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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
One of the very few surviving films documenting the mass murder of Jews during the first stages of the Holocaust is a short film by a German soldier who witnessed the massacres of Liepāja Jews in July 1941 near the city's lighthouse. [28] During the war, the German navy's U-boat crews received their torpedo training at Liepāja.
Author, Human Rights Activist & Holocaust Educator [64] Madeleine Albright: 2012 64th United States Secretary of State [66] Bob Dylan: Singer-Songwriter [66] William Foege: 10th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [66] John Glenn: Astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio [66] Juliette Gordon Low † Founder of the ...
During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps, [22] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust), [23] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war, [24] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [25]
Fabio Luisi (born 1959), conductor of the Vienna Symphony and the Staatskapelle Dresden; Gianandrea Noseda (born 1964), conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. Mantovani (1905–1980), known mononymously as Mantovani, conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature.
Marin Alsop (1973–75, transferred to Juilliard), conductor and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; June Anderson (B.A. 1974), soprano; Eric Banks (B.A. 1990), composer; Jane Ira Bloom (B.A. 1976, Yale Music School 1977), soprano saxophonist; Robert Bloom, professor of Oboe, Yale School of Music (1957–76)
Anthroposophy is a spiritual [1] new religious movement [2] which was founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner [3] that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience.