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Robert H. Jackson was a prominent American lawyer recognized for his pivotal role in prosecuting Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. His skillful cross-examination of Hermann Göring established a key legal precedent and demonstrated the international community’s commitment to justice aft...

Johann Schöner was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, instrument maker, and printer active during the Renaissance. He produced influential terrestrial and celestial globes, including a printed globe made in 1515 that incorporated contemporary European ideas about recently reported lan...

Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) was a German engraver, cartographer, and map publisher who worked in Nuremberg. He established a publishing house that became an important producer of maps and atlases in the Holy Roman Empire, issuing richly decorated geographic works for a broad European market. I...

Johann Matthias Hase (1684–1742) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer whose maps were issued by the Homann Heirs publishing house in Nuremberg. He applied mathematical and astronomical methods to coordinate placement, projection, and geographical accuracy in his cartographic work...

Markthalle Nürnberg refers to a food-market venue in Nuremberg, Germany, a city whose traditional central market is the open-air Hauptmarkt rather than a historic hall.

Christoph Weigel the Elder (1654–1725) was a prominent German engraver, publisher, and art dealer who operated in Nuremberg during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He is best known for producing detailed illustrated atlases, topographical works, and historical maps. Among his significant publ...

Staatstheater Nürnberg is a multidisciplinary state theatre in Nuremberg, Bavaria, presenting opera, drama, ballet, and concerts. Its main opera house opened in 1905 and was designed in a late historicist style with Art Nouveau elements. The institution maintains resident artistic ensembles and an o...

Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer, judge, and public official who served as U.S. attorney general from 1941 to 1945 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His tenure spanned World War II and involved administration of the Justice Department during wartime. After the war, Biddle served a...

The Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg is a public Bavarian institution of higher education devoted to professional musical training. Its curriculum covers instrumental and vocal performance, music education, and related scholarly or practical subjects, with study leading to undergraduate and graduate qu...