Word: nicolaus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bydgoszcz, a Polish industrial city, indignant burghers started a lawsuit to establish the Polishness of 16th Century Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, whom Nazi historians now claim as a German...
...Says the Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Copernicus or Koppernigk, Nicolaus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, was born on Feb. 19, 1473, at Thorn in Prussian Poland, where his father, a native of Cracow, had settled as a wholesale trader...
...tone poem, "Don Juan," by Richard Strauss is also on the program. Written in 1887-88, it portrays not Byron's, but Nicolaus Lenau's Don Juan--a hero who longed for the ideal woman and failed to find her. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is a fitting close to this fine concert...
Appointed. Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein, master of North German Lloyd's Bremen, as Commodore of the Fleet, succeeding the late Nicolaus Johnsen, Enropa's master (TIME, Dec. 19); Captain Paul Wiehr, master of Hamburg-American's Albert Ballin, as Commodore of the Fleet; Harold Spencer Jones. Cape of Good Hope Observatory's astronomer, as Britain's Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory; Orville Wright, "first man to fly a powered heavier-than-air craft" (see p. 19), as first Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; Newton Diehl Baker, as trustee of Ohio State...
...Visible to the naked eyes of ancients were Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Although Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century B.C. had theorized that the planets revolved about the Sun, not until Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) did the World cease believing that they together with the Sun and Moon, both of which were considered planets, turned around the Earth...