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Hans Stadler
Hans Stadler (11 April 1875 – 22 August 1962) was a German physician and naturalist. He had absolute pitch and took a keen interest in the study and description of bird calls and a wrote a book, ''Die Vogelsprache'' (1919), on the subject in collaboration with Cornel Schmitt. Along with Schmitt he made bird recordings in the field before 1914. Life and work Stadler was born in Rain, Swabia, Rain am Lech. His father loved fishing while his grandfather kept birds at home and the young Stadler also developed an interest in nature. He attended Gymnasium in Regensburg living under very strict conditions and unable to explore nature. Around 1892 he was in contact with Ottmar Hofmann (1835-1900), an entomologist and friend of his father. He also met the Nuremberg doctor Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Ludwig Koch (1825-1908) who specialized in spiders. In 1894 he joined the University of Erlangen to study medicine and attended courses in zoology. His teachers included the anatomist Arnol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absolute Pitch
Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is a rare ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labeling ("naming" a note), associating mental imagery with the note, or sensorimotor responses. For example, an AP possessor can accurately reproduce a heard tone on a musical instrument without "hunting" for the correct pitch. The frequency of AP in the general population is not known. A proportion of 1 in 10,000 is widely reported, but not supported by evidence; a 2019 review indicated a prevalence of at least 4% amongst music students. Generally, absolute pitch implies some or all of these abilities, achieved without a reference tone: * Identify by name individual pitches played on various instruments. * Name the key of a given piece of tonal music. * Identify and name all the tones of a given chord or other tonal mass. * Name the pitches of common everyday sounds such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Deaths
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956). * January 5 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris. * January 12 – Guangxu Emperor, Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing Dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3, in succession to his cousin. * January 14 – The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War. * February 3 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Lácar: Carlist commander Torcuato Mendiri, Torcuato Mendíri secures a brilliant victory, when he surprises and routs a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eubranchipus Grubii
''Eubranchipus'' is a genus of brine shrimp and fairy shrimp in the family Chirocephalidae. There are about 16 described species in ''Eubranchipus''. Species * ''Eubranchipus asanumai'' * '' Eubranchipus birostratus'' (Fischer, 1851) * '' Eubranchipus bundyi'' Forbes, 1876 * '' Eubranchipus claviger'' (Fischer, 1851) * '' Eubranchipus grubii'' (Dybowski, 1860) * '' Eubranchipus hankoi'' (Dudich, 1927) * ''Eubranchipus hatanakai'' * ''Eubranchipus holmanii'' (Ryder, 1879) * ''Eubranchipus intricatus'' Hartland-Rowe, 1967 * ''Eubranchipus khankanus'' * ''Eubranchipus moorei'' Brtek, 1967 * ''Eubranchipus neglectus'' Garman, 1926 * ''Eubranchipus oregonus'' Creaser, 1930 * ''Eubranchipus ornatus'' Holmes, 1910 * ''Eubranchipus rostratus'' (Daday, 1910) * ''Eubranchipus serratus'' Forbes, 1876 (ethologist fairy shrimp) * ''Eubranchipus uchidai'' (Kikuchi, 1957) * '' Eubranchipus vernalis'' (Verrill, 1869) (eastern fairy shrimp) * ''Eubranchipus vladimiri ''Eubranchipus'' is a genus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawthorn Shield Bug
The hawthorn shield bug (''Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale'') is a common European shield bug. Its chief food is haws, the fruit of the hawthorn tree, but adults can overwinter on a diet of leaves, and individuals can be found on many potential food plants, including pedunculate oak, sessile oak and whitebeam. They may grow up to long, and are camouflaged in shades of green and brown. Like many so-called "stink bugs", they may release unpleasant odours when disturbed. Biology The dark green scutellum band is trapezoidal in shape, and extends from the dorsal pronotum to the forewing hemelytral membrane which accounts for the final third of the main body length. The front wings lie flat when the insect is not flying, with the sclerotized pronotum and corium regions coloured dark red. The compound eyes are also red. There is a speckled pigmentation extending from the upper dorsal thorax to the abdominal region. The tarsi are 2-segmented and antennae 5-segmented. As a heteropteran he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Stichel
Hans Wolfgang Stichel (18 November 1898 – 31 January 1968) was a German zoologist and entomologist. He wrote a book on the identification of bugs. During the Third Reich, he became a member of the NSDAP and served in the Waffen-SS as an Untersturmfuhrer. He was involved in the denouncement of his colleague Walther Arndt who was executed for holding critical views against the Nazis. Life Stichel was born in Schöneberg the son of Hans Stichel, a railway inspector and amateur lepidopterist. Wolfgang served during World War I and was wounded.He received a doctorate in 1923 from Berlin University with a thesis on the relationships within a subfamily of ground beetles. In 1924, Stichel played a significant role in establishing the nature reserve on the Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) studying its fauna. From 1926, he worked as an assistant and deputy head of the research center for fur animal science at the Forestry University in Tharandt, Saxony, under Heinrich Prell. In 1928, he bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million Military personnel, personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Air warfare of World War II, Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanko Karaman
Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans. In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - Macedonian Museum of Natural History) in Skopje and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje. Several species are named after him, for example '' Delamarella karamani'' Petkovski, 1957 (Harpacticoida), '' Stygophalangium karamani'' Oudemans, 1933 (Arachnida), or '' Macedonethes stankoi'' I. Karaman, 2003 (Isopoda). Other taxa named ''karamani'' are labeled after his son Gordan S. Karaman, also a carcinologist A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology (the science of crustaceans). References {{Reflist, 24em . Carcinologists .... Publications * Pisces Macedoniae, Split 1924 pp. 90 * Komarci Dalmacije i njihovo suzbijanje.- Glasnik Ministarstva narodnog zdravlja, Institut za proucavanje i suzbijanje malarij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwin Seifert
Alwin Seifert (31 May 1890 in Munich – 27 February 1972 in Dießen am Ammersee) was a German horticultural architect, architect, university teacher, landscape designer, local curator, and conservationist. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the early ecological movement and biodynamic agriculture. Origin and education Seifert was born the son of the construction engineer and contractor Hermann Seifert. His mother Anna Sourell, who came from a Huguenot family, died at birth. From 1909 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and completed an apprenticeship as a mason in the summer months from 1909 to 1911, which he completed in 1912 with the journeyman's examination. He completed his studies in 1913 with a diploma. He then worked as a construction technician and site manager in a Munich construction company. During the First World War he volunteered for the railway troops in 1915 and was a lieutenant at the end of the war. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Ornithologists' Union
The International Ornithologists' Union, formerly known as the International Ornithological Committee, is a group of about 200 international ornithologists, and is responsible for the International Ornithological Congress and other international ornithological activities, undertaken by its standing committees. International Ornithological Congress The International Ornithological Congress series forms the oldest and largest international series of meetings of ornithologists. It is organised by the International Ornithologists' Union. The first meeting was in 1884; subsequent meetings were irregular until 1926 since when meetings have been held every four years, except for two missed meetings during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post– World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti– big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s, the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression. Pseudoscientific racist theories were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
