Angel Blanco was born in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico.

He is a Mexican guitarist and musical researcher. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Music from Bishop's University and has three postgraduate degrees from the prestigious McGill University in Canada. He stands out for his career as a guitarist and promoter of avant-garde performance techniques within the acoustic and electric guitars, as well as his incursions into electronics and vocal-percussive experimentation. He has performed in forums and universities in North America, Germany, Peru and the Caribbean, including the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, the Fórum Internacional de las Culturas in Monterrey, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, the State University of New York, the Center for New Music in San Francisco, Queen's University in Canada and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. He has received several grants from Mexico and Canada's public institutions, e.g. ICOCULT, FONCA and McGill University, including the highly competitive Recording Production Grant from the state of Nuevo Leon's Ministry of Culture (CONARTE).

Born Hyman Arluck in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor, he learned to play the piano as a youth, and formed a band as a young man. He achieved local success as a pianist and singer before moving to New York City in his early twenties, where he worked as an accompanist in vaudeville and changed his name to Harold Arlen. Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by artists, among others Eddie Duchin.

In 1929, Arlen composed his first well-known song: "Get Happy" (with lyrics by Ted Koehler). Throughout the early and mid-1930s, Arlen and Koehler wrote shows for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films. Arlen and Koehler's partnership resulted in a number of hit songs, including the familiar standards like "Stormy Weather.”

In the mid-1930s, Arlen married, and spent increasing time in California, writing for movie musicals. He began working with lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and in 1938, the team was hired by MGM to compose songs for The Wizard of Oz, the most famous of which is "Over the Rainbow", for which they won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song. He also wrote "The Man That Got Away”, both defining songs of Judy Garland's career.

In the 1940s, Arlen teamed up with lyricist Johnny Mercer, and continued to write hit songs like "That Old Black Magic", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive", and "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)."

Arlen died in 1986 of cancer at his Manhattan apartment at the age of eighty-one. Shortly before his death, Arlen adopted the 22 year old adult son of his brother Julius "Jerry" Arluck, so that his estate would have an heir in order to extend his copyright. Samuel Arlen runs the company that owns the rights to the Arlen catalog.

Saul Arlosoroff was born in 1930 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

He was an Israeli water engineer, consultant, and author. He was educated at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. He published several books, e.g. “Handpumps Testing and Development" (1984), “Community Water Supply: The Handpump Option” (1987) and "Conflict Management of Water Resources" (2002).

He died on February 13, 2024.

David Armit (b. 16 Dec 1848, Westray, Orkney; d. 07 Feb 1923, Strathclair, Manitoba) worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company. In 1878, he received his commission raising him to the first grade, above senior clerk, carrying with it the title of “Junior Chief Trader.” Among a number of positions, he was Chief Trader for the company in Manitoba House in 1889. There is a lake west of Swan Lake on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border named after him, as is a river flowing into Red Deer Lake.

Emily Armitage was a daughter of William Nicholson Nicholson of Roundhay Park, and A sister of William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson. In 1860 she married William James Armitage (1819-1895) of Farnley Hall. In 1875, when Farnley Hall was sold, the family moved to Farnley House, Eton Avenue, Hampstead, London, England.

Armour and Ramsay was the leading Montreal printing and publishing company in the 1840s.

The printing and publishing firm of Andrew H. Armour and Company was formed in May 1831 by Robert Armour (1781-1857), a businessman and owner of the Montreal Gazette, and his son Andrew Harvie Armour (1809-1859). In May 1835, Andrew Harvie Armour terminated the partnership with his father and formed another with his brother-in-law, bookseller and publisher Hew Ramsay. The firm Armour and Ramsay acquired Robert Armour’s interest in the Montreal Gazette in May 1836, publishing it until August 1, 1843. Armour and Ramsay were the queen’s printers to the Special Council from 1838 to 1840. They sold the Montreal Gazette to Robert Abraham in 1843. During the 1840s, Armour and Ramsay were the leading booksellers in the Province of Canada, with branches in Kingston and Hamilton, and their business extended into the United States. They issued Armour and Ramsay’s literary newsletter and general record of British literature (1845). In addition, they manufactured ledgers, journals, and cashbooks and published the Presbyterian, established in 1848 as the organ of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland. After their partnership dissolved in 1850, Ramsay conducted the Montreal business until he died in 1857, and Andrew Harvie Armour conducted a Toronto bookstore until he died in 1859.

Donald John Armour was born on June 13, 1869, in Coburg, Ontario, the fifth son of the Hon. John Douglas Armour (1830-1903), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario.

He was a Canadian surgeon. He was educated at Upper Canada College, University of Toronto (B.A., 1891) and University of London (M.B., 1894; L.R.C.P., 1896; M.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S., 1897). In 1900, he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and devoted himself to surgery. In 1901, Armour was appointed an assistant demonstrator of anatomy at University College, London. He worked as a surgeon at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1903, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the West London Hospital and surgeon in 1912. He also served as Dean of the West London Postgraduate School of Medicine. He was a surgeon at the Italian Hospital, the Blackheath and Charlton Hospital and the Acton Hospital. In 1906, he won the Jacksonian prize with an essay on “The diagnosis and treatment of those diseases and morbid growths of the vertebral column, spinal cord, and canal, which are amenable to surgical operations.” In 1908, he was a Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology. At the Medical Society of London, Armour was a Lettsomian lecturer in 1927, when he lectured on the modern surgery dealing with the spinal canal and its membranes. He was also president of the West London Medico-chirurgical Society in 1928, the neurological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1928-29, and the Association of British Neurological Surgeons in 1930-32. He was an active member of the British Medical Association. When war began in 1914, he worked as a surgical specialist to several military hospitals with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He also worked at the Canadian hospital supported by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. For these services, he was created Companion of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1918.

In 1901, he married Maria Louise Clark Mitchell. He died suddenly on October 23, 1933, in London, England.

Ethel Armstrong was the Secretary of the editorial board of Montreal’s McGill Fortnightly in the 1890s.