"Marilyn Sitzman Marilyn Sitzman (December 14, 1939 – August 11, 1993) was an American receptionist and a witness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. She was with her boss, Abraham Zapruder, as he made the Zapruder film, the most studied record of the assassination. Sitzman was born in Lafayette, Colorado and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Dallas. After moving to Dallas, Sitzman got a job as a receptionist at dress manufacturer Abraham Zapruder's clothing company Jennifer Juniors. Zapruder's clothing company was located in the Dal-Tex"
"not captured until 19 November near the town of Ubari. On 20 January 2012, it was reported for the fourth time that Ibrahim had been captured in Asbi'a, Libya. However, the following day these claims were denied by officials in Tripoli. On 20 October 2012, Ibrahim was reported captured for the fifth time, in the town of Tarhuna, 40 miles south of Tripoli. For the first time, the reports were backed by the government, who said he was ""being transferred to Tripoli to begin interrogation."" An audio clip was then released on Facebook, purporting to be Ibrahim's voice denying the"
"he later fell out with in 1992, said that, ""He [Ibrahim] does travel out of Pakistan once in a while but Karachi is his base."" Ghulam Hasnain, a Pakistani journalist, who researched extensively about Ibrahim's living in Karachi, confirmed it, and in his piece for an Indian magazine ""Outlook"", wrote of the latter living in his ""palatial house"" in a 6,000 square yard plot in Clifton, an upmarket area in Karachi. He added that Ibrahim was the Pakistani intelligence service Inter-Services Intelligence's ""main source of information from India and helps in espionage operations"" in return for their protection. Search for"
"by train to Auschwitz on August 3, 1943, and was hidden by Aniela (Zawadzka) Szwajce in Będzin, a town in southwest Poland, until arrival of the Soviet army in January 1945. He emigrated to Israel in 1949. He studied at the Medical School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1953-1960. Following conscription into Army Service in the IDF from 1961-1963, he trained in ophthalmology at Hadassah Medical Center under Professor I.C. Michaelson from 1963-1969, and was made a specialist in ophthalmology in 1969. He worked in Malawi from 1965-1967, and made several professional tours in Africa. He was awarded fellowships"
"as his vision could be only partially corrected. Nevertheless, he said, ""I always felt I was only half blind, and never considered myself handicapped."" He lived in the United States for the remainder of his life. He was married twice. He and his second wife, who was White, lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and attended the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church. After the infamous fire bombing of the church in September 1963, he and his wife decided to leave the South and settled in San Francisco, where there was less racial tension and interracial marriage was more accepted. He had an"
"extended travel and research for the ""Cities of the Future"" program in Africa. Returning to Cairo in 1963, he moved to Darb al-Labbana, near the Cairo Citadel, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He also did public speaking and private consulting. He was a man with a riveting message in an era searching for alternatives in fuel, personal interactions, and economic supports. He left his first major international position, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, in 1969 to complete multiple trips per year as a leading critical member of the"
"Nazi seizure of power in 1933 forced Abraham to abandon his domicile in Berlin and leave Germany. He was unwanted both as a Jew, and as the author of ""Die Blume von Hawaii"", considered a piece of ""degenerate art"" by the Nazis, and telling the story of a German sailor who falls in love with a Hawaiian girl. Via Vienna and Paris he moved to Cuba where he earned a modest living as a pianist and later emigrated to New York City. After a mental breakdown he was in February 1946 committed to the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, later to"
"its ever-present memory, never to be overshadowed by the Jewish national revival in Israel and in a number of countries hosting Jewish diasporas.He exhibited in many Israeli cities (e.g. Jerusalem, 1954, Tel Aviv, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1968, 2014), and Nahariya (1988), as well as in Brussels (1960), Paris (1962, 1972, 1994), London (1965), Sydney (1967), New York City (1968), Los Angeles (1968), Detroit (1970), Amsterdam (1972), Stockholm (1975), Antwerp (1976) and Berlin (1987). For many years, the painter worked in Safed, where he held his own gallery, but later he returned to Tel Aviv, where he has lived ever"
"Ur of the Chaldees Ur Kaśdim ( ""ʾur kasdim""), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of the Israelite and Ismaelite patriarch Abraham. In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Ur Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar, near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the site and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th century BCE. Recent archaeology work has continued to focus on the location in Nasiriyah, where the ancient Ziggurat of Ur is located. Other sites traditionally thought to"
"nuanced and psychologically complex treatments of the pogrom theme in modern Jewish literature."" Shapiro and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1921. His wife, Freydl, died there in 1927, and he then returned to New York. Back in New York yet again, Shapiro worked at several literary periodicals, was active in the Communist party, and was employed by the Federal Writers' Project in 1937. Shapiro returned to LA in 1939, where he lived at 544 Heliotrope Drive in East Hollywood. Shapiro died in Los Angeles in 1948 while living in a friend's garage. He died an alcoholic and poor."
"pour la Liberté de la Culture) at the Palais du Louvre - Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (1960). He lived in London (where he may have lived as a tramp) from 1959 to 1961 and became a New York resident in 1963. In New York, he settled in the Lower East Side and had his first solo exhibition at the then well-known Paul Bianchini Gallery in 1963. He exhibited at other New York City galleries throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including Phoenix Gallery, one of the Tenth street galleries in Manhattan. His works are displayed in several public collections"
"more than 50 years before moving to Amherst, Massachusetts in 2015. His work, which includes painting, prints and collages, as well as set designs, is in more than 45 museum and public institution collections in the United States, Latin America and Israel. He held more than 40 solo exhibitions at galleries and museums and participated in more than 75 group shows around the globe. Born in Paris in 1926, his Jewish parents had migrated to France from Poland in 1923. In November 1942 the family fled Nazi-occupied France for Spain before settling in Caracas, Venezuela. Sznajderman briefly studied medicine at"
"seeing news of the seizure on television, Ibrahim fled to Amsterdam via Mexico, while United States authorities raided Ibrahim's Los Angeles residence, seizing $988,000 in cash, a Ferrari, Range Rover, and Porsche, and other valuables. Ibrahim was taken in to custody in September, 2000, by Dutch authorities in Amsterdam under an international arrest warrant from the United States. While imprisoned, Ibrahim fought extradition for 18 months while interred at the (maximum security unit) at the Nieuw Vosseveld in Vught in the Netherlands, which serves as the max security prison for the country. Ibrahim was extradited to the United States in"
"on 27 September 1947. After serving three years in Adoni, Abraham was transferred to Bellary where he served till 1962. In 1953, he proposed to start a Jathara at Chickbellary during holy Easter week for three days under the mangroves of the River Tungabhadra. It was in April 1954 that the Jathara was held. In 1956, Abraham was sent to the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham to lecture on Pastoria and Church Ethics for overseas missionaries. He was then assigned a teaching and administrative roles at the Union Kanarese Seminary in Tumkur before being transferred back to Bellary. In 1962, Abraham"
"other projects included a cultural centre and stadium for the town of Firminy, where he had built his first housing project (1955–1958); and a stadium in Baghdad, Iraq (much altered since its construction). He also constructed three new ""Unités d'Habitation"", apartment blocks on the model of the original in Marseille, the first in Berlin (1956–1958), the second in Briey-en-Forêt in the Meurthe-et-Moselle Department; and the third (1959–1967) in Firminy. In 1960–1963, he built his only building in the United States; the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the time of his death in 1965, several projects"
"town of Timişoara. He was raised as the single child of a middle-class Jewish family, speaking German and Hungarian at home. In school he learned Romanian, and from his early childhood he was tutored in English—later in French as well. Thus, his multilingual identity dates back to his childhood as well as the polyglot part of the world where he grew up. At the age of nine, he and his father emigrated from Romania, first to Vienna and then to New York, the two cities that would play the most important roles in his upbringing. Between 1959 and 1967, he"
"and rainy climate, melancholic flat countryside and potato-based cuisine; writing to Galan from the Polish mountain resort of Zakopane he complained about having no assistance when working on politically sensitive second part of his memoirs. In late 1962 he moved to Romania and settled at Bulevard Michurin in Bucharest, in a small but carefully selected apartment and with Roberto Carillo as his neighbor. It is not clear what citizenship he held, either in Romania or earlier in Poland. He travelled to Western Europe, frequently visiting France to take part in PCE sittings and to see his relatives During last years"
"Jawdat Ibrahim Jawdat Ibrahim (, ) is an Israeli Arab millionaire who has established a fund that gives scholarships to both Arab and Jewish university students, and has hosted informal peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian National Authority leaders at his popular Abu Ghosh restaurant. Ibrahim lived in Chicago for six years, but returned to Israel in 1992 after winning USD $17.5 million in the Illinois State Lottery. In 2010, Ibrahim funded a project to reclaim the Guinness World Record for the world's largest hummus from Lebanon in the Israeli Arab town of Abu Ghosh. The world record breaking hummus"
"that entry did not win. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2009 and 2012. He spent six months in Paris in 1973. In the 1980s he spent time in France, Spain, Italy and Holland. During a residency at the Karolyi Foundation, in Vence in southern France, he met Hungarian sculptor Judith Englert, and spent a year in Budapest with her before returning to Australia. In 1987 they eventually settled in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of Sydney. During the late 1980s his style (figurative, allegoric, lyric, moody) crystallized with the Bundeena paintings, the Queen series and"
"and lived there until its destruction. Before leaving South Africa in the 1960s, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim lived nearby and was a frequent visitor to the area, as were many other cape jazz musicians. Ibrahim described the area to ""The Guardian"" as a ""fantastic city within a city..."", explaining, ""[W]here you felt the fist of apartheid it was the valve to release some of that pressure. In the late 50s and 60s, when the regime clamped down, it was still a place where people could mix freely. It attracted musicians, writers, politicians at the forefront of the struggle as the school"
"24 January 1960 he was en route back from Cairo and made a stopover in Istanbul where he met with the Patriarch of Constantinople Athenagoras who gave him a box of sweetmeats to give to John XXIII. Between 1971 and 1973 he travelled across the globe to places such as Warsaw, Budapest, Jerusalem, Quebec and New York amongst others. He went to Chile to stop a coup threatening the President Salvador Allende and in Houston participated in a seminar. He died on 5 November 1977 in the Clinic of the English Sisters in via Cherubini. Cardinal Giovanni Benelli blessed his"
"in material and non-material terms. From this starting point the book explores what and in which way the ‘basura’ determines our way of thinking, our individuality, as well as our material existence in peripheral areas of the planet. In 2012, after been successively leaving in Rimini, Bologna, London, Exeter and Brussels, he moved to the countryside in South of France, where he started to rebuild a 12th-century property together with his partner and their three daughters. In March 2013 at the local French pool he postulated as candidate to the commune’s Council of the nearest , where was elected. (i)"
"left his father asleep in their hotel room in Shreveport and hitchhiked to the Pacific coast and on to Yellowstone Park, Salt Lake City, Denver, El Paso and Mexico City, returning home after three weeks in time for school.(10) Nine months later, he boarded a tanker as supercargo, sailed to Venezuela and on to Haifa, then hitchhiked around Israel and most of Western Europe.(11) Two summers later, he hitchhiked across North Africa.(12) In 1957, while an undergraduate at Oxford, he attended the VIth World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, then travelled through Siberia to Peking, notwithstanding a US"
"numbers to create an autonomous zone in the Nineveh plains. Then some odd years later unexpectedly resigned from Western Michigan University to move to Chicago. Emanuel Kamber Dr Emanuel Yousif Kamber is an Assyrian Physics professor at Western Michigan University and was the Secretary General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance. He was born in the small Assyrian village of Darbandokeh in Iraq. In 1983, Emanuel Kamber earned a Ph.D. and Doctors degree in physics from University of London in England. He studies and conducts experiments involving electron capture, ionization and excitation processes in low-velocity collisions among atoms, ions and molecules."
"lived initially in Dar es Salaam and later in Nairobi from where he travelled to other countries in Africa. He came back to Poland only for few weeks in 1965 but returned to Africa to live in Lagos and continue reporting. In April 1965 he travelled to Senegal and Mauritania which he later described in the book ""The Shadow of the Sun"". At the end of 1966 he came back to Poland. In April 1967 he went to Central Asia and Caucasus. In November the same year he started working as a foreign correspondent in South America, based in Santiago."
"1965 to 1969. He also worked as a playwright and a photographer. Since 1969 he has been a freelancer. In 1990 he married Magda Salamon (with whom he had been living since 1962). In 1984 they moved to a small village in western Hungary, Gombosszeg, where they have resided ever since, though he also has a residence in the Castle District of Buda. In 1993, he was elected member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. Since the early 1970s, he has frequently spent time in Berlin, Germany, attending lectures at Humboldt University or reading in the Staatsbibliothek. He"
"sailed the trimaran ""Outward Leg"" from San Diego to London by way of Colombia, Panama, and New York City; the story of this voyage was told in his book ""Outward Leg"". He then continued across central Europe by river and canal to the Black Sea, as told in ""The Improbable Voyage"", and then around southern Asia to Thailand, as recounted in ""Somewheres East of Suez"". In 1991, he also lost his right leg, and became depressed, although he returned briefly to sea. He settled in Phuket, Thailand, converted to Islam, and took the name 'Ali'. Though he seems not to"
"to the Old Testament, which gives Abraham's birthplace as ""Ur of Chaldees"" (traditionally Edessa) at a time long before the Chaldeans entered Mesopotamia rather than to any ethnic or geographic link with the long extinct Chaldeans of the south eastern extremities of Iraq. Many modern scholars also now believe Abraham's Ur was actually in Anatolia. The term ""Chaldeans"" had a history of being used in an ethnically and geographically inaccurate sense by Rome, having been previously officially used by the Council of Florence in 1445 as a new name for a group of Greek Nestorians of Cyprus who entered into"
"of 17, he took an active part in the demonstrations against the forced removal from Windhoek's Old Location to Katutura, and witnessed the massacre of 12 December 1959. He went into exile in 1961 as a member of SWANU, and joined SWAPO in the same year. He went to study in the United States and appeared before the United Nations in the early 1960s. After graduating with a BA in Political Science from the University of Rochester in New York, he returned from the U.S. to Africa in 1966. In Tanzania, he became a broadcaster with ""The Namibia Hour"" from"
"and talent, this endowment became his predilection, the raison d'être of his life. After 6 years of studies, he graduated from the Mukhina Institute of Arts and Industrial Design in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy). After graduation, he was sent for obligatory work (as was practiced in the USSR) to the capital of Siberia, the city of Novosibirsk, where he spent 7 years working for the government as a stylist, and in his free time, at nights, working on his paintings. In 1974 Chapiro left Novosibirsk and moved to Moscow, where he joined the Russia's underground avant-garde"
"from 1962. With subsequent rise of the hippie movement in the 1960s, and exposure to Christian mysticism, he moved away from the Chabad lifestyle. While pursuing a course of study at Boston University (including a class taught by Howard Thurman), he experienced an intellectual and spiritual shift. In 1968, on sabbatical from the Religion department of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, he joined a group of other Jews in founding a havurah (small cooperative congregation) in Somerville, Massachusetts, called ""Havurat Shalom"". In 1974, Schachter hosted a month-long Kabbalah workshop in Berkeley, California; his experimental style and the inclusion of"
"up, and in 1962 Ibrahim went into exile. In the 1960s and 70s, Ibrahim and his wife Sathima Bea Benjamin largely lived in exile in Europe and the United States, returning to South Africa only for brief periods of time. He lived for a while in New York City, playing with the band of Duke Ellington and learning composition at the Juilliard School of Music. As the Black Power movement developed in the 1960s and 1970s, it influenced a number of Ibrahim's friends and collaborators, who began to see their music as a form of cultural nationalism. Ibrahim in turn"
"in European cities facing war and disaster and later in Israel, where, in the early years of the State, thousands of people landed every day, with housing problems . In 1958, he founded the Groupe d'études de architecture mobile (GEAM), dissolved in 1962. In 1963, he developed the idea of a city bridge and participated actively in the cultural climate and utopian architecture of the 60s known as the ""Age of megastructures"". Since the mid-sixties he has taught at MIT, Princeton, Harvard and Columbia universities. In the following decade he worked for the United Nations and UNESCO, through the dissemination"