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| Bernard Cohn |
Bernard Cohn (1835-1889) Mayor of Los Angeles for only 15 days, he was appointed to the position after the death of Frederick A. MacDougal in 1878. More precisely, he was mayor between November 21 1878 and December 5 1878. He would later run for reelection, but would lose to J. R. Toberman. Though in his short tenure as Los Angeles Mayor, the former grocery store owner and moneylender's reputation would be marred by his familial affairs. Cohn was said to have lived two lives. He raised a Jewish family of three while at the same time had a six kids with a mistress. So too was he accused of buying votes in his son's run for public office. (references) |
| Cindy Cohn |
Cindy A. Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as its General Counsel. She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy and supervising EFF's staff attorneys. EFF is actively involved wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online. (references) |
| Ferdinand Cohn |
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (January 24, 1828 Breslau, Silesia, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland) - June 25, 1898 Breslau) was a biologist. At the age of 10 he suffered hearing impairment. He received a degree in Botany in 1847 at the age of nineteen. Cohn was the first to classify bacteria as plants. He also divided bacteria into four groups: Sphaerobacteria, Microbacteria, Desmobacteria, and Spirobacteria. In 1885 he received the Leeuwenhoek Medal. (references) |
| Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Gary Cohn |
Gary D. Cohn is a managing director and partner of Goldman Sachs. He has also financed the Gary D. Cohn Endowed Research Professorship in Finance at American University, his alma mater. (references) |
| Gustav Cohn |
Gustav Cohn (born December 12, 1840, Marienwerder, West Prussia) was a German economist. He was educated at Berlin and Jena universities. In 1869 he obtained a post at the polytechnic in Riga, and in 1875 was elected a professor at the polytechnic at Zürich. In 1873 he went to England for a period of study, and as a result published his Untersuchungen tither die englische Eisenbahnpolitik (Leipzig, 1874-187?). In 1884 he was appointed professor of political science at Göttingen. (references) |
| Harry Cohn |
On his passing in 1958, Harry Cohn was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. (references) |
| Jeff cohn |
At 30 years old, Jeff has lived quite an interesting life so far. Starting in high school, he always loved turning people on to new things. This desire to bring new things to more people eventually lead to attending Stockton College in Pomona NJ to major in Marketing. During the summer of his freshman-sophomore year he worked as a marketing Intern for the Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Team, where he started an interest in advertising and graphic design. (references) |
| Linda Cohn |
Linda Cohn (born November 10, 1959) is an accomplished sportscaster who appears on ESPN's SportsCenter as an anchor. (references) |
| Mindy Cohn |
Mindy Cohn (born May 20, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. (references) |
| Norman Cohn |
Norman Cohn, also known as Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, (born 12 January 1915) is a British academic, historian and writer, now Emeritus Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. He was born into a Jewish family in London. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and served for six years in the British Army from 1939. He held a number of academic positions prior to his appointment at Sussex in 1963. (references) |
| Nudie Cohn |
Nudie Cohn (1902 - 1984) was born in Kiev as Nuta Kotlyarenko and moved to New York as a child. He started a western wear store in North Hollywood and became known for his outlandish Nudie suits and customized cars with western themes that have become prized collectible items today. (references) |
| Rebecca Cohn Auditorium |
The Rebecca Cohn Auditorium is a performing arts venue located in the Dalhousie University Arts Centre. 'The Cohn' is home to Symphony Nova Scotia and is Halifax's premier concert hall. The seating capacity of the auditorium is 1,040. It opened officially in November, 1971. (references) |
| Roy Cohn |
Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 - August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into Communism in the government and especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. While widely unpopular during his lifetime, he nonetheless wielded tremendous political power at times. Cohn was a member of the Democratic Party. He died of AIDS in 1986. (references) |
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