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August (name)
August is both a given name and surname developed from the Latin (language), Latin, Augustus (given name), Augustus. Derived from the Latin word augere, meaning "to increase", Augustus had the meaning "esteemed" or "venerable" and was a title given to Roman emperors. Persons with the given name August *August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig (1655–1715), German prince *August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1652–1689), German noble *August, Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), German noble and general of the Napoleonic Wars *August Aichhorn (1878–1949), Austrian educator and psychoanalyst *August Alle (1890–1952), Estonian writer *August Allebé (1838–1927), Dutch painter *August Alsina (1992-), American singer *August Ames (1994–2017), American adult film actress *August Annist (1899–1972), Estonian literary and folklore scholar, writer and translator *August Bebel (1840–1913), German social-democrat *August Blom (1869–1947), Danish film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin (language)
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Brooksbank
Jack Christopher Stamp Brooksbank (born 3 May 1986) is an English bar manager and brand ambassador. He is the husband of Princess Eugenie of the United Kingdom, making him a member of the British royal family. Early life and family Brooksbank was born on 3 May 1986 at St Thomas' Hospital in Lambeth, London. He was christened at Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks in Wellington Barracks. He is the eldest son of Old Etonian George Edward Hugh Brooksbank (1949–2021), a company director and chartered accountant, and his wife Nicola (''née'' Newton; born 1953), great-granddaughter of both Sir Arthur Holland (1843-1928) and Sir Frederick Charlton Meyrick, 2nd Baronet. Brooksbank is in remainder to the Brooksbank baronetcy. A half-third cousin twice-removed of Princess Eugenie through Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Brooksbank's great-grandfather was Sir John (Jack) Spencer Coke, a Gentleman Usher to King George VI and Extra Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth II and his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kohver
August Kohver (also known as August Koffer; 1 January 1889 – 19 August 1942) was an Estonian agronomist and politician. Kohver was born on 1 January 1889 in Vana-Kariste and worked as an agronomist; he was also active in local politics and served as Governor of Võru County. He was elected to the Estonian Provincial Assembly, which governed the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia between 1917 and 1919; he served the full term. He did not sit in the newly formed Republic of Estonia's Asutav Kogu (Constituent Assembly), but was elected to the third legislature of the Riigikogu (Parliament) in 1926 as a member of the Farmers' Assemblies party. He stepped down on 4 December 1927 and was replaced by Konrad Arras. Kohver was elected to the First Chamber of the Estonian National Assembly (Rahvuskogu) which sat in 1937, and was then elected to the newly established Riiginõukogu (Estonian National Council) which sat between 1938 and 1940. He served for the duration of the term, which ende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing the Krogh Principle. In 1920 August Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. Besides his contributions to medicine, Krogh was also one of the founders of what is today the Novo Nordisk company. Life He was born in Grenaa on the peninsula of Djursland in Denmark, the son of Viggo Krogh, a shipbuilder. His mother was a Romni. He was educated at the Aarhus Katedralskole in Aarhus. He attended the University of Cope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler (born December 10, 1949) is an American poet. Life and career Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote poetry from this time, inspired by Keats and Kenneth Rexroth translations, among other works. He started college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison but dropped out and after taking a year out of school, he ended up, 1971, at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Drawn to the New York poets, including Frank O’Hara, Kleinzahler then discovered the work of Basil Bunting, who had a major influence on Kleinzahler's search for his own voice in poetry. He described Bunting's 1966 long poem ''Briggflatts'' (which its author described as "an autobiography, but not a statement of fact") as "everything I wanted in poetry.” Bunting taught a creative writing course at Victoria: "He began with some poems by Hardy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kitzberg
August Kitzberg ( in Laatre Parish, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 10 October 1927 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer. Life Until 1863, August Kitzberg was known as August Kits. He grew up in Niitsaadu farmstead in Penuja village, Abja Parish (1857–1871), where his brother, Jaak Kits, was a schoolteacher. He worked for a time in Viljandi and present-day Latvia before moving to Tartu in 1901, where he worked as a manager of the newspaper ''Postimees''. His early works consisted of comedies and humorous stories of village life. In Tartu, Kitzberg began working with Karl Menning at the Vanemuine Theatre, and his plays developed a component of social criticism. There is a monument and museum dedicated to Kitzberg in Karksi-Nuia. His play, ''Tuulte pöörises'', was chosen for the opening play of the Rakvere Theatre Rakvere Theatre is a professional theatre in Rakvere, Estonia. History Rakvere Theatre was established in the fall of 1921, when ''Rakvere Näitlejate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kippasto
August Johannes Kippasto (28 August 1887 – 24 September 1973 ) was an Estonian wrestler who competed for Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, Georg Baumann and Oskar Kaplur, at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, where he was eliminated after losing against Ödön Radvány and Karel Halík. In 1929 he emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a piano tuner in Melbourne and while living in Mount Isa, and as a pupil of the great Georg Hackenschmidt, also tried his hand in professional wrestling under the name Russian Strongman Razgon (Ragozin, Ivan Razgon, Kippasto Razgon), but without success. He wrestled among others with Estonian-born Martin Bucht, former Pacific Coast Light Heavyweight Champion, Heavyweight Champion of Australia and Master of a Thousand Holds Billy Meeske. and the American heavyweight wrestler Bill Beth . 1973 he published poems collection "M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kastra
August Eduard Kastra (17 October 1878 – 21 October 1941) was an Estonian journalist and a trade union leader. He was the first chair of the Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions in Estonia and a member of the Reval (Tallinn) Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in early 20th century. Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin’s great purge in 1936, he died in the Gulag concentration camp in October 1941. Early life Kastra was born on 17 October 1878 in Dorpat (Tartu) into a family of a horse carriage driver. He attended the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, but was expelled as the family could not afford the tuition. He then started working as a telegraph operator at Vegovo train station. During 1905 revolution, Kastra was a member of the city committee of the RSDLP, so he was arrested in 1907. Following the release from prison in 1908, August moved to Tallinn. Journalistic and political career In Tallinn, Kastra worked in several newspapers ('' Trud'', ''Talli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Jerndorff
August Andreas Jerndorff (25 January 1846 – 28 July 1906) was a Denmark, Danish painter who is best known for his portraits. Biography August Jarndorff was born in Oldenburg (city), Oldenburg in Lower Saxony. His parents were Just Ulrik Jerndorff (1806-1847), painter to the Oldenburg Court, and Nancy Caroline née Jones (1809-1877). He trained first under Christian Hetsch (1830–1903), artistic director at the Royal Copenhagen, Royal Porcelain Factory. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1863 to 1868 and studied privately with P. C. Skovgaard (1817–1875). He made his debut as a painter in 1866. In 1869, he received the Neuhausens Prize. In 1875, he received the Royal Academy's travel scholarship and traveled to Italy, where he lived from 1875 to 1878. He became acquainted with but remained relatively unaffected by the latest Realism (arts), Realist tendencies in European painting. In 1880, alongside Laurits Tuxen (1853–1927) and Frans Schwartz (1850–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Jakobson
August Jakobson (2 September 1904 – 23 May 1963) was an Estonian writer and politician. He was one of the few Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states. He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama. In the 1960s his work was described as "ideologically militant". Born Augustin Jakobson in Pärnu, he was the son of Mihkel Jakobson and Maria Jakobson (''née'' Moritson). Jakobson graduated from school in 1926 in Pärnu, then studied economics at the University of Tartu from 1926 to 1929 and medicine from 1931 to 1935. However, he left school without acquiring a formal degree. His debut novel, ''Vaeste-patuste alev'' (1927), won the first place award in a literary competition sponsored by the publishing house Loodus. He was the head of the Estonian Writers' Union in 1939–1940 and in 1944–1946 (then known as Writers' Union of the Estonian SSR). From August 1940, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Horch
August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi. Beginnings Horch was born in Winningen, Rhenish Prussia. His initial trade was as a blacksmith, and then was educated at Hochschule Mittweida (Mittweida Technical College). After receiving a degree in engineering, he worked in shipbuilding. Horch worked for Karl Benz from 1896, before founding '' A. Horch & Co.'' in November 1899, in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany. Manufacturing The first Horch automobile was built in 1901. The company moved to Reichenbach in 1902 and Zwickau in 1904. Horch left the company in 1909 after a dispute, and set up in competition in Zwickau. His new firm was initially called ''Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH'', but following a legal dispute over the ''Horch'' name, he decided to make another automobile company. (The court decided that ''Horch'' was a registered trademark on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Getty
August Getty (né Williams; born June 23, 1994) is an American fashion designer and founder of the fashion brand August Getty Atelier. Early life and family Getty is the son of Ariadne Getty, a member of the Getty family, and Justin Williams. He is the grandson of Sir John Paul Getty Jr. and the great-grandson of actress Ann Rork Light and Jean Paul Getty, the founder of Getty Oil. He has a sibling, Nats. Getty is of Italian and English heritage. He was homeschooled from the age of 16 until the end of high school. Career As a teenager, Getty was influenced by designers Alexander McQueen, Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney. He has also stated that he has a strong connection to Yves Saint Laurent. In 2014, Getty premiered his 2015 Spring/Summer collection at the Mercedes-Benz fashion show in New York City during New York Fashion Week. The collection was based on childhood fantasies Getty had about European heiresses with secret lives, statues in his family's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
