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...famed Austrian-born contralto; of hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy. She had signed a three-year...
...book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden and Berlin, he was sent to Paris at the age of 33, soon established himself despite the fact that he represented a defeated country and that Austrian aristocrats could scarcely bring themselves to be civil to Napoleon or his ministers. Since Napoleon liked to talk with him, he soon detected...
...each. Professor Donald B. Durrell will act as toastmaster. Speakers will include William H. Kilpatrick, Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Columbia; Dr. Payson Smith, former Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education; Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education; Robert Ulich, professor of Philosophy at Dresden; and Paul H. Hanus, professor of History and the Art of Teaching, Emeritus...
Highly skilled craftsmen of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden have constructed four transparent men, one of which was shown at Chicago's Century of Progress.- Desiring to sponsor the. first transparent woman, principally as an educational exhibit for the U. S. public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other...
...This is now at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The three others are in Buffalo, Stockholm, Dresden...