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  Encyclopedia: New Brunswick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The coat of arms of New Brunswick Officially known as The Arms of Her Majesty in Right of the Province of New Brunswick, New Brunswicks coat of arms was begun when the shield and motto in the achievement were granted on May 26, 1868 by Queen Victoria.
New Brunswick is bounded on the north by Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and Chaleur Bay and on the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait.
Following Confederation, New Brunswick suffered the effects of an economic downturn precipitated by the Great Fire of 1877 in Saint John and the decline of the sailing shipbuilding industry, and compounded by the global recession sparked by the Panic of 1893.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Brunswick   (10275 words)

  
 Electorate (1692-1814) and Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866) (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The house of Brunswick or Guelph [Welf] family (...) was divided in 1546 into two branches, the senior line of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel that ruled over the duchy of Brunswick and the younger line of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg which ruled over Hanover.
(...) Both branches used in their arms the two lions of Brunswick (said to be granted by the English king to his son in law, the duke of Brunswick in the thirteenth century), the blue lion of Lüneburg and the white horse [on red] of (Lower) Saxony.
The smaller shield shows the arms of Brunswick, Lüneburg and the duchy of Saxony — the horse is supposed to be Widukinds emblem.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-ha_kd.html   (1150 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Minden
With the papal nomination of Louis of Brunswick (1324-46) began the unedifying and detrimental series of conflicts between pope and chapter as to the nomination to the see.
Wulbrand, Count of Hallermund (1406-36), endeavoured to bring order out of confusion; his successor, Albert II von Hoya, as coadjutor and as bishop (1436-73), was involved in a long dispute with Osnabrück and the Duke of Brunswick.
The last bishop but one, Christian of Brunswick (1599-1633, a Protestant), troubled himself little about his diocese, and ruled it from his paternal estates.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10323a.htm   (1127 words)

  
 Composer Biographies -Classical 102.1 KDFC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
History: Kuhlau was the son of a poor military bandsman and moved with his family to L?neburg about 1793, where in 1796 he lost his right eye in a fall in the street.
After brief periods in Altona and Brunswick, the family settled in Hamburg in 1802 or 1803.
You are entitled to use this material (the Work) for the purpose of reasonable personal research only.
www.kdfc.com /new/composers_detail.cfm?id=439   (1861 words)

  
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Charles L Knutson wrote: > I just gor Bell's The Board Game Book (1979) as a present, and was loking > at a game called "Zodiac" that he says is in Alphonso X's book of games.
At 07:41 27.12.97 -0600, Charles L Knutson wrote: >I just gor Bell's The Board Game Book (1979) as a present, and was loking >at a game called "Zodiac" that he says is in Alphonso X's book of games.
Dear Subscribers, last month, I bought a six-sided teetotum, showing on its six faces the letters S.Z S.D N.A N.H N.D L.S A teetotum is a little gyro(scope), to be spun on a table, which will fall on one of its sides, therefore an equivalent to a common die.
www.pbm.com /pipermail/hist-games/1998.txt   (20084 words)

  
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Furthermore there are seven independent towns, which don't belong to any district:
# Chemnitz Kamjenica (C) # Dresden Drježdźany (DD) # Görlitz Zhorjelc (GR) (didn't belong to Saxony 1815-1945) # Hoyerswerda Wojerecy (HY) (decided to accompany Saxony in 1990) # Leipzig Lipsk (L) # Plauen (PL) # Zwickau (Z) Economy
Saxony has been considered to have the most vibrant economy among the former GDR states.
www.everybase.com /Saxony   (1318 words)

  
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Friedrich was born on 24 January 1712, the eldest son of king Friedrich Wilhelm I. (1688-1740) and Sophia Dorothea (1687-1757), daughter of Georg Ludwig (1660-1727), later elector of Brunswick - Lüneburg (Hanover) (1698) and king of Great Britain (1714), and Georg's first cousin, Sophie Dorothea (1666-1726) of Brunswick - Lьneburg - Celle.
His father devised a scheme of education for him that was intended to make him a hardy soldier and that prescribed every detail of his conduct.
www.soldiers-russia.com /new_soldiers/1812/friedrich.htm   (1156 words)

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