Word: anton
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Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
...social science on agriculture in the Tyrol. But when the way was legally cleared for his return to his homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...
...down these barriers, the Air Force is combining the best of both worlds-Old and New. In the Air Force's European school system (which includes North Africa and the Middle East), more than 20,000 pupils are studying foreign languages in the style of Sonnenberg-Wiesbaden. John Anton Carpenter, 31, the energetic coordinator of foreign languages for the system, believes that "to allow American children to live among foreign people without coming to know that people, its problems and greatness, is a national loss." Carpenter came to the coordinator's post nearly three years ago armed with...
...Brattle Theatre celebrated its tenth anniversary as a motion picture theatre yesterday with an invitational showing of "The Lady with the Dog," a new Russian film based on a story by Anton Chekhov. Regular showings of the film begin today...
...Lady with the Dog is a Russian movie that tells a story by Anton Chekhov and tells it simply and clearly from start to finish...