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40 matches to Stein
Anthroposophy. Human power to contact spiritual world. Steiner.
Bernstein, Eduard. 1850-1932. German anti-militant Socialist. Founded Fabians.
Bernstein, Leonard. 1918-90. US conductor/ composer. West Side Story 1957.
Bismarck, Otto von. 1815-98. Prince. Prussian Prime Minister 1862-90. Founded German Empire; First Chancellor 1871-90. Provoked Franco-Prussian War. Ems Dispatch. Schleswig.
Denmark. 6C Viking. 9C Large kingdom + NE England. 10C United; + Norway. 1013-1042 + England. 12C + N Germany. 13C Civil war. 1340 Re-united. 1380 + Norway. 1388 -1523 + Sweden. 1720 Colonized Greenland. 1814 -Norway. 1815-64 +Schleswig, Holstein. WWI Neutral. 1920 +N Schleswig. WWII German occupation. 1944 -Iceland.
Einstein, Albert. 1879-1955. German/Swiss/US physicist. Special Theory of Relativity 1905. Quantum theory 1905. General Theory of Relativity 1916. Pacifist, Zionist.
Eisenstein, Sergei. 1898-1948. Russian filmmaker: Potemkin 1925. Alexander Nevsky 1938.
Epstein, Jacob. 1880-1959. US/British portrait sculptor.
Francis Joseph II. 1906-89. Ruled Liechtenstein 1938-. Neutral in WWII. High tech, banking, Europe’s richest nation. Woman suffrage 1984.
Gastein, Convention. 1865. Schleswig-Holstein divided between Prussia and Austria.
German-Danish War. 1848. Danes gain Schleswig-Holstein. 1864. Danes lose S-H.
Hammerstein, Oscar. 1895-1960. US librettist. Oklahoma! 1943. Rogers.
Kleist, Heinrich von. 1777-1811. German dramatist. Schroffenstein 1803.
Landsteiner, Karl. 1868-1943. Austrian/US. Discovered ABO blood types 1901, Rh factor 1940.
Lichtenstein, Roy. 1923-97. New York Pop ‘comic strip’ artist. Whaam! 1963.
Liechtenstein. 5C Alemanni. Franks. 1342 Independent. 1396 HRE. 1719 Principality «HRE. 1806 Rhine Confederation.1815 German Confederation. 1852 Customs Union with Austria 1923 Customs Union with Switzerland.
LogicalPositivism. 1920s. Philosophy. Only experimentally verifiable scientific truth counts. Vienna Circle. Wittgenstein.
Lost Generation. Gertrude Stein’s term for US writers influenced by WWI. Fitzgerald. Hemingway.
Pop Art. 1950-. Movement drawing from popular culture. Warhol. Lichtenstein.
Prague, Treaty of. 1866. Ends Austro-Prussian War. Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia.
Relativity. Einstein’s theories that space and time are not absolute. Special 1905. General 1916.
Revisionism. Criticism of tenets of Marxism by Bernstein, Tito.
Rodgers, Richard. 1902-79. US musical comedy composer. Oklahoma 1943. South Pacific 1949. Sound of Music 1959. Hart. Hammerstein.
Rubinstein, Anton. 1829-94. Russian pianist, composer. Operas, concerti. Demon 1875.
Rubinstein, Arthur. 1886-1982. Popular Polish/US pianist.