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Otto von Kotzebue
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Otto von Kotzebue The Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue (1787-1846) commanded two of the earliest Russian maritime...explored the Pacific and circumnavigated the world. Otto von Kotzebue was born at Revel (Tallin), Estonia, on Dec. 30...
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Kotzebue
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kotzebue , city (1990 pop. 2,751), NW Alaska, on Kotzebue Sound at the tip of Baldwin Peninsula; inc. 1958...one of the largest settlements of Eskimos in Alaska. Kotzebue is a regional trade and supply center with local government...
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Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand Von (1761...Sheridan of Die Spanier in Peru. In America Kotzebue's plays, in adaptations by Dunlap...craving for sensationalism. The best of Kotzebue's comedies is Die deutschen Kleinstadten...
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August von Kotzebue
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
August von Kotzebue , 1761-1819, German dramatist and politician. He wrote some 200...Beethoven, Schubert, and C. M. von Weber. After a stay in Russia, Kotzebue returned to Germany as an agent of Czar Alexander I. He was detested...
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North Alaskan Eskimos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...speakers of an I ñ uit dialect from Kotzebue Sound. The term was frequently used...northern Alaska from the western tip of Kotzebue Sound to the mouth of the Colville River...dialect is spoken in eleven villages of the Kotzebue Sound drainage and three on the shore...
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Inuit
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...and formerly known as Bering Strait or Kotzebue Sound Eskimos, and even sometimes West...villages and towns — including Kotzebue, Point Hope, Wainwright, Barrow...southerly Inupiat, who settled around Kotzebue Sound and the Chukchi Sea, into 12 distinct...
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Payne, John Howard
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Romeo, Young Norval in Home's Douglas , and Rolla in Kotzebue's Pizarro . In 1811 he appeared at the Chestnut Street Theatre , Philadelphia, as Frederick in his own version of Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe , which, as Lovers' Vows , was...
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Dunlap, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...appeared in 1798: the Revolutionary War drama André and The Stranger , based on a von Kotzebue work. Dunlap's translation initiated Kotzebue's American vogue, and he translated at least ten more of his plays. In addition to running...
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Seward Peninsula
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Seward Peninsula W Alaska, projecting c.200 mi (320 km) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The region is mostly bleak tundra, with long, cold winters. Placer-gold mining and...
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melodrama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...melodramas in the early 19th cent. were Guilbert de Pixérécourt of France and the German August von Kotzebue. The term was used extensively in England in the 19th cent. as a device to circumvent the law that limited legitimate plays...
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