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Zimmermann
Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. ''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber within a structure. The German ''man'' or ''mann'' (in English the extra ''n'' is ignored) is man or worker. The combination of the two means "a worker of wood", "room man" or room worker.Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and ''Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition'' by Oxford University Press. Zimmermann, as a surname is often confused with Zimmerman. The loss or addition of the double "n" may imply many things. This may include linguistic, racial, ethnic, religious or other cultural variations.Zimmerman - Zimmermann name history - http://www.ancestry.com/facts/zimmerman-family-history.ashx Many German names were often Anglicized or simplified by i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Zimmermann
Elizabeth Zimmermann (9 August 1910 – 30 November 1999) was a British-born hand knitting teacher and designer. She revolutionized the modern practice of knitting through her books and instructional series on American public television. Though knitting back and forth on rigid straight needles was the norm, she advocated knitting in the round using flexible circular needles to produce seamless garments and to make it easier to knit intricate patterns. She also advocated the Continental knitting method, claiming that it is the most efficient and quickest way to knit. During World War II, German or continental knitting fell out of favor in the UK and US due to its association with Germany. Many English-language books on knitting are in the English or American style. Elizabeth Zimmermann helped to re-introduce continental style knitting to the United States. Early life Born Elizabeth Lloyd-Jones in London, England, Zimmermann was the daughter of a British naval officer; h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jacob Zimmermann
Johann Jacob Zimmermann (November 25, 1642 – 1693) was a German nonconformist theologian, millenarian, mathematician, and astronomer. Life Zimmermann was born in Vaihingen, Württemberg (now Germany) on November 25, 1642."Who Do You Think You Are?", tracing lineage of Josh Groban back to his 8th grandfather, Johann Jacob Zimmermann He lived in Nürtingen, and studied theology at the University of Tübingen, where he was awarded the title ''Magister'' in 1664. An astronomer and astrologer, Zimmermann produced one of the first Equidistant Conic Projection star charts of the northern hemisphere in 1692. While at University, he also was a singing instructor. He took his first post as a Lutheran minister at Bietigheim (Baden) in 1671. In the early 1680s, he wrote treatises on two comets that caused widespread fears among the population; he charted their course astronomically and interpreted their meanings astrologically. Subsequently, he combined his astrological insights with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and Official language, official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italy, Italian province of South Tyrol. It is also a co-official language of Luxembourg and German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium, as well as a national language in Namibia. Outside Germany, it is also spoken by German communities in France (Bas-Rhin), Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Poland (Upper Silesia), Slovakia (Bratislava Region), and Hungary (Sopron). German is most similar to other languages within the West Germanic language branch, including Afrikaans, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, the Frisian languages, Low German, Luxembourgish, Scots language, Scots, and Yiddish. It also contains close similarities in vocabulary to some languages in the North Germanic languages, North Germanic group, such as Danish lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Quadrature Du Net
La Quadrature du Net ('' Squaring the Net'' in French) is a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms for its citizens. It advocates for French and European legislation to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. ''La Quadrature du Net'' engages in public-policy debates concerning, for instance, freedom of speech, copyright, regulation of telecommunications and online privacy. Etymology The name of the group is based on squaring the circle (french: quadrature du cercle), an unsolvable mathematical problem. According to the collective, it is "impossible to effectively control the flow of information in the digital age by law and technology without harming public freedoms and damaging economic and social development". The collective makes an analogy with the squaring of the circle as a problem that could take ages for people to realize is impossible to solve, as initially intended. Creation and str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pia Zimmermann
Pia Zimmermann (born 17 September 1956) is a German politician. Born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, she represents ''Die Linke'' ( The Left). She was a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony from 2013 until 2021. Life Zimmermann graduated from secondary school in 1972, followed by a commercial apprenticeship which she completed in 1975. After completing her apprenticeship, she passed her school-leaving examination on the second educational pathway and studied social services from 1980 to 1984. After her studies, she worked as a staff member in disability aid until 1999. She was job-seeking until 2005 and trained as a media designer. After completing this training, she worked in the constituency office of Dorothée Menzner, a member of the Bundestag. She was selected to the Bundestag at the 2013 German federal election Federal elections were held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Good Privacy
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991. PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP, an open standard of PGP encryption software, standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data. Design PGP encryption uses a serial combination of hashing, data compression, symmetric-key cryptography, and finally public-key cryptography; each step uses one of several supported algorithms. Each public key is bound to a username or an e-mail address. The first version of this system was generally known as a web of trust to contrast with the X.509 system, which uses a hierarchical approach based on certificate authority and which was added to PGP implementations later. Current versions of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Zimmermann
Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and Cryptography, cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. Zimmermann is co-founder and Chief Scientist of the global encrypted communications firm Silent Circle (software), Silent Circle. Background He was born in Camden, New Jersey. Zimmermann received a B.S. degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978. In the 1980s, Zimmermann worked in Boulder, Colorado as a software engineer on the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign as a military policy analyst. PGP In 1991, he wrote the popular Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) program, and made it available (together with its source code) through public FTP for download, the first widely available program implementing public-key cryptography. Shortly thereafter, it became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zimmermann (mathematician)
Paul Zimmermann (born 13 November 1964) is a French computational mathematician, working at INRIA. Zimmermann co-authored the book Computational Mathematics with SageMath used by Mathematical students worldwide. His interests include asymptotically fast arithmetic—he wrote a book on algorithms for computer arithmetic with Richard Brent. He has developed some of the fastest available code for manipulating polynomials over GF(2), and for calculating hypergeometric constants to billions of decimal places. He is associated with the CARAMEL project to develop efficient arithmetic, in a general context and in particular in the context of algebraic curves of small genus; arithmetic on polynomials of very large degree turns out to be useful in algorithms for point-counting on such curves. He is also interested in computational number theory. In particular, he has contributed to some of the record computations in integer factorisation and discrete logarithm. He has been an acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zimmermann (blacksmith)
Paul Zimmermann A.W.C.B. (born 1939) is a German blacksmith who created contemporary forge work. Zimmermann is considered one of the first German blacksmiths to move towards innovative and contemporary forms in the trade. Forms and shapes which he developed are now part of blacksmithing design education in Germany. Zimmerman is the first non-British blacksmith to be awarded the title of Associate of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths (A.W.C.B.). Early life and career Paul Zimmermann was born in Pliezhausen, Germany in 1939, his parents being farmers during the beginning of World War II. Zimmermann started his traditional apprenticeship in 1953–1956 at an early age of 14. After his apprenticeship he won an award for gifted students and spent time in an intermediate study, partly abroad in Switzerland. In 1962 he qualified as a master craftsman after a year at Luisenschule, Munich. After 1962 Zimmermann taught in vocation institute in Munich. After 1963 Paul Zimmermann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Zimmermann (SS-Brigadeführer)
Paul Zimmermann (2 July 1895 – 21 May 1980) was a German Nazi SS-''Brigadeführer'' and ''Generalmajor'' of police. During the Second World War he served as the SS and Police Leader in Nikolajew (today, Mykolaiv). He was also a member of the Economic Staff East, which planned and implemented exploitation of the occupied Soviet Union. Early life Zimmermann was born in Münster, the son of a state building supervisor. After attending school in Hanover and receiving his abitur, Zimmermann entered the Imperial German Army and fought in the First World War, earning the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class. Discharged with the rank of ''Hauptmann'' of reserves, he returned to civilian life and studied civil engineering, passing his state examinations in 1924 and obtaining an advanced degree in engineering (Dipl. Ing.), specializing in roadways and railways. Peacetime Nazi and SS career In 1931, Zimmermann joined the Nazi Party (membership number 940,783). In 1932 he became a represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Zimmermann
Marie Zimmermann (June 17, 1879 – June 17, 1972) was an American designer and maker of jewelry and metalwork. She is noted for fine craftsmanship and innovative design in a variety of different mediums and styles. Calling herself “a craftsman” rather than an artist, she employed many different crafts in her work such as metalsmithing, carving, painting, and sculpting. A 1926 article in the ''Brooklyn Eagle'' by Harriette Ashbrook called her "perhaps the most versatile artist in the country". Early life and education Zimmermann was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1879, the fourth of five children to well-off Swiss immigrants John and Marie Zimmermann. Her family purchased a farm in 1882 along the Delaware River near Milford, Pennsylvania, to serve as a weekend and summer home. The family farm strongly influenced Zimmermann's creativity. Against her father's desire for her to go into medicine, she pursued a career in the decorative arts and worked toward mastery of metalworking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Zimmermann
Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish Catalan actress and film director.Aroca, María Victoria. Lydia Zimmermann, sencillez escogidaArchive. ''S Moda El País'' (in Spanish). 7 January 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2015. «los padres de Lydia –el diseñador gráfico Yves Zimmermann y la diseñadora textil y antropóloga Bignia Kuoni,» «Actriz, nominada a los premios Gaudí por su papel en F, realizadora, guionista y directora,» «Presumida a su pesar, le gusta la sencillez. Los años vividos en Estados Unidos, Australia y Canadá la han acostumbrado a comprar en comercios de segunda mano,» and «Los padres de Lydia, ambos suizos, se conocieron en Estados Unidos y llegaron a Barcelona por motivos laborales.» Biography Lydia Zimmermann is the daughter of Swiss Yves Zimmermann, a graphic designer, and Bignia Silvia Zimmermann-Kuoni, an anthropologist and textile designer. She studied film in VCA Melbourne, Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
