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Pearl (surname) , derived from a Hebrew term meaning pearl
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Pearl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bruce Pearl (born 1960), American college basketball coach *Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan *Judea Pearl (born 1936), computer scientist and philosopher *Matthew Pearl (born 1975), American novelist *Minnie Pearl (1912–1996), American country comedian *Nancy Pearl (born 1945), American librarian * Perry Diamond Pearl (born 1824), American politician *Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), American biologist See also * Pearl (given name) *Perle (other) *Margolis Margolis is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word (Israeli Hebrew aɹgalit, meaning 'pearl,' and may refer to: *Alisa Margolis, Ukrainian artist based in Berlin *Barba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Pearl
Bruce Alan Pearl (born March 18, 1960) is an American college basketball coach, and the head coach of the Auburn Tigers men's basketball team. He previously served as the head coach at Tennessee, Milwaukee, and Southern Indiana. Pearl led Southern Indiana to a Division II national championship in 1995 and was named Division II Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He has won four conference championships and three conference tournament championships as a Division I head coach, and has made ten NCAA tournament appearances and one Final Four. Pearl was named Coach of the Year by Sporting News in 2006 and was awarded the Adolph Rupp Cup in 2008. He also served as the head coach for the Maccabi USA men's basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. Early life and family A Jewish native of Boston, Pearl attended Sharon High School in Sharon, Massachusetts. He is one of the few Division I basketball coaches who never played high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal.'' He was kidnapped and later decapitated by terrorists in Pakistan.'''' Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, to a Jewish family of mixed European and West Asian origins; his father is of Polish Jewish descent and his mother was an Iraqi Jew from Baghdad. After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in communication from Stanford University, Pearl embarked on a career in journalism. He was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of ''The Wall Street Journal'', based in Mumbai, India. Infamously, he was kidnapped by Islamist militants when he went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid (known as the "shoe bomber") and al-Qaeda. Pearl was killed by his captors. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public. Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl (born October 2, 1975) is an American novelist and educator. His novels include ''The Dante Club'', '' The Poe Shadow'', '' The Last Dickens'', '' The Technologists'', and '' The Last Bookaneer''. Biography Pearl was born in New York City and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he graduated from the University School of Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a K-12 school. He earned degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1998, Pearl won the Dante Award from the Dante Society of America for his undergraduate essay, ''Dante in Transit: Emerson’s Lost Role as Dantean.'' Bibliography ''The Dante Club'' was published in 2003. His second novel, a historical thriller about the death of Edgar Allan Poe called ''The Poe Shadow'', was published by Random House in the United States in 2007. His third novel, '' The Last Dickens'', was published in the United States in 2009. ''The Technologists'', a mystery a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnie Pearl
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show ''Hee Haw'' from 1969 to 1991. Biography Early life Sarah Colley was born in Centerville in Hickman County, Tennessee, 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Nashville. She was the youngest of five daughters born to a prosperous sawmill owner and timber dealer in Centerville.Minnie Pearl Inductee Biography Country Music Hall of Fame website. Retrieved February 14, 2009. She graduated from Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Central Library, Seattle Public Library.Rebekah DennNancy Pearl trading the quiet confines of the library for a life of leisure ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', August 2, 2004. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. She achieved broader fame with ''Book Lust,'' her 2003 guide to good reading. Pearl was named 2011 Librarian of the Year Award, Librarian of the Year by ''Library Journal''. She is also the author of a novel and a memoir. Life Nancy Pearl was raised in Detroit, Detroit, Michigan and, by her own account, spent much time of her childhood at the public library. Her decision to become a librarian started at the age of 10 with the inspiration of the childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Diamond Pearl
Perry Diamond Pearl (born 1824) was a Michigan politician. Early life Pearl was born around 1824 in New York. Career Pearl was a farmer. On November 5, 1872, Pearl was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2010 ... where he represented the Wayne County 5th district from January 4, 1871 to December 31, 1872. During his time in the legislature, Pearl lived in Belleville, Michigan. Personal life Pearl was married. References 1820s births Year of death missing Members of the Michigan House of Representatives People from Belleville, Michigan People from New York (state) 19th-century American legislators 19th-century Michigan politicians {{Michigan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Pearl
Raymond Pearl (June 3, 1879 – November 17, 1940) was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed populariser and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against his name. Early life Pearl was born into an upper-middle class family on June 3, 1879, in Farmington, New Hampshire, the son of Ida May (McDuffee) and Frank Pearl. At an early age, Pearl was exposed to the classics. His parents and grandparents wanted him to study Greek and Latin. However, when he attended Dartmouth College at 16 years old, he became fascinated by biology and graduated with a B.A. as the youngest in his class. At Dartmouth, he was known to be an exceptional student as well as a skilled musician. He was capable of playing almost every wind instrument, and he planned amateur music perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl (given Name)
Pearl is a primarily feminine given name derived from the English word ''pearl,'' a hard, roundish object produced within the soft tissue of a living, shelled mollusk. Pearls are commonly used in jewelry-making. The pearl is the birthstone for the month of June.Rosenkrantz, Linda, and Satran, Pamela Redmond (2007). ''Baby Name Bible''. St. Martin's Griffin. Pearls have been associated with innocence and modesty. Because it comes from the sea, it also has associations with the moon and with water. Pearls are also traditionally considered appropriate jewelry for debutantes and brides. Pearl came into popular use along with other gemstone names during the late Victorian Era. It may also have been inspired by the name Margaret, which means "pearl". In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel ''The Scarlet Letter'', heroine Hester Prynne names her illegitimate daughter Pearl because the child is "of great price, purchased with all she had, her mother's only treasure." The passage refers to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perle (other)
Perle * Perle Systems, Serial to Ethernet, Fiber to Ethernet and device networking hardware manufacturers * Perle (grape), German wine grape * ''Perle'', a French attack submarine launched in 1935 * ''Perle'', a French attack submarine launched in 1990 People * Perle Mesta, an American society figure, political hostess, and former ambassador to Luxembourg * Altangerel Perle (b. 1945), a paleontologist * John Perle (other) * George Perle (1915-2009), a music composer * Richard Perle (b. 1941), a U.S. official and advisor Fictional characters * "''Perle''", a Piper Fairy, in '' Sailor Moon Super S: The Movie''. See also * Perl (other) * Pearl (other) * Perles (other) * Perlemann, Perelman Perelman ( he, פרלמן) is an Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bob Perelman (b. 1947), American poet * Chaim Perelman (1912-1984), Polish-born Belgian philosopher of law * Eliezer Ben-Yehuda () (1858-1922), ...< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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