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Kurland (other)
Kurland may refer to: People * Abraham Kurland (1912-1999), Danish Olympic medalist in wrestling * Ben Kurland, American actor * Bob Kurland, American basketball center * Charles Kurland, American and Swedish biochemist * Cys Kurland, South African footballer * Gilbert Kurland, American sound engineer and production manager * Justine Kurland, American fine art photographer * Lynn Kurland, American author * Michael Kurland, American author * Peter Kurland, American motion picture sound mixer *Sheldon Kurland, American violinist and musical arranger Places *Courland (German: ''Kurland''), a region of Latvia * Curland, a village and civil parish in Somerset, England *Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a former duchy in the Baltic region *Kurland, Norway, village in Akershus, Norway See also *Courland (other) Courland is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. Courland may also refer to: ; Political entities * Bishopric of Courland, an ecclesiastical state in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Kurland
Abraham Kurland (10 June 1912 – 14 March 1999) was a Danish Olympic silver medalist wrestler. Kurland won 12 Denmark championships from 1932-49, won a silver medal in lightweight Greco Roman wrestling at the 1932 Olympics and a gold medal in lightweight at the 1932 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, won a gold medal at the 1934 European Wrestling Championships in Greco-Roman and a bronze medal in freestyle, and won a silver medal at the 1935 European Wrestling Championships."Abraham Kurland," olympics.com. Kurland was the favorite to win a gold medal at the . However, he declined to participate because it was taking place in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Kurland
Benjamin David Kurland (born May 1, 1984) is an American actor, known for his role in the Academy Award winning film '' The Artist''. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Jim and Robyne Kurland. He and his older brother Zack Kurland grew up in Dedham and Newton, Massachusetts. Early life and education He first started acting at age 11, performing in a local theatre production of ''Anne of Green Gables''. During the summer, he attended the Walnut Hill School. While in 7th grade at The Fessenden School, he was encouraged by a teacher to audition for a part in the school play, '' Little Shop of Horrors''. Despite his young age, he was cast as the lead in the show. The following year, Kurland was performing again in ''Oliver!'' while simultaneously working with his cousin Jaime Ray Newman in Boston University's production of ''Stop the World: I Want to Get Off''. Before attending high school, Kurland had been in over a dozen plays. At Choate Rosemary Hall, Kurland conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Kurland
Robert Albert Kurland (December 23, 1924 – September 29, 2013) was a American basketball center, who played for the two-time NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M Aggies (now Oklahoma State Cowboys) basketball team. He led the U.S. basketball team to gold medals in two Summer Olympics, and led his AAU team to three national titles. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Early life Kurland was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Albert and Adele Kurland. He graduated from Jennings High School in Jennings, Missouri, where he participated in basketball and track.Robert Kurland Obituary – Bartlesville, OK , Examiner-Enterprise Legacy.com. Retrieved on September 4, 2015. College career [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kurland
Charles Gabriel Kurland (born 14 January 1936) is an American-born Swedish biochemist. Kurland earned a doctorate in 1961 at Harvard University, advised by James D. Watson. Kurland accepted a postdoctoral research position at the Microbiology Institute of the University of Copenhagen, then joined the Uppsala University faculty in 1971. He retired from Uppsala in 2001, and was granted emeritus status. He was later affiliated with Lund University. Kurland was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ... in 1988 as a foreign member, and reclassified as a Swedish member in 2002. The Estonian Academy of Sciences recognized his achievements in biochemistry, and awarded Kurland an equivalent honor in 1991. References {{DEFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cys Kurland
Laicy Cecil "Cys" Kurland was a South African international footballer. He won seven caps for the South African __NOTOC__ South African may relate to: * The nation of South Africa * South African Airways * South African English * South African people * Languages of South Africa * Southern Africa Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the Afric ... national side in 1947. Kurland was Jewish. References Year of birth missing (living people) Possibly living people South African soccer players South Africa international soccer players Jewish footballers South African Jews Association footballers not categorized by position {{SouthAfrica-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Kurland
Gilbert Kurland (November 28, 1904 – February 26, 1978) was an American sound engineer and production manager. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the films ''Imitation of Life'' (1934) and '' Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935). Biography Kurland started work at Universal in the early 1920s, serving as second assistant director (by 1923), first assistant director (1927) and production manager of sound sequences (1930), before becoming head of sound and music at Universal in 1932. In 1938, he joined MGM as first assistant director and subsequently unit production manager (1941–45). He then rejoined Universal first as assistant production manager and then as studio production manager (1951–57). He then served as production manager for Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions. In 1964–65 he was production manager on two films for Universal, and he then served as production manager for Hanna-Barbera before retiring. A collection of his pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland (born 1969) is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City. Early life and education Kurland was born in Warsaw, New York. She earned her B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 1996. She went on to study with Gregory Crewdson at Yale University where she received an M.F.A. in 1998. Life and career Kurland first gained public notice with her work in the group show ''Another Girl, Another Planet'' (1999), at New York's Van Doren Waxter gallery. The show included her large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half- sprites, half juvenile delinquents. This was her first exhibition of a photographic interest that lasted from 1997, when she began taking pictures of her mentor Laurie Simmons's babysitter and her friends, to 2002. Altogether, Kurland published 69 pictures of girls in a series called "Girl Pictures." The staged photos take place in urban and wilderness settings, with girls depicted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Kurland
Lynn Kurland is a best-selling American author of historical, time travel, and fantasy romance novels. The characters in most of her books all belong to one of three extended families (Macleod, McKinnon, de Piaget) and her love scenes are not as explicit as many other popular romances. She is a recipient of the RITA Award. Biography Lynn Kurland is an only child. Her first attempts at writing came when she was five years old and living in Hawaii. Her series of short stories featured a young man who encountered all sorts of trouble. After she moved to the mainland U.S. a short time later, she put aside her interest in writing to focus on music. Kurland always loved to read, though, and in college was introduced to romance novels. She soon decided to write her own novel. ''Stardust of Yesterday'' was published in 1996, winning two RITA awards. To date, she has published twenty-nine full-length novels with a regular schedule of a Nine Kingdoms fantasy novel every January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kurland
Michael Joseph Kurland (born March 1, 1938) is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction. Kurland lives in San Luis Obispo, California. Writing career Kurland's early career was devoted to works of science fiction. His first published novel was ''Ten Years to Doomsday'' (written with Chester Anderson) in 1964. Other notable works include ''Tomorrow Knight'', ''Pluribus'', ''Perchance'', and ''The Unicorn Girl''. ''The Unicorn Girl'' was the middle volume of the Greenwich Village Trilogy by three different authors, the other two being Chester Anderson and T.A. Waters. (Anderson's book, ''The Butterfly Kid'', was nominated for a Hugo Award.) Kurland has also written two novels, '' Ten Little Wizards'' and ''A Study in Sorcery'', set in the world of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy, prefiguring his later success as a mystery writer. Following the success of ''The Infernal Device'', which was nominated for an Edgar Award (as was his earlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kurland
Peter Franklin Kurland (born 1958) is an American production sound mixer. Kurland has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many films, such as '' Walk the Line'', '' The Ladykillers'', '' Intolerable Cruelty'', '' Men in Black'', '' Wild Wild West'', and '' O Brother, Where Art Thou?''. He won two Grammy's for ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'', a BAFTA award and a CAS award for ''Walk the Line'', and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for ''Walk the Line''. In 2008, he won the CAS award for '' No Country for Old Men'', which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing as well as the BAFTA award. In 2011, he won the CAS award and was nominated for the BAFTA, and the Best Sound Oscar, this time for the film '' True Grit''. Kurland is a frequent collaborator with the Coen Brothers, working on every Coen Brothers' film for the past 25 years. Kurland and his wife, Shannon Wood, are co-owners of the Darkhorse Theater, a perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Kurland
Sheldon "Shelly" Kurland (June 9, 1928 – January 6, 2010) was a violinist and musical arranger who worked as a session musician in Nashville and provided arrangements for a number of prominent country musicians. Life and career Sheldon Kurland was a native of Brooklyn, New York, the son of Samuel and Beatrice Kurland and brother of Elaine Todd Koren. His parents were strong advocates of the arts and his father started teaching Sheldon the violin and Elaine the piano when they were five. Both children had great musical talent however Elaine enjoyed writing more and eventually became an accomplished author. Sheldon continued to be taught by his father, at the Henry Street Settlement and with Ivan Galamian until he entered Juilliard School in New York City, where he was trained as a classical musician. As a boy, he was a winner of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a popular radio show in New York City. After receiving a master's degree, he began his professional career at Cornell Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courland
Courland (; lv, Kurzeme; liv, Kurāmō; German and Scandinavian languages: ''Kurland''; la, Curonia/; russian: Курляндия; Estonian: ''Kuramaa''; lt, Kuršas; pl, Kurlandia) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. The largest city is Liepāja, the third largest city in Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland as they were formerly held by the same duke. Geography and climate Situated in western Latvia, Courland roughly corresponds to the former Latvian districts of Kuldīga, Liepāja, Saldus, Talsi, Tukums and Ventspils. When combined with Semigallia and Selonia, Courland's northeastern boundary is the Daugava, which separates it from the regions of Latgale and Vidzeme. To the north, Courland's coast lies along the Gulf of Riga. On the west it is bordered by the Baltic Sea, and on the south by Lithuania. It lies between 55° 45′ and 57° 45′ North and 21° and 27° East. The name is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
