Harald Schmidt - Harald Schmidt Harald Schmidt (born August 18, 1957) is a German television entertainer. Schmidt is host of the German late night show Harald Schmidt Show, comparable to Late Night with Conan O'Brien or David Letterman's Late Night. The show features stand-up comedy as well as famous national and international guests. The self-proclaimed hypochondriac is popular for his cynical jokes and intellectual wit. He models himself after people like Johnny Carson and Conan O'Brien, but adds important factors and qualities to his show that neither of these models has. He engages in long, seemingly boring conversations with his editor in chief Manuel Andrack, who sits at a desk next to Schmidt's, and, like Letterman, also includes his staff into the show - for instance, his band leader Helmut.
Harry Schmidt - Harry Schmidt On April 17, 2002 over Afghanistan, U.S F-16 Major Harry Schmidt mistook Canadian anti-tank and machine-gun excercises as enemy fire and dropped a laser-guided bomb on the 3rd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, wounding eight and killing four. Schmidt and his air-partner Major William Umbach were returning from a 10-hour patrol, at more than 15,000 feet, when they spotted surface-to-air fire. Thinking Umbach was under attack, Schmidt asked flight control permission to fire his 20 mm cannons, to which flight control replied "hold fire." Four seconds later, Schmidt said he was "rolling in, in self defense." He dropped a laser-guided bomb 35 seconds later. On September 11, 2002, Schmidt and Umbach were officially charged with 4 counts of negligent manslaughter, 8 counts.
Helmut Schmidt - Helmut Schmidt Helmut Schmidt, November 24, 1994 () Helmut Schmidt (born December 23, 1918) was a German SPD politician and the fifth Bundeskanzler of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974-1982. He was born in Hamburg, the son of two teachers. He was educated at Hamburg Lichwark school, graduating in 1937. He was conscripted into military service and began WW II serving with Bremen air defences, after brief service on the eastern Front he returned to Germany in 1942 to work as a trainer and advisor at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium. Also in 1942 he married Hannelore "Loki" Glaser. Towards the end of the war, from December 1944 onwards, he served as an Oberleutnant in the artillery on the western Front. He was captured by the British in April.
Gram-Schmidt process - Gram-Schmidt process In linear algebra, the Gram-Schmidt process is method of orthogonalizing a set of vectors in an inner product space, most commonly the Euclidean space Rn. Orthogonalization in this context means the following: we start with vectors v1,...,vk which are linearly independent and we want to find mutually orthogonal vectors u1,...,uk which generate the same subspace as the vectors v1,...,vk. We denote the inner (dot) product of the two vectors u and v by (u . v). The Gram-Schmidt process works as follows: u1 = v1 u2 = v2 - [(v2 . u1)/(u1 . u1)]u1 u3 = v3 - [(v3 . u1)/(u1 . u1)]u1 - [(v3 . u2)/(u2 . u2)]u2 ... uk = vk - [(vk . u1)/(u1 . u1)]u1 - [(vk . u2)/(u2 . u2)]u2.
Franz Schmidt - Franz Schmidt Franz Schmidt (December 22, 1874 - February 11, 1939) was an Austrian composer. Schmidt was born in Pressburg (Pozsony in Hungarian, present-day Bratislava) on December 22, 1874. He briefly studied piano with Theodor Leschetizky, with whom he clashed. He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Conservatory there (composition with Robert Fuchs and cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger), graduating "with excellence" in 1896. He beat 13 other applicants in obtaining a post as cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, with whom he played (often under the direction of Mahler) until 1914. In that year he took up a professorship (in piano) at the State Academy of Music. In 1925 he became Director of the Academy, and in 1927 Rector. Schmidt's.
Eric Schmidt - Eric Schmidt Dr. Eric E. Scmidt is Chairman and CEO of Google. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Schmidt has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Page and Brin, Schmidt shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Schmidt's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. Schmidt's well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google's needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate.
Uwe Schmidt - Uwe Schmidt Uwe Schmidt (aka Señor Coconut; born in Frankfurt, Germany) is a German DJ and producer of electronic music. Uwe Schmidt, also known as Atom Heart, as well as a number of other aliases, produced dance music during the first half of the 90s. In 1994, Uwe started his own label, Rather Interesting with the aim of developing music that doesn't follow the "traditional paths of electronic music". By 1996 he was thoroughly bored by European dance music and moved to Santiago, Chile to explore Latin music. He quickly adopted the intentionally ridiculous Señor Coconut moniker, and soon released "El Gran Baile", finding time afterwards to do a little remix work for Towa Tei, formerly of the multinational Deee-Lite. His next release, in 2000, was the.
About Schmidt - About Schmidt About Schmidt is a 2002 movie directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt and Hope Davis as his daughter Jeannie. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same title by Louis Begley. The film begins shortly after the retirement of Schmidt as an actuary in an insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. Schmidt finds it hard to adjust to his new life and begins feeling useless, when he sees a television advertisement about a foster program for African children. Not thinking much about it, but moved by images of suffering children, he signs up for the program and soon receives an information package with a photo of "his" foster child, a small Tanzanian boy named Ndugu, to whom he.
Arno Schmidt - Arno Schmidt Arno Schmidt (January 18, 1914 in Hamburg - June 3, 1979 in Celle) was a German author and translator.\n.
Schmidt corrector plate - Schmidt corrector plate A Schmidt corrector plate can be used to correct spherical aberration in a non-parabolic reflecting telescope. This "plate" is actually a lens which refracts the light after it has been reflected by the mirrors. Schmidt corrector plates do not compensation for the lack of magnification which non-parabolic reflectors experience..
Karl Friedrich Hermann - philosophy. Among these may be mentioned the Lehrbuch der griechischen Antiquitaten (new ed., 1889) dealing with political, religious and domestic antiquities; the Geschichte und System der Platonischen Philosophie (1839), unfinished; an edition of the Platonic Dialogues (6 vols., 1851-1853); and Culturgeschichte der Griechen und Römer (1857-1858), published after his death by CG Schmidt. He also edited the text of Juvenal and Persius (1854) and Lucian's De conscribenda historia (1828). A collection of Abhandlungen und Beitrage appeared in 1849. See M Lechner, Zur Erinnerung an K. F. Hermann (1864), and article by C HaIm in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xii. (1880). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - with Rahel in 6 vols. (1874-75); and with Carlyle (1892). His selected writings appeared in 19 vols. in 1871-76. There is also an extensive literature dealing with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense; see especially her husband's Rahel, ein Buch des Andenkens (3 vols., 1834) Aus Rahels Herzens-leben (1877); E Schmidt-Weissenfels, Rahel und ihre Zeit (1857); Briefwechsel zwischen Karoline von Humboldt, Rahel und Varnhagen von Ense (1896); O Berdrow, Rahel Varnhagen (1900). Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Koch's giant day gecko - season is between November and the first weeks of Mai. During this period, the females lay up to 6 pairs of eggs. At a temperature of 28°C, the young will hatch after approximately 63-68 days. The juveniles measure 65 mm and reach sexual maturity after one year. Care and maintenance in captivity: These animals should be housed in pairs although succesful group breeding with one male and several females has been reported. They need a large, well planted terrarium. The temperature should be about 28°C during the day. The humidity should be maintained around 65%. In captivity, these animals can be fed with crickets, wax moths, fruit flies, mealworms and houseflies. References: Henkel, F.-W. and W. Schmidt (1995) Amphibien und Reptilien Madagaskars, der Maskarenen, Seychellen und Komoren. Ulmer Stuttgart. ISBN 3800173239.
January 18 - molestation charges. 1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting. 1991 - Eastern Airlines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems. 1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states. 1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc a network of caves are discovered that contain paintings and engravings that are 17,000 to 20,000 years old. 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other. 1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. Births 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (†1755) 1779 - Peter Roget, lexicographer (†1869) 1782 - Daniel Webster,.
Jack Nicholson - Shining. Nicholson won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Terms of Endearment (1984). The 1989 Batman, where Nicholson played the supervillain The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about $50 million [1]. For his role as Col. Nathan R. Jessep in A Few Good Men (1992), a dark movie about a murder in a military unit, he received yet another nomination by the Academy. He would win his next Oscar for his role as the neurotic lead in the romance As Good as it Gets (1997). The 9/11 terrorist attacks led Nicholson to focus on comedies. In About Schmidt (2002), Nicholson portrayed a man who questions his own life after his retirement and the death of his wife. The.
Jacobin Club - de Noailles, and the bourgeois who formed the mass of the members, the club contained such figures as "Père" Michel Gerard, a peasant proprietor from Tuel-en-Montgermont, in Brittany, whose rough common sense was admired as the oracle of popular wisdom, and whose countryman’s waistcoat and plaited hair were later on to become the model for the Jacobin fashion. The provincial branches were from the first far more democratic, though in these too the leadership was usually in the hands of members of the educated or propertied classes. Up to the very eve of the republic, the club ostensibly supported the monarchy; it took no part in the petition of July 17, 1790 for the dethronement of King Louis XVI; nor had it any official share even in the insurrections of 20.
Vice Chancellor of Germany - Eugen Schiffer (DDP) 1920 Erich Koch-Weser (DDP) 1920-1921 Rudolf Heinze (DVP) 1921-1922 Gustav Bauer (SPD) 1922-1923 vacant 1923 Robert Schmidt (SPD) 1923-1925 Karl Jarres (DVP) 1925-1927 vacant 1927-1928 Oskar Hergt (DNVP) 1928-1930 vacant 1930-1932 Hermann R. Dietrich (DDP) 1932-1933 vacant Nazi Germany 1933-1934 Franz von Papen 1934-1945 vacant Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1957 Franz Blücher 1957-1963 Ludwig Erhard (CDU) 1963-1966 Erich Mende 1966 Hans-Christoph Seebohm 1966-1969 Willy Brandt (SPD) 1969-1974 Walter Scheel (FDP) 1974-1982 Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) 1982 briefly vacant due to the Genscher's dismissal 1982-1992 Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) 1992-1993 Jürgen Möllemann (FDP) 1993-1998 Klaus Kinkel (FDP) since 1998: Joschka Fischer (Greens).
John Gerson - the parish clergy and the universities at the mercy of the mendicants. The great university of Paris rose in revolt, headed by her chancellor, who wrote a fierce pamphlet--Censura professorum in theologia circa izullam Alexandri V (ii. 442). The pope died soon after, and one of the most profligate men of that time, Pope John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa), was elected his successor. The council of Pisa had not brought peace; it had only added a third pope. Pierre d'Ailly despaired of general councils (see his De difficultate reformationis in concilio universali), but Gerson struggled on. Another matter too had roused him. The feuds between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy had long distracted France. The duke of Orleans had been treacherously murdered by the followers of the duke of Burgundy, and.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher - in 1969; in 1974, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs (and Vice Chancellor), which he remained until he resigned in 1992 for health reasons. With these 18 years in office, he is frequently called the longest-serving Foreign Minister in the world. In the SPD-FDP coalition, he helped shape Brandt's policy of deescalation with the communist east, commonly known as Ostpolitik, which was continued under Helmut Schmidt after Brandt's resignation in 1974. Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU/CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Bundeskanzler. Despite the great controversy that accompanied this switch, he remained of the most popular politicians in Germany..
Hart Memorial Trophy - Detroit Red Wings 1956, Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens 1955, Ted Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs 1954, Al Rollins, Chicago Blackhawks 1953, Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings 1952, Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings 1951, Milt Schmidt, Boston Bruins 1950, Charlie Rayner, New York Rangers 1949, Sid Abel, Detroit Red Wings 1948, Buddy O'Connor, New York Rangers 1947, Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens 1946, Max Bentley, Chicago Blackhawks 1945, Elmer Lach, Montreal Canadiens 1944, Babe Pratt, Toronto Maple Leafs 1943, Bill Cowley, Boston Bruins 1942, Tom Anderson, Brooklyn Americans 1941, Bill Cowley, Boston Bruins 1940, Eddie Goodfellow, Detroit Red Wings 1939, Toe Blake, Montreal Canadiens 1938, Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins 1937, Babe Siebert, Montreal Canadiens 1936, Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins 1935, Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins 1934, Aurel Joliat, Montreal Canadiens 1933, Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins.
