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Weinstein Brothers
Weinstein is a German or Yiddish surname meaning wine stone, referring to the crystals of cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) resulting from the process of fermenting grape juice. Hermeswein website. List of people with this surname * , mathematician * Albert Weinstein (1885-1969), German Olympic track and field athlete * |
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers,Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., Hambu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordt Weinstein
Cordt Weinstein (born March 2, 1972) is an American retired professional soccer player who played nine seasons with the Long Island Rough Riders. Player Weinstein attended Southern Connecticut State University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1989 to 1993. In 1990 and 1992, Weinstein and his team mates won the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship. In 1994, Weinstein signed with the Long Island Rough Riders of the USISL. In 1996, the Rough Riders loaned Weinstein to the New York Fever of the A-League for the months of August and September. In 2001, Weinstein was loaned to MetroStars. Coach In 1993, Weinstein became an assistant coach at St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip, New York West Islip is a hamlet and CDP founded roughly in 1683, located in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Situated on the South Shore of Long Island, the population of the CDP was 27,048 at the time of the 2020 census. .... He was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Weinstein (other)
James Weinstein may refer to: *James Weinstein (author) (1926–2005), journalist *James Weinstein (New Jersey official) James Weinstein is a transportation planner and executive. In 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed him Executive Director of New Jersey Transit, the state agency for New Jersey which provides bus, light rail, and commuter rail. He s ..., transportation executive * James N. Weinstein, American health executive * James Weinstein (legal scholar), American legal scholar {{hndis, Weinstein, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Sager Weinstein
Jacob Sager Weinstein (born January 8, 1972) is an American author, humorist, comedy writer, and screenwriter. For three years he was a staff writer for ''Dennis Miller Live'', for which he received a Writers Guild of America award in 2001. Earlier he was a contributor to ''The Onion'', and he has also written for ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency'', the ''North American Review'', and ''The New Republic''. Sager Weinstein co-wrote with Matthew David Brozik three humor books: in 2005 ''The Government Manual for New Superheroes''; ''The Government Manual for New Wizards'' in 2006; and ''The Government Manual for New Pirates'' in 2007. In 2012 he published the sardonically titled ''How Not To Kill Your Baby''. Sager Weinstein is the author of the Hyacinth Series, a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about enchanted rivers under London. In 2018, he published the picture book, ''Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian'', with art by Vera Brosgol. He also wrote a screenplay adapted from the 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack B
Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Jack (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Jack (Tekken), multiple fictional characters in the fighting game series ''Tekken'' * Jack the Ripper, an unidentified British serial killer active in 1888 * Wolfman Jack (1938–1995), a stage name of American disk jockey Robert Weston Smith * New Jack, a stage name of Jerome Young (1963-2021), an American professional wrestler * Spring-heeled Jack, a creature in Victorian-era English folklore Animals and plants Fish *Carangidae generally, including: **Almaco jack **Amberjack **Bar jack **Black jack (fish) **Crevalle jack **Giant trevally or ronin jack **Jack mackerel **Leather jack **Yellow jack *Coho salmon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irv Weinstein
Irwin B. "Irv" Weinstein (April 29, 1930 – December 26, 2017) was an American local television news anchor and occasional radio actor. He hosted WKBW-TV's '' Eyewitness News'' in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast area. Weinstein was known for his powerful delivery and sense of humor. Weinstein, weatherman Tom Jolls and sports anchor Rick Azar fronted the broadcast from 1965 until Azar's retirement in 1989. Weinstein was inducted into the Buffalo Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998 and the N.Y. State Broadcasters Association in 2006. Life and career Born in Rochester, New York, to Jewish emigrants from Lithuania, Weinstein began his broadcast career while he was in high school, working at WHAM Radio as an actor on several locally produced programs under the tutelage of Bill Hanrahan. He was paid $7 a day for his work on WHAM, in which Wein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iram Weinstein
Iram J. Weinstein is an engineer at Science Applications International Corp. in McLean, Virginia. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his work in signal processing and test methods for radar-detecting advanced aircraft and cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial or naval targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhe ...s in severe terrain clutter. References Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people 21st-century American engineers Stanford University alumni Northeastern University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein (; born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (1989); ''The Crying Game'' (1992); ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994); ''Heavenly Creatures'' (1994); '' Flirting with Disaster'' (1996); and ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing ''Shakespeare in Love'' and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including '' The Producers'', ''Billy Elliot the Musical'', and '' August: Osage County''. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017. In October 2017, following sexual abuse allegations dating back to the late 1970s, Weinstein was dismissed from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Weinstein
Hannah Weinstein ( Dorner; June 23, 1911 – March 9, 1984) was an American journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who moved to Britain and became a television producer. She is best remembered for having produced ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' television series in the mid-to-late 1950s. Early life Born to a Jewish family in New York City, After graduating with a degree in journalism from New York University, Weinstein worked for the '' New York Herald Tribune'' from 1927. In 1937, she left the newspaper to join Fiorello H. La Guardia's mayoral campaign in New York City. She was also involved in the presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. With Ring Lardner Jr., she wrote speeches for Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles during this period. Exile In 1950, Weinstein began her film career in Paris having left the US to avoid the rise of anticommunism, as typified by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In 1952, after settli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his career, the most in history. Kasparov also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11). Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association. In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match. He co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Weinstein
Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 26, 1965) is an American podcast host and a managing director of Thiel Capital. Education Weinstein received his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. In his dissertation, ''Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension'', Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions. Career Physics Weinstein left academia after stints at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Weinstein was invited to a colloquium by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory in May 2013. There he presented his ideas on a theory of everything called ''Geometric Unity''. Physicists expressed skepticism about the theory. Joseph Conlon of Oxford stated that some of the predicted particles would already have been d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenic Weinstein
Domenic Weinstein (born 27 August 1994) is a German professional racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team . He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Major results ;2011 : 1st Points race, UCI Junior Track World Championships : 1st Madison, National Junior Track Championships (with Arne Egner) ;2012 : UEC European Junior Track Championships ::3rd Team pursuit (with Leon Rohde, Nils Schomber and Jonas Tenbrock) ::3rd Madison (with Pascal Ackermann) ;2013 : 2nd Team sprint, National Track Championships ;2014 : UEC European Under-23 Track Championships ::1st Madison (with Leon Rohde) ::3rd Team pursuit (with Marco Mathis, Leon Rohde and Sebastian Wotschke) : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2015 : National Track Championships ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Team pursuit (with Henning Bommel, Theo Reinhardt and Nils Schomber) ::3rd Omnium : 1st Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
