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Emil Cohen (comedian)
Emil Cohen (1911- February 12, 2000) was an American comedian, humorist and entertainer. He was billed as "America's Foremost American Jewish Humorist". He frequently performed at the Grossinger Hotel in Liberty, New York, in the so-called " Borscht Belt". Cohen's Yiddish humor was well received by the predominantly Jewish audiences in this area. Cohen was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1911, the son of Julius and Ida (Magidoff). He was raised in Wilmington, Delaware with his sister Rose and his brothers Hym and Phil. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, Cohen became a comedian at the Grossinger Pancoast Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. It was there he met and married Lillian Rothman in 1950. The couple had two sons, Jay and David. Cohen developed a unique style of humor in which he delivered jokes and stories with a punch line in Yiddish followed immediately by an English translation. His smooth delivery ensured that audience members who on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/ camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς ('' phos''), meaning "light," and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light." History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based " heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
