Word: mitteleuropa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orsinis and the Torlonias. In 1651, after the end of the Thirty Years' War in Germany, Schönfeld returned to his homeland and settled in Augsburg, where he married and built a home. Before his death in 1682 or 1683, he traveled the length and breadth of Mitteleuropa, executing hundreds of canvases and murals for castles and monasteries in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Bohemia, and Hungary...
...alone strangers. Sellers is the world's best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble...