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Cyrus Adler was born on September 13, 1863, in Van Buren, Arkansas.

He was an American educator, Jewish religious leader, librarian, editor, and scholar. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1883) and Johns Hopkins University (Oriental studies), where he became a Fellow in Semitic languages (1885-1887). There, he received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics, became an instructor in Semitic languages and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1890. In 1877, Adler was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the U.S. National Museum. He was a librarian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (1892-1905). In 1895, he located Thomas Jefferson’s Bible and purchased it for the Smithsonian Institution from his great-granddaughter. He lectured on biblical archeology at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and was President of the American Jewish Historical Society. In 1900, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He founded the Jewish Welfare Board and served as President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (1908-1940) and Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Adler was also a founding member of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia. He edited the Jewish Encyclopedia, the American Jewish Yearbook (1899-1905), and the Jewish Quarterly Review (1910-1940). Adler contributed to the New International Encyclopedia, the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Proceedings of the American Philological Association, the Andover Review, Hebraica, and the Johns Hopkins University Circular. He was a part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

In 1905, he married Racie Friedenwal (1872–1952). He died on April 7, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

American-Canadian artist, writer, and photographer.

F. O. Adrian was a well-known figure at the Colonial Office and held the post of Officer of the Arms of the Order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George in London, England. He entered the Colonial Office in 1863 and worked for a long time under Sir Frederick Rogers and Lord Blachford. He was regarded as one of the most capable and knowledgeable members of the Department.

Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables; little is known with certainty, but he is thought to have been born about 620 BCE

Betty Ann Henley was born on March 9, 1927, in Newport, Orleans, Vermont, USA. In 1950, she married Canadian architect Raymond Affleck, one of the founders of the Montreal-based architectural firm, Arcop. They had five children, including animator Neil Affleck and architect Gavin Affleck. She died on June 9, 2003, in Massawippi Estrie Region, Quebec, Canada.

Raymond Tait (Ray) Affleck was born on November 20, 1922, in Penticton, British Columbia. He was a Canadian architect. He attended McGill University, receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1947, and in 1948, he undertook postgraduate studies at the Federal Technical Institute in Zurich. He later taught at prominent universities including Harvard University, University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, and Technical University of Nova Scotia. In 1965, he was a Fellow in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and in 1967, an Academician in the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1952, he opened the R.T. Affleck independent architectural practice and in 1955, he participated in the creation of an architecture firm together with Guy Desbarats, Dimitri Dimakopoulos, Fred Lebensold, and Hazen Sise. This firm changed its name to Arcop Associates, Architects, and Planners in 1970.

Projects undertaken by Arcop ranged from Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver (1955) to St John's (Newfoundland) Arts and Cultural Centre (1967). These projects helped to establish Affleck as an influential architect. Between 1964 and 1968 he was mainly engaged on the Place Bonaventure complex project in central Montreal. Other prominent projects included Place Ville Marie (1956-1965); Maison Alcan (1983) in Montreal; University Centre, McGill University, Montreal (1965); Stephen Leacock Building, McGill University, Montreal (1965); Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Nova Scotia) (1971); Place Air Canada, Montreal (1983); Post Office, Mont-Royal and Number One Wood Avenue, Montreal.

In projects such as Place Bonaventure, Affleck sought to include indoor pedestrian routes and atria, design features suited to a cold climate. The aim was an integrated architectural plan encompassing buildings, streets, and main highways.

In 1950, he married Betty Ann Henley. They had five children, including animator Neil Affleck and architect Gavin Affleck. He died on March 16, 1989, in Montreal, Quebec.

Frederick George Aflalo was born in July 1870, in London, England.

He was a British zoologist, editor, and prolific author of books on nature, fishing, and sports. Some of his notable works include "Sea-fishing on the English coast" (1891), "Sport in Europe" (1901), "British salt water fish" (1904), "A Walk through the zoological gardens" (1900), "Sunset Playgrounds: fishing days and Others in California and Canada" (1909), "A fisherman's summer in Canada" (1911), "Birds in the calendar" (1914), "A book of the wilderness and jungle" (1912), and others.

In 1895, he married Eva Seth (1871–1928). He died on December 9, 1918, in Switzerland.