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.

		Name: Immanuel Velikovsky Type: Historian Nationality: Belarusian Birth: June 10, 1895 Death: November 17, 1979