Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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.
Tạ Phong Tần (born 15 September 1968 in Vĩnh Lợi District, Bạc Liêu Province [2] [3] [4]) is a Vietnamese dissident blogger.A former policewoman and a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam, she was arrested in September 2011 on anti-state propaganda charges.
Ruth E. Tate, who reshaped how Memphis senior citizens received resources and social fulfillment, has died. She was 91. Ruth E. Tate remembered for decades spent helping Memphis' senior citizens
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.
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]
Ruth Cohn was born as the second child of an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin. Her father, Arthur Hirschfeld, was a banker, her mother Elisabeth, a pianist, came from a merchant family. In 1931/32 she studied economics and psychology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin.
Ruth Reichl (/ ˈ r aɪ ʃ əl / RY-shəl; born 1948) is an American chef, food writer and editor.In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and has been co-producer of PBS's Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS's Gourmet's ...