KAUFMANN, YEḤEZKEL (1889–1963), was an Israeli Bible scholar and philosopher of Jewish history. Born in the Ukraine, Kaufmann was educated in Bible, Talmud, and Jewish history and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of...

Kaufmann is a surname, with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant. It may refer...

Kaufmann, Margaret "Peg" Friday, July 18, 2003 Kaufmann, Margaret "Peg" Margaret peacefully left this earth with children and grandchildren at her bedside July 12, 2003. She was born the third child to Mary Falvey Gaine and James Gaine on August 11, 1919. She grew...

GALERIE RIVET In 1962, the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti premiered his Poeme Symphonique, a musical piece for a hundred metronomes. By positing the metronome as the performer of the concert (the pendulum weights were set so that each beat at a different...

At the time, it was the nation's deadliest commercial airliner crash.All 58 people on board Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 died when the DC-4 plummeted into Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950, en route from New York to Minneapolis and later, Seattle. The plane went down...

A judge in Mexico's northern state of Coahuila on Wednesday ordered five mine officials to stand trial on negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 65 coal miners killed in a gas explosion last year.Coahuila state Judge Sergio Tamez said lawyers for the five Industrial...