Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Dr. Black died, the work at Choukoutien was taken over by bald Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Peiping Union Medical College. For years Dr. Weidenreich has insisted that China's Sinanthropus was more primitive than Java's Pithecanthropus, which he regards as a backward offshoot of the Neanderthal men who emerged later in Europe. But Professor Dubois now considers his Pithecanthropus to be so primitive as not to belong to the human family...
Snow-bearded, 84-year-old Prince Franz Paul I, ruler of the 65-square-mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles up in the central Alps between Switzerland and Greater Germany (see map), has not visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
While the old Prince assured his 10,200 German-speaking subjects that he had abdicated because of his age, observers opined that apprehension over possible annexation by his new neighbor. Greater Germany, lay behind his move. Prince Franz Paul has no desire to be on the throne if Nazi Germany gobbles Liechtenstein. His wife, whom he married in 1929, is a wealthy Viennese Jewess and local Liechtenstein Nazis have already singled her out as their anti-Semitic "problem." The new Prince has no Jewish connections, is unmarried...
...12th Century, came into possession of part of Liechtenstein in 1699, the remainder in 1712. It was constituted a principality in 1719 by diploma from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg often turned to the House of Liechtenstein for their brides. Austrian Kaiser Franz Josef once named Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Paul, who abdicated last week, as Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Imperial Russian court. The art collection of hoary Prince Franz Paul is one of Europe's finest...
Though genial Offenbach's operettas were no great shakes individually, they set style that influenced practically every Popular composer of the 1870s, '80s and '90s. Most prominent of his followers were Vienna's Johann Strauss (Die Fledtrmaus), Oscar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier, and Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow) Strongly influenced also were England' s Gilbert & Sullivan (Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, etc.), Irish-American Victor Herbert (The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta...