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Michael Sayers (19 December 1911 – 2 May 2010) was an Irish poet, playwright, writer and journalist whose books co-authored with Albert E. Kahn made him a target of US blacklisting during the McCarthyism era of the 1950s.
Albert Eugene Kahn (May 11, 1912 – September 15, 1979) was an American journalist, author, publisher, and photographer. He is known chiefly for his books Sabotage!The Secret War Against America (1942), related to Nazi and German-American subversive activities in the United States; and The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946).
The Archives of the Planet officially began in 1912, when Kahn appointed geographer Jean Brunhes to direct the project, in exchange for a chair at the Collège de France endowed by Kahn. Stereography was replaced with the autochrome process, which yielded color photographs but demanded long exposure times, and motion pictures were added. [ 9 ]
With the aim of promoting French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn's work, it houses ‘The Archives of the Planet’ collection, built up by Albert Kahn between 1909 and 1931 (72,000 colour photographs on autochrome plates, making it the largest collection of its kind in the world, 184,000 metres, or a hundred hours of black-and-white and ...
The business practices of the life coach industry have also stirred controversy. [34] [35] Unlike a psychotherapist, there is no required training, occupational licensing, or regulatory oversight for life coaching. [34] Anyone can claim to be a life coach, and anyone can start a business selling "certificates" to would-be life coaches. [34]
Before Sayers meets with coach George Halas in his office, Piccolo tells him – as a prank – that Halas has a hearing problem, and Sayers acts strangely at the meeting. Sayers pranks him back by placing mashed potatoes on his seat while Piccolo is singing his alma mater's fight song. During practice, Piccolo struggles while Sayers shines.
The Fisher Building is a landmark skyscraper located at 3011 West Grand Boulevard in the heart of the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan.The ornate 30-story building, completed in 1928, is one of the major works of architect Albert Kahn, and is designed in an Art Deco style, faced with limestone, granite, and several types of marble.
The Nine Tailors of the book's title are taken from the old saying "Nine Tailors Make a Man", which Sayers quotes at the end of the novel. As explained by John Shand in his 1936 Spectator article The Bellringers' Art , "'Nine Tailors' means the nine strokes which at the beginning of the toll for the dead announce to the villagers that a man is ...