The Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the Jewish community flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions.Jews have been present in contemporary Armenia and Georgia since the Babylonian captivity. Records exist from the 4th century showing that there were Armenian cities...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Official Website In 1609, the English navigator, Henry Hudson, and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel Half Moon spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook; however, some historical accounts credit this landing to present-day Keansburg. Among the first European settlers and majo...
Stars with Large Followings on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, and other online social mediums
YouTube personalities are people or groups who are popular because of their videos on YouTube. Some YouTube personalities have corporate sponsors, who pay for product placement in their clips or production of online ads.
Projekti on tarkoitettu kaikille Suomen valtiopäivillä vuodesta 1907 työskennelleiden kansanedustajien profiileille. Kun liität profiilin tähän projektiin, tarkista, että siitä ilmenee miten henkilö liittyy projektiin ja milloin tämä on toiminut kansanedustajana. Täydennä profiilin tiedot tarvittaessa. Tietoa yksittäisistä kansanedustajista ja heidän luottamustoimistaan löytyy Eduskunnan verkko...
Translators=Please add profiles of Authors who have translated works from any language into English to this project. If you find translators into other languages you will probably need to start a new project for these but please do link these to this project and the Umbrella projects: Occupations Portal Writers Authors ===Competent translators show the following attributes:===* a very good know...
Philology==== Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism , literary criticism , history , and linguistics . Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. A per...
Venemaal, Novgorodi oblastis Krestsõ rajooni, Krestsõ alevis ja selle ümbruse külades (Bugri/Kamzovo,Limani, Holmi, Edasi, Kuznetsovo, Voshodi, Jabloni, Zarõ jne.) elanud eestlased perenimedega- Sell/Sel, Sibul/Sibbul, Vint/Wint, King, Kaats, Hein, Pruus/Pruss, Puksing, Puskar, Plaado/Plado, Kivimeister, Kingisepp, Kõiv/Kõiw, Poemets, Piirman, Piirimaa, Vätson, Kircbaum, Allas, Raudvasar/Raudva...
This project seeks to list representatives of all of the Jewish families from the Moravian town of Rousinov (Neu Raußnitz/Neu Rausnitz) in the Czech Republic. ROUSÍNOV The Jewish settlement in Rousínov is assumed to date back to the mid-15th century, although the first documented record is from as late as 1554. By the mid-19th century, the Jewish population reached 1,200, one half of the the...
Wikipedia West Point Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. It overlooks the Hudson River, and served as a burial ground for American Revolutionary War soldiers and early West Point inhabitants long before 1817 when it was officially designated as a military cemetery. Prior to 1817, the area was known as "German Flats" bef...
This is a sub project of Maryland counties, cities and towns Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caroline County, Maryland. Official Website Caroline County was created in 1774 from parts of Dorchester and Queen Anne's counties. The county derives its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor, Robert Eden. The National Park Service is d...
Wikipedia The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), also sometimes shortened to CoE is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies. Although generally associated with dams, canals and flood pro...
List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers==
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families form Košice, Slovakia. Košice was home to one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in Slovakia. In 1930, the city's more than 11,500 Jews made up 16.4 % of the total population. Jews could settle here only after 1840, when the legal ban on Jewish residence was lifted. Several streams of Judaism existed here. There were the...
This camp was established by the British Mandate for Palestine at the end of the 1930s. It was located 20 km from Haifa, Israel. The purpose of the camp was to stop Jewish refugees from entering Mandatory Palestine. Many of the detainees from Europe during the 1930s and 1940s were from Nazi controlled countries. By the late 1940s they were Holocaust survivors. The British government in 1939 lim...
The Patria disaster occurred on the 25 November 1940 on the shores of Palestine next to Haifa. Killing 267 people and badly injuring 172 Jewish refugees from the Nazis of occupied Europe. Most of them came from Czechoslovakia. At the time of the sinking, Patria (French-built ocean liner) was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, most from Czechoslovakia. Upon apporac...
Wikipedia The University of Northern Colorado (UNC) is a public baccalaureate and graduate research university with approximately 12,000 students and six colleges. Founded in 1889, the university’s main campus is located in Greeley, Colorado, about an hour north of Denver, with extended campus locations in Loveland, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Established as the State Normal School of Colo...
Koirala sijaitsee Muolaan itäosassa aivan kirkonkylän Kirkkorannan pohjoispuolella, jonne oli matkaa noin kaksi kilometriä. Koiralan naapurikyliä olivat lännessä Paakeli, pohjoisessa Ala-Kuusaa ja Peippola, idässä Kannila sekä etelässä Turulila ja Kyyrölä. Vuonna 1936 Koiralan pinta-ala oli 8,85 neliökilometriä, josta oli peltoa 258,02 hehtaaria, niittyä 13,01 hehtaaria ja metsää 612,69 hehtaar...
Tervetuloa Pyhännän sukututkimusprojektiin! Tämä on sukututkimussivusto Genin Pyhäntä - paikkakuntaprojekti. Kaikki paikkakunnalla asuneiden henkilöiden historiasta kiinnostuneet ovat tervetulleita liittymään projektiin yhteistyöntekijöiksi. Projektiin voi liittää täällä syntyneiden, asuneiden, kuolleiden ja vaikuttaneiden henkilöiden profiileja sekä valokuvia ja dokumentteja. Seuraamalla proj...
From the Wikipedia article on the University of Wyoming . The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW (often pronounced "U-Dub") to people close to the university. The university was founded in March 1886, four...
Canton was a first: the first and only federal facility intended for the care of “insane” Indian people. See the related project: Canton (aka Hiawatha) Asylum Cemetery for those known to have been buried there. This project is for profiles associated with the Hiawatha Asylum in Canton, South Dakota in any aspect: residents, staff, local politicians, even the current day activists bringing atten...
For those women who are unmarried, uncoupled and childless and chose or are perhaps forced to do so from circumstance to remain single in the world. The profile of the woman does not have to be famous though to fit this project - just independent. Many lead remarkable lives, raise the children of others, or live in the ordinary. All deserve to be remembered. Please do NOT include the fo...
Native American/American Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools This project is to acknowledge the traumatic and, at times, triumphant experiences of those Native American children who were forced, coerced and placed in Native American Boarding Schools. These are the schools and the places, a long way from home, which changed the fabric of the Native American in the United States and Canad...