Word: johannes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Founded in 1822 at Leipzig by learned Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) ; real name Ochenfuss, obstreperous editor of Isis, friend of Goethe. On the basis of Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) critical philosophy and with clues from Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) he created the systematic plans upon which modern scientific knowledge is ranged. Protean, he lectured, at Jena, on general natural history, zoology, comparative anatomy, human, animal and plant physiology...
...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...
Years before, penniless, Johann August Sutter had abandoned his wife and children in Switzerland dreaming of empire. Only after far, vigorous roving, much crime and more misery had his colossal, visionary projects come to this. From New York-where Poe had frequented his Fordham bar-he had ridden to Oregon, sailed through the Pacific, out to Hawaii, up to Alaska, recruiting henchmen in every bar, trading famously, until he reached the mud huts of San Francisco and bargained for an empire with the Spanish padrés and governors. He had gained it by merely promising to guard the Sierra...
...lining of Johann Strauss...
...Jazz, in fact, is on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot have music without composers and at present jazz has no composers in the full sense of the term. The brains of the whole lot of them put together would not fill the lining of Johann Strauss...