Bonn

The Bonn Minster is one of Germany's oldest churches, having been built between the 11th and 13th centuries. At one point the church served as the... cathedral for the Archbishopric of Cologne. However, the Minster is now a Papal basilica. Originally the Minster was the collegiate church of Saints Cassius and Florentius, who were Roman legionaries of the legendary all-Christian Theban Legion. The legion's garrison, according to legend, was in the Egyptian town of Thebes. Roman Emperor Maximianus Herculius ordered the legion to march to Gaul and assist in subduing rebels from Burgundy. At some point during their march, the legion refused to follow the emperor's orders either to kill fellow Christians or to worship Maximianus Herculius as a god. As a result, a large number of legionaries were martyred in Agaunum, now named Saint Maurice-en-Valais after Saint Maurice. According to legend, Saints Cassius and Florentius, who were under the command of Saint Gereon, were beheaded for their religious beliefs at the present location of the Bonn Minster.
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Walter Jack Gotell was a German-British actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born... in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn . He began to have more established roles by the early 1950s, starring in The African Queen , The Red Beret for Albert R. Broccoli, Ice Cold in Alex , The Guns of Navarone , Road to Hong Kong , 55 Days At Peking , Lancelot and Guinevere , The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , Lord Jim , Black Sunday , The Boys From Brazil and Cuba . His first role in the James Bond film series was in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. From the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me . Gotell gained the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol because of his resemblance to the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Beria.
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Johann van Beethoven was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is... best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven . Bonn was the place of his birth and death. Johann van Beethoven was the son of Ludwig van Beethoven and Maria Josepha Ball . His father was probably born in or near the Brabantian town of Mechelen , and had served as a musician in several communities in Flanders before moving to Bonn in 1733. There he served as a musician at the court of Prince-Archbishop-Elector of Cologne Clemens August of Bavaria, rising to the post of Kapellmeister in 1761. Johann also showed musical talent, and joined the court, primarily as a singer, in 1764. In addition to singing , he played the violin and zither, and played and taught keyboard instruments of the day, including the harpsichord and the clavichord.
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Natalie Christine Horler is a German singer and television presenter born in Bonn, Germany. She is known internationally as the lead singer of... Eurodance/Eurotrance group Cascada. She is popular in Europe and America, as well as in several Asian countries. Cascada consists of Horler, DJ Manian and DJ Yanou. She is bilingual and speaks German and English fluently. Natalie Horler was born in Bonn, then West Germany, to English parents who had moved there from the United Kingdom in 1980. Her father, David Horler, is a jazz musician and her mother, Christine, is a foreign languages teacher. Horler grew up with her 2 siblings. She has stated that she had a very British childhood. Natalie soon began singing jazz songs in her father's studio as well as songs from Disney movies. Horler began her musical career by singing in bars and casinos. At 18, she then went on to working with different DJs recording a number of tracks in a studio. This is how she met future bandmembers Manian and Yanou. Her most notable song of her pre-Cascada era is "Piece Of Heaven" as Akira. In addition, Horler appeared on the German adaptation of Star Search in 2004.
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Ferdinand Ries was a German composer. Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a... collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler. He was also a composer who left eight symphonies, a violin concerto, eight piano concertos and numerous other works in many genres, including 26 string quartets. Of these, the symphonies, some chamber works—most of them with piano—and his piano concertos have been recorded, demonstrating a style which is not surprisingly somewhere between that of the Classic and early Romantic eras. The French dissolved the Electoral court of Bonn and disbanded its orchestra, but in the early months of 1803 the penniless Ries managed to reach Vienna, with a letter of introduction to Beethoven, who had received some early instruction at Bonn from Ries's father, Franz Anton. Beethoven took great care of the young man, teaching him piano, sending him to Albrechtsberger for harmony and composition and securing for him positions as piano tutor in aristocratic households in Baden and Silesia.
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Walter Jack Gotell was a German-British actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born... in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn . He began to have more established roles by the early 1950s, starring in The African Queen , The Red Beret for Albert R. Broccoli, Ice Cold in Alex , The Guns of Navarone , Road to Hong Kong , 55 Days At Peking , Lancelot and Guinevere , The Spy Who Came In From The Cold , Lord Jim , Black Sunday , The Boys From Brazil and Cuba . His first role in the James Bond film series was in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. From the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me . Gotell gained the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol because of his resemblance to the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Beria.
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Lady Marcia Mary Josephine Fitzalan Howard, better known as Marsha Fitzalan is an English actress. Lady Marcia Fitzalan is the third daughter of the... late Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk and Anne Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk. She was educated at Woldingham School, in Surrey. She is divorced from the English actor Patrick Ryecart, by whom she has three children, and in June 2007 married her second husband Nick George. Fitzalan is a sister-in-law of Sir David Frost who is married to her elder sister, Lady Carina Fitzalan Howard. Her brother is the current Duke of Norfolk and Premier Peer of England; another sister is married to the 5th Earl of Balfour. Among other relations, a niece Lady Kinvara Balfour is an English playwright. Fitzalan acts in British TV and movies; she is perhaps best known for her role opposite Rik Mayall as Sarah B'Stard in the ITV sitcom, The New Statesman. Other television roles include guest appearances in Upstairs, Downstairs, The Professionals, and Murder Most Horrid.
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Natalie Christine Horler is a German singer and television presenter born in Bonn, Germany. She is known internationally as the lead singer of... Eurodance/Eurotrance group Cascada. She is popular in Europe and America, as well as in several Asian countries. Cascada consists of Horler, DJ Manian and DJ Yanou. She is bilingual and speaks German and English fluently. Natalie Horler was born in Bonn, then West Germany, to English parents who had moved there from the United Kingdom in 1980. Her father, David Horler, is a jazz musician and her mother, Christine, is a foreign languages teacher. Horler grew up with her 2 siblings. She has stated that she had a very British childhood. Natalie soon began singing jazz songs in her father's studio as well as songs from Disney movies. Horler began her musical career by singing in bars and casinos. At 18, she then went on to working with different DJs recording a number of tracks in a studio. This is how she met future bandmembers Manian and Yanou. Her most notable song of her pre-Cascada era is "Piece Of Heaven" as Akira. In addition, Horler appeared on the German adaptation of Star Search in 2004.
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Markus Maria Profitlich is a German comedian and actor who was a cast member of Die Wochenshow between 1999 and 2001. He now hosts and performs his... own show, Mensch Markus. His most famous role on Die Wochenshow was the Erklärbär . Other roles included the shy reporter Peter Wuttke, Mawegda Gandhi and Baby Markus. Furthermore, Profitlich is the producer of the programme Weibsbilder, as well as Deutschland ist schön . The name Profitlich is not a stage name, but is probably derived from "a person who acts profitably" . Markus Maria Profitlich is married to the German actress Ingrid Einfeldt, his stage partner in Mensch Markus. His daughter was born in the beginning of 2005. Profitlich is member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and a confessing Christian. In his youth, he visited the YMCA in Siegburg , where he led Christian holiday courses for children. He is now member of a free Protestant parish.
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Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi, , better known as Bushido, is a German rapper. The word Bushido is Japanese and means "Way of the Warrior". He also... uses the pseudonym Sonny Black, based on Dominic Napolitano. As of 2009, he sold more than 1.5 million albums in Germany alone. He is the owner of the record label ersguterjunge and entrepreneur in the real estate industry. Bushido was born of a Tunisian father and a German mother in Bad Godesberg, a small town, part of Bonn in west Germany. Shortly after his family moved to Berlin. Bushido grew up with his mother and brother, in Berlin-Tempelhof district of former West Berlin. He attended "Eckener Gymnasium", up to the tenth grade, and then changed to another gymnasium, before leaving school early, and accumulated a criminal record for drug possession and vandalism. A judge ordered him to attend vocational training as a painter or face a jail term. During the training as painter, he met rapper Fler and both became friends. Bushido sprayed graffiti under the pseudonym „Fuchs“ . Bushido's career started in 1998, with several demo releases like 030 Squad - Westberlin.
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