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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.
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 .
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]
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.
Trương Vĩnh Ký (chữ Hán: 張永記; 6 December 1837 – 1 September 1898), known as Pétrus Ký and Jean-Baptiste Pétrus, was a Vietnamese scholar whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe.
Đặng Tuyết Mai, also known as Madame Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (4 October 1941 – 21 December 2016) was the former wife of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, former Republic of Vietnam Air Force commander and politician, who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, and then as vice president until he retired from politics in 1971.
Rusty Jacobs (born July 10, 1967, in New York City) is an American former film actor. Jacobs is known for appearing in films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Taps. He is a reporter for North Carolina Public Radio. From 2007-2017, he earned his law degree at UNC Chapel Hill, and then served as an Assistant District Attorney in North ...