Von Tempsky was brought up in Liegnitz in Lower Silesia.

Von Tempsky relied more on dash and élan ; he was also a tireless self-publicist, avid for glory and admiration.

Both Jackson and von Tempsky received an honourable Mention in Despatches and Von Tempsky later painted a well known water colour showing himself in a very dramatic light.

Von Tempsky however missed the subsequent action being laid low by rheumatism.

Von Tempsky was immediately invited to take command of No. 5 Division of the Armed Constabulary.

This was too tame for Von Tempsky, who protested and then began to advance on the Pa.

That was how Von Tempsky died.

* Parnham, W. T. Von Tempsky: Adventurer ( Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1969 ) SBN 340 10798 7

* Von Tempsky, G. F. Mitla: A Narrative of Incidents and Personal Adventures on a Journey in Mexico, Guatemala and Salvador in the years 1853 to 1855 ( London, 1858 )

* Artworks by Von Tempsky in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

* NZETC ; search website for " Von Tempsky " for many paintings and photos

Von Tempsky wrote that “ Heaphy has the ( Victoria ) Cross and I want it ”, which may have caused the reckless action leading to his own death.

Among the exercises is the notorious ' Exercise Von Tempsky ' which is executed on the fifth day of selection course.

Von Tempsky consists of 24 hours of marching in either a swamp or sand dunes while carrying rifles and alternately one or two 20-litre jerrycans and a 35 kg ALICE pack.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Von Strahlenberg's classification was the first attempt at classification of a large number of languages some of which are Altaic.

Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.

Some argue that the concept of the collapse of a " real " wave function was introduced by Heisenberg and later developed by John Von Neumann in 1932.

As a serious proposal, it was first suggested by mathematician John Von Neumann in the late 1940s when he proposed a kinematic self-reproducing automaton model as a thought experiment.

As with the Von der Tann design, which was drawn up at a similar time, all guns could be fired either side in broadsides, meaning more guns could come to bear than with the Helgoland design, despite having fewer in total.

Von Trier's next film, Breaking the Waves ( 1996 ), the first film in von Trier's ' Golden Heart Trilogy ', won the Grand Prix at Cannes and featured Emily Watson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Von Trier's next feature film was a horror movie, Antichrist, about " a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage ; but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse ".

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

Von Sacher-Masoch was born in the city then known as Lemberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, at the time a province of the Austrian Empire ( now Lviv, Ukraine ), into the Roman Catholic family of an Austrian police director of Spanish descent and Charlotte von Masoch, a Ukrainian noblewoman.

In the top of the ninth inning, Phillies first baseman Von Hayes hit a short fly ball to left field, which was pursued by both Smith and left fielder Curt Ford.

Von Feuerbach was the originator of the famous maxim nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali: " There's no crime and hence there shall not be punishment if at the time no penal law existed "

But San Francisco's defense tightened up on the next 3 plays, forcing 2 incompletions and a completed pass for no gain, and Miami was forced to settle for Von Schamann's second field goal of the game to cut their deficit to 28-13 with 12 seconds left in the half.

A reason Von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller station after his large one was not built was that he wished to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early during Project Apollo.

The Triassic was named in 1834 by Friedrich Von Alberti, after the three distinct rock layers ( tri meaning " three ") that are found throughout Germany and northwestern Europe — red beds, capped by chalk, followed by black shales — called the ' Trias.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

Von Braun was working on his creative doctorate when the Nazi Party gained power in Germany.

Von Braun's thesis, Construction, Theoretical, and Experimental Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket ( dated 16 April 1934 ), was kept classified by the German army and was not published until 1960.

Von Laue realized that electromagnetic radiation of a shorter wavelength was needed to observe such small spacings, and suggested that X-rays might have a wavelength comparable to the unit-cell spacing in crystals.

Von Laue developed a law that connects the scattering angles and the size and orientation of the unit-cell spacings in the crystal, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914.

# Margareta ( 1480 – 1537 ) wife of Count Ludwig Von Helfenstein-Wiesentheid, was killed by peasants on 16 April 1525 in the Massacre of Weinsberg during the German Peasants ' War.

It is the first mineral to be named after someone, and was first described in 1789 for an occurrence in Haslach, Harzburg and Oberstein, Germany, and named for Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn ( 1733 – 1785 ), commander of the military forces of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope from 1768 to 1780.

Von Rundstedt advised him the infantry should attack the British forces at Arras, where the British had proved capable of significant action, while Kleist's armour held the line west and south of Dunkirk in order to pounce on the Allied forces retreating before Army Group B.

* 1994: Altsys Corp and CEO James Von Ehr becomes a Macromedia vice-president, a position he held until 1997.

In 1746, a large birthday festival was held for Count Ludwig Von Zinzendorf of Marienborn Germany.

The upcoming Parade of Champions card held in May was renamed in honor of both David and Mike Von Erich.

A major pay-per-view card, AWA SuperClash III, was held in Chicago in December 1988, featuring a world title unification match in which Jerry Lawler defeated Kerry Von Erich.

As a result, on November 23, 1990, Von Erich held its last World Class Championship Wrestling card at the Sportatorium, which featured Kevin winning the Texas heavyweight championship from David Sheldon ( The Angel of Death ) in the card's final match.

Von Steuben Day is a holiday traditionally held on a weekend in mid-September ( von Steuben was born September 17 ), celebrating Baron Friedrich von Steuben, who arrived in the United States as a volunteer offering his services to General George Washington, and is generally considered the German-American event of the year.

Flair then set his sights on the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, while Valentine held the NWA World Tag Team Championships once more with Baron Von Raschke in 1978.

Von Arnim held Rommel ′ s opinion on the low quality of the U. S. forces and felt that a show of force would be enough to clear them from the Eastern Dorsals again.

A news conference is held by Professor Barrel Caskett and his old friend Werner Von Bluecher about the upcoming journey to the Forbidden Island in a large airship called the Sulphur Bottom to search for the Mother Lode.

Von Stade was the featured performer at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and also sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Cultural Olympiad held in conjunction with the games.

Von Graum forces Ludmilla Koslowski ( Morris ) to help him by threatening the life of her father, a Polish democrat, held prisoner.

Von Herwarth is also held to be one of the German officials who informed the Allies on the decision to launch Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and to have given some of the earliest accounts of atrocities against Jews and other civilians behind the Eastern Front and in the Holocaust.

Von Lossberg began changing German defensive doctrine from one of holding the front line in force, as previously ordered by Second Army's commander Fritz von Below and von Falkenhayn, to a new doctrine of flexible defense in depth to minimise casualties, with reserves held further back in relative safety available to recover lost ground by counter-attacks.

They traded the WCCW Texas Belt back and forth several times, then that belt was held up several times and when the feud reached its climax on July 4, 1983 ; it was time for both men to move on to the next part in their career ( David continuing the Von Erich feud with The Freebirds and Garvin starting a feud with Chris Adams ).

The " 10 Minute Challenge match " between Ric Flair and Mike Von Erich was held at WCCW Wrestling Star Wars at the Tarrant County Convention Center in Ft. Worth, Texas on January 30, 1984.

The duo held on to the titles for five months before losing them to Baron Von Raschke and his new partner Paul Jones on April 28, 1978.

In 1993, a memorial wrestling card was held in memory of Kerry Von Erich, who committed suicide on February 18.

Instead, a memorial service was held at the Sportatorium prior to the matches, with former World Class announcer Marc Lowrance making a special appearance to pay his tributes to Kerry ( Lowrance was the ring announcer who called Von Erich's NWA World title victory over Ric Flair in 1984 ).

Two months later, a memorial wrestling event was held in his honor at the Sportatorium, which featured the last-ever match between the Freebirds and the Von Erichs.

The funeral for Kerry Von Erich was held at the First Baptist Church in downtown Dallas.

The event was held close to the Von Erich's home at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas on April 4, 2009.

Hornbill Hill is a steep and narrow pathway that featured enclosures for Waldrapp ibis, Southern ground hornbill, black hornbill, red-billed blue magpie and at the top of the hill there is an enclosure that has previously held snow leopard, fossa, Giant Anteater and various New World monkeys and an African aviary that normally holds purple gallinule, hamerkop, Von der Decken's hornbill and curlew.

Von Brauchitsch was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps and held the rank of a Sturmführer.