-- A Texas halfback who doesn't even know the team's plays, Eldon Moritz, ranks fourth in Southwest Conference scoring after three games.

It even occurs that young German couples name their boy twins Max and Moritz respectively, depending on their individual sense of humour and the intended parenting.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

The unsymmetrical form of the meridional pencil — formerly the only one considered — is coma in the narrower sense only ; other errors of coma have been treated by Arthur König and Moritz von Rohr, and later by Allvar Gullstrand.

Starting with Moritz Pasch in 1882, many improved axiomatic systems for geometry have been proposed, the best known being those of Hilbert, George Birkhoff, and Tarski.

Moritz Winternitz ( Geschichte der indischen Literatur 1909 ) considered that " only unpoetical theologists and clumsy scribes " could have lumped the various parts of disparate origin into an unordered whole.

His life there and friendship with the millers son, Erich Bachmann, may have been part of the inspiration for the " Max and Moritz " story

Other famous scholars who have taught at the University of Vienna are: Theodor W. Adorno, Manfred Bietak, Theodor Billroth, Ludwig Boltzmann, Franz Brentano, Anton Bruckner, Rudolf Carnap, Conrad Celtes, Viktor Frankl, Sigmund Freud, Eduard Hanslick, Edmund Hauler, Hans Kelsen, Adam František Kollár, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Fran Miklošič, Oskar Morgenstern, Otto Neurath, Johann Palisa, Pope Pius II, Baron Carl von Rokitansky, August Schleicher, Moritz Schlick, Ludwig Karl Schmarda, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Josef Stefan, Leopold Vietoris, Jalile Jalil, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

Lake Placid, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Innsbruck, Austria are the only sites to have twice hosted the Winter Olympic Games.

There were two female Councillors serving simultaneously for the first time in 2006, and three out of seven Councillors have been women from 2007 till 2010 when Simonetta Sommaruga was elected as the fourth woman in government in substitution of Moritz Leuenberger, putting men in minority for the first time in history.

From 2003 to 2007, however, two of the members of the Federal Council, Moritz Leuenberger and Christoph Blocher, have resided in the Canton of Zürich.

These teams have competed in various major racing series including Formula One ( March and EuroBrun ), DRM ( Max Moritz, Kremer, Zakspeed ), DTM and Group C ( Brun Motorsport ), who took the team title in the 1986 World Sportscar Championship.

Thalberg invited Liszt for dinner, and the two great pianists dined together on the 28th with Prince Moritz Dietrichstein, who told Liszt, that he was delighted to have " Castor and Pollux " together in his home.

The Commission have recently replied to my written question confirming that Commissioners Almunia and Kroes attended the Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz in June.

This mirrored one of Moritz Schreber's techniques of an elaborate contraption which confined the child's body, forcing him to have correct posture at the dinner table.

Germans Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, passionate devotees of the label's sound, have undertaken an extensive and ongoing 12 " and LP re-issue campaign for the label through an exclusive imprint in the Basic Channel record label family, bearing the Wackies logo and label design.

In the 1960s, Swiss Federal councillor Moritz Leuenberger temporarily worked as a Securitas guard.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

Max and Moritz as well as many of his other picture stories are regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic strip.

Her mother is named in at least one source as Elisabeth Moritz, and there is debate as to whether her father was a Swedish officer.

Julie was one of six children of a widely traveling Jewish spectacle merchant, " vision specialist " and petty criminal, Moritz Baruch Bernardt, and Sara Hirsch ( later known as Janetta Hartog ; c. 1797 – 1829 ).

Zedler owned property in Wolfshain, one of five villages that Moritz, Duke of Saxony had given Leipzig University in 1544.

Approximately 30 km away in the winter sports town of St. Moritz, British gentlemen had long enjoyed racing one another down the busy, winding streets of the town, causing an uproar among citizens because of the danger to pedestrians and visiting tourists.

Christian had two brothers, Count Moritz V of Delmenhorst ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Count Gerhard VI of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst ( 1430 – 1500 ), and one sister Adelheid.

Justine Moritz is sent to the gallows because Frankenstein decides it would be futile to confess his experiment, as no one would believe him.

He made two large ones with a magnifying power of two hundred times ; one of these he gave to Hans Moritz von Brühl, and it passed to the Gotha Observatory, the other descended to his son William Mudge.

More formally it is one of three olympic sports — the luge, skeleton, or bobsledding, all of which are based on sled principles and developed in the same time and place ( St. Moritz ) by much the same circle of people, mainly English tourists with an interested assist from the worthy craftsmen of that Swiss village.

Part of his company's portfolio at one time included the Empire State Building, The Helmsley Palace, the Park Lane Hotel, the Helmsley Middletowne Hotel, the New York Helmsley Hotel ( also known as the New York Harley ), The Helmsley Windsor Hotel, the St. Moritz ( now the Ritz-Carlton ), the Carlton House hotels, the Harley Hotel chain and The Helmsley Building in New York City.

The Schoenflies ( or Schönflies ) notation, named after the German mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies, is one of two conventions commonly used to describe point groups.

The Cresta Run is a natural ice 1, 212. 5 m ( 3, 978 ft, over three-quarter mile ) long skeleton racing toboggan track in the Swiss winter sports town of St. Moritz, and one of the few runs dedicated primarily to skeleton.

Together with the German painter Johann Moritz Rugendas ( 1802 – 1858 ), his work is one of the most important graphic documentation of life in Brazil during the early decades of the 19th century.

Pszoniak gained international visibility following Andrzej Wajda's 1975 film The Promised Land, in which he played Moritz, one of the three main characters.

The young Germanist Moritz Heyne joined the project and became one of its most important contributors.

In 1855, he settled at Munich, where he was made member of the academy of sciences, and here collected a splendid gallery of pictures, containing masterpieces of Bonaventura Genelli, Anselm Feuerbach, Moritz von Schwind, Arnold Böcklin, Franz von Lenbach, etc., and which, though bequeathed by him to the Emperor William II, still remains at Munich and is one of the noted galleries in that city.

Piz Bernina is located near St. Moritz, one of the best known resorts in the Swiss Alps.

In 1908 the Segantini Museum was established in St. Moritz, its design inspired by one of the sketches for the pavilions for the Engadine Panorama.

Although one might suspect a völkisch organisation to be antisemitic, the society included at least two Jews among its members: Moritz Altschüler, a rabbinical scholar ( Goodrick-Clarke 1985: 99 ), and Ernst Wachler.

Oriel, " in his lifetime, Moritz Kaposi was acknowledged as one of the great masters of the Vienna School of Dermatology, a superb clinician and renowned teacher ".

Henri Wilhelm August Deterding KBE ( Hon ), ( 19 April 1866, Amsterdam-4 February 1939, St. Moritz ) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and for 36 years ( 1900 – 1936 ) its chairman and the chairman of the combined Royal Dutch / Shell oil company.

Among the first settlers there were scientists, naturalists, writers and painters, such as Karl Ferdinand Appun, Karl Moritz, Anton Goering, Ferdinand Bellerman ( painter who was sponsored by Humboldt ) and many others, most of whom are buried in the city cemetery.

Between 9 – 12 June 2011, St. Moritz was the site of the Bilderberg Group conference, an annual, unofficial, invitation-only conference of approximately 120 to 140 guests from North America and Western Europe, most of whom are people of influence.

Another of his sons, Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, was a Prussian general, but the most famous of his sons was Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau.

The most famous of these was Peter Lacy, a Field Marshal in the Imperial Russian Army, whose son Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy excelled in the Austrian service.

This led to many new German expeditions to Africa ( by Theodor von Heuglin, Hermann Steudner, Theodor Kinzelbach, Karl Moritz von Beurmann, Gerhard Rohlfs, Karl Mauch and others ), most financed by gifts due largely to Petermann ’ s agitating actions and publications.

Segantini redesigned the concept into a large triptych known as Life, Nature and Death ( Segantini Museum, St. Moritz ), which is now his most famous work.

Hannes Hegen 2008 received the Max & Moritz Prize, the most important German prize for comic artists from the International Comic Salon-Erlangen.

* Eva Herman (* 1958 in Emden, author and former television presenter, spent most of her childhood in Herzberg and attended the Ernst Moritz Arndt-Gymnasium )