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Trapp Family
The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) were 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 emigrating there permanently to escape the deteriorating situation in Austria during 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 a memoir, two German films, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical ''The Sound of Music''. The last surviving of the original seven Trapp children, Maria Franziska, died in 2014 at the age of 99. Biography History of the group Georg von Trapp had seven children at the time of the death of his first wife, Agathe Whitehead, and in 1927 he married Maria Kutschera, who was twenty-five years his junio ... [...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) was a Québécois 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 Standard'', ''La Patrie'', ''La Presse''. His customers included thirty Canadian media institutions both in French and English. Honors and awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warmond
Warmond () is a village and former municipality in the Western Netherlands, north of Leiden in the province of South Holland. The municipality covered an area of 14.42 km² (5.57 mile², 30.7%) of which 4.42 km² (1.71 mile²) is water; had a population of 4,977 in 2004. Together with Sassenheim and Voorhout, it became part of the Teylingen municipality on 1 January 2006. Warmond, which is located in an area called the "Dune and Bulb Region" (Duin- en Bollenstreek), is notable for being very affluent. Warmond is situated on a lake system called Kagerplassen and has several marinas which make it a popular recreational area for boating and other water sports. An 18th-century mansion called ''""'' ("House at Warmond") is located north of the village along the main road. The Major Seminary, Warmond, was founded here in 1799. Located in a converted in the former French Boarding School, it provided training for Priests until 1967. The only known surviving copy of Joos Lambre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trapp Family
''The Trapp Family'' (german: Die Trapp-Familie, links=no) is a 1956 West German comedy drama film about the real-life Austrian musical family of that name directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Maria Holst. Based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir, '' The Story of the Trapp Family Singers'', the film is about a novice nun sent to care for the unruly children of a wealthy baron, who falls in love with and marries the young woman. Through her caring influence, the family becomes a famous singing group. When the baron is pressured to join Hitler's navy, the family escapes to the United States, where they establish themselves as singers. ''The Trapp Family'' became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s and was the inspiration for the even more fictionalized 1959 Broadway musical ''The Sound of Music,'' and its highly successful 1965 film version. The film had one sequel, ''The Trapp Family in America'' (1958). Plot At a convent in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cor Unum, The Home Of The Trapp Family Singers (NBY 3672)
Cor or COR may refer to: People * Cor people, an ethnic group of Vietnam * Cor (given name), including a list of people with the name * Jon Cor (born 1984), a Canadian actor Places * Cor, Templeport, a townland in County Cavan, Ireland * California State Prison, Corcoran, Kings County, California, U.S. * Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport, Córdoba, Argentina, IATA airport code COR * Corby railway station, UK, station code COR * Corio railway station, Victoria, Australia, station code COR * County Cork, Ireland, Chapman code COR Business and organizations * College of Radiographers (CoR), a charitable subsidiary of the Society of Radiographers * Committee of the Regions (CoR), the European Union's assembly of local and regional representatives * Commonwealth Oil Refineries, an Australian oil company 1920–1952 * Confederation of Regions Party of Canada (CoR), Canadian political party * Contracting Officer's Technical Representative, or Contra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapp Family Singers 1941
Trapp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. A. Trapp (1918–2007), Manitoba politician * Albert Trapp (died 1953), Manitoba politician * 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 :von Trapp family of Austria & America; An Austrian noble family immortalized in the stage musical and film ''The Sound of Music'' * Georg von Trapp (1880–1947), naval officer and head of the family ** Hede von Trapp (1877–1947), Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Camden
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Company. In 1932, RCA became an independent company after the partners were required to divest their ownership as part of the settlement of a government antitrust suit. An innovative and progressive company, RCA was the dominant electronics and communications firm in the United States for over five decades. RCA was at the forefront of the mushrooming radio industry in the early 1920s, as a major manufacturer of radio receivers, and the exclusive manufacturer of the first superheterodyne sets. RCA also created the first nationwide American radio network, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The company was also a pioneer in the introduction and development of television, both black and white and especially color television. During this per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RCA Victor
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also 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. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). RCA Records was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1987, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment after the 2004 merger of BMG and Sony; it was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony/BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. RCA Records is the corporate successor of the Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, making it the second-oldest record label in American history, af ... [...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. 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. The Trapp Family founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. Founders 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-Wertheimer Award in Braunau am Inn within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapp Family Lodge
The Trapp Family Lodge is a resort located in Stowe, Vermont. It is managed by Sam von Trapp, son of Johannes von Trapp of the Austrian musical family, the Trapps. It was formerly known as Cor Unum (Latin for ''One Heart''). History 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. Baron Georg von Trapp and his wife Maria left Austria shortly after its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and settled with their family in Vermont in 1942. After the Baron's death in 1947, the family expanded and operated their home as a 30-room ski lodge. The ski-lodge was later expanded in 1968 to fit twenty more rooms. It was destroyed by fire on December 20, 1980, forcing 45 people to flee in their nightclothes, including Baroness von Trapp. The body of a guest was found later in the rubble. A new Austrian-style lodge with 93 rooms was opened in 1983. After ... [...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 and Spruce Peak. History The indigenous people who lived in the area now called Vermont were primarily Abenaki, who spoke Algonquian were forced outside by strategies of displacement after primarily British settlers flooded into the area after the French and Indian War. They were the original inhabitants of Stowe. Stowe was chartered on June 8, 1763, by Royal Governor Benning Wentworth of the Province of New Hampshire. Grantor Benning Wentworth named Glastonbury Mountain in 1761 for Glastonbury, Somerset, in England.Glastenbury was called by the local people as "the site where four winds meet," according to Vermont folklorist Joe Citro. This allegation appears to be baseless, part of the accumula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Von Trapp
Johannes von Trapp (born 17 January 1939) is an Austrian American singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie ''The Sound of Music''. He is the tenth and youngest child. As of December 2022, Johannes is the last surviving sibling of the von Trapp family. Biography Johannes von Trapp was born in 1939 in Philadelphia while the family was on a concert tour. He was eight years old when his father Georg von Trapp died in 1947. His siblings are Rosmarie (1929-2022) and Eleonore (1931-2021). He graduated from prep school at the Canterbury School in Connecticut in 1956. Later that year, he, along with several other members of the extended family, went to New Guinea to do missionary work. He later joined the Vermont Army National Guard as a Second Lieutenant. He attended training as a medical officer at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in 1967. By 1969, he had graduated from Dartmouth College. He attended the Yale University' ... [...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. 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. Nomenclature The community was named after Merionethshire, Wales, the nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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