Hans Beck (6 May 1929, Greiz – 30 January 2009, Markdorf) was the German inventor of Playmobil toys. He is often described as "The Father of Playmobil"...
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Playmobil was invented by German inventor Hans Beck (1929–2009), considered the "Father of Playmobil". Beck received training as a cabinetmaker and was...
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Hans Beck was a German mathematician. Hans Heinrich Rudolf Beck was born 16 August 1876 in Altzarrendorf, Kreis Grimmon, Province of Pomerania, Prussia...
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Hans Becking (born 19 March 1986) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who specializes in cross-country mountain biking and gravel racing. He is a two time national...
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inventor Hans Beck (historian) (born 1969) German-Canadian classics scholar Hans Beck (mathematician) (1876–1942) German geometer Hans Beck (ski jumper)...
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Hans Beck (born 22 April 1969 in Werneck) is a German and Canadian scholar in the field of Classical Studies. Hans Beck received his PhD in Ancient History...
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Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005. Hans Beck: Die Rolle des Adligen. Prominenz und aristokratische Herrschaft in der römischen Republik. In: Hans Beck, Peter Scholz, Uwe...
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Gone to Texas (1986) as James Bowie, and Forest Warrior (1996). Beck appeared as Hans Helms in the 1978 television miniseries Holocaust, and featured...
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Hans Beck (25 April 1911 – 11 April 1996) was a Norwegian ski jumper who won a silver medal in the large hill individual event at the 1932 Winter Olympics...
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factually incorrect.]" This is echoed by the historians John Buckler and Hans Beck who conclude that "In sum, Plutarch's description of the battle of Tegyra...
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written with himself in mind. After his death, one of his successors, Hans Beck, used the basic steps he learned in Bournonville's classes to create the...
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Hans-Georg Beck, FBA (18 February 1910 — 25 May 1999), was a German scholar, specializing in Byzantine studies. He was born in Schneizlreuth, Bavaria...
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Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English guitarist. He rose to prominence as a member of the rock band the Yardbirds, and afterwards...
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hoops in 1958. In the early 1970s he commissioned inventor and employee Hans Beck to produce a toy system that would eventually become known as Playmobil...
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October 1930, Beck was a leading defence witness at the trial in Leipzig of three junior Reichswehr officers: Lieutenant Richard Scheringer, Hans Friedrich...
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Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and...
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Sandströmer 1866–1869: Frans Theodor Lindstrand 1869–1870: Lave Gustaf Beck-Friis 1870–1873: Hans Henrik von Essen 1873–1876: Carl Lewenhaupt 1876–1886: Alfred...
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Hans Charles Johannes Beck (1 October 1817 – 8 January 1890) was a Danish Colonel of the First Schleswig War and the Second Schleswig War. He was the main...
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Plautine scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl. As of 2024, it is edited by Hans Beck, Martin Hose and Claudia Schindler. On its release, the German scholar...
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Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale and set to music by Fini Henriques, was staged by the choreographer Hans Beck (1861–1952) in 1909...
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Principles of the Algebra of Space" in the Bulletin of the Quaternion Society. Hans Beck compared split-quaternion transformations to the circle-permuting property...
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Francis Beaufort (1774–1857), Ireland/UK – Beaufort scale, Beaufort cipher Hans Beck (1929–2009), Germany – inventor of Playmobil toys Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004)...
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editor, journalist Gottfried Golo Mann (1909–1994), historian, author Hans Beck-Mann (adopted son) (died 1986) Monika Mann (1910–1992), author, married...
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Hans Paul Oster (9 August 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a general in the Wehrmacht and a leading figure of the anti-Nazi German resistance from 1938 to 1943...
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Zahrnt, "The Chalkidike and the Chalkidians", in Beck & Funke (eds.), Federalism, pp. 351, 352. Hans Beck & Peter Funke (editors), Federalism in Greek antiquity...
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the Archaic Age." In A Companion to Ancient Greek Government. Edited by Hans Beck, 9–21. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Lewis, John. 2006. Solon the Thinker:...
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year of the eighth Olympiad", that is 747 BC. According to historian Hans Beck, "the calculation of the city's foundation date that matched with Olympiad...
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Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime.[citation...
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Burkert Czechoslovakia 1932 Lake Placid details Birger Ruud Norway Hans Beck Norway Kaare Wahlberg Norway 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen details Birger...
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of their own, but it is clear that eventually this became their aim. Hans Beck asserts that, unlike Sparta in the Peloponnesian League and Athens in...
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