The Austrian-born Bikel – as Theodore Meir Bikel on May 2, 1924, in Vienna, to Yiddish-speaking Eastern European parents – was 91. Fled Hitler Thanks to his well-connected Zionist father, six months after the German annexation of Austria in March 1938 ("they were greeted with jubilation...
James Luther Bevel(born Oct. 19, 1936, Itta Bena, Miss., U.S.—died Dec. 19, 2008, Springfield, Va.) was an American minister and political activist who played a pivotal role in thecivil rights movementin the early 1960s. Although Bevel initially intended to pursue a recording career,...
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①Isaac Stern was more than a great violin player. He was one of the most honored musicians in the world. He was an international cultural ambassador. He was a major supporter of the arts in America and in other countries. He was a teacher and activist. ②Issac Stern was born in 1920...
Nancy Reagan later said that her life began with her marriage to Ronald Reagan. Their daughter, Patricia Ann (“Patti”) Reagan, was born in October, and their son, Ronald Prescott Reagan, in 1958; Ronald Reagan was already the father of a daughter, Maureen Reagan, and had adopted a son...
ship2shoreJanuary 26, 2022 at 6:36 amIn the final years of her life, my Italian-born mother, who was diagnosed with and suffered from dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type, fell victim to financial abuse by the very nursing home caregivers we had trusted to keep her safe and comfortable. Th...
On July 12,1997,Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora,Pakistan,located in the country's Swat Valley. Yotsafzai attended a school that her father.Ziauddin Yousafzai,had founded.After the Taliban began attacking girl schools in Swat.Malala gave a speech in Peshawar.Pakistan,in ...
ship2shoreJanuary 26, 2022 at 6:36 amIn the final years of her life, my Italian-born mother, who was diagnosed with and suffered from dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type, fell victim to financial abuse by the very nursing home caregivers we had trusted to keep her safe and comfortable. Th...
(born November 27, 1932, Tarlac, Philippines—died August 21, 1983, Manila) was the chief opposition leader during the era of martial law in the Philippines (1972–81) under Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos. Aquino’s assassination in 1983 galvanized popular opposition to the Marcos government and ...
Born in Georgia, in 1981, to a Russian Orthodox Christian family, Gvasalia fled when he was 12, during the country’s violent civil war, and went to live in Germany. He studied fashion in Antwerp and worked for Martin Margiela before moving to Paris to launch Vetements with his brother, ...