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Franz Gruber
Franz Gruber , 1787-1863, Austrian organist. On Christmas Eve in 1818 he composed his one published work, the music for the poem Silent Night by the local curate, Josef Mohr.... Read more |
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Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land , Rus. Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, archipelago, c.8,000 sq mi (20,720 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean N of Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It consists of 85 islands of volcanic origin, including Aleksandra Land, George Land, Wilczek Land, Graham Bell Island, Hooker Island, and Rudolf Island.... Read more |
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Josef Breuer
Breuer, Josef (b. Vienna, Austria, 15 January 1842; d. Vienna, 20 June 1925) medicine, physiology, psychoanalysis. Breuer Read more |
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Josef Tal
Josef Tal Josef Tal (born 1910) Israeli composer, pianist, and professor of music, allowed Middle Eastern music to influence him, but stayed in the mainstream of contemporary European music, in which tradition he had been trained. Josef Tal (formerly Gruenthal) was born in 1910 in Pinne,... Read more |
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Franz Josef Strauss
Franz Josef Strauss , 1915-88, West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democratic Union) after World War II. Elected to the Bundestag in 1949, he became (1956) minister of... Read more |
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Barents Sea
Barents Sea arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west. Its waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift , so that its ports, including Murmansk and Vardö,... Read more |
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Josef Capek
Josef Čapek , 1887-1945, Czech writer and painter. He collaborated with his brother Karel on a number of plays and short stories. On his own he wrote the utopian play Land of Many Names (1923, tr. 1926) and several novels. Poems from a Concentration Camp (1946) were written in Belsen,... Read more |
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William Speirs Bruce
William Speirs Bruce , 1867-1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions. He first went to the Antarctic as ship's surgeon in 1892 and later did survey work in Franz Josef Land and oceanographic work in the Arctic Ocean. He led (1902-4) the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in the... Read more |
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Presidency
PRESIDENCY The presidency is the most powerful formal political institution in post-communist Russia. Except for the ceremonial title given to the head of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union did not have a presidency until its waning years, although the adoption of one was discussed under... Read more |
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