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Rz or RZ can stand for: People: * Friederike Schwarz, Czech composer and journalist who used rz as a pseudonym) * Robin Zander, American rock singer with Cheap Trick * Richard Zednik, Slovak professional hockey player * Roger Zelazny, American science fiction and fantasy writer * Renée Zellweger, American actress * Robert Zemeckis, American filmmaker * Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary under Richard Nixon * Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model * Robert Zimmerman (other) * Rachel Zoe, American fashion stylist * Rob Zombie, an American heavy metal artist and film director Other uses: * Rz (digraph), a digraph of the Polish alphabet * ASEA Rz, a Swedish test locomotive * '' Redneck Zombies'', a 1986 horror film * Return-to-zero, in line coding * Revolutionary Cells (RZ) The Revolutionary Cells (german: Revolutionäre Zellen, abbreviated RZ) were a self-described " urban guerrilla" organisation that was active between 1973 and 1995. The West German Interior Ministry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Schwarz
Friederike Schwarz (15 January 1910, Prague – 5 May 1945) was a Czech composer, educator, pianist and writer. She, together with her sister, committed suicide during the Prague uprising. She sometimes published under the pseudonym rz. Biography Schwarz was born in Prague to a family of modest means. Her musical talent came to the attention of composer Fidelio Finke, director of the German Academy of Music and Performing Arts, who helped Schwarz get scholarships to study piano and composition at the Academy. She graduated in 1931 and began writing for the music journal ''Der Auftakt'', the official publication of the Musikpädagogischer Verband (Music Education Association) in Prague. She wrote about activities at the German Academy and other facets of German musical life in Prague, under her own name and under the pseudonym rz. Schwarz was mentored by Erich Steinhard, the editor of ''Der Auftakt'', who favorably reviewed her compositions. During the 1930s, she succeeded him as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Zander
Robin Wayne Zander (born January 23, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick, but is also a solo artist. Zander was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 as a member of Cheap Trick. Early life Zander was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Loves Park, Illinois. He learned to play the guitar by age 12. Zander graduated from Harlem High School in Machesney Park, Illinois. After playing in high school bands in the 1960s, he joined Brian Beebe to form the folk duo Zander & Kent in the early 1970s. Music career Cheap Trick In 1974, Zander accepted an invitation to join Cheap Trick. Along with Zander, the band consisted of guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, and drummer Bun E. Carlos. Cheap Trick's 1979 album, ''Cheap Trick at Budokan'', catapulted the band to stardom. The band reached the Top 10 in the U.S. charts in 1979 with "I Want You to Want Me" and topped the charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Zednik
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for ''The Chronicles of Amber''. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo Award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ''...And Call Me Conrad'' (1965), subsequently published under the title ''This Immortal'' (1966) and then the novel ''Lord of Light'' (1967). Biography Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio, the only child of Polish immigrant Joseph Frank Żelazny and Irish-American Josephine Flora Sweet. In high school, he became the editor of the school newspaper and joined the Creative Writing Club. In the fall of 1955, he began attending Case Western Reserve University, Western Reserve University and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1959. He was accepted to Columbia University in New York and specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
