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  • having taken part in the 1897 anti-German riots in Prague as a schoolboy ... of the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy. The German-speaking Hapsburgs and their ...
    15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
  • USSR in 1926, and his mother was a Volga German born in Russia. Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of ...
    10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
  • In Germany, Blow met Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, and was ... While in Germany, she learned about the German kindergarten model, in which ...
    9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
  • Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher ... was a descendant of Ernst Moritz Arndt, a German patriot who had led the war ...
    16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
  • Walter Lippmann was born on September 23, 1889 in New York City to ... on philosophy and languages (he spoke both German and French) and graduated ...
    12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
  • Kobold is the German word for goblin, and the German version is very similar to the Redcaps of Britain. They are said to haunt mines and underground ...
    13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
  • In the nineteenth century, some German-trained classicists in the United States suggested modification to "Vergil," as it is closer ...
    15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
  • among bards under the name of zongs (German pronunciation of the word ... Vladimir Vysotsky used simple and honest language to illustrate life. Other ...
    11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
  • flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank ... The German word Flügel translates into English as wing ...
    12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
  • Eastern Francia united most of the German people and began to expand ... Slav campaign was a disaster and Louis the German, a grandson of Holy Roman ...
    16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
  • Henry Fuseli (in German, Johann Heinrich Füssli) (February 7, 1741 ... Germany, where he came in contact with the German Enlightenment and which had ...
    19 KB (2,945 words) - 10:13, 25 June 2024
  • (and Protestant) Germany established German centers of faience: the first ... History of Faience and a Listing of German Faience Factories] www.beerstein ...
    10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
  • 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet whose work draws ... He was one of the first poets in the German language to do away completely ...
    14 KB (2,228 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
  • Yodeling was carried to the United States mostly by German immigrants ... already there were meeting their new German neighbors, who happened to ...
    12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
  • the dominant Czechs and the smaller German and Slovak communities. The ... a federal one and the Czech and Slovak language was used in equal ratios ...
    16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
  • and awards for their efforts as stellar German citizens. They were not rebels ... group Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls). At first, joining ...
    18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
  • on numerous technical inventions (1928 German patent application on the ... race to produce a nuclear chain reaction. German attempts to control the chain ...
    15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
  • particularly in the industrialized German speaking Sudetenland (the ... adults murdered and young children sent to German families for re-education ...
    21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
  • in World War I on the condition that all German spheres of influence in China ... in 1917, with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such ...
    15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish ... ” as he was regarded by post-Kantian German idealists. Nineteen-year ...
    13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024

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