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Lazar Zalkind
1886 births | 1945 deaths | chess problemists | jewish chess players | ukrainian chess playersLazar Borisovich Zalkind (1886, Kharkov – 1945, Komsomolsk-on-Amur) was an Ukrainian economist and chess problemist.http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_z.htm
In 1927, he became chairman of the All-Union Association of Chess Problem and Study Lovers. He was arrested in 1930 for his part in a supposed plot to infiltrate the Bolshevik government positions with pro-Mensheviks. Nikolai Krylenko personally prosecuted him. His sentence was 8 years in prison. Zalkind was released in 1938 but new accusations were added to the original ones to increase his term an additional 5 years at an even more severe labor camp. When he was fianlly released in 1943, he learned that his son, Boris, had just died on the Belorussian front. He himself died of heart attack on 25 June 1945 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, located in the Russian Far East.http://blog.chess.com/batgirl/art-for-arts-sake
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Frank W. Preston
1886 births | 1989 deaths | american environmentalists | english immigrants to the united states | people from pennsylvania Frank W. Preston (1886-1989) an English-American engineer, ecologist, and conservationist. He helped found the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and worked to reclaim the land that is now Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Preston was a leading expert in glass technology. He studied birds throughout his life and published papers on the shapes and pigmentation of birds eggs, the distribution of the heights of their nests and their migration patterns. Preston also wrote three major papers on the mathematical characteristics of ecologlical rarity and commonness.
Biography
Early life
Frank W. Preston was born on June 14, 1896 in Leicester, England. He received three degrees from the University of London upon graduation in 1916. Following his college years, Preston worked as a civil engineer in Loughborough, England. He was drafted into the Royal Army during World War I but received a maximum exemption through the efforts of his employer. Preston was personally against the exemption and wrote the the draft board in 1917 stating a desire to serve "in anything useful and suggested a brief exemption."Hayk Gyulikekhvyan
1886 births | armenian people | people from shushaHayk Gyulikekhvyan (1886, Shushi - 1951, Yerevan) was an Armenian literary criticist and philosopher, Professor of Yerevan State University. He was one of the establishers of Soviet Armenian literary criticism.
He studied at Leipzig and Zurich universities, then finished the department of philosophy of Heidelberg University. Gyulikekhvyan cooperated with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. For his political activities he was arrested in 1914. In 1920's he became the editor of "Kommunist" newspaper of Yerevan, worked in Alexandropol. Gyulikekhvyan was the pro-rector of Yerevan State University and director of Armenian SSR Marxism-Leninism Institute. He was arrested during the period of stalinist terror, then released.
Joe Keeper
1886 births | 1971 deaths | athletes at the 1912 summer olympics | canadian track and field athletes | olympic athletes of canadaJoseph Benjamin Keeper (January 17, 1886 - September 29, 1971) was a Canadian long distance runner, and a member of the 1912 Canadian Olympic team.
Keeper, a member of the Norway House Cree First Nation, was born at Walker Lake, Manitoba. He was sent to Brandon for schooling at the Brandon Indian Residential School, and it was while there, at high school, that he showed an enthusiasm for long distance running.
George Handley (footballer)
1886 births | 1952 deaths | bradford city f.c. players | english footballers | people from sheffield | pre-1914 association football players | southampton f.c. players | southern football league players | the football league players youthyears = youthclubs = years =
1904–1906
1906–1911
1911–1912
1912–1913
1913–1921 clubs = Hallam
Chesterfield
Bradford City
Southampton
Goole Town
Bradford City caps(goals) =
25 (4)
86 (29)
24 (2)
17 (1) manageryears = 1912–1913 managerclubs = Goole Town nationalyears = nationalteam = nationalcaps(goals) = pcupdate = ntupdate = }} George Albert Handley (1886 – 1952) was an English professional footballer who played most of his career (as a winger) with Bradford City.
1904–1906
1906–1911
1911–1912
1912–1913
1913–1921 clubs = Hallam
Chesterfield
Bradford City
Southampton
Goole Town
Bradford City caps(goals) =
25 (4)
86 (29)
24 (2)
17 (1) manageryears = 1912–1913 managerclubs = Goole Town nationalyears = nationalteam = nationalcaps(goals) = pcupdate = ntupdate = }} George Albert Handley (1886 – 1952) was an English professional footballer who played most of his career (as a winger) with Bradford City.
Playing career
He was born in Totley, Sheffield and represented Sheffield Schools four times in the annual matches against London Schools. He started his professional career with Hallam before moving to Chesterfield in January 1904. After two seasons with Chesterfield he joined Bradford City for the first time in October 1906.Georg Haas
1886 births | 1971 deaths | german medical researchers | german physicians | nephrologistsGeorge Haas (April 4, 1886 - December 6, 1971) a German medical doctor was born in Nürnberg, Germany. Haas preformed the first human hemodialysis treatment. Hass studied medicine at the Universities of München and Freiburg. He wrote his doctoral thesis while attending the institute of the famous pathologist Ludwig Aschoff.
Scientific work
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
1886 births | 1962 deaths | italian composers | italian conductors | italian organists | people from romeWalter Atlee Edwards
1886 births | 1928 deaths | burials at arlington national cemetery | navy medal of honor recipients | united states naval academy graduates | united states navy officers Walter Atlee Edwards (8 November 1886 – 15 January 1928) was a United States Navy officer and a recipient of America's highest military decoration - the Medal of Honor.
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