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One of the Magi.
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1639 Heidelberg, Germany January 15 , 1684The Hague, Netherlands Caspar Netscher, Caspar also spelled Gaspar (born 1639, Heidelberg, Palatinate [Germany] died January 15 , 1684 The Hague, Netherlands) German painter of the Baroque era who established a fashionable practice as a portrait painter.
November 18, 1584 Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands January 27 , 1669Ghent, Belgium Caspar de Crayer, Caspar also spelled Gaspard (born November 18 , 1584 Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium] died January 27 , 1669 Ghent) Flemish painter of religious subjects and portraits, who was strongly influenced by his friend Peter Paul Rubens.
So they were called Melchior, Balthazar and Gaspar (or Caspar), names that never really caught on, except in northern Europe in the high Middle Ages and in posher parts of west London in the late 20th century ("Melchior, give me that phone at once").
Johannes Caspar, the data-protection commissioner in Hamburg who first exposed Google's activities, says that the FCC report casts a new light on the practice.
Just ask Mr. Caspar or any of his counterparts around the world who tried to hold Google accountable for what one of them, the Australian communication minister Stephen Conroy, called "probably the single greatest breach in the history of privacy".
"It was one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen," Mr. Caspar recently recalled about that long-sought viewing in late 2010.
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The fringe Reformation movements held ordination in low esteem and permitted laymen to be ministers: leaders such as Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489 1561) and Konrad Grebel (c. 1498 1526) were probably never ordained.
He established his reputation with Caspar Hauser (1908), the fact-based story of a strange boy, apparently unfamiliar with the ordinary world, who was found in Nürnberg in 1828 and whose identity and subsequent murder or suicide remained a mystery.
His son-in-law Caspar Peucer (1525-1602) tastronomyronomy there and began teaching Copernicus's work.
Record of the Day Awards, December 2008 Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Editor, Observer Music Monthly was named Editor of the Year and Kitty Empire was named Writer of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards.
Caspar Bowden, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, says that the power to request information on e-mail traffic is not analogous to the ability to request telephone logs, since much more can be inferred from e-mail records about a person's behaviour.
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