Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Ivan Kazanets RIIP, Zinc and Zinn

Found on the Deaths in 2013 site is the following:
Ivan Kazanets, 94, Ukrainian and Soviet politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR (1963–1965); 
Since the main purpose of this blog is to document deaths of notable persons where pattern-clusters exists, then Ivan Kazanets should be given special consideration due to his surname which has a "z" in it.  If you read the titles of my posts in the side bar at right, you'll notice that the letter "Z" crops up in words and names much more than usual, and the reason for this is due to what I refer to as a "Z/Zee/zz" pattern-cluster.  All of the "Z's" cropped up as a result of following the leads found in other pattern-clusters, and most of these came about as a result of a "timely" death's of a notable individual.  There has to be more however-- more z's or evidence of other patterns in order to cast him into the Z pattern-cluster, so further investigation is in order.   Note the following from his wiki page:
Kazanets being the minister of ferrous metallurgy has an interesting connection to a surname that has cropped up recently, note this excerpt from my earlier post today entitled, Otto Beisheim's NaZi Auto-Bu$$ and Audd End (RIIP). :

Hmm, I mentioned in a recent post that my partner, Cathy, who is a carpenter had just spoken with a potential customer whose surname is "Zinc", which as you can see by the etymology below, mentions "Point" as well.  
  •  zinc (n.) 1650s, from German Zink, perhaps related to Zinke "prong, point;" said to have been used first by Paracelsus (c.1526) on analogy of the form of its crystals after smelting. Zinkeis from Old High German zint "a point, jag," from Proto-Germanic *tindja "tine" (cf. Old Norse tindr "point, top, summit," Old English tind "prong, spike;" cf. tine).

It's interesting to note that I design pewter gift ware in my business that I started over 20 years ago, and it's also interesting to note that the pewter I use is "tin" based, which sounds a lot like some of hte old words for Zinc, and its interesting to note that the German word for pewter (here) used today, is "Zinn".

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