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The Midrash of Pseudo-Simon is a medieval text by a kabbalistic scholar. Gershom Gerhard Scholem (1990). Origins of the Kabbalah. Princeton University...

Robert Levy or Robert Lévy was a French Jewish physician who served with the German army in World War I, for two years. During World War II, he served...

Echemenes was an Ancient Greek writer. He is mentioned by Athenaeus (xiii. p. 601) as the author of Κρητικἀ, from which a statement relating to the mythical...

The Bell tower in Königsberg (built by the architect Stüler) was a bell tower of the Schlosskirche (Königsberg). After being largely destroyed in World...

Margaret J. Gamper (1907– March 18, 2002) was a pioneer of modern natural childbirth. One of Gamper's students was Dr. Robert Bradley, who developed the...

A-Z Luxemburger Illustrierte was a German-language newspaper published in Luxembourg published between 1933 and 1940. The paper was published weekly. "A-Z:...

Suzana Stamenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Сузана Стаменковић) is a Serbian singer of pop and folk music. During her childhood, she lived in Lastovo and Vladičin...

Gerhard Rode (d. in 1320) – vogt or komtur of Sambia. In July 1320, he took part in the attack on samogitian Medininkai. In the battle, he was captured...

Nicon House is an office building at 45 Silver Street, Enfield, London, that until 1911 was the Church of England Girls' School of Industry. It was then...

Ragne Birte Lund (born 20 November 1949) is a Norwegian civil servant and diplomat. She holds the cand.philol. degree and was hired in the Ministry of...

John Skut was the royal tailor during the reign of Henry VIII of England. Skut began his services to Katherine of Aragon in 1519 and served all of the...

Chien Chih-cheng (Chinese: 簡稚澄; pinyin: Jiǎn Zhìchéng) (d. 12 May 2016) was a Taiwanese veterinarian and animal welfare worker. Her suicide caused outrage...

Pierre Mainfray (Rouen, 1580 – 1630) was a 17th-century French poet and playwright. All that is known of him, writes Pierre Larousse, is that he was the...

Owen O'Moriarty (Irish:Eoin Ó Muircheartaigh) was a Gaelic Irish warrior and chieftain notable for his part in the final stages of the Desmond Rebellion...