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...regarded as one of the foremost singers of the day. A native of Arnhem, Holland, she began to study singing at 16, was graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala in Milan...
...edition of the "Book of Ruth"; and the "Nurnberg Chronicle." Gutenberg's Bible though not dated, is fairly well established as being printed in about 1450. "Catholica" is an encyclopedic dictionary printed in 1460, probably by Gutenberg. The "Book of Ruth" which is on display was published at Mainz in 1462 by Peter Fust and John Schoeffer, the former being the man who financed Gutenberg's edition of the Bible. The "Nurnberg Chronicle" is an illustrated universal history printed...
...copy of the Book of Ruth from the first dated edition of the Bible, printed at Mainz in 1462, is in the Treasure Room, and is from the third edition of the Bible ever printed. With this book is a volume of the Catholicon, printed at Mainz in 1640, and generally thought to be the work of Gutenberg. This book, a very fine copy of the fourth book ever printed with a date, is part of the fifteen the century collection of J. M. Hunnewell '01. The colophon, or final paragraph of the book, usually containing the place and date...
According to the Treaty of Versailles, Cologne was to be evacuated Jan. 10, 1925, Coblenz, Jan. 10, 1930, Mainz, Jan. 10, 1935, "if the conditions of the present treaty are faithfully carried out by Germany...
...scene of the wreck rushed General Degoutte, the French Bishop with the occupation army and the German Bishop of Mainz. While the General personally directed rescue work, the two Bishops administered last rites to the dying...