Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Ibn Tibbon, Jacob Ben Machir

Jacob translated into Hebrew a large number

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Huggins, Charles B.

Huggins was educated at Acadia University (Wolfville, N.S.) and at Harvard

Friday, June 03, 2005

Australia, Flag Of

Thought was given to an all-Australian flag long before confederation was achieved on January 1, 1901. For example, in 1823 a National Colonial Flag displayed four white eight-pointed stars on a red cross on a white field with the Union Jack. From 1831 until as late as the 1920s there was a somewhat similar design known as the Australian Federation Flag, with a blue cross and five white stars.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Anger, Per Johan Valentin

Swedish diplomat (b. Dec. 7, 1913, Göteborg, Swed.—d. Aug. 25, 2002, Stockholm, Swed.), helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from being transported to Nazi death camps during World War II. Anger, a member of the Swedish legation in Budapest when the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, set up safe houses around Budapest and issued temporary passports and identity cards that identified Jews as Swedes.