Jack Du Brul
Jack Du Brul( born October 15, 1968 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American author who writes techno- thriller novels.
Endel Laas
Endel Laas( 29 August 1915 in Tartu – 1 November 2009) was an Estonian forest scientist and professor.
Laas specialised in forestry and taught at the University of Life Sciences for many years.
In 1999 he was awarded the Order of the White Star, third class.
Jack Du Brul
Jack Du Brul( born October 15, 1968 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American author who writes techno- thriller novels.
Laurie Baymarrwangga
Laurie Baymarrwangga( Gawany) Baymarrwaŋa( c. 1917 – 20 August 2014) was born on Murruŋga Island( largest of the outer Crocodile Islands of North- East Arnhem Land), in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Laurie was the Senior Aboriginal Traditional Owner of the Malarra estate, which includes Galiwin'ku, Dalmana, Murruŋga, Brul- brul and the Ganatjirri Maramba Salt Water surrounding the islands and inclusive of some 300 other named sites.
She devoted her life to the intergenerational transmission of the ancestral language and knowledge of her homelands on the Crocodile Islands, for the benefit of future generations.
Florence Kirsch Du Brul
Florence Kirsch Du Brul (1915–July 2, 2005) was a concert pianist and master piano teacher and member of Chicago society in the mid-20th century.
Born on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1915, Florence Kirsch as a little girl studied with master pianist Silvio Scionti and composer Howard Wells, and performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 12.
The CSO’s conductor, Frederick Stock, recommended her to the great Austrian classical pianist and composer Artur Schnabel, and Kirsch was sent to Berlin, Germany, where Schnabel was living, so she could study with the great master during her teenage years.
After the Nazis came to power, Kirsch was denied permission to leave Germany, and so was forced to escape to Italy leaving all her possessions behind.
She returned to the United States in 1937, and made her professional debut in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall that year.
Kirsch became a classical concert pianist, and performed on several classical records, including neo-classic Swiss composer Ernest Bloch’s Voice in the Wilderness, and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces.
Living in New York City in the 1940s while performing and teaching, she met and married Dr. E. Lloyd Du Brul, an anatomist, physical anthropologist, and educator.
After Dr. Du Brul served in General George Patton’s Third Army in World War II, he received a faculty appointment at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.
The couple purchased a stately 19th century home in Lincoln Park, Chicago and filled it with art, sculpture, native handicrafts, and other memorabilia from their many trips abroad.
They threw legendary parties, and the Du Brul home was “a welcoming scientific, artistic, and intellectual haven for some of the finest minds of the 20th century,” said Dr. Bruce S. Graham, Dean of the College.
“To dine at the Du Bruls’ home was a feast for the palate and for the eyes in the presentation of dinner,” said Dr. Thomas Lakars, Assistant Professor of Oral Biology.
“To have visited the Du Bruls’ home for a garden party or for dinner at their banquet table was a treat never to be forgotten.”
Throughout her life, Mrs. Du Brul traveled around the world lecturing about piano and teaching master classes, where she collaborated with and/or taught several notable pianists, such as Lucia Barrenechea of Brazil and the late Donald Walker, Professor of Piano at Northern Illinois University.
Even in her later years, Mrs. Du Brul taught piano at Northwestern University and performed on WFMT-FM Radio in Chicago.
At the time of her death, Mrs. Du Brul continued to hold Emeritus Professor status at the Music Institute of Chicago.
Mrs. Du Brul also enjoyed gardening and raising standard poodles.
Dr. and Mrs. Du Brul donated their collection of human, animal, and prehistoric skeletal artifacts, prepared for teaching graduate-level oral anatomy, to the College in 1996.
“It’s an absolutely amazing collection,” said Dr. Anne Grauer of the Loyola University Chicago Department of Anthropology.
“An outstanding resource for teaching and research.”
In 2004, the College dedicated a new Du Brul Archives of Oral Anatomy to house the collection.
Florence Kirsch Du Brul died on July 2, 2005.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
E. Lloyd Du Brul
E. Lloyd Du Brul( April 5, 1909 – July 24, 1996) was a world- renowned anatomist, physical anthropologist and educator, and the developer of the science of biomechanics of the head and neck.
Du Brul, along with Harry Sicher, wrote the textbook" Sicher's and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy," considered to be the definitive oral anatomy text( Ishiyaku EuroAmerica Inc., publisher).
The book has been published in English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Du Brul also authored or co-authored four other books and contributed to seven others, including writing the" Form and Function, Biological" section of the 15th edition of" Encyclopædia Britannica," 1974.
He contributed many articles, abstracts, and book reviews to scientific journals from the 1940s through the 1980s.
An accomplished artist, Du Brul drew many of the illustrations that appeared in his books and with his articles.
His teaching career included appointments at New York- Presbyterian Hospital, 1939 – 42, and Polyclinic Hospital, 1940 – 42, both in New York City; and the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, 1946 – 77.
At the College, he founded the Department of Oral Anatomy and served as its head from 1964 – 1977.
Well known for his imaginative teaching style, Du Brul pioneered the concept that, in biomechanics, function follows form.
A student of mechanics, architecture, and engineering, he was the first dental instructor to apply these disciplines to the understanding of jaw and skull movement.
For 50 years, Du Brul travelled the world collecting human, animal, and prehistoric skeletal artifacts, personally dissecting and preparing many of them for teaching.
The collection is housed in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.
Du Brul earned his DDS degree from New York University in 1937.
He later earned an MS degree in 1949 and a PhD degree in 1955 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
During World War II, Du Brul distinguished himself while serving in Europe under General George S. Patton in the United States Army 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group.
He led a team that handled over 500 face repairs under enemy fire.
Du Brul's wife was concert pianist Florence Kirsch Du Brul.
River of Ruin
River of Ruin is an adventure novel by Jack Du Brul.
This is the 5th book featuring the author ’s primary protagonist, Philip Mercer.
E. Lloyd Du Brul
E. Lloyd Du Brul( April 5, 1909 – July 24, 1996) was a world- renowned anatomist, physical anthropologist and educator, and the developer of the science of biomechanics of the head and neck.
Du Brul, along with Harry Sicher, wrote the textbook" Sicher's and Du Brul's Oral Anatomy," considered to be the definitive oral anatomy text( Ishiyaku EuroAmerica Inc., publisher).
The book has been published in English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Du Brul also authored or co-authored four other books and contributed to seven others, including writing the" Form and Function, Biological" section of the 15th edition of" Encyclopædia Britannica," 1974.
He contributed many articles, abstracts, and book reviews to scientific journals from the 1940s through the 1980s.
An accomplished artist, Du Brul drew many of the illustrations that appeared in his books and with his articles.
His teaching career included appointments at New York- Presbyterian Hospital, 1939 – 42, and Polyclinic Hospital, 1940 – 42, both in New York City; and the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, 1946 – 77.
At the College, he founded the Department of Oral Anatomy and served as its head from 1964 – 1977.
Well known for his imaginative teaching style, Du Brul pioneered the concept that, in biomechanics, function follows form.
A student of mechanics, architecture, and engineering, he was the first dental instructor to apply these disciplines to the understanding of jaw and skull movement.
For 50 years, Du Brul travelled the world collecting human, animal, and prehistoric skeletal artifacts, personally dissecting and preparing many of them for teaching.
The collection is housed in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry.
Du Brul earned his DDS degree from New York University in 1937.
He later earned an MS degree in 1949 and a PhD degree in 1955 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
During World War II, Du Brul distinguished himself while serving in Europe under General George S. Patton in the United States Army 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group.
He led a team that handled over 500 face repairs under enemy fire.
Du Brul's wife was concert pianist Florence Kirsch Du Brul.
Charon's Landing
Charon's Landing is an adventure novel by Jack Du Brul.
It is the second book featuring the author's primary protagonist, Philip Mercer.

Question: Do Florence Kirsch Du Brul and Endel Laas have the same nationality?
Answer: no