Sharp (surname) — Sharp is a surname. Sharp is cognate to the German dd. scharf . It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin la. scrobis ditch , Russian ru. skresti to scrape .* Abraham Sharp (1651 1742), English schoolmaster,… … Wikipedia
Sharp (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=45.7 N or S=N longitude=40.2 E or W=W diameter=40 km depth=3.2 km colong=40 eponym=Abraham SharpSharp is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Sinus Iridum bay of the Mare Imbrium, beyond the Montes Jura… … Wikipedia
Abraham O. Smoot — Painting of Abraham O. Smoot at the Salt Lake City and County Building Born Abraham Owen Smoot February 17, 1815(1815 02 17) … Wikipedia
ABRAHAM BEN MOSES BEN MAIMON — (1186–1237), theologian, exegete, communal leader, mystical pietist, and physician. Little was known about him prior to the discovery of the cairo genizah , which has preserved many of his writings, in part autographic. Born in Fustat, Egypt, on… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIÈRES — (known as Rabad, i.e., Rabbi Abraham Ben David; c. 1125–1198); talmudic authority in Provence. Abraham was born in Narbonne, and died in Posquières, a small city near Nîmes famous for the yeshivah he established there. He lived during a… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Abraham Abulafia — Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia ( he. אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה), the founder of the school of Prophetic Kabbalah , was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and died sometime after 1291, in Comino, Maltese archipelago. Early life and travelsVery early in… … Wikipedia
Abraham Geiger — (1810 ndash;1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who led in the foundation of Reform Judaism, seeking to remove all nationalistic elements (particularly the Chosen People doctrine) from Judaism, stressing it as an evolving and changing religion.… … Wikipedia
Abraham J. Hostetler — Abraham Jonathan Hostetler (* 22. November 1818 im Washington County, Indiana; † 24. November 1899 bei Bedford, Indiana) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1879 und 1881 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Indiana im … Deutsch Wikipedia
Abraham L. Brick — Abraham Lincoln Brick (* 27. Mai 1860 bei South Bend, Indiana; † 7. April 1908 in Indianapolis, Indiana) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1899 und 1908 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Indiana im … Deutsch Wikipedia
Abraham Hayward — (November 22, 1801 ndash; February 2, 1884), English man of letters, son of Joseph Hayward, of an old Wiltshire family, was born at Wilton, near Salisbury.After education at Blundell s School, Tiverton, he entered the Inner Temple in 1824, and… … Wikipedia
