When Jacob L. Englehart, a wealthy pioneer London oil refiner from Cleveland, Ohio ( and future vice president of Imperial Oil ), became the president and financial backer of the Tecumsehs in late 1875, he too began looking for professional players from the U. S., later signing four Americans: first-baseman / manager George " Juice " Latham, pitcher Fred Goldsmith of New Haven, Connecticut ( believed by many to be the co-inventor of the curveball along with Candy Cummings of Ware, Massachusetts ), catcher Phil Powers and infielder / outfielder Joe Hornung ( nicknamed " Dutchy " and " Ubbo Ubbo ") from Carthage, New York.

( Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist, and after they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi during January – March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.

* Homage to Friends from Montparnasse by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ), c. 1962, oil / canvas, top left to right: Diego Rivera, Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, his wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, galerie owner Leopold Zborowski ; bottom left to right: Marevna, her and Diego Rivera's daughter Marika, ( Amedeo Modigliani ), Moise Kisling.

:" And Jacob set up a Pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a Pillar of Stone ; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it ".

* Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker Jacob Rothschild-( The Washington Times )

This phenomenon can also be traced through many passages from the Old Testament, such as those related to Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, who poured oil over a stone that he erected after his famous dream in which angels climbed to heaven ( Genesis 28: 10-22 ).

* For watch bearings, a jewel bearing made of ruby, comprising a ring ( the " hole ") with a sink for oil, is invented by Nicholas Facio with Peter and Jacob Debaufre, who used pierced natural rubies.

* In the last quarter of the 18th century, Professor Jacob Seydelmann of Dresden developed a process to extract and produce a more concentrated form of sepia for use in watercolors and oil paints.

Jacob calls his sons to his bedside and reveals their future to them before he dies and is interred in the family tomb at Machpelah.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

The Book of Jubilees similarly has Isaac telling Levi of the future of his descendants, again predicting priesthood, prophets, and political power, and additionally describes Jacob as entrusting Levi with the secrets of the ancients, so that they would be known only to the Levites ; however, like the Testament of Levi, the Book of Jubilees is regarded as a Maccabean document by scholars.

In 1973 the physicist Jacob Bronowski produced The Ascent of Man, which summarised a magnificent thirteen part BBC television series about all the ways in which humans have moulded the Earth and its future.

At the time of her birth, her family lived at 1 Greenwich Street, near the Bowling Green, but the population growth and increasing urbanization of lower Manhattan in the 1830s led her family to move farther north to 36 Bond Street, near the then-ultra fashionable " Lafayette Place ," which had been developed by her future husband's grandfather, John Jacob Astor.

Some supporters of the restoration of the Jews interpret the prophetic texts as describing inevitable future events, and these events primarily involve Israel ( taken to mean the descendants of the Biblical patriarch Jacob ) or Judah ( taken to mean the remaining faithful adherents of Judaism ).

Although Muslim tradition and literature greatly embellishes upon the narrative of Jacob, the earliest event involving Jacob in the Qur ' an is that of the angels giving " glad tidings " to Abraham and Sarah of the future birth of a prophetic son by the name of Isaac as well as a prophetic grandson by the name of Jacob. The Qur ' an states:

A prototype of the future 10 gold francs coin was presented to the media by Thomas Jacob, president of the Gold Franc Association.

When he reached the border of the land of Canaan ( the future land of Israel ), the angels who were assigned to the Holy Land went back up to Heaven and the angels assigned to other lands came down to meet Jacob.

The place at which Jacob stopped for the night was in reality Mount Moriah, the future home of the Temple in Jerusalem.

* Jacob Houk ( 2009 )-current undergraduate student at Tulane University, future political leader and historian

After growing up in Derby, England, he studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he played cricket and chess ( with future champions Conel Hugh O ' Donel Alexander and Jacob Bronowski ).

Thereafter, he was a law partner with both Jacob Morrison and the future Democratic U. S. Representative Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.

The event was held on the future site of the new courthouse, a 2¼ acre parcel of land west of the existing Jacob Weinberger U. S. Courthouse.

Dawson served as an aide to Generals Jacob Brown and future President Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812.

Natasha ( Irène Jacob ) is a young, ambitious SVR ( KGB ) agent who is looking to secure a future for herself amidst the chaos of the new Russian Republic and her floundering intelligence agency.

Leisler responded by sending Jacob Milborne, a close advisor and future son-in-law, with a militia troop to take military control of Albany in November.

Continuing her studies at Durham University would lead her to teachers Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as her future husband, clarinettist Robert Baker.

From 1968 to 1993 it was known as Jacob Kramer College-having lost part of its provision to Leeds Polytechnic ( the future Leeds Metropolitan University ).

Jacob N. Lunders of Allmusic praised the album with 4. 5 out of 5 stars and claimed " Perhaps co-defining the future of heavy metal, White Zombie's major-label debut nearly equals fellow classics Guns N ' Roses's Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance ".

Muckraking pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis documented the poor conditions of immigrant tenement dwellers in his 1890 How the Other Half Lives ; he was befriended by mutual admirer, fellow progressive and future United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who, after losing in the mayoral race in 1886, undertook a major reform of the New York City Police Department in 1895-1897 during his term as President of the Police Commissioners.

There are even more elaborate ethical teachings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in which each of the twelve sons of Jacob, in his last words to his children and children's children, reviews his life and gives them moral lessons, either warning them against a certain vice he had been guilty of, so that they may avoid divine punishment, or recommending them to cultivate a certain virtue he had practised during life, so that they may win God's favor.

Lewis ' father Jacob Lewis was a vice president of the Levi Strauss jeans manufacturing company.

Shaquille Allick ( Captain ), Duane Cockburn ( wicket-keeper ), Isaiah Rajah, Brian Christmas, Anthony Simmons ( vice captain ), Idrees Mohammed, Akeem Christmas, Brandon Ramdial, Jacob Beddoe, Jeremy Solozano, Justin Rajkumar, Shamir Nuradali, Rajiv Alex Singh, Anthony Jawahir

After the inauguration of Jacob Zuma as South Africa's president in May 2009 de Klerk said he is optimistic that Zuma and his government can " confound the prophets of doom ".

With the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president Jacob Zuma states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other countries.

Jacob Zuma serves as the South African president.

Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

Although Great Northern and Northern Pacific were backed by J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill, the Union Pacific was backed not only by its president, Edward H. Harriman, but by the extremely powerful William Rockefeller and Jacob Schiff.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh ( 1736 – 1790 ), later the college's first president, Queen's College was chartered on 10 November 1766.

Jack Leonard " J. L ." Warner ( August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978 ), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

It was initially called " Jacob City ", after the president of the German Land Company of Detroit, which sold land to members in 1881-83.

Near the Wallace House is the Old Dutch Parsonage, where Reverend Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, a founder and first president of Rutgers University, then called Queens College, lived.

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

The first president of the City Bank was the statesman and retired Colonel, Samuel Osgood, ownership and management of the bank was taken over by Moses Taylor, a protégé of John Jacob Astor and one of the giants of the business world in the 19th century.

Jacob V. Brower, a land surveyor and president of the Minnesota Historical Society, after spending five months exploring the lakes, claimed that the lakes and streams further south of Lake Itasca were not the true source of the Mississippi because they were " too small.

Their son, Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus II, was a theologian, professor, author, and president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Schabir Shaik, the financial advisor to the president of the African National Congress party Jacob Zuma, was found guilty of organising a bribe on behalf of Thales.

Jacob Vanderbilt, president of the Staten Island Railway, was arrested for murder, though he escaped conviction.

The first President to be elected under the new constitution was Nelson Mandela, and the incumbent president is Jacob Zuma.

The Liberal Party supported Republicans such as John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani for mayor of New York and Jacob Javits and Charles Goodell for U. S. Senator, and independents such as John B. Anderson for president.

The Seminex walk-out protested the suspension of the seminary's president, John Tietjen, who faced charges from the conservative Synodical president, Jacob Preus, of allowing the teaching of false doctrine.