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...missionary-minded Evangelicals who organized the International Christian Celebration During the Feast of Tabernacles, planned as an annual opportunity "to rejoice before the Lord and to stand and support the Jewish people and comfort Zion." So said the Rev. Johann Lukoff, 42, a Dutch Reformed South African who directs the festival and the related International Christian Embassy...
...built a wooden dove that was reputed to have flown. In the 2nd century B.C., Hero of Alexandria wrote a book, De Automatis, that described a mechanical theater with robot figures that marched and danced in various temple ceremonies. But the king of all robotmakers was Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-1838), creator of the metronome, who also constructed an automatic orchestra called the Panharmonicon, which could simulate violins, cellos, clarinets, flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals and triangle. For this contraption, the inventor commissioned Beethoven to compose his Vittoria Symphony, Maelzel also toured America with a robot chess player that was actually...
...which she is now general director. The jubilee was at the New York State Theater, in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, before an S.R.O. audience of 2,700. Tickets to the gala benefit went for as much as $1,000. For her last role Sills chose Rosalinda in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, the part in which she had made her New York City Opera debut exactly 25 years ago. This night, though, Strauss moved over for Sills. Only the second act was performed, and shortly after Sills embarked on the watch duet with Alan Titus, the stage...
...British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious Death of Cook from the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, instead of limiting itself to a small painting of the great explorer's death by the mediocre George Carter...
...Johann Heinrich Karl Thieme of Aldenburg, Germany, dug a record 23,311 graves during a 50-year career as a sexton. Though he entered his own final resting place in 1826, he lives on-if nowhere else-in the Guinness Book of World Records...