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Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ klɔːd ˈleɪvi ˈstraʊs / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [2] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3][4][5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [6]
Known for. Founding the first company to manufacture riveted blue jeans Founder of the Levi Strauss & Co. Levi Strauss (/ ˈliːvaɪˈstraʊs / LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
Levi Strauss & Co. (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ ˈ s t r aʊ s / LEE-vy STROWSS) is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's (/ ˈ l iː v aɪ z / LEE-vyze) brand of denim jeans.It was founded in May 1853 [9] when German-Jewish immigrant Levi Strauss moved from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco, California, to open a West Coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business.
The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT) is a crossword -solving tournament held annually in February, March, or April. Founded in 1978 by Will Shortz, who still directs the tournament, it is the oldest and largest crossword tournament held in the United States; the 2023 event set an attendance record with more than 750 competitors. [1][2]
Apparel retailer Levi Strauss has teamed up with Lyft, MTV, Spotify and other companies in an effort to register 500,000 community-college students to vote. ... its eponymous founder closed his ...
Elise Stern Walter A. Haas. Family. Rhoda Haas Goldman (sister) Walter A. Haas Jr. (brother) Simon Koshland (great-grandfather) Peter E. Haas (December 20, 1918 – December 3, 2005) [ 1 ] was an American billionaire businessman who was president and CEO (1976–2005) and chairman (1981–1989) of Levi Strauss & Co. [ 2 ]
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
David Stern was born to a Jewish family in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1820. [1] In the 1840s, he immigrated to the United States first to New York then the American South and finally to San Francisco in 1853 or 1855 where he was later joined by his brother-in-law Levi Strauss. [1] Strauss had been sent to San Francisco - which was booming due to ...