1) Strauss, Franz Josef. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...West German political figure, leader of the Christian Social Union. He became prominent in the Bavarian Christian Social Union (the Bavarian wing of the Christian...
2) Strauss, Josef. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Strauss, Josef, see Strauss, family....
3) Strauss. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Johann Strauss, 1804-49, learned to play the violin against his parents' wishes. In 1819 he joined the dance orchestra of Josef Lanner (1801-43), whom he later rivaled....
4) Adenauer, Konrad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...West German chancellor. A lawyer and a member of the Catholic Center party, he was lord mayor of Cologne and a member of the provincial diet of Rhine prov. from 1917...
5) Mengelberg, Josef Willem. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (1895-1945), he was noted for interpretations of Mahler and Richard Strauss, whose Ein Heldenleben is dedicated...
6) Strauss, Richard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Strauss brought to a culmination the development of the 19th-century symphonic poem, and was a leading composer of romantic opera in the early 20th cent. Son of a...
7) Vienna, city and province, Austria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Austria and administrative seat of Lower Austria, NE Austria, on the Danube River. The former residence of the Holy Roman emperors and, after 1806, of the emperors...
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