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  Siegfried - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siegfried, the dragon-slaying hero in the Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German.
Siegfried, principal character in the ballet Swan Lake.
Siegfried Fischbacher (born 1939), German-born American magician, of Siegfried and Roy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siegfried   (167 words)

  
 The Nibelungenlied
Siegfried's parents were happy with their choice, because they did not trust Kriemhild's three brothers, particularly Hagen, Gunther's powerful vassal.
Siegfried advised Gunther and everyone else to pretend that Siegfried was a vassal to Gunther when they were in the presence of Brunhild.
Siegfried and Kriemhild enjoyed their wedding night, but the same could not be said for Gunther and Brunhild.
www.timelessmyths.com /norse/nibelungs.html   (5820 words)

  
 Siegfried Zielinski — Professor of Mediology and Technoculture — Biography
Siegfried Zielinski is a professor of mediology and technoculture at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an Intensive Summer Seminar.
Siegfried Zielinski teaches and researches on the history, theory, and praxis of audiovision; his special field of interest is media archaeology.
Siegfried Zielinski is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Academy of Arts Berlin, the Faculty of the European Graduate School, Saas Fee, the Budapest Center for Culture and Communication (C3) and the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain.
www.egs.edu /faculty/zielinski.html   (627 words)

  
 Siegfried = Arminius
Siegfried grew up in Xanten on the lower Rhein:  Xanten was the location of the location of the ancient Roman Castra Vetera ("Old Camp"), the powerful Roman stronghold to which the remnants of Varus' army had fled after the debacle;
Siegfried was the son of the king Sigemund, while Arminius' father was called Sigimer (Latin form: Segimer).
Siegfried fought with the dragon on the Gnitaheiðr (the Rocky Heath or "rock-strewn, gravelly plain" - cf.
www.harbornet.com /folks/theedrich/hive/Medieval/Siegfried.htm   (532 words)

  
 Siegfried Sassoon Summary
The English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) wrote a group of dramatic, intense lyrics in reaction to the horrors of World War I. His six volumes of partly fictionalized memoirs are a detailed record of the sensibilities of his age.
Siegfried Sassoon's poetry was published over a period of more than sixty years, almost to the moment of his death in 1967, a few days before his eighty-first birthday.
Although Siegfried Sassoon lived almost to the age of eighty-one and published poetry, fiction, and criticism over a period of sixty years, it was his experience in the years 1916 to 1918 that stoked his genius and informed almost all of his subsequent w...
www.bookrags.com /Siegfried_Sassoon   (330 words)

  
 Siegfried
Siegfried forces Mime to tell him the story of his origins and when Siegfried demands proof of the tale, Mime presents him with the broken Nothung.
Siegfried is overtaken by joy, demands that Mime forge the pieces together immediately and rushes into the woods to later on return for the sword.
The woodbird disappears and Siegfried is left at the foot of the mountain.
www.utexas.edu /courses/wagner/ringplot/siegfried.html   (1321 words)

  
 Sassoon, Siegfried. War and Other Poems.
Siegfried Sassoon was born in Weirleigh, Kent, England on September 8, 1886 into a leisurely society of country living.
Siegfried took vengence for his brother's death by involving himself in brave, sometimes suicidal deeds against the Germans.
Chances are that Siegfried's father left to protect the family from his illness.
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 The Ring Synopsys: Siegfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Siegfried insists that the Nibelung weld Nothung whole for him immediately but Mime once left alone is despondent; he knows that such a task is beyond him.
The Nibelung wants to scare Siegfried and tells him that as his mother was dying, she asked him not to send her son out into the world until he has known the meaning of fear.
Siegfried is not afraid of the monster and slays it.
www.ocpac.org /countdown/synopsys/siegfried.html   (1067 words)

  
 Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter XXXII. Siegfried and the Nibelungs
Mimer was wroth, but Siegfried had discovered the full measure of his might and he commanded haughtily, as befits a prince, that a strong sword should be forged for him.
Siegfried saw that Brunhild had great beauty, but he had no desire to win her by combat against her knights or by vying with her in feats of strength.
In the wide world there was none fairer, and Siegfried loved her in secret ere yet he beheld her, for he knew that she was his heart's desire, and he resolved that he would woo her right speedily.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tml/tml37.htm   (2059 words)

  
 Wagner Operas -- Operas -- Siegfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Siegfried retorts he has never learned to tolerate the sight of Mime, nor does he know why he continues to live with him.
Siegfried stretches on the ground under a lime tree to rest, enchanted by the murmur of the forest, yearning for the mother he never knew.
Reaching the summit, Siegfried discovers an armed, sleeping figure, which he assumes to be a man. When he removes the Valkyrie's shield, helmet and breastplate, however, he finds instead the first woman he has ever seen.
www.wagneroperas.com /indexsiegfried.html   (1318 words)

  
 Siegfried Reference Monoblocks
Siegfried was raised in the forest away from civilization.
Siegfried puts an end to the guesswork formerly inherent in large tube amplifiers, while crossing new thresholds of sonic performance.
Siegfried allows users to immerse themselves in its glorious sound without having to wonder whether the tubes are all performing properly: Siegfried continually optimizes tube bias and reports diagnostics on each individual tube, leaving the listener to think about nothing more taxing than the next piece of music to enjoy.
www.vtl.com /pages/Amplifiers/Siegfried   (1223 words)

  
 Siegfried - Harry Mulisch
Siegfried begins as the story of Rudolf Herter, an internationally renowned Dutch author (bearing a striking similarity to Harry Mulisch), arriving in Vienna on a brief publicity tour that culminates in a reading at the National Library.
In Siegfried it occurs to Mulisch's alter ego Herter that perhaps fiction is the net in which to catch the elusive subject.
Siegfried is mentioned, the story the Falks told Herter elaborated on and brought to its conclusion.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/mulischh/sfried.htm   (2029 words)

  
 The Name Game II (Siegfried): Features - The Armchair Empire
While Siegfried went on countless adventures, the one that he became most well known for was his slaying of the dragon, Fafnir.
Siegfried was friends with another hero named Gunther, and together they fought monsters, and did other good deeds.
In order to accomplish his mission, Hagen convinced Siegfried’s wife, Kriemhild, to mark the weak spot on her husband’s back, claiming that it was a holy symbol that would protect the hero.
www.armchairempire.com /Features/name-game-ii/siegfried.htm   (410 words)

  
 Shrine to Siegfried Schtauffen
Siegfried hunted down and killed the knight's commander himself, and decapitated him with his proud Zweihander.
Siegfried was vaguely aware of his alter-ego harvesting hundreds of souls to refuel Soul Edge.
Siegfried was vaguely aware of his alter-ego harvesting hundreds of souls to refuel the depleted Soul Edge.
www.angelfire.com /stars3/dragonsworld/shrine/story.html   (2542 words)

  
 Free music and video downloads, posters and pictures of 'Siegfried' by Richard Wagner.
Mime hates Siegfried, Wotan is proud of him at the beginning, but is cruelly humiliated by his presumed heir.
The theme of peace and that of Siegfried as treasure of the World are most meagrely distributed in the Ring.
We know that Siegfried Wagner, who was unhappily named after the hero of the Ring, died of a heart attack after having directed the funeral march of Siegfried.
ring.mithec.com /eng/whosiegfried.html   (1358 words)

  
 Siegfried
They named their son Siegfried, after a legendary hero, and then the two were married.
Siegfried hunted down and killed the knight's commander himself, and chopped off his head with his proud Zweihander.
Going in the direction that they had come from, Siegfried came upon the dead body of the pirate Cervantes and one of the twin blades of Soul Edge laying beside him.
members.tripod.com /vega78/soulblade/siegfried.html   (1216 words)

  
 Siegfried & Roy - A Magical Partnership   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Siegfried took a job on an ocean liner, first working as a steward.
Astounded at Roy's candor, especially considering he was five years Siegfried's junior, Siegfried asked him how the show might be made better.
And so Siegfried & Roy were on their way to become the Masters of the Impossible.
www.siegfriedandroy.com /biography/partner.php   (265 words)

  
 WouldYouBelieve.com - Siegfried
Siegfried, Vice President of Public Relations and Terrorism for KAOS, was the foe faced most often by Max.
Siegfried operated alone at first, but eventually was joined by his aide, Shtarker.
Siegfried is cunning, murderous, ruthless, and a stickler for details.
www.wouldyoubelieve.com /siegfried.html   (283 words)

  
 CBC Radio: Wagner's Ring - The Operas: Siegfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mime tells Siegfried that he must fight Fafner, the giant who has taken the Rhinemaidens' gold and turned himself into a dragon, but Siegfried refuses to fight without his sword.
Siegfried is not afraid, and demands Mime leave him.
Siegfried accidentally touches Fafner's blood, which burns; instinctively, he puts his fingers in his mouth.
www.cbc.ca /thering/siegfried.html   (807 words)

  
 Siegfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Siegfried, realizing that he has met his father's old enemy(and, unbeknownst to him, his own grandfather), strikes at Wotan and cleaves the god's sacred spear in twain.
Siegfried's final task is to ascend to the summit of the mountain where Brunhilde sleeps, surrounded by fire, and claim her for his bride.
Siegfried realizes, after setting aside the sleeper's shield, that this is no man. Rather, it is the first woman he has ever seen.
members.aol.com /atmsrusring3/sieglist.htm   (1719 words)

  
 CNN.com - Siegfried: Tiger wanted to help Roy - Oct. 9, 2003
Investigators want to see if 'Siegfried and Roy' violated any animal cruelty standards as part of a probe into the attack that hospitalized Roy Horn.
Despite reports to the contrary, Siegfried Fischbacher said Wednesday that the white tiger named Montecore did not maul his partner, magician Roy Horn, during a Las Vegas, Nevada, show last week.
The USDA conducted routine inspections of the Siegfried & Roy show four times in the past three years and found no violations.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/10/08/siegfried.roy/index.html   (646 words)

  
 THE RING SYNOPSIS - SIEGFRIED, ACT I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In a cavern in deep wilderness, Mime the dwarven smith is forging a sword.
Siegfried asks for a sword and Mime hands him his latest piece of forging.
Siegfried lets the bear go and studies the sword, but he breaks it saying that a sword must be hard and firm, not a puny pin.
users.utu.fi /hansalmi/wagner/sieg1.html   (660 words)

  
 Suit: Siegfried taunts, torments, humiliates his magician partner Roy - CourtTV.com - People
"Siegfried was a tyrant and had loud, explosive outbursts at the plaintiff and at Roy," says the civil suit filed by Louis Mydlach, a former Siegfried and Roy insider.
Siegfried is also accused of refusing to hire competent medical workers to look after Horn's day-to-day needs, and painting a picture in the media of the "amazing physical rehabilitation of Roy" when those close to the star knew "it was all propaganda."
Horn, 61, was mauled on stage by one of his 380-pound white tigers during a Siegfried and Roy show at the Mirage in 2003.
www.courttv.com /people/2005/1026/siegfried_roy_ctv.html   (592 words)

  
 Siegfried & Roy - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Magicians of the century Siegfried & Roy tapped the first keg of Oktoberfest at 7 p.m.
Siegfried & Roy attend the premiere of "Phantom of the Opera"
Siegfried & Roy welcomed magic - and love - back to the Mirage on Friday, June 30, 2006.
www.siegfriedandroy.com /news/index.php   (124 words)

  
 Lancett music12_Siegfried - Lancette - Journal fo the Arts
One meets Siegfried for the first time as the curtain rises to find him sitting on top of a huge tree stump as if in a dream.
This canopy presents both an image of devastation and of utter beauty, it is simultaneously brutal and delicate.
She also creates wonderful images, with the help of lighting designer David Fin, in Act I when Siegfried is bent over a raging flame to forge a new sword, known as Nothung, out of the pieces of his father
www.lancetteer.com /music_12.htm   (1330 words)

  
 U 35 crewmember Siegfried Bruse (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Siegfried Bruse was born on 16 October 1917 in Mecklenburg, Germany.
Siegfried Bruse was a POW at the Bowmanville, Ontario POW camp during the infamous three-day "Battle of Bowmanville" between the prisoners and the guards.
Siegfried Bruse was running the canteen at Bowmanville when the authorities decided that the POWs should have beer in the camp.
www.u-35.com.cob-web.org:8888 /crew/bruse.htm   (1328 words)

  
 Siegfried
The ZH270 was the first amplifier using all-tube amplification that properly matches the high-voltage, low-current operating parameters of vacuum tubes to the low-voltage, high-current drive requirements of dynamic loudspeakers without using audio-output transformers.
Berning has now applied this new technology to the single-ended amplifier, and Siegfried is the result of this effort.
Siegfried uses a regulated resonant switching power supply to achieve extremely low hum levels.
www.davidberning.com /siegfried.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Through the Siegfried
As the 36th drew near to the Siegfried Line on the crisp, clear morning of March 19, the 142nd Infantry on the left moved into Wissembourg at noon.
By morning the outer defenses of the town had crumbled, the enemy's artillery fire over the Siegfried had ceased, and the Germans who had not been able to flee were giving themselves up by the hundreds.
The battle at the Siegfried was the last great battle the 36th would have to face.
www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/seigfri/through.htm   (2258 words)

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