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Kohl
Chancellor of W. Germany (1982-90) and of the reunified Germany (1990-98). After earning a doctorate at the Univ. of Heidelberg, he was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate legislature and became the state's minister president (1969). In 1973 he was elected chair of the Christian Democratic Union, and in 1982 became German chancellor of a coalition government. Kohl's centrist policies included modest cuts in government spending and strong support for W. German commitments to NATO. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kohl concluded a treaty with E. Germany that unified the two countries' economic systems. Absorption of the moribund E. German economy proved difficult, and Kohl's government had to increase taxes and cut government spending after unification. In 1998 his coalition government was defeated by the Social Democrats under G. Schr\u00f6 der. Revelations of serious financial irregularities during Kohl's chancellorship soon emerged, tainting his reputation and weakening his party.
Kuhn
U.S. historian and philosopher of science. Born in Cincinnati, he taught at Berkeley (1956-64), Princeton (1964-79), and MIT (1979-91). In his highly influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), he questioned the previously accepted view of scientific progress as a gradual accumulation of knowledge based on universally valid experimental methods and results, claiming that progress was often achieved by far-reaching "paradigm shifts." His other works include The Copernican Revolution (1957), The Essential Tension (1977), and Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (1978).
Bull
Norwegian violinist. After training in his native Bergen, he freelanced in Christina (now Oslo) 1828-31. His Paris concerts, which featured Norwegian songs played on a folk violin, won much attention, and he toured Europe and the U.S. for two decades, greatly celebrated. A longtime nationalist, he was brought back home by the revolution of 1848. He helped found the Norwegian Theater in Bergen, and in 1852-53 he established the socialist colony Oleona in Pennsylvania; debts from the failed experiment kept him touring the rest of his life. Much of the music he composed is lost.
curlew
Any of eight species (genus Numenius) of shorebirds having a sickle-shaped bill that curves downward at the tip, a streaked, gray or brown body, and a long neck and legs. Curlews breed inland in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and migrate far south. They eat insects and seeds during migration but feed on worms and fiddler crabs while wintering on marshes and coastal mudflats. The eastern curlew is the largest species (24 in., or 60 cm, long); the common, or Eurasian, curlew, almost as large, is the largest European shorebird. The Eskimo curlew is now virtually extinct.
Dahl
British writer. A fighter pilot during World War II, he began his writing career ...
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