Grammy-winning blues musician / historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s.

In his 2012 book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama music historian and musician Elijah Wald says the term was first defined in a 1921 pop song-" Don't Slip Me in the Dozens, Please ", recorded by the black vaudeville comic Henry Troy, composed by Chris Smith, who accompanied Troy on the piano.

* Wald, Elijah ( 2012 ).

** Elijah Wald ( notes writer ) for Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection: 1960-2000 the Journey of Chris Strachwitz performed by various artists

He had two sons with Kingsley — Michael and David ; he and Hubbard had a son — the award-winning musicologist and musician Elijah Wald — and a daughter, Deborah, a prominent family law attorney.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference ( and hence of Bayesian probabilities ) was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every admissible statistical procedure is either a Bayesian procedure or a limit of Bayesian procedures.

During World War I, Eastman was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party, soon joined by Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, and others.

* Lillian D. Wald

* 1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician ( b. 1902 )

The use of a sequence of experiments, where the design of each may depend on the results of previous experiments, including the possible decision to stop experimenting, is within the scope of Sequential analysis, a field that was pioneered by Abraham Wald in the context of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses.

" Hayek died in 1992 in Freiburg, Germany, and was buried in the Neustift am Wald cemetery in the northern outskirts of Vienna.

* 1906 – George Wald, American scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1997 )

* 1902 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician ( d. 1950 )

Wald went so far as to call hip hop " the living blues.

Eleven Nobel prizes have been awarded to Unitarians: Robert Millikan and John Bardeen ( twice ) in Physics ; Emily Green Balch, Albert Schweitzer, Linus Pauling, and Geoff Levermore for Peace ; George Wald and David H. Hubel in Medicine ; Linus Pauling in Chemistry, and Herbert A. Simon in Economics.

** George Wald, American scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1997 )

* July 13 – Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and producer ( b. 1911 )

It is located in the federal state of Thuringia (), north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig.

George Wald, Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their scientific research on the retina.

* to the north and northeast lies the Bavarian Forest ( Bayerischer Wald ) with granite and gneiss mountains and wide forests.

A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every Bayesian procedure is admissible.

These remarkable results, at least in their original form, are due essentially to Wald.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

The third is when Elijah confronts Ahab over Ahab and Jezebel's execution of Naboth and usurpation of his land in 1 Kings 21.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

The followers of Yahweh found their champion in Elijah, whose story reflects the prophetic teaching of more than one age.

A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets ( Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah ), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions.

The earlier period would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Elijah as reflected in 1 Kings, Chapter 18, Verses 1-16.

And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

The book concludes by calling upon the teachings of Moses and by promising that Elijah will return prior to the Day of the Lord.

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.

Her parents, Samuel Elijah Eastman and Annis Bertha Ford, were both Congregational Church clergy, and together served as pastors at the church of Thomas K. Beecher near Elmira, New York.

At the end, he is taken up to heaven like Enoch and Elijah.

Derivative references to Elijah appear in the Talmud, Mishnah, the New Testament, and the Qur ' an.

In Christianity, the New Testament describes how both Jesus and John the Baptist are compared with Elijah, and on some occasions, thought by some to be manifestations of Elijah, and Elijah appears with Moses during the Transfiguration of Jesus.

In Islam, the Qur ' an describes Elijah as a great and righteous prophet of God, and one who powerfully preached against the worship of Ba ' al.

Elijah is also a figure in various folkloric traditions.

In Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, he is known as " Elijah the Thunderer " and in folklore is held responsible for summer storms, hail, rain, thunder, and dew.

Elijah in the wilderness, by Washington Allston.

No background for the person of Elijah is given.

Elijah not only challenges Baal on behalf of his own God, Yahweh, he challenges Jezebel, her priests, Ahab, and the people of Israel.

When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.

Elijah tells her that God will not allow her supply of flour or oil to run out, saying, " Don't be afraid .. this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ' The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land ," illustrating that the demand of the covenant is not given without the promise of the covenant.