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Kurt Freund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Freund (17 January 1914- 23 October 1996) was a sexologist who began studies of male sexual orientation using penile plethysmography (PPG) in the early 1950s. Freund developed the penile plethysmograph to catch recruits attempting to evade military service by falsely claiming to be homosexual. Freund then began using the device at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto, where much of the research and published data using the device originated. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Freund   (229 words)

Kurt Tucholsky - Wikipedia In der Hochphase der Inflation sah Tucholsky sich gezwungen, seine publizistische Arbeit zugunsten einer Tätigkeit in der Wirtschaft zurückzustellen. Doch auch in dieser Zeit hatte Tucholsky nicht aufgehört, in linken Blättern die aus der Novemberrevolution hervorgegangene, demokratische Weimarer Republik gegen ihre erklärten Feinde in Militär, Justiz und Verwaltung, in den alten monarchistisch gesinnten Eliten und in den neuen, antidemokratischen, völkischen Bewegungen zu verteidigen. Tucholsky selbst hatte 1923 in der Satire „Requiem“ folgenden Grabspruch für sein Pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel vorgeschlagen: de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Tucholsky   (229 words)

Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Gödel was perhaps the greatest logician of the 20th century and one of the three greatest logicians of all time with Aristotle and Frege. Kurt Gödel [kurt gøːdl], (April 28, 1906– January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics. Kurt Gödel was born April 28, 1906, in Brünn (now Brno), Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) to Rudolf Gödel, the manager of a textile factory, and Marianne Gödel (née Handschuh). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Godel   (229 words)

Kurt Busch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Busch (born August 4, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American stock car racer who competes in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. Busch ran for rookie of the year honors in 2001, driving 35 of 36 races with no wins, although Kurt collected 3 top 5's and 6 top 10's that year. Busch began racing on the Winston Cup circuit in 2000, at the age of 21. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Busch   (821 words)

Kurt Daluege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Daluege (September 15, 1897- October 24, 1946) was a Nazi officer who served in the SS from the early 1920s until 1945. In 1933 Daluege was elected to the Reichstag and soon afterwards Hermann Göring moved him to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior where he took over the police force. Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Daluege also served as the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Daluege   (263 words)

Kurt Waldheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Speculation grew, and Waldheim was accused of being either involved, or complicit, in war crimes. Waldheim," in which he is criticized as a racist along with Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Pope John Paul II, characterizing Jackson's pleas for common ground as hypocritical. Waldheim joined the Austrian diplomatic service in 1945, after finishing his studies in law at the University of Vienna. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Waldheim   (791 words)

Biographie: Kurt Tucholsky, 1890-1935 Januar: Kurt Tucholsky wird als Sohn eines jüdischen Kaufmanns in Berlin geboren. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs wird Tucholsky zum Heer einberufen. Tucholsky lebt als Korrespondent der "Weltbühne" und der "Vossischen Zeitung" in Paris. www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/TucholskyKurt   (791 words)

Kurt Schwitters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Schwitters died in Kendal, England, and was buried in Ambleside. Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951. Schwitters published his own Merz magazine from 1923-32 and in the late 1920s became a well-known typographer; his best-known work was the catalogue for the Dammerstocksiedlung in Karlsruhe. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Schwitters   (774 words)

Kurt Schuschnigg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Schuschnigg resigned, was imprisoned by the Nazis, and only freed by American troops in 1945. In 1932 Dollfuss appointed Schuschnigg as his minister of justice, then in 1933 Schuschnigg became Austria's minister of education. However, the use of the preposition "von", which denotes nobility, is an anachronism for the time when he was active as a politician, since nobility was abolished in Austria in 1919. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Schuschnigg   (333 words)

Knot theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fortunately a small perturbation in either the original knot or the position of the plane is all that is needed to ensure this. Move a string completely over or under a crossing. knot invariant, demonstrating a property of a knot diagram which is not changed when we apply any of the Reidemeister moves. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knot_theory   (333 words)

Kurt Loder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Loder (born May 5, 1945 in New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, and author. Loder is the author of Bat Chain Puller, a collection of his work for Rolling Stone, and co-author of singer Tina Turner's autobiography I, Tina. Loder is originally from New Jersey, but resides in New York City. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Loder   (164 words)

Studio 360 This Week Kurt Andersen and religion professor Randall Balmer look at art and entertainment made by Evangelical Christians - from rock bands such as Jars of Clay to the best-selling Left Behind novels. Kurt talks to New Yorker critic David Denby and Newsweek religion writer Ken Woodward about Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ." Woodward says the film brings back an "edginess" that's been missing from contemporary Christianity. wnyc.com /studio360/show030604.html   (164 words)

Kurt Eichhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Peter Eichhorn (August 4, 1908– June 29, 1994) was a German conductor Eichhorn was born in Munich and studied music in Würzburg. From 1945, he directed the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian People's Opera, and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught conducting at the Munich Academy of Music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Eichhorn   (119 words)

Kurt Eichenwald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is a writer and investigative reporter at The New York Times newspaper. Eichenwald boasts numerous distinctions as a writer, including the George Polk Award in 1996 and 1998, and being a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Eichenwald contacted Berry, posing as a potential customer, and got the boy to agree to meet him in person in June, at which point he revealed that he was a reporter for The Times. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Eichenwald   (400 words)

Kurt Cobain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cobain's life was turned upside down at the age of eight when his parents divorced in 1975, an event which he later cited as having a profound impact on his life. Kurt's equivocal cause of death is the subject of Nick Broomfield's documentary, Kurt and Courtney. Cobain was eventually able to convince record companies to reissue albums by The Raincoats (Geffen) and The Vaselines (Sub Pop). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (5060 words)

Kurt Gödel - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia Kurt Gödel was born April 28, 1906, in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) as the son of Rudolf Gödel, the manager of a textile factory, and Marianne Gödel (née Handschuh). Arguably, Kurt Gödel is the greatest logician of the 20th century and one of the three greatest logicians of all time, with the other two of this historical triumvirate being Aristotle and Frege. Gödel showed that both the axiom of choice and the generalized continuum hypothesis are true in the constructible universe, and therefore must be consistent. encyclopedia.learnthis.info /k/ku/kurt_goedel_1.html   (1636 words)

Kurt Alder - Wikipedia Kurt Alder wuchs in seiner Geburtsstadt Königshütte auf, bis diese nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg an Polen geschlagen wurde und er mit seinen Eltern über Berlin nach Kiel fliehen mußte, wo er Chemie studierte und 1926 bei Otto Diels "Über die Ursachen und den Verlauf der Azoesterreaktionen" promovierte. Auf dem Mond wurde 1979 ein großer Krater, der Alder-Krater, zu Ehren von Kurt Alder nach ihm benannt. Alder erhielt 1950 zusammen mit Otto Paul Hermann Diels den Nobelpreis für Chemie "für ihre Entdeckungen und die Entwicklung der Dien-Synthese ". de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Alder   (1636 words)

Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On February 4, 2006, Kurt Vonnegut was asked to a senior prom by a girl named Mary during an appearance at the Bushnell in Hartford, Connecticut. Vonnegut played himself in a cameo in 1986's Back To School and is invoked as a pop culture reference in many teen flicks such as Can't Hardly Wait, in which the character Preston (Ethan Embry) is bound for Massachusetts to attend a writing seminar by the acclaimed author. Vonnegut is a Humanist; he currently serves as Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having replaced Isaac Asimov in what Vonnegut calls "that totally functionless capacity". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut   (2534 words)

Kurt Reidemeister - GrokPedia Encyclopedia Reidemeister's interests were mainly in combinatorial group theory, combinatorial topology, and the foundations of geometry. In 1925 he became full professof at Königsberg, where he stayed until 1933, when he was forced to leave because of his opposition of the Nazi s. He received his doctorate in 1921 with a thesis in algebraic number theory. www.grokpedia.com /en/k/ku/Kurt_Reidemeister.htm   (2534 words)

Kurt Masur - Biography Kurt Masur is well known to orchestras and audiences alike as both a distinguished conductor and humanist. Masur the Cross with Star of the Order of Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany. Maestro Masur has made well over 100 recordings with numerous orchestras. www.kurtmasur.com /main/bio.html   (2534 words)

Kurt Browning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Browning (born June 18, 1966) is a prominent Canadian figure skater who was extremely popular during the late 1980s and 1990s. Browning was a four-time Canadian figure skating champion and four-time World Champion. In 1988, Browning was credited with completing the first quadruple jump in competition; this accomplishment is also listed in the Guinness Book of Records. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Browning   (250 words)

Kurt Diemberger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Diemberger (born 1932 in Austria), is the only remaining person alive that has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres. Diemberger was also the last person to see Hermann Buhl alive before he fell through a cornice on Chogolisa. Diemberger was one of only two survivors in the 1986 K2 Disaster. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Diemberger   (230 words)

Kurt Huber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On 13 July 1943, Kurt Huber was executed by guillotine at the prison in Munich-Stadelheim, along with Alexander Schmorell. Huber was arrested on 27 February 1943, and was brought before the Volksgerichtshof on 19 April 1943, where Roland Freisler, the Chief Justice, humiliated him with a blistering verbal attack as he so often did (see the exchange quoted in the Josef Wirmer article, for instance). Huber was appalled by reports of his own country's atrocities in the Second World War and decided that his own government, the Nazis, had to be removed from power. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Huber   (278 words)

Kurt Hirsch Kurt August Hirsch ( 1906- 1986) was a leading mathematician. Too often, scholarly work on Kurt Weill focuses mainly on his German career in the 1920s-- "The Threepenny Opera," "Mahagonny"-- but Weill had a career that extended well into the 1940s as a Broadway composer, and Hirsch's book explore... Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway www.freeglossary.com /Kurt_Hirsch   (278 words)

Kurt Zeitzler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Zeitzler (June 9, 1895- September 25, 1963) was a General in the German Wehrmacht during World War II, he is most famous for being the Chief of Army General Staff from 1942 to 1944. Zeitzler was never recognized as a brilliant commander, though his performance at the head of the General Staff is very respectable. Zeitzler was chosen though he was far from the top of the General Staff's list. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Zeitzler   (309 words)

Kurt Tucholsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Tucholsky (Berlin, January 9, 1890– December 21, 1935 in Gothenburg) was a German journalist, satirist and writer. Kurt Tucholsky's parents' house, where he was born on January 9, 1890, was at 13 Lübecker Straße in Berlin-Moabit. Tucholsky probably committed suicide in Hindås near Göteborg and died in a hospital in Göteborg while in Swedish exile. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Tucholsky   (309 words)

Kurt Nilsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Nilsen (born September 29, 1978), living in Bergen, Norway, won the Norwegian version of the television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in May 2003. If this were Middle-earth Idol you'd walk it." Kurt's gap-toothedness did not seem to bother the viewers and voters, though. Kurt Nilsen the Official Unofficial Kurt Nilsen Fansite en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Nilsen   (230 words)

Kurt Mollekens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kurt Mollekens is a successful race car driver and team owner born in Bonheiden, Belgium on March 8, 1973. Mollekens debuted as a driver in top-level karting during 1990, staying there until 1992 when he moved up to Formula Ford. In 2004 Mollekens continued as a driver, at the age of 31, in part of the European Touring Car Championship. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Mollekens   (230 words)

classical music - andante - thank you, kurt masur! Kurt Masur bid the New York Philharmonic farewell with a pair of concerts at Tanglewood (summer home of the Boston Symphony) in Massachusetts. Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic bring their season to a magnificent close with three tone poems and the Four Last Songs. The soprano/composer pleases, Kurt Masur delights and the juxtaposition of contemporary music and black-tie formality boggles. www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=17911   (230 words)

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