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Sam Yagan
American Internet entrepreneur (born 1977)
Sam Yagan | |
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| Born | (1977-04-10) April 10, 1977 (age 47) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics and an MBA |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Co-founder of OkCupid Co-founder of SparkNotes Vice-Chairman of Match.com Former CEO of Shoprunner |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | Jessica Droste Yagan (m. 2003) |
| Children | 3 |
Sam Yagan (born April 10, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid.[1]Time named Yagan one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.[1] He is the co-founder and managing director of Corazon Capital.
Family and education
Yagan is the son of Syrian immigrants, Al and Dr. Haifa Yagan,[2][3] and grew up in Bourbonnais, Illinois; he studied at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School, Illinois Math and Science Academy, Harvard College, and event
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A chronicler of the daily life of Aleppo’s residents, Saad Yagan addresses “human issues that we all live in, allocating space to a specific topic that fits with the title of the experience and its dimensions, whether mythology, thought, literature or music.”
Born in Aleppo, Saad Yagan (1950) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Aleppo in 1964 and the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 1970. He established The Point, an art and literature gallery in Aleppo and has hosted several TV programmes on art.
Focused on figuration, Yagan’s stylised bodies have serious, elongated faces, that are at many times depicted mid-movement. Depicting everything from café culture to the performing arts, his expressive and dynamic works are distinctive in the faces and bodies of their characters and feature a palette of predominately white, reds and blues.
Yagan’s works are featured in public and private collections such as the Musée Modern Museum in Brussels; Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts; Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal;
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Yagan
Australian Noongar warrior (c. 1795 – 1833)
For other uses, see Yagan (disambiguation).
Yagan (; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them. The government offered a bounty for Yagan's capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. Yagan is considered a legendary figure by the Noongar.
After his shooting, settlers cut off Yagan's head to claim the bounty. Later, an official sent it to London, where it was exhibited as an "anthropological curiosity" and eventually given to a museum in Liverpool. It held the head in storage for more than a century before burying it with other remains in an unmarked grave in Liverpool in 1964. Over the years, the Noongar asked for repatriation of the head, both for religious
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