Joseph is a given name originating from Hebrew, recorded in the Hebrew Bible, as יוֹסֵף, Standard Hebrew Yosef, and Tiberian Hebrew Yôsēp̄. In Arabic, including in the Qur'an, the name is spelt يوسف or Yūsuf. The name can be translated from Hebrew as signifying "The Lord will increase/add". This variant of the name is used mostly in English, French and German-speaking countries. As a biblical and saints' name, Joseph has enjoyed significant and well deserved popularity in its many forms ...

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Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. Joseph Campbell - Life. Campbell was born and raised in New York City in an upper middle class Roman Catholic family. As a child, Campbell became fascinated with Native American culture when his father took him to see the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Native A ...

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Claude Joseph Vernet (August 14, 1714 – December 3, 1789), French painter, was born at Avignon. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, a skilful decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. But the panels of sedan chairs could not satisfy his ambition, and he started for Rome. The sight of the sea at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civita Vecchia made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he e ...

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Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (26 November 1736 - 19 December 1798) was a French writer and publisher, notable for the Encyclopédie méthodique, a successor to the Encyclopédie of Diderot. He was born in Lille; his father Andre Joseph Panckoucke (1700-1753) was a writer and book printer there. Charles-Joseph went to Paris in 1754. He first suggested to Diderot the preparation of a supplement to the Encyclopédie in 1769, but was turned down. Nevertheless, Panckoucke secured a license to publish the sup ...

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Chief Joseph (1840–September 21, 1904) was a leader of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, noted as a humanitarian and peacemaker for principled resistance to the U.S. federal government's attempts to force the Nez Perce onto an Indian reservation. An 1863 treaty took away tribal lands and forced the Nez Perce and their leader into resistance. Though Chief Joseph consistently opposed war, when conflict became inevitable he and other leaders led the Nez Percé on a courageous retreat in 1877 for m ...

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Joseph Laurinaitis - Finishing and signature moves. Powerslam Powerbomb Shoulder block Powerslam pin Doomsday Device (with Hawk and then Heidenreich) Joseph Laurinaitis - Managers. Paul Ellering Sunny Ric Flair Christy Hemme ...

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Joseph is located at 38°37'36" North, 112°13'2" West (38.626797, -112.217185)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. ...

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After 1959 Joseph had several junior posts in the Macmillan government at the Ministry of Housing and the Department for Trade. In the 'Night of the Long Knives' reshuffle of July 13, 1962 he was made Minister for Housing and Local Government, a cabinet position. Joseph introduced a massive programme to build council housing, which aimed at 400,000 new homes per year by 1965. He wished to increase the proportion of owner-occupied households by offering help with mortgage deposits. Housing was an important issue at the 1964 election and Joseph was felt to have ...

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Joseph Breuer was born in 1882 in Papa, Hungary to the local Rabbi Solomon Breuer. His mother was Sophie Breuer née Hirsch, daughter of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. When the latter died in 1888, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, and Joseph was to live in Frankfurt until the 1930s. He attended the local yeshiva founded by his father (the Torah Lehranstalt), and became teacher and later head at that institution. He married Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp. In the 1930s, he briefly moved the yeshiv ...

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Joseph was the son of Sir Samuel Joseph, who had founded the construction company Bovis and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1942-1943. At the end of his term he had been created a baronet. On his death on October 4, 1944, his son inherited the baronetcy with the right to be called Sir Keith. He had attended Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied Jurisprudence, obtaining first class honours. During World War II, he served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery, was wounded in Italy, and mentioned in despatche ...

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Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee (Kopčany / Köpcsény), near Bratislava and Eisenstadt, today's Burgenland area. In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanislaus Serwaczynski, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. Serwaczynski later moved to Lublin, Poland, where he taught Wieniawski. In 1839, Joachim continued his studies in Vienna (briefly with Miska Hauser and Georg Hellmesberger, Sr.; finally — and most significantly— with Joseph Böhm). He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein to live and ...

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Grew served as Acting Secretary of State for most of the period from January to August 1945 as Secretaries of State Edward Stetinius and James Byrnes were away at conferences. Among high level officials in the Truman Administration, Grew was the most knowledgeable of Japanese issues, having spent so much time in Japan. Grew was also the author of a profoundly influential book about Japan, titled "10 Years in Japan". Grew was a member of the "Committee of Three," along with Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Nav ...

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Joseph Stein - Musicals. Sketch Writer - Lend an Ear, with Will Glickman (1948) Sketch Writer - Alive and Kicking, with Will Glickman (1950) Librettist - Plain and Fancy, with Will Glickman (1955) (music by Albert Hague, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt), produced by Richard Kollmar and James W. Gardiner (in association with Yvette Schumer), directed by Morton Da Costa, starring Shirl Conway, Richard Derr, Gloria Marlowe, and debuting Barbara Cook, opened at the Mark Hellinger ...

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Joseph Haydn - Childhood. Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near the border with Hungary. His father was Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright of Croatian origin who also served as "Marktrichter", an office somewhat akin to village mayor. Haydn's mother, the former Maria Koller, a woman of Czech ancestry, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who ...

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Joseph Haydn - Childhood. Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near the hungarian border. His father was Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright of Croatian origin who also served as "Marktrichter", an office akin to village mayor. Haydn's mother, the former Maria Koller, a woman of Czech ancestry, had previously worked as a cook in the palace of Count Harrach, the presiding aristocrat of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an enthusiastic folk musician, who during the ...

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McCarthy's first three years in the Senate were unremarkable. While he was considered friendly and likeable, he was not taken seriously. McCarthy was criticized for his defense of a group of Nazis that had been sentenced to death for their role in the Malmedy massacre of American prisoners of war in 1944. Their death sentences were commuted to life in part because McCarthy charged that they had been denied due process. Many charged the Sena ...

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For many years he teamed with Road Warrior Hawk. Together they were a muscular tag team called The Road Warriors. The Road Warriors burst onto the wrestling scene in 1983 wearing mohawks, dog collars, spiked shoulder pads, and face paint. Their interview style was vicious, yet charismatic and a bit humorous. The Road Warriors wrestled across the globe, capturing the All-Japan International Tag Team titles, as well as every American version of the World Tag Team titles (WWF, NWA and A ...

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After leaving art school, Fiennes worked with the Young Vic Youth Theatre. He continued his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His first professional stage appearance was in the West End in The Woman in Black, followed by A Month in the Country opposite Helen Mirren. Fiennes, then, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons. Fiennes made his television debut as Willy in The Vacillations of Poppy Carew. His first feature film was 1996's Stealing Beauty, co-starring Liv Ty ...

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