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- ↑ "Klassix-13: Beethoven - Full Cast & Crew".
- ↑ "Board of Directors".
- 1 2 "In Discussion With Nicholas Vazsonyi. The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia".
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- ↑ "Nicholas Vazsonyi named dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson".
- ↑ "Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism".
- ↑ "Nicholas Vazsonyi (Hrsg.), Searching for common ground. Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750-1871, Böh-lau-Verlag, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2000,306 S."
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- ↑ "Internal Faculty Award Recipients".
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