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Mose, Mosè, or Mosé is a given name which may refer to: People In religion * Mose Durst, former president of the Unification Church of the United States * Mosé Higuera, Colombian Catholic bishop * Mosè Tovini, Italian Roman Catholic priest In music * Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer * Mose Christensen, American musician, founder and conductor of the Oregon Symphony * Mose Rager, guitar player from Kentucky In visual art * Mosè Bianchi, Italian painter and printmaker * Mose Tolliver, American painter * Mosè Turri, Italian painter In sports * Mosé Arosio, Italian racing cyclist * Mose Bashaw, NFL player * Mose Lantz, NFL player * Mosé Navarra, former tennis player from Italy * Mose Solomon, the "Rabbi of Swat", American Major League Baseball player * Mose Tuiali'i, rugby union player In other fields * Mose (Ancient Egyptian official), 13th-century BCE Egyptian official under Ramesses II * Mose (scribe), 13th-century BCE Egyptian scribe under Ramesses I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Durst
Mose Durst (born 1939) is an author, educator, and the former president of the Unification Church of the United States. He was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, a predominantly Orthodox Jewish community, to immigrants from Russia. He received a Master's degree and Ph.D while studying English Literature at the University of Oregon. He taught at Laney College in Oakland, California. In 1972 he converted from Judaism and joined the Unification Church in Oakland, then became a lecturer and a church leader in California. In 1974, he married Korean missionary Yon Soo Lim, and they led the Northern California church together. In 1980, Durst was appointed by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon as the president of the American church. As church president Durst expanded some of the successful practices of the Northern California church to the national level. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose (Ancient Egyptian Official)
Mose was an ancient Egyptian official who served in the court of 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II during the 13th century BC. Mose was a Soldier of Ramesses II, beloved of Atum and greatly favored by him. A stele was created for Mose, depicting him receiving gifts from his king. The stela is now in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim (nr 374) and originally comes from Qantir.Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries (Ramesside Inscriptions Translations) (Volume III) Wiley-Blackwell. pp 187-188, 2001 The Stele demonstrate his high position: Mose is standing in front of the Pharaoh where the inscription says: "The King himself gives silver and all good things of the king's house, because the king is "pleased with the speech of his mouth". To the soldiers Ramesses says: "I wish you may see and do what His Majesty loves. How good is what he has done! Great, great!". Mose's name was cited in sources w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Schrute
''The Office'' is an American television series based on the British television comedy of the same name. The format of the series is a parody of the fly on the wall documentary technique that intersperses traditional situation comedy segments with mock interviews with the show's characters, provides the audience access to the ongoing interior monologues for all of the main characters, as well as occasional insights into other characters within the show. Cast overview Notes Regular cast Michael Scott Michael Gary Scott (Steve Carell) is the regional manager of Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is originally based on David Brent, his British counterpart. However, Scott develops into a significantly different character than him as the series progresses. Dwight Schrute Dwight Kurt Schrute III (Rainn Wilson) is a salesman at Dunder Mifflin and the assistant to the regional manager for the majority of the series, until he becomes regional manager in Season 9. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B'hoy And G'hal
''B'hoy'' and ''g'hal'' (meant to evoke an Irish pronunciation of ''boy'' and ''gal'', respectively) were the prevailing slang words used to describe the young men and women of the rough-and-tumble working class culture of Lower Manhattan in the late 1840s and into the period of the American Civil War. They spoke a slang, with phrases such as "hi-hi", "lam him", and "cheese it". Etymology The word b'hoy was first used in 1846. In the United States it was a colloquialism for "spirited lad" and "young spark". The word originates from the Irish pronunciation of boy. Theatrical examples The prototypical artistic representation of a b'hoy came in 1848, when Frank Chanfrau played the character Mose the Fireboy in Benjamin A. Baker's ''A Glance at New York''. Mose is a pugilistic Irish volunteer fireman. T. Allston Brown gives this description: He stood there in his red shirt, with his fire coat thrown over his arm, the stovepipe hat — better known as a "plug" — drawn down over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose The Fireboy
Mose Humphrey was a member of Fire Company 40 in New York City in the 19th century, and the inspiration for the folk hero character "Mose the Fireboy". The character of Mose first appeared on Broadway in Benjamin A. Baker's ''A Glance at New York'', in 1848. Mose was featured in several stage shows and penny novels in the mid-19th century. The character was most identified with actor Frank Chanfrau. The Fireboy character was said to have a height of and hands as big as Virginia hams, able to lift trolley cars over his head and rescue babies inside a stovepipe hat, as his own beaver hat was two foot across the brim. Certain stories recall Mose performing extraordinary deeds, such as swimming the Hudson River with two strokes, or tearing up mulberry and cherry trees to use as a bludgeon against the Plug Uglies The Plug Uglies were an American Know Nothing, Nativist criminal street gang, sometimes referred to loosely as a political club, that operated in the west side of Balt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Penaani Tjitendero
Mose Penaani Tjitendero (25 December 1943 – 26 April 2006) was a Namibian politician and educator. He was Namibia's first Speaker of the National Assembly from independence on March 21, 1990, until his retirement in 2004. Early life and exile Tjitendero is an ethnic Herero and was born in Okahandja on 25 December 1943. He attended Augustineum Secondary School there but did not graduate. Instead he went into exile to Tanzania where he finished school at the Kurisini International School in Dar es Salaam. Afterwards he went to the United States and studied first at Lincoln University, where he graduated in 1972 with a B.A. in History and Political Science, and then at University of Massachusetts Amherst where he obtained a master's degree in History, and in 1977 a PhD. Tjitendero returned from the United States in 1976 and worked as a lecturer in Curriculum Development and Development Studies at the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) in Lusaka, Zambia. He also contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosè Piccio
Mosè Piccio (Hebrew: משה בן יוסף פיגו, ''Moshe ben Yosef Figu''; d. 1576) was an Ottoman lexicographer. Piccio compiled ''Zikhron Torat Moshe'' (Hebrew: זכרון תורת משה), which is a dictionary of ''aggadic'' terminology first published in Constantinople in 1552.Gottheil, R. & Elbogen, I. (1906)Pigo In ''Jewish Encyclopedia''. New York: Funk and Wagnalls. The dictionary's content reflects the impact of the massive migrations taking place at that time around the Mediterranean Basin.Kiron, A., & Jerchower, S. (2003)The meaning of words: Marcus Jastrow and the making of rabbinic dictionaries ''Judaica Online Exhibitions''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. References Lexicographers from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth unknown 1576 deaths Mose Mose, Mosè, or Mosé is a given name which may refer to: People In religion * Mose Durst, former president of the Unification Church of the United States * Mosé Higuera, Colombian Catholic bishop * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Khoneli
Mose Khoneli ( ka, მოსე ხონელი) or Moses of Khoni was a 12th-century Georgian writer active during the reign of Queen Tamar ( 1184-1213). He is believed to be author of one of the most important works of medieval Georgian romance and epic poetry Amiran-Darejaniani.Stevenson, Robert Horne (1958), ''"Amiran-Darejaniani". A cycle of medieval Georgian tales traditionally ascribed to Mose Khoneli''. Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books .... References {{authority control 12th-century poets from Georgia (country) Male poets from Georgia (country) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Jefferson
Mose Oliver Jefferson (August 28, 1942 – May 12, 2011) was a member of the New Orleans family that includes his younger brother, former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson. On 21 August 2009, Mose Jefferson was convicted on four felony counts of bribery. Background Mose Jefferson left his native Lake Providence, Louisiana, to join his older sister Betty Jefferson in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended Marshall High School but dropped out to join the U.S. Air Force in 1959. After being honorably discharged and returning to civilian life, he was convicted of a $450 robbery and served 9 months in Stateville Correctional Center, being released in 1967. He then became a Democratic Party field lieutenant with the political organization of Robert Shaw and his brother William Shaw, the latter of whom served in the Illinois Senate from 1982 to 2002. Legal difficulties On July 22, 2009 — during the 16-indictments trial of Mose Jefferson's brother, Congressman William J. Jefferso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Humphrey
Mose Humphrey was a member of Fire Company 40 in New York City in the 19th century, and the inspiration for the folk hero character "Mose the Fireboy". The character of Mose first appeared on Broadway in Benjamin A. Baker's ''A Glance at New York'', in 1848. Mose was featured in several stage shows and penny novels in the mid-19th century. The character was most identified with actor Frank Chanfrau. The Fireboy character was said to have a height of and hands as big as Virginia hams, able to lift trolley cars over his head and rescue babies inside a stovepipe hat, as his own beaver hat was two foot across the brim. Certain stories recall Mose performing extraordinary deeds, such as swimming the Hudson River with two strokes, or tearing up mulberry and cherry trees to use as a bludgeon against the Plug Uglies The Plug Uglies were an American Know Nothing, Nativist criminal street gang, sometimes referred to loosely as a political club, that operated in the west side of Balt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mose Gingerich
Mose J. Gingerich is an Amish-born documentary-maker and the author of Amish fiction murder/mystery novels. Gingerich was born in an Old Order Amish community in Greenwood, Wisconsin. Early years Gingerich was born on July 27, 1979, and was the 9th of 13 children. He raised on a 255-acre farm and worked on the farm from a young age. He developed a love for reading as an escape from reality. Books such as ''Tom Sawyer'', ''Huckleberry Finn'', ''Little Men'', ''Little Women'', '' Big Smoke Mountain'', and ''Heidi'' influenced his early childhood. In his early teens, Gingerich lived in six different Amish communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. At the age of 19 he became a schoolteacher, teaching grades 1-8 in a one-room schoolhouse for four years. Excommunication by the Amish On July 3, 2002, after Gingerich finished his fourth year of teaching, he left the Amish community. He was banned from further contact with his family and community. Career Television career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosè De Brolo
Moses of Bergamo was a twelfth-century Italian poet and translator. He spent time in Constantinople, where he was one of the first Western Europeans to be interested in collecting Greek language manuscripts. /ref> He is known for his ''Liber Pergamensis'', a description of in Latin verse. It is the earliest surviving example of a genre: the patriotic description of a medieval commune
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