The company was established in 1997 through the merger of eastern Kazakhstan’s three main nonferrous metals companies—Leninogorsk (now Ridder) Polymetallic complex, Ust-Kamenogorsk Lead and Zinc complex, and Zyryanovsk Lead Complex.
A town in that region, Ridder, bore Philip Ridder's name from 1786 to 1941, when it was changed to Leninogorsk; however, in 2002, the name was reverted to Ridder.
Until 1941 it carried its present name, named after Philip Ridder who discovered the local ore deposits.
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According to John Heidenry, Annie Sprinkle was the lover of the Dutch artist, and European Chairman of the Fluxus art movement, Willem de Ridder, and of the erotic writer and author Marco Vassi.
Ridder was born in New York City, one of eight grandsons of the newspaper magnate, Herman Ridder.
Monroe was deputy managing editor at the San Jose Mercury News and was later named assistant vice president/news at Knight Ridder, where he was responsible for half of the group's 32 newsrooms, until it was sold in 2006 to McClatchy.
After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Burlingame Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.
He died insolvent, having lost his means with the failure of the International Typesetting Machine Company at the start of World War I. Friends and supporters of Ridder assumed the debts of his publishing enterprise, and the Staats-Zeitung continued under the joint management of his sons, Bernard H. Ridder and Victor F. Ridder.
Baltake's film reviewing career started at Gannett's suburban newspaper group, where his critiques appeared in several New Jersey-based newspapers, and continued at Knight-Ridder's The Philadelphia Daily News and McClatchy's The Sacramento Bee.
In 1977, Knight Ridder entered broadcasting with the acquisition of Poole Broadcasting, which consisted of WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, WTEN in Albany, New York and its satellite WCDC in Adams, Massachusetts, and WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island.
All except the online-only Los Gatos Observer were briefly owned by the non-local McClatchy company after McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, and are now controlled by MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.
Philip Ridder (1759 - 1838) was a Russian explorer who discovered polymetallic ores in north-eastern Kazakhstan.
After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Redwood City Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.
2010 - premiere and Radio 3 broadcast of The Wandering Jew by BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers conducted by Andre de Ridder with soloists including Roderick Williams and Teresa Cahill.
He has since worked for newspapers owned by Landmark Communications Inc. in Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabethtown, Kentucky; and for Knight Ridder Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania, and Bradenton, Florida.
Victor and his brothers Bernard H. Ridder and Joseph E. Ridder were the owners and publishers of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the premier daily newspaper of German-speaking residents of the New York City area, which they had inherited from their father Herman Ridder.