Word: nchausen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...
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