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  Babe Ruth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth threw a tantrum and quit the team for a few days, and it was reported he had signed a new contract with the Chester Shipyards, a Pennsylvania-based pro team.
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 Ruth First - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth First (1925-1982) was a white South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Her parents, Julius and Matilda First, were first generation immigrants, coming to South Africa from Latvia in 1906.
Ruth First was a member of the South African Communist Party (CPSA), of which her parents were founder members, and which was allied with the African National Congress in the struggle to overthrow the racist government of her country, which treated fl and mixed-race people as second-class citizens.
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 Ruth First   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruth and her brother, Ronald, grew up in a household in which intense political debate between people of all races and classes was always present.
First considered herself to be primarily a labour reporter, and during the 1950s she was producing up to fifteen stories a week.
In 1977 First was appointed professor and research director of the Centre for African Studies at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/first,r.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Ruth First Biography / Biography of Ruth First Biography Biography
Ruth First (1925-1982) was a South African socialist, anti-apartheid activist, and scholar.
Ruth First was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1925, the daughter of socialist immigrants Tilly and Julius First.
First was instrumental in the foundation of the non-racial Federation of Progressive Students and joined the South African Communist Party--the principal party open to whites forging inter-racial political activity.
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 Gaskell, Ruth (1)
Ruth reddened, and tears sprang to her eyes; but she was so conscious of the falsity of the accusation, that she rebuked herself for being moved by it, and, raising her head, gave a proud look round, as if in appeal to her companions.
Ruth thought it was too strong a realisation of her hopes, and looked for an over-clouding at noon; but the glory endured, and at two o'clock she was in the Leasowes, with a beating heart full of joy, longing to stop the hours, which would pass too quickly through the afternoon.
Ruth went on her way, all unconscious of the dark phantoms of the future that were gathering around her; her melancholy turned, with the pliancy of childish years, at sixteen not yet lost, into a softened manner which was infinitely charming.
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 RFET: Ruth First
The Ruth First Educational Trust is named after the journalist, writer, anti-apartheid campaigner and Durham University Sociology lecturer who was assassinated in 1982 by a letter bomb sent by the South African police.
Heloise Ruth First was born in 1925 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ruth came to live in London in 1964 with her three daughters, and worked as an independent researcher and writer on commissions for publishers and international bodies, travelling widely in African and Arab countries.
www.dur.ac.uk /ruthfirst.trust/ruth.htm   (694 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of South Africans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While the list was clearly intended as a touchstone for debate and a source of public entertainment, the SABC soon became embroiled in a national controversy over the high rankings accorded to some South Africans who were less widely regarded as "great".
On October 15, bowing to pressure from political commentators and sections of the media, the SABC announced that the show was being cancelled, leaving positions 2 to 10 still formally undecided.
Bulelani T Ngcuka (2 May 1954 -) was the first national Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa, and is the husband of Deputy President of South Africa Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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 Ruth's First Library Sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As Ruth puts all her weight into one final pull at the flap, the box, having been to a good many more library sales than Ruth, groans mightily, and the side of the box comes away with the flap, spilling books everywhere.
Sensing her invisibility may be coming to an end, Ruth sidles guiltily over to the refreshment table and helps herself to a couple of chocolate chip cookies then slips back into the sale.
Having rearranged the alphabet to her satisfaction, Ruth moves to the periphery of the sale to explore the piles of books that have been neatly stacked against an empty wall and marked with various business cards, sweaters and jackets.
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 Ruth First
Ruth First was born in Johannesburg in 1925.
Her main job functions include managing the reception desk and handling the master keys, assist the residence coordinator, do maintenance checks, supervise the cleaners, assist during conflict situations, counseling and administrative duties such as the booking in/out of students and assist with student problems/queries in general.
She is a residence assistant for Ruth First residence.
www.uwc.ac.za /resadmin/residences/ruth_first.htm   (530 words)

  
 Babe Ruth | BaseballLibrary.com
Whether Ruth actually called his shot when he homered off the Cubs' Charlie Root in his last Series in 1932 is still debated, but the incident typified the enormity of the Ruth legend.
The same Ruth who would happily spend hours of free time with needy children was ejected for swinging at an umpire who called ball four on the first batter the young pitcher faced in a June 23, 1917 game.
Ruth allows one run in the first, a homer by CF Hy Myers that skips by Harry Hooper.
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 ANC SAYS: HANDS OFF RUTH FIRST!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruth First would not have accepted or awarded this award whose criteria is how far you vilify the ANC and other democratic forces.
Yet Ruth First would neither be a praise-singer of anything that serves interests alien to our people, be it in the media or government.
The ANC knows this because Ruth First was part of it when only the brave could whisper about the ANC and at a time when you would not be called brave or courageous simply for imagining splits within the ANC- led Tripartite Alliance or rumblings on the appointments of ANC premiers.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1998/pr0915a.html   (346 words)

  
 AIM25: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: FIRST, (Heloise) Ruth (1925-1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Administrative/Biographical history: Heloise Ruth First was born on 4 May 1925 in Johannesburg, the daughter of Julius and Matilda ('Tilly') First, Jewish emigrants to South Africa from the Baltic states.
Ruth First was killed on 17 Aug 1982, when she opened a parcel bomb addressed to her at the above university.
Scope and content/abstract: The collection includes personal material of Ruth First and her immediate family, papers relating to First's work as a journalist in South Africa, as a university lecturer, an anti-apartheid activist, and as an author and editor of numerous books and articles on Africa and other political topics, 1946-1982.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=4589&inst_id=16   (905 words)

  
 CASBAH: First, (Heloise) Ruth (1925-1982)
Administrative/Biographical history: Heloise Ruth First was born on 4 May 1925 in Johannesburg, the daughter of Julius and Matilda ('Tilly') First, Jewish emigrants to South Africa from Latvia.
In 1977 First was seconded to the Centre for African Studies, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo and then worked as director of a research training programme there between November 1978 and August 1982.
Following a UNESCO conference at the center, Ruth First was killed on 17 Aug 1982, when she opened a parcel bomb addressed to her at the above university.
www.casbah.ac.uk /cats/archive/135/ICSA00038.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Ruth First (1925-1982)
Throughout the 1950s their home in Roosevelt Park was an important center for multiracial political gatherings.
House searches and the banning and arrest of their parents by the police constantly unsettled their childhood.
Following a UNESCO conference at the center in 1982, First was killed by a letter bomb widely believed to have originated from military sources within South Africa.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/ruthfirst.html   (1214 words)

  
 Ruth First Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Ruth First -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Her parents, Julius and Matilda First, were first generation (A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there) immigrants, coming to South Africa from (A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea) Latvia in 1906.
She married (Click link for more info and facts about Joe Slovo) Joe Slovo, another prominent anti-apartheid activist.
She was assassinated by parcel bomb on August 17, 1982 in (The capital and largest city of Mozambique) Maputo, (A republic on the eastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975) Mozambique.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruth_first.htm   (186 words)

  
 ROAPE: Author Profile - Ruth First   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruth First was one of the founding editors and the most active initiators of the Review.
She was killed by a letter bomb in Maputo in 1982.
Issue number 25 is dedicated to her, and contains some of Ruth's writings, obituaries, her memorial address and a bibliography of her work.
www.roape.org /cgi-bin/roape/show/afirs_r.html   (192 words)

  
 FatherHurley.com - King James Version of the Holy Bible   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The literature, art, and music of Western culture in particular are deeply indebted to biblical themes, motifs, and images.
Translations of the Bible, such as the Authorized Version (or King James Version, 1611) and Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German (first completed in 1534) not only influenced literature but also shaped the development of languages.
Such effects continue to be felt in emerging nations, where translations of the Bible into the vernacular help to shape language traditions...In 1604 King James I commissioned a new revision of the English Bible; it was completed in 1611.
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 Business First Louisville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
FIRST, a science and technology competition founded by Dean Kamen ;
Ruth First (1925-1982), a leading anti- apartheid South African campaigner.
For other places with the same name, see Louisville (disambiguation).
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