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	Coat of arms of East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was adopted as the GDR's coat of arms by a law of 26 September 1955, and added to the national flag by a law of 1 October 1959.
		The coat of arms was officially abolished on 31 May 1990, by a decision of the first freely-elected GDR Parliament (Volkskammer).
		In 2004 a German businessman's trademarking of the GDR coat of arms was repealed on the grounds that it was a symbol in common use to represent the regional origin of eastern German goods and services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_East_Germany (283 words)

	Germany - Simple English Wikipedia
		To the north of Germany are the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, and the country Denmark.
		To the east of Germany are the countries Poland and the Czech Republic.
		Germany was where many important people in culture were born: composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and Wagner; poets such as Goethe and Schiller; philosophers including Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche; and scientists including Einstein, Born and Planck.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Germany (1935 words)

	Flag of East Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the establishment of East Germany in 1949 to 1959, the flag of East Germany was the same as the Flag of West Germany, and the current Flag of Germany.
		The Coat of Arms was designed in 1955, and was added to the East German national flag in 1959.
		The three horizontal stripes in the flag of East Germany of fl, red and gold are the same as in the West German flag, but the state emblem of East Germany is placed in the centre, to distinguish it from the West German flag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_East_Germany (254 words)

	East Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		East Germany under Soviet influence adopted a Marxist-Leninist official ideology and became part of Warsaw Pact while West Germany influenced by the became a liberal parliamentary republic and part NATO.
		Many who had to East Germany as anti- fascists who were opposed to the quick of Nazi functionaries and industry in the found themselves captives of a dogmatic and weak state which alone was forced to reparations to the Soviet Union.
		Thus on October 3rd 1990 the East German population was the from the Eastern Bloc to join the European Union as a part of the reunified Federal Republic of Germany.
	www.freeglossary.com /East_Germany (1586 words)

	East Germany
		East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
		East Germany, under Soviet influence, adopted a Marxist-Leninist official ideology and became part of the Warsaw Pact, while West Germany, influenced by the USA, became a liberal parliamentary republic and part of NATO.
		Many who had come to East Germany as anti-fascists who were opposed to the quick reinstatement of Nazi functionaries and industry in the west found themselves captives of a dogmatic and economically weak state which, alone, was forced to pay reparations to the Soviet Union.
	www.askfactmaster.com /GDR (1610 words)

	Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The state flag is yellow on fl with the arms in the middle.
		The arms show in the upper part the arms of the former Prussian province of Saxony, which are slightly different from the ancient arms of Saxony: in the arms of Saxony, the upper bar is fl.
		The bear is taken from the original arms of the Princes of Anhalt, and represent the bear of the estate and city of Bernburg, one of the oldest possessions of the Princes of Anhalt.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-st.html (378 words)

	coat of arms
		Yet, given the free adoption of coats of arms in the Middle Ages, one must be cautious about their use and meaning for anyone in this period of history in light of Italy's rivarly between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines.
		525-526; Plate 61) states: "The arms of a priest are ensigned by a fl galero with two fl fiocchi on the brim and one fiocchi suspended on either side of the shield." Consequently, by extracting the shield from the knightly insignia of the Lapomarda coat of arms, the coat of arms was produced for Rev.
		From the consideration of the coat of arms and its heraldic origins, one is led to the study of genealogy, thereby indicating the link between the two.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/history/vlapomar/val.htm (2255 words)

	East Germany : GDR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		East Germany, formally known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)), was a Communist satellite state of the former Soviet Union which, together with West Germany, existed from 1949 to 1990 in Germany.
		East Germany was situated in the center of territory that once belonged to Germany, the place was known historically as "Mitteldeutschland" (Middle Germany).
		East Germany was heavily under the influence of the Soviet Union, becoming a Stalinist-style socialist country, and part of the Warsaw Pact.
	www.fastload.org /gd/GDR.html (980 words)

	East Germany - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Imperial Germany and later during the time of the Weimar Republic, territory that would become East Germany was situated in the center of the state.
		East Germany adopted a socialist republic and became part of the Warsaw Pact, while West Germany became a liberal parliamentary republic and part of NATO.
		East German economists and planners were well aware of the alleged strengths and weaknesses of their system of planned economy.
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/East_Germany (5219 words)

	Coat-of-Arms (Westphalia, Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Arms of Hanover were the tierced arms of Brunswick, Luneberg and Westphalia.
		The arms of Westphalia (Duchy of Westphalia and Archbishops of Cologne or Köln) had for centuries been the white horse on a red field.
		With the accession of George I to the throne of Great Britain, the Royal Arms were changed to accommodate the arms of Hanover in the fourth quarter.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de-nw-w).html (1166 words)

	The DITTON English Coat of Arms
		A coat of arms is a heraldic design used to distinguish individual families.
		This covered all the categories of official recordings of arms, most notably the Visitations of English counties conducted by the heralds in the 16th and 17th centuries and the many volumes of grants of arms from the 15th century to the present day.
		There is a slightly more complicated coat of arms listed for the Ditton in Burke's General Armory but since it is not recorded here for a family of the name it must have been borne unauthoritively.
	www.ieway.com /~leroyd/DITTON/coat_of_arms.htm (630 words)

	East Germany 1949-1990
		After republics were formed in east and west Germany and the use of their fl-red-gold flags was authorized, this flag was used less and less and it was finally abandoned in 1952.
		This flag was adopted on 1 October 1959, and continued in use as the flag of East Germany until the reunification of the Germanies on 3 October 1990 [one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall].
		The fl-red-gold with the arms (hammer and compass on a red disk surrounded by a wreath of two ears of wheat) in the center slightly overlapping the red stripe.
	www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/de-ddr.html (764 words)

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		electorate (1692-1814) and kingdom of hanover (1814-1866) (germany)
		principalities of reuss-gera and reuss-greiz 1778-1919 (reuss, germany)
		kaprijke (municipality, province of east flanders, belgium)
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/keywordc.html (1694 words)

	Coats of Arms (Family Crests) & Surname Histories
		Your source for surname ancient coat of arms and surname histories: House of Names features historically authentic arms prints and histories of last names, that are based on over 35 years of research.
		Our coat of arms prints were drawn to heraldic standards, by artists, based on the blazon of the earliest known arms associated with a surname.
		The source materials used for our coats of arms and histories were chosen for their reliability and authenticity.
	houseofnames.com /xq/asp/s.Schrimpf/.../qx/coatofarms_details.htm (702 words)

	East Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Richard East who landed with his family in Virginia in 1623; Francis East settled in Tobago, on one of the southern islands, and Benjamin East landed in Pennsylvania in 1682.
		We have researched the East family crest in the most recognized sources of coats of arms.
		In the East coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.familycrest_details/s.East/East_family_Crest/East_coat_of_arms/qx/East.htm?a=54323-224 (480 words)

	Basic Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The country, often simply referred to as East Germany, was established out of the post-World War II Soviet occupation zone on October 7, 1949.
		The national flag was fl, red, and gold with a coat of arms that showed a hammer and compass in a ring of rye, symbolizing the working class, intelligentsia, and peasants.
		East Berlin, the capital of the GDR, was the biggest city with 1.2 million inhabitants.
	www.denison.edu /modlangs/german/GDRwebsite/basicfacts.html (239 words)

	Germany
		In 1990 many changes took place in Germany, one of those being that East and West Germany were unified, both economically and politically.
		Germany's government consists of an elected Federal President, and a Federal Chancellor, who is appointed by one of the houses of the parliament.
		The coat of arms carries an eagle emblem and has been used since the ancient Romans introduced it into Germany.
	pt3.sbu.edu /VFTs/Europe/germany.htm (132 words)

	Prints Old & Rare - Germany page
		Title is "Bavariae Superioris et Inferioris, nova descriptio." The title is in a decorative frame in the upper right corner, and a coat of arms is in the upper left corner.
		Beautifully hand colored, engraved map of greater Germany, as it was divided and organized according to the Vienna Congress of 1816.
		The island of Rugen, and the adjacent Stralsund County are shown as Swedish possessions.
	www.printsoldandrare.com /germany (1898 words)

	Browne coat of arms
		Arms of Browne of the Tribes of Galway
		Arms of Browne of Killarney, Earls of Kenmare
		The Brouns of East Lothian claim descent from the ancient royal house France.
	www.araltas.com /features/browne (3785 words)

	Schrimpf Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		The colorful history of Brandenburg-Prussia, which is essentially the birthplace of modern Germany, provides a glimpse at the oldest origins of the Schrimpf family.
		In the 6th century, the German territories were inhabited by Saxons in north central Germany, East Franks along the lower Rhine, Thuringians between them, Bavarians along the middle Danube, and Swabians between the upper Rhine and Upper Danube and along the Northern Alps.
		Similar to East Prussia, West Prussia was originally a Prussian territory under the duchy of Pomerelien, but it was incorporated into the Empire of the Teutonic Knights, in 1309.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp/s.Schrimpf/schrimpf_family_Crest/schrimpf_coat_of_arms/qx/coatofarms_details.htm (1975 words)

	Hopkirk's of Dalkeith(Page51) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Below is the Coat of Arms of Thomas HOPKIRK, christened 22 Jan 1716 in Glasgow.
		You will notice that the Coat of Arms says that John Hopkirck originally came from Germany, but that was almost two hundred years before the Coat of Arms was created.
		It is possible that his parents brought him from Germany at a young age, or that somewhere in the family history there was a German connection and it got confused in the telling down through the years.
	www.hopkirk.org /hopkirk/Page51.html (426 words)

	ScienceDaily: Coat of arms of east germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Look for Coat of arms of east germany in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/coat_of_arms_of_east_germany (923 words)

	The Coat of Arms - von Arnswald
		The source of the family von Arnswald and their related kin along with an interpretation of coat of arms.
		While the names of the holders of our coat of arms are mostly an indication of place, only the family name von Geylfuz is valuable for ancestor research.
		Their coat of arms however was different, red coloured and decorated with the heads of boars at the bend and the helmet.
	www.arnswald.de /englisch/wappen.htm (512 words)

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		Coats of arms have been extensively discussed, both here and in other collegia, but I thought that the things around the shield were worth talking about, too.
		While the plume was occasionally proper, it could also be tinctured like the field of the coat of arms, or in the tinctures of the field and the primary charge of the coat of arms.
		The coat of arms, in the shape of a shield, dangles from a branch by a strap, and a helm with its crest is hung on another.
	pages.ripco.net /~clevin/froofroo.html (1812 words)

	[No title]
		Germany is comprised of 357,022 square kilometers of a very diverse landscape.
		Germany is prone to rapid changes in the weather because of the merge of the Gulf Stream over it and the extreme northeast climate.
		In August of 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected to separate East and West Berlin.
	www.umary.edu /faculty/jlbrud/POL316/Countries/Germany.htm (1274 words)

	House of Gebauer - Coat of Arms
		You can adopt any arms you choose and use them however you want (unless you infringe on someone's trademark, which is an entirely different subject that has been beaten to death on this newsgroup so please don't ask about it); but you have no particular right to those arms or any other.
		Coats of arms are described in a technical language, devised over the centuries by heralds, with the aim of describing even the most complex coats concisely and unambiguously.
		This rule was used to ensure that coats of arms could be easily recognised at a distance or in the heat of battle.
	www.gebauer.demon.co.uk /1Gebauer/Arms (3771 words)

	The Coat Of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is not a "new" coat of arms, it is the ancient ancestral arms with a mark of cadency, usefully showing the cadet's place within the family.
		The arms are those of the Chief, and clansmen have only the privilege of wearing the strap-and-buckle crested badge to show they are such Chief's clansmen.
		When a grant, or matriculation, of arms is successfully obtained, an illuminated parchment, narrating the pedigree as proved, is supplied to the Petitioner, and a duplicate is recorded in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland and/or the Public Register of Genealogies and Birthbrieves.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/ClanDunlop/arms.htm (1268 words)

	Phelps Family Arms, Crest, and Shield
		Tewkesbury family, "Our arms is a fl sable lion chained and rampant." He says again: "I observe the Irish family and the John Delafield Phelps family, of Salisbury, both offshoots of the Tewkesbury Phelps family.
		The latter family, of which John Phelps, the clerk of the court that convicted Charles 1, was a descendant, have adopted a coat of arms given them doubtless by Cromwell, consisting of a wolf salient between crosses crosslets.
		The coat of arms of this family is a lion rampant, six crosses or crosslets.
	family.phelpsinc.com /arms/index.html (1210 words)

	Ziller Family Coat of Arms
		Instead coats of arms were granted to individuals and when passed on to next generations, modifications had to be done unless the heir was the eldest son.
		After sending a copy of this crest to a heraldic organization in Germany they replied that this crest, like many other "unofficial" crests are the work of artists who were paid to create a coat of arms.
		Another arm of the aristocracy originated in the Peasants' War in 1525 in Franken near Eschenbach-Schlat and around 1604 lost their aristocratic standing.
	homepages.kdsi.net /~aziller/Ziller_Crest.html (638 words)

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