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100 unusual facts about Munich


1663 in literature

In the Electorate of Bavaria, a legal deposit law mandates the deposit of copies of newly printed books in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

1st Extreme Ironing World Championships

The first event, held in mid-September 2002 in Valley, Bavaria, a small village near Munich in the district Miesbach, was host to competitors from ten nations, comprising 12 teams (three were from Britain).

20th-century art

Another German group was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led by Kandinsky in Munich, who associated the blue rider image with a spiritual non-figurative mystical art of the future.

562d Flying Training Squadron

The squadron participated in approximately 300 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations from 17 July 1943 until its last World War II mission, flown to the Landsberg Aerodrome near Munich, on 21 April 1945.

Air Dolomiti

It started airline operations in January 1991 with a Trieste-Genoa route and in 1992 started international services with flights from Verona to Munich.

Australian rules football in Germany

The Munich Kangaroos were founded in Munich by Australian expats in the mid-1990s, the only German club except Frankfurt formed before the year 2000.

Bruckmann's Illustrated Guides

Bruckmann's Illustrated Guides (1892-1916) were European travel guide books published by A. Bruckmann in Munich and Asher & Co. in London.

Christ Church, Croft

The stained glass in the east window is by Mayer of Munich.

Con Cremin

For the following three years he studied in Athens, Munich and Oxford, having attained a travelling scholarship in Classics.

David Gaskell

He was not with the Manchester United squad when their aeroplane crashed at Munich on the way home from a European Cup tie on 6 February 1958, killing eight players.

EarthTV

The cameras for live streaming are fully remote-controlled from the broadcast center in Munich.

Eduard Duller

His advanced humanist attitudes made him unsuited to Austrian education under the Metternich System and its Carlsbad Decrees, so in 1830 he left Austria for Munich, where in 1831 he premiered his play Die Wittelsbacher.

EHC München

Eishockeyclub Red Bull München (or EHC Red Bull München; English: Munich Ice Hockey Club) is a professional ice hockey team based in Munich, Germany that currently plays in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Erkin Alptekin

In 1971, due to his father's connections, he landed a job at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Munich.

Ernest Trumpp

Later, Robert Needham recommended Ernest Trumpp, who was Regius Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Munich and member of Royal Bavarian Academny of Sciences, to do the job of translation.

Fokker 70

The aircraft had been operating Flight 111 from Vienna to Munich with 28 passengers and four crew on board, when its engines failed during landing descent due to icing.

Forschungsreaktor München II

The FRM II is located in the immediate neighbourhood of FRM I, on the research and university campus near Garching (18 km north of Munich).

François de Bonal

François de Bonal (b. 1734 at the castle of Bonal, near Agen; d. in Munich, 1800) was Bishop of Clermont.

Franz Eichhorst

Over 50 of his paintings were displayed at the Great German art exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, including battle scenes from the Second World War, particularly those from the conflicts with Poland and Russia.

Franz Schmidberger

Graduated in 1972 in the University of Munich, in the same year he entered the seminary of Écône where he was ordained priest on 8 December 1975.

Franz Zureich

His artwork Demag: Giesspfannen beim fullen der kokillen (Demag: foundry ladles during fill the mold) was exhibited at the House of German Art in Munich.

Frederik Due

After resigning as prime minister, Due was appointed Swedish-Norwegian ambassador to the courts in Vienna and Munich.

George Elliott Howard

He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1876, studied in Europe at the universities of Munich and Paris (1876–1878), and was professor of history in the University of Nebraska from 1879 to 1891, and professor at Stanford from 1891 to 1901.

God Defend New Zealand

It was used at the British Empire Games from 1950 onward, and first used at the Olympics during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Greenhouse

Other large greenhouses built in the 19th century, included the New York Crystal Palace, Munich’s Glaspalast and the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (1874–1895) for King Leopold II of Belgium.

Henning Larsen Architects

In 2008 Henning Larsen Architects opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia named Henning Larsen Middle East and in 2011 an office in Munich, Germany were inaugurated.

Henry Liddon

In 1882 he resigned his professorship and travelled in Palestine and Egypt; and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Döllinger at Munich.

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 in Munich, Germany – 28 March 1941 in Kensington, London) was a British male tennis player.

Hermann Lingg

From that point on, he lived in Munich and devoted himself to historical and poetic studies, financially supported by King Maximilian II.

Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre

The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (HEIC) is a science communication office, established at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich, Germany late in 1999.

Hubert Beckers

In 1832 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the Lyceum at Dillingen, and in 1847 professor of philosophy at the University of Munich.

Indelibly Stamped

Supporting tours for the album began with a series of shows at the P.N. Club in Munich, which had been the site for Supertramp's first public performances.

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law

The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), formerly International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, is a review published by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, based in Munich, Germany.

Irene Skliva

She has participated in some of the world's largest fashion shows in Athens, Milan and Munich.

Ispringen

To the south of the town is a thin isthmus of forest and the A8 Munich to Karlsruhe autobahn that separates the town from Pforzheim's shopping district.

Jeanette Schmid

As Czechoslovakians began to take revenge against Sudeten Germans at the end of the war, Schmid was forced to flee to Munich where she began a career as a female impersonator.

John Dering Nettleton

Thus on 17 April 1942 Squadron Leader Nettleton was the leader of one formation of six Avro Lancaster bombers on a daylight attack on a diesel engine factory at Augsburg, near Munich Germany flying Lancaster Mk I, R5508, coded "KM-B" .

John M. Donaldson

Following that he returned to Europe where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, finishing his European art studies in Venice, Italy.

K.I.D.

Bastow, who is also known as Geoff Bastow (born 1949 in Yorkshire, England, died 2007 in Munich), was a Munich-based English songwriter and music producer.

Karl Johans Torg

Designed by Bengt Erland Fogelberg (1786−1854), at the time located in Italy, the sculpture was cut in Rome and cast in Munich in 1852, while the tall base was cut in Carrara to the design of the artist.

Karl von Clemm

Carl F. Clemm von Hohenberg (27 September 1897, Mainz - 4 March 1994, Munich), also Carl F. von Clemm, was the son of Gustav Clemm von Hohenberg and Maria Clemm von Hohenberg, née Michel.

Karl von Haimhausen

Karl von Haimhausen (originally Aymausen) (b. at Munich, of a noble Bavarian family, 28 May 1692; d. in Chile, 7 April 1767) was a German Jesuit theologian and missionary.

Kaufmann Kohler

He received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch), and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipsic, and Erlangen (Ph.D. 1868; his thesis, "Der Segen Jacob's", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany).

Kent Jönsson

Malmö made it all the way to the final and Jönsson was in the starting line-up for Malmö who ultimately lost the game 1–0 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich.

Krystal K

Krystal K is the alias of DJ/producer Jean Claude Ades from Munich, Germany.

Kunigunde of Austria

Kunigunde married Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria-Munich in 1487 against the will of her own father, and served as joint regent for son Wilhelm IV.

Leopold Feldmann

Leopold Feldmann (born Munich, Bavaria, 22 May 1802; died Vienna, 26 March 1882) was a German-Austrian dramatist.

Louis Blenker

After being trained as a goldsmith by an uncle in Kreuznach, he was sent to a polytechnical school in Munich.

Lubor Niederle

Later, he studied in Munich under professor Johannes Rank (1889) and in Paris under professor Léonce Manouvriere at the École d’anthropologie.

Luttif Afif

Luttif Afif (1937? or 1945? – 6 September 1972), alias Issa (Jesus in Arabic), was the commander of the group of Palestinian fedayeen who invaded the Munich Olympic Village on 5 September 1972 and took as hostage nine members of Israel's Olympic team after killing two who resisted.

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

In 1967 he moved up to full district judge at the District Court of Munich.

Lydia Chukovskaya

She wrote a series of letters in support of Solzhenitsyn; these were published in Munich in 1970.

Marty Cook

In 1979, he moved to Munich, touring with his ensemble the New York Sound Explosion.

Marvin Schindler

Schindler's leadership of Wayne State's Junior Year in Freiburg and Junior Year in Munich study-abroad programs (he served as director of both from 1975 to 1993) earned him the Bundesverdienstkreuz, erster Klasse, Germany's highest civilian honor.

Mathias Loras

His connections and influence in Europe had enabled him to secure necessary financial assistance from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith of Lyons, France, the Leopoldine Society of Vienna, Austria, and the Foreign Mission Society of Munich, Bavaria.

Matthias Kleinheisterkamp

Upon his return to active duty, he was assigned to the SS-Standarte Deutschland in Munich and from 1 December 1938 commanded the Deutschland's III.Sturmbann.

Max Reiter

When he was ten years old, his family moved to Munich, where he continued his middle-school education and went on to attend a university.

Messestadt Riem

Messestadt Riem (literally: Convention City Riem) is the youngest borough of the City of Munich, build on the area of the former Munich-Riem Airport.

Minga

Munich (Minga in the Austro-Bavarian language), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany

Minuccio Minucci

He died on 7 March 1604 during a visit to Munich, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, Munich.

Minusheet Perfusion Culture System

In 1992 the Minusheet perfusion culture system received the Philip Morris research award ‘Challenge of the Future’ in Munich, Germany.

Mode Creation Munich

It was a German brand founded by Michael Cromer in Munich in 1975 as 'Michael Cromer Munich' (MCM).

Moses Botarel Farissol

Both these works, in manuscript, are preserved in the royal library at Munich.

Munich-style stained glass

The work by Peter Hemel von Andlau or Hans Holbein the Elder set the standard for Mayer and Zettler and became the base of their work.

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

No Te Va Gustar

In 2005 the band also did a European tour, playing dates in more than 40 cities including Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Vienna, Bern, and Madrid.

Olaus Magnus

It included a map of Northern Europe with a map of Scandinavia, which was rediscovered by Oscar Brenner in 1886 in the München state library and shown to be the most accurate depiction of its time.

Paul Heinrich von Groth

In 1883, he was appointed professor of mineralogy and curator of minerals in the state museum at Munich.

Philipp of Bavaria

Philipp Wilhelm of Bavaria (22 September 1576, Munich - 18 May 1598, Dachau) was a German cardinal.

Piotra Sych

After the war he spent some time in England before moving to Munich, Germany in 1951 where he started publishing a magazine in Belarusian.

Platinnetz

It was created in April 2007 and has its headquarters in Unterhaching, near Munich.

Port Huron High School

The "Big Red Marching Machine" has performed in many high visibility fori, including the Summer Olympics (Munich, 1972), the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Walt Disney World.

Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

In Munich on 15 December 1930 Prince Rainer married, firstly, Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty.

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

Deutsche Stunde in Bayern GmbH, Munich (on the air since 30 March 1924) in Bavaria; renamed Bayerischer Rundfunk GmbH on 1 January 1931, it joined the RRG on 1 April 1931

Robert Barto

He also gave solo recitals for Bavarian Radio's "Bach Night" in Munich as well as the "Lufthansa Baroque Festival" also held in London.

Robert Zimansky

He came to Europe in 1972 and held 1st Concertmaster positions in Munich, Stuttgart, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.

Rolling highway

In Italy, Trenitalia and Trasposervizi signed an agreement between Italy, Austria and Germany for a new rolling road that connects the inland of Roncafort (north of Trento) with Regensburg (north of Munich) and previously managed by the Austrian Ökombi.

Salmson AD.3

A preserved Salmson 3 Ad engine, similar to a British Salmson AD.3, is on public display at the Deutsches Museum, Munich.

Sammy Betancourt

In 1972, he was selected as the thirteenth player in the Puerto Rico National Team which represented Puerto Rico in Munich, Germany.

Schulmädchen-Report

Published by Kindler Verlag (Munich) the same year, the book presented interviews with twelve teenage girls on their sexual lives.

Shalva Maglakelidze

He did not give up his efforts for Georgian émigré mobilization for which purpose he founded, in January 1954, the Munich-based Union of Georgian Soldiers Abroad.

Siptah

A headless statue of Siptah now in Munich shows him seated on the lap of another Pharaoh, presumably his father.

Stanisław Jałowiecki

1984-1996: Free-lance journalist in U.S., journalist and Deputy director for Radio Free Europe in Munich (1985-1994) and Warsaw

Stanisław Przybyszewski

In 1906 the couple moved to Munich, the trip paid for by the sale of the manuscript of the play Śluby (The Vows).

Syed Abdul Kadir

In 1972, Kadir represented Singapore at the 1972 Olympics Games in Munich but failed to obtain any medal due to an injury, a cut sustained on the eyebrow.

TET-1

The final contract for Phases B, C, and D (definition/qualification, and production) and start was given to Kayser-Threde GmbH, a medium-sized aerospace company based in Munich belonging to the German OHB-System group.

The European Association of Ukrainians

The European Association of Ukrainians (EAU) is a voluntary association of Ukrainians in the European Union with headquarters in Brussels and representatives in Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin.

The Griffin Family History

Peter then tells his family about his great uncle, Peter Hitler, who was able to provide Adolf Hitler with success at his Munich speech, although annoying Adolf greatly.

The Tao of Physics

I lived in England then circa 1972, and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him the whole manuscript chapter by chapter.

Thomas Woodrooffe

He was one of its main commentators during the 1930s, covering amongst many other events the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics and Neville Chamberlain's return from Munich in 1938.

Tom Netherton

The lanky six-foot five-inch Netherton was born in Munich, Germany, as the son of a United States Army officer stationed there.

UAS7

75,000 students, 2,200 full-time faculty members and several thousand part-time lecturers from industry and business study, teach, and do research in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Münster, and Osnabrück.

Udo Steinke

In addition to some casual work, he worked as a journalist and advertising manager at the Goethe-Institut in Munich.

Ulfert Wilke

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship twice (in 1959 and 1960), which he used to travel to work and study first in Munich and Rome, and later Kyoto, Japan where he lived in monastery and studied Japanese Zen calligraphy under the monks.

Ulrich Walter

Since 2003, he has been a full professor at the Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany), holding the chair of the Institute of Astronautics (space technology) at the University's faculty of mechanical engineering.

Wally Warning

Ewald "Wally" Warning (born in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles) is a Roots-, Reggae-, Ragga-, Latin-Singer living in Munich.

Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?

Together with the movie producer Andreas Habermeyer she covered the hit from Rudi Carrell for the Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich.

William Stockley

In 1908 Stockley married Marie Germaine Kolb, daughter of Max Kolb, director of Munich's Royal Botanic Gardens, and Sophie Danvin of Paris.

Wissenschaftlicher Katholischer Studentenverein Unitas Stolzenfels zu Bonn

Official affiliation followed on August 4, 1950 during the 73rd general assembly (Generalversammlung, GV) in Munich.

Zen 49

Zen 49 was a group of German artists, who came together in Munich in July 1949.


1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Munich, West Germany on October 17 – 20th 1981.

2010 Estoril Open – Men's Doubles

Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky were the defending champions, but they chose to compete in Munich instead.

Adam Contzen

During his residence in Munich, which began in 1623, he completed and published his commentary on the four Gospels, and on the epistles of St. Paul to the Romans, the Corinthians, and the Galatians.

Adolf Köberle

Adolf Köberle (July 3, 1898 in Bad Berneck, Upper Franconia, Germany – March 22, 1990 in Munich) was a German theologian.

Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

Angst in My Pants

The album was recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, produced by Mack in association with Giorgio Moroder Enterprises.

Anton Gosswin

He is documented as a singer at Munich Court in 1568, he was then appointed court Kapellmeister at Landshut in 1569 to return to Munich in 1570, as organist at the Peterskirche in 1577.

Battle of Hohenlinden

Weyrother's plan called for crushing the French left wing near Landshut and lunging south to cut Moreau's communications west of Munich.

Bavarian Soviet Republic

Soon after, on 3 May 1919, remaining loyal elements of the German army (called the "White Guards of Capitalism" by the communists), with a force of 9,000, and Freikorps (such as the Freikorps Epp and the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt) with a force of about 30,000 men, entered Munich and defeated the communists after bitter street fighting in which over 1,000 supporters of the government were killed.

Damo Suzuki

When Malcolm Mooney left Can after recording their first album Monster Movie, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit encountered Suzuki busking in Munich, Germany whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café, they invited him to join the group.

Detlev Eisinger

Notable among his many appearances was his performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's complete Well Tempered Clavier in Munich, Vienna, Salzburg, and Klagenfurt.

Donna Kane

She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  with Donny Osmond, Les Misérables  on Broadway (1993), and as Maria in West Side Story  in Vienna and Munich (1995).

Erhard Hübener

By threatening the SVAG to resign from office, Hübener enforced the participation of the Soviet zonal governors in the Conference of Governors in Munich on 5 June 1947, which last time convened the elected governors of all states from all four zones of occupation in Germany.

Erika Chambers

During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 8 members of Black September (group) took hostage and ultimately killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team.

Ewiger Wald

Commissioned by Alfred Rosenberg's cultural organization Militant League for German Culture in 1934 under the working title Deutscher Wald–Deutsches Schicksal (German Forest–German Destiny), the feature-length movie premiered in Munich in 1936.

FC Ararat Yerevan

In 1974-75, after their title in the Soviet league, Ararat played in the European Cup, reaching the quarterfinals, losing to defending and future champion Bayern Munich with a 2-1 aggregate (0-2 in Munich and 1-0 in Yerevan).

Festival Cup

As Edinburgh's twin cities include Munich, Florence and Kiev, the local media speculated that a globally recognised team such as FC Bayern Munich, ACF Fiorentina or Dynamo Kiev may play in Scotland's capital.

Frankenthal Porcelain Factory

--(1775 berühmter Farbenprobeteller in London).--> By 1776 the Frankenthal porcelain factory had shops in Aachen, Basle, Frankfurt am Main, Livorno, Mainz, Munich and Nancy.

Fritzi Scheff

Born Friederike Scheff in Vienna, Austria to Dr. Gottfried Scheff and Anna Yeager, she studied at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and made her début in Munich in the title röle of Martha (1898).

Heinrich von Sybel

In 1861 Lady Duff-Gordon published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were added lectures on the crusades delivered in Munich in 1858, under the title History and Literature of the Crusades.

Hilmar Wäckerle

The son of a Munich notary public, Wäckerle was sent to the Bavarian Army officer school at the age of 14 in order to pursue his chosen career.

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

Jan Kryštof Liška

In Doksany he painted St. Augustine, at the monastery in Munich Hradište he painted St. Anthony, St. Francis and the Three Kings and for the Plasy monastery he painted St. Magdalene fresco (1692).

John II, Duke of Bavaria

#Ernest I of Bavaria-Munich (1373–2 July 1438, Munich).

Joseph Ennemoser

In 1819 he became professor of medicine in Bonn, leaving in 1837 for Innsbruck and then in 1841 settling in Munich, where he earned a great reputation as a "magnetic physician."

Landolin Ohmacht

His principal works are: “The Judgment of Paris,” in the royal garden at Munich; the statue of Neptune at Münster, and that of Desaix between Kehl and Strasburg; the mausoleum of the emperor Rudolph in the cathedral of Spa; the statue of Luther at Weissenburg, and that of “Venus leaving her Bath,” which is regarded as his masterpiece.

Mario Mandžukić

Mandžukić scored his first Champions League goal of the season when Bayern Munich began the defence of their Champions League title against CSKA Moscow with a 3–0 victory at the Allianz Arena.

München Isartal station

München Isartalbahnhof is a former railway station on the Isartalbahn in the Munich borough of Thalkirchen.

München Süd station

München Süd (Munich South station) is a disused railway station and a railway goods station in the Munich borough of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.

MVG

Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft or Munich Transportation Company, the company responsible for operating public transport in Munich, Germany

Pekka Vasala

In Munich he won the 1500 m race in a time of 3 minutes 36.3 seconds, ahead of the legendary Kip Keino and Rod Dixon.

Petru Dumitriu

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

Pierre Alamire

Manuscripts copied by Alamire can be found in many European libraries, including the Habsburg court library in Vienna, in London (the Henry VIII manuscript), the Vatican (a manuscript for Pope Leo X), Brussels, Munich, and Jena, which has the court books for Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Richard Semon

In 1918 in Munich, Semon committed suicide wrapped in a German flag allegedly because he was depressed by Germany's defeat after World War I.

Stadelheim Prison

Breno Borges, Well known footballer and former Bayern Munich Player.

Stefano Rossetto

Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.

The D-Word

Block continues to be a co-host of The D-Word, together with documentary makers Ben Kempas in Munich (from 2001), John Burgan in the United Kingdom (from 2005) and Marjan Safinia in Los Angeles (from 2009).

The Fatherland

Having been born in Munich, Germany, and moved to New York City in 1896, Viereck graduated from the College of the City of New York and directly entered the world of publishing.

Trudering-Riem

Trudering-Riem is the 15th borough of Munich, Bavaria, consisting of the districts Trudering and Riem.

Viva Colonia

For example, during carnival and during Oktoberfest in Munich, Bavaria, the song remains essentially the same except "Viva Bavaria!" is substituted for "Viva Colonia!"