Alfred Brendel - Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist. He is widely seen as one of the great classical pianists of the second half of the 20th century. Brendel was born in Wiesenburg (now Loučná nad Desnou), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) into a non-musical family. They moved to Zagreb when Brendel was six, and later to Graz. They lived there during World War II, towards the end of which the fourteen year old Brendel was sent to Yugoslavia to dig trenches. However, he caught frostbite and was taken to hospital. Throughout his childhood, Brendel had occasional piano lessons, but otherwise little formal music education. After the war, Brendel composed music, as well as continuing to play the piano and paint. He never had.
January 5 - is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. 1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Edwin Fischer - the likes of Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the keyboard, which at the time was most unusual. In 1932 he returned once again to Berlin, succeeding Artur Schnabel in a teaching role at the Hochschule für Musik. In 1942 he moved back to Switzerland, temporarily putting his career on hold through World War II. Following the war, he began to perform again, as well as giving masterclasses in Lucerne, which were attended by a number of later prominent pianists, Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim among them. As well as solo recitals, concerto performances, and conducting orchestral works, Fischer also played chamber music. Particularly highly regarded was the piano trio he formed with the cellist Enrico Mainardi and the violinist Georg Kulenkampff (who was replaced by Wolfgang Schneiderhan after his death)..
1931 - and Irene Dunne opens in New York City. November 21 - Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff 1931 in literature 1931 in music 1931 in sports 1931 in television May 1 - The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New York's W2XCR. July 21 - CBS's New York station begins broadcasting the first regular seven days a week television schedule in the U. S.. The first broadcast included Mayor James J. Walker, Kate Smith, and George Gershwin. October 30 - NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building December 22 - NBC begins broadcasting from the Empire State Building transmitter Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal Births: January 5 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer January 5 - Alfred Brendel, pianist January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor.
Pianist - classical music, and all sorts of popular music. Well-known or influential classical pianists: Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Gina Bachauer Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Simon Barere Bart Berman Boris Berman Idil Biret Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Bruno Canino Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Dino Ciani Aldo Ciccolini Van Cliburn Harriet Cohen Jean-Philippe Collard Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon Bella Davidovich Alicia de Larrocha Vasso Devetsi Peter Donohoe Barry Douglas Hans Eijsackers Vladimir Feltsmann Annie Fischer Edwin Fischer Leon Fleischer Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Jacob Gimpel Katrine Gislinge Misha Goldstein Richard Goode Glenn Gould Lola Graham Gary Graffman Hélène Grimaud Friedrich Gulda Horatio Gutierrez Clara Haskil Ingrid Haebler Gerard Hengeveld Myra Hess Angela Hewitt Vladimir Horowitz Stephen Hough Peter Jablonski Jeno Jando William Kappel Julius Katchen Freddy Kempf Wilhelm Kempff Olga Kern Evgeny.
List of Czechs - architect The Good King Wenceslas , 10th century Duke nof Christmas Carol fame Also Czech-born Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State August Wilhelm Ambros Alfred Brendel, pianist Max Brod Anton Cermak Sigmund Freud Kurt Gödel Edmund Husserl Franz Kafka Erich Wolfgang Korngold, film composer, two Oscars Adolf Loos Gustav Mahler Ernst Mach Gregor Mendel Anton Raphael Mengs Ferdinand Porsche Karl Renner Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Seyss-Inquart Oskar Schindler Joseph Schumpeter Wilhelm Steinitz Adalbert Stifter Tom Stoppard Berta von Suttner, Nobel laureate Franz Werfel See also: List of people by nationality.
Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist - Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist Joseph A. A. Burnquist (July 21, 1879 January 12, 1961 ) was an American politican. He was elected Lt. Governor of Minnesota in 1914 He served as the 19th Governor of Minnesota from December 30, 1915 to January 5, 1921. He became Governor after the death of Governor Winfield Scott Hammond. He later served the state as Attorney General from January 2, 1939 until January 3, 1955. He was a Republican..
Karl Mannheim - he heard in Berlin Georg Simmel and worked from 1922 - 1925 in Heidelberg under the german sociologist Alfred Weber, brother of the very well known german sociologist Max Weber. One of his assistants was Norbert Elias (from spring 1930 until spring 1933). Important work: Ideology and Utopia. Mannheim is seen as a founder for the sociology of knowledge..
Kaminaljuyu - center of Kaminaljuyu is preserved as a park. The site was first excavated in 1925 by Manuel Gamio when he made stratigraphic excavations and found deep cultural deposits yielding potsherds and clay figurines from the Middle Cultures (from 1500 B.C.E. to 150 A.D.). Later the extent of the site’s importance was discovered in 1935 when a local football club began cutting away the edges of two inconspicuous mounds to lengthen their practice field. They uncovered a buried structure and Lic. J. Antonio Villacorta C., the Minister of Public Education in Guatemala City, requested archaeologists Alfred Kidder, Jesse Jennings and Edwin Shook to investigate. Lic. Villacorta gave the site its name Kaminaljuyu from a Quiché word meaning “hills of the dead.” Kaminaljuyu surrounded by civilization The Middle Cultures, sometimes called Miraflores, were.
Karin Dor - also in British (You Only Live Twice) and American films (Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz)..
Kelly Freas - hanging in the Smithsonian Institution); pinup girls on bombers while in the US Army Air Corps; comic book covers; the cover of Queen's first two-million-selling album News of the World; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and many others, such as more than 500 saints' portraits for the Franciscans executed simultaneously with his portraits of Alfred E. Neuman ("What? Me Worry?") for Mad. He is very active in gaming and medical illustration. Kelly has published several collections of his artwork and frequently gives presentations. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions. Among many other awards, Kelly was the first person to receive ten Hugo awards. He has been nominated twenty times. No other artist in science fiction has consistently matched his record. His smooth and luminous images,.
Kenneth Arrow - won The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1972, which he shared with John Hicks. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The impossibility theorem 2 General equilibrium theory 3 See also 4.
Vertigo (movie) - (movie) Vertigo is a 1958 film thriller by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of a detective, afraid of heights, who is hired to follow the straying wife of an old friend, but falls in love with her -- he thinks. It stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones and Raymond Bailey. The movie was adapted by Samuel A. Taylor and Alec Coppel from the novel d'Entre les Morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The final script was entirely written by Samuel Taylor from notes by Hitchcock. However, a number of elements survive from an earlier script by Alec Coppel, including the opening rooftop sequence, the Cypress Point kiss, the two visits to San Juan Batista, and the famous nightmare sequence. When Taylor attempted to.
Ken Russell - Ken Russell Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3 1927) is a controversial British film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. He was born in Southampton, and served in both the RAF and the Merchant Navy before taking up the arts and beginning to make his own films. One of his first major successes was a BBC documentary about the life of Edward Elgar, and his TV film about the life of Frederick Delius, as seen through the eyes of Eric Fenby, was also well-received. His first major feature film was 1969's Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to.
Kinsey Reports - the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and others. Kinsey was a zoologist at the Indiana University at Bloomington and the founder of the Institute for Sex Research. Kinsey's research astounded the general public and was immediately controversial and sensational. He concluded among other things: Something between 90% and 95% of people were somewhat bisexual (see Kinsey scale). Masturbation was almost universal in human males. Women who reported masturbation before marriage had no less sexual satisfaction in their marriages, there was even a slight correlation of greater satisfaction. These findings caused shock and outrage, both because they challenged conventional beliefs about sexuality and because they discussed subjects that had previously been taboo. The belief that heterosexuality and abstinence were both ethical.
King Ottokar's Sceptre - others unconscious. Puzzled, Tintin wanders around and notices a spring cannon in a toy store. He returns to the treasure room with Thomson & Thompson and a stick the size of the sceptre and shows them that the camera is really a spring cannon in disguise. Thomson & Thompson cross the river with Tintin and look for the scepter in the birch forest. It is found by the Bordurians, whom they follow. At the border, Tintin wrests the scepter from a Bordurian and takes a plane, which is shot down. He makes the rest of the journey by foot; Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket) just as King Muskar is about to abdicate. The king makes Tintin a knight of the Order of the.
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction - scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction". The Institute was founded as the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington in 1947 by Alfred Kinsey, then an entomologist and zoologist at Indiana University. Its original goals were the study of human sexuality and human sexual behavior. In 1948 and 1953 the Institute published two monologues on human sexuality, generally now known as the Kinsey Reports. Ever since, the Institute, the reports and Kinsey himself have been the subject of controversy. Among its functions is to preserve the supporting materials of the Kinsey Reports and subsequent publications, making them available for new research while preserving confidentiality..
Vertigo - of dizziness often associated with balance disorder. Vertigo is the title of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Vertigo, a subsidy of DC Comics, is a publisher of comic books. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Knaster-Tarski theorem - theorem, named after Bronislaw Knaster and Alfred Tarski, states the following: Let L be a complete lattice and let f : L -> L be an order-preserving function. Then the set of fixed points of f in L is also a complete lattice. Since complete lattices cannot be empty, the theorem in particular guarantees the existence of at least one fixed point of f, and even the existence of a least (or greatest) fixed point. In many practical cases, this is the most important implication of the theorem. For example, in mathematical logic least fixed points of functions on sets of formulas are used to compute the semantics of a logic program. Sometimes a more specialized version of the theorem is used, where L is assumed to be the lattice of.
Knights of the Garter (1700-1899) - Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk (1848) George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Lord Privy Seal, Viceroy of Ireland, Foreign Secretary (1849) Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1849) Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby, Viceroy of Ireland, Colonial Secretary (1851) Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1851) Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty (1853) Charles William Vane-Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, brother of Lord Castlereagh (1853) George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle, Viceroy of Ireland (1855) Francis Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1855) George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1855) Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (1855) King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia, later King of Italy (1855) Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue, Viceroy of Ireland (1855) Henry John Temple, 3rd.
