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Deutsche Börse headquartered in Frankfurt. 1994 – European Monetary Institute headquartered in Frankfurt. [24] 1995 Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange founded. Petra Roth becomes mayor. 1996 – City website online (approximate date). [32] 1998 – European Central Bank headquartered in Frankfurt. 1999 – Main Tower built. 2000 Museum ...
The wave of persecution in Frankfurt was triggered by the investigation of 17-year-old prostitute Otto Blankenstein, [7] [8] who was arrested on July 16, 1950, in Frankfurt for "commercial same-sex prostitution." [9] [10] The investigating public prosecutor, Dr. Fritz Thiede, personally took over the management of the police investigations.
Lowe took the game to New York, where friends liked playing it. The Lowe-produced bingo game had two versions: a 12-card set for $1.00 and a $2.00 set with 24 cards. By the 1940s, there were bingo games throughout the US. The origin of the name Bingo is unknown but may date to the mid-1920s.
Frankfurter angel in Frankfurt am Main. The Frankfurter Engel (German for Frankfurt angel) is a memorial in the city of Frankfurt am Main in southwestern Germany; it is dedicated to homosexual people who were persecuted under Nazi rule, and as well as under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code during the 1950s and 1960s.
In the early 1500s the people of Italy began to play a game called "Lo Gioco del Lotto d'Italia," which literally means "The game of lotto of Italy." The game operated very much like a modern lottery as players placed bets on the chances of certain numbers being drawn.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
Theodor Ziehen (1862–1950), neurologist and psychiatrist; Karl Wilhelm von Meister (1863–1935), politician and diplomat; Karl Schaum (1870–1947), chemist; Rahel Hirsch. Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953), doctor and professor; Fritz Klimsch (1870–1960), sculptor; Paul Epstein (1871–1939), mathematician
A 19th century statue of Charlemagne in Frankfurt. The name Frankfurt first appears in writing in the year 793, but it seems to have already been a considerable city. In 794 a letter from the Emperor to the bishop of Toledo contained "in loco celebri, qui dicitur Franconofurd", which reads "that famous place, which is called Frankfurt."