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unusual facts about Sterne-Hoya House Museum and Library


Sterne-Hoya House Museum and Library

Sam Houston was baptized into the Catholic faith in the parlor of this house, thereby meeting the requirements of the Mexican government to settle in Coahuila y Tejas and own property.


Adolphus Sterne

Sterne was asked to be his godfather but refused because the date coincided with Yom Kippur.

Erich Knauf

Knauf and Bochmann teamed up to write the song, Heimat, deine Sterne ("Homeland, your stars"), for the film Quax, der Bruchpilot ("Quax, the crash pilot") starring Heinz Rühmann.

Fünf Sterne deluxe

In 1998, the first Fünf Sterne deluxe album Sillium featuring the singles "5 Sterne Deluxe", "Willst Du mit mir gehn?" and "Dein Herz schlägt schneller" was released.

They released another album, Genies & Wahnsinn... (Wir sind die Best Ofs) and two further singles, "Is' mir egal" and "Wir sind die Besten", before teaming up with Marcnesium (who had been working with DJ Koze under the name Adolf Noise) and DJ Coolmann to form Fünf Sterne deluxe.

GroundReport

The New York-based company was founded by Rachel Haot (née Rachel Sterne) in 2006, inspired by her work reporting on Darfur as an intern at the United Nations.

Heimat, Deine Sterne

"Heimat, Deine Sterne" (Homeland, Your Stars) is a song written by Erich Knauf and Werner Bochmann for the comedy film Quax, der Bruchpilot in 1941.

John Ferriar

M.D. Edinburgh, 1781; his essay on Massinger reprinted in Gifford's edition (1805); physician of the Manchester Infirmary, 1789–1815; introduced many sanitary reforms when on the Manchester board of health; published works including Medical Histories and Reflections 1792-5-8, and Illustrations of Sterne 1798.

Mary Ellen Carroll

In 1998/99 the entire text from Laurence Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was drawn on a 72 x 50 inches sheet of Arches paper, from which a silkscreen print was produced.

Schneller

Dein Herz schlägt schneller, a song performed by a German hip hop band Fünf Sterne Deluxe

Teresa Sterne

When Sterne became director of Nonesuch Records, the label's function consisted mostly of buying the rights to European ensembles' recordings of Baroque music and reissuing them in the United States.


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