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Legum Doctor
Legum is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Colin Legum (1919–2003), British anti-apartheid activist * Judd Legum (born 1978), American journalist, lawyer, and political staffer * Margaret Legum (1933–2007), British anti-apartheid activist See also * Legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ... {{Surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Surname
English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England. In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of one or more given names, commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineality, patrilineal, rarely matrilineality, matrilineal) surname, family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. The given names after the first are often referred to as middle names. Given names Few given names used in England have English derivations. Many names are of Hebrew (Daniel (given name), Daniel, David (name), David, Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth, Susan) or Greek name, Greek (Nicholas, Dorothy (given name), Dorothy, George (given name), George, and Helen (given name), Helen) origin. Some are Germanic names, sometimes adopted via the transmission of French language, French (Robert, Richard, Gertrude (given name), Gertrude, Charlotte (given name), Charlotte) or originate from Indo-European (Adrian, Amelia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Legum
Colin Legum (3 January 1919 – 8 June 2003) was a South African journalist and writer on African politics. A popular author, he authored several popular books and worked for most of his career at ''The Observer'' in the United Kingdom. He was a notable Anti-Apartheid activist and did much to popularise African history and current affairs for a British audience. Biography South Africa, 1919–49 Colin Legum was born on 3 January 1919 in the rural settlement of Kestell in the Orange Free State, South Africa. His parents were Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants who ran a small hotel. He was brought up by a Sotho nurse and "felt deeply about the injustice of the treatment of the local black population" as well as the poverty among the local whites. Although strongly attached to South Africa, he was politically sympathetic to Zionism. Legum was educated at Kestell's Retief High School. In 1934 immediately after finishing at age 15 he left for Johannesburg, finding a job as an office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judd Legum
Judd Legum (born December 8, 1978) is an American journalist, lawyer, and political staffer. He is the founder and former editor of the progressive website ''ThinkProgress'', and author of the political newsletter ''Popular Information.'' Early life Judd Legum was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Legum earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy analysis from Pomona College and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. After graduating from law school, Legum became a member of the Maryland State Bar Association. Career Legum founded ''ThinkProgress'' in 2005, running it for two years before leaving in 2007 to join Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as research director. Following the 2008 campaign, he practiced law in Maryland before returning to ''ThinkProgress'' in 2011, and became the site's editor-in-chief in May 2012. Under his supervision, the site grew up to a 40-person newsroom that earned 10 million unique visitors a month. In 2010, Legum unsucc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Legum
Margaret Jean Roberts Legum (8 October 1933, Pretoria, South Africa – 1 November 2007, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African/British anti-apartheid activist and social reformer, who specialized in economics. Legum attended Rhodes University and Newnham College where she studied economics. Legum married Colin Legum in 1960 and they moved to London. Margaret Legum died in 2007, aged 74, from cancer, survived by her three daughters and grandchildren. Works Legum was a founder of the South African New Economics Network. Her book, ''It Doesn't Have To Be Like This: Global Economics – A New Way Forward'' (2003), was written based on a series of lectures she gave at the University of Cape Town. She was well known for a 1963 book on the necessity of economic sanctions against South Africa, ''South Africa: Crisis for the West'', which she co-wrote with her husband, Colin Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legume
Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, but also as livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit – a simple fruit, simple Dry fruits, dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually Dehiscence (botany) , dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. Most legumes have Symbiosis , symbiotic nitrogen fixation , nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Rhizobia, in structures called root nodules. Some of the fixed nitrogen becomes available to later crops, so legumes play a key role in crop rotation. Terminology The term ''pulse'', as used by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is reserved for legume crops harvested solely for the dry seed. This excludes green beans and Pea , green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
