Hermann Weyland
Hermann Gerhard Weyland( 25 March 1888 in Sankt Ingbert – 20 January 1974 in Wuppertal) was a German chemist and botanist.
In collaboration with Richard Kräusel, he carried out significant paleobotanical investigations of Devonian flora.
He obtained his education at the University of Jena, receiving his doctorate in 1912 under the direction of Christian Ernst Stahl.
Following graduation, he worked as assistant to Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig and under Ludwig Knorr in Jena.
From 1915 to 1952 he worked as a chemist at Bayer in Wuppertal- Elberfeld, being named head of its physiology laboratory in 1924.
In 1931 he became an honorary professor at the University of Cologne, where in 1945 – 48 he served as interim director of the botanical institute.
For a period of time, he served as chairman of the" Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Wuppertal".
The fossil genus" Weylandites" commemorates his name.
Abderrazak Khairi
Abderrazak Khairi( born 20 November 1962) is a Moroccan former football player and current coach of Sohar Club in the Omani League.
Samuel Sanders
Samuel Sanders( 27 June 19379 July 1999) was a distinguished American classical pianist known for sensitive collaborations with noted soloists.
He was born with a congenital heart condition that required him to undergo surgery at the age of nine.
He studied at Hunter College and at the Juilliard School under Sergius Kagen and Irwin Freundlich.
Sanders was famous for the loyalty of his collaborators.
Among the artist with whom he collaborated are Hermann Baumann( horn), Jacqueline DuPre( cello), Joshua Bell( violin).
Kyung Wha Chung( violin), Jaime Laredo( violin), Yo- Yo Ma( cello), Jessye Norman( soprano), Rachel Barton Pine( violin), Paula Robison( flute), Leonard Rose( cello), Mstislav Rostropovich( cello), Robert White( tenor), Eugenia Zukerman( flute), and Pinchas Zukerman( violin).
In 1996 Sanders and violinist Itzhak Perlman marked the thirtieth anniversary of a partnership which took them to many parts of the world and resulted in twelve recordings, two of which have were awarded Grammys.
With Chilean cellist Andres Diaz( cello) Sanders formed Diaz- Sanders Duo.
Sanders was the founder and artistic director of the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
He received honorary doctorates from Lehman College and the St. Louis Conservatory of Music( CASA), and taught for more than three decades at the Juilliard School, where he helped found a degree program for collaborative pianists.
Samuel Sanders died at New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1999.
He was 62 and lived in Manhattan.
Café International
Café International is a 1989 board game created by It is a simple game for 2 to 4 players in which the players take on the role of waiters in the famous "Cafe International".
Their goal is to seat customers of various nationalities with other customers from the same nationality, and also to keep the numbers of men and ladies at the tables even.
Café International won the Spiel des Jahres award in 1989.
Computing (journal)
Computing, subtitled" Archives for Scientific Computing", is a scientific journal published by Springer, which publishes research in computer science and numerical computation.
It s ISSN is 0010- 485X for the print version and 1436- 5057 for the electronic version., the editors of the journal are Hermann Brunner, Rainer Burkard, Craig Douglas, Wolfgang Hackbusch and Dietmar Saupe.
The first volume was published in 1966.
World Electronic Sports Games
World Electronic Sports Games( shortened as WESG) is an international esports championship tournament based in Shanghai and organized by AliSports.
The first edition has a total prize pool of over and the finals will be in December 2016.
The World Electronic Sports Games heavily bases itself on the Olympic Games and as a result of this, it is unique in that all teams must be composed of players of the same nationality to emphasize national pride.
The event also has separate tournaments for men and women.
Tournaments generally follow single- elimination rules.
Olympic influence is also visible in the promotional art.
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.
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.
Richard Kräusel
Richard Oswald Karl Kräusel( 29 August 1890 in Breslau – 25 November 1966 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German paleobotanist.
He studied botany at the University of Breslau as a pupil of Ferdinand Albin Pax, and in 1913 received his doctorate with the thesis" Beiträge zur kenntnis der Holzer aus der schlesischen Braunkohle On wood from Silesian lignite").
From 1920 to 1952 he worked as a lecturer and professor at the University of Frankfurt.
He was also associated with the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, where he served as head of the department of paleobotany.
During World
War II his collections of fossil plants were stored in a nearby castle for safekeeping; unfortunately these collections were destroyed during bombing raids on Frankfurt.
During his career, he traveled worldwide in his investigations of fossil plants — Southeast Asia( 1921, 1926), South America( 1924, 1947, 1956/ 57), United States and Canada( 1928, 1959), South- West Africa( 1928, 1953 – 54) and India( 1960/61, 1964).
On his later journeys, he conducted research on flora of Gondwanaland and collected fossil specimens to replace those that were previously destroyed.
In Europe, he carried out studies of Mesozoic flora of southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
With Hermann Weyland, he carried out important research on land plants of the Devonian.
He is also remembered for his analysis of Tertiary angiosperm leaf cuticles.
Austrian Paralympic Committee
The Austrian Paralympic Committee (OPC) was founded in 1998.
Since April 2009 the former Austrian Minister of Health, Youth and Family and former NPC Vice President Maria Rauch-Kallat was elected as President.
One of her main goals is to support youth and women with disabilities.
Petra Huber takes over the responsibility of Secretary General, the two Vice-Presidents are Hermann Krist and Brigitte Jank.
The Austrian Paralympic Committee has its headquarters in Vienna.

Question: Are Abderrazak Khairi and Hermann Weyland of the same nationality?
Answer: no