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Kessler (name)
Kessler or Keßler is a surname of German and Jewish ( Ashkenazi) origins. It is an occupational name that means ''coppersmith'', or more precisely, a kettle (German ) maker. In alpine countries the name derived from the definition: the one living in the basin of a valley. People named Kessler include: * Achim Kessler (born 1964), German politician * Amalia Kessler, American lawyer * Anna Rose Kessler Moore, American singer * Andy Kessler, (born 1959), author, investor, financier * Andy Kessler, (died 2009), skateboarder * Barbara Kessler, American singer-songwriter * Bruce Kessler, television and film director * Chad Kessler (American football) (born 1975), American football player * Cody Kessler, American football player * Daniel Kessler, lead guitarist for post-punk band Interpol * David Aaron Kessler, scientist and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration * David Kessler (actor), (1860–1920), Yiddish actor * Donald J. Kessler, NASA scientist * Edwin Kessl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singular: , Modern Hebrew: are a Jewish diaspora population who Coalescent theory, coalesced in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. Their traditional diaspora language is Yiddish (a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language with Jewish linguistic elements, including the Hebrew alphabet), which developed during the Middle Ages after they had moved from Germany in the Middle Ages, Germany and France in the Middle Ages, France into Northern Europe#UN geoscheme classification, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. For centuries, Ashkenazim in Europe used Hebrew only as a sacred language until Revival of the Hebrew language, the revival of Hebrew as a common language in 20th-century Israel. Throughout their numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doppler Weather Radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation (meteorology), precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation. Both types of data can be analyzed to determine the structure of storms and their potential to cause severe weather. During Radar in World War II, World War II, radar operators discovered that weather was causing echoes on their screen, masking potential enemy targets. Techniques were developed to filter them, but scientists began to study the phenomenon. Soon after the war, military surplus, surplus radars were used to detect precipitation. Since then, weather radar has evolved on its own and is now used by national weather services, research departments in universities, and in television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Kessler
Heinz Kessler or Heinz Keßler (26 January 1920 – 2 May 2017) was a German communist politician and military officer in East Germany. His career in the military started when he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, in WWII. Due to his communist convictions, he deserted the Wehrmacht and fought for the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. Upon his return to East Germany, he was given the rank of '' Armeegeneral'' in the National People's Army (''Nationale Volksarmee''). Later, he was Minister of Defense of the GDR, a member of the '' Politbüro'' of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and a deputy of the GDR's ''Volkskammer'' (parliament). Convicted for his role in the deaths of defectors along the Berlin wall, he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after German reunification, and served his sentence in Hakenfelde Prison. He was released from prison in 1998 after serving only two years. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Graf Kessler
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in Lyon in 1937. Family Harry Kessler's parents were the Hamburg banker Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Kessler (24 November 1838 – 22 January 1895) and Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch (born 17 July 1844 in Bombay; died 19 September 1919 in Normandy), the daughter of Anglo-Irish Henry Blosse Lynch, C.B., of Partry House, County Mayo. Kessler's parents married in Paris on 10 August 1867; Kessler was born, also in Paris, in 1868. Kessler's younger sister was born in 1877, and was named Wilhelmina after Kaiser Wilhelm I, who became the child's godfather. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Kessler
Gustav Kessler (German spelling: ''Keßler'') (1832–1904) was a German trade unionist. In his early life he had been apprenticed as a carpenter before qualifying as a state registered architect (German: ''Regierungsbaumeister''). He became a social democrat after 1883 having previously been a supporter of the Progressive Liberal Party. He was the editor of ''Der Bauhandwerker'', a construction workers' unionist journal from 1884 to 1886. In the aftermath of the Berlin bricklayers' strike of 1885, he and the strike's leader, Karl Behrend, with another bricklayer trade unionist, Fritz Wilke, were expelled from Berlin in June 1886 under the Anti-Socialist Law. He settled in Brunswick from where he edited ''Der Baugewerkschafter'' and ''Das Vereinsblatt'' before returning to Berlin in 1890. In 1889, he was a delegate at the Second International's founding congress in Paris. He was editor of the socialist newspaper ''Volksblatt für Teltow-Beeskow-Storkow-Charlottenburg'' after 1890. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kessler (screenwriter)
Glenn Kessler (born April 6, 1970) is an American screenwriter, television producer, actor, and director. Early life and education Kessler grew up in the suburbs of Detroit suburb and graduated from the Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills in 1988. Later he attended Harvard University, graduating in 1992 and then New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1997. Career He is the co-creator and executive producer of the Golden Globe award-winning FX drama series ''Damages'' along with his younger brother, Todd A. Kessler, and Daniel Zelman. He also stars on the show as FBI agent Werner. The three creators were nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for their work on the ''Damages'' pilot episode "''Get Me A Lawyer''". In 2015, the Kessler brothers and Zelman created the Netflix original series, ''Bloodline''. The show was cancelled in 2016, and ended its run after its third season, which a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kessler (journalist)
Glenn Kessler (born July 6, 1959) is an American former diplomatic correspondent who has helmed the "Fact Checker" feature for ''The Washington Post'' since 2011. Career Kessler is a 1981 graduate of Brown University and received a Masters of International Affairs in 1983 from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Kessler is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of ''The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy''. Kessler's reporting played a role in two foreign policy controversies during the presidency of George W. Bush. He was called to testify in the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in which he was questioned about a 2003 telephone conversation with Libby in which the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, might have been discussed. (Libby recalled they had discussed Plame; Kessler said they did not.) Meanwhile, a 2004 telephone conversation between Kessler and Steve J. Rosen, a senior offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Kessler
Gladys Kessler (born January 22, 1938) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Education and career After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School, she was hired by the National Labor Relations Board. She worked as a legislative assistant to United States Senator Harrison A. Williams ( D– NJ), and subsequently for United States Congressman Jonathan B. Bingham ( D– NY). Kessler worked for the New York City Board of Education, and then opened a public interest law firm. Judicial career Superior Court of the District of Columbia service In June 1977, she was appointed Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and from 1981 to 1985 served as Presiding Judge of the Family Division. She was President of the National Association of Women Judges from 1983 to 1984, and currently serves on the Executive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germán Kessler
Germán Kessler (born 1 July 1994) is a Uruguayan rugby union player who currently plays for Soyaux Angoulême in France's Pro D2. International career In 2014, he was called by the Uruguayan U20 national team to compete at the 2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy The 2014 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, second-tier world championship. The event was held in Hong Kong and was organized by rugby's governing body, the Int ..., having outstanding performances and helping the team finish 4th. In 2015 he was named in Uruguay's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. References External links * 1994 births Living people Expatriate rugby union players in the United States Rugby union hookers Rugby union players from Montevideo Uruguay international rugby union players Uruguayan expatriate rugby union players Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in the United States Uruguayan people of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kessler
George Edward Kessler (July 16, 1862 – March 20, 1923) was an American pioneer city planner and landscape architect. Over the course of his forty-one year career, George E. Kessler completed over 200 projects and prepared plans for 26 communities, 26 park and boulevard systems, 49 parks, 46 estates and residences, and 26 schools. His projects can be found in 23 states, 100 cities, in places as far flung as Shanghai, New York, and Mexico City. "Planning", wrote Kessler, "should be comprehensive. Even though a grand urban design could only be realized in bits and pieces, and over a long period of years, still we should always know where we are going. Each bit and piece should be understandable by reference to the great plan of which it is a part. Planning must also be relevant to the particular city: its geography, its economic character, all its local peculiarities. We must," he insisted, "deal with it in its application to the entire city. The object is to make cities decen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geldolph Adriaan Kessler
Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler (2 April 1884 – 21 August 1945) was a Dutch footballer and industrialist. Kessler – along with brother Boeli and cousins Tonny and Dé – played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won three caps for the Dutch national side between 1905 and 1906. Family Background Kessler was born in a very wealthy family from The Hague, the oldest son of six children. His father Jean Baptiste August Kessler (1853–1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (''Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies''), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (''Royal Dutch Petroleum Company''), now named Royal Dutch Shell. Football career Dolf made his debut as a football player at seventeen years of age, at the Hague football club HVV. At first he stood leftback, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Kessler
Friedrich "Fritz" Kessler (August 25, 1901 – January 21, 1998) was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School (1935–1938, 1947–1970), University of Chicago Law School, and University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He was a contract law scholar, but also wrote about trade regulation law. He was regarded as a member of the American Legal Realism School. Biography Born in Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern, in 1901, he received his law degree from the University of Berlin in 1928. He was a research member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Foreign and International Law in Berlin until 1934, when he fled Germany to avoid Nazi persecution, as his wife, Eva Jonas, was Jewish. Friedrich Kessler died on January 21, 1998, in Berkeley, CA. Generations of students remember with affection his unforgettable classroom style----heavily Socratic yet benign. Scholarship Kessler's most celebrated article''Contracts of Adhesion—Some Thoughts About Freedom of Contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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