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Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born June 19, 1946, Utrecht) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general,
Dr. Young Yang Chung is a Korean embroidery artist and textile historian. She earned a Ph.D. at New York University in 1976, with a doctoral dissertation on the History and technique of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese embroideries, and has lectured wor
Matilda Ann Aston (11 December 1873 – 1 November 1947), better known as Tilly Aston, was a blind Australian writer and teacher, who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advance
Joseph Dan (Hebrew: יוסף דן, born 1935) is an Israeli scholar of Jewish mysticism. He taught for over 40 years in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the first incumbent of the Gershom Scholem Chair
Cleveland Sellers, Jr. (born November 8, 1944) is the current president of Voorhees College, and a veteran civil rights activist who helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at
Dr. Daud Shah Saba (born 1964) is a politician in Afghanistan, who is serving as Governor of Herat Province since August 2010 when his predecessor Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani had resigned from the post.
Roberto Ierusalimschy (born 1960) is an associate professor of informatics at PUC-Rio (Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro). He is the leading architect of the Lua programming language and the author of Programming in Lua (ISBN 85-903798-1-7), Pr
Ronit Tirosh (Hebrew: רונית תירוש, born 8 December 1953) is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima between 2006 and 2013.
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston, CM (born Elizabeth H. Parr in 1939 in New York, NY) is the Managing Partner of Parr-Johnston Consultants, an economic policy consultancy based in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia. Parr-Johnston is a past president of 2 Canadian Uni
Rudolf Serkin (28 March 1903 – 8 May 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the twentieth century.
Jan Koster (born July 8, 1945 in Delft) is a Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Groningen.
Sha’ari Tadin (2 August 1932 – 13 December 2009) was a Member of Parliament (MP), and Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture in the Singapore Government. As the first Malay graduate MP, he was also highly regarded as Cikgu Sha’a