Elie Wiesel - Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania) is a Jew and Holocaust survivor who wrote several books about his experience and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Sighet became part of Hungary in 1940, and in 1944 the Nazis deported the Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau. His mother and a sister were murdered there; he and his father were sent to the attached work camp Auschwitz III Monowitz. In January 1945, the two were marched to Buchenwald, where his father died. After the war, he first lived in France, where he was encouraged by Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac to write about his experiences during the ordeal. Wiesel did, his most famous work is probably Night although he has been quite prolific,.
February 2003 - Aznar indicated a preference for Secretary of State Colin Powell. [1] Career diplomat John Brady Kiesling resigns from the U.S. Foreign Service with a sharp public rebuke for the Bush administration's foreign policy, asking "Has oderint dum metuant really become our motto?" and "Is the Russia of the late Romanovs really our model, a selfish, superstitious empire thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed status quo?" Full text Fred Rogers, the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, dies of stomach cancer in his Pittsburgh home at the age of 74. An internal investigation by the Washington, D.C police department indicates that hundreds of people arrested for failure to obey a police order to disperse at Pershing Park on September 27, 2002 during protests against the World Bank and the International.
François Mauriac - published several plays which were produced by the Comédie Française. He was also a distinguished journalist, working as an editorial writer for the major French newspaper, Le Figaro. In the 1950s he supported Algerian independence, condemning the use of torture by the French army. He also published a series of personal memoirs and a biography of Charles de Gaulle. In 1952, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1958. Mauriac's complete works were published in twelve volumes between 1950 and 1956. He encouraged Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. François Mauriac died in Paris on September 1, 1970 and was interred in the Cimetiere de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France ..
Freedom Award - David Sarnoff 1969 - Lucius D. Clay 1970 - Jacob K. Javitz 1975 - Bruno Kreisky 1976 - Leo Cherne 1977 - Hubert H. Humphrey 1978 - Joseph Buttinge 1979 - Mary Pillsbury Lord (posthumously) 1981 - Lane Kirkland and Irena Kirkland 1987 - Elie Wiesel 1987 - John C. Whitehead 1989 - Sadruddin Aga Khan 1989 - Lech Walesa 1990 - Violetta Barrios de Chammorro 1991 - Fang Lizhi and Li Shuxian 1991 - Javier Perez de Cuellar 1992 - Cyrus Vance 1993 - George Soros - Distinguished Humanitarian Award 1993 - Dwayne O. Andreas - Distinguished Public Service Award 1994 - Theodore J. Forstmann - Distinguished Humanitarian Award 1994 - Felix G. Rohatyn - Distinguished Public Service Award 1995 - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi - Special Freedom Award.
December 10 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. 1975 - Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner 1978 - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize 1983 - Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is accepted by his wife, Danuta. 1984 - Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1986 - Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1993 - Shareware version of Doom is released Births 1787 - Thomas Gallaudet, educator (+ 1851) 1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist (+ 1879) 1815 - Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer (+ 1852) 1822 - César Franck, composer and organist (+.
1986 - poet laureate of the United States 1986 in music January 23 - The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) 1986 in sports 1986 in television May 22 - Cher calls David Letterman an "A**hole" on the air during a taping of Late Night with David Letterman. July 18 - A tornado is broadcast live on KARE TV in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter. October ? The FOX Broadcasting Company becomes the United States' fourth television network. Births February 21 - Charlotte Church, singer April 3 - Amanda Bynes, teen actress and show host June 13 - The Olsen twins March 14 - Jamie Bell,.
Alan Dershowitz - Close, Jeremy Irons, and Ron Silver as Dershowitz. Dershowitz was also a member of the "dream team" of defense lawyers working for O. J. Simpson. In 1983 the Anti-Defamation League awarded Mr. Dershowitz the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award for his "compassionate eloquent leadership and persistent advocacy in the struggle for civil and human rights." Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who presented the award, was quoted as saying, "If there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different." Dershowitz has however come under fire for advocating the issuing of warrantss for the torture of suspected terrorists. He has said that in "ticking bomb" cases -- situations in which "a captured terrorist who knows of.
Autobiographical novel - inextricably mingled." Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, his favorite subject, highly colored memories of his own sex life. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia, though both are usually considered more journalistic accounts than autobiographies. Gordon Parks. The Learning Tree Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu or A Remembrance of Things Past, a seven-volume novel with the famous opening line: "For a long time I used to go to bed early," which continues some 36 pages later: "And once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why.
Buchenwald - Germany, in July 1937. Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left) The first commandant was Karl Otto Koch, whose second wife Ilse was known as The Bitch of Buchenwald, one of the cruelest figures of the Holocaust. Mass killings of prisoners of war took place in the camp, and many inmates died during medical experiments, or fell victim to arbitrary acts perpetrated by the SS. The camp was largely evacuated by the Nazis as Allied troops approached the area, and was finally occupied by the U.S. 3rd Army on April 11, 1945 with minimal resistance..
The Oath - The Oath is the English title of Le serment de Kolvillag, by Elie Wiesel. It tells the story of Azriel, the only surviving member of the small Hungarian town of Kolvillag. Azriel carries the secret of Kollvilag's destruction within him, forbidden to share his experiances. However, when Azriel meets a young man on the brink of suicide fifty years later, he realizes that he must pass on his secret to save the young man's life - yet he is bound to his promise to the dead. Le serment de Kolvillag is a powerful work told in fragments - the point of view changes from present-day Azriel, the Azriel of the past, the young man in the present, and the young man's past. It is unstructured to the point where it borders.
September 30 - Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels. 2003 - The extradition hearing of Robert Angleton will be held by the Dutch. He committed crimes in both the Netherlands and the United States by passport fraud. He was earlier indicted by the Department of Justice for conspiring to murder wife Doris Angleton, along with weapons charges. Births 1732 - Jacques Necker, french diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI 1800 - Decimus Burton, architect (†1881) 1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (†1945) 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco 1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian/American movie director (†1980) 1913 - Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (†1975) 1917 - Buddy Rich, drummer (†1987) 1921 - Deborah Kerr, actress 1924.
Night (book) - Night (book) Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel that describes his experience in the Holocaust. It is a non-fiction account of Wiesel's experience as a young Jewish man who survived both the death camp at Auschwitz and the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Brief Summary Wiesel was a Jewish teenager in Hungary when World War II began: he describes the town of Sighet, where he grew up, as well as the figure of Moche the Beadle, a non-Hungarian who works in the Hasidic temple. Elie studies the kabbalah with Moche. Before Germany's invasion of Hungary, non-Hungarians were deported from Sighet to a German concentration camp. Moche returns to the town, having escaped, and tries unsuccessfully to convince the local Jews that they are in grave danger. After Germany invades, the.
Nobel Peace Prize - Unions, vice president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN. ; 1952 : Albert Schweitzer (France) for founding the Lambarene Hospital in Gabon. ; 1953 : American Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall for the Marshall Plan. ; 1954 : The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. ; 1955-1956 : Not awarded. ; 1957 : Lester Bowles Pearson (Canada), president of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly. ; 1958 : Georges Pire (Belgium), leader of L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde, a relief organization for refugees. ; 1959 : Philip Noel-Baker (UK), for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation. ; 1960 : Albert Lutuli (South Africa), president of the ANC (African National.
List of people on stamps of Gabon - Renault (1977) Auguste Renoir (1974 airmail) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1996) Pilatre de Rozier (1983 airmail) Peter Paul Rubens (1977 airmail) Martin Ryle (1995) S Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1994 airmail) Alberto Santos-Dumont (1973) Raffaello Sanzio (1970 airmail) Albert Schweitzer (1960 airmail) George Seferis (1995) Alan B. Shepard (1981 airmail) Igor Sikorsky (1970 airmail) Tadeusz Slusarski (1980 airmail) Mark Spitz (1972 airmail) George Stephenson (1981 airmail) T Mother Teresa (1998) Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1973) François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye (1964 airmail) Jane Torvill (1984 airmail) Harry S Truman (1996) V Luigi Vanvitelli (1972 airmail) Jules Verne (1970 airmail) Victoria of the United Kingdom (1991) Konstantin Volkov (1980 airmail) Heinrich von Stephan (1981) Kazimierz Szczierba (1980 airmail) W André Raponda Walker (1981) Elie Wiesel (1995) Georg Wittig (1995) Orville Wright (1978 airmail) Wilbur Wright (1978.
List of people by name: Wi - (died 1977), labor union organizer Widmark, Richard, (born 1914), actor Widmer, Urs, dramatist, author Widor, Charles-Marie, (1845-1937), French composer Wie, Michelle (born 1989), golfer Wiebe, John, Canadian senator Wiedfeld, Hubert, dramatist, author Wieferich, Arthur, mathematician Wieland, Heinrich, (born 1877), biochemist, Nobel Prize in chemistry Wieler, Diana, Canadian writer Wiener, Norbert, (1894-1964), US mathematician Wieners, John Wien, Wilhelm, (1864-1928), physicist Wierzynski, Kazimierz, poet Wiesel, Elie, (born 1928), Holocaust survivor, author, lecturer Wiesenthal, Grete, (1885-1970), dancer and choreographer Wiesenthal, Simon, (born 1908), Holocaust survivor, war crimes investigator Wieser, Friedrich von, (1851-1926), economist Wiest, Dianne, (died 1948), actress Wiggin, Kate Douglas, (1856-1923), author, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Wighard, Archbishop of Canterbury Wightman, Arthur, physicist Wigman, Mary, (1886-1973), dancer, choreographer Wigner, Eugene Paul, (1902-1995), Hungarian-American physicist, mathematician Wilander, Mats, (1964-1988), tennis player Wilbanks, William Wilberforce,.
Elie Hobeika - Elie Hobeika Elie Hobeika commanded the Christian Lebanese Forces militia, which killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. In 1983 an Israeli inquiry into the camp massacres said that Ariel Sharon bore indirect responsibility and that Elie Hobeika did not enter the camps, but directed Christian militiamen via radio communications who then did the killing. Elie Hobeika was killed with a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon on 24 January 2002. see also: Phalange.
Elie, Comte Decazes - Elie, Comte Decazes Elie, Duc Decazes (1788 - October 24, 1860), French statesman, was born at Saint Martin de Laye in the Gironde. He studied law, became a judge in the tribunal of the Seine in 1806, was attached to the cabinet of Louis Bonaparte in 1807, and was counsel to the court of appeal at Paris in 1811. Immediately upon the fall of the empire be declared himself a Royalist, and remained faithful to the Bourbons through the Hundred Days. He made the personal acquaintance of Louis XVIII during that period through Baron Louis, and the king rewarded his energy and tact by appointing him prefect of police at Paris on July 7 1815. His marked success in that difficult position won for him the.
Johns Hopkins University - Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio Martin Rodbell - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994 Francis Peyton Rous - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966 David Schneiderman - owner, publisher The Village Voice Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press Gertrude Stein - feminist, author Frederick Jackson Turner - historian Thorstein Veblen - economist, author The Theory of the Leisure Class John B. Watson - psychologist George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934 Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize, 1997 Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize, 1919 Some well-known faculty: Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political science" Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in.
Jules Lemaitre - Jules Lemaitre François Elie Jules Lemaître (1853-1914), French critic and dramatist, was born at Vennecy (Loiret) on April 27 1853. He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but he had already become known by his literary criticisms, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote himself entirely to literature. He succeeded JJ Weiss as dramatic critic of the Journal des Débats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de théàtre (10 series, 1888-1898). His sketches of modern authors are interesting for the insight displayed in them, the unexpectedness of the judgments and the gaiety and originality of their expression. He published.
Jules Bordet - He became Doctor of Medicine in 1892 and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells. In 1898 he described hemolysis evoked by exposure of blood serum to foreign blood cells. In 1900, he left Paris to found the Pasteur Institute in Brussels, and made his discovery that the bacteriolytic effect of acquired specific antibody is significantly enhanced in vivo by the presence of innate serum components which he termed alexine (but which are now known as complement). This mechanism became the basis for complement-fixation testing methods that enabled the development of serological tests for syphilis (specifically, the development of the Wassermann test by August von Wassermann). The same technique is used.
