place_of_birth eugene spiro
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land . Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water , for commercial demand , and for shelter from wind and waves . Ports with deeper water are rarer , but can handle larger ships . Since ports throughout history handled every kind ___MASK49___ traffic , support and storage facilities vary widely , may extend for miles , and dominate the local economy . Some ports have an important military role . The City ___MASK49___ ___MASK52___ , often called ___MASK52___ City or simply ___MASK52___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population ___MASK49___ 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area ___MASK49___ just , ___MASK52___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip ___MASK49___ the state ___MASK49___ ___MASK52___ , the city is the center ___MASK49___ the ___MASK52___ metropolitan area , one ___MASK49___ the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK52___ City exerts a significant impact upon ___MASK46___ , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK52___ minute ". Home to the headquarters ___MASK49___ the United Nations , ___MASK52___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital ___MASK49___ the world . ___MASK37___ , officially the ___MASK82___ of ___MASK37___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by Germany to the west ; the Czech ___MASK82___ and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , ___MASK23___ Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK37___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK37___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK37___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , ___MASK16___ , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . ___MASK29___ , officially the Federal ___MASK82___ of ___MASK29___ , is a federal parliamentary ___MASK82___ in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK29___ is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK29___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include ___MASK33___ , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Eugene Spiro , born Eugen Spiro ( April 18 , 1874 in Breslau , ___MASK100___ -- September 26 , 1972 in ___MASK52___ City ) was a German and American painter . He was born to a Jewish family in Breslau . In 1904 Spiro was briefly married to the famous actress Tilla Durieux , who later married the important art dealer Paul Cassirer . His younger sister was the painter Baladine Klossowska . The French painter Balthus is his nephew . The ___MASK52___ metropolitan area , also referred to as the Tri - State Area , includes the most populous city in the United States ( ___MASK52___ City ); Long Island and the Mid - and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of ___MASK52___ ; the five largest cities in New Jersey ( Newark  the largest city in New Jersey  ___MASK24___ , Paterson , Elizabeth , and Edison ) and their vicinities ; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut ( Bridgeport  the largest city in Connecticut  New Haven , Stamford , Waterbury , Norwalk , and Danbury ) and their vicinities ; and five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania . ___MASK100___ ( or ; Silesian German : " Schläsing " Silesian : " lnsk " ) is a region ___MASK49___ Central Europe located mostly in Poland , with small parts in the Czech ___MASK82___ and Germany . Its area is about , and its population about 8 , 000 , 000 . ___MASK100___ is located along the Oder river . It consists ___MASK49___ Lower ___MASK100___ and Upper ___MASK100___ . Headquarters ( HQ ) denotes the location where ___MASK88___ , if not all , of the important functions of an organization are coordinated . In the United States , the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility for managing all business activities . In the UK , the term head office is ___MASK88___ commonly used for the HQs of large corporations . The term is also used regarding military organizations . Research comprises " creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock ___MASK49___ knowledge , including knowledge ___MASK49___ humans , culture and society , and the use ___MASK49___ this stock ___MASK49___ knowledge to devise new applications ." It is used to establish or confirm facts , reaffirm the results ___MASK49___ previous work , solve new or existing problems , support theorems , or develop new theories . A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field . Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic , or in the example ___MASK49___ a school research project , they can be used to further a student ' s research prowess to prepare them for future jobs or reports . To test the validity ___MASK49___ instruments , procedures , or experiments , research may replicate elements ___MASK49___ prior projects or the project as a whole . The primary purposes ___MASK49___ basic research ( as opposed to applied research ) are documentation , discovery , interpretation , or the research and development ( R & D ) ___MASK49___ methods and systems for the advancement ___MASK49___ human knowledge . Approaches to research depend on epistemologies , which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences . There are several forms ___MASK49___ research : scientific , humanities , artistic , economic , social , business , marketing , practitioner research , life , technological , etc . The Oder ( Czech , Lower Sorbian and , Upper Sorbian : " Wódra ") is a river in ___MASK87___ Europe . It rises in the Czech ___MASK82___ and flows ( generally north - and northwest - ward ) through western Poland , later forming of the border between Poland and Germany , part of the Oder  Neisse line . The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin and then into three branches ( the Dziwna , wina and Peene ) that empty into the Gulf of ___MASK98___ of the Baltic Sea . The headquarters ___MASK49___ the United Nations is a complex in ___MASK52___ City designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer . The complex has served as the official headquarters ___MASK49___ the United Nations since its completion in 1952 . It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood ___MASK49___ Manhattan , on spacious grounds overlooking the East River . Its borders are First Avenue on the west , East 42nd Street to the south , East 48th Street on the north and the East River to the east . The term " Turtle Bay " is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or for the United Nations as a whole . Lower ___MASK100___ ( Silesian German : " Niederschläsing ") is the northwestern part ___MASK49___ the historical and geographical region ___MASK49___ ___MASK100___ ; ___MASK17___ is to the southeast . Silesian ___MASK14___ ( Silesian ___MASK14___ : ' or ') or Lower Silesian is a nearly extinct ___MASK14___ dialect spoken in ___MASK100___ . It is part ___MASK49___ the East Central ___MASK14___ language area with some West Slavic influences . Variations ___MASK49___ the dialect until 1945 were spoken by about seven million people . After World War II , local communist authorities forbade the use ___MASK49___ the language , after the expulsion ___MASK49___ the Germans the province ___MASK49___ ___MASK100___ was incorporated into southwestern Poland , with small portions in northeastern Czech ___MASK82___ and in eastern Germany , and Silesian ___MASK14___ continued to be spoken only by individual families expelled to the remaining territory ___MASK49___ Germany and in cultural gatherings mainly in West Germany . Most descendents ___MASK49___ the Silesian Germans expelled to West and ___MASK76___ no longer learned the dialect , and the cultural gatherings were less and less frequented . In the study ___MASK49___ human settlements , an urban agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built - up area ___MASK49___ a central place (" usually a municipality ") and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area . INSEE , the French Statistical Institute , uses the term " unité urbaine ", which means continuous urbanized area . However , because ___MASK49___ differences in definitions ___MASK49___ what does and does not constitute an " agglomeration ", as well as variations and limitations in statistical or geographical methodology , it can be problematic to compare different agglomerations around the world . It may not be clear , for instance , whether an area should be considered to be a satellite and part ___MASK49___ an agglomeration , or a distinct entity in itself . ___MASK87___ Europe lies between Eastern Europe and Western Europe . The concept ___MASK49___ ___MASK87___ Europe is based on a common historical , social and cultural identity . ___MASK87___ Europe is going through a phase ___MASK49___ " strategic awakening ", with initiatives such as the CEI , Centrope or V4 . While the region ' s economy shows high disparities with regard to income , all ___MASK87___ European countries are listed by the Human Development Index as very highly developed . ___MASK17___ ( Silesian : " Grny lnsk " ; Silesian German : " Oberschläsing ") is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia . Since the 9th century , ___MASK17___ has been part of ( chronologically ) Greater Moravia , the Duchy of ___MASK26___ , the Piast Kingdom of Poland , again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy ___MASK74___ , as well as of the ___MASK43___ Monarchy from 1526 . In 1742 the bulk of ___MASK17___ was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia , and in 1871 it became part of the ___MASK51___ . After the Second World War it became part of the Republic of Poland , in 1945 . The Czech ___MASK82___ , also known by the short name Czechia , is a nation state in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west , Austria to the south , Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast . The Czech ___MASK82___ covers an area of with mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate . It is a unitary parliamentary ___MASK82___ , has 10 . 5 million inhabitants and the capital and largest city is Prague , with over 1 . 2 million residents . The Czech ___MASK82___ includes the historical territories of Bohemia , Moravia , and Czech Silesia .