Maurice Tempelsman Maurice Tempelsman December 2012 Maurice Tempelsman (born August 26, 1929) is a Belgian-American businessman and diamond merchant.[1][2] He was the longtime companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States. Personal life[edit] Tempelsman has three grown children by his wife Lilly Bucholz, a woman who had fled Antwerp with her family too.[2] His daughter, Rena, is the widow of Robert Speisman, an executive vice president of Lazare Kaplan International Inc. who was on board American Airlines Flight 77, when the aircraft crashed into The Pentagon during the September 11 attacks.[9] Business interests[edit] In 1950 he created a new marketing niche by persuading the US-government to stockpile African diamonds for industrial and military purposes, with him as middleman, and in 1957, at the age of 27, he and his lawyer, Adlai Stevenson, traveled to Africa, where Tempelsman had begun forging ties with leaders. Relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis[edit]
ZE Records ZE Records (always written with two capital letters) was originally a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban. It has been re-established by Esteban since 2003. History[edit] Michael Zilkha (b. 1954) is a British-born Oxford graduate of Iraqi descent, the son of Selim Zilkha, former owner of Mothercare, a major UK retail company, and the stepson of Cabinet member Lord Lever. In the mid-1970s, Zilkha worked in the New York publishing industry and was a contributor to the Village Voice. In 1977, Esteban signed French new wave band Marie et les Garçons, and asked John Cale - who had been introduced to him by Patti Smith - to produce them. Zilkha and Esteban then left to set up their own label, ZE Records, a name taken from the initials of their surnames, to record the new music emerging in New York and elsewhere from a fusion of punk, disco and new wave music. The label's success and influence peaked around 1981-82. List of ZE recording artists[edit]
James Frederick Ferrier James Frederick Ferrier (16 June 1808, Edinburgh – 11 June 1864, St Andrews) was a Scottish metaphysical writer. He introduced the term epistemology.[1] Education and early writings[edit] Early career[edit] Ferrier's first contribution to metaphysics was a series of articles in Blackwood's Magazine (1838–1839), entitled An Introduction to the Philosophy of Consciousness. These articles were succeeded by a number of others, of which the most important were The Crisis of Modern Speculation (1841), Berkeley and Idealism (1842), and an important examination of Hamilton's edition of Reid (1847), which contains a vigorous attack on the philosophy of common sense. Later writings[edit] Ferrier's matured philosophical doctrines find expression in the Institutes of Metaphysic the Theory of Knowing and Being (1854), in which he claims to have met the twofold obligation resting on every system of philosophy, that it should be reasoned and true. Family[edit] References[edit] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911).
Joseph Schumpeter Joseph Alois Schumpeter (German: [ˈʃʊmpeːtɐ]; 8 February 1883 – 8 January 1950)[1] was an Austrian American economist and political scientist. He briefly served as Finance Minister of Austria in 1919. One of the most influential economists of the 20th century, Schumpeter popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.[2] Life[edit] Schumpeter was born in Třešť, Habsburg Moravia (now Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1883 to Catholic ethnic German parents. His father owned a factory, but he died when Joseph was only four years old.[3] In 1893, Joseph and his mother moved to Vienna.[4] Schumpeter began his career studying law at the University of Vienna under the Austrian capital theorist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, taking his PhD in 1906. From 1925 to 1932, Schumpeter held a chair at the University of Bonn, Germany. During his Harvard years Schumpeter was considered a memorable character, erudite and even showy as classroom teacher. Most important work[edit]
Joseph Schumpeter Austrian political economist (1883–1950) Schumpeter was one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, and popularized the term "creative destruction", coined by Werner Sombart.[4][5][6] Early life and education[edit] Schumpeter was born in 1883 in Triesch, Habsburg Moravia (now Třešť in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary) to German-speaking Catholic parents. Schumpeter was educated at the Theresianum, and began his career studying law at the University of Vienna under Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, an economic theorist of the Austrian School. In 1913–1914, Schumpeter taught at Columbia University as an invited professor. In 1918, Schumpeter was a member of the Socialisation Commission established by the Council of the People's Deputies in Germany. From 1925 until 1932, Schumpeter held a chair at the University of Bonn, Germany. At Harvard, Schumpeter was considered a memorable character, erudite, and even showy in the classroom. Career[edit] Influences[edit]
Bill McKibben Events and Appearances - Author. Educator. Environmentalist. Events & Appearances Here are upcoming events where Bill will be speaking or in attendance: Thursday, April 3rd -- Doylestown, PA 5:00 - 6:30pm (Full program can be found here.) Delaware Valley College Auditorium, Life Sciences Building 700 E Butler Avenue Doylestown, PA 18901Purchase tickets here. Wednesday, April 9th -- Austin, TX 7:00pm University of Texas, Austin College of Communications, CMB Building, KLRU Studio 6A 201 W Dean Keeton St Austin, TX 78712Click here for more information. Monday, April 21st -- Houston, TX 7:30pm The Progressive Forum Wortham Center, Cullen Theater 500 Texas Avenue Houston, TX 77002Click here for more information and tickets. Tuesday, April 22th -- Flagstaff, AZ 7:00pm Northern Arizona University High Country Conference Center at Flagstaff 201 W Butler Avenue Flagstaff, AZ 86001Click here for more information and ticket info. Sunday, May 18th -- Winthrop, WA 7:00pm Talk presented by The Methow Conservancy The Winthrop Barn, 51 N.
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Virgil Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy—in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably the Divine Comedy of Dante, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory. Life and works[edit] Birth and biographical tradition[edit] Virgil's biographical tradition is thought to depend on a lost biography by Varius, Virgil's editor, which was incorporated into the biography by Suetonius and the commentaries of Servius and Donatus, the two great commentators on Virgil's poetry. Early works[edit] The Eclogues[edit] Page from the Eclogues in the 5th-century Vergilius Romanus The Georgics[edit] The Aeneid[edit]
Alfred P. Sloan Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (/sloʊn/; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Corporation.[1] Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped lead (and grow) GM from the 1920s through the 1950s—decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial design, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world. Sloan's memoir, My Years with General Motors,[2] written in the 1950s but withheld from publishing until an updated version was finally released in 1964,[3] exemplified Sloan's vision of the professional manager and the carefully engineered corporate structure in which he worked. Biography[edit] Cover of Time magazine (December 27, 1926) Sloan is credited[by whom?]