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The Germans break the code, coming near to catching Wimsey and Bunter. Wimsey then improvises a new code, based on an unpublished text known only to himself and his wife. Graham Greene's protagonists often use book codes. In The Human Factor, several books are used, and an edition of Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare is used in Our Man in ...
Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.He was born on the day after Lag BaOmer, 19 Iyar 5649 (May 1889) . His father died when he was three. In 1905 he married Rachel Chaya Miriam, daughter of his nephew Grand Rabbi Yerachmiel Moshe of the Kozhnitz dynasty.
He took a job processing emigration applications for Soviet Jews [5] and in 1973, he immigrated to Israel with his wife around the time of the Yom Kippur War. [5] He changed his last name to Sapir while in Israel [citation needed] and moved to the United States, first to Louisville, Kentucky, where he learned English and worked as a bus driver, janitor, and a loader, and then to New York City ...
Meyer Schapiro (23 September 1904 – 3 March 1996) was a Lithuanian-born American art historian who developed new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works.
Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa (בחיי בן אשר אבן חלואה , 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He is one of two scholars now referred to as Rabbeinu Behaye , the other being philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda .
Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! is a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks, the first in his Magic Kingdom of Landover series. Written in 1986, it tells the story of how Ben Holiday, a talented but depressed Chicago trial lawyer, comes to be king of Landover, an otherworldly magical kingdom.
Benny Potter (May 18, 1984 – June 8, 2024), also known as Comicstorian, [3] was an American internet personality who posted commentary about comic books, primarily Marvel Comics and DC Comics, on YouTube. [4] [5] [6]
Robert Leslie Shapiro (born September 2, 1942) is an American attorney and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the short-term defense lawyer of Erik Menéndez in 1990, and a member of the "Dream Team" of O. J. Simpson's attorneys that successfully defended him from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, in 1994.