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 Eddie Cantor - Biography - AOL Music
Cantor's next step up was a big one; Florenz Ziegfeld, one of the most important stage producers in America, convinced him to come back to New York to take a part in his Midnight Frolic (the energetic Cantor even followed his nightly performance with a vaudeville show elsewhere).
Cantor also appeared in the Follies of 1918 and 1919, and though Ziegfeld abrubtly fired him in 1920 for his part in a strike by the Actor's Equity Association that forced closure of Broadway theaters, Cantor proved that he didn't need the producer to stay successful.
Cantor was made a millionaire from his performances (though mostly from Whoopee!), but he was nearly ruined in the stock market crash of 1929.
music.aol.com /artist/eddie-cantor/12499/biography   (673 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Eddie Cantor, Comedian
Cantor was the second most recognizable person in America—second only to President Roosevelt, for whom he created the March of Dimes to help in the fight against polio.
Cantor’s sign-off line—“I love to spend each Sunday with you”—was followed frequently by a pitch for a charitable or patriotic cause.
Cantor also made the successful transition to television on the Colgate Comedy Hour, making him one of the few performers to reach star status on stage, screen, radio and television.
www.radiohof.org /comedy/eddiecantor.html   (226 words)

  
 Cantor's Concept of Infinity:
Cantor advanced infinite series representations of irrationals to claim that their existence was equivalent to that of the transfinites.
Cantor produced a classic example of contingent rationality when he drew the distinction between transfinite numbers, which exist in the human mind, and Absolute Infinity, which is beyond all human determination, and exists only in the mind of God.
Cantor was explicitly opposed to the prevailing materialism of his scientific community, which regarded the physical universe as eternal and unbounded.
www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1993/PSCF3-93Hedman.html   (5863 words)

  
 GEORG CANTOR
Cantor also defined a set which is equivalent to the set of all natural numbers as a denumberable set.
Cantor determined that although not all infinite sets are denumberable, the set of all positive and negative rational numbers is denumberable and the set of all algebraic numbers (roots of polynomials with integer coefficients) is denumberable.
Cantor also defined a cardinal number which was used in his work on levels of infinity.
www.engr.iupui.edu /~orr/webpages/cpt120/mathbios/gcant.htm   (1376 words)

  
 Biography of B. Gerald Cantor
In 1991 the Cantors provided the museum with a challenge grant to support ongoing operational expenses during a time of reduced aid from the City of New York; they also donated sixty Rodin sculptures and three drawings, which are installed in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery.
Cantor received honorary doctorates of fine arts from Gonzaga University and the College of the Holy Cross, where he served as a regent of the President's Council.
Cantor served as a trustee emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an honorary life trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a member of the Business Committee for the Arts.
www.cantorfoundation.org /Bios/gerald.html   (1551 words)

  
 Georg Cantor and Cantor's Theorem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Before Cantor it was generally felt that infinity as an actuality did not make sense; one could only speak of a variable increasing without bound as that variable going to infinity.
Cantor not only found a way to make sense out an actual, as opposed to a potential, infinity but showed that their are different orders of infinity.
Cantor first studied at the University of Zürich and later at the University of Berlin.
www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/cantorth.htm   (514 words)

  
 Cantor Orgelbouw North America - About
This love of the organ, as an historic instrument, is reflected in the practices that Cantor employs in building their organs.
Cantor Digital Organs are carefully designed to each Client's specification and hand crafted for each specific installation.
The essential aspects of this design process are to plan the installation of the Organ to maintain both an esthetic appearance in the room and ensure the proper placement of loudspeakers to resemble the location of the pipes in the traditional Pipe Organ.
www.cantor-organs.com /about.htm   (365 words)

  
 Cantor's Dilemma explores world of science and ethics
What Cantor doesn't tell his audience is that he has an idea for confirming his hypothesis, which he is keeping to himself until he gets back to Urbana.
Cantor himself, who keeps his personal life completely hidden from his students, collects erotic art and antique furniture, and plays the violin in a quartet.
Cantor may seem to be an ambitious cold-heart, but even he can fall in love.
www-tech.mit.edu /V111/N18/cantor.18a.html   (744 words)

  
 Biography of Iris Cantor
Iris Cantor is chairman and president of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
Cantor created the Iris Cantor Humanitarian Award to recognize individuals who have made important contributions to women's health; Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first recipient of the Award.
Cantor is a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee and a grand patron of the Music Center in Los Angeles.
www.cantorfoundation.org /Bios/iris.html   (1236 words)

  
 Georg Cantor
Cantor's own faith in his theory was partly theological.
This fairly detailed Georg Cantor biography is from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Extract from Cantor's Uber einen die trigonometrischen Reihen betraffenden Lerhrsatz which is one of his first publications on the theory of functions.
www.erraticimpact.com /~19thcentury/html/cantor.htm   (527 words)

  
 Georg Cantor Summary
Cantor, however, was poorly paid by the university, and he strove to obtain a better, more prestigious, teaching appointment in Berlin but was blocked by jealous professional rivals.
Cantor's chief mathematical pursuit was a deeper understanding of the concept of infinity.
Cantor died in a mental hospital in 1918.
www.bookrags.com /Georg_Cantor   (6336 words)

  
 College of the Holy Cross | Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bernard Gerald Cantor (1916-1996) is widely recognized as having been the preeminent collector and proponent of Auguste Rodin in America during the second part of the twentieth century.
Cantor purchased a bronze version, which would be the beginning of what was later called his "magnificent obsession." Throughout the years, the Cantors collected approximately 750 large-and-small-scale sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and memorabilia.
Cantor, who serves as chairman and president of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
www.holycross.edu /departments/cantor/website/about_cantors.html   (335 words)

  
 Cantor's Paradox
Cantor's paradox, sometimes called the paradox of the greatest cardinal, expresses what its second name would imply--that there is no cardinal larger than every other cardinal.
Cantor proves his theorems in two ways, function-theoretically and by using a diagonal argument.
These conclusions are sound, given that Cantor stated in his letter that the ``totality of everything thinkable'' ([11], p.
www.u.arizona.edu /~miller/finalreport/node3.html   (444 words)

  
 PlanetMath: Cantor's paradox
Cantor's paradox demonstrates that there can be no largest cardinality.
In particular, there must be an unlimited number of infinite cardinalities.
This is version 3 of Cantor's paradox, born on 2002-09-29, modified 2005-02-14.
planetmath.org /encyclopedia/CantorsParadox.html   (125 words)

  
 Eric Cantor - Congresspedia
After working in private practice as a lawyer, Cantor was elected to the Virginia State House of Delegates, serving there from 1992 to 2000, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Cantor is described as "a rising star in the GOP who emerged last year as DeLay's foremost congressional defender." He was in consideration to become Tom DeLay's replacement as House Majority Leader, but John Boehner was tapped instead, leading to speculation about Cantor's future in the party leadership.
Cantor is a staunch supporter of Israel and recently assailed Howard Dean for referring to the Republican Party as a "white, Christian party." [3] Cantor is the only Jewish Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Eric_Cantor   (880 words)

  
 Jewish Lifecycles Unlimited, Interfaith and Jewish Weddings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cantor Metzger received a Bachelor´s Degree in Education in 1988, and her Master´s of Sacred Music Degree and ordination as Cantor in 1994.
The couple should call Cantor Metzger before any definite plans are made and arrange a meeting in order to discuss the ceremony and the meaning of marriage in the Jewish tradition, as well as the date and place for the ceremony.
Cantor Metzger should be notified as soon as the death occurs, and consulted about the time of the service.
www.jewish-lifecycles.com   (1307 words)

  
 church organs, digital church organs, digital pipe organs
For this reason, Cantor organs are not sold in music stores where local dealers or sales persons, who may be totally lacking in knowledge and experience, are responsible for the final voicing and tonal finishing of your organ.
Cantor Positive series is an ideal, realistic solution for practice facilities and applications where space, acoustics, and/or financial resources are an issue.
Cantor's system is so intuitive that the hardware and digital components are designed to be upgrade-able with forward complete compatibility.
www.cantor-usa.com   (705 words)

  
 Cantor set and function
When I was a freshman, a graduate student showed me the Cantor set, and remarked that although there were supposed to be points in the set other than the endpoints, he had never been able to find any.
In other words, a nonconstant function f that has a derivative equal to 0 on intervals of total length 1 manages to grow from 0 to 1 on the interval [0, 1].
Cantor function is as famous as it is useful for other exceptional constructs.
www.cut-the-knot.org /do_you_know/cantor.shtml   (644 words)

  
 Peninsula Temple Sholom - Cantor Barry Reich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cantor Barry Reich, a fifth generation Cantor has been serving as the Bar Mitzvah and Tefillah teacher as well as Choral Director of Peninsula Temple Sholom for over 38 years.
Cantor Reich received his education first at "The Breed Yeshiva" in Los Angeles and later attended the Ross McKee Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music receiving a Bachelor of Music degree.
Cantor Reich has had extensive experience as a composer and performer in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as touring with his sister, Cantor Linda Reich Freed and his brother, Cantor Brian Reich.
www.sholom.org /html/cantor.html   (249 words)

  
 Who Was Eddie Cantor?
Cantor was swimming with success, when he lost almost all of his money in the great stock market crash of 1929.
Cantor accompanied his film success with an over thirty-year run in radio on the Chase and Sanborn Show in 1930-1932, the Pebeco Hour and the Pabst Blue Ribbon Show in the thirties, and the Texaco Show and The Eddie Cantor Show in the 1940s.
In 1950, Cantor was the first non-classical performer to fill Carnegie Hall with his one-man show, appearing alone on the stage for two hours of anecdotes and songs and backed by two pianos, as he reminiscing about his years in show business.
www.libranpoet.com /who_was_eddie_cantor.htm   (880 words)

  
 fa projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cantor and Grigely, who both lived and worked in Jersey City, New Jersey in the mid 1990s, will be showing work based on their interaction with each other over the past 10 years, as well as a new collaborative film.
Through the mid 1990s, Cantor and Grigely had separate studios in Jersey City; they met often, shared books and films and criticism, and they made the local 24-hour diner The Flamingo their meeting place.
Ellen Cantor’s first exhibition in London was in 1996 at the Cabinet Gallery in Brixton.
www.art-online.org /faprojects/exhibitions/03cantor/show.html   (399 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cantor
In medieval cathedrals the cantor was master of music and chant, but also commonly one of the dignitaries of the chapter.
In the fourteenth century the cantor in many churches began to delegate his instruction of the singers to a master of music.
the cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir, and immediately on his left stands his assistant, formerly called the "Succentor".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03306a.htm   (245 words)

  
 Cantor Pilatsky
Cantor Pilatsky’s previous pulpits included Congregation Mt. Sinai in Brooklyn Heights, Congregation B'nai Israel in Freeport, and Temple B’nai Abraham in Hartford, CT. In addition, Cantor Pilatsky has taught at Temple Or Elohim in Jericho, and at North Shore Synagogue in Syosset.
Cantor Pilatsky is a graduate of the Jewish Family Educators Training Institute at SAJES (Suffolk Association for Jewish Educational Services).
Cantor Rich and Rabbi Astrachan team up to offer the congregation a variety of special programming during the year, including special Havdallah services, a gala Purim spiel each year, and programs designed to enhance the culture of our congregation and community.
www.mytemple.org /cantor.htm   (455 words)

  
 History News Network
Norman Cantor, one of the most controversial and celebrated American medievalists of the past half century has died at age 74.
Cantor suggested that Kantorowicz was an "impeccable Nazi", something for which he never provided evidence.
I actually refused to read Cantor after that, and even (I do confess it), told one of my former students not to take a course from Cantor at NYU (where he taught until 1999).
hnn.us /blogs/entries/7548.html   (592 words)

  
 The Cantor Concern
The Cantor Concern is a leading executive recruiting firm for the public relations and communications industry.
The Cantor Concern web site provides many resources for clients and communications professionals in general, all of which are easily accessible from the Library and Web Portal menus on the upper left.
The Cantor Concern and Cantor Concern Staffing Options maintain internal practices that help to protect the security and confidentiality of the information limiting employee access to use of the information.
www.cantorconcern.com   (688 words)

  
 Cantor & Burger St. Louis Personal Injury Attorneys 314 542 9999 - WE FIGHT TO WIN!
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www.cantorburger.com   (648 words)

  
 Cantor, Georg (1845-1918) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
German mathematician who built a hierarchy of infinite sets according to their cardinal number.
Cantor's highly original views were vigorously opposed by his contemporaries, especially Kronecker.
Dauben, J. Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite.
www.treasure-troves.com /bios/CantorGeorg.html   (109 words)

  
 Cantor Telecom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cantor Fitzgerald Telecom Services, LLC (Cantor Telecom) is a leading provider of secure wireless and wireline telecommunications services for the financial and entertainment marketplaces delivering mission critical information and services that support the global trading infrastructure for Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., its subsidiaries, and its clients.
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www.cantor.com /telecom   (145 words)

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