My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as h… — Immanuel Velikovsky

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

Immanuel VelikovskyHistorian · Belarusian · 1895 – 1979

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