Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

The post Academy Awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

In 1814 Ampère was invited to join the class of mathematicians in the new Institut Impériale, the umbrella under which the reformed state Academy of Sciences would sit.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

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His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

So, he sent Alfonso to the Sandhurst Military Academy in England, where the training Alfonso received was severe but more cosmopolitan than Spain, given the current athmosphere

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

He trained under a painting master before coming to the new Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ) in Copenhagen, studying under Johan Edvard Mandelberg and Johannes Wiedewelt.

In the company of Swedish sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel and painter Johann Heinrich Füssli, he began to move away from the classicism he had learned at the Academy.

Runeberg studied first in the cities of Vaasa and Oulu, later on at the Imperial Academy of Turku, where he befriended Johan Vilhelm Snellman and Zacharias Topelius.

* Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna ( 1750 – 1818 ), member of the Swedish Academy ;

The Academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and politician Anders Johan von Höpken.

The Academy awards several prizes: Large Gold Medal ( since 1924 ), Gold Medal ( since 1921 ), Brinell medal ( Brinellmedaljen, since 1936, and named after Johan August Brinell ), Gold Plaque ( since 1951 ), Honorary Sign ( since 1919 ), Axel F. Enstrom Medal ( 1959-1981 ), amongst others.

** Anders Johan Lexell and Christian Mayer in Saint Petersburg ; with other members of Russian Academy of Sciences at eight other locations in the Russian Empire

A product of the Ajax Academy, he previously played for AFC Ajax with whom he won six trophies and during which time he was awarded the Johan Cruijff Award ( for best young player in the Netherlands ) in 2004.

The radical reforms in Swedish spelling proposed there sparked opposition from the Swedish Academy and gave Johan Erik Rydqvist ( 1800 – 1877 ) the energy to publish the very conservative 1st edition of the Academy's one volume spelling dictionary in 1874 ( Svenska Akademiens Ordlista ).

In 1840 he was elected to the Swedish Academy in succession to the poet Johan Olof Wallin ( 1779 – 1839 ).

Poor health as a child meant that he was educated at home until age 13, but in 1912, after three years study at the gymnasium ( high school ), Pijper entered the Utrecht Academy of Music, where he was taught composition by Johan Wagenaar, passing examinations in theoretical subjects in 1915.

He came to Copenhagen to train as an artist, and in 1797 at the age of 22 he started his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ) with the support of Johan Frederik Clemens, acclaimed royal engraver and influential member of the Academy.

Currently Kriek and his wife Daga Mrozek Kriek run the The Johan Kriek Tennis Academy in Virginia, where they reside with their daughter, Karolina.

At the same time the young Wiedeweldt continued at the Academy, drawing under Johan Christof Petzoldt, and he presumedly also trained under royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Didrick Gercken.

The Academicians of the Royal Academy ( 1773 ), after mezzotint by Johan Joseph Zoffany

Johan August Malmström ( 14 October 1829 – 18 October 1901 ) was a Swedish painter and professor at the Swedish Academy of Arts from 1867 to 1894 and the manager of the same institution from 1887 to 1893.

Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten ( 12 November 1921 – 25 May 2006 ) was a Swedish author and physician, and a member of the Swedish Academy, which has the aim of furthering the " purity, vigour and majesty " of the Swedish language and selects the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature each year.

The main building at the J. Erik Jonsson Center of the National Academy of Sciences is Hackerman House, named in his honor.

According to a paper by Erik Trinkaus and others, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2007, this finding suggests that the two groups interbred thousands of years ago.

In 2006, in an article for MSNBC about the 78th Academy Awards selection of Crash as Best Picture, Erik Lundegaard called Crash the " worst Best Picture winner since the ' dull, bloated ' film The Greatest Show on Earth "

* Nobel Prize presentation speech by Professor Erik Ingelstam of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Academy was founded 1710 in Uppsala on the initiative of the university librarian Erik Benzelius ( jr ) ( later archbishop ) under the name of Collegium curiosorum.

This is the second older prize awarded by the Academy, instituted on 12 May 1827, upon a donation by the Secretary of State Erik Bergstedt.

It is a prize, awarded yearly, named after Erik Benzelius the younger, instituted in 1980 and entirely founded by the Academy: it is meant as a grant to young researchers.

The festival will showcase a selection of the world's leading ensembles and soloists specialized in Baroque music, including the Academy of Ancient Music ( Great Britain ), Le Parlament de Musique ( France ), Currende and Erik Van Nevel ( Belgium ), La Venexiana ( Italy ), Red Priest ( Great Britain ), Croatian Baroque Ensemble ( Croatia ) and others.

He began teaching Shooto at the Inosanto Academy in 1991, and is the instructor of Erik Paulson, Ron Balicki, Dan Inosanto, Larry Hartsell, and many others.