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unusual facts about Ezra


Ezra

In the Syrian village of Tedef, a shrine said to be the burial place of Ezra has been venerated by Jews for centuries.


Absolutely Still

The song was co-written in 2005 by Better Than Ezra lead singer, Kevin Griffin, and singer/songwriter Val Emmich, who released it on his own album, Sunlight Searchparty.

Alister McGrath

He spent the fall semester of 1990 as the Ezra Squire Tipple Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at the Divinity School of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Allen Upward

Ezra Pound would a decade later satirically remark that this was due to his disappointment after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award which Shaw won in 1925.

Anita Carter

Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 – July 29, 1999), the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played upright bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters.

Avraham Elimelech Firer

His organization, Ezra Lamarpeh, operates a fleet of ambulances, a special ICU for flying patients abroad, Home Care Network that cares for cancer stricken children and a Video-Conference System for international medical sessions.

Baqashot

Other composers, from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, include Hakhamim: Abraham Maimon (student of the kabbalist Moses Cordovero), Yosef Sutton, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Yaacob Abadi, Mordechai Labaton, Eliyahu Hamaoui, Ezra Attiah, Abraham Ibn Ezra (who wrote "Agadelcha"), David Pardo, David Dayan, Shelomo Laniado (who wrote "Shalom vatzedek"), Yitzhak Benatar, Eliyahu Sasson, David Kassin, Shimeon Labi, Mordekhai Abadi and Shelomo Menaged.

Book of Numbers

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah (now called Yehud) as a holy community ruled by priests.

Corwin Samuel West

Ezra Taft Benson (former Secretary of Agriculture) and Dr. John Nash Ott (John Ott) were both keynote speakers at his graduation ceremony.

David Abercrombie

David T. Abercrombie (1867–1931), American entrepreneur whose outfitting company, with co-founder Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch, came to exemplify, at start of 20th century, modern American outdoor lifestyle brand

Edward Isaac Ezra

In 1917 Ezra purchased The China Press newspaper from its founder, American journalist Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard.

Edwin M. Yamauchi

Yamauchi has also contributed essays to various reference works in biblical studies and Christian history, and written commentaries on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Expositor's Bible Commentary series that was edited by Frank Gaebelein.

Emil Abossolo-Mbo

He played in Ezra the movie that received the 2007 Stallion of Yennenga at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Ezekiel Ezra Smith

Ezekiel Ezra Smith (also E.E. Smith) (1852–1933) was the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia (1888–1890) and President of Fayetteville State University.

Ezra Baya Lawiri

Canon Ezra Baya Lawiri (c. 1917 – 29 March 1991) was a Sudanese teacher, Episcopalian priest and scholar, responsible for translating The Bible into the Moru language.

Ezra Convis

Ezra Convis ( –1838) was the first speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and the founder of Verona, Michigan.

Ezra Riley

Ezra Hounsfield Riley (June 5, 1866 – January 5, 1937) was a politician and rancher from Alberta, Canada.

Ezra Townsend Cresson

Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, Byberry - 19 April 1926, Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

Ezra Weeks

His brother, Levi Weeks, was a carpenter by trade who worked closely with Ezra.

Ezra Winston

Ezra Winston is an Argentine comic book character created in 1962 by the writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Alberto Breccia.

Henry Lomb

In 1885, Lomb, along with Max Lowenthal, Ezra R. Andrews, Frank Ritter, William F. Peck and others, founded the Mechanics Institute (now Rochester Institute of Technology), whose mission was to offer "education for making a living."

Jack Benaroya

Benaroya was a former director of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce; the United Way of King County; Temple de Hirsch Sinai; Congregation Ezra Bessaroth; the Stroum Jewish Community Center; and the Pilchuck Glass School.

James Laughlin

An important influence on Laughlin at the time was the Choate teacher and translator Dudley Fitts, who later provided Laughlin with introductions to prominent writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.

Joe Seneca

Joe Seneca (January 14, 1919 – August 15, 1996) was an American film and television actor who had a lengthy Hollywood career, portraying bit parts in many major films- He played the role of daddy/Ezra to Mal (Danny Glover's character) in the big screen film Silverado, and television sitcoms spanning from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Joseph Blenkinsopp

Blenkinsopp has published a number of standard commentaries and introductions on parts of the Old Testament, particularly on the Prophets, the Pentateuch, and Ezra–Nehemiah.

Joseph ibn Ezra

Rabbi Josef ben Isaac ibn Ezra was an oriental rabbi of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, descended from Ibn Ezra family of Spain.

King David Hotel

Half the construction costs were paid by Ezra Mosseri, an affluent Egyptian Jewish banker and director of the National Bank of Egypt, and another 46% by other wealthy Cairo Jews.

Kyle Downes

Kyle Downes (born March 18, 1983 in Summertown, Tennessee) is a Canadian-American actor, best known for his recurring role as Larry Tudgeman in the Disney Channel Original Series Lizzie McGuire and his characterization of Ezra Friedken in Higher Ground.

M. E. Carn

Merrick Ezra Carn (1808–1862) was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 under then Governor William Henry Gist.

Merovingian art and architecture

In Aix-en-Provence, Riez and Fréjus, three octagonal baptistries, each covered with a cupola on pillars, are testimony to the influence of oriental architecture (the baptistry of Riez, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, recalls that of St. George, Ezra', Syria).

Michael Ezra

In February 2011, Michael Ezra was arrested by the Kenyan police.

Mr Bennett Goes to Town

The basic story pits George Bennett against the brothers Roni and Ezra Feigenbaum, the latter being the leader of the Whitefield Chamber of Commerce.

Nicole Berline

With Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, heat kernels and Dirac operator, principles of mathematical sciences 298, Springer Verlag 1992, 2004

Oliver Barrett House

His son Ezra Lathrop Barrett, known professionally as E. Lathrop Barrett, became the railroad's station agent, a job complementary to his father's.

Power Brands

Ezra had worked in the consumer packaged goods industry for 15 years; Molina, prior to joining Power Brands, had a history of 20 years in the beverage industry working with industry giants such as Nestle and Pepsi.

Richard B. Sewall

During the Vietnam Era he supported the activities of peace activists on campus, making William Sloane Coffin and Allard Lowenstein fellows of Ezra Stiles College.

Richard Blevins

He has written a dozen articles (on Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen, Penelope Fitzgerald, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Patchen, Paul Blackburn, Robert Kelly, among others) for encyclopedias (DLB, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Encyclopedia of World Literature, and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia), and many essays and reviews for journals, especially Sagetrieb.

Second Temple period

According to Ezra 4:5, the Samaritans sought to "frustrate their purpose" and sent messengers to Ecbatana and Susa, with the result that the work was suspended.

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz

Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (born 1975 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American acoustic and electric, bassist and oud player who has recorded and performed extensively with Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits, Daniel Zamir's Satlah, Rashanim, and Pharaoh's Daughter, and John Zorn.

The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), edited by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-55016-5

Unmuzzled OX

The circulation of Unmuzzled OX peaked at 25,000 in the 80s with The Cantos (121-150) Ezra Pound. Regular contributors to Unmuzzled OX included Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Daniel Berrigan, Eugene McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Denise Levertov, Robert Peters, Robert Creeley and Gregory Corso.

William Osborn McDowell

They had seven children: Pauline T. McDowell Akins (b. 1874), Nora McDowell Culver (d. 1944), fraternal twins Rachel Kollock McDowell (1880–1949) and Malcolm McDowell (1880–1920), William Timanus McDowell, Ezra Osborne McDowell (1886–1979) and Eulilee McDowell Cook, whom they reared in the Presbyterian Church.

Zadok

(2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3) The lineage of Zadok is presented in the genealogy of Ezra (his descendant) as being of ninth generation of direct patrilineal descent from Phineas the son of Eleazar; Ezra 7:1, see 1 Chronicles 5:30 where he is placed ninth in descent from Phineas.

Zerubbabel

According to the authors of the Book of Ezra, “when the seventh month came… Jeshua son of Jozadak along with his fellow-priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, with his colleagues, set to work to build the altar of the God of Israel”.

The author of 1 Esdras might have done so to glorify the power of Zerubbabel, the description of which is unparalleled in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Haggai, as the aforementioned books all discuss the power of Zerubbabel in accordance to the power of the high priest Joshua.


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