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  Albert Oehlen - Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery
Albert Oehlen sets up the flatness of an abstract expressionist ground; the figures are placed as a separate layer creating an illusion of perspective.
Albert Oehlen relishes the sensitivity of his medium in this celebration of painterly illusion: puddles and washes convey a refracted, dreamlike sensibility, while almost recognisable objects emerge and dissolve against the fluid ground.
Albert Oehlen is a master of ironic wit and his paintings are elaborate strategies of provocation.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/albert_oehlen.htm   (1141 words)

  
 Albert Einstein Online
Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76, World Mourns Loss of Great Scientist
Albert Einstein, College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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www.westegg.com /einstein   (249 words)

  
  Welcome - Albert Hammond
On this website, you'll find all there is to know about one of the most versatile and successful artists of the past forty years.
Albert is not only known for his own recordings, but also for the many hit songs he has written for artists all over the world.
Revolution Of the Heart contains fourteen stunning tracks covering Albert's life journey and is scheduled for release on 17th May 2005 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and on 23rd May 2005 in the UK and Eire.
www.alberthammond.net   (196 words)

  
  Albert Goering, the good brother
Albert was arrested by the Gestapo several times, however was released with the help of his brother.
Her parents and Albert were very close friends and only through the efforts of her godfather were the family able to flee with false papers.
Albert Goering - saviour of victims of the tyranny his brother helped create - was imprisoned for several years after the war for his name alone.
www.auschwitz.dk /Albert.htm   (2028 words)

  
  Albert Einstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) was a German-American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century.
When Albert was five, his father showed him a pocket compass, and Einstein realized that something in "empty" space acted upon the needle; he would later describe the experience as one of the most revelatory of his life.
In a 1949 article, Albert Einstein described the "predatory phase of human development", exemplified by a chaotic capitalist society, as a source of evil to be overcome.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Einstein   (6096 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon and Albert proved to the world that the Church is not opposed to the study of nature, that faith and science may go hand in hand; their lives and their writings emphasize the importance of experiment and investigation.
Albert respected authority and traditions, was prudent in proposing the results of his investigations, and hence "contributed far more than Bacon did to the advancement of science in the thirteenth century" (Turner, Hist.
This doctrine Albert based upon the Distinction of the universal ante rem (an idea or archetype in the mind of God), in re (existing or capable of existing in many individuals), and post rem (as a concept abstracted by the mind, and compared with the individuals of which it can be predicated).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01264a.htm   (3043 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Albert Abraham Michelson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert Abraham Michelson, (pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), was a Prussian-born American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light, and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Albert Abraham Michelson, (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light.
Michelson died with only 36 of the 233 measurement series completed and the experiment was subsequently beset by geological instability and condensation problems before the result of 299,774±11 km/s, consistent with the prevailing electro-optic values, was published posthumously in 1935.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Albert-Abraham-Michelson   (523 words)

  
 BBC - History - Prince Albert (1819 - 1861)
But Albert never really enjoyed great popularity during Victoria's reign, and it wasn't until 1857, when he was 38 years old, that he was recognised by the nation and awarded the title Prince Consort.
Albert encouraged in his wife a greater awareness of social ills and without Melbourne's protective influence he was able to air his concerns.
It was Albert who masterminded the Great Exhibition of 1851, with a view to celebrating the great advances of the British Industrial Age and the expansion of the empire.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/albert_prince.shtml   (304 words)

  
 Albert.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert, the oldest son of the Count of Bollstadt, was born in the castle of Lauingen on the Danube River in the southern German province of Swabia.
Albert was received as a postulant by Blessed Jordan of Saxony, the immediate successor of Saint Dominic.
Albert was in his own lifetime and for centuries that followed an authority on physics, geography, astronomy, mineralogy, chemistry, and biology.
www.op.org /domcentral/people/vocations/albert.htm   (703 words)

  
 Welcome To ZNet
Michael Albert, longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine.
Albert was born in 1947 and brought up in New Rochelle, New York.
Albert enjoys the oriental board game, Go, loves to kayak near his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and enjoys reading both mysteries and thrillers, some science fiction, and quite a lot of popular science.
www.zmag.org /albertbio.htm   (609 words)

  
 Albert Berry Copper ~ Berry's Craft Shop
Albert Berry is a well known Northwest craftsman who created fine pieces of hammered copper and jewelry with Indian and Northwest motifs.
Albert's experience as a miner and hunter in Alaska helped him in gathering and trading for local artifacts which were used to adorn much of his work such as fossilized walrus and mammoth ivory, gold nuggets and antlers often seen on his wares.
Shortly after the death of Albert the shop relocated to 93 Marion Street near the viaduct which proved to be a most ideal location for the tourist trade that passed by from the waterfront.
www.geocities.com /gonejunkin/albertberry.html   (1345 words)

  
 Albert Einstein - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert Einstein, a Jew, demonstrating his latest invention, chalk.
Albert Einstein is a Jewish Internet celebrity and prolific attention whore.
This and other concepts created by Relativity are in direct conflict with at least 100 other theories from at least 100 years ago, one could say that Albert Einstein was a predecessor of ED's concept.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Albert_Einstein   (437 words)

  
 Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who became famous for his universal knowledge and his advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion.
The philosophical works, occupying the first six and the last of the twenty-one volumes, are generally divided according to the Aristotelian scheme of the sciences, and consist of interpretations and condensations of Aristotle's relative works, with supplementary discussions depending on the questions then agitated, and occasionally divergences from the opinions of the master.
Albert's knowledge of physical science was considerable and for the age accurate.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/al/albertus_magnus.html   (608 words)

  
 ALBERT NAMATJIRA
Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter.
Fame led to Albert and his wife becoming the first Aborigines to be granted Australian citizenship.
Albert was a celebrity, but not always a comfortable one.
www.abc.net.au /btn/australians/namat.htm   (572 words)

  
 The Albert Einstein Experience: Jokes, Relativity and Black Holes
Albert Einstein had been working on his theory of relativity a lot and he was just about finished.
Albert had a glorious two-week vacation and was having the time of his life.
The story is that Albert Einstein's driver used to sit at the back of the hall during each of his lectures, and after a period of time, remarked to Einstein that he could probably give the lecture himself, having heard it several times.
www.juliantrubin.com /einsteinjokes.html   (1913 words)

  
 Culture3-Albert Einstein for Kids
Albert was mystified when his father told him that the needle of the compass would always point to the north.
Albert's father explained that there were magnetic forces that drew the needle to the north pole of Earth.
Albert Einstein took a theory that was concocted by Galileo called relativity and fashioned his own"Special Theory of Relativity." When people say, "relativity," they mean that there are different points of view that make things "relative." Let's begin with an easy example.
www.wesleyan.edu /synthesis/culture-cubed/haas/maintemp.htm   (3429 words)

  
 Albert King, Mississippi Blues musician
Albert King also performed on Sunday, January 28, 1973, at Jackson, Mississippi’s white First Baptist Church, where several (Black) people were not allowed to attend the Sunday worship, including the wife of the white civil rights attorney Frank Parken (Swell and Dwight 329).
Blues man Albert King was one of the premier electric guitar stylists of the post-World War II period.
Albert King (Albert Nelson) was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and raised in Osceola, Arkansas.
shs.ee.msstate.edu /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/King.html   (1576 words)

  
 Albert Schweitzer - Biography
Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education.
Albert Schweitzer died on September 4, 1965, and was buried at Lambaréné.
Schweitzer, Albert, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede.
nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1952/schweitzer-bio.html   (932 words)

  
 Albert King
Albert King was a master of the single-string attack and was intrigued by Blues performers that he heard while growing up outside of Memphis.
Albert King was born Albert Nelson, on April 25, 1923, in Indianola, Mississippi.
Albert King has been honored by The Blues Foundation with his induction into their Hall of Fame.
www.cascadeblues.org /History/AlbertKing.htm   (1387 words)

  
 Albert Einstein [encyclopedia]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert stayed behind to continue his studies, but soon left school with no diploma to rejoin his family.
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a physicist and mathematician who first proposed the theory of relativity.
noun: Einstein, Albert Einstein = physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955).
artzia.com /Einstein   (1102 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, creator of some of the most profound scientific theories, died April 18, 1955.
But he was interested in electrical inventions and curiosities, and shared this with Albert, who became especially fascinated with magnets.
For the most part, Albert was shy and kept to himself, playing alone, and exploring the woods and wilds nearby.
www.obits.com /einsteinalbert.html   (795 words)

  
 Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt
Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 2, 1939.
Albert Einstein's second letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 25, 1945.
Ltr from Albert Einstein to FDR regarding building of atomic bomb.
hypertextbook.com /eworld/einstein.shtml   (1622 words)

  
 The Albert Schweitzer Page
Albert Schweitzer made only a single visit to America, from June 28 to July 22, 1949.
Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University Note the conference scheduled for October 28 and 29, 2005.
The Albert Schweitzer Campus of the Harmony Institute
home.pcisys.net /~jnf   (888 words)

  
 Cardinals Jose Alberto Pujols : Jose Alberto Pujols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jose Albert Pujols is a right hander and plays first base for St. Louis Cardinals.
Albert is from a family of baseball players as his father Bienvenido, made a name for himself as a pitcher in the Dominican Republic.
When the season ended Albert was considered to be Rookie of the Year and was also given Most Valuable Player award.
www.mlb-players.com /cardinals/albert.php   (289 words)

  
 Yo-Yo Ma captivates Symphony Hall with sincerity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Composer Stephen Albert's recent and untimely death in December 1992 made Ma's performance of his Cello Concerto particularly poignant.
Albert composed the Cello Concerto specifically for Ma, often consulting with him to work out compositional blocks.
Well-crafted and expressive, the concerto displayed Albert's unusual compositional talent and insight as Ma brought it to life.
www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N9/yo-yo-ma.09a.html   (591 words)

  
 Albert Speer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer in Mannheim, Germany, the second of three sons.
Speer died of a cerebral hemorrhage in London, England on September 1, 1981 — exactly 42 years after World War II began.
Speer's son, also named Albert, became a successful architect in his own right, and was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 (the world exposition that took place in Hanover in the year 2000), design of the Shanghai International Automobile City and the Beijing Olympic complex.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Speer   (3029 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Albert: Books: Donna Jo Napoli,Jim LaMarche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
ALBERT SAT AT HIS TABLE and drank tomato juice and listened to the noises of the morning.
Everyday Albert sticks his hand out the window to see if the weather is just right for him to take a walk.
Everyday he decides it is either too windy or too hot because he fears the bad experiences he might have outside-until one day a pair of cardinals force him to open his eyes to the world.
www.amazon.com /Albert-Donna-Jo-Napoli/dp/0152015728   (1643 words)

  
 Albert Bandura Biographical Sketch
Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in Mundare, a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, about 50 miles east of Edmonton.
Virginia and Albert married in 1952 and became parents to two daughters, Mary, who was born in 1954, and Carol, born in 1958.
Compelling archival materials and other visuals illustrate the major concepts.Philip Zimbardo writes that "Albert Bandura is the most important contemporary psychological theorist in the world; his ideas have influenced generations of psychologists and now flow out to the general public via this fine video presentation.
www.des.emory.edu /mfp/bandurabio.html   (5587 words)

  
 Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents
Albert Camus was killed in a car accident in 1960 when he was 47.
Camus was born in Algeria; his father was killed in a battle in distant France when Albert was 4.
He was brought up by his mother, hard-of-hearing and mostly mute, by his stern maternal grandmother and by his rough, kindly uncle.
www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1995/1995e.html   (526 words)

  
 Neuroscience for Kids - Einstein's Brain
Albert Einstein died at 1:15 am on April 18, 1955 at Princeton Hospital in New Jersey.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany.
Alterations in cortical thickness and neuronal density in the frontal cortex of Albert Einstein, Neurosci Lett.
faculty.washington.edu /chudler/ein.html   (1565 words)

  
 Unofficial Albert Brooks Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As Albert himself stated, he was "the Leonardo DiCaprio of the summer." He performed in both Disney's animated feature, Finding Nemo, and the remake of The In-Laws.
Albert played a few different voice roles in the first season (including Marge's bowling teacher- with whom she nearly has an affair), and the discs include a few minutes of Albert outtakes from the show!
Here is a brief synopsis of Albert's career- from his days as a stand-up comedian, to his album recordings, through his years on television, and all the way up to his films.
members.aol.com /shmuggs/abrooks.html   (1936 words)

  
 A Page About Albert Camus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Albert Camus--French philosopher and one of the most important authors of the Twentieth Century.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times".
Photos of Albert Camus are available at this website maintained by Ari Frankel.
members.bellatlantic.net /~samg2/camus.html   (239 words)

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