing
Rabbi Abraham Bing was born in Frankfurt in 1752. From 1769 to 1778, he served as "Klaus" Rabbi of Offenbach. His other positions were: Dayan of Frankfurt, 1778-1796Rabbi of Heidingsfeld, 1796-1814Rabbi of Würzburg, 1814-1840 In 1813, Bing was instrumental in re-settling Jews in Würzburg, where..
Abraham Blauvelt
Abraham Blauvelt (16??-1663?) was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, for which both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefield, Nicaragua were named. One of the last of the Dutch corsairs of the mid 1600s, Abraham Blauvelt was first record..
Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert (December 25, 1564 - January 27, 1651 [link]), Dutch painter and engraver, was born at Gorinchem, the son of an architect. He was first a pupil of Gerrit Splinter (pupil of Frans Floris) and of Joos de Beer, at Utrecht. He then spent three years in Paris, studying under ..
Abraham Bosse
Frontispiece for Hobbes' Leviathan. Abraham Bosse (c. 1604 Based on recent research, his date of birth is closer to 1603 than the traditionally given birth year of 1602. Bosse's apprenticeship contract was found in which it is mentioned that he was aged 16 at the date of signing the contract ..
Abraham Boulger
Abraham Boulger, born 1835, Kilcullen, Co Kildare, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 21 years old, and a Lance-Corporal in the 84th Regiment (late..
Abraham Brill
Abraham Arden Brill (1874–1948), American psychiatrist, born in Austria, graduated New York University., 1901, M.D. Columbia, 1903. He came to the United States alone at the age of 13. After studies with C. G. Jung in Switzerland, he returned to the United States in 1908 to become one of the earli..
Abraham Brueghel
Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Contents 1 Family Tree2 Early life3 Life as an Artist4&nbs..
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck(1791-1879) Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (29 November 1791 in Kingston, New York – 23 February 1879 in Kingston, New York) was the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850. Hasbrouck, born in 1791, studied at the Kingston Ac..
Abraham Buford
Abraham Buford (July 21, 1747-June 30, 1833) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, most known as commanding officer during the "Waxhaw Massacre". Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, Buford quickly organized a company of minutemen upon the outbreak of war in 1775, eve..
Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan (July 7, 1860 - 1951) was an American labor organizer and author. He was born in Vilna, Lithuania into a Jewish Orthodox family. He emigrated to the United States in 1881 in order to escape the massive roundup of revolutionaries after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia. He b..
Abraham Calovius
Abraham Calovius (16 April 1612 – 25 February 1686) was a Lutheran theologian, and was one of the champions of Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century. He was born in Mohrungen in east Prussia. After studying at Königsberg, in 1650 he was appointed professor of theology at Wittenberg, where ..
Abraham Chayyim Oppenheim
Abraham Chayyim Oppenheim (1796?-1824?) was a rabbi at Pécs, Hungary, where he died at the age of twenty-eight, before 1825. He was the author of Har Ebel (Lemberg, 1824), ritual regulations on visiting the sick, mourning customs, etc., and of a treatise entitled Nishmat Chayyim (Dyhernfurth, 1829)..
Abraham Chazan
Abraham Chazan (1849 - 1917) was a rabbi and key figure in the transmission of Breslover Hasidut at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Tulchin, Ukraine to Nachman Chazan, the closest disciple of Nathan of Breslov ("Reb Noson"), who in turn was the closest disciple of Rebbe Nachman of Bresl..
Abraham Clark
Abraham Clark Abraham Clark (February 15, 1725 – September 15, 1794) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Represen..
Abraham Code
Abraham Code (December 28 1828 – March 23 1898) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lanark South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1869 to 1879. He was born in Lanark Township in 1828 and educated there. He served as reeve for Drummond Township from 18..
Abraham Cohen de Herrera
Abraham Cohen de Herrera also known as Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abaham Irira (c. 1570 – c. 1635) was a religious philosopher and cabbalist. He is supposed by the historian Graetz to have been born in 1570. He is widely supposed to have been descended from a Marrano family: place of birth i..
Abraham Cohen Labatt
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Abraham Cohen Labatt (1802, Charleston, South Caroli..
Abraham Colfe
Abraham Colfe, who was the Vicar of Lewisham from 1610 to 1657, founded Colfe's School, a reading (primary)or Latin school and six almshouses for the inhabitants of Lewisham. The school later came to bear his name. Colfe declared that the aim of the School was to provide an education for "pupils of..
Abraham Colles
Abraham Colles Abraham Colles (July 23, 1773 – 1843) was professor of anatomy and surgery in Dublin. He was born into a wealthy family near Kilkenny, Ireland. While he was in grammar school, there was a flood in which a local physician's house was destroyed. Abraham found an anatomy book..
Abraham Cooper
Abraham Cooper (1787-1868), English animal and battle painter, the son of a tobacconist, was born in London. At the age of thirteen he became an employee at Astley's Amphitheatre, and was afterwards groomed in the service of Sir Henry Meux. When he was twenty-two, wishing to possess a portrait of ..
Abraham Cornelius
Doctor Cornelius was first mentioned in Barry Windsor-Smith's eight page preview prequel chapter to the original Weapon X Saga in Marvel Comics Presents #72 but only first appeared in Marvel Comics Presents #73. Character biography Dr. Cornelius, one of the senior scientists for Weapon X, employe..
Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 - July 28, 1667), English poet, was born in the City of London late in 1618. His father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlour a copy of The Faerie Q..
Abraham Cresques
Abraham Cresques (d. 1387) was a Catalan Jewish Cartographer from Palma de Mallorca, who, in collaboration with his son Jehuda Cresques compiled the Catalan Atlas of 1375. Abraham and dedicated his life to the making of maps, and the construction of clocks, compasses, and other kinds of maritime i..
Abraham Cruz
Abraham Cruz is a Filipino actor. Filmography 1946 -Dugo ng Bayan [Palaris] (a)1947 -Sanggano [Palaris󣡭 -Hindi ako Susuko [Premiere] (a)1950 -Tatlong Balaraw [Premiere󣡲 -Lourdes [Balatbat-Flores] (a)1954 -Si Og sa Army [Larry Sant..
Abraham Darby
Abraham Darby is the name shared by three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. Abraham Darby I (1678–1717)Abraham Darby II (1711–1763)Abraham Darby III (1750–1791) ..
Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby (c.1678 – March 8, 1717) was the first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the development of the Industrial Revolution. The son of John and Ann Darby, he was born at Wrens Nest, Woodsetton near Sedgley, Staffordshire; just across the co..
Abraham Darby II
Abraham Darby II (1711 – 1763) was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family key in the development of the Industrial Revolution. He followed in his father's footsteps at the Darby foundry in Coalbrookdale, refining techniques for producing wrought iron from pig..
Abraham Darby III
Abraham Darby III (1750 – 1791) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He carried on his family's tradition of improving the art of smelting iron. His most famous achievement was building the largest cast iron structure of his era: a bridge over the Severn. The bridge's importance caused the..
Abraham da Cagliari
Abraham da Cagliari was a Jewish rabbi at Cagliari, Sardinia, in the eighth century. He is mentioned by Antonio di Tharos, a historian of the time, and by Delotone, in his Ritmo di Gialeto. The latter relates that Abraham interpreted many Phoenician inscriptions collected by the Sardinian king Giale..
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Abraham Dee Bartlett (1812 - 1897) was a British zoologist. Bartlett had a small natural history shop near to the British Museum where he sold the products of his taxidermy business. He later became superintendent of London Zoo from 1859 to 1897. He published numerous articles on the observations ..
Abraham de Fabert
Abraham de Fabert (October 11 1599–May 17, 1660), marshal of France, was the son of Abraham Fabert, seigneur de Moulins (d. 1638), a famous printer who rendered great services, civil and military, to Henry IV. At the age of fourteen he entered the Gardes Françaises, and in 1618 received a co..
Abraham de la Pryme
Abraham de la Pryme (15 January, 1671–12 June, 1704) was an English antiquary. Abraham de la Pryme was born to Huguenot parents, Matthias de la Pryme and Sarah Smague (or Smagge) at Hatfield in 1671. Despite his father's desire that he should attend the University of Glasgow and then become a..
Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre. Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France – November 27, 1754 in London, England) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and pr..
Abraham de Villiers
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Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn
Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn (born in Wilna, Russia, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) about 1789/1794; died there November 19, 1878) was a Russian Hebraist, poet, and grammarian. Like all Jewish boys of that time in Russia he was educated as a Talmudist, but became interested in Hebrew grammar and punctuatio..
Abraham Dowdney
Abraham Dowdney (October 31, 1841 - December 10, 1886) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in New York City. He attended private schools, engaged in the building and contracting busi..
Abraham Drake
Abraham Drake (1715-1781) was born on December 4, 1715 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Abraham Drake and his wife Theodate Roby. Abraham Drake married Abigail Weare, the sister of future New Hampshire "president" Meshech Weare, on January 13, 1738, They had two children before her death in 1740. On Nov..
Abraham Duquesne
Other topics that could fall under Duquesne can be found at Marquis Duquesne (disambiguation) Marquis Abraham Duquesne (1610 – February 2 1688) was a French naval officer, who also saw service as an admiral in the Swedish navy. He was born in Dieppe, France, a seaport, in 1610. He was the son..
Abraham Ecchelensis
Abraham Ecchelensis A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome. He studied at the Maronite College in Rome, published a Syriac grammar (1628), and taught Syriac and Arabic at the College of the Propaganda. In 1630 he bega..
Abraham Ecchellensis
Abraham Ecchellensis (d. 1664), a learned Maronite, whose surname is derived from Eckel in Syria, where he was born towards the close of the 16th century. He was educated at the Maronite college in Rome, and, after taking his doctors degree in theology and philosophy, returned for a time to his nati..
Abraham Ecker
Abraham Ecker (also known as Abraham Acker II) was a Colonial American, a brother of a patriot of the American Revolutionary War and a grandson of a famous Dutch Colonial American. Birth and Family Named in honor of his father, Abraham Ecker was the eldest son of Abraham Acker (1703-1773) and Margr..
Abraham Ellison Garrett
Abraham Ellison Garrett, 1830-1907, a Representative from Tennessee; born near Livingston, Overton County, Tenn., March 6, 1830; attended the public schools and Popular Springs College, Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Livingston, Tenn.; also engaged in agri..
Abraham Ellstein
Abraham "Abe" Ellstein (אַבֿרהם "אײב" עלשטײַן, July 7, 1907, New York - 1963) was American composer for Yiddish entertainments. He was born on Lower East Side,Manhattan, the eastern European Jewish immigrant area. Works Mamele: Kid Mother (by Edmund Zayenda, 1930, Poland: Yid..
Abraham Elzevir
Abraham Elzevir (1592 - 1652) was a Dutch printer. He inherited the House of Elzevir from his grandfather Louis Elzevir and his uncle Bonaventure Elzevir. In its best years it was reputedly the greatest publishing business in the world, with filials in numerous European cities. ..
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (February 1, 1796 - December 1, 1865), was a Swiss poet. He was born at Brugg in the canton of Aargau, where his father was a teacher. After studying theology at Zürich he became a pastor in 1817 and returned as teacher to his native town, where he lived for ten years...
Abraham Eustis
Abraham Eustis (March 26, 1786) to (June 27, 1843) was a lawyer and notable U.S. Army officer, eventually rising to become a Brevet Brigadier General. In the State of Florida, Eustis Lake and the town of Eustis were each named in his honor, as was Fort Eustis in Virginia. Contents 1 Biog..
Abraham Even-Shoshan
Abraham Even-Shoshan (1906, Minsk - 1984, Jerusalem) was a Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, recipient of the Israel Prize (1978) and the Bialik Prize (1981). Even-Shoshan was born as Avragam Rozenshteyn in Minsk, Belarus. Even-Shoshan created the New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (1946-1958)..
Abraham Feinberg
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Abraham Firkovich
Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (Hebrew אברהם בן שמואל - Avraham ben Shmuel; Crimean Karaim: Аврагъам Фиркович - Avragham Firkovich) (1786-1874) was a famous leader of the Qarays (Crimean Karaites). He was born in Lutsk, Volhynia, then lived in Lithuania, and fina..
Abraham Fischer
Abraham Fischer (1850 – 1913) was the sole Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa. He was originally a lawyer in Cape Colony, joining the bar in 1875. He became vice-president of the Orange Free State's volksraad in 1893 and a member of the executive council in 1896. Duri..
Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner (November 13 1866-September 21 1959) was an American educator. He is credited with reforming medical education in the United States, as well as founding the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Biography He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated at Johns Hopkins Unive..
Abraham Fornander
Abraham Fornander (1812-1889) was a Swedish-born emigrant who became an important Hawaiian journalist, judge, and ethnologist. Contents 1 Early life and education2 Whaling career3 Hawaii3.1 Journalism3.2 Life as a public official3.3 Account of the Polynesian Race3..
Abraham Foxman
Abraham H. Foxman (b. 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Foxman has worked for the Anti-Defamation League since 1965, and was promoted to National Director in 1987. Abraham Foxman (right) with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinop..
Abraham Francois
Abraham Francois (born June 7, 1977 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian soccer player. In 2000 Francois signed for the Montreal Impact of the USL First Division and played a major part in the defence. In 2001 Francois played with Club Sol de América in the Liga Paraguaya. A year after Francois si..
Abraham Fraunce
Abraham Fraunce (c. 1558-1633), was an English poet. A native of Shropshire, he was born between 1558 and 1560. His name was registered as a pupil of Shrewsbury School in January 1571/2, and he joined St John's College, Cambridge, in 1576, becoming a fellow in 1580/81. His Latin comedy, Victoria, ..
Abraham Geiger
Abraham Geiger (1810–1874) was a German rabbi who led the foundation for Reform Judaism, where he sought to remove all nationalistic elements (particularly the "Chosen People" doctrine) from Judaism, stressing Judaism as an evolving and changing religion. In Germany of the 19th century, Abrah..
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden (July 24, 1840 – January 9, 1908), born Abraham Goldenfoden (first name alternately Avram, Avron, Avrohom, Avrom, or Avrum, last name alternately Goldfadn; the Romanian spelling Avram Goldfaden is common) was a Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright, author of some 40 pla..
Abraham Goldstein
Abraham Samuel Goldstein (b. 1925 in Manhattan, New York - d. August 20, 2005 in Woodbridge, Connecticut) was the 11th dean of Yale Law School from 1970 to 1975. Further reading Wolfgang Saxon: [Abraham Goldstein, Yale Dean, Has Died at 80], in: New York Times (Aug 24th, 2005) ..
Abraham González
Abraham González Casavantes (June 7, 1864 – March 7, 1913) was the provisional and constitutional governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution. He was a mentor to the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. A native of Ciudad Guerrero, Chihuahua, González was a mem..
Abraham González International Airport
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Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (September 27 1719 – June 20 1800) was a German mathematician. He was famed mostly for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. He wrote Mathematische Anfangsgründe and Geschichte der Mathematik. Georg Christoph Lichtenber..
Abraham Gottlob Werner
Abraham Gottlob Werner Abraham Gottlob Werner (September 25, 1749 or 1750Sources don't agree.#redirect [[Template:Fact]] – June 30, 1817), was a German geologist who set out a controversial theory about the stratification of the earth's formation and coined, the now obsolete word, Neptun..
Abraham Gubler
Abraham Gubler is an Australian journalist and defence analyst. He is the Features Editor of the Australian Defence Business Review (ADBR) and formerly Associate Editor of DefenceToday (October 2004 to May 2006). He is also notable for his time at Griffith University (2001-04) where he was elected a..
Abraham H. Cannon
Abraham Hoagland Cannon (1859-1896) (commonly known as Abraham H. Cannon & Abram H. Cannon) born in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from October 7, 1889 until his death July 19, 1896. Grave marker of Abrah..
Abraham Harkavy
Avraam/Al'bert Yakovlevich Harkavy (Russian: ), or Avraham Eliyahu ben Yaakov Harkavy (in Hebrew) (1835–1919) was a Russian-Jewish historian and orientalist. Harkavy was born in 1835 in Novogrudok (in modern-day Belarus). He studied initially in the Volozyn yeshiva, and graduated from the Teache..
Abraham Haskel Taub
Abraham Haskel Taub (February 1 1911–August 9 1999) was a distinguished American mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations. He is perhaps best known for a 1948..
Abraham Hayward
For other people named , see {{{1. Abraham Hayward (November 22, 1801 - February 2, 1884), English man of letters, son of Joseph Hayward, of an old Wiltshire family, was born at Wilton, near Salisbury. After education at Blundell's school, Tiverton, he entered the Inner Temple in 1824, and was call..
Abraham Hinckelmann
Abraham Hinckelmann (1652-1692) was a non-Muslim Islamic scholar who was the first one to print a complete Qur'an in Hamburg. Later, a cleric named Ludovico Marracci from the "Society of the Monks of the Divine Path" published a better version. External links http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/Koran%20-..
Abraham Hirschfeld
Abraham Jacob "Abe" Hirschfeld (1919—9 August 2005), was a Polish-born New York real estate developer known for his eccentric endeavors, love for publicity, $2 neckties, and strong Yiddish accent. Hirschfeld was born in Tarnów, Poland and immigrated to Palestine in the early 1930s. He said mos..
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil Du Perron (December 7, 1731 - January 17, 1805), French orientalist, brother of Louis-Pierre Anquetil, the historian, was born in Paris. He stayed in India for seven years (1755–61), where Parsi priests taught him Persian, and translated the Avesta for him (it is pro..
Abraham ibn Daud
You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn Daud) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to ..
Abraham ibn Ezra
This article is about Abraham ibn Ezra, for other people with the name Ibn Ezra see Ibn Ezra. Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093-1167), was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages. Ibn-Ezra excelled in philo..
Abraham Icek Tuschinski
Abraham Icek Tuschinski (1886-1942) was a Dutch architect, who originally designed Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam. ..
Abraham in History and Tradition
redirect [[Template:Confusing]] Abraham in History and Tradition is a book by John Van Seters, published in 1975 by Yale University Press of New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States. It proved a landmark book in Near Eastern Studies and Biblical Archaeology, since it rebutted the previously com..
Abraham in the Catholic Liturgy
The figure of Abraham plays a prominent part of the Catholic Liturgy. Three Old Testament figures are given particular prominence in the Roman Catholic liturgy - Abel, Melchisedech and Abraham. This is through their association with the idea of sacrifice which means that they are invoked during t..
Abraham Iris
The Abraham Iris was a two-seat touring plane produced in France in the early 1930s in two slightly different versions, the Iris I with a 75 kW (100 hp) Hispano-Suiza engine, and the Iris II with a Renault engine. The Iris was a conventional parasol wing monoplane with a neatly faired-in engine. S..
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine, the founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz Harav, and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohe..
Abraham Izak Perold
Abraham Izak Perold, Ph.D. (20 October 1880 - 11 December 1941) was a South African chemist and viticulturist. Educated in South Africa and Germany, Perold is best known for developing the Pinotage grape variety in 1925 through crossing Pinot Noir and Cinsault. Dr. Perold also introduced 177 grape v..
Abraham J. Twerski
--> Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski is a well known American Hasidic Rabbi of Chernobiler descendant and psychiatrist. His professional specialty is in substance abuse, and he founded the Gateway Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh. He is a son of the Hornostepiler Rebbe of Milwaukee, Wiscousin. He wr..
Abraham J. Williams
Abraham J. Williams (February 26, 1781– December 30, 1839) was an American politician from Boone County, Missouri. He was acting governor of Missouri in 1825 and 1826. Williams had been elected to the state Senate as a Democratic-Republican, and was its President-pro-tem when Governor Freder..
Abraham Jacobi
Abraham Jacobi (May 6, 1830 - July 10, 1919) is considered the father of pediatrics. He opened the first children's clinic in the United States. Born in Hartum, Westphalia, he received an MD at Bonn University in 1851. Shortly thereafter, Jacobi joined the revolutionary movement in Germany (see Re..
Abraham Janssens
For the chess player, see Abraham Janssens. Scaldis and Antwerpia, 1609 Abraham Janssens (or Jansens) van Nuyssen (ca. 1567/1576-1632) was a Flemish painter. He was born at Antwerp, in a year variously reported between 1567 and 1576. He studied under Jan Snellinck, was a master in 1602, and..
Abraham Jefferson Seay
Abraham Jefferson Seay (November 28, 1832 – December 12, 1915) was an American lawyer, soldier, judge, and politician. Seay served as a Colonel during the American Civil War. Later, Seay would serve as an Associate Justice on Oklahoma Territory's supreme court and as the second Governor of Okla..
Abraham Jennison
Abraham Jennison (born c. 1804, date of death unknown) was a convict transported to Western Australia. His significance mainly lies in the fact that one of his letters home to family in England is extant. Nothing is known of Abraham Jennison's early life, but in July 1848 he was 44 years old, marr..
Abraham John Valpy
Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854), English printer and publisher, was the son of schoolmaster Richard Valpy. He is remembered in connection with two great undertakings in the department of classical literature. These were reissues of (1) Stephanus' Greek Thesaurus, for which E. H. Barker was chiefly re..
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907, Warsaw, Poland – December 23, 1972) was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a descendant of preeminent rabbinic families of Europe, both on his father's (Moshe Mordechai Hes..
Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Abraham Joshua Heschel School Superintendent/Principal Administrator Roanna Shorofsky School type Private Religious affiliation Jewish Lower School Location 270 West 89th Street, New York, New York 10024 Middle School Location 314 West 91st Street, New York, New York 10024 High ..
Abraham K. Allison
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison (December 10, 1810 - July 8, 1893) was the sixth governor of Florida, serving just 49 days as governor. After Governor John Milton committed suicide on April 1, 1865, Abraham Allison, as the state senate president, assumed the office of Governor. He resigned his office on..
Abraham Kirimi
Abraham Kirimi (Hebrew: ; 1358, Kirim - 15 c.) was a Crimean rabbi of the 14th century. According to Firkovitch ("C. I. H." No. 50), Kirimi was a proselyte and a pupil of Aaron ben Joseph the Karaite. He derived his name from his native town Kirim, or Sulehat, in the Crimea. Kirimi was the author o..
Abraham Kovoor
Abraham Thomas Kovoor (April 10 1898 - September 18 1978) was a Keralite Indian professor and Rationalist who gained prominence after retirement for his campaign to expose as frauds various Indian "god-men" and so-called paranormal phenomena. His direct, trenchant criticism of spiritual frauds and..
Abraham Kovoor's challenge
Abraham Kovoor declared, in 1963, an award of Rs. 100, 000/- (Sri Lankan Rupees) for anyone who could demonstrate supernatural or miraculous powers under fool-proof and fraud-proof conditions. The challenge I, Abraham T. Kovoor of "Tiruvalla", Pamankada Lane, Colombo-6 do hereby state that l am pr..
Abraham Kuenen
Abraham Kuenen (September 16, 1828 - December 10, 1891), Dutch Protestant theologian, the son of an apothecary, was born on at Haarlem, North Holland. On his father's death it became necessary for him to leave school and take a humble place in the business. By the generosity of friends he was educa..
Abraham Kuyper
Portrait of Abraham Kuyper by Jan Veth Prof. Dr. Ds. Abraham Kuyper (born October 29, 1837, Maassluis - November 8, 1920 The Hague; name officially "Kuijper") was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Ne..
Abraham Laboriel
Abraham Laboriel, Sr. (b. July 17 1947) is a Mexican bassist who has played on over 3,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as: "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. Laboriel was born in in Mexico City. ..
Abraham Langlet
Nils Abraham Langlet (July 9 1868 - March 30 1936; known by his second given name) was a Swedish chemist. Langlet was born in Södertälje. From 1886 to 1896, he studied chemistry under Per Teodor Cleve at Uppsala University, where he obtained a doctorate in 1896, and was made docent in the same ye..
Abraham Lavender
Dr. Abraham D. Lavender (born in Sumter, South Carolina on November 14, 1940) is a professor of Sociology at Florida International University, and is president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. Lavender was born and raised in South Carolina, receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees in psycholo..
Abraham Lederer
Abraham Lederer was a Hungarian educator and writer. He was born on 9 January 1827 in Libochowitz, Bohemia. In 1840 he went to Prague, where he studied at the Teachers' Seminary and at the university. In 1853 he taught at Lundenburg, Moravia and in 1854 he accepted the post of director of the Jewish..
Abraham Lempel
Abraham Lempel is a computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. He was a Polish Jew and is now a citizen of Israel. His historically important works start with the presentation of the LZ77 algorithm in a paper entitled "A Universal Algorithm..
Abraham Leon
Abraham Leon (1918-1944) (born Abraham Wejnstok), was a Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. He was born in Warsaw but his family moved to Belgium where he grew up. Leon became a member and then leader of the Belgian branch of Hashomer Hatzair, a left wing Zionist youth movement. In 1940, after ..
Abraham Lincoln
For other uses of the name Abraham Lincoln, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) Abraham Lincoln (February 12 1809 – April 15 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), ..
Abraham Lincoln's burial and exhumation
Abraham Lincoln was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, where a 177-foot-tall granite tomb surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln was constructed by 1874. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of his four sons are also buried there (Robert Todd Lincoln is bur..
Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation)
Abraham Lincoln may refer to: A person: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States A place: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site, Hodgenville, KentuckyAbraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IllinoisFort Abraham Lincoln, south of Mandan, North DakotaAny of a number of ..
Abraham Lincoln (Pullman car)
The Abraham Lincoln is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction and revenue use In 1910, with Robert Todd Lincoln as the company president, the Pullman Car Company suddenly changed from the 60 foot varnish..
Abraham Lincoln assassination
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 during a showing of Our American Cousin at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day in a house owned by William Petersen. Contents 1 Previous plots2 ..
Abraham Lincoln Battle Group
The Abraham Lincoln Battle Group (now "Strike Group"?) is the collection of United States Navy ships and aircraft built around the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). The battle group's homeport is in Everett, Washington. Ships in the battle group as of the 2002-2003 deployment: Abraham Lin..
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site ..
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Spanish Civil War C.N.T. Poster Promoting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Caption reads "A Marine, A Hero". The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an organization of United States volunteers supporting or fighting for the anti-fascist Spanish Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War as part of the Int..
Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport
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Abraham Lincoln High School
Abraham Lincoln High School may refer to: Abraham Lincoln High School (Des Moines) in Des Moines, IowaAbraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, CaliforniaAbraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco) in San Francisco, CaliforniaAbraham Lincoln High School (San Jose) in San Jose, Calif..
Abraham Lincoln High School (Denver)
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1963, ALHS currently has 1,400 students, 4 administrators, and 73 teachers. The principal is Antonio Esquibel. Lincoln's athletic teams are nicknamed the Lancers. Their colors are blue and grey. Lincoln has one of t..
Abraham Lincoln High School (Des Moines)
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Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles)
Abraham Lincoln High School, usually referred to simply as Lincoln High School is a secondary school located in the Lincoln Heights district of Los Angeles, California. Notable alumni Notable alumni of Abraham Lincoln High School include: Robert Preston, actorRobert Young, actorCarlos Moreno &#..
Abraham Lincoln High School (New York)
Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, and educates grades 9 through 12. It is part of Region 7 in the New York City Department of Education. The current principal is Ari Hoogenboom, and the school has an enrollment of 2581 students. ..
Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco)
Abraham Lincoln High School is a California Distinguished and fully accredited comprehensive public high school located in the Sunset District of San Francisco, California. It is named after the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and is considered to be one of the top performing p..
Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose, California)
--> Official name Abraham Lincoln High School Established 1940s Principal Chris Funk Location 555 Dana Ave. San Jose, CA 95126 Website [http://lincolnhighsanjose.org/] Enrollment 1648 Mascot Lions School colors Blue and Yellow Abraham Lincoln High Sch..
Abraham Lincoln Hogg
Abraham Lincoln Hogg is a fictional character on the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard. Abraham Lincoln Hogg is the twin brother of Jefferson Davis Hogg, better known as Boss Hogg, and in many ways is his complete opposite. Where Boss Hogg is the namesake of Jefferson Davis, the Pres..
Abraham Lincoln in popular culture
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Abraham Lincoln Lewis
--> Abraham Lincoln Lewis (1865 – 1947) was an American businessman. He founded the Afro-American Life Insurance Company in Jacksonville, Florida, and became the state's first African American millionaire. He also founded the National Register-listed community of American Beach, founded as a..
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge
The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge can also refer to the now-demolished Blair Bridge in Nebraska. There is also a Lincoln Memorial Bridge in Vincennes, Indiana. The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge in Illinois is a four-lane bidirectional road bridge that spans the Illinois River, Illinois Route ..
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden
The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Garden is a self-governing 100-acre (0.4 km²) arboretum and network of recreated prairie savannahs owned by the city of Springfield, Illinois. The gardens are made up of two major units, the 63-acre Jensen section bordering Lake Springfield, and the newer 37-acre Prair..
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery covers 982 acres in Elwood, Illinois. It is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois. When fully completed, it will provide 400,000 burial spaces. The cemetery was dedicated in 1999 by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Na..
Abraham Lincoln on slavery
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln's position on freeing the slaves is often surprising and controversial today, despite the frequency and clarity with which he sometimes stated it in the speeches that are better known today. Lincoln came to national prominence as an enemy of the Slave Power, vow..
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was built in Springfield, Illinois in the historic downtown section, near many other Lincoln sites. Ground was broken on February 12, 2001. The Presidential Library opened on October 14, 2004, a..
Abraham Lincoln Project
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Abraham Lincoln Sr.
Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) was the grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln and a Captain in the American Revolution. He was a farmer in Amity, Pennslylvania and married to Bathsheba Herring. Lincoln was killed by Indians after moving to Kentucky. [link] ..
Abraham Louis Breguet
Statue of Abraham Louis Breguet in the Père Lachaise cemetery Abraham-Louis Breguet or Bréguet (10 January 1747 – 17 September 1823), born in Neuchâtel in Switzerland, made many innovations in the course of a career in watchmaking in France. He studied watchmaking in France and in Eng..
Abraham Lubelski
Abraham Lubelski is an American contemporary artist and founder of the NYArts Magazine. He was born in Siberia, USSR in 1940 and emigrated to the United States with his parents, becoming a U. S. citizen in 1954. He has worked on paintings, conceptual projects, theater set designs and installatons. ..
Abraham Manie Adelstein
Abraham Manie Adelstein (28 March, 1916- 18 October, 1992) was a South African born doctor who became the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician. Contents 1 Career2 Honours3 Obituary4 See also Career He was the fourth of five children (four boys and one girl) of Nathan A..
Abraham Mapu
Abraham Mapu (1808–1867) is a Lithuanian novelist who wrote in the Hebrew language. For many years he was an impoverished, itinerant schoolmaster. Mapu gained financial security when he was appointed teacher in a government school for Jewish children. Mapu is considered the creator of the Hebrew ..
Abraham Markle
Abraham Markle (October 26 1770-March 6 1826) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada and co-proprietor of Terre Haute, Indiana. He was born in Ulster County, New York in 1770. Four of his brothers served with Butler's Rangers during the American Revolution; they settled at Newark (N..
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs. Contents 1 Biography2 Hierarchy of Human Needs3 See also4 Further reading and external links Biography Born in Brooklyn..
Abraham McClellan
Abraham McClellan was an American politician that represented Tennessee's second district in the United States House of Representatives. He was born at "White Top" on Beaver Creek, Tennessee on October 4, 1789. He attended the common schools, graduated from Washington College in Tennessee, and engag..
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Abraham Mendelssohn) (Berlin, 10 December 1776 – 19 December 1835 in Berlin) was a German Jewish banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham is supposed to have complained..
Abraham Merritt
Abraham Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction. Born in New Jersey, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894. Originally trained in law, he turned to journalism, first as a correspondent, and later as editor. He was assistan..
Abraham Mignon
Still-Life by Abraham Mignon (after 1672) Oil on canvas, 92 x 72,7 cm. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Abraham Mignon (June 21, 1640 - March 27 1679), Dutch painter, was born at Frankfurt. His father, a merchant, placed him under the still-life painter Jacob Marrel, by whom he was taken to ..
Abraham Momber Van de Velde
Abraham Momber Van de Velde was the last Dutch governor of Mauritius and served until 1710. The next colonial governor did not arrive until 1715 with Guillaume Dufresne d' Arsel of the French East India Company. ..
Abraham Moss
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Abraham Nahum Stencl
Abraham Nahum Stencl (Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl) (1897-1983) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Tsheladzh, now Czeladź in south-western Poland. He emigrated to Berlin in 1921. He began to write Yiddish poetry in a pioneer modernist and expressionist style. He left Germany for the United Kingdom in th..
Abraham Nemeth
Abraham Nemeth (b. 1918) is an American Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Nemeth was born in New York City. He is blind from birth. His undergraduate studies were at Brooklyn College where he studied psychology. He earned a Master of Arts ..
Abraham Newland
Abraham Newland was the chief cashier at the Bank of England from 1782 to 1807. The expression "an Abraham Newland" came to mean a bank note, because only his signature guaranteed a genuine Bank of England note. Reference The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ..
Abraham Nicholas
Abraham Nicholas served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1735 to 1736. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye
Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye (1634-1706), French historian and publicist, was born at Orleans in February 1634, and died at Paris on the 8th of December 1706. Little is known of his personal history beyond the fact that he was secretary to an embassy from the French court to the republic ..
Abraham Núñez
There are two professional baseball players named Abraham Nunez. Abraham O. Nunez, born 1976, who debuted in 1997 with the Pittsburgh Pirates Abraham Nunez, born 1977, who debuted in 2002 with the Florida Marlins This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated..
Abraham Nunez
There are two professional baseball players named Abraham Nunez. Abraham O. Nunez, born 1976, who debuted in 1997 with the Pittsburgh Pirates Abraham Nunez, born 1977, who debuted in 2002 with the Florida Marlins This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated..
Abraham Nunez (born 1977)
Abraham Nunez (born February 5, 1977 in Haina, Dominican Republic) is a professional baseball player. He debuted in 2002 with the Florida Marlins and has also played for the Kansas City Royals. He appeared in a total of 136 Major League games during the 2002 and 2004 seasons. In 2006, while p..
Abraham O. Nunez
This article is about Abraham Nunez, the Dominican baseball player born in 1976. For the player named Abraham Nunez born in 1977, see Abraham Nunez. Abraham Orlando Núñez [NOO-nyez] (born on March 16, 1976 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican baseball player in the Majo..
Abraham O. Smoot
Abraham O. Smoot (February 17, 1815 – 1895) was a Mormon pioneer and the second mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. Born in Owenton, Kentucky, Smoot's mother converted to Mormonism in 1833, and he followed her in 1835. Smoot moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1837 at the urging of LDS church fou..
Abraham O. Woodruff
Abraham Owen Woodruff (November 23, 1872–June 20, 1904) (commonly known as Abraham O. Woodruff) born in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1896 until his death in 1904. He was also the son of church p..
Abraham of Aragon
Abraham of Aragon was a Jewish physician specializing in diseases of the eye who flourished in the middle of the thirteenth century CE. Shortly after the Council of Béziers, in 1246, had forbidden Jewish physicians to practise, Abraham was requested by Alphonse Capet, count of Poitou and Toulouse, ..
Abraham of Harran
For other uses, see Abram (disambiguation). Saint Abraham (Cyrrhus, ?–Constantinople, 422) was a Syrian hermit and bishop of Harran. His feast day is 14 February. External links [Abraham at Patron Saints Index]St. Patrick's Church [list of 14 February saints] ..
Abraham of Makuria
Abraham (8th century) was ruler of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria. According to Severus of Al'Ashmunein, on the death of king Simon, Zacharias the son of king Merkurios then appointed Abraham, "a valiant youth attached to the palace" to succeed Simon.1 However, Abraham proved to be an unsatisfactory..
Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius. Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel) (April 2, 1527 - June 28, 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas. He was born in Antwerp in what is now Belgium. A member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he travel..
Abraham Ossei Aidooh
Abraham Ossei Aidooh is a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Ghana. He also is rappotuer of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline, on of the tem permanent commities of the Pan-African Parliament ..
Abraham Owen
Abraham Owen was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1769. He moved to Kentucky in 1785. Owen served in the wars with the Indians under Genls. James Wilkinson and Arthur St. Clair in 1791, and served with Col. John Hardin. Owen was surveyor of Shelby County, Kentucky in 1796. He was in the K..
Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais (May 19 1918 - August 4 2000) was a Dutch-born physicist. In 1946, Pais served as a personal assistant to Niels Bohr at the Bohr's country home in Tisvilde. In 1956, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His autobiography A Tale of Two Continents (Princeton, 1997) refe..
Abraham Patusca da Silveira
Abraham Patusca da Silveira, best known as Araken (born in Santos, July 17, 1905 – dead January 24, 1990) was a Brazilian footballer. In career (1923–1939) was played with Santos FC, Club Athlético Santista, São Paulo and Independente. Three time Campeonato Paulista in second place wi..
Abraham Pierson
Reverend Abraham Pierson (1641-1707) was the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University. He was born in Southampton, New York. Pierson was the minister of the Killingworth (now Clinton, Connecticut) congregational chur..
Abraham Pietersen Van Deusen
Abraham Pietersen Van Deursen (before November 11, 1607 - c1670) aka Abraham Pietersen Van Deusen, was an immigrant from Holland who settled in New Amsterdam and become one of the Council of 12 that was the first representational democracy in the Dutch colony. The Van Deusens, Van Deusens and Van Du..
Abraham Pineo Gesner
Abraham Pineo Gesner, born May 2, 1797 in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, Canada – died April 29, 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a physician and geologist who became the primary founder of the modern petroleum industry. While a practising physician, Gesner pursued his passion for geology. In..
Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was an American screenwriter blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s. Abraham Polonsky was born in New York City, the eldest son of Russian-American Jewish immigrants. In 1928 he entered City College of New York and followin..
Abraham Prochownik
Abraham Prochownik was a Jew said, in some legendary sources, to have been nominated prince of Poland, in 842 CE[#endnote_1]. After the death of Prince Popiel, the Poles allegedly held a council at Kruszwica, to elect a successor. According to the legend they disagreed for a long time, and ..
Abraham Rabinovich
Abraham Rabinovich is a historian and journalist who has published several books on recent Jewish history. As a reporter, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the The New Republic, and the Christian Science Monitor. Before becoming a..
Abraham Rabinovitch
Abraham Rabinovitch (1889 to July 1964) is a well respected pioneer of the Sydney Jewish community, in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions. Rabinovitch was born in Russia in 1889, and died July 1964 in Sydney. Accomplishments Rabinovitch ..
Abraham Raimbach
Abraham Raimbach (February 16, 1776 - January 17, 1843), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent. He was born in London. Educated at Archbishop Tenison's Library School, he was apprenticed to J. Hall the engraver from 1789 to 1796. For nine years, part of his working-time was devoted to the s..
Abraham Rapoport
Abraham Rapoport (Schrenzel) was a Polish Talmudist; born at Lemberg (currently Lviv, Ukraine) in 1584; died in 1651 (June 7); son of Rabbi Israel Jelriel Rapoport of Cracow and son-in-law of R. Mordecai Schrenzel of Lemberg. Rapoport was a pupil of R. Joshua Falk ha-Kohen. For forty-five years he..
Abraham Rattner
Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) was an artist best known for paintings with religious themes that had very rich colors. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and was a specialist in camouflage for the army in World War I. His work is in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Art Institute o..
Abraham Rees
Abraham Rees (1743–1825), compiler of "Rees's Cyclopaedia" (45 vols.), born in Montgomeryshire; became a tutor at Hoxton Academy, and subsequently ministered in the Unitarian Chapel at Old Jewry for some 40 years. ..
Abraham Regelson
Abraham Regelson (1896-1981), Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, editor Abraham Regelson was born in Hlusk, White Russia, in the year 1896, and died at his home in Neveh Monossohn in the year 1981. Regelson immigrated as a child with his family to the U.S., when he was nine year..
Abraham Rencher
Abraham Rencher (1798 - 1883) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Raleigh, North Carolina, August 12, 1798; tutored at home and attended the common schools and Pittsboro Academy; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1822; studied law; was ad..
Abraham Roberts
General Sir Abraham Roberts was the father of Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. ..
Abraham Robertson
Abraham Robertson (November 4, 1751 - December 4, 1826), was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1797 to 1809. Robertson was born at Duns, Berwickshire, he attended school at Great Ryle in Northumberland, and later at Duns. At age 24 h..
Abraham Robinson
Abraham Robinson Abraham Robinson (October 6, 1918 - April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were incorporated into mathematics. He was born to a Jewish f..
Abraham Salomon Camondo
Count Abraham Camondo (1781-March 30, 1873) was an Italian and Turkish financier and philanthropist and the patriarch of the Camondo family. He was born in Constantinople. In 1832 he inherited from his brother Isaac (who died without children) a fortune and was able to expand it greatly during his ..
Abraham Savgrain
Abraham Savgrain was a French publisher of the beginning of the 17th century. He was located Rue St Jacques, in Paris. Among other books, he published: "Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae stabiliendam", by Duchesne, Joseph, 1604"Récit de l'entrée solemnelle et remarquable faite à Rome, par Dom ..
Abraham Savitzky
Abraham Savitzky (1919 – February 5, 1999) was an analytical chemist. He specialized in the digital processing of infrared spectra and was awarded seven patents in that field. While employed by the Perkin-Elmer Company, Savitzky coauthored with Marcel J. E. Golay an oft-cited paper describing..
Abraham Serfaty
Abraham Serfaty is an internationally prominent Moroccan dissident, militant, and political activist, who has been imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy and development’s regime, during the Years of Lead. He paid a high price for such a..
Abraham Sharp
Abraham Sharp (1651–1742) was a schoolmaster of Liverpool, and subsequent bookkeeper in London, whose wide knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, etc., attracted John Flamsteed, by whom he was invited in 1688 to enter the Greenwich Royal Observatory, where he did notable work, improving instruments,..
Abraham Silberschatz
Abraham (Avi) Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Yale University. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. His primary research interests are database systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. His most recent research has focused on the are..
Abraham Simpson
Sergeant Abraham J. Simpson (usually goes by "Abe" or simply "Grampa") is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Contents 1 Early life2 World War II2.1 Europe2.2 Pacific3 Education4 Adulthoo..
Abraham Sinkov
Dr. Abraham Sinkov (1907-1998) was a US cryptanalyst. Sinkov, the son of immigrants from Russia, was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Brooklyn. After graduating from Boys High School -- what today would be called a "magnet school" -- he took his B.S. in mathematics from City College of New York..
Abraham Sofaer
Abraham Sofaer (October 1, 1896 – January 21, 1988) was a stage, film and television actor. He was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar). He began his acting career in 1921 on the London stage, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway. By the 1930s he was appearing in bot..
Abraham Somes
Abraham Somes, (March 14 1732-December 17 1831) was the primary founder of English settlements on the scenic Mount Desert Island, which is now part of Acadia National Park in present-day Maine. In 1761, Somes, a cooper by trade, brought his wife and family from Gloucester, Massachusetts to the isl..
Abraham Sternhartz
Rabbi Abraham Sternhartz (1862-1955), also known as Avraham Sternhartz, was an Orthodox rabbi in Ukraine and an influential figure in the chain of transmission of Breslover teachings from the early generations of the movement to the latter ones. On his father's side, he was the great-grandson of Na..
Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever is a Yiddish poet. Sutzkever was born in Smorgon, Belorussia. During the First World War his family fled to seek refuge in Siberia, then in 1922 migrated to Vilna (at that time, Wilno, Poland]. Sutzkever was among the Modernist writers and artists in the "Young Vilna" group in ..
Abraham Telvi
Abraham Telvi (September 12, 1933/1934-July 28, 1956) was a Jewish-American mobster and hitman for New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, known most notably for blinding crusading New York journalist Victor Riesel with acid. An associate member of the Luchese crime family, Telvi was ordered by Dio an..
Abraham the Great of Kashkar
Abraham the Great of Kashkar was the father of the Assyrian monastic revival in the 6th century. Monasticism was very popular in early Syrian and Mesopotamian Christianity. Some held the view that only a life of celibacy could lead to salvation. Initially, all monks and nuns were hermits, but in ..
Abraham the Jew
Abraham the Jew may refer to: Abraham, ancestor of the Jews in the Book of Genesis; orAbramelin, the pseudonymous author of a grimoire (a magical textbook).The person who instructed Nicholas Flamel in alchemy, and gave him an illuminated manuscript containing alchemical lore. ..
Abraham Trembley
Abraham Trembley Abraham Trembley (September 3, 1710 – May 12, 1784) was a Swiss naturalist. He came from Geneva and was tutor in a noble household in The Netherlands. He is best known for his studies of freshwater polyp or hydra. His discovery of what he thought was a new species was..
Abraham Tucker
Abraham Tucker (September 2, 1705 - November 20, 1774), philosophic writer, born in London, and educated at Oxford, was a country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy, and wrote under the name of Edward Search, a work in 7 volumes, The Light of Nature Pursued (1768-78). It is ra..
Abraham Ulrikab
Abraham Ulrikab (c. 1845 - January 13 1881) was an Inuk from Hebron, Labrador, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, who — along with his family — was to become a zoo exhibit in Europe in 1880 as an attraction at the Hamburg, Germany public zoo. Ulrikab, along with his w..
Abraham Usque
Abraham Usque (given the Christian name Duarte Pinhel) was a 16th century Portuguese Jew. He fled the Inquisition for Ferrara, Italy, around 1543. There, he worked with Yom-Tob Ven Levi Athias (Jerome de Vargas), a Spanish typographer. Usque translated the Hebrew Bible into Spanish, published in fol..
Abraham van den Kerckhoven
Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 – c. 1701) was a Belgian organist and composer. He was born approximately in 1618 in Mechelen into a family which included many artists, singers and organists. In 1633, Kerckhoven became organist of Saint Catherine Church (Sint-Katharinakerk) in Brussels, s..
Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1599-1675) was an erudite and accomplished painter of the Flemish School. He was born in 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. After having received a classical education he became one of Rubens' best pupils and assistants. He handled mythological and historical subjects, as we..
Abraham Van Helsing
--> Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. He is a Dutch doctor, of advanced age and a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc., etc.", but is ..
Abraham van Riebeeck
Abraham van Riebeeck (October 18, 1653 - November 17, 1713) was a Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was born in the Cape Colony in South Africa, and was the son of Jan van Riebeeck. After he finished his studies in the Netherlands in 1676, he entered the Dutch East India Company as a mer..
Abraham Venable
Abraham Venable may refer to: Abraham B. Venable (1758–1811), U.S. Congressman and Senator from VirginiaAbraham Watkins Venable (1799–1810), U.S. and Confederate Congressman from North Carolina ..
Abraham Wald
Abraham Wald (October 31 1902 - December 13 1950) was a mathematician born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, and founded the field of statistical sequential analysis. Being a religious Jew, he could not attend school on Saturd..
Abraham Waligo
Abraham Waligo (1925 - 2000) was the Prime Minister of Uganda from August 25 1985 to January 26 1996. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Abraham Watkins Venable
Abraham Watkins Venable (17 October 1799 - 24 February 1876) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1847 to 1853 and a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War. Born in Springfield, Virginia, Venable attended Hampden-Sydney College, graduating in 1816...
Abraham Whipple
Abraham Whipple (26 September 1733 – 27 May 1819) was an American revolutionary naval commander. Whipple was born near Providence, Rhode Island and chose to be a seafarer early in his life. He embarked upon a career in the lucrative West Indies trade. In the French and Indian War period, he ..
Abraham Whistler
Abraham Whistler is a fictional character from the Marvel Comics universe. He is a vampire hunter and mentor to Blade. In the trilogy of Blade films, he is portrayed by Kris Kristofferson. In [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]], he was voiced by Malcolm McDowell. History Whistler's wife and two ..
Abraham William Hardee
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Abraham Yakin
Abraham Yakin was born in 1924 in Jerusalem. During the Second World War he joined the British Navy and served three years in the Mediterranean fleet, thus having a chance to become acquainted with the art treasures in Egypt, Greece, France and Italy. After the war he returned to Jerusalem and becam..
Abraham Yates
Abraham Yates (August 23, 1724 – June 30, 1796) was an American lawyer and civil servant from Albany, New York. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 as well as a New York State Senator from 1778 to 1790. He was sometimes known as Abraham Yates, Jr., alth..
Abraham Z. Joffe
Abraham Z. Joffe (1909-2000) was Professor of Mycology and Mycotoxicology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dr. Joffe's professional interests were centered primarily in toxigenic fungi associated with production of mycotoxins (aflatoxins, trichothecenes, and other toxins); ecology and environmen..
Abraham Zabludovsky
Abraham Zabludovsky may refer to: Abraham Zabludovsky (architect) (1924–2003), a Mexican architect, brother of Jacobo ZabludovskyAbraham Zabludovsky (journalist), a Mexican journalist, son of Jacobo Zabludovsky ..
Abraham Zabludovsky (architect)
Abraham Zabludovsky (born Abraham Zabludowski Kraves) (June 14, 1924 in Bialystok - April 10, 2003 in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect. He was also the brother of the well-known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky. Abraham Zabludovsky studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, graduati..
Abraham Zacuto
Abraham Zacuto (Hebrew: אברהם זכות, Portuguese: Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto) was a Spanish astronomer, mathematician and historian who served as Royal Astronomer in the 15th Century to King John II of Portugal. Life Zacuto was born in Salamanca, Spain circa 1450. He studied astronomy at the ..
Abraham Zapruder
Abraham Zapruder (May 15, 1905 – August 30, 1970), a manufacturer of women's clothing, filmed U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade traveling through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas and unexpectedly recorded the entire John F. Kennedy assassination. The Zapruder film is famous for being the on..
Abraham Zelmanowitz
Abraham Zelmanowitz (also known as Abe, Avrame, and Avremel) was an Orthodox Jew who worked as a computer programmer for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on the 27th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City. His unusual act of martyrdom during the September 11 terrorist attacks became a leg..
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882-1938) was a foremost Jewish ethnologist and musicologist, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Born in Feliksberg, Latvia, he trained as a cantor and worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in ..
Abrahão de Moraes
Abrahão De Moraes (1916-1970) was a Brazilian astronomer and mathematician. He taught at the Escola Politécnica and also served as director of the Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico. The Observatório Abrahão de Moraes (OAM) is named after him. Founded in 1972, it is situated in the municip..
Abraha Kassa
--> Brigadier General Abraha Kassa is in charge of the personal security for President Isaias Afewerki, president of Eritrea. ..
Abraj Al Bait Towers
Technical Data Structural height 485 m (1,591 ft) (est.) Height to tip 485 m (1,591 ft) (est.) Height to roof Unknown Height to top floor Unknown Floors (Above ground)   76 Floors (Under ground) Unknown Groundbreaking 2004 Topout 2008 (est.) Opening 2008 (es..
Abrakababra
Abrakababra is a chain of Irish fast food restaurants. It has restaurants in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ..
Abrakebabra
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Abrakurrie Cave
The entrance to Abrakurrie Cave Abrakurrie Cave is a wild cave on the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. It is reported to have the largest single cave chamber in the southern hemisphere,[#endnote_chamber] and that stencils in the cave are the deepest penetration of Aboriginal art..
Abralia
Abralia is a Genus of Squid family Enoploteuthidae. [Genus Abralia] ..
Abram, Greater Manchester
Abram is a town in the English county of Greater Manchester. Abram is a small village (pop 6000) that is situated roughly 3 miles away from Wigan town center. The village was once home to the Maypole pit which was close after a disaster occurred on-site in the early 20th century. ..
Abram-Perezville, Texas
Abram-Perezville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,444 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Education4 External links Geography Abram-Perezville is located at [26°14′20″N, 98°24′17�..
Abrama
Abrama is a census town in Valsad district in the state of Gujarat, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Abrama had a population of 21,035. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Abrama has an average literacy rate of 78%, hig..
Abramelin
Abramelin usually refers to one of the following: The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, a famous 15th century grimoireAbramelin the Mage, the mage found within the book and the ostensible author of its practicesAbramelin oil, an anointing oil mentioned within the book, which had newfo..
Abramelin (album)
Abramelin is the debut album of the Australian death metal band Abramelin. It was originally released in 1995 on a small Australian label. In 1997 it was released world-wide by Repulse Records. Track listing "Misfortune" (4:39)"Grave Ideals (Nekromaniak)" (4:14)"Spiritual Justice" (3:48)"Humb..
Abramelin (band)
Abramelin is an Australian death metal band. The band was formed in 1988, under the name of Acheron. The founding members were: Simon Dower (vocals), Jason Black (guitar), David Abbott (guitar), Derek (bass), and Michael Colton (drums). After one demo and an EP they changed their name to Abramelin i..
Abramelin oil
Abramelin oil, also called Oil of Abramelin, is a ceremonial magical oil blended from aromatic plant materials. Its name came about due to its having been described in a medieval grimoire called The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage written by Abraham of Worms. The recipe is adapted fro..
Abramelin the Mage
Abramelin, or Abra-Melin the Mage, is the name (or pseudonym) of an Egyptian mage (or, perhaps, a fictional character) who teaches a powerful form of Kabbalistic magic to the narrator Abraham of Worms, a Jew (also perhaps a fictional character) in a famous grimoire, The Book of the Sacred Magic of ..
Abramis
Abramis is a genus of freshwater fish in family family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes, whose members are known as bream. The type species is A. brama, the carp bream. Native to the Palearctic ecozone, the Abramis species are widespread throughout northern Europe from France to the Caspian Sea. ..
Abramis ballerus
Abramis ballerus also known as zope or blue bream, is a fish. Abramis ballerus feeds mostly on larger zooplankton. In Sweden it is seen in lake Vänern, Hjälmaren Mälaren and adjoining waters, plus Helgeån waterbody. It can reach sizes for up to about 45 cm, and 0.8 kg. References [Abram..
Abramovich flyer
The Abramovich flyer was an early aircraft built by Vsevolod Mikhailovich Abramovich in 1912, based on the Wright brothers' designs he had seen while working for their German subsidiary. Differences from the Wright designs of the time included wheeled undercarriage, and conventional empennage repla..
Abramów
Abramów is a village in Gmina of Abramów in Poland. ..
Abramowitz and Stegun
Abramowitz and Stegun is the informal name of a mathematical reference work edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards. Its full title is Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. Since it was first published in ..
Abramo Basevi
Abramo Basevi (born in Leghorn in December, 1818 - died in Florence in November, 1885) was an Italian musicologist and composer. Basevi began as a physician in Florence (1858) but then devoted himself exclusively to music. His first attempts as a composer failed but in time he composed operas (Romil..
Abrams
Abrams may refer to: People Albert Abrams "The most blatant American quack of the 20th century"Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), U.S. military commander in the Vietnam WarDan Abrams (born 1966), TV legal correspondentElliott Abrams (born 1948), US foreign policy officialJ. J. Abrams (Jeffrey J. A..
Abrams, Wisconsin
Abrams is a town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,757 at the 2000 census. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 History4 Notable people Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 97.3 km² (37.6 mi²). 9..
Abramson
Abramson, Abramovich, and Abramsky are variations of the same patronymic surnames (i.e., "son of Abram") that allude to the Biblical figure. The names are most prevalent among Jews, the first in the United States, the second from Russia, and the third from Poland. Other widely distributed surnames ..
Abrams (comics)
Abrams is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. History What caused Abrams to join S.H.I.E.L.D. is unknown. He got in the spotlight when United States Government proposed the super-hero registration act due to the Stamford disaster during the Civil War storyline. Abrams became app..
Abrams Air Craft
The Abrams Air Craft Corporation was established in Lansing, Michigan in 1937 as an offshoot of Talbert Abrams' Aerial Survey Corporation. Abrams had founded an airline (ABC Airline) in 1929 but found himself increasingly interested in aerial photography. The new company was created for the purpos..
Abrams Battle Tank
Abrams Battle Tank, aka M-1 Abrams Battle Tank for the Sega version, is a computer game developed by Dynamix and published by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the DOS and Sega Genesis platforms. Designed by Damon Slye, the game is a 3D simulation of the M1 Abrams tank, one of the first on the market. ..
Abrams Falls Trail
The Abrams Falls Trail is an American hiking trail, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Blount County, Tennessee. The trail runs parallel to Abrams Creek and passes Abrams Falls, one of the most voluminous waterfalls in the national park, before terminating at a junction with the Hatcher ..
Abrams P-1 Explorer
The Abrams P-1 Explorer was a purpose-designed aerial photography and survey aircraft that first flew in November 1937. It was designed by aerial survey pioneer Talbert Abrams to best suit his needs for a stable aircraft with excellent visibility for this kind of work. It was a low-wing metal monop..
Abrams v. United States
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court involving the 1918 Amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it a criminal offense to criticize the U.S. federal government. The Court ruled 7-2 that the Act did not violate civil rights under t..
Abramtsevo Colony
"Fairy-tale church" in Abramtsevo is an architectural fantasy by Victor Vasnetsov and Vasily Polenov. Abramtsevo is an estate located north of Moscow, in the proximity of Khotkovo, that became a center for the Slavophile movement and artistic activity in the 19th century. Originally owned by..
Abram (disambiguation)
Abram can mean: Abram, Bihor (Romania), a Romanian communeAbram, Greater Manchester (United Kingdom), a townAbraham, as the original name of the Biblical patriarchThe colour auburn, for example in ealy folios of CoriolanusGiven names Abraham of Harran, 4th century Christian saintAbraham Lincoln, 19..
Abram A. Hammond
Abram Adams Hammond (March 21 1814-August 27 1874) was twelfth governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. He succeeded to the office upon the death of Governor Ashbel P. Willard and completed the remaining three months of Willard's term. External link [Biography and portrait from Indiana State Li..
Abram Andrew
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (February 12, 1873 - June 3, 1936) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in La Porte, Indiana, he attended the public schools and the Lawrenceville School. He graduated from Princeton College in 1893, was a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts an..
Abram Arkhipov
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (Russian: Абрам Ефимович Архипов) (August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1862 – September 25, 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers a..
Abram Bergson
Abram Bergson, born Abram Burk (April 21, 1914, New York City - April 23, 2003), was an American economist. In a 1938 paper Bergson defined and discussed the notion of an individualistic social welfare function. The paper delineated necessary marginal conditions for economic efficiency, relativ..
Abram Chayes
Abram Chayes (July 18, 1922-April 16, 2000), American scholar of international law closely associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy. Abram Chayes's full name was Abram Joseph Chayes, but he did not use his middle name. He was born in Chicago. Both his parents were lawyers. He gra..
Abram Duryée
Abram Duryée (April 29, 1815 – September 27, 1890) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, the commander of one of the most famous Zouave regiments, the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. After the war he was New York City Police Commissioner. Duryée (pronounced IPA: [d..
Abram Farewell
Abram Farewell (December 21 1812 – February 8 1888) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Ontario South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1875. He was born in Harmony (now part of Oshawa) in Upper Canada in 1812 and taught school in Whitby Townsh..
Abram Games
Abram Games (b. Abraham Gamse, London, 1914; London, d. 1996), British graphic designer He was the son of immigrants: a Latvian photographer and a Russo-Polish seamstress. He anglicized his name to Games from Gamse at age 12 and was essentially an autodidactic designer, having attended London's St...
Abram Harrison
Abram William Harrison (born July 15, 1898 in Holmfield, Manitoba; died November 14, 1979) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1943 to 1966, initially as a Conservative and later as a Progressive Conservative, after the party changed it..
Abram Hoffer
Abram Hoffer (b. 1917) is a Canadian psychiatrist known for his use of nutritional and vitamin therapies in the treatment of schizophrenia and other diseases. This approach is known as orthomolecular medicine and includes megavitamins. [link] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in..
Abram Ioffe
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe (Russian: , October 29, 1880 (new style) – October 14, 1960) was a prominent Soviet/Russian physicist born in the Ukraine. Contents 1 Career overview2 Biography3 Related4 Patents5 References and external link Career overview In the course ..
Abram Joseph Ryan
Abram Joseph Ryan (February 5, 1838 or August 15, 1839 - April 22, 1886) was an American poet, active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Roman Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the Confederacy." Contents 1 Early life2 Post bellum3 Later l..
Abram Kean Jr.
Abram Kean Jr. (1887 – November 18, 1958), mariner born Flowers Island, Bonavista Bay, of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Kean is the son of a famous Newfoundland mariner and politician. Kean Jr. is best known in Newfoundland history as the captain of the SS Viking when the ..
Abram L. Sachar
Abram Leon Sachar (1899 - 1993) was an American historian and university president. Born in New York City, his immigrant family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and (after a year at Harvard) he earned his BA and MA at Washington University. He went to England to do his research on the Victorian..
Abram Litton
Abram Litton was Washington University's first professor of chemistry and served is the acting chancellor from 1869-1870. External links [Washington University in Saint Louis] |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Abram Lyle
Abram Lyle (1820–1891) is noted for founding the sugar refiners Abram Lyle & Sons which merged with a rival to become Tate & Lyle in 1921. He was born in the seaport of Greenock in Scotland, and at twelve years old became an apprentice in a lawyer's office. He then joined his father's cooper..
Abram M. Scott
Abram Marshall Scott (1785–July 12 1833) was a Democratic Mississippi politician born in South Carolina. He served in the state senate in 1822 and 1826-1827. In 1832, he was sworn in as Governor and served until his death by cholera on July 12 1833. Charles Lynch succeeded him in office. Sc..
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin
Abram Moiseyevich Deborin (Joffe) (Russian: Абрам Моисеевич Деборин (Иоффе) (June 16 (O.S. June 4), 1881 - March 8, 1963) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher and academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929). External links [Deborin's Biography] (in Russian)&..
Abram P. Williams
Abram Pease Williams (February 3, 1832–October 17, 1911) was a teacher, businessman and U.S. Senator from California. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, (1696 – 1781) was an African slave who was brought to Russia by Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer and governor of Reval. He is perhaps best known today as the great-grandfather of Aleksandr Pushkin, ..
Abram Poindexter Maury
Abram Poindexter Maury was an American politician that represented Tennessee's eighth district in the United States House of Representatives. He was born near Franklin, Tennessee on December 26, 1801. He completed preparatory studies and was the editor of a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri at the ag..
Abram Room
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Abram Room (born 28 June 1894 in Wilno, Russian Empi..
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (Besikovitch) (Абрам Самойлович Безикович) (24 January 1891 - 2 November 1970) was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov (now in Ukraine) to a family of Karaite Jews. He studied unde..
Abram Slutsky
Abram Aronovich Slutsky Абрам Аронович Слуцкий (July 1898, Parafievka, Chernigov region - 17 February 1938, Moscow) headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service (GUGB), then part of the NKVD, from May 1935 to February 1938. Slutsky was poisoned on the orders of Nikolai Yezhov ..
Abram Smith
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930 Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp were lynched on August 7, 1930 in Marion, Indiana. They had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker and raping his girlfriend. A third man, 16 year old James Cameron (B..
Abram Stevens Hewitt
Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822 – 1903) was a teacher, lawyer, an iron manufacturer, U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York City. He was the son-in-law of Peter Cooper (1791-1883), a famous American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and (during the Hayes-Tilden campaign) chairman of the..
Abram William Lauder
Abram William Lauder (June 6 1834-February 20 1884) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Grey South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and Grey East from 1875 to 1884. He was born at Bewcastle in England in 1834, studied in Scotland and later came to C..
Abram Wood
Captain Abram Epperson Wood was the first acting Military Superintendent of Yosemite National Park. Education Wood was a West Point graduate and served in the American Civil War and various Indian wars. Career Wood arrived in Yosemite at Wawona commanding companies I & K, 4th Cavalry, on May 19..
Abrantes
Abrantes Location - Region - Subregion - District or A.R.  Santarém Party Nélson Carvalho Socialist Area 714.7 km² Population - Total - Density 41,32658/km² parishes 19 Coordinates [39º28' N 8º22'W] Municipal holiday Promotion to ci..
Abraomas Kulvietis
Abraomas Kulvietis Latin: (born circa 1509 in Kulva, Lithuania, died June 19, 1545, in Kulva). He was a jurist and a professor at Königsberg Albertina University, as well as a Reformer of the church. Abraomas was born into an old Lithuanian noble family. Between 1528 and 1537 he studied in many u..
Abrar-ul-Haq
--> Abrar-ul-Haq (Punjabi/Urdu: ابرار الحق) (Abrar is also spelled as Ibrar) is a Pakistani bhangra singer. Born and grew up in Gujrat (Pakistan). On his first album "Billo De Ghar" his name appears as simply "Abrar". His best-known work is the song "Billo De Ghar". Before becoming a si..
Abrasion
For other uses, see Abrasion (disambiguation). Abrasion on the palm of a right hand, shortly after falling Abrasions on elbow and lower arm, still healing. The elbow wound will produce a permanent scar. In dermatology, an abrasion is superficial damage to the skin, generally not deeper ..
Abrasion (BDSM)
Abrasion as a human sexual practice involves sexual arousal from contact with abrasive substances. This can be person-to-person as in a harsh rubbing of the skin known as a dutch rub or with various substances such as scratchy wool or thistles. Use of harsh abrasives such as sandpaper or steel wool ..
Abrasion (dental)
Abrasion is the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from a foreign element. If this force begins at the cementoenamel junction, then progression of tooth loss can be rapid since enamel is very thin in this region of the tooth. Once past the enamel, abrasion quickly destroys the softer den..
Abrasion (disambiguation)
Abrasion may mean: Abrasion, superficial damage to the skin, generally not deeper than the epidermisAbrasion (dental), the loss of tooth structure by mechanical forces from a foreign element"Abrasive wear" as a type of wear, surface deterioration as a result of contact with hard particlesErosion, as..
Abrasive
An abrasive is usually a material that is used to smooth, machine, or, in some cases, roughen another softer material through extensive rubbing. Abrasives are used to remove surface materials such as metal, ceramics, glass, plastics, and paint. Abrasives include discs, belts, blast machines and sand..
Abrasive Wheels
The Abrasive Wheels are a punk rock band. The band originated in Leeds, and consisted of Shonna on vocals, Dave on guitar, Harry on bass and Nev on the drums. They produced two albums, When The Punks Go Marching In and Black Leather Girl and are known as an influential punk band of the early eight..
Abraum salts
Abraum salts is the name given to a mixed deposit of salts, including halite (sodium chloride), carnallite, and kieserite (magnesium sulfate), found in association with rock salt at Aschersleben-Staßfurt in Germany. The term comes from the German Abraum-salze, "salts to be removed." References ..
Abravanel
The Abravanel family (also Abarbanel or Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families; they trace their origin from the biblical King David. Members of this family lived at Seville, where dwelt its oldest representative, Don Judah Abravanel. Samuel Abravanel, his gra..
Abravanel Hall
Abravanel Hall is a concert hall in Salt Lake City, Utah that is home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, and is part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. The hall is an architectural landmark in the city, and is adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street. Contents ..
Abraxas
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Engraving from an Abraxas stone. The word Abraxas (or Abrasax or Abracax) was engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms by Gnostic sects. It was believed that Abraxas was the name of..
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe is a 1991 science-fiction/action film written and directed by Damian Lee and starring Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Sven-Ole Thorsen, with a cameo by James Belushi. Plot summary [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. The fil..
Abraxas (album)
Abraxas is the second album by Carlos Santana's psychedelic rock band Santana, released in September of 1970. The album's mix of salsa, rock and roll, jazz and other influences have made it a classic psychedelic record. Abraxas is generally considered the best album in Santana's career. In 2003, ..
Abraxas (comics)
Abraxas is a fictional comic book character, a cosmic entity within Marvel Comics' universe, sometimes called 'the dark man', possessing near omnipotent power. He emerged from within the heart of Eternity (the god-like personification of time created at the start of the universe) after Galactus ap..
Abraxas (computer virus)
Abraxas >ABRAXAS-5..
Abraxas (disambiguation)
Abraxas may mean: Abraxas, a deity in the Gnostic faithAbraxas (album), a 1970 musical album by SantanaAbraxas (band), a Polish rock bandAbraxas (comics), a fictional cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics' universeAbraxas (Xenosaga), a fictional planet in the Xenosaga video game series"Abraxas" (see Th..
Abraxas Pool
Abraxas Pool is a 1997 album by ex-Santana members Mike Shrieve, Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Jose "Chepito" Areas, Micheal Olatunji, and Michael Carabello. Track listing "Boom Ba Ya Ya" (Carabello, Rolie, Schon)"A Million Miles Away" (Rolie, Schon, Shrieve)"Baila Mi Cha-Cha" (Areas)"Waiting for You"..
Abraxis
Abraxis Kits is a company based in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania that designs, develops and manufactures immunochemistry-based testing products for scientific research and industrial manufacturing. For industrial manufacturing, Abraxis does provide Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) documentation..
Abra (boat)
Abras near the Bur Dubai station For other meanings of the word, see the Abra disambiguation page. Abra is a traditional boat made from wood used to transfer people in the Dubai creek. It takes 10 minutes to go from Deira to the other side (Bur Dubai). Abras used to be the main way of tran..
Abra (Pokémon)
is a Psychic Pokémon from the Pokémon series of games. It is listed as Pokémon #63 in the Pokédex. The name Abra comes from the well-known term used in magic, "Abracadabra." Its Japanese name, Casey, is a reference to mentalist and "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce. Its name in the English beta v..
Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro
Abra De Ilog is a 4th class municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 22,212 people in 4,590 households. Barangays Abra De Ilog is politically subdivided into 9 barangays. BalaoCabacaoLumangbayanPoblacionSan VicenteTibag..
Abra Kadabra (comics)
Abra Kadabra is fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and a primary foe of The Flash. He was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, and first appeared in The Flash #128 and then reappeared in The Flash #133. Fictional character biography He hails from the 64th century where scienc..
Abra Moore
Abra Moore (born June 8, 1969 in San Diego, California) is a folk-styled alternative rock singer-songwriter. She is an icon of the Austin, Texas music scene. Her 1997 album Strangest Places spun off the hit "Four Leaf Clover", which saw airplay in Midwest U.S. radio markets and VH1 and MTV2 rotati..
Abra Prentice Wilkin
Abra Prentice Wilkin (born 1942) is the daughter of John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972) and his wife, Abbie Cantrill Prentice. Wilkin is the great-granddaughter of the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937). Wilkin attended both The Latin School of Chicago and The Ethel..
Abra province
Abra is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bangued, and it borders Ilocos Norte and Apayao on the north, Ilocos Sur and Mountain Province on the south, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur on the west, and Kalinga, and Apayao on the east...
Abrene district
The Abrene district (Latvian: Abrenes apriņķis) was an administrative district in the Republic of Latvia with an area of 4292 square kilometers, formed in 1925 from the northern part of the Ludza district and the western part of the Ostrov region as the Jaunlatgale (New Latgale) district, but this..
Abreschviller
Abreschviller is a town and commune of the Moselle département, in the Lorraine région of France. It had 1285 inhabitants in 1999. ..
Abreugraphy
Chest radiography showing advanced bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis. Source: CDC Abreugraphy is a technique for mass screening of tuberculosis using a miniature (50 to 100 mm) photograph of the screen of a x-ray fluoroscopy of the thorax, first developed in 1935. Contents 1 History2&n..
Abreuvoir
In masonry, an abreuvoir (French, watering place) is a joint or interstice between two stones, to be filled with mortar. References This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. ..
Abreu Camp
Abreu Type staffed camp Campsites 17 Elevation 7,240' Latitude 36º 22' 43.52" N Longitude 105º 0' 56.4" W Water location central spigots, potable Facilities showers, cantina Program Mexican homestead, Cantina, Mexican dinner Camp Director Vanessa Macedo redirect[[Temp..
Abreu e Lima, Pernambuco
Abreu e Lima is a Brazilian municipality on the Pernambuco state. It’s one of the cities constituent the Great Recife. Coordinates: latitude 07º 54’ 42’’ S longitude 34º 54’ 10’’ W. Height: 19 meters. Population: 95,198 (2004 est.) ..
Abre Campo
Abre Campo is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2004 its population is estimated to be 13,324. ..
Abre los ojos
Open Your Eyes redirects here. If you are looking for the Yes album, see Open Your Eyes (Yes album). Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) is a 1997 film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by him and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega as César, a successful and handsome young man in Madrid who..
Abriachan
Abriachan is a village in the Inverness committee area of Highland, Scotland. High above the western shore of Loch Ness, the village has a population of approximately 120. External link [Abriachan Community Website] ..
Abrial
Abrial may refer to: André Joseph Abrial (1750 - 1828), a French politician.Comte André-Pierre-Etienne Abrial (1783 - ??), general police chief in Lyon under Napoleon I.Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), a French admiral during World War Two.Georges Abrial (1898 - ??), a French aerodynamicist..
Abrial A-12 Bagoas
The A-12 was a highly unusual experimental glider designed by Georges Abrial in the early 1930s. Not only was the design tailless, but it featured wings of extremely small aspect ratio (1:6) - short and stubby, unlike the usually long and slender wings of a sailplane. After encouraging tests of mode..
Abrial A-2 Vautour
The A-2 Vautour (French: Vulture) was a single-seat, wooden French sailplane designed by Georges Abrial in 1925. Specifications (A-2 Vautour) Related content ..
Abrial A-3 Oricou
The A-3 Oricou (French: African vulture) was a small French touring plane designed in 1927 by Georges Abrial. It could seat two, and was powered by a 30 kW (40 hp) engine. Specifications Related content ..
Abriaquí
Abriaquí is a municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. ..
Abrictosaurus
Abrictosaurus (a-BRIK-toh-SAWR-us; "wakeful lizard") is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period of southern Africa. It was a small bipedal herbivore or omnivore, approximately 4 feet (1.2 meters) long, and weighing less than 100 pounds (45 kilograms). The generic name..
Abridge
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]] Abridge is a small town in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is part of the civil parish of Lambourne. It takes its name from the brick bridge over the River Roding situated just to the west of the modern centre, on the road to Theydon Bois. The lo..
Abridgement
Abridgement or abridgment is a term defined as "shortening" or "condensing", and is most commonly used in reference to the act of reducing a written work (typically a book) into a shorter form. A written work is mostly abridged for one of two purposes, for adaptation into an audio book or to make a..
Abrigo do Lagar Velho
The Lagar Velho site is a rock-shelter in the Lapedo valley, a limestone canyon ca. 140 km north of Lisbon in central Portugal. In 1998, the discovery of an early Upper Paleolithic human burial in this site has provided evidence of early modern humans from southern Iberia. The remains, the largely..
Abrikosov vortex
In superconductivity, an Abrikosov vortex is a vortex of supercurrent in a type-II superconductor. The supercurrent circulates around the normal (i.e. non-superconducting) core of the vortex. The core has a size [\sim\xi] --- the superconducting coherence length (parameter of a Ginzburg-La..
Abriola
Geography Abriola is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Anzi, Calvello, Marsico Nuovo, Pignola, Sasso di Castalda, Tito. Basilicata · Communes of the province of Potenza Abriola | Acerenza |..
Abrizio
Abrizio was a fabless semiconductor company which made switching fabric chip sets. Their chip set, the TT1, was used by several large system development companies as the core switch fabric in their high value communication systems. Contents 1 Founding2 Product and technology3 Se..
ABRO
ABRO is an abbreviation for: American Belarussian Relief OrganizationThe United Kingdom's Army Base Repair OrganisationAbro is surname/tribe name living in Sindh and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan.Abro tribe is the ancient tribe of the Indus valley civilization. Abro tribe's population is about o..
Abrocoma
Abrocoma is a genus of abrocomid rodents found in the Andes of South America, from southern Peru to central Chile. The genus contains eight species, most of which are found in isolated mountain ranges in northwestern Argentina. References Braun, J. K. and M. A. Mares. 2002. Systematics of the Ab..
Abrocomas
Abrocomas (in Greek Aβρόκoμας), one of the satraps of the king Artaxerxes II Mnemon, was sent with an army of 300.000 men to oppose Cyrus the Younger on his march into Upper Asia. On the arrival of Cyrus at Tarsus in 401 BC, Abrocomas was said to be on the Euphrates; and at Issus four hundred..
Abrocomes
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Abrocomes was a son of king Darius I of Persia and h..
Abrogans
First page of Codex Abrogans The Abrogans, or Codex Abrogans, is probably the oldest book in the German language. It is a manuscript dictionary of synonyms (or glossary, or word-list) from Latin to Old High German dating from the 8th Century (765-775). Several copies were made, but only one ha..
Abrogation
Abrogation can refer to the following concepts: Abrogation doctrine, a doctrine in United States constitutional lawNaskh (exegesis) (Arabic for abrogation), a genre of Islamic exegesis dealing with the problem of seemingly conflicting legal material This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation]..
Abrogation doctrine
United States Federal civil procedure doctrines Justiciability Advisory opinions Standing  · Ripeness  · Mootness Political questions Jurisdiction * Subject-matter jurisdiction: Federal question jurisdiction Diversity jurisdiction Removal jurisdiction Am..
Abroholos
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Abroholos is a squall frequent wind that occurs from..
Abrolhos Marine National Park
The Abrolhos Marine National Park (Parque Nacional Marinho de Abrolhos) is located on the southern coast of Bahia state in the northeast of Brazil, between 17º25’—18º09’ S and 38º33’—39º05’ W. External links [Satellite photo (Google)] See also List of national parks of Br..
Abroma
Abroma is a genus in the Sterculiaceae family of two species from Asia and Australia. Species Abroma augusta L. f. (devil's cotton, bark a source of jute-like fibre)Abroma fastuosa Jacq. ..
Abromeitiella
The plant genus Abromeitiella has been deleted and its members have all been combined in the previously existing genus Deuterocohnia. The rationale for this combination was the analysis of the two genera and the conclusion that they were identical in all respects save the length of the floral scape..
Abron
The Abron are an Akan people of West Africa. In the late sixteenth century, the Abron founded the Gyaaman kingdom in what is now Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. References Muhammad, Akbar. The International Journal of African Historical Studies 10.2 (1977): 242-258.  The subject of this [Perf..
Abronah
Abronah (Hebrew: עַבְרֹנָה), sometimes "Ebronah," is one of the places the Israelites stopped at during the Exodus. Its name means passage. Previous Station:Jotbathah the ExodusStations list Next Station:Ezion-Geber ..
Abronhill
Abronhill is a suburb in the northeastern half of Cumbernauld, a new town in North Lanarkshire, about 15 miles from Glasgow, Scotland. The suburb was possibly the last built using the same basic design guidelines employed by the rest of Cumbernauld (e.g. underpasses and bridges to cross roads, etc)...
Abronia
Abronia can mean: Abronia (animal), a genus (also known as Arboreal Alligator Lizards) belonging to the family AnguidaeSand-verbena, common name for the genus of plants Abronia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referre..
Abronia (animal)
The genus Abronia, also known as Arboreal Alligator Lizards, belongs to the family of Anguidae. Members of this genus are found in Central to northeastern South America. These lizards are almost exclusively arboreal and can be found as high as up to 40 m in trees. Classification Genus Abronia Abro..
Abronia (plant)
Abronia villosa Abronia ameliae Abronia, the sand-verbena, is a genus of about 35-40 species of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the family Nyctaginaceae. Despite the common name, they are not related to the vervains (Verbena, family Verbenaceae). They are native to western No..
Abropernol
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Abropernol is a homeopathic drug manufactured by Hee..
Abrophyllum
Abrophyllum is a monotypic genus in the family Saxifragaceae (sensu lato), sometimes classified in Escalloniaceae, Grossulariaceae, Carpodetaceae or Rousseaceae, native to Australia. The sole species is Abrophyllum ornans. Reference Hils, M. H. (1985). Comparative anatomy and systematics of twelv..
Abrosaurus
Abrosaurus (AB-ro-SAWR-us; "delicate lizard") is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of Asia, one of many dinosaurs found at the Dashanpu Quarry in the Sichuan Province of China. Like most sauropods, Abrosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore, but it was rather sma..
Abrotanella
Abrotanella is a genus in the family Asteraceae, of about 20 species, native to New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and temperate South America. Species Note: this list includes synonyms. Source: Index Kewensis (at [IPNI]) Abrotanella caespitosa. New Zealand.Abrotanella christenseni. New..
ABrowse
ABrowse 0.4 alpha under Syllable ABrowse is a web browser for the Syllable operating system. Like Apple's Safari web browser, it uses a port of the KHTML layout engine. ABrowse's inception and port of KHTML were performed by Kurt Skauen for his now-defunct AtheOS project. The port of KHTML ..
ABRS
ABRS may mean: Association of British Riding Schools [link]Australian Biological Resources Study ..
Abrucena
Abrucena is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Demography Demographic evolution of between 1999 and 2005 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 1,460 1,455 1,437 1,413 1,391 1,386 1,358 Source: [INE (Spain)] External links () [..
Abrud
Abrud (Hungarian: Abrudbánya, German: Großschlatten) is a town in the north-western part of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, located on the river with the same name. Population In 2000, it had a population of 6,213. History The town was founded by the Romans, with the name of "Abruttus" and..
Abruka
Abruka is an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea. Coordinates: [58°08′50″N, 22°30′30″E] Abruka is situated in Kaarma commune, in Saare County. The area of the island is 8,78 km², waterway between Abruka and Roomassaare is 6 km. Population is almost 40. First records about ..
Abruptum
Abruptum is a black metal band from Sweden. The band was formed in 1990 by It (real name Tony Särkkä), All (real name Jim Berger), and Ext. Following the completion of their first demo in 1990, Ext was thrown out of the band. According to It, Ext was disturbed by the pure evilness of the demo afte..
Abrupt climate change
Abrupt climate change refers to an event where large and widespread climate change occurs within about five years. A regional drought such as the Dust Bowl of 1932-1938 is the most familiar climate change on this time scale, but the phrase was coined because of worldwide, centuries-long events seen..
Abrus
Abrus is a genus of 13–18 species in the family Fabaceae, best known for one species, Abrus precatorius, Jequirity. The seeds of that species are used in beading and are infamous for their toxicity. Species Abrus aureus. Madagascar.Abrus baladensis. Somalia.Abrus bottae. Saudi Arabia and Ye..
Abruzzi e Molise
Abruzzi e Molise was formerly one of the regions of Italy. In 1963, it was separated into the regions of Abruzzo and Molise. ..
Abruzzi Glacier
Abruzzi Glacier is a glacier in the north of the Baltoro Kangri peak in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The glacier joins the huge Baltoro Glacier (one of the largest glaciers outside polar region) that flows northwest in the beginning and then turns westward. See also Baltoro Glacier External link..
Abruzzo
Regione Abruzzo Capital L'Aquila President Ottaviano Del Turco(The Union) Provinces L'AquilaChietiPescaraTeramo Municipalities 305 Area km² Ranked 13th (3.6 %) Population (2003 est.) - Total  - Ranked  - Density 1,273,284 14th (2.2 %)118/km&sup..
Abruzzo Erickson syndrome
Some characteristics of Abruzzo Erickson syndrome include deafness, protruding ears, a cleft palate, and short stature. ..
Abruzzo International Airport
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ABR Holdings
ABR Holdings Limited SGX: [533] is a Singapore based food and beverage company listed on the secondary board of the Singapore Exchange, Sesdaq. Established in 1978, it first held the franchise for Swensens in Singapore It holds the franchise of Causal dining restaurant, Swensens in Asia ..
AB Row
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } AB Row is a short road in Birmingham, England. It is..
A Brand New Me
A Brand New Me is Dusty Springfield's second LP for the Atlantic Records label, recorded in Philadelphia in 1969 and released in 1970. This album stands out as it was the only LP that the singer ever recorded to feature songs written by the same songwriters throughout, namely Kenny Gamble and L..
A Brawl in a Small Town (2)
A Brawl in a Small Town (2) (Japanese: おとぎの国のレオン, Leon in Fairyland) is episode 193 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Contents 1 In other languages2 Synopsis3 Major events3.1 Debuts3.2 Duel4 Characters4.1 Duel Cards4.1.1 Monsters4.1.2 ..
A Break from the Norm
A Break from the Norm is a compilation album arranged and released by Fatboy Slim, under his name of Norman Cook. It was released in 2001. The album was released to illustrate where Cook obtained a number of his samples for famous Fatboy Slim songs, and as such most of the artists (and tracks) ar..
A Break with Charity
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials (ISBN 0152046828) is a novel by Ann Rinaldi released in 1992, and is part of the Great Episodes series. Book Synopsis The book, told through the eyes of Susanna English, a girl who lived during the Salem Witch Trials, is an accurate and su..
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (novel)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes is the sixth edition of the best-selling Outlander series, written by Diana Gabaldon. Story [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Claire is the wife of Jamie Fraser, her 18th century husband, and facing the politics and turmoil o..
A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far, a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. The name for the book comes from a comment made by British Lt. Gen. Frederick Br..
A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time may refer either to: A Briefer History of Time (Schulman book) by Eric SchulmanA Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book) by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same ..
A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book)
This article is about the 2005 popular science book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. For the 1999 science humor book by Eric Schulman see A Briefer History of Time (Schulman book). A Briefer History of Time (2005, ISBN 0553804367) is the latest popular-science book from the English physi..
A Briefer History of Time (Schulman book)
This article is about the 1999 science humor book by Eric Schulman. For the 2005 popular science book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow see A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book). A Briefer History of Time (1999, ISBN 0716733897) is a science humor book by the American astro..
A Briefing for the Ascent
A Briefing for the Ascent is the title of the second solo album by Daniel Amos frontman, Terry Scott Taylor, released in 1987 on Frontline Records. A touching and fitting follow-up to 1986's Knowledge & Innocence, which had been inspired by the loss of Taylor's grandfather and child, most of the..
A Brief Historical Retrospective
A Brief Historical Retrospective is a 1997 album by The Sea and Cake. Track listing "Jacking the Ball" - 3:52"Flat Lay the Waters" - 4:52"Bombay" - 3:59"So Long to the Captain" - 5:07"Bring My Car I Feel to Smash It" - 4:26"Showboat Angel" - 4:38"Lost in Autumn" - 4:38"Chainer" - 4:58"Nature Boy" ..
A Brief History of Ambient
A Brief History of Ambient is a 1993 compilation album released on the Virgin Records label, as part of their Ambient series. The album was issued as a double CD, and was compiled by Simon Hopkins. Track listing CD 1 Harold Budd: "Flowered Knife Shadows"Tangerine Dream: "Thru Metamorphic Rock (Edi..
A Brief History of Time
Cover of A Brief History of Time A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Professor Stephen Hawking and first published in 1988. It rapidly became a best-seller, and had sold 9 million copies by 2002. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for a record bre..
A Brief History of Time (film)
A Brief History of Time is a 1992 biopic about Stephen Hawking directed by Errol Morris. Unlike the book of the same name, this film is more or less a look at the life of the noted cosmologist. External links [}}}] at Rotten Tomatoes ..
A Brief Overview
A Brief Overview is a promotional album by Beck, released in 2005. It is a retrospective including tracks from his current release Guero, going back through Sea Change, Mutations, Midnite Vultures, Odelay, One Foot In The Grave, and Mellow Gold. Track listing "E-Pro" (Guero) – 3:25"The New ..
A Brief Vacation
A Brief Vacation (Una Breve vacanza) is a 1973 Italian melodrama directed by Vittorio de Sica. The script, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor"). The film concerns a female factory worker from Calabria who falls ill on the job ..
A Brighter Day
A Brighter Day is the third single from the album My Number One by Elena Paparizou. A Brighter Day started life as Andithesis (English: 'Oppositions'). The two songs have the same music but different lyrics. There was no new video made for A Brighter Day; this was likely because there was a video..
A Bright Room Called Day
A Bright Room Called Day is a play by American playwright Tony Kushner, author of the better-known Angels in America. Synopsis The play is set in Germany in 1932 and 1933, and concerns a group of friends caught up in the events of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitle..
A Bright Shining Lie
A Bright Shining Lie A Bright Shining Lie is a book by Neil Sheehan about U.S. Army retired Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. He was awarded a non-fiction Pulitzer Prize in 1989 and the National Book Award. In 1998, the book was turned i..
A Broken Frame
A Broken Frame is Depeche Mode's second proper studio album and was released on September 27 1982. This record was written in the absence of Vince Clarke after his departure to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet. Alan Wilder was part of a second tour in the United Kingdom occurring prior to the..
A Bronx Morning
A Bronx Morning is a 1931 avant-garde film by American filmmaker Jay Leyda (1910-1988). Described as "city symphony", the eleven-minute European style film recorded a Bronx street before it is crowded with traffic. Largely unnoticed in the United States, on the strength of this film Leyda was invi..
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale (1993) is a movie set in New York City during the turbulent era of the 1960s. It was the directorial debut of Robert De Niro, and follows a young man as his path in life is guided by two father figures, played by De Niro and Chazz Palminteri. It also includes a brief appearance by Joe..
Čabraď Castle
The Čabraď Castle (Slovak: Čabradský hrad) is a castle ruin in Slovakia near the village of Čabradský Vrbovok, southeast of Krupina. It was built in the 13th century. In the 15th century, it was captured by the army of John Giskra (Jan Jiskra) for a while. In 1585 and 1602 it withstood attack..

 

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