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Germany, Idea of
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...singular term was needed, "Alemannia," "Germania," and "Theutonia," for which no...Abbey of a unique manuscript of Tacitus' Germania. It was brought to Rome by 1455 and...each of whom wrote a work entitled Germania (published in 1500 and 1501 respectively...
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Tacitus, Cornelius
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...a biography of his father-in-law Julius Agricola; and Germania , an ethnographical account of the German tribes which contains...were translated into English by Sir H. Savile (1591), the Germania and Annals by R. Grenewey (1598); and after this Tacitus...
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Roberto Rossellini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...moments of human kindness. The last of this wartime trilogy, Germania, anno zero ( Germany, Year Zero; (1947), was also powerful...the other two films, Rossellini co-wrote the script. In Germania, anno zero, he explores how the Nazi doctrines corrupt a...
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From Late Egyptian Times to the Nineteenth Century
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...and to the east coast of the Adriatic; it then spread to Germania (what is now Germany and some portions of central Europe...common era to malt beverages being consumed by the tribes of Germania (as well as by the Saxons, Celts, Thracians, and Scythians...
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Gitanos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the Language of the present-day Rom. Cal ó was entirely distinct from Germania, or "thieves' slang," of Spain, and although it penetrated Germania, the reverse did not occur to any great extent. By the mid-nineteenth century...
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Germany
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
Germany Culture Name German Alternative Names Germania (Latin), Deutschland (German), l'Allemagne (French...Identification. The name Germany is derived from the Latin word Germania, which, at the time of the Gallic War (58 –...
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Hans Hofmann
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...expresses his tremendous exuberance in his handling of violent, clashing colors. Representative examples of his art are Germania (Baltimore Mus. of Art) and Elegy (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis). Bibliography: See his writings, ed. by S. Hunter...
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Germanic religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...religious practices among the tribes of Western Europe, Germany, and Scandinavia. The main sources for our knowledge are the Germania of Tacitus and the Elder Edda and the Younger Edda. Although it is possible to perceive certain basic concepts that were important...
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Freeman, Max
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Beginning his theatrical career in his native Germany, he made his American debut at New York's German‐language Germania Theatre in 1873. After spending some time at the California Theatre in San Francisco and touring with the Emily Melville Light...
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Hammerstein, Oscar
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...operations, and his patents soon made him wealthy. Hammerstein then wrote several one‐act musicals for New York's Germania Theatre, and his success prompted him to become manager of the Stadt Theatre. In 1889 he built his first theatre, the Harlem...
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