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3 unusual facts about Amir Bar-Lev


Amir Bar-Lev

Amir Bar-Lev (born in 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California.

Boots on the Ground by Dusk: Searching for Answers in the Death of Pat Tillman

The paperback edition of Boots on the Ground by Dusk is being released in tandem with the film “The Tillman Story,” a documentary by director Amir Bar-Lev.

Marla Olmstead

The 2007 documentary My Kid Could Paint That, by director Amir Bar-Lev, examines Marla Olmstead, her family, and the controversy surrounding the art attributed to her.


Alexandra Sviridova

In 1993 she immigrated from the post Soviet Russia to America, with her son Lev Sviridov (who later won a Rhodes Scholarship while a student at the City College of New York).

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed

It was founded by members of the Columbia Anarchist League of Columbia, Missouri, and continued to be published there for nearly fifteen years, eventually under the sole editorial control of Jason McQuinn (who initially used the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi"), before briefly moving to New York City in 1995 to be published by members of the Autonomedia collective.

Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Polish historian Jan Tęgowski disagreed with Jonynas and argued that both Sudimantas and Lev of Drutsk (who is also mentioned as Vytautas' swoger) were married to sisters of Vytautas's first wife, Princess Maria of Lukoml.

Bar Lev Line

In his book The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East, historian Abraham Rabinovich posits that the Bar-Lev line was a blunder — too lightly manned to be an effective defensive line and too heavily manned to be an expendable tripwire.

Booknik

Over the years, “Booknik Shows” featured such prominent performers as Psoy Korolenko, Lev Rubinstein, Umka, Garik Osipov, “’Appy New Year,” “Der Partizaner Kish,” Alla Ioshpe and Stakhan Rakhimov, Alexander Levenbuk, and many others.

Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum

Teitelbaum was born in Stropkov, the son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of Sighet, the Yeitev Lev and Ruchl Ashkenazi, the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ashkenazi of Tolcsva.

Charles Biro

For Lev Gleason, Biro helped to create the Crime comics genre with the landmark title Crime Does Not Pay (1942–1955), which he edited along with Bob Wood.

Epulopiscium fishelsoni

Epulopiscium was first discovered in 1985 by the Israeli scientist Lev Fishelson from Tel Aviv University, inside the intestines of a brown surgeonfish.

Galina Kravchenko

Both her late husband and her father-in-law, Lev Kamenev, were posthumously cleared of all charges during Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.

Heligoland trap

It was developed in 1957 by Janis Jakšisat under the leadership of Lev Belopolsky at the Rybachy Biological Station (formerly the Rossitten Bird Observatory) at Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia, on the Curonian Spit.

Jason McQuinn

Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, McQuinn wrote and edited Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed under the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi" in honor of the Russian anarchist of that name, who was killed in 1921 by the Cheka (the Bolshevik secret police).

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

Unlike his father, who pursued a Western political course, Lev worked closely with the Mongols, in particular cultivating a close alliance with the Tatar Khan Nogai.

Legion of Christ

In 2013, he married the mother of the child, Elizabeth Lev, who is the daughter of Mary Ann Glendon and a columnist for Zenit which Williams formerly published.

Leo of Galicia

Leo I of Galicia, king of Galicia–Volhynia (1269–1301), also known as Lev Danylovich

Leo II of Galicia, the last Ruthenian king of Galicia–Volhynia (1308–1323), also known as Lev Yuriyovych

Lev Artsimovich

Lev Andreevich Artsimovich (Арцимович, Лев Андреевич in Russian; also transliterated Arzimowitsch) (February 25, 1909 (NS) – March 1, 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).

Lev HaMifratz Railway Station

Lev HaMifratz Railway Station is a station on both the main North-South coastal line of Israel Railways NahariyaHaifaTel-AvivModi'in/Be'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Krayot (Haifa - Kiryat Motzkin Suburban Service).

Lev Konov

Asgard - the opera for/by children, libretto by Lev Konov, written on Prose Edda (Younger Edda) by Snorri Sturluson.

Kokin Wakashū - opera for/by children, libretto by Lev Konov, the first execution: 1996, Russia, Moscow.

Lev Russov

In the years 1954-1956 Lev Russov was drawn to the historical genre, creating a series of eight paintings on the novel by Charles de Coster's "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel".

Lev Tikhomirov

Lev Tikhomirov was born in Gelendzhik on January 19, 1852, to a military doctor and his wife, a graduate of the Institute for the Education of Noble Maidens.

Lev Vasilevsky

Lev Vasilevsky, also known as Leonid A. Tarasov, was the KGB Mexico City Illegal Resident during much of the period of the Manhattan Project.

Lubang Buaya

Lev, Daniel S. Indonesia 1965: The Year of the Coup Asian Survey, Vol.

Pafnuty Chebyshev

One of nine children, Chebyshev was born in the central Russian village of Okatovo near Borovsk, to Agrafena Ivanova Pozniakova and Lev Pavlovich Chebyshev.

Patrick Argüello

Argüello was dead by the time he and Khaled were in the ambulance en route to Hillingdon Hospital, after pilot Uri Bar-Lev refused orders to return to Israel due to his concern for the wounded steward.

Shevchenko National Prize

1983 for restoration of Mariyinsky Palace (Kiev) to Anatoliy Yavorsky (engineer, director of creative collective), Vadym Hlybchenko (technical architect), Iryna Ivanenko (critic), Yevhen Kulikov (sculptor), Lev Novikov (architect), Arkady Khabinsky (engineer), Vitaly Shkliar (architect)

Shlomo Helbrans

He then settled in Canada, where he was the head of the Lev Tahor settlement of an estimated 45 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, before most members of the group (claiming religious persecution) left for Chatham and Windsor, Ontario in November 2013.

Sigalevitch

Valery Sigalevitch (1950-), Russian pianist (son of Lev Sigalevitch)

Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All

The play was premiered in Moscow's Maly Theatre on January 21, 1853 with Prov Sadovsky as Lev Krasnov.

Underground rocket

According to Soviet geologist Lev Derbenev, this version of the rocket, "jet drilling device", weighs 17 times less than a comparable drilling rig, requires 3 times less fuel, and has 6 to 9 times greater productivity; a single device would provide cost savings of up to 42,000 roubles

Vasily Seseman

A close associate of Viktor Zhirmunsky and Lev Karsavin, as a prisoner of Gulag he was also an informal philosophy tutor and supporter of Buddhist writer Bidia Dandaron.

Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream

It included: Harry Smith/Herman Melville, Joan Larkin/Emily Dickinson, Zizwe Ngafua/Paul Laurence Dunbar, Enid Dame/Adah Isaacs Menken, Maurice Kenny/Pauline Johnson, Richard Davidson/Walt Whitman, Ellen Marie Bissert/Alice Carey, and Donald Lev/Edgar Allan Poe.


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