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Schwalbe Lugano 700×25
Schwalbe (German for ''swallow'') may refer to: Technology * Raab-Katzenstein KL.1 Schwalbe, German biplane produced in the 1920s * Schwalbe (tire manufacturer), a brand name of Ralf Bohle GmbH * Simson KR 51/2 Schwalbe, a motorcycle manufactured by Simson (company), Simson Military * Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, the first functional jet fighter * Schwalbe-class cruiser, ''Schwalbe''-class cruiser, German class of unprotected cruiser ships * SMS Schwalbe, SMS ''Schwalbe'', three ships of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies Medicine * Schwalbe's line, anatomical line on the interior surface of the eye's cornea, named for Gustav Schwalbe Sports * Die Schwalbe, a German chess composition society, and its magazine, ''Die Schwalbe'' * FC Schwalbe Hannover, a German rugby union club * Diving (association football), an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground Surname * Ernst Schwalbe (1871–1920), German pathologist * Felix Schwalbe (1892–1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swallow
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance. The term "swallow" is used as the common name for '' Hirundo rustica'' in the UK and Ireland. Around 90 species of Hirundinidae are known, divided into 21 genera, with the greatest diversity found in Africa, which is also thought to be where they evolved as hole-nesters. They also occur on a number of oceanic islands. A number of European and North American species are long-distance migrants; by contrast, the West and South African swallows are nonmigratory. This family comprises two subfamilies: Pseudochelidoninae (the river martins of the genus ''Pseudochelidon'') and Hirundininae (all other swallows, martins, and saw-wings). In the Old World, the name "martin" tends to be used for the squarer-tailed species, and the name "swallow" for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Schwalbe
__NOTOC__ Eugen-Felix Schwalbe (25 March 1892 – 12 June 1974) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * German Cross in Silver on 30 October 1943 and in Gold on 7 December 1944 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 13 July 1940 as ''Oberst ''Oberst'' () is a senior field officer rank in several German language, German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel. It is currently used by both the Army, ground and air forces of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, a ...'' and commander of Infanterie-Regiment 461Fellgiebel 2000, p. 320. References Citations Bibliography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwalbe, Felix 1892 births 1974 deaths German Army generals of World War II Generals of Infantry (Wehrmacht) German Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class Recipients of the Gold German Cross Recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Schwalbe
Ole Albert Christian Schwalbe (23 July 1929 – 15 October 1990) was a Danish painter. He was one of the painters in the Linien artists association who in 1956 initiated the second generation of Danish Constructivism which they called concrete realism. Biography Born in the Brønshøj district of Copenhagen, Schwalbe was self-taught as a painter but was trained as a printmaker from 1945 to 1950. He first exhibited at the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (Artists Autumn Exhibition) in 1945 when he was only 16. Schwalbe was one of the Linien painters who in 1956 initiated the second generation of Danish Constructivism which they called concrete realism. After experimenting with colour, in 1953 he decided to limit himself to black and white, forming positive and negative segments of circles like the marks made by a paperclip. In the late 1950s, he added red to the black and white in order to represent the three most important aspects of existence: life and death, body, and soul. Aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Schwalbe
Nina Schwalbe (born 18 April 1966) is an American public health researcher who is the founder of Spark Street Advisors, a public health think tank based in New York City. Schwalbe specializes in vaccines. She has previously worked at Gavi, UNICEF and USAID. Early life and education Schwalbe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Mary Anne Schwalbe, was one of the founders of the International Rescue Committee UK, and founding director of the Women's Refugee Commission. Her brother Will Schwalbe is an author, editor, and entrepreneur. Schwalbe was an undergraduate student in Russian and Soviet Studies at Harvard Radcliffe Colleges, where she was the recipient of the Aloian-Beal Leadership Award. Immediately after graduation, Schwalbe joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Thailand. In 1993, Schwalbe received a Master's in Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where she concentrated on maternal child health, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Schwalbé
Michel Schwalbé (27 October 1919 – 8 October 2012) was a French violinist of Polish origin. Biography Born in Radom (Poland), Schwalbé studied in his youth with Moritz Frenkel, then continued his studies in Paris and worked with Georges Enesco, Pierre Monteux and Jules Boucherit. He took French citizenship at that time. Then came the war, and Schwalbé being Jewish, fled France in 1942 and settled in Switzerland. He became Solo (music), soloist of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva from 1944 to 1946, then in Lausanne until 1957, when Herbert von Karajan offered him a solo violin position at the Berlin Philharmonic. During his Swiss period, Schwalbé created his own quartet and succeeded Joseph Szigeti at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. Schwalbé died in Berlin on 8 October 2012. Notable recordings * Vivaldi's ''The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), The Four Seasons'', Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1972, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft * Richard S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Schwalbe
Mary Anne Schwalbe (' Goldsmith; March 31, 1934 – September 14, 2009) was a university administrator and refugee worker. She served as Associate Dean of Admissions at Harvard University, and was the Founding Director for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, now known as the Women's Refugee Commission. Her losing two-year battle with pancreatic cancer was detailed in her son Will Schwalbe's book, ''The End of Your Life Book Club''. Early life and career Mary Anne Goldsmith was born on March 31, 1934, in New York. Her father, James Alfred Goldsmith, Jr., worked for Hess, Goldsmith & Co, a textile firm founded by his grandfather. She graduated from the Brearley School in 1951 and from Radcliffe College in 1955. where she majored in English and performed in drama productions. She then attended the London Academy of Dramatic Arts. She worked for Frederick Brisson and the Playwrights' Company when she wed Douglas Schwalbe on December 6, 1959, in her hometown of West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Schwalbe
Ingeborg Schwalbe (born 21 November 1935) is a German former athlete. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subseq .... References External links * 1935 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics German female javelin throwers Olympic athletes for the United Team of Germany People from Bautzen (district) Athletes from Saxony 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-javelin-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry O
''Harry O'', sometimes spelled ''Harry-O'', is an American private detective series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. The series starred David Janssen, and Jerry Thorpe was executive producer. ''Harry O'' followed the broadcast of two pilot films: first ''Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On'' (which aired on March 11, 1973) and second (with noticeable retooling) ''Smile Jenny, You're Dead'' (which aired on February 3, 1974), both starring Janssen. Synopsis David Janssen starred as the title character Harry Orwell, a San Diego cop forced into retirement when he is shot in the back. To support himself, he sets up a private investigation practice out of his beach house on Coronado Island, in San Diego. Henry Darrow (formerly of the 1967–71 NBC hit Western series '' The High Chaparral'') originally starred as Lt. Manny Quinlan, Harry's friend and police contact. For the second half of the first season, the series was retooled, with the location of the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Christian Schwabe
Gustav Christian Schwabe (10 May 1813 – 10 January 1897) was a German-born merchant and financier who funded companies such as John Bibby & Sons, Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Schwabe moved to Liverpool in 1838 and spent his working life there. Later, Schwabe would spend more time at his house in London, and retired in 1893. Early life Gustav Schwabe was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Philipp Benjamin Schwabe, a Jewish merchant, and his second wife, Rosalie Levi. Gustav had three brothers and a half-brother named Ludwig Philipp from his father's previous marriage. In June 1819, when Gustav was aged six, the family was forced to convert to Lutheranism and Gustav was baptised into the Church. On 1 January 1834, Schwabe became a partner at Boustead and Company; the firm was renamed Boustead, Schwabe and Company, and Schwabe remained involved at the company for 14 years. Schwabe moved to Liverpool in 1838 and started a partnership with Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Albert Schwalbe
Gustav Albert Schwalbe, M.D. (1 August 1844 – 23 April 1916) was a German anatomist and anthropologist from Quedlinburg. He was educated at the universities of Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, University of Zurich, Zurich, and University of Bonn, Bonn (Doctor of Medicine, M.D. 1866), he became in 1870 privat-docent at the University of Halle, in 1871 privatdozent and prosector at the University of Freiburg in Baden, in 1872 assistant professor at the University of Leipzig, and then professor of anatomy successively at the universities of University of Jena, Jena (1873), University of Königsberg, Königsberg (1881), and University of Strasbourg, Strassburg (1883) — at that time a German university, Alsace having been annexed to Germany. There he died. Known for his anthropological research of primitive man, Schwalbe considered the Neanderthal to be a direct ancestor of modern humans. Much to the dismay of the Dutch paleontologist Eugène Dubois (1858–1940) who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Schwalbe
Ernst Theodor Karl Schwalbe (26 January 1871 – 16 March 1920) was a German pathologist, who specialized in teratological research. Schwalbe was born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the universities of Strassburg, Berlin and Heidelberg, and received his habilitation in 1900 with a thesis on blood coagulation. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant under Julius Arnold at Heidelberg, and in 1907/08 served as prosector and head of the pathology-bacteriology clinic at the city hospital in Karlsruhe. From 1908 to 1920 he was a full professor at the University of Rostock. He was killed in Rostock while serving as a volunteer during the Kapp Putsch (1920). Selected works * ''Untersuchungen zur Blutgerinnung : Beiträge zur Chemie und Morphologie der Coagulation des Blutes'', 1900 – Studies on blood coagulation: Contributions to the chemistry and morphology of coagulation of the blood. * ''Vorlesungen über der Geschichte der Medizin'', 1905 – Lectures on the history o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raab-Katzenstein KL
Raab-Katzenstein was a 1920s German aircraft manufacturer based in Kassel. History The main character of the company was its designer Gerhard Fieseler. Following World War I, he returned to printing, but yearned to return to flying. In 1926, he closed his print shop in Eschweiler and became a flight instructor with Raab-Katzenstein and continued to hone his flying skills, becoming an accomplished stunt pilot. In 1927, he performed a particularly daring routine in Zürich and started to command increasingly high fees for appearances. In 1928 while working at Raab-Katzenstein, he designed his own stunt plane, the Fieseler F1 (also known as the Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe), which was offered and sold to a Swedish company called AB Svenska Järnvägverkstaderna (ASJA), which built 25 of the type for Swedish Air Force in the beginning of the 1930s. In 1930, Raab-Katzenstein was bankrupt, and Fieseler decided to strike out on his own. Using money he had been saving from his a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
