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wagner

n. (surname from=German dot=) of German origin. Widely known as the surname of the German composer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Wagner (1813-1883).

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Wagner, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 1675
Housing Units (2000): 747
Land area (2000): 2.704356 sq. miles (7.004250 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006826 sq. miles (0.017679 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.711182 sq. miles (7.021929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68020
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.080349 N, 98.294799 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57380
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wagner (disambiguation)

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Wágner

Wágner Ferreira dos Santos (born 29 January 1985 in Sete Lagoas), commonly known as Wágner, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for the Chinese club Tianjin Teda.

Wagner (surname)

Wagner is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning " wagonmaker" or "wagon driver".

This common occupational surname was often given to one who transported produce or other goods via high-sided wagons or carts. Among some German populations, especially the Pennsylvania Germans, Wagner also denoted a wagon-maker, wainwright, or cartwright.

Wagner (film)

Wagner is a 1983 film on the life of Richard Wagner. The title role was played by Richard Burton. It was directed by Tony Palmer and written by Charles Wood. The film was later released on DVD as a ten-part miniseries.

Other main roles were played by Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Craven, Marthe Keller, Ronald Pickup, Miguel Herz-Kestranek and László Gálffi. Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir Laurence Olivier played ministers of Ludwig II of Bavaria.

The music of Wagner was specially recorded for the film, and conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

Wagner (Milan Metro)

Wagner is a station on Line 1 of Milan Metro in Milan, Italy. The underground station was opened in 1966 and is located on Piazza Wagner.

Wagner (crater)

Wagner is an impact crater in the south polar region of the planet Mercury. It was named after the German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883) in 1976, as recognized by the International Astronomical Union. It is located in the Bach quadrangle, between Bach and Chopin.

Wagner is one of several craters on Mercury named after famous composers. Other examples include Brahms (after Johannes Brahms), Scarlatti (after Domenico Scarlatti), and Couperin (after Francois Couperin). A number of Mercurian craters are named after historic cultural figures from different fields, including literature, philosophy, and art, but others feature names from popular culture, including Walt Disney and Muddy Waters.

Usage examples of "wagner".

WRC anchorwoman Lacie Wagner burned last night, in a fire of unknown origin.

Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Walter Map, Chrestien de Troyes, Robert de Borron, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Hartmann von Aue, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, and Wagner have all written of these legends in turn, and to these writers we owe the most noted versions of the tales forming the Arthurian cycle.

Nicklaus Wagner, a fat Bernese, who was the owner of most of the cheeses in the bark, were the chosen of the multitude on this occasion.

He was critical of men like Bizet, Wagner, Verdi, and Gounod, and fiercely envious of their fame.

Wagner and Bauer were working the Bofors gun on the after deck, tracer streaming up in an arc, following the Junkers as it sped away and Wittig was hammering at it with the 20mm ack-ack gun in the fore deck well.

Wagner and Bauer at the Bofors gun, shattering the wheelhouse windows, catching Langsdorff in the back, driving him headfirst through the door.

Michael Berman, Sara Bershtel, Chauna Brocht, Kristine Dahl, Frank Herd and Sarah Bourassa, Kristine Jacobs, Clara Jeffery, Tom Engelhardt, Deb Konechne, Marc Linder, John Newton, Frances Fox Piven, Peter Rachleff, Bill Sokal, David Wagner, Jennifer Wheeler, and Patti.

Dresden while Wagner had been turning around for Chemnitz before meeting the Poles.

Wagner has shown in his music-dramas, and Hey in his vocal method, that by means of a proper division of syllables and correct articulation, the harshness of consonants can be toned down as much as is desirable.

Wagner team was reactivated, had created another cybernetically enhanced individual, I broke through their fire walls and security system and finally downloaded your file.

It did not matter much that esthetics became independent, for the only art form in the West which still had a future, Western Music, paid no attention to theories and continued on its grand creative course to its end in Wagner and his epigones.

Eduard Devrient urged Karlsruhe, where he was director, but Wagner wanted to supervise the production, and this was impossible in a theatre of Germany so long as the decree of banishment for participation in the Saxon rebellion hung over his head.

In its delineation of the pompous doings of the mastersingers, Wagner is true to the letter.

Normally, as Timothy pointed out, a small travelling circus stays only for one night in a place like Oberhausen, but the Circus Wagner had been obliged to stand for a week.

I prefer Wagner to squills, and compared to the delights of Mozart, Hayden and Offenbach those of paregoric are nit.