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- 231: The Potential For A U.N. Peace
- ... in refugee supplies and to temporarily settle 20,000 refugees in the United States; they also planned to settle 40,000 in Germany, 20,000 in Turkey and lesser amounts in Norway, Denmark, Romania, Sweden, Austria, Greece, Canada and Portugal (PG). The international community did step in quickly to help. The mass exodus and resettlement would be televised as the Kosovars were received with sympathy and kindness. However, the bombing continued ...
- 232: Sigmund Freud
- ... years to treat the progressive disease. Meanwhile, a political cancer was growing in Europe. By 1933, the Nazi party had risen to power in Germany. They burned books by Freud, among others. They took over Austria in 1938. Freud's passport was confiscated, but his fame and the influence of foreigners persuaded the occupying forces to let him go, and he and his wife fled to England. He died there in ...
- 233: Rasputin
- ... light of her life. But there is no further evidence this theory as of yet. When the Czar decided to leave his palace and take charge of his troops in the fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, the people of Russia believed the Czar had left the Czarina - and, many believed, Rasputin - at the head of the Government. Although Rasputin rarely offered political advice (he had no ...
- 234: Ralph Lauren
- ... stands as a bastion of quality and elegance, a menswear institution that maintains a readily identifiable image and a devoted following. MENSWEAR LICENSES Polo/Ralph Lauren's men's apparel is distributed by licences in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hongkong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Panama, Scandinavia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, The United Kingdom and Uruguay, all under the Polo by Ralph Lauren label. Under the ...
- 235: Mozart
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Probably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court, whose archbishop, Sigismund von Schrattenbach, encouraged the ...
- 236: Mozart
- ... native, Salzburg, but also around the globe. The Enlightenment was not, to be sure, a democratic movement. In France, the absolutism of the Sun King, Louis XIV, continued under Louis XV and XVI. But in Austria, Empress Maria Theresa introduced a greater measure of tolerance and freedom among her subjects, laying a foundation for the democratic revolutions that followed. Wolfgang’s father Leopold came from a family of Augsburg bookbinders. He ...
- 237: King Henry IV
- ... Merciless" Parliament of 1388, Henry regained the favor of the King and in 1390 departed on the Crusade to Lithuania and then to Jerusalem. Visiting the kings of Bohemia and Hungary and the Archduke of Austria and then Venice in 1392-1393, he went only as far as Rhodes and then returned to England as a popular hero. He soon entered the government; he served on the Council while Richard was ...
- 238: George Washington
- ... therefore felt that he had to interfere in foreign policy to the extent of leaking secret shipments to the British. The outbreak of war between revolutionary France and a union led by Britain, Prussia, and Austria in 1793 endangered American foreign policy and disabled Jefferson's rival foreign policy design. When the French represenative, Edmond Genęt, arrived in Charleston in April 1793 and began recruiting American privateers—and promising assistance to ...
- 239: George Washington
- ... that he had to meddle in foreign policy to the extent of leaking secret dispatches to the British. Second Administration The outbreak of war between revolutionary France and a coalition led by Britain, Prussia, and Austria in 1793 jeopardized American foreign policy and crippled Jefferson's rival foreign policy design. When the French envoy, Edmond GenĂŞt, arrived in Charleston in April 1793 and began recruiting American privateersâ€"and promising aid to ...
- 240: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... as the inventor of string quartets, his best ever was the "Emperor Quartet" where he took a wonderfully simple hymn and used its melody as a theme for a set of variations. The emperor of Austria was so impressed that he made it the Austrian National Anthem until the end of World War I. The piano sonatas were also part of many of the new genres of music we can attribute ...
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