Hess

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Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
Victor Francis, 1883–1964, U.S. physicist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1936.
Walter Rudolf, 1881–1973, Swiss physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1949.
(Wal·ther Rich·ard) Ru·dolf [vahl, -t, uh, r, , rikh, -ah, r, t , roo, -dawlf], 1894–1987, German official in the Nazi party.

Hess

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HessMyra, Dame18901965FEnglishMUSIC: pianist Dame Myra. 1890–1965, English pianist
Hess(Walther Richard) Rudolf18941987MGermanPOLITICS: Nazi leader ( Walther Richard ) Rudolf (ˈruːdɔlf). 1894–1987, German Nazi leader. He made a secret flight to Scotland (1941) to negotiate peace with Britain but was held as a prisoner of war; later sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials (1946); committed suicide
HessVictor Francis18831964MUSAustrianSCIENCE: physicist Victor Francis. 1883–1964, US physicist, born in Austria: pioneered the investigation of cosmic rays: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1936)

Hess

American geologist who studied the sea floor and developed the theory of sea-floor spreading in 1960. Hess theorized that sea floors were constantly renewed by the flow of magma from the Earth's mantle through the oceanic rifts. This hypothesis became an important component of the theory of plate tectonics.

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“It’s been way too fun,” director Jared Hess told Entertainment Weekly.

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"It's way too funny," Jared Hess told the New York Times about fans' exuberant reactions to the film, some of which have been widely shared.

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“Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess hurls tater tots and two competitive dorks played by Jack Black and Jason Momoa into the cubist, mega-popular video game.

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It would be just as apropos to call this “Jared Hess’ Minecraft Movie.”

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As an example, Mr Hess pointed to programmes such as Pell grants or Title I, a federal initiative to provide funding to schools with large numbers of low-income students.

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