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Isaac Stambaugh. Isaac is an award-winning producer and videographer who began his career writing and producing 144 episodes of television before transitioning into feature films. While producing feature length movies ranging in budget from $2,000 to $500,000, Isaac has become a leader in creative and efficient low budget filmmaking.
Itzchak Tarkay (Hebrew: יצחק טרקאי; 1935 – June 3, 2012) was an Israeli painter and graphic artist. [1] He used trade dress to protect his style from being emulated via Romm Art Creations Ltd. v. Simcha International, Inc ., [ 2 ] a case that Tarkay won.
Spanish. Alma mater. University of Vigo. Camberwell College of Arts. Style. Graffiti, sculptor. Waiting for climate change (2012) Isaac Cordal (born 1974) is a Spanish Galician artist whose work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment. He lives in Brussels and in Galicia.
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Karen Dinesen was born in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer, army officer, and politician. He served in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia, and also joined the French army against Prussia. He later wrote about the Paris Commune. He was from a wealthy family of Jutland landowners closely connected to the monarchy, the established church and conservativepolitics. He was elected as Member of Parliament. Her mother, Ingeborg Westenholz (...
Life in Kenya, 1914–1931
Soon after Dinesen arrived in Kenya, which at the time was part of British East Africa, she and Blixen were married in Mombasa on 14 January 1914. After her marriage, she became known as Baroness Blixen, and she used the title until her then ex-husband remarried in 1929. Bror had attended agricultural college at Alnarp, and then managed the Stjetneholm farm, within the Nasbyholm estate. During her early years, Karen spent part of her time at her mother's family home, the Mattrup seat farm nea...
Life as a writer
While still in Kenya, Blixen had written to her brother Thomas, "I have begun to do what we brothers and sisters do when we don't know what else to resort to, I have started to write a book. ... I have been writing in English because I thought it would be more profitable." Upon returning to Denmark, aged 46, she continued writing in earnest. Though her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was completed in 1933, she had difficulty finding a publisher and used her brother's contacts with Dorothy Can...
Awards and honors
For her literary accomplishments, Blixen was awarded the Danish Holberg Medal in 1949, the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1952, granted the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen Scholarship of the Danish Writers Association in 1955 and received the Henrik Pontoppidan Memorial Foundation Grant in 1959. Karen Blixen was proposed by the Swedish Academy's Nobel committee to be awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature, but committee member Eyvind Johnson (who himself would accept the prize fifteen years l...
Rungstedlund Museum
Blixen lived most of her life at the family estate Rungstedlund, which was acquired by her father in 1879. The property is located in Rungsted, 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Copenhagen, Denmark's capital. The oldest parts of the estate date to 1680, and it had been operated as both an inn and a farm. Most of Blixen's writing was done in Ewald's Room, named after author Johannes Ewald. In the 1940s, Blixen contemplated selling the estate due to the costs of running it, but the house became a...
Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi
When Blixen returned to Denmark in 1931, she sold her property to a developer, Remi Martin, who divided the land into 20 acres (8.1 ha) parcels. The Nairobi suburb that emerged on the land where Blixen farmed coffee is now named Karen. Blixen herself declared in her later writings that "the residential district of Karen" was "named after me". The family corporation that owned Blixen's farm was incorporated as the "Karen Coffee Company" and the house she lived in was built by the chairman of t...
A considerable proportion of the Karen Blixen archive at the Royal Danish Libraryconsists of the unpublished poems, plays and short stories Karen Dinesen wrote before she married and left for Africa. In her teens and early 20s, she probably spent much of her spare time practising the art of writing. It was only when she was 22 that she decided to p...
Broe, Mary L. Women's Writing in Exile. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1993. Print.Langbaum, Robert (1975) Isak Dinesen's Art: The Gayety of Vision (University of Chicago Press) ISBN 0-226-46871-2Aschan, Ulf, The Man Whom Women Loved: The Life of Bror Blixen (New York: St. Martin's Press, ©1987) ISBN 9780312000646Stegner, Wallace, The Spectator Bird (Fiction – Blixen is a character in the novel) (New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 1976) ISBN 978-0- 14-310579-4Works by or about Karen Blixen at Internet ArchiveWorks by Karen Blixen at Faded Page(Canada)Works by Karen Blixen at Open LibraryHusband of Margaret (Fick) Stambaugh — married about 7 Jan 1884 in Pennsylvania USA. Father of Rosa M Stambaugh, Daisy Naomi Stambaugh, Samuel Grover Stambaugh, Isaac Sheridan Stambaugh and Joseph Milton Stambaugh. Died 10 Feb 1933 at age 77 in Frederick Co, Maryland USA.
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- February 10, 1933
Oct 7, 2011 · Isaac Stambaugh of Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware was born on August 21, 1875, and died at age 92 years old in February 1968.
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