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Werner Klemperer 2000 Deaths

Werner KlempererAge: 80 Emmy Award-winning actor who played bumbling, monocled Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on television's Hogan's Heroes. His true love, however, was music. He performed in…

Willy Messerschmitt

Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer whose fighter plane, the Bf-109, was the pride of the Nazis during World War II. Messerschmitt built model airplanes…

Werner Klemperer Biography

Werner KlempereractorBorn: 3/22/1920Birthplace: Cologne, Germany Emmy Award-winning actor who played bumbling, monocled Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on television's Hogan's Heroes. His true love,…

Werner Klemperer

Werner KlempereractorBorn: 3/22/1920Birthplace: Cologne, Germany Emmy Award-winning actor who played bumbling, monocled Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on television's Hogan's Heroes. His true love,…

kindergarten

(Encyclopedia) kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of…

erbium

(Encyclopedia) erbiumerbiumûrˈbēəm [key] [from Ytterby, a town in Sweden], metallic chemical element; symbol Er; at. no. 68; at. wt. 167.259; m.p. 1,529℃; b.p. 2,863℃; sp. gr. 9.05 at 25℃; valence +3…

Mannheim

(Encyclopedia) MannheimMannheimmänˈhīm [key], city (1994 pop. 318,025), Baden-Württemberg, W central Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine River and at the mouth of the Neckar River. A bridge…

Phips, Sir William

(Encyclopedia) Phips, Sir William, 1651–95, American colonial governor. Born in what is today Maine, he was a carpenter and shipbuilder in Boston and became interested in sunken treasure. On his…

digital art

(Encyclopedia) digital art, contemporary art in which computer technology is used in a wide variety of ways to make distinctive works. Digital art was pioneered in the 1970s but only came into its…

German East Africa

(Encyclopedia) German East Africa, former German colony, c.370,000 sq mi (958,300 sq km), E Africa. Dar es Salaam was the capital. German influence emerged in the area in 1884 when Carl Peters, the…