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Sperling
Sperling is a German and Jewish surname, meaning " sparrow" in English. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Sperling (1890–1973), German gymnast * Andrea Sperling, American film producer * Bert Sperling (born 1950), American author * Bodo Sperling (born 1952), German artist * Daniel Sperling (born 1951), American professor * Dee Dee Sperling, musical entertainer * Eduard Sperling (1902–1985), German wrestler * Edward Sperling (1889–1946), official in the British Mandate of Palestine, and Zionist * Elliot Sperling (1951–2017), American associate professor * Fritz Sperling (born 1945), Austrian bobsledder * Gene Sperling (born 1958), American economist and attorney * George Sperling (born 1934), American cognitive psychologist * Gerhard Sperling (born 1937), East German race walker * Gladys Athena Sperling (1904–2003), American scientist * Godfrey Sperling (1915–2013), American journalist * Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908–1981), German tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sperling
Peter V. Sperling (born 1960) is an American billionaire businessman. Sperling is the former chairman of Apollo Group, and CallWave, Inc. Early life and education Sperling is the son of entrepreneur and educator John Sperling, co-founder of the University of Phoenix, and Sandra Sperling, who was also an educator and actively involved in the family's philanthropic endeavors. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his Master of Business Administration, MBA from the University of Phoenix. Career Perter Sperling joined Apollo Education in 1986. He took over as chairman at the Apollo Education Group when his father retired in 2001. He remained in that position until 2017 when the group was bought and made private. This came as the University of Phoenix was facing a number of state and federal investigations into many of its practices. After stepping down from Apollo, Sperling became joined CallWave, a communicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Sperling
Eugene Benton Sperling (born December 24, 1958) is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to serve as national economic advisor under two presidents. Outside of government, he founded the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in 2002. In February 2021, as the nomination of Neera Tanden for OMB director faced opposition, Sperling was considered to be one of the leading contenders to assume the top position. Sperling served as Senior Advisor to President Biden and Implementation Coordinator of the American Rescue Plan. On August 5, 2024, the White House announced that Sperling was leaving the administration to work with the Vice President's election campaign. Early life and education Sperling was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of Doris Louise (née Hyman) and Lawrence Sperling. He is of Jewish desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sperling
Jack Sperling (August 17, 1922 – February 26, 2004) was an American jazz drummer who performed as a sideman in big bands and as a studio musician for pop and jazz acts, movies, and television. Career In 1941 he played with trumpeter Bunny Berigan. After World War II, he and Henry Mancini joined the Glenn Miller band when it was led by Tex Beneke. Sperling drew attention with his performance on the song ''St. Louis Blues'' (1948). He then joined Les Brown and His Band of Renown, which played regularly for the Bob Hope radio program. Sperling and other members of Brown's band joined Dave Pell's octet in 1953. He recorded with octet on ''Plays Irving Berlin'' (1953) and on ''The Original Reunion of the Glenn Miller Orchestra'' (1954). From 1954–57, he was a member of Bob Crosby's Bobcats. During the rest of his career, he worked in bands led by Charlie Barnet, Page Cavanaugh, Pete Fountain, and Benny Goodman. Sperling was among the studio musicians who accompanied Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Sperling
__NOTOC__ Norman Sperling (born March 19, 1947) is an author, editor, publisher, teacher, and telescope designer living in San Mateo, California. Sperling received a BA from Michigan State University after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. He followed that with an MA in History of Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught astronomy and related courses at Sonoma State University, California State University, Hayward, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. Publisher and author Sperling founded astronomical supplier and publisher Everything in the Universe in 1977. He has been assistant editor for Sky & Telescope magazine and was science editor for AltaVista. , Sperling is the editor and publisher of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a science humor magazine. He authored ''What Your Astronomy Textbook Won't Tell You'' and ''Any Parent's Recipe for Great Baseball'' He edited and published John Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Sperling
Milton Sperling (July 6, 1912 – August 26, 1988) was an American film producer and screenwriter for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., where he had his own independent production unit, United States Pictures. Biography Sperling, who was of Jewish heritage, was born in New York City to Charles Sperling and Bessie Diamond. After leaving the City College of New York, Sperling entered the film industry by working at Paramount's Astoria Studios as a shipping clerk. He later became a personal secretary for Darryl F. Zanuck and Hal Wallis at Warner Bros. in 1931. After Zanuck resigned his position as Head of Production of Warner Bros. studios in 1933 and was offered a position with Twentieth Century Pictures (later merged with Fox Pictures), Sperling became an assistant to Edward Small, an independent film producer who released his Reliance Pictures and Edward Small Productions through United Artists. Sperling learned as much about an independent low-budget film production uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Sperling
__NOTOC__ Max Sperling (4 September 1905 – 6 June 1984) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II who briefly commanded the 9th Panzer Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 6 April 1944 as ''Major Major most commonly refers to: * Major (rank), a military rank * Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits * People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames * Major and minor in musi ...'' and commander of Panzergrenadier-Regiment 11Fellgiebel 2000, p. 328. References Citations Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sperling, Max 1905 births 1984 deaths People from Chełmno Military personnel from West Prussia German Army personnel of World War II Recipients of the Gold German Cross Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Reichswehr personnel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Sperling
Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic. His first novel, ''Astroturf'', was published in 2018. It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in ''The Guardian'' and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in '' The White Review'', and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. His second novel, ''Viral'', was published in 2020. It was chosen as Novel of the Week in ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and named as a book that should have been on the Booker Prize shortlist in ''The Irish Times''. Sperling was listed among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in ''The Times'' in 2020. Sperling was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor of Creative and Critical Writing at University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Berlin (1894)
SS ''Berlin'' was a passenger vessel owned by the Great Eastern Railway and built for use on their ferry service from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. The Great Eastern Railway ordered three steamships to operate the service. The ships were named ''Amsterdam'', ''Berlin'', and ''Vienna'' to publicise some of the rail connections from the Hook of Holland. ''Berlin'' was built in 1894 by Earles Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Kingston upon Hull, Hull. She had berths for 218 first- and 120 second-class passengers. Sinking At 0500 on Thursday, 21 February 1907, the Hook lighthouse keeper recorded that ''Berlin'' was navigating the channel when she suddenly veered off course northward after a huge wave struck her on her port quarter. Sea captain, Captain Precious and Maritime pilot, pilot Bronders managed to return the ship to her original course, but another wave struck ''Berlin'' and she swung northward again, causing her to become impaled on the tip of the granite Breakw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Von Sperling
Marcos Von Sperling is a Brazilian professor in Environmental Engineering at Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is known for writing some of the most influential textbooks for wastewater treatment in Brazil and other warm climate regions, known as "Biological wastewater treatment series". These books was later released under the Creative Commons license at IWA Water Wiki. Education Von Sperling graduated from Federal University of Minas Gerais with a Civil Engineering degree in 1979. He received a master's degree in Sanitary Engineering from Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1983. He completed his PhD studies in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ... in 1990. Bibliography * Volume 1: ''Wastewater Characteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Sperling
''Nanny 911'' is an American reality television series that originally aired on Fox from November 3, 2004, to February 23, 2007, and on CMT from April 18 to June 6, 2009. Premise ''Nanny 911'' is loosely based on the British television program ''Little Angels'', in which American families with unmanageable children are reformed by British nannies, including one who served for the royal family. The introduction features montages of several clips of unruly children (and the nannies' surprised reactions), whereupon stock footage shows a "call" being made to Nanny 911 where "Head Nanny Lilian" (Lilian Sperling, featured as "Nanny to the British Royal Family") answers "Hello, this is Nanny 911" (on an old rotary dial phone). After the intro the selected family is featured on a separate clip. Head Nanny Lilian and the other nannies – "Nanny Deb" ( Deborah Carroll), "Nanny Stella" (Stella Reid), and "Nanny Yvonne" (originally Yvonne Shove, later replaced by Yvonne Finnerty fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Sperling
Leon Sperling (7 August 1900 – 15 December 1941) was a Polish footballer. Sperling was born in Kraków, and was Jewish. He was a forward, playing on the left wing. Sperling represented Cracovia, the team he led in 1921, 1930, and 1932 to the Championship of Poland. He also played in 16 games for the Poland national team, including Poland's lone game at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. He was regarded as a highly skilled dribbler. He also coached in Lviv. Sperling is one of Cracovia Kraków's legends. Sperling was shot to death by the German Nazis in the Lwów Ghetto in December 1941. His Jewish teammate, Józef Klotz, was also killed in the Holocaust. Honours Cracovia * Ekstraklasa: 1921, 1930, 1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ... See also * List of select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
