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Johann Georg Faust ( / ˈfaʊst /; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus / ˈfɔːstəs /, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance . Doctor Faust became the subject of folk legend in the decades after his death, transmitted in chapbooks beginning in the 1580s, and was ...
Wang Lin (Viki) (2020-present) John Gray (born December 28, 1951) is an American relationship counselor, lecturer, and author. In 1969, he began a nine-year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career as an author and personal relationship counselor. In 1992 he published the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus ...
John Forbes Nash Jr. John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. [1] [2] Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard ...
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker [2] and consultant to both Disney 's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six ...
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd (2004 – 2011, chairman 2007 – 2011) [5] Magontec Ltd (2001–2005) John Story was the 13th Chancellor of The University of Queensland from 2009 until 2016. [6] He was preceded by Llew Edwards and succeeded by Peter Varghese. John Story's grandfather, John D. Story was the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Queensland ...
John Storey or Story may refer to: John Story (martyr) (1504–1571), or Storey, English Roman Catholic martyr and member of parliament. John Storey (politician) (1869–1921), Australian politician, premier of New South Wales. John Storey (rower) (born 1987), New Zealand Olympic rower. John D. Storey, American scientist. John Douglas Story ...
Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the great stress and anxiety of preparing for the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test).
John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950 [citation needed]) is a Kenyan former bank robber turned writer. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime [3] and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story , which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.