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Vester
Vester may refer to: ;Places: * Vešter, a settlement in the Municipality of Škofja Loka in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia * Vester Hassing, a Danish town in North Jutland, Denmark ;People: * Vester Flanagan (1973–2015), American news reporter and murderer *Vester Pegg (1889–1951), American actor of the silent era * Vester R. Wright (1921–1966), American Champion Thoroughbred horse racing trainer *Viestards (?–1230), also known as Vester, Viesthard, Vesthardus, and Viesturs, a Semigallian leader sometimes referred to as King of Semigallia *Frederic Vester (1925–2003), a German biochemist and expert on ecology * Hannah Vester (born 2006), German rhythmic gymnast * Linda Vester (born 1965), American TV news host * Michael Vester (born 1988), Danish professional football forward *Saskia Vester (born 1959), German actress and author ;Other: *, a United States Navy patrol vessel and minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919 *Vester Guitars Vester was a musical ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Vester
Linda Vester (born June 11, 1965, in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television news host. She was the anchor of ''NBC News at Sunrise'' on NBC and ''DaySide with Linda Vester'' on the Fox News. She left television in 2005 to raise her children. She later produced an award-winning documentary and most recently founded a website for moms. Early life and education Linda Vester is the daughter of the late Joan Vester Schoettinger and the late Dr. John Vester of Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated Latin honors, magna cum laude from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1987. She received an honors diploma from the University of Paris, Sorbonne in France after attending for one semester in 1985. In 1998 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, Fulbright Scholarship to study Arabic and Middle East Affairs at the The American University in Cairo, American University in Cairo, Egypt. She learned to speak both French language, French and Arabic fluently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vester Flanagan
On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of commerce, when all three were attacked by a gunman. Parker, age 24, and Ward, age 27, died at the scene, while Gardner survived. The gunman was 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan II, a former reporter at WDBJ who had been fired in 2013 for disruptive conduct. After a five-hour manhunt, Flanagan shot himself during a car chase with police officers and died later at a hospital. Events Murders At the time of the shooting, Alison Parker and Adam Ward were conducting a live interview with Vicki Gardner at Moneta's Bridgewater Plaza about upcoming events for the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake, southeast of Roanoke. The shooting occurre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Vester
Frederic Vester (November 23, 1925 – November 2, 2003) was a German biochemist, and an expert in the field of ecology. Biography Vester was born in Saarbrücken, and studied chemistry at the universities of Mainz, Paris and Hamburg. From 1955 to 1957 he was postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and Cambridge. From 1957 to 1966 he worked at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, and from 1969 he worked in Munich, first at the Max Planck Institute. In 1970 he founded the private Munich-based ''Frederic Vester Studiengruppe für Biologie und Umwelt GmbH'' ("Frederic Vester Study Group for Biology and Environment, Ltd.), renamed ''Frederic Vester GmbH'' ("Frederic Vester, Ltd.") after his death. From 1982 to 1989 he was a professor at the Bundeswehr University Munich, and from 1989 to 1991 he was Professor for Applied Economics at the Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland. Vester's ideas influenced the formation of the environmental movement and the Green Party in Germany. He was a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |