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Magnus and Eisengrim
* Magnus Eisengrim, a character in the Deptford Trilogy
* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.
World of Wonders is the story of Paul Dempster, the son of the woman hit by the snowball, who has grown up to be Magnus Eisengrim, a famous magician.
In the final scene of the novel where David Staunton is celebrating Christmas with Lizelloti Fitziputli, Magnus Eisengrim, and Dunstan Ramsay he is given a gingerbread bear.
* In The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, the scholar Dunstan Ramsay and the stage magician Paul Dempster a. k. a. Magnus Eisengrim end up as the " permanent guests " and lovers of the eccentric Swiss millionaire Lieselotte Naegeli – the three of them occasionally sharing an especially large bed, though " most often in order to have a breakfast in bed or take an important decision " rather than for sex.
The magician, Magnus Eisengrim, turns out to be none other than Paul Dempster.
Some suspect that the rock may be the rock that struck Mrs. Dempster in Chapter 1, stolen from Dunstan ( Dunstable ) and placed there by Paul Dempster ( Magnus Eisengrim ).
Later in life he transforms himself into the magician Magnus Eisengrim and is the subject of World of Wonders.
* Liselotte ( Liesl ) Vitzlipützli Daughter of a millionaire Swiss watchmaker who assists Magnus Eisengrim in his travelling magic show.
* Liselotte ( Liesl ) Naegeli Daughter of a millionaire Swiss watchmaker who assists Magnus Eisengrim in his travelling magic show.
* Magnus Eisengrim Master magician and illusionist, he is a permanent guest at the Swiss mountain retreat of Liselotte Naegeli and much despised initially by David Staunton for his presumed role in his father's death.
First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1975, this novel focuses on the life-story of the fictional conjuror Magnus Eisengrim.
All three novels follow in part or wholly the career of a fictitious magician, Magnus Eisengrim, who was abducted as a boy by a traveling circus and learned his craft while concealed in a papier-mâché automaton.
Magnus Eisengrim is one of the major characters in The Deptford Trilogy, written by Robertson Davies.
Paul ( now known as Magnus Eisengrim ) tells this story to his co-workers while they are working on a movie of Robert-Houdin.

Magnus and
Robert II crowned his son Hugh Magnus as King of the Franks at age 10 to secure the succession, but Hugh Magnus rebelled against his father and died fighting him in 1025.
As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.
When the Spanish bishop and ascetic Priscillian, accused by his fellow bishops of heresy, was executed by the emperor Magnus Maximus under the charge of magic, Siricus along with Ambrose of Milan and Martin of Tours protested against this verdict.
He was martyred along with six deacons Januarius, Vincentius, Magnus, Stephanus, Felicissimus and Agapitus.
Although Hay claimed " never to have even heard " of the earlier gay liberation struggle in Germany by the people around Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Leontine Sagan he is known to have talked about it with German émigrés in America, including Rudi Gernreich.
Previous discoveries of photosensitive methods and substances including silver nitrate by Albertus Magnus in the 13th century, a silver and chalk mixture by Johann Heinrich Schulze in 1724, and Joseph Niépce's bitumen-based heliography in 1822 contributed to development of the daguerreotype and the other silver based photographic processes that followed-collodion wet plate, and silver gelatin.
During the negotiations of the Treaty of Oliva King John II Casimir lived in one of them, while Swedish negotiator Magnus de la Gardie resided in another it has been known as the Swedish Manor ever since.
The 1986 contest was a first for Eurovision in that royalty were among the guests Crown Prince Harald, Crown Princess Sonja, Princess Märtha Louise and Prince Haakon Magnus were all in attendance.
The increased respect and power which later royals owe to Birger Jarl was still further extended by his son, King Magnus Ladulås ( 1275 – 90 ).
According to Magnus Londen, the time in theatre training was both a joyous time when Holger was able to exert his gregarious side he loved being the centrepiece of all social activity but it was also darkened by his sense of lacking a real, and significantly credible, identity.
Magnus Londen writes that on the 24th of February 1984, in Goa, Ior Svedlin had a profound inner experience for the first time seeing himself as only Ior Bock, no longer Ior Svedlin.
* 2011 SWEDEN: Fia Backström, Andreas Eriksson ( Curator: Magnus af Petersens )
He went undefeated while scoring 6. 5 / 10 seven draws and three victories, two against Vassily Ivanchuk and the other against Magnus Carlsen in the final round.
* Lovers ' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths at the Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
* The Exquisite Corpse of Ganymede: An Ancient Gender Studies Discourse at the Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Magnus and main
The main science building at Providence College is named in honor of Albertus Magnus.
The main science building at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is also named after Albertus Magnus.
Its main building was named Albertus Magnus Hall in 2008.
* Magnus Gallant, a main character in Ogre Battle 64
The main figures of scholasticism historically are Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Alexander of Hales, Albertus Magnus, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas.
In March 1933, Kurt Hiller, the main organizer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research, was sent to a concentration camp.
Lestat de Lioncourt-The main character of the story and the past three books, Lestat was created by a powerful vampire named Magnus, who promptly cremated himself after creating his heir.
He stayed at Marburg for a further year doing research on magnetism with Knoblauch, including some months ' visit at the Berlin laboratory of Knoblauch's main teacher, Heinrich Gustav Magnus.
By then, both the main opponents were dead, i. e. earl Erling ( 1179 ) and King Magnus Erlingsson ( 1184 ), and the opposition was greatly reduced.
Øystein Erlendsson, who had become archbishop in 1161, had been one of Magnus Erlingsson ’ s main supporters.
Joey Tempest ( officially Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson ; August 19, 1963 ) is the vocalist and main songwriter in the Swedish rock band Europe.
After his alliance with the Autobots, he filled in for the deceased Ratchet as the Autobots ' main surgeon, his people's unique affinity for repair ( as seen by their reassembly and reactivation of Ultra Magnus after he was destroyed by the Decepticons ) making him quite advantageous in the Autobots ' war against the Decepticons.
In 1883 Magnus Volk opened a short 2ft gauge electric railway running for between Swimming Arch ( opposite the main entrance to Brighton Aquarium, and adjacent to the site of the future Palace Pier ) and Chain Pier.
( 1438 – 48 ; early adherent of Old Norse mythology ), Jöns Bengtsson ( Oxenstierna ) ( 1448 – 67 ; King of Sweden ), Jakob Ulfsson ( 1470 – 1514 ; founder of Uppsala University ), Gustav Trolle ( 1515 – 21 ; supporter of the Danish King ), Johannes Magnus ( 1523-26: wrote an imaginative Scandianian Chronicle ), Laurentius Petri ( 1531 – 73 ; main character behind the Swedish Lutheran reformation ), Abraham Angermannus ( 1593 – 99 ; controversial critic of the King ), Olaus Martini ( 1601 – 09 ), Petrus Kenicius ( 1609 – 36 ),
Until 1831 the bridge was aligned with Fish Street Hill, so the main entrance into the City from the south passed the West door of St Magnus on the north bank of the river.
St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall dominates the skyline of Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland.
The main enemy in Baten Kaitos Origins eventually turns out to be a being named Wiseman, a sorcerer with a thirst to turn every being in the world into pure Magnus.
The festivals main venue is Bergen Cinema's Magnus Barefoot Cinema Centre, with additional screenings taking place at the local art film theatre at Georgernes Verft and at the student cinema at Kvarteret.
The Magnus Barefoot Cinema Centre i Bergen, the main venue of BIFF.

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