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unusual facts about Anton von Prokesch-Osten


National Observatory of Athens

He took advice from his friend, the Austrian ambassador in Athens Prokesch-Osten, who knew the Greek-Austrian physicist and astronomer Georg Constantin Bouris.


A Throw of Dice

Franz Osten made 19 films in India between 1926 and 1939, and the film formed the final part of a trilogy of Indo-German productions, between Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himanshu Rai, the other films being Prem Sanyas (1925) and Shiraz (1928).

Bremervörde

It connects various places between Bremervörde and Kiel with relation to the history of ferries and crossing of rivers, like the historic transporter bridges in Osten and Rendsburg.

Charlotte Baden

She was brought up by her relative Anna Sophie von den Osten, head lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark, who financed her education and gave her a pension.

Experimenter's bias

As a result of the large amount of public interest in Clever Hans, Philosopher and psychologist Carl Stumpf investigated von Osten's scientific claims.

German Ferry Road

It connects various places between Bremervörde and Kiel with relation to the history of ferries and crossing of rivers, like the historic transporter bridges in Rendsburg and Osten.

Maria Osten

The boy is adopted by a Soviet journalist for Pravda, Mikhail Koltsov, and his partner, the German journalist Maria Osten, who took the boy in 1935 to the Soviet Union.

Östen Dahl

Östen Dahl (born 4 November 1945 in Stockholm) is a Swedish linguist and professor best known for pioneering a marker-based approach to tense and aspect in linguistic typology.

Osten Transporter Bridge

Osten Transporter Bridge is an 80 metre long transporter bridge over the Oste River in Osten (Oste), Lower Saxony, Germany.

Salme ships

Snorri Sturluson relates in his Ynglinga saga that the Swedish king Ingvar, Östen's son, was a great warrior who often spent time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Danes and Estonian Vikings (Víkingr frá Esthland).

Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen

Siegfried continued and promoted the interior colonisation by settling wasteland and draining and diking marshes, as in Oberneuland (1181; a part of today's Bremen), Stuhr (1183), Osten and the marshes along the river Oste.

Süderbergland

Es reicht vom Osten des historischen Siegerlandes im Westen bis weit nach Hessen ins Upland und ins Hessische Hinterland, ein Südwestausläufer zur Kalteiche berührt an der Nahtstelle der drei beteiligten Bundesländer gar fast den Westerwald.

T. fenestrata

Teucholabis fenestrata, Osten Sacken, 1888, a crane fly species in the genus Teucholabis

Vali von der Osten

Von der Osten died in Kassel and is buried in the Johannisfriedhof cemetery in Dresden-Tolkewitz, beside her sister, singer Eva von der Osten.


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