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Hamburg: Encyclopedia II - List of postal codes in Germany - Hamburg

List of postal codes in Germany - 20000-20999. 20001-20999 - Hamburg 20253 - Hamburg List of postal codes in Germany - 21000-21999. 21001-21149 - Hamburg Postal codes over 21450 through 21499 are in Schleswig Holstein List of postal codes in Germany - 22 ...

Hamburg: Encyclopedia II - Hamburg - History

The city takes its name from the first permanent building on the site, a fort that Charlemagne ordered built as a defence against Slavic incursion. The fort went up in 808 on some rocky ground in a marsh between the Alster and the Elbe. It was named Hamma Burg, where the "burg" means "fort." The "Hamma" element remains uncertain. Old High German includes both a hamma, "angle" and a hamme, "pastureland." The angle might refer to a spit of land or to the curvature of a river. However, the language spoken might not have been Old H ...

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1945 - Ongoing events

1945 - Science and technology

1945 - September-October

1945 - November-December

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - 1972

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. 1972 - Events. International year of the book January 2 - The Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million. January 4 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London. January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space sh ...

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - 1927

1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China Including:

1927 - Events

1927 - April-June

1927 - July-September

1927 - October-December

1927 - September-November

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – ca. March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her family had moved to Amsterdam after the Nazis gained power in Germany but were trapped when the Nazi occupation extended into The Netherlands. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in Otto Frank's office building. A ...

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Anne Frank - Early life

Anne Frank - The period chronicled in the diary

Anne Frank - Life in the Achterhuis

Anne Frank - Arrest and concentration camps

Anne Frank - The Diary of A Young Girl

Anne Frank - Publication of the diary

Anne Frank - Praise for Anne Frank and the Diary

Anne Frank - Denials and legal action

Anne Frank - Legacy

Anne Frank - Anne Frank related

Anne Frank - Holocaust and World War II related

Anne Frank - Anne Frank in popular culture

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - 1938

1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1938 - Events. January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 5 - H.R.H. Prince Juan Carlos of Spain is born. January 11 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 - Wedding of King Farouk I of Egypt and Queen Farida Zulficar in Cairo January 28 - The first ski tow in America be ...

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1938 - Events

1938 - April-June

1938 - July-September

1938 - October-December

1938 - Unknown dates

1938 - Ongoing events

1938 - Births

1938 - January-February

1938 - March-April

1938 - May-July

1938 - August-October

1938 - November-December

1938 - Fictional

1938 - Deaths

1938 - Nobel Prizes

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia II - Music school - Prominent music schools

Music school - Argentina. Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música Music school - Austria. Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance [1] University Mozarteum Salzburg [2] Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien [3] Music school - Australia. Australian Institute of Music (Sydney) Australian National University School of Music (Canberra) Centra ...

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Alexandre-Théodore-Victor comte de Lameth - Reference

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Altmark

Altmark is a region in Germany, between Hamburg and Magdeburg, the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt (the districts of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and Stendal). Altmark - Geography. The region is rural and covered with forests. The most important towns are Salzwedel and Stendal. Altmark - Rivers and lakes. Elbe Biese Havel Uchte Milde Jeetzel Arendsee Altmark - History. T ...

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Altmark - Geography

Altmark - Rivers and lakes

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Angela Merkel

Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel (born July 17, 1954) is the current Chancellor of Germany. As chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) she leads a coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The coalition was formed after two months of negotiations following the 2005 federal election. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, has been the chairwoman of the CDU since 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliament ...

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Angela Merkel - Background

Angela Merkel - Leader of the Opposition

Angela Merkel - Political platform

Angela Merkel - Comparisons

Angela Merkel - Candidacy for Chancellor

Angela Merkel - Chancellor

Angela Merkel - Merkel's Cabinet

Angela Merkel - Quotations

Angela Merkel - Trivia

Angela Merkel - Published works

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Altona

Altona may refer to various places: Altona, Victoria, a seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Altona, Illinois, a village located in Knox County, Illinois Altona, Indiana, a town located in DeKalb County, Indiana Altona, Hamburg, the westmost district in the city of Hamburg, Germany Altona, Manitoba, a town located in southern Manitoba, Canada Altona, New York, a town in Clinton County, New York a district of the town Eldena in Mecklenburg, Germany

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck (born March 28, 1928) was one of the most important mathematicians active in the 20th century. He was also one of its most extreme scientific personalities, with achievements over a short span of years that are still scarcely credible in their broad scope and sheer bulk, and an approach that antagonised even close followers. He made major contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and functional analysis. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and co-awarded the Crafoord Prize with Pierre Delig ...

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Alexander Grothendieck - Mathematical achievements

Alexander Grothendieck - Major mathematical topics from Récoltes et Semailles

Alexander Grothendieck - Life

Alexander Grothendieck - Childhood and studies

Alexander Grothendieck - Politics and retreat from scientific community

Alexander Grothendieck - Manuscripts written in the 1980s

Alexander Grothendieck - Disappearance

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́ррьевич Шни́тке, November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian- German Jewish composer. His father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of Russian origin who had moved to the USSR in 1926, and his mother was a Volga German born in Russia. Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of the RSFSR, Soviet Union. He began his musical education in 1946 in Vienna where his father, a journalist and translator, had been poste ...

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - AirBaltic

airBaltic is the Latvian national airline, based in the capital of Latvia, Rīga. Its main base is Riga International Airport (RIX), with a secondary hub in Vilnius, Lithuania. The president and CEO of the airline is Bertolt Flick. AirBaltic - Code Data. IATA Code: BT ICAO Code: BTI Callsign: Air Baltic AirBaltic - History. The airline was established on 28 August 1995 with the signing of a joint venture between Scandinavian Ai ...

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AirBaltic - Code Data

AirBaltic - History

AirBaltic - Destinations

AirBaltic - Fleet

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Advent wreath

An advent wreath is a ring or set of four candles, usually made with evergreen cuttings and used for household devotion by some Christians during the season of Advent. Many churches illuminate these candles in succession through the four weeks leading up to Christmas as part of their Sunday services for Advent. Typically, three of the candles are violet-coloured, and one is rose-coloured. Increasingly, due to changes in the Church's lectionary in the United States, all four candles may be violet. When used in household devotion ...

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Grock

Grock (January 10, 1880, Reconvilier, Switzerland - July 14, 1959, Imperia, Italy), original name Karl (Charles) Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss circus clown whose blunders with the piano and the violin became proverbial. The son of a watchmaker, he became an amateur acrobat and was allowed to spend each summer with a circus, where he performed first as a tumbler and then as a violinist, pianist, and xylophonist. He became the partner of a clown named Brick and changed his name to Grock in 1903. Together they appeared in Fra ...

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Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker is one of the oldest brand names in the manufacture of electric guitars. The firm is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, and all of its production takes place there. Of the "Big Three" American electric guitar makers (Fender, Gibson, and Rickenbacker), it alone does not put its brand name on instruments manufactured by other, usually East Asian, firms. Rickenbacker - Founding. The company was founded as the Electro String Instrument Corporation by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in ...

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Rickenbacker - Founding

Rickenbacker - Early history

Rickenbacker - Popularity of guitars

Rickenbacker - Basses

Rickenbacker - Bass popularity

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Aerial bombing of cities

The aerial bombing of cities became a common tactic in World War II. Aerial bombing of cities - Italian-Turkish War of 1911-1912. The very first aerial act of aggression occurred during the Italian-Turkish War of 1911-1912 in North Africa. Italy had been using aircraft to monitor enemy troop movements and search for Turkish artillery positions. One Italian pilot, a Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, realized that the airplane could be used for more than simple reconnaissance. The event occurred over a ...

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Aerial bombing of cities - Italian-Turkish War of 1911-1912

Aerial bombing of cities - Balkan Wars

Aerial bombing of cities - World War I

Aerial bombing of cities - Inter war years 1919–1938

Aerial bombing of cities - World War II

Aerial bombing of cities - Is aerial bombardment state terrorism?

Aerial bombing of cities - The Cold War

Aerial bombing of cities - Aerial bombing since World War II

Aerial bombing of cities - Notes

Hamburg: Encyclopedia - Air-raid shelter

Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air. Air-raid shelter - The characteristics of the structures serving as air raid shelters in World War Two. Air raid shelters were built specifically to serve as protection against enemy air raids. However, pre-existing edifices designed for other functions, such as underground stations (tube or subway stations), tunnels, or cellars in houses, basements in larger establis ...