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Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf , 1969-, German tennis player. A powerful baseliner, she drew international attention by winning the 1984 Olympic demonstration event. Graf won her first major title, the French Open, in 1987. In 1988 she captured the Grand Slam (Australian, French, and U.S. opens and Wimbledon),... Read more |
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Monica Seles
Monica Seles , 1973-, Yugoslav-American tennis player, b. Serbia, of Hungarian heritage. She won her first major tournament, the French Open, in 1990, at the age of 16 and soon dominated women's tennis. In 1991 and 1992 she won the Australian, French, and U.S. opens. In 1993 she won the Australian... Read more |
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Andre Kirk Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi , 1970-, American tennis player, b. Las Vegas, Nev. Trained by his Armenian immigrant father, he turned professional in 1986. By 1988 he had won a half dozen major tournaments, but until 1992 at Wimbledon had not won a "grand slam" event, and had acquired a reputation for... Read more |
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Herrnhut
Herrnhut , town, Saxony, SE Germany. It was founded (1722) by Graf von Zinzendorf as a colony of Moravian Brethren (see Moravian Church ), and is today a Moravian center with archives, a publishing house, and a museum.... Read more |
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Battle of the River Plate
River Plate, battle of the, 1939. A German ‘pocket battleship’, Graf Spee, heavily armoured, with 11-inch guns, sinking British merchant ships in the South Atlantic, was attacked on 13 December 1939 by three British cruisers, Exeter (8-inch guns), Ajax, and Achilles (both 6-inch guns).... Read more |
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Urs Graf
Urs Graf , c.1485-1528, Swiss wood engraver, etcher, painter, and goldsmith, studied at Basel. He was influenced by the work of Dürer and Hans Baldung. One of the first to employ effectively the technique of white-line engraving, he was known for his lively humor and fantasy, as well as for his... Read more |
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Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth
Leopold Karl Walter Kalckreuth, Graf von , 1855-1928, German painter and graphic artist. He taught at the Weimar and Karlsruhe academies and directed the Stuttgart Academy (1900-1905). Although noted for his somber early paintings of peasant women, he later abandoned naturalism for symbolist art.... Read more |
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Graf von Leopold Berchtold
Leopold Berchtold, Graf von , 1863-1942, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (1912-15). During the Balkan Wars he successfully worked for the creation of an independent Albania to block Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea. After the assassination (June 28, 1914) of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at... Read more |
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Graf von Ferdinand Zeppelin
Ferdinand Zeppelin, Graf von , 1838-1917, German army officer and airship inventor and builder. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and served in the Seven Weeks War and in the Franco-Prussian War. He was an observer with the Union army during the American Civil War. In 1891 he retired from the... Read more |
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Ruanda-Urundi
Ruanda-Urundi , former colonial territory, central Africa, now divided between the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi . The original inhabitants of the area were the Twa, a Pygmy people, who around AD 1000 were driven into the forests by the numerically superior Hutu, a Bantu-speaking... Read more |
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