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Ruth Collie, née Ruth Jacobs, (November 1888 – March 6, 1936) was an English-born poet who started her writing career in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was also known under her pen names Wilhelmina Stitch and Sheila Rand .
I recently come into posession of a brass token approximately 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter imprinted with the words " Silver Dollar Hotel, Denver, Colo" written around the outer perimeter is, "GOOD FOR ONE SCREW" in the center, followed in smaller type, "MADAME RUTH JACOBS, Prop.
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words is a 2019 American documentary film, directed and produced by Freida Lee Mock, written by Mock and M.A. Golán. It follows Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice. The film had its world premiere at AFI Docs on June 22, 2019.
Ruth Jacobsen (8 April 1932 - 19 February 2019) was a German-born lesbian artist and a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. During the Second World War , she fled with her parents to the Netherlands where she was hidden by the Dutch resistance until she was reunited with her parents towards the end of the war.
Her father, born Karl Adolf Rudolf Hermann Jacobs in 1901 in Gotha, was Hermann Jacobs, the great great grandson of the German scholar Friedrich Jacobs. [4] Her mother Marie Jacobs, born Marie Kohn in 1901, was the daughter of Hans Nathan Kohn, the German physician after whom the "Pores of Kohn" were named. [5] Ruth was the couple's only child.
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ ˈ b eɪ d ər ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ / BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) [2] was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. [3]
Ruth Johnson Colvin (December 16, 1916 – August 18, 2024) was an American philanthropist who was the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. [1] She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in December 2006. [1]
Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon, a World Athletics Label Road Race.She ran 2:18:35, with split times of 31:59 at 10 km, 48:15 at 15 km, 1:08:22 at the half marathon mark, and 1:37:42 at 30 km. Chepng'etich's performance was a course record, the best performance ever on Turkish soil, and, at the time, was the seventh fastest time in history.