Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also served as a U.S. representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator …

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (English: / k ɒ x / KOKH, German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɔx] (); 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist.As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the bacterium itself was discovered by Filippo Pacini in 1854), and anthrax, he is regarded as one …

modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata Richard Evelyn Byrd (Winchester , 25 octobre 1888 - Boston , 11 mars 1957) est un explorateur polaire et aviateur américain de l' US Navy ayant le grade de contre-amiral . Biographie [modifier | modifier le code] Il est formé dans quatre institutions différentes, l' Académie militaire de Shenandoah , l' Institut militaire de Virginie , l ...

On July 1, 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had earlier announced his retirement.At the time of his nomination, Bork was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position to which he had been appointed …

Byrd también creó ocho piezas para teclado a Parthenia, una colección de 21 piezas para teclado, impresas por William Hole que también contenían música de John Bull y Orlando Gibbons.Se ejecutaron durante la celebración del futuro enlace de la hija de Jacobo I, la princesa Isabel, con Federico V del Palatinado.También debemos incluir la famosa pavana dedicada a …

USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship in the United States Navy. She is the fourth Navy ship named for Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1856–1920). Construction. The contract to build Robert E. Peary was awarded to National ...

Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization.Byrd served as Virginia's governor from 1926 until 1930, then represented it as a U.S. Senator from 1933 until 1965.

Early life. Meyner was born on July 3, 1908 in Easton, Pennsylvania, to Gustave Herman Meyner, Sr. (1878–1950) and Maria Sophia Bäumle (1881–1968).His father was a German American silk worker from Manchester, New Hampshire.His mother was German, but born in Birsfelden near Basel, in Switzerland, to Robert Bäumle from Harpolingen, Baden and to Franziska Oliva …

"C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel.The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel.Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal.Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" …

The Semitic sound value of Qôp was /q/ (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its tail hanging down. /q/ is a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in many European languages. Some have even suggested that the form of the letter Q is even more ancient: it could have originated …