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Trapp Family
The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) was a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the interwar period. They also performed in the United States before immigrating there permanently to escape the deteriorating situation in Austria leading up to World War II. In the United States, they became well known as the "Trapp Family Singers" until they ceased to perform as a unit in 1957. The family's story later served as the basis for The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, a memoir, two German films, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical ''The Sound of Music''. The last surviving of the original seven (born to Captain von Trapp and his wife Agathe Whitehead), Maria Franziska von Trapp, Maria Franziska, died in 2014 at the age of 99. The youngest and last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers (born to Captain von Trapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Poirier
Conrad Poirier (born in Montreal July 17, 1912 – died January 12, 1968, in Montreal West, Quebec, Montreal West) was a Quebec photographer, a pioneer of photojournalism in Quebec. Michel Lessard et collectif d'auteurs, Montréal au XXe siècle, regards de photographes, Éditions de l'Homme, Montréal 1995, 335 pages Biography Self-taught photographer, Poirier began his career in 1932 with a Speed Graphic, a device that uses a 4 × 5 film, Poirier captures images of sports and cultural events Montréal. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du QuébecPoirier Archives Holdings/ref> In addition, he photographed many famous Quebec personalities of the time.Robert LefebvreThe Early And Rare Canadiens Photography Of Conrad Poirier, Vox Media, June 5, 2009. He was a freelance writer and sold his photos to large newspapers: The Gazette (Montreal), ''The Gazette'', ''Montreal Standard'', La Patrie (Canadian newspaper), ''La Patrie'', La Presse (Canadian newspaper), ''La Presse''. His c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor of Germany#Nazi Germany (1933–1945), the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of Holocaust victims, about six million Jews and millions of other victims. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and moved to German Empire, Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in the First World War, receiving the Iron Cross. In 1919 he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and in 1921 was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Trapp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. A. Trapp (1918–2007), Manitoba politician * Albert Trapp (died 1953), Manitoba politician * George Trapp (educator) (1906–1996), Scottish scientist and educator * George Joseph Trapp (1909–2002), Canadian educator and politician * George Leonard Trapp (1894–1917), Canadian flying ace during World War I * James Trapp (born 1969), American former sprinter and American football player * John Trapp (1601–1669), English Anglican Bible commentator * John Q. Trapp (born 1945), American basketball player * J. B. Trapp (1925–2005), English historian * Joseph Trapp (1679–1747), English academic and cleric * Kevin Trapp (born 1990), German football goalkeeper * Martin E. Trapp (1877–1951), Oklahoma politician * Petr Trapp (born 1985), Czech footballer * Wil Trapp (born 1993), American professional soccer player * Wilhelm Trapp (1889–1948), German Nazi policeman, executed for war crimes *Trapp Family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Camden
RCA Camden was a budget record label of RCA Victor, originally created in 1953 to reissue recordings from earlier 78rpm releases. The label was named "Camden", after Camden, New Jersey where the offices, factories and studios of RCA Victor and its predecessor, the Victor Talking Machine Company had been located since 1901. History RCA Victor originally created the Camden label to reissue select older 78rpm Red Seal recordings of classical symphonic music on LP records. In the mid 1950s, RCA Camden began releasing some rhythm & blues and, later, pop, country and rock and roll recordings. For example, in 1956, Camden issued an album of the very first recordings made by Little Richard for RCA Victor in 1951 and 1952, expanded with four tracks by Buck Ram and his Rock n' Ram Orchestra. In 1958, Camden released some albums in RCA Victor's new Living Stereo format and subsequently issued popular stereo recordings by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, The Living Strings and Living Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records (its former longtime rival), Arista Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, afrobeat, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. The label's name is derived from the initials of its now defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). After the RCA Corporation was purchased by General Electric in 1986, RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG); following the merger of BMG and Sony in 2004, RCA Records became a label of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. In 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music, RCA Records became fully owned by Sony. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapp Family Austrian Relief
Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. is an initiative founded by Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp of the famous Austrian singing family, the Trapp Family, and was an integral part of the effort to promote the Austria victim theory. History In January 1947, Major General Harry J. Collins turned to Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp in Stowe, Vermont, pleading for help for the Austrian people, having seen the residents of Salzburg suffer when he had arrived there with the famed 42nd Rainbow Division after World War II. After founding the initiative, Georg and Maria von Trapp took on the posts of president and vice-president, while Monsignore Dr. Franz Wasner was appointed treasurer. Awards *In 1949 Pope Pius XII awarded Maria Augusta von Trapp the Benemerenti medal as a recognition for the Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc. *On September 29, 2007, Tizzy von Trapp Walker, daughter of Rupert von Trapp, was honoured on behalf of the Trapp Family with the Egon Ranshofen-We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapp Family Lodge
The von Trapp Family Lodge & Resort, formerly the Trapp Family Lodge, is a resort located in Stowe, Vermont. It was also formerly known as ''Cor Unum'' (Latin for "One Heart"). Background The Trapp family was largely fictionalized in the 1959 musical ''The Sound of Music'', which was loosely based on the 1949 book ''The Story of the Trapp Family Singers'' by Maria von Trapp. The musical was adapted for the 1965 film ''The Sound of Music (film), The Sound of Music'', which won five 38th Academy Awards, Academy Awards including Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture. Maria and her husband, Baron Georg von Trapp, had left Austria shortly after Anschluss, its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and settled with their family in Vermont in 1942. Baron von Trapp died in 1947. History In 1950, the family began operating their expanded home as a 27-room ski lodge. The ski lodge was later expanded in 1968 to fit 20 more rooms. The facility was destroyed by fire on December 20, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stowe, Vermont
Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. The population was 5,223 at the 2020 census. The town lies on Vermont Routes 108 and 100. It is nicknamed "The Ski Capital of the East" and is home to Stowe Mountain Resort, a ski facility with terrain on Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in Vermont, and Spruce Peak. History The indigenous people who lived in the area now called Vermont were primarily Abenaki, who spoke Algonquian. They were forced aside by strategies of displacement after primarily British settlers flooded into the area after the French and Indian War. There are no surviving names from the original language, which was most likely Mahican, an Algonquian dialect akin to Abenaki. Stowe was chartered on June 8, 1763, by Royal Governor Benning Wentworth of the Province of New Hampshire. Vermont became a U.S. state in 1791. Two years later more settlers arrived in Stowe. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority of the town's property had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merion, Pennsylvania
Merion Station, also known as Merion, is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It borders Philadelphia to its west and is one of the communities that make up the Philadelphia Main Line. Merion Station is part of Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County. The community is known for its grand mansions and for the wealth of its residents. Merion Station is contiguous to the Overbrook and Overbrook Park neighborhoods of Philadelphia and is also bordered by Lower Merion Township's unincorporated communities of Wynnewood and Bala Cynwyd and the borough of Narberth. As of the 2020 United States census the population was 5,741. History Merion Meeting House was built at the present intersection of Montgomery Avenue and Meetinghouse Lane in 1695 by Welsh settlers. The General Wayne Inn and Merion Friends Meeting House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Merion Friends Meeting House is also a National Historic Landmark. Nomencl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Christian Schang
Frederick Christian Schang, Jr. (December 15, 1893 – August 26, 1990) was a talent agent and later president of Columbia Artists Management. Biography He was born on December 15, 1893, and attended the Columbia School of Journalism. After graduation he was a reporter for the ''New-York Tribune''. He then worked for the Metropolitan Music Bureau. In 1948 he was elected president of Columbia Artists Management. Schang published several books featuring visiting cards of artists, musicians and celebrities such as "Visiting Cards of the Painters," published by Wittenborn Art Books in 1983. Schang died in Delray Beach, Florida, on August 26, 1990. See also * Trapp Family The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) was a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the in ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Schang, Frederick C. New-Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hague
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and has been described as the country's ''de facto'' capital since the time of the Dutch Republic, while Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands. The Hague is the core municipality of the COROP, Greater The Hague urban area containing over 800,000 residents, and is also part of the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, which, with a population of approximately 2.6 million, is the largest metropolitan area of the Netherlands. The city is also part of the Randstad region, one of the largest conurbations in Europe. The Hague is the seat of the Cabinet of the Netherlands, Cabinet, the States General of the Netherlands, States General, the Supreme Court of the Neth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
