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Baar (surname)
Baar () is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Baar (1890–1984), Austrian head of SC Hakoah Wien * Hein de Baar (born 1949), Dutch oceanographer * Jindřich Šimon Baar (1869–1925), Czech writer, clergy * Roland Baar (born 1965), German sportsman * T. Baar, managing director of the Continental Wondergraph Company Wondergraph, Wondergraph Theatre and variations were names given first to a technology, and then to picture theatres run first by the Continental Wondergraph Company (represented by two German men who arrived in Perth, Western Australia, in 1910 ..., a cinema chain established in Australia in 1910 * Tim Baar (1912–1977), American special effects artist {{surname, Baar German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Baar
Arthur Baar (; he, ארתור בר) was an Austrian-born football manager who served as vice-president of SC Hakoah Wien in Austria. After the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Baar emigrated to Mandatory Palestine where he was instrumental in building football in the country, and was national team manager in the 1940 friendly against Lebanon. Early life Baar was born in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ... family. References 1890 births 1984 deaths Austrian footballers AC Sparta Prague players SC Hakoah Wien footballers Israel national football team managers Jewish emigrants from Austria to Mandatory Palestine after the Anschluss Footballers from Vienna Jewish footballers Jewish Austrian sportspeople Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hein De Baar
Henricus "Hein" J.W. de Baar (born 18 November 1949, The Hague) is a Dutch professor of Oceanography. He has worked in the group of Harry Elderfield at the University of Cambridge, at the University of Groningen and at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ). De Baar studied chemical technology at Delft University of Technology (1977), after which he obtained his PhD in chemical oceanography (marine chemistry) from the WHOI-MIT Joint Program in Oceanography (1983). His thesis supervisor waPeter Brewer He has worked at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) since 1987, where he was a senior scientist. He became a full professor at the University of Groningen in 1992. He formally retired in November 2014. De Baar was elected into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2010. De Baar has supported the farming of algae for biofuel and has warned about the speed at which ocean acidification intensifies. De Baar is globally well re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jindřich Šimon Baar
Jindřich Šimon Baar (7 February 1869, Klenčí pod Čerchovem – 24 October 1925, Klenčí pod Čerchovem) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called ''country prose''. He joined the Czech ''Catholic modern style'', but later severed the ties with that movement. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside. Born into a peasant family, he did religious studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1892. As a priest, he strived, unsuccessfully, for reforms in the church. Works Among his novels are: * ''Cestou křížovou'' (1900) – the first fruit, autobiographic description of the uneasy life as a reform priest * ''Pro kravičku'' (1905) * ''Farská panička'' (1906) * ''Farské historky'' (1908) * ''Jan Cimbura'' (1908) – highly idealized depiction of peasant life * historical trilogy: ''Paní komisarka'' (1923), ''Osmačtyřicátníci'' (1924) and ''Lůsy'' (1925) He also published several short stories and coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Baar
Roland Baar (; 12 April 1965 – 23 June 2018) was a German rower who competed for his nation at several Olympic Games. After retiring from the sport in 1996, he received the Thomas Keller Medal in 1998. He served on the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ... between 1999 and 2004. Baar was killed in a car crash in June 2018. References External links * * * 1965 births 2018 deaths People from Osterholz Olympic rowers of West Germany Olympic rowers of Germany Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in rowing German male rowers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Wondergraph Company
Wondergraph, Wondergraph Theatre and variations were names given first to a technology, and then to picture theatres run first by the Continental Wondergraph Company (represented by two German men who arrived in Perth, Western Australia, in 1910); and then, in Adelaide, South Australia, by the Wondergraph Company (1910–1911), and then the Greater Wondergraph Company, established around 1911 and in existence until 1939. The Continental Wondergraph Company was registered in Perth in early 1910, and later that year set up an open-air cinema in Semaphore. This was followed in 1911 by the Wondergraph Theatre, an indoor picture theatre in Goodwood. The Greater Wondergraph Company was established in Adelaide around 1911 by a group of South Australian men led by Mandel Finkelstein, who built the first Wondergraph picture theatre in Hindley Street in 1912–13, and over time built a cinema chain in the city and suburbs. In September 1920 Dan Clifford bought some of Wondergraph's sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Baar
Tim Baar (December 27, 1912 – March 9, 1977) was an American special effects artist who won at the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Special Effects for the film ''The Time Machine''. His Oscar was shared with Gene Warren. He also did special effects on the TV show ''H.R. Pufnstuf''. Filmography *''The Mummy's Tomb'' (1942) *'' Flesh and Fantasy'' (1943) *''Phantom of the Opera'' (1943) *''When Worlds Collide'' (1951) *''The Ten Commandments'' (1956) *'' Dinosaurus!'' (1960) *''The Time Machine'' (1960) *'' Master of the World'' (1961) *'' Jack the Giant Killer'' (1962) *''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' (1962) *''7 Faces of Dr. Lao'' (1964) *''The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit'' (1968) *''Beware! The Blob!'' (1972) *''Jaws Jaws or Jaw may refer to: Anatomy * Jaw, an opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth ** Mandible, the lower jaw Arts, entertainment, and media * Jaws (James Bond), a character in ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonrake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
