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During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.
), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).
* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.
Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.
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.
Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max & Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.
' The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.
Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.
Gnosticism was primarily defined in Christian context, e. g., as " the acute Hellenization of Christianity " per Adolf von Harnack ( 1885 ), until Moritz Friedländer ( 1898 ) advocated Hellenistic Jewish origins, and Wilhelm Bousset ( 1907 ) advocated Persian origins.
In Europe, it is believed that in 1885 the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club was formed to play the first Ice Hockey Varsity Match against traditional rival Cambridge in St. Moritz, Switzerland, although this is undocumented.
The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.
Max and Moritz is the first published original foreign children ’ s book in Japan which was translated into rōmaji by Shinjirō Shibutani and Kaname Oyaizu in 1887 as (" Naughty stories ").
The Chapel of St. Moritz in the old hospital was built with the hospital in 1431.
The first electric boat was developed by Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia-a boat which carried 14 passengers at 3 mph.
The highpoint of the German University was the era preceding the First World War, when it was home to world-renowned scientists such as physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, Moritz Winternitz, Albert Einstein.
One of his first picture stories, Max and Moritz ( published in 1865 ), was an immediate success and has achieved the status of a popular classic and perennial bestseller.
Max and Moritz, for instance, was an inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids.
The opening of formal competition was in 1884 at St. Moritz.
The first club was formed in 1897, and the first purpose-built track solely for bobsleds was opened in 1902 outside of St Moritz.
This was the first time Olympic competitions in skeleton were held during an Olympics outside of St. Moritz.

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Moritz, however, kicks only about 10 or 12 extra points during each practice session.
St. Moritz was selected because it was located in Switzerland, which had remained neutral during the war, and also because it had already hosted a Winter Games in 1928.
Although it received some visitors during the summer, the origins of the winter resort only date back to September 1864, when St. Moritz hotel pioneer, Johannes Badrutt, made a wager with four British summer guests: that they should return in winter and if it was not to their liking, he would pay for the cost of their journey from London and back.
Many mountain lakes freeze over during winter and are used for curling, horse and dog racing, particularly around St. Moritz.
An injury incurred during a training accident prevented his participation in the bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics, but he competed in the bobsleigh at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in which his team finished tenth.
Modern sledding began in St Moritz during the early 1870s when British visitors with more time than activities began to experiment and play around with boys ' delivery sleds ( much like the first picture ) for recreation at the dawn of winter resorting in winter climes.
Thereafter, he succeeded Moritz von Bissing and served as governor-general of Belgium during the German occupation, from May 1917 until November 1918.
The 1928 Winter Olympics medal table is a list of National Olympic Committee's nations ranked by the number of medals won during the 1928 Winter Olympics, held in St. Moritz, Switzerland from February 11 to February 19, 1928.
Unseasonably warm weather in St. Moritz during the Games caused difficulty for the figure skating events, as the ice surface was outdoors.
Important personal and artistic influences were early meetings with Jean Tinguely, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri and Eberhard W. Kornfeld in the Basel art scene of the 1980s and with Niki de Saint Phalle in St. Moritz, and the long-time relationship ( going back to 1916 during the first world war and the purchase of a Giovanni Giacometti painting by the grand-grandfather of Hans Bernhard ) with the Giacometti family ( Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto Giacometti ) in the nearby mountain valleys Val Bregaglia and Engadin in the canton Grisons in Switzerland.
The sport of intermural sled racing originated around the nascent winter resort activities at the Kulm hotel in St. Moritz during the winters of the early 1870s, and the members still congregate for lunch at the Kulm in the ' Sunny Bar '.
The historic Cresta run was used as a Winter Olympics course twice — both times during which the winter games were hosted in St. Moritz ( 1928 and 1948 ), such doubling being itself a rarity.
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.
She has also played the violin at the 150th Anniversary Gala Concert of the Queen Silvia Children's Hospital in Sweden and on behalf of Unicef during the White Turf celebrations on the frozen Lake St. Moritz in Switzerland.
Alexander Moritz Frey, who served with Hitler during WWI, said Hitler wore the toothbrush in the trenches after he was ordered to trim his moustache to facilitate the wearing of a gas mask.
Founded by John Derevlany and Robert Moritz, the band achieved a cult following for their efforts to over-amplify tiny four-stringed ukuleles, and then smash them mercilessly during performances.
They covered Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic ' Freebird ', during which Moritz emotionally whispers into microphone " This one's for Robin and Gideon, wherever you are.

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In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Moritz von Jacobi, inventor of the first electric boat.
The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized luge / skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers.
Competition naturally followed, and to protect the working class and rich visitors in the streets and byways of St Moritz, hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, owner of the historic Krup Hotel and the later Palace Hotel, built the first familiarly configured ' half-pipe ' track circa 1870.
Most of the athletic venues were already in existence from the first time St. Moritz hosted the Winter Games in 1928.
The usage of the word abscissa is first recorded in 1659 by Stefano degli Angeli, a mathematics professor in Rome, according to Moritz Cantor.
Hornbostel – Sachs ( or Sachs – Hornbostel ) is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914.
In 1884, Major William Bulpett, with the backing of winter sports pioneer and Kulm hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, constructed Cresta Run, the first sledding track of its kind in St. Moritz.
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.
* 1945 – 1970: Moritz Mitzenheim, at first titled state supreme pastor, then state bishop
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.
St. Moritz is first mentioned around 1137-39 as ad sanctum Mauricium.
In the 16th century, the first scientific treatises about the St. Moritz mineral springs were written.
St. Moritz developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century and the first electric light in Switzerland was installed in 1878 at the Kulm Hotel and the first curling tournament on the continent held in 1880.

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