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8 unusual facts about Brünn


Bellubrunnus

It comes from a quarry at Kohlstatt near the village of Brunn, Upper Palatinate, in a layer of rock that underlies the better-known Solnhofen Limestone.

The generic name is derived from the Latin bellus meaning 'beautiful' and brunnus in reference to Brunn, its type locality.

Brünn, Thuringia

Brünn is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

Georg Unger

He made his singing debut aged 37, going on to make appearances at Cassel, Zurich, Bremen, Neustrelitz, Brunn, Elberfeld and Mannheim.

Georg, Baron von Örtzen

He was born at Brunn in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Johnsdorf-Brunn

Johnsdorf-Brunn is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in Austrian state of Styria.

Maurice Strakosch

Besides the Pattis, he and his brother Max (born in Brunn, Moravia, 27 September 1835; died in New York City, 17 March 1892) worked as impresario with Teresa Parodi, Christine Nilsson, Marie Heilbronn, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Carlotta Patti, Karl Formes, Pasquale Brignoli, Italo Campanini, Pauline Lucca, Thérèse Tietjens, Louis M. Gottschalk, Marie Roze and Marietta Alboni.

Philostratus of Lemnos

Goethe, Welcker, Brunn, E. Bertrand and Helbig, among others, have held that the descriptions are of actually existing works of art, while Heyne and Friederichs deny this.


Agnes of Kuenring

It is known that she bore the King more children, but the exact number is contradictory in sources; it is believed that they had three daughters: Agnes (married Bavor III, Lord of Strakonicz), Elisabeth (married Vikard, Lord of Polna and Burgrave of Brünn) and one unknown daughter (wife of Vok, Lord of Kravař), and another son, Jesek (d. 26 August 1296) (later Priest at Wysehrad).

Bodolz

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn and Preßburg in 1805, the town belongs to Bavaria.

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

Her decision to leave Germany meant that she guided her last visitor through the museum in 1995 and in 1997 she moved to Porla Brunn, an old spa near Hasselfors, Sweden, where she opened (with moderate success) a new museum dedicated to the turn of the 19th century.

Convex geometry

Although the first known contributions to convex geometry date back to antiquity and can be traced in the works of Euclid and Archimedes, it became an independent branch of mathematics at the turn of the 19th century, mainly due to the works of Hermann Brunn and Hermann Minkowski in dimensions two and three.

Friedland, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

It is only 22km from the county seat and bigger city Neubrandenburg, but still Friedland remains a local center for surrounding communities like Galenbeck (Kotelow, Lübbersdorf, Schwichtenberg), Brunn and Boldekow, and has approximately 6200 citizens.

Fritz Schramma

In a runoff vote, he won election on 17 September 2000 against Anke Brunn (Social Democrats), who was nominated by her party only a short time ahead of the vote.

Hans Molisch

Hans Molisch (December 6, 1856, Brünn, Habsburg Moravia - December 8, 1937, Wien, Austria) was a Czech-Austrian botanist.

Heinrich Graetz

, Vienna, 1863 (reprinted with comments by Th. Zlocisti, in "Jud. Volks-Kalender," p. 99, Brünn, 1903), caused a suit to be brought against him by the clerical anti-Semite Sebastian Brunner for libeling the Jewish religion.

History of anthropometry

In The Races of Europe (1939) Coon classified Caucasoids into racial sub-groups named after regions or archaeological sites such as Brünn, Borreby, Alpine, Ladogan, East Baltic, Neo-Danubian, Lappish, Mediterranean, Atlanto-Mediterranean, Irano-Afghan, Nordic, Hallstatt, Keltic, Tronder, Dinaric, Noric and Armenoid.

Hohe Wand Nature Park

The nature park is located in the municipalities of Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl, Bad Fischau-Brunn, Hohe Wand and Höflein an der Hohen Wand.

Hugo Iltis

He was professor of biology at the Deutsches Gymnasium in Brünn (Brno) from 1905 to 1938, and Privatdozent of botany and genetics in the Deutsche Technische-Hochschule (German Polytechnical Institute) from 1911-1938.

Josef Fahringer

He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910, at Brünn from 1910 to 1913 and again at Vienna from 1918 to 1936.

Laa an der Thaya

It had remained a sedate county town, when Napoleon marched through in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition; however, Laa's development was decisively promtoted by the opening of a railway connection to Austria's capital Vienna in 1869, a branch line of the Eastern Railway, which further led to Hevlín and Brno (Brünn) in Moravia.

Maierhöfen

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn and Preßburg in 1805 the town belongs to Bavaria.

New Tide Orquesta

In 2011, they released the book "Full Scores/Photos/Text" with the complete full scores for "Vesper", text by the Swedish dramatist Mattias Brunn, art front cover by the Swedish artist Ernst Billgren and collected photos from the bands tours and performances.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting

The FBI and Washington, D.C. police chief Cathy L. Lanier said it appears von Brunn was acting alone at the time of the shooting, and the FBI said it had no knowledge of any threat against the museum.

Weiler-Simmerberg

Since the signing of the peace treaties of Brünn und Preßburg in 1805, the town belongs to Bavaria.


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