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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Geneva County Reaper was a weekly newspaper published in Geneva County, Alabama from 1901 to 2024. [1] Its most recent circulation was estimated at about 2,000. [2] It was published by Mo Pujol and edited by Katherine Hepperle. [3] The paper claimed to be "Geneva County's oldest and largest paper since 1899." [4]
Frances Geneva Handy Southall (December 5, 1925 – January 2, 2004) was an American musicologist, pianist, and college professor. Early life and education.
The University of Geneva. Geneva is home to the University of Geneva where approximately 16,500 students are regularly enrolled. [80] In 1559 John Calvin founded the Geneva Academy, a theological and humanist seminary. In the 19th century the academy lost its ecclesiastic links and in 1873, with the addition of a medical faculty, it became the ...
Joan of Geneva. Joan of Geneva (born c. 1040; died 1095) [1] was a Countess Consort of Savoy; married to Amadeus II, Count of Savoy.. According to the much later Chronicles of Savoy, Amadeus married Joan, daughter of "Girard, Count of Burgundy", which scholars have surmised to have been Count Gerold of Geneva.
This is a list of people associated with the modern Switzerland and the Old Swiss Confederacy.Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes notable natives of Switzerland and its predecessor states as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Switzerland.
His musical training started at the age of five, when Bühler began singing in a choir and also learned to play violin, clarinet, piano, guitar, and drums.