Word: leipzig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peninsular Campaign was not decisive, but it destroyed several French armies, drained France of much of its trained manpower, softened Napoleon for ultimate defeat in mass land battles (Leipzig and Waterloo) nearer home. It was also no quick war. It took the Duke five years...
...Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
...other hand, Dr. Emil Fuchs, Leipzig professor of religion and father of British Atom Bomb Spy Klaus Fuchs, got off a telegram to the U.N. explaining that everything would be hunky dory if the West would just stop disagreeing with Russia...
...export offices to put in orders. "Sorry," they were told, "we're only exporting that line to the east." "You know why they encouraged us to come here," said one embittered American buyer. "Because it helps their propaganda along." He pointed to a sign that proclaimed: "Leipzig Fair-Symbol of German Unity...
East Germans were equally disgruntled. "It's a magic show," said an attendant at the Goethestrasse parking lot. "The stuff comes out of nowhere, gets everyone's hopes high for seven wonderful days, and then it disappears again." "Leipzig is a showcase," explained a Hausfrau from Dresden, "and for one brief week they fill it well. But to pay for one week, we have short rations for weeks ahead...