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  Carl Ritter - Definition, explanation
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779, Quedlinburg – September 28, 1859, Berlin) was, along with his fellow German Alexander von Humboldt, one of the founders of modern geography (and of the Berlin Geographical Society).
Ritter was one of six children, son of a well-respected doctor, F. Ritter.
Ritter's masterwork, the 19-volume Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen (The Science of the Earth in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), written 1817-1859, developed at prodigious length the theme of the influence of the physical environment on human activity.
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  Carl Ritter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779, Quedlinburg – September 28, 1859, Berlin) was, along with his fellow German Alexander von Humboldt, one of the founders of modern geography (and of the Berlin Geographical Society).
Ritter was one of six children, son of a well-respected doctor, F. Ritter.
Ritter's masterwork, the 19-volume Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen (The Science of the Earth in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), written 1817-1859, developed at prodigious length the theme of the influence of the physical environment on human activity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Ritter   (419 words)

  
 Carl Ritter von Ghega - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carl Ritter von Ghega or Carl von Ghega.
Construction of the Semmeringbahn was begun in 1848, and in 1851, before its completion in 1854, he became a knight (Ritter).
Carl Ritter von Ghega was next assigned to the building of a railway in Transylvania, but he could not see this project to its end because of his death in Vienna from tuberculosis.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Carl_Ritter_von_Ghega   (304 words)

  
 Carl Ritter von Ghega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Ritter von Ghega, drawn by Joseph Kriehuber, 1851
Carl Ritter von Ghega or Carl von Ghega.
Carl Ritter von Ghega was next assigned to the building of a railway in Transylvania, but he could not see this project to its end because of his death in Vienna from tuberculosis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carl_Ritter_von_Ghega   (340 words)

  
 Carl Ritter Summary
Ritter was born the son of a physician on August 7, 1779, in Quedlinburg, Germany.
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859) was a German geographer.
Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a well-respected doctor, F. Ritter.
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 Phoenix - Movies - THE BIG BANG THEORYWHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO BLOW UP CARL RITTER'S CAR? - phoenixnewtimes.com
Ritter said there was considerable animosity between the households; in 1988, after five years of legal wrangling, Ritter won from his ex-wife the custody of their daughter, Rebekah.
Ritter suspected that either Ginger's husband or her son had planted the bomb to intimidate or kill him.
She told him Vosecky often talked about his hatred for Ritter and expressed a desire to "blow him away." She also remembered seeing gunpowder and pipe in Vosecky's bedroom, and she told police he told her he sometimes experimented with making bombs from PVC pipe and gunpowder and detonated them in the desert.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/1992-12-23/film/film_full.html   (1955 words)

  
 Carl Ritter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carl Ritter (in German: Karl Ritter) (August 7, 1779, Quedlinburg – September 28, 1859, Berlin) was, along with his fellow German Alexander von Humboldt, one of the founders of modern geography (and of the Berlin Geographical Society).
Ritter was one of six children, son of a well-respected doctor, F.W. Ritter.
His organic conception of the state was used to jusitiy the pursuit of lebensraum, even at the cost of another nation's existence, because conquest was seen as a biological necessity for a state’s growth.
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 Carl Ritter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ritter was one of six children, son of a well-respected (A licensed medical practitioner) doctor, F.W. Ritter.
After completion of his schooling, Ritter was introduced to Bethmann Hollweg, a banker in (The capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky) Frankfort.
It was arranged that Ritter should become (A person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting)) tutor to Hollweg's children, but that in the meantime he should attend university at his patrons expense.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carl_ritter.htm   (313 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Carl Ritter, 87; former financial editor, columnist at the Union
Ritter coached his three sons in Little League and once appealed to Cajon de Oro Little League officials to let him add his then-14-year-old stepdaughter, Carol Pierce, as an assistant coach.
Ritter had played on the semi-pro level in Ohio, was a lifelong passion.
Ritter recalled that brief interview in a column, which was accompanied by a photo he had taken of the Indian leader.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20031028-9999_1m28ritter.html   (842 words)

  
 T6-11 - Carl Friedrich Benz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Diesen Namen änderte er später in Carl Friedrich Benz.
Deshalb versuchte Carls Mutter ihn immer von der Eisenbahn fernzuhalten.
April 1929 starb Carl Friedrich Benz mit 85 Jahren in Ladenburg.
www.carl-benz-auto.de /html/biographie.html   (591 words)

  
 Nunatsiaq News
CARL RITTER BAY — Picturesque and immensely isolated, Ellesmere Island’s northern coast may also be very rich in minerals.
A decision not to return to Carl Ritter could mean a wind-down in High Arctic exploration and mining — at least, in the near future.
Cominco has set up camp in Carl Ritter Bay this summer, in what some say is a last ditch effort to find a new large deposit in the High Arctic.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut000731/nvt20728_16.html   (1002 words)

  
 Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (www.whonamedit.com)
Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt was the son of a poor mining smith.
He had a rough childhood and study time, attending the gymnasium in Leitmeritz and the University of Prague.
His son, born December 28, 1842 in Prague, also named Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt, followed his father into the discipline of ophthalmology.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/273.html   (784 words)

  
 Carl Ritter Article, CarlRitter Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 - September 28, 1859)was, along with his fellow German Alexander von Humboldt, one of the founders of modern geography (and of the Berlin Geographical Society).
Ritter's masterwork, the 19-volume Die Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen (TheScience of the Earth in Relation to Nature and the History of Mankind), written 1817 -1859, developed at prodigious lengththe theme of the influence of the physical environment on human activity.
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Carl Albert posing with Rosemary and Janet Russell.
Carl Albert seated at a dinner table and talking with an unidentified man. Gerald R. Ford is seated nearby.
Carl Albert standing with an unidentified man at the podium during his birthday party and Tom Steed is pictured in the background, 1976.
www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/PhotoInventory/Albtph5.htm   (4011 words)

  
 Carbiz Continues Expansion With Auto Credit Center in Downtown St. Petersburg
SARASOTA, Fla.--Dec. 15, 2004--Carl Ritter, Chief Executive Officer of Carbiz Inc. ("Carbiz" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CZ) is pleased to announce that Carbiz, in continuing its Florida expansion announced in October, has opened a Carbiz Auto Credit Center in downtown St. Petersburg.
Ritter announced in October that the Company had closed financing to accelerate expansion in Florida, beginning in the Tampa Bay area, as the Company seeks a listing on the U.S. Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
Ritter also announced that Carbiz has granted an aggregate 637,891 options to directors and officers of the Company.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2004/12/15/304166.html   (446 words)

  
 History of Mt. Ritter
Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states, is named, studied geography in Berlin and learned of the science of modern geography from Karl (Carl) Ritter.
He approached Mt. Ritter from the west and began his ascent via the western glacier that flows from the Ritter/Banner saddle into Lake Catherine.
Strong, fast and dedicated climbers have day-hiked Mt. Ritter, but the thought of an eighteen-to-twenty-mile day involving roughly 12,000' of gross elevation change does not appeal to me, at least.
www.mtritter.org /bigmtrit.html   (1248 words)

  
 Nunatsiaq News
CARL RITTER BAY — After three weeks of climbing mountains, P.J. Akeeagok, 15, and Pauline Akeeagok, 19, have benefitted from a strenuous work-out and a first-hand understanding of what geologists do.
The two young residents of Grise Fiord were hired by the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) this summer as field assistants to help rock scientists from the GSC in their mapping of the region around Carl Ritter Bay on northeast Ellesmere Island.
The presence of P.J. and Pauline, as well as several prominently placed Nunavut flags around the camp, kept the 16 or so residents of the camp aware of where they were, although Carl Ritter Bay is hundreds of kilometers from the nearest Nunavut community of Grise Fiord.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut000731/nvt20728_13.html   (689 words)

  
 Broadway To Vegas September 1, 2002
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter, the beloved singing cowboy, who got first big break starring on Broadway, was born in the Carthage Murvaul Community of Panola County, Texas.
Ritter began his singing career at radio station KPRC in Houston in 1929.
Tommie Ritter Smith, Tommy Ritter, Texas Country Hall of Famer Charlie Walker, who was contracted by the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas as an MC 25 weeks a year during the 1960s.
www.broadwaytovegas.com /September1,2002.html   (2725 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Beard Mary Ritter
Beard, Mary Ritter (1876-1958), historian and feminist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and educated at DePauw University.
American Literature: Prose: Mary Ritter Beard, American historian
Traditional views of American history were presented by historians Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard in The Rise of American Civilization...
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 Carl Ritter Von Dombrowski ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jacques Antony Chovin, Der Tod zum Ritter (Death to the Knight), on page 41 in the book Todten Tans (Dance of Death) (Basel: Birmann und Sˆhne, ca.
Carl Armin Hansen, Men of the Sea, 1937
Peter Carl FabergÈ, Travelling Box for Tea Table, ca.
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 Panoramio - Photo of Our Camp at Carl Ritter Bay in 2000
Panoramio - Photo of Our Camp at Carl Ritter Bay in 2000
Our Camp at Carl Ritter Bay in 2000
Hi found this interesting photo of Our Camp at Carl Ritter Bay in 2000: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14302 Regards, Photos of the World at http://www.panoramio.com/
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 Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Prominent environmental determinists included Carl Ritter, Ellen Churchill Semple, and Ellsworth Huntington.
Cultural ecology grew out of the work of Carl Sauer in geography and a similar school of thought in anthropology.
But in the United States, it has a more specialized meaning: This is the name given by Carl Ortwin Sauer of the University of California, Berkeley to his program of reorganizing cultural geography (some say all geography) along regional lines, beginning in the first decades of the 20th Century.
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 Antone Ritter's Guestbook
Olive Blanche Ritter was my grandmother and her marriage to Ed Stokesbury produced 4 children and her marriage to WS Van Trump produced 2 children.
Israel Ritter (1849)Liberty, Tioga, Pennsylvania--would be Olive's grandfather his wife was Mary J. Scheffer (1853)married 1872 and married and born in Liberty, Tioga, Pennsylvania and his great grandfather was Emanuel Ritter and his wife was Margaret Brantmuller.
I am searching for a George Ritter who was a USAF aviation cadet (the class was 58 Mike) He did not complete the training but was an accomplished pilot even before entering.
www.netxroad.com /antone/guestbook.htm   (5343 words)

  
 Carl Ritter Von Dombrowski ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Jacques Antony Chovin, Der Tod zum Ritter (Death to the Knight), on page 41 in the book Todten Tans (Dance of Death) (Basel: Birmann und Sˆhne, ca.
Carl Armin Hansen, Men of the Sea, 1937
Carl H. Heath, When Two Ride Upon One Horse, One Must Ride Behind, 1830
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 Alibris: Karl Ritter
by Waggerl, Karl Heinrich, and Dombrowski, Ernst, Ritter von
Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate Novara, (Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) undertaken by order of the imperial government, in the years l857,1858, & 1859, under the immediate auspices of His I. and R. Highness...
by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von, and Wüllerstorf-Urbair, Bernhard, Freiherr von, and Humboldt, Alexander von
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ritter,Karl   (147 words)

  
 St. John Church Records - Saginaw, MI
HENNING: Carl Christian Johann, son of Johann Joachim Christian HENNING and wife Margarethe Sophie Elisabeth Marie, nee NEUERMANN.
RITTER: Johannes Friedrich, son of Fritz RITTER and wife Dorothea nee BUETTO (BUETOW?) of Saginaw, Michigan, East Side.
LENZ +, Carl Edward, daughter and son of Joseph LENZ and wife Margaretha nee GLEITER.
www.petersenprints.com /html/stjohnbook.htm   (9369 words)

  
 GEO 466/566: von Humboldt & Ritter
Another great scholar of that very same age was Carl Ritter.
Ritter was born in 1779, ten years after von Humboldt
-much of Ritter's instruction was carried out by a geographer, who encouraged Ritter to draw conclusions based on his observations
www.valpo.edu /geomet/geo/courses/geo466/topics/humboldt.html   (1803 words)

  
 Crenshaw Dupree & Milam, L.L.P. - Attorney Profiles
Christopher C. Ritter is a partner at Crenshaw, Dupree and Milam with a civil litigation practice primarily consisting of insurance defense work.
A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Mr.
Ritter has practiced in the Texas panhandle since being admitted to the State Bar of Texas in November 1998.
cdmlaw.lawoffice.com /profiles/3187254   (255 words)

  
 Letters of Franz Liszt - To Alexander Ritter in Stettin.
In Carl's Sonatas [Carl Ritter], which I have read with much interest, there is a decidedly musical germ; only I hope that by degrees more juicy fruit may spring from it.
Cornelius is bringing his completed opera back to Weymar at the end of this month.
Use and reproduction of this material is governed by Globusz Publishing's standard terms and conditions.
www.globusz.com /ebooks/Liszt/00000202.htm   (373 words)

  
 A comet sketch by C. C. Bruhns
A sketch of comet C/1874 H1 (Coggia) by Carl Christian Bruhns (1830-1881)
In the course of my work on the Catalogue of Comet Discoveries an essential part is the investigation of historic records of comet observations.
"Mr consul general Clauss invites for Saturday the 4th of October, evenings at 6 to a meeting of the committee of the Leipzig Carl Ritter Foundation at the new observatory.
www.comethunter.de /bruhns   (1073 words)

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