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  • Polterabend (Polish: pultrować) is a German and to a lesser extent Polish, Austrian and Swiss wedding custom in which, on the night before the wedding...
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    The Schwurhand (German pronunciation: [ˈʃvuːɐ̯hant], "swear-hand"; Dutch: spreekgebaar) is a heraldic charge depicting the hand gesture that is used in...
    3 KB (268 words) - 18:01, 4 February 2024
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    The Battle of Villersexel took place on 9 January 1871 as part of the Franco-Prussian War. Elements of the French Armée de l'Est under General Bourbaki...
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  • Willi Pfeiffer (27 March 1895 – 12 March 1965) was a German footballer. He played club football with Eintracht Frankfurt and Kickers Offenbach. Pfeiffer...
    4 KB (335 words) - 08:13, 9 July 2023
  • Willi Lindner (27 June 1910 – 5 March 1944) was a German footballer. While signed at Eintracht Frankfurt he gained his only cap for the Germany national...
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  • Gisèle Lestrange or Gisèle de Lestrange, and after marriage, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (19 March 1927 – 9 December 1991), was a French graphic artist. Born...
    3 KB (350 words) - 19:35, 23 May 2023
  • Matthias Heidemann (7 February 1912 – 30 November 1970) was a German footballer who played as a striker. During his club career he played for Werder Bremen...
    2 KB (72 words) - 07:38, 9 July 2023
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    Hubert Maurer (10 June 1738, Bonn - 10 December 1818, Vienna) was a German painter, graphic artist and art professor. He began as a student of the Bavarian...
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  • Gaston Diehl (10 August 1912 – 12 December 1999) was a French professor of art history and an art critic. Diehl graduated from the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie...
    7 KB (893 words) - 08:35, 20 March 2023
  • Wilhelm Heizmann (born 5 September 1953) is a German philologist who is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Nordic Philology at the University of...
    6 KB (359 words) - 09:25, 12 January 2023
  • Frédéric Chaves d'Aguilar (8 October 1918 – 18 December 2004) was a Belgian international footballer who played as a striker for a number of Belgian club...
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    Françoise Prévost (c. 1680 in Paris – 1741 in Paris) was a French ballerina who helped establish dramatic dance in the early world of classical ballet...
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  • Klaus Düwel (10 December 1935 – 31 December 2020) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A professor at the University of Göttingen...
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    The Forty-Five Guardsmen (Les Quarante-cinq in French) is a historical novel by French writer Alexandre Dumas, written between 1847 and 1848 in collaboration...
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  • Louis Chauvel (born 2 November 1967) is a French sociologist, full professor at University of Luxembourg, PhD Université de Lille (1997), Habilitation...
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    Tasso Adamopoulos (June 1944 – 3 January 2021) was a French violist of Greek origin. Adamopoulos was born in Paris, France. After musical studies in Israel...
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  • Thomas Birkmann (born 18 October 1955) is a German philologist who specializes in Germanic studies. Thomas Birkmann was born un Düsseldorf on 18 October...
    4 KB (196 words) - 08:47, 14 March 2023
  • Bruno Goldammer (12 November 1904 – 1968 or 1969) was a German footballer. He played club football with Helvetia Frankfurt (today Rot-Weiss Frankfurt)...
    3 KB (244 words) - 07:32, 9 July 2023
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    Wolfgang Golther (25 May 1863 – 14 December 1945) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A professor at the University of Rostock...
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    Friedrich Gustav von der Leyen (19 August 1873 – 6 June 1966) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Friedrich Gustav von der Leyen...
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