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Marvin E. Wolfgang 1998 Deaths

Marvin E. WolfgangAge: 73 famed criminologist who expanded his field by perfecting a method of analyzing great masses of data to discern patterns of violence and crime. Died: April 12, 1998.…

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

(Encyclopedia) Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMozart, Wolfgang Amadeusmōtˈsärt, Ger. vôlfˈgäng ämädāˈ&oobreve;s mōˈtsärt [key], 1756–91, Austrian composer, b. Salzburg. Mozart represents one of the…

Schäuble, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia) Schäuble, WolfgangSchäuble, Wolfgangvôlfˈgäng shīˈblə [key], 1942–, German political leader. He studied law and economics at the Univ. of Freiburg and the Univ. of Hamburg and then…

Funny Games

Director/Writer:Michael HanekeDirector of Photography:Jürgen JürgesEditor:Andreas ProchaskaMusic:George Frideric Handel, Pietro Mascagni, W.A. Mozart and John ZornProduction Designer:Chrisoph…

Gestalt

(Encyclopedia) GestaltGestaltgəshtältˈ [key] [Ger.,=form], school of psychology that interprets phenomena as organized wholes rather than as aggregates of distinct parts, maintaining that the whole…

Nobel Prize for Physics

Below find every winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, from 1901 through 2016. For years not listed, no award was made. 1901Wilhelm K. Roentgen (Germany), for discovery of Roentgen…

Diane Von Furstenberg Biography

Diane Von Furstenbergfashion designerBorn: 1946 Von Furstenberg is the creator of the now-classic V-neck wraparound knit dress. During the 1970s, when Von Furstenberg introduced the slinky…

Brewer's: Hans von Rippach

[rip-pak ]. Jack of Rippach, a Monsieur Nong-tong-pas —i.e. someone asked for who does not exist. A gay German spark calls at a house and asks for Herr Hans von Rippach. Rippach is a…

Max Von Sydow Biography

Max Von Sydow(Carl Adolf Von Sydow)actor, directorBorn: 4/10/1929Birthplace: Lund, Sweden Versatile character actor equally at home in Hollywood films, like Conan the Barbarian (1981), on TV as in…