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  Teller (magician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller on February 14, 1948) is an American magician, best known as the smaller, silent half of the comedy magic duo known as Penn and Teller.
Teller is an accomplished sleight of hand artist and is considered an expert on the history of magic.
Teller does not speak while performing although there are occasional exceptions, mostly when the audience is not aware that it is his voice that is being heard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teller_(magician)   (644 words)

  
 Edward Teller | Biography | atomicarchive.com
Teller graduated with a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and received his Ph.D. in physics under Werner Heisenberg in 1930 at the University of Leipzig; his doctoral dissertation dealt with one of the first accurate quantum mechanical treatments of the hydrogen molecular ion.
In 1942, Teller was invited to be part of Robert Oppenheimer's summer planning seminar at UC Berkeley for the origins of the Manhattan Project.
Teller continued to be a tireless advocate of a strong defense policy, calling for the development of advanced thermonuclear weapons and continued nuclear testing.
www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Teller.shtml   (658 words)

  
 RR Museum of PA - Grif Teller Art Exhibit
Teller's artwork, worthy in itself, was seen by tens of thousands over a span of decades when featured on the annual calendars and other publications of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Teller's railroad art represents a blend of landscape style and industrial illustration, producing a visual record of one of the mightiest transportation systems in our nation's history.
Griffith Harold Teller (1899-1993) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended the School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark and the Art Students' League in New York City.
www.rrmuseumpa.org /visitors/seasonal/teller/tellerexhibit.htm   (482 words)

  
 Edward Teller, 'father of H-bomb,' dies - Newsday.com
Teller, dubbed the "father of the H-bomb" and a key advocate of the anti-missile shield known as "Star Wars," died Tuesday at his home on the Stanford University campus.
Teller was a tireless advocate of a vigorous United States defense policy during and after the Cold War, urging development of advanced weapons as way to deter war.
Teller's staunch support for defense stemmed in part from two events that shaped his view of world affairs -- the 1919 communist revolution in his native Hungary and the rise of Nazism while he lived in Germany in the early 1930s.
www.newsday.com /news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-obit-teller,0,3880870.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines   (713 words)

  
 1. Teller's triumph?
Passionate advocacy of nuclear weapons earned Teller a lifelong entry to the corridors of power, and for close to five decades he was an eminently qualified, intensely intelligent, combative conservative voice on national security affairs.
Teller was "Perhaps one of the handful of most influential scientists in the 20th century," says Robert S. Norris, a historian with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Teller's was a life made for the movies, and he is widely considered the template for the title role in the dark comedy, "Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
whyfiles.org /186ed_teller/2.html   (878 words)

  
 Teller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Teller (1908–2003), a nuclear physicist known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb"
Ludwig Teller (1911–1965), a U.S. Naval lieutenant and political figure
Teller (magician) (born Raymond Joseph Teller in 1948), a member of the comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teller   (186 words)

  
 Teller
Teller Mission, a Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Mission, was built in 1900 across the harbor at the current site of Brevig Mission.
Present-day Teller was also established in 1900 after the Bluestone Placer Mine discovery 15 miles to the south.
During these boom years, Teller had a population of about 5,000 and was a major regional trading center, attracting Natives from Diomede, Wales, Mary's Igloo and King Island.
www.kawerak.org /tribalHomePages/teller/index.html   (203 words)

  
 Tellers
Tellers use this cash for payments during the day and are responsible for its safe and accurate handling.
Tellers who have excellent customer service skills, are knowledgeable about a variety of financial services, and can sell those services will be in greater demand in the future.
Salaries of tellers may vary with their experience and with the region of the country, size of city, and type and size of establishment.
www.bls.gov /oco/ocos126.htm   (1434 words)

  
 Teller
Teller is the silent half of Penn & Teller, and the most famous professional mute since Harpo Marx.
Teller and Penn met in 1975, and the act became a trio renamed the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society.
Chrisemer played the synthesizer, Teller performed illusions, and Penn juggled, but their schtick had no outrageous edge because Chrisemer was devoutly Christian, the son of a Lutheran minister, and vetoed anything too risqué.
www.nndb.com /people/716/000024644   (640 words)

  
 The American Experience | Race for the Superbomb | Edward Teller, (1908 - )
Teller travelled to California with his old friend Hans Bethe who remembers that even on the way out to Berkeley Teller was already thinking about the super: "Teller told me that the fission bomb [atomic bomb] was all well and good and, essentially, was now a sure thing..
Teller argued that a superbomb was essential to the very survival of the U.S., "If the Russians demonstrate a super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless." Truman eventually agreed, calling for a hydrogen bomb program at the end of January 1950.
Teller has continued to be a tireless advocate of a strong defense policy, calling for the development of advanced thermonuclear weapons and continued nuclear testing.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX73.html   (965 words)

  
 History of Teller Wildlife Refuge
Teller Wildlife Refuge exists because of the foresight of Otto "Mose" Teller and Phil Tawney.
Teller, an avid sportsman, conservationist and summer resident of the Bitterroot Valley for over half a century, began buying properties along the Bitterroot River near Corvallis in 1985.
Teller remodeled and refurbished some of the homes and barns on the properties to serve as guest houses for visitors.
www.tellerwildlife.org /history.htm   (400 words)

  
 Physics Today August 2004- Edward Teller in the Public Arena
With Teller's death last year, a larger-than-life, highly controversial figure passed from the stage, and a link to the major disputes of the nuclear age was severed.
Teller and York encouraged the development of thermonuclear warheads light enough to be carried on solid-propellant intercontinental and submarine-launched missiles, which became the backbone of the US nuclear arsenal.
Teller went on to seek what he called third-generation nuclear weapons—that is, designs that would amplify specific effects such as neutron flux or electromagnetic effects.
www.physicstoday.org /vol-57/iss-8/p51.html   (1801 words)

  
 Alaska Division of Community Advocacy
Teller is located on a spit between Port Clarence and Grantley Harbor, 72 miles northwest of Nome, on the Seward Peninsula.
Teller is a traditional Kawerak Eskimo village with a subsistence lifestyle.
The percent of all households sampled in Teller was 47.1%.
www.commerce.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CF_BLOCK.cfm?comm_boro_name=Teller&DATA_TYPE=Overview,Economy   (761 words)

  
 Edward Teller Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Once Teller had recovered from his injury and learned to walk with a prosthesis, he transferred to the University of Leipzig to study with Werner Heisenberg, who was in the forefront of the new physics.
Teller hoped that both the fission and fusion options would be pursued at Los Alamos, but building the simpler fission device alone proved so complicated that fusion research was abandoned.
Teller believed the scientists at Los Alamos were too ambivalent about developing the next generation of nuclear weapons, and that an independent facility was needed.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/tel0bio-1   (1237 words)

  
 Edward Teller
Edward Teller was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, in 1908.
Teller continued his research in Germany but when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 he decided to move to England.
In 1953 Teller was appointed as professor at the University of California.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAteller.htm   (368 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
Teller, the quieter half of the award winning team, has been studying magic since he received a Howdy Doody magic set from his parents at the age of five.
Teller will take a break from performing at the Warner Theater to answer your questions on magic, Penn and Teller's live stage show and his new book.
Teller: Alas, people seem to be clinging to the millennia-old tradition of being suckers.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/00/teller1229.htm   (2978 words)

  
 Josef Teller OHG - Bubenreuth - Germany - Bestandteile für Streich- und Zupfinstrumente - Accessories for stringed ...
The Tellers are an ancient violin making family whose history can be traced back as far as the 18th century.
Josef Teller became an apprentice bridgemaker in his father's workshop at the age of 14, taking over the business in 1935 under his name.
The founders principles of high quality and versatility, which have been a tradition in the company for 100 years, represent a commitment as well as a challenge for the future.
www.teller.de /teller_en/wir_ueber_uns_i.html   (363 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Penn & Teller return with first network TV special in 8 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Working with his professionally mute partner Teller, he's breathed fire, served as a human bee hive, survived a 450-pound frost-free refrigerator dropped on his head.
Jillette and the slighter, soft-spoken Teller are in the restaurant of a midtown Manhattan hotel, explaining how their idea for a magic show done completely underwater will finally surface.
Teller, the measured antithesis of Jillette's jacked-up carny persona, offered a gentler but similar assessment: "You know, we have separate houses.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-11-08-penn-teller-nbc_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (756 words)

  
 Teller Training
Teller Training - Training bank tellers is the key to retail banking operations.
It will prepare your tellers to interact well with customers, to complete processing and settlement transactions quickly and correctly, and to be mindful of compliance issues that affect their work.
Achieving Teller Excellence may be delivered online, in the classroom or as a blended program using instructor-led, computer-based and role-play techniques to prepare your people for the challenging job of bank teller.
bankersacademy.com /tellertraining.html   (432 words)

  
 Teller Stuff
Dahmer.In case you were beginning to think Teller was just a regular guy.
Teller Reviews the latest Houdini biographyfrom the New York Times.
Teller travels to the British Museum and returns with this tale.
pennandteller.com /sincity/teller   (289 words)

  
 Teller: Congress Park's Neighborhood School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Teller Elementary School in the Congress Park Neighborhood
A walk-in school located at 12th and Garfield Street, Teller Elementary School boasts a renovated facility where enrollment reflects Denver's cultural diversity.
This page was last updated: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 11:00:31 PM Please e-mail tim_threlkeld@yahoo.com with suggestions and/or corrections for the Teller website.
teller.dpsk12.org   (170 words)

  
 SunTrust - Careers - Teller Recruiting
If there are no Teller opportunities available in your area, we encourage you to visit our Web site periodically as positions are added regularly.
Individuals who successfully complete the Teller pre-screening process will be invited to proceed to the Teller assessment and application stage of the process.
Individuals who do not successfully complete the Teller pre-screening are encouraged to visit https://www2.suntrust.com/careers for other opportunities.
www2.suntrust.com /careers/tellers.html   (355 words)

  
 Teller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Teller taught Latin at a high school near Trenton, NJ.
Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End (2005) (TV)....
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (1995) (VG)....
www.imdb.com /name/nm0854418   (483 words)

  
 Edward Teller - DOE R&D Accomplishments
Edward Teller, co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Director from 1958 – 1960, died September 9, 2003, at the age of 95.
and was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, positions that he held until his death." Dr. Teller received the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, on July 23, 2003, the Gold Award, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on November 26, 2002, and the Fermi Award in 1962.
Other awards received by Dr. Teller include the Albert Einstein Award in 1958, and the National Medal of Science in 1982.
www.osti.gov /accomplishments/teller.html   (406 words)

  
 Teller Wines
Teller Wines is a retail store that specializes in wines from around the world.
Teller Wines strives to inform, inspire and share the passion of great wine, maintaining an exceptionally strong commitment to wine and product research and wine education.
The primary goal of Teller Wines is to offer great wines that cost less than $15.00 a bottle.
www.tellerwines.com /index.htm   (160 words)

  
 Fortune Teller
A fortune teller is an old folding game for children.
While making a fortune teller and also after having finished it, you get two basic geometric forms, the square and the half square, which is an isosceles, right-angled triangle.
The fortune teller has four bowls and can be used for putting things in.
www.mathematische-basteleien.de /fortune_teller.htm   (785 words)

  
 Questions & Answers: Teller
The sense of teller for a person who counts money dates from 1480 at the latest.
At the time in Britain there were officials called tellers, in particular four officers of the Exchequer who were responsible for the receipt and payment of money.
In 1669 the poet Andrew Marvell wrote in a letter that “The tellers for the ayes chanced to be very ill reckoners, so that they were forced to tell severall times over”.
www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-tel1.htm   (303 words)

  
 Teller, P.: An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory.
Teller, P.: An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory.
Paul Teller presents the basic ideas of quantum field theory in a way that is understandable to readers who are familiar with non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
Teller has provided a real service by distilling the central notions so as to be accessible to the non-expert."--Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University
www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/5609.html   (436 words)

  
 Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education
Teller, on the other hand, has been quieter about his politics, but did come clean during an online chat on WashingtonPost.com.
Penn and Teller's act includes shadow puppets, goldfish, a wood chipper, a gorilla, broken glass bottles (which they juggle), and their famous Magic Bullet Trick.
Teller has spoken out against government mandated V-chips in televisions, while Jillette has been a vocal critic of the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on "offensive speech." (In a April 1994 interview with Reason magazine, Jillette said he takes "the First Amendment defense" about freedom of expression: "Congress shall make no law.
www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/penn-teller.html   (878 words)

  
 The Smart Teller is Finally Here with S1 Enterprise Teller Solution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
As a smart-client solution, S1 Enterprise Teller combines real-time connectivity with a depth of offline capabilities to overcome the risks of previous web-based teller applications.
The solution drastically reduces deployment costs associated with typical teller product implementations, because the applications are maintained centrally on a server and deployed over the Internet to local teller stations.
In addition, S1 Enterprise Teller uniquely leverages the S1 Enterprise Platform capabilities to let system administrators graphically map business processes that can in turn be used to reduce key strokes and individual tasks required by many systems.
www.s1.com /products/branch_ent_teller_announcement.jsp   (501 words)

  
 Teller's | lawrence.com
Teller's has the Lawrence ambience market cornered with its towering ceilings, elegant artwork and hanging milk glass lighting.
Likewise, the menu tends towards town's upper echelon, with a variety of regional Italian specialties and preparations, as well as a strong focus on wines (2005 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence — one of only four places in the state and the only one in Lawrence).
Teller's is housed in a old style bank building, and you can still see vestiges of that history near the bar and near the restrooms (you walk through the huge bank vault doorway to get to them).
www.lawrence.com /places/tellers   (328 words)

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