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Hochberg (other)
Hochberg (german: high mountain) may refer to: Mountains * Hochberg (Chiemgau), Bavaria, Germany * Hochberg (Dahn), a hill in the Palatinate Forest, Germany * Hochberg (Haardt), a mountain in the Palatinate Forest, Germany * Hochberg (Lower Bavaria), Germany * Hochberg (Swabian Jura), a mountain of the Swabian Alps, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Places * Höchberg, a municipality in the district of Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany * Hochberg, a borough of Remseck in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg * Hochberg (Bad Saulgau), a district of Bad Saulgau in Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg * Hochberg (Chiemgau), a district of Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany People People * Margraves of Baden-Hochberg (formerly Baden-Hachberg) * Reichsgrafen of Hochberg-Fürstenstein at castle Fürstenstein near Wałbrzych (Waldenburg) in Silesia, since 1848 Duke of Pless * Count Leopold of Hochberg, later Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden * Countess Marie of Hochberg, nobility People surnamed Hochber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Hochberg
Adam Hochberg is a radio correspondent for National Public Radio based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hochberg reports on a broad range of issues in the Southeast. Since he joined NPR in 1995, Hochberg has traveled the region extensively, reporting on its changing economy, demographics, culture, and politics. He covered the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, followed candidates in three Presidential elections, and reported on more than a dozen hurricanes. He's also appeared as a guest on the popular NPR program Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!. Before joining NPR, Hochberg worked as a freelance journalist in North Carolina. He was a regular contributor to NPR, CBS Radio, North Carolina Public Radio, and North Carolina's statewide public television network. Prior to that, he served as assistant news director at WPTF Radio in Raleigh and as a reporter at WCHL (AM) Radio in Chapel Hill. Five times, Hochberg has been named "North Carolina Radio Journalist of the Year" by the Radio-Television News Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netanel Hochberg
Netanel Hochberg ( he, נתנאל הוכברג; born 20 December 1897 - died 27 January 1983) was an Israeli agronomist and expert in the growing of grapevine. Biography Hochberg was born in Ness Ziona, Ottoman-ruled Palestine (present day Israel) in 1897. He studied agriculture at the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, to the south of Tel Aviv, and then at Utrecht University. After completing his studies abroad, he returned to Palestine and became a teacher at Mikveh Israel. Hochberg was married to Hannah Rozanski. Their eldest son Dan was killed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War at age 17, and their youngest son Natan was one of the founders of the Mikveh Israel Winery. Hannah died in 1955. Hochberg created a number of new varieties of vine, the first of which he called "''Dan ben Hannah''" (Dan son of Hannah), named after his son Dan and wife Hannah. Awards * In 1955, Hochberg was awarded the Israel Prize, for agriculture. See also *List of Israel Prize recipients Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hochberg
Michael Hochberg (born 1980) is an American physicist. He’s authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, has founded several companies, and has been an inventor on over 60 patents. Hochberg's research interests include silicon photonics and large-scale photonic integration. He has worked in a number of application areas, including data communications, biosensing, quantum optics, mid-infrared photonics, optical computing, and machine learning. Much of his work in silicon photonics has been the product of a longstanding series of collaborations with Thomas Baehr-Jones. Personal Hochberg was born in Ithaca, NY, and attended high school at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. In his spare time, he worked at Strategic Forecasting, Inc., which was then located in Baton Rouge, and at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory in Livingston, Louisiana. Degrees He obtained a BS in Physics in 2002, an MS in Applied Physics in 2005 and a PhD in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Caroline Of Hochberg
Countess Louise Caroline von Hochberg, born Geyer von Geyersberg (26 May 1768 in Karlsruhe – 23 June 1820, Karlsruhe), from 1787 Baroness von Hochberg, from 1796 Countess of Hochberg, was the second wife of the Margrave and later Grand Duke Charles Frederick of Baden. Her descendants eventually ascended the grand ducal throne and reigned until 1918. Origin Countess Louise Caroline Geyer von Geyersberg was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Heinrich Philip Geyer von Geyersberg (1729-1772) and his wife, Countess Maximiliana Hedwiger von Sponeck. The latter was the niece-in-law of Leopold Eberhard, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard. Louise Caroline descends from a family of Lower Austria surnamed ''Geiger''; Walther Geiger, a postal administrator in Vienna, being ennobled in the Holy Roman Empire, along with some collateral relatives, in 1595. In 1625 Emperor Ferdinand II authorised them to add the noble suffix "von Geyersberg". Sometime after 1675 Louise Caroline's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Höchberg
Karl Höchberg (8 September 1853 – 21 June 1885) was a German social-reformist writer, publisher and economist, of Jewish family background, who acted under the pseudonyms Dr. Ludwig Richter and R.F. Seifert. In 1876, he became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany (SDAP). From 1877 to 1878, he was responsible for editing the ''Zukunft'' ("''Future''") magazine. He was in exile in Switzerland from 1878 onwards, first to avoid conscription to the Prussian military, and then due to the anti-socialist laws. Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky Karl Johann Kautsky (; ; 16 October 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theorist. Kautsky was one of the most authoritative promulgators of orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in ... were his secretaries and pupils in Zurich. Afterwards, between 1879 and 1881, he was editor of the ''Jahrbuch für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik'' ("''Yearbook for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (with Jay Gorney), " April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs for the film '' The Wizard of Oz'', including " Over the Rainbow". He was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as his leftist leanings. He championed racial and gender equality and union politics. He also was an ardent critic of religion. Early life and career Harburg, the youngest of four surviving children (out of ten), was born Isidore Hochberg on the Lower East Side of New York City on April 8, 1896.Yip Harburg: Biography from Answers.com Retrieved January 2, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hochberg
Fred Philip Hochberg (born February 3, 1952) is an American businessman and civic leader. After nearly two decades as an executive, including five years as President at the Lillian Vernon Corporation, he then served in various leadership roles at U.S. government agencies, non-profit organizations, and in academia. From 2009 to 2017, he was chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, becoming the institution's longest-serving chairman. He was initially appointed in January 2009 and confirmed in May 2009. He was re-nominated in March 2013 and confirmed for a second term in July 2013. He served as a member of the Presidential transition of Barack Obama. From 2004 to 2008 he served as dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School and as deputy and then acting administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in the Clinton Administration. Hochberg was one of the highest-ranking LGBTQ officials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith S
Faith, derived from Latin ''fides'' and Old French ''feid'', is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or In the context of religion, one can define faith as " belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, or evidence while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.Russell, Bertrand"Will Religious Faith Cure Our Troubles?" ''Human Society in Ethics and Politics''. Ch 7. Pt 2. Retrieved 16 August 2009. Etymology The English word ''faith'' is thought to date from 1200 to 1250, from the Middle English ''feith'', via Anglo-French ''fed'', Old French ''feid'', ''feit'' from Latin ''fidem'', accusative of ''fidēs'' (trust), akin to ''fīdere'' (to trust). Stages of faith development James W. Fowler (1940–2015) proposes a series of stages of faith-development (or spiritual development) across the human lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Hochberg
Burt Hochberg (1933 – May 13, 2006) was an expert on chess and other games and puzzles. He authored and edited many books on chess, and served as editor of both ''Chess Life'' (from December 1966 until October 1979 inclusive), and ''GAMES'' magazine. Hochberg has been the longest-serving editor in the history of ''Chess Life'' magazine. Hochberg was the main publishing and advisory force behind the RHM Publishing chess project in the 1970s, which produced many high-quality titles from several of the world's top players, which sold well. This work caught and fed the enormous increase in chess popularity spurred by Bobby Fischer's conquest of the World Chess Championship in 1972. Examples are: * ''The French Defence'', by Svetozar Gligorić (RHM Publishing 1974); * ''The Benko Gambit'', by Pal Benko, (RHM Publishing 1973); * ''World Championship Interzonals: Leningrad—Petropolis 1973'', by Robert Wade, L.S. Blackstock, and Alexander Kotov, (RHM Publishing 1974); * ''How To Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Hochberg
Audrey Hochberg (June 26, 1933 – June 8, 2005) was an American politician from New York. Life She was born Audrey Elaine Golden on June 26, 1933, in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, the daughter of Abraham H. Golden and Fannie (Dodek) Golden. She graduated B.S. in economics from Radcliffe College in 1955. Then she worked as a securities analyst. She married Herbert L. Hochberg, and they had three daughters. They lived in Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. She became active in the anti-war movement triggered by the Vietnam War, and entered politics as a Democrat. She was a member of the Westchester County Legislature from 1972 to 1992; and a member of the New York State Assembly from 1993 to 2000, sitting in the 190th, 191st, 192nd and 193rd New York State Legislatures. In March 2000, she announced that she would not seek re-election later that year. She died on June 8, 2005, in NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, of uterine cancer Uterine cancer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
