Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...
...people know that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was also a composer of some accomplishment, and two new CDs should introduce his music to a wider audience. One CD consists of 16 works for the piano, while the other disc contains 16 songs set to poems by Nietzsche, R?ckert, Pushkin and others. Most of the pieces on both CD's were composed in Nietzsche's youth, between 1861 1864. The piano works show a definite lack of formal training but a "true melodic gift," says TIME reviewer Elliott Ravetz, and the songs are "genuinely affecting...
...Forbidden Love), from her most recent album, has sold 400,000 copies in the U.S. and abroad. Most of her songs are a form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English and then translated into Spanish, are straightforward and simple. At the time of her death, Selena was working on her first English- language record, one that many felt would help her cross over...
...central Germany, police arrested four Kurdish militants in connection with a string of fire bombings targeted at Turkish property across the country. Over the past month, more than 100 Turkish travel agencies, stores, banks, newspaper offices, mosques, cultural centers and meeting halls in 15 German cities have been hit by Molotov cocktails. Officials suspect the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has waged an 11-year war for an independent Kurdish homeland...
Through May 7. "Emil Nolde: The Painter's Prints" and "Emil Nolde: The Artist's Watercolors in America." Nolde, known for his vibrantly colored oil painting and watercolors, will be the focus of the first major U.S. exhibition of one of the greatest modern German artists...