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A missing young woman. A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A perplexing real-life mystery. With stunning new insights and impeccable research, investigative journalist Jake Anderson explores the case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! Exclusive interviews and photos included. Twenty-one-year-old student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. More than a week later, guests’ complaints of poor water quality led to a grim discovery: Elisa’s nude bod...
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The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.
Der kulturelle Wandel im Zuge des Second Empire hatte binnen weniger Jahre auch im Leben Meyerbeers tief greifende Spuren hinterlassen: Die Opéra als neben dem preußischen Hof zentrale Institution seines bisherigen Schaffens war in einer dauerhaften Krise und erforderte neue künstlerische Wege im Ringen um den Erfolg, den der Komponist noch am Lebensabend als tägliche Herausforderung empfand. Mit bewundernswerter Wachheit registrierte er den Machtverlust alter Weggefährten, den Geschmackswandel auf dem Gebiet des Musiktheaters, der auch ihm bemerkenswert zu schaffen machte, und versuchte die neuen gesellschaftlichen Kräfte und künstlerischen Strömungen zu orten. Das für Meyerbeer pe...