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	Eder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It rises from the Ederkopf mountain in western North Rhine-Westphalia near the springs of the Lahn and Sieg rivers.
		Unlike the Lahn and Sieg, that are both tributaries of the Rhine, the Eder flows east and north and into the river Fulda.
		Strangely, residents on Eder are fond of the Merkur Scorpio, a German luxury car that has been adopted as the vehicle of choice by small asian gentlemen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eder (309 words)

	Weser River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Weser is a river in north-western Germany.
		On the opposite (west) bank is the town of Nordenham at the foot of the Butjadingen Peninsula, which places the rivers mouth in Lower Saxony.
		A large reservoir on the Eder river, the main tributary of the Fulda, is used to regulate water levels on the Weser so as to ensure adequate depth for shipping throughout the year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weser_River (457 words)

	Operation Downwood
		The dams were to be three key dams in the Ruhr area, the Moehne[?] and the Sorpe[?] on the Ruhr River[?] and the Eder Dam[?] on the Eder River[?].
		The first was to set distance, the two key dams Moehne and Eder had two equidistant towers along their length, a simple wood triangle with a sight at one apex and two posts at the others could be used by the bomb-aimer to accurately judge the distance.
		The Moehne and Eder lakes poured around 330 million tons of water into the western Ruhr region, mines were flooded and houses, factories, roads, railways and bridges destroyed as the flood waters spread for around 50 miles from the source.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Dambusters.html (1428 words)

	Guardian Century \| 1940-1949 \| R.A.F. breach giant dams
		The floods from the Eder dam, breached in two places, are already as great as the floods in the Ruhr valley, but the country here is flatter and the water is likely to spread over a greater area.
		River and canal traffic is of vital importance to all the industries of the Ruhr.
		The primary object of the reservoir is to store water to compensate the River Weser for water taken from it for the huge Mittelland Canal, the main artery for water-borne traffic from west to east and the link between all the main navigable rivers west of Berlin.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127593,00.html (939 words)

	Eder river in Germany tributary of the Fulda River Fulda... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Eder river in Germany tributary of the Fulda River Fulda...
		"Eder", river in Germany, tributary of the Fulda River Fulda River.
		A dam (44 m high, 400 m long) completed in 1914 near the small town of Waldeck Waldeck created a large reservoir (Edersee Edersee) used to generate hydro-electricity and to regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser Weser river.
	www.biodatabase.de /Eder (134 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| RAF breach giant German dams
		The Eder, which controls the head waters of the Wener and Fulda valleys and operates several power stations, is also breached.
		A partial reconnaissance of the Ruhr Valley and the district near the Eder dam in daylight yesterday showed that the floods caused by the attacks on the three dams are spreading fast, said a report from the Air Ministry Service last night.
		Before the construction of the Eder dam -the reservoir is the largest in Germany and contains 202,000,000 tons of water - the rivers Eder and Weser regularly caused serious floods.
	www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,12269,957618,00.html (1515 words)

	Velociped
		The rivers Eder, Sieg and Lahn originate in the Rothaargebirge at a height of 620m.
		Today you have much time to spend at the dam of the Eder because after only 25 km of cycling you arrive in the heart of Fritzlar, the emperor´s and cathedral town.
		You discovered the whole course of the river from the spring in the mountains Rothaargebirge to the mouth.
	www.velociped.de /eng/data/contentseite.php?menu_id=370 (530 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Tim Eder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tim A. Eder, Vice-Chair, was also appointed to the Board of County Road Commissioners in January 2005, filling the remaining two-year term vacated by Pamela G. Byrnes at the end of 2004 upon winning her election to the seat of Michigan State Representative, 52nd District.
		Eder 's work is aimed at protecting and restoring water resources in the Great Lakes and across the nation.
		Eder currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and in December 2004 completed a six year term of service with the Chelsea United Way, including one year as President.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Eder_Tim_1025124.htm (443 words)

	BHLA - Guide to the Brethren in Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Conrad Beissel, the founder of the Ephrata Community, was born in 1690 at Eberbach on the Neckar River east of the city.
		A few yards west of the Hüttenthal, the road commands an excellent view of the Eder Valley, the river, the town of Schwarzenau, and the surrounding hills.
		The concluding session of the 250th Anniversary celebration was held on the bank of the Eder next to the Herrenhaus near the old bridge.
	www.brethren.org /genbd/bhla/BrethrenInEurope.html (1934 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Eder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		EDER [Eder], river, c.110 mi (180 km) long, rising near Siegen, central Germany, and flowing E to the Fulda River.
		The Eder dam, at Hemfurth, impounds one of the largest reservoirs in Germany; it has a hydroelectric power plant.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Eder" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Eder.asp (139 words)

	Eder
		This is a 4-day ride 93-mile (150 km) following the Eder River Valley through a particularly picturesque area of Central Germany known as Hessisches Bergland.
		Annually, several members of the Church of the Brethren conduct baptisms in the Eder River here where one of their founders was also baptized in 1708.
		With royal consent, and with that of the pope previously given, he in 754 resigned the Archdiocese of Mainz to his disciple Lullus, whom in 752 he had consecrated bishop, again commenced a missionary tour, and laboured with success to the East of the Zuider Zee.
	www.bicyclegermany.com /eder.htm (4941 words)

	aboutus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Remember that it was the Eder River in Germany where Alexander Mack and seven others were baptized.
		The name Camp Eder was chosen because this is 'a place of beginnings' as written in the 1957 District Conference minutes.
		The original Camp Eder property comprised of 155 acres of land purchased from the Rev. Amos W. Geigley, a Mennonite minister residing near Fairfield, Pennsykvania, for $1.00.
	www.campeder.org /aboutus.htm (747 words)

	Search Results for "Fulda"
		It is an industrial, rail, and cultural center.
		..., river, c.110 mi (180 km) long, rising near Siegen, central Germany, and flowing E to the Fulda River.
		The Eder dam, at Hemfurth, impounds one of the largest reservoirs...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Fulda (277 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 17 \| 1943: RAF raid smashes German dams
		The targets were three huge water barrage dams - two on the rivers Möhne and Sorpe, and a third on the River Eder.
		The Eder dam - the largest in Europe - was also breached in two places.
		The power station at the Möhne dam has been swept away, rivers are in full flood, and railway and road bridges have disappeared.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/17/newsid_3623000/3623223.stm (720 words)

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		The III Corps was to attack to the northwest to clear the area bounded by the LENNE RIVER on the south and the RUHR RIVER on the north.
		The III Corps was to attack to the northwest on 5 April to clear the LANNE RIVER on the south and the RUHR RIVER on the north.
		On 17 April, Combat Command "R" was relieved in its sector along the RUHR and LANNE RIVERS at 1200 by the 5th Infantry Division and began to move to the division assembly area.
	home.comcast.net /~johnstonww/N-7AD-AAR-45-04.doc (19360 words)

	History of 212th AFA in ETO: Map of 6th Armored Div Campaigns
		Patton's famous swing to the north to the Battle of the Bulge is clearly visible near the center of the map [25 - 42, with center inset].
		Div crossed Main River at Dornigheim, drove north across Nidder River at Nieder Dorfelden and Vilbel to Friedberg 28 Mar. 50.
		After crossing Mulde River at Rochlitz and Zachopau River at Mittweida the 6th Armrd stopped at Corps limiting line 15 Apr, pending arrival of Russian Army.
	www.super6th.org /record/6thclmap.htm (1766 words)

	Tours
		The tour is an easy three day ride over 73 miles (117 km) of river valley dotted with castles and quaint villages.
		This is a 511-mile, 823-kilometer tour along the north coast of Germany from Flensburg near the border with Denmark to the island of Usedom near the German Poland border.
		It is 3.5 miles in length, the Pader is certainly Germany's shortest river.
	www.bicyclegermany.com /tours.htm (514 words)

	TroutBums ~ Random Casts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We transferred my gear to his car and enjoyed a ninety minute ride to a small town on the Eder river where we found the house of the man with the guest permits.
		The river keeper was gone but his son, who shared his home, answered.
		The river is about three fourths of a long cast wide and mostly shallow with deep undercuts along the far bank.
	www.troutbums.com /RandomCasts/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=78 (1665 words)

	Fulda
		Fulda grew around a Benedictine abbey founded in 744 by Sturmius, a pupil of St. Boniface, the missionary.
		Weser - Weser, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed at Hannoversch-Münden, central Germany, by the...
		Eder - Eder, river, c.110 mi (180 km) long, rising near Siegen, central Germany, and flowing E to the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0819853.html (229 words)

	Godlike Productions -- Catti Tribe As "The Sceptre-wielders" ~ Ruling Race Of The Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Gadi river, upon which is the village Cattie and the Gadi burials.
		Gad´s settlements were widespread all over the country, in the ancient ethnic and dynastic "Catti" titles in the old places and river names of Britain, from farthest south to farthest north.
		The Gadi river, upon which is the village Cattie and the Gadi burials are Phoenician in origin.
	www.godlikeproductions.com /bbs/message.php?message=144187&mpage=2&topic=3&showdate=8/26/05 (3156 words)

	Brethern, Schwenkfelders and Other Plain People
		Having come to the conclusion that trine immersion in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost was of paramount importance, they went down to the river and, kneeling in the stream, baptized one another.
		Thus was founded the Church of the Brethren in 1708 in the town of Schwarzenau on the banks of the river Eder in Westphalia.
		The River Brethren, the Yorkers, and the United Zion's Children aIl have in common a strong strain of mysticism and a desire to withdraw from the world.
	www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/religion/brethern/brethkle.htm (4224 words)

	Newspaper Clippings
		The German radio said that British Second Army troops have crossed the Dortmund Ems canal, a 170 mile waterway which connects Dortmund and the industrial Ruhr with the river Ems, and had established a bridgehead on the east bank.
		The First Army had crossed the Eder river in gains up to 21 miles, and had entered Fritzlar, 15 miles from Kassek, on the Fulda river and the capital of Hesse-Nassau province.
		Down the line, men of the Fourth Armored drove 23 miles northeast from Lauterbach to a point four miles southeast of Herzfels, and another element from the same division reached the vicinity of Herzfels after a 14-mile push.
	members.cox.net /gregwest982/newspaper.html (686 words)

	Historical Atlases and Maps of European Countries
		While the greatest detail is shown for the areas near the river, the map also shows Wurttemberg, Baden and the region as far east as Augsburg.
		This 1799 map by John Cary shows the area west north west of Bavaria and east of Aschaffenburg and the Neckar River bounded on the north by Upper Saxony and on the south by Swabia.
		Locates rivers, canals and railways, as well as towns, villages and the military colonies in Kherson.
	hometown.aol.com /tmcorner/euromap.htm (3554 words)

	Boniface - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He built a chapel from its wood at the site where today stands the cathedral of Fritzlar, and later established the first bishopric in Germany north of the old Roman Limes at the Frankish fortified settlement of Büraburg, on a prominent hill facing the town across the Eder river.
		His remains were eventually buried in the abbey of Fulda.
		The forcible conversion of Germany up to the Elbe river was completed by Charlemagne, who destroyed Saxon independence in the last decades of the 8th century.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Boniface (798 words)

	Dunker Church : WHO ARE THE DUNKERS?
		Dunker is a moniker for a people of faith that originated in 1708 near the village of Schwarzenau, Germany, along the Eder River.
		Brethren stem from German Pietism (a religion of the heart) of the Eighteenth century and the Anabaptist (re-baptizers) movement of a previous century.
		This was a large valley, at some points nearly thirty-five miles wide and over fifty miles long, extending from the Susquehanna River to the east and then curving south to the Potomac River in the west, and bordered its full length by the Blue Mountains to the north.
	www.cob-net.org /antietam/dunkers.htm (5850 words)

	Report Finds Corps of Engineers Inflated River Traffic Data - National Wildlife Federation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A report commissioned by the Ohio River Foundation and endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation charges the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) with using faulty river traffic estimates to justify expensive and environmentally damaging lock expansion on the Ohio River.
		“It is astonishing that even in the face of increasing budget deficits, stagnating river traffic growth, and minimal support from the Bush administration that the Corps continues to recommend building these lock structures,” says Rich Cogen, Executive Director of the Ohio River Foundation.
		Ohio River Foundation is focused on protecting and improving the ecology of the Ohio River for the benefit of communities and future generations.
	www.nwf.org /news/story.cfm?pageId=8926310A-F1F6-7B10-3CCA57637B3EC47B (774 words)

	European Origin
		The Palatinate - (map) was an area of the Rhine River valley to the south-west of Frankfurt Am Main.
		The Church of the Brethren had its origin in this tiny village located on the Eder River when eight people were baptized in 1708 to form a new community of believers.
		Although the town of Schwarzenau ("fl-meadow") is not found on most travel maps, it can be located by identifying the curvature of the Eder river where a unique double curve in the stream easily resembles the letter "M" with the village situated on the north-east side of the second (eastern) curve.
	www.gracebrethren.info /cob/europe.htm (7955 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: The Brethren
		But unlike the pietist who believed that baptism was merely spiritual, he believed in adult baptism and the importance of water in the baptismal act (Brubaker, 2).
		The Brethren, officially known as the German Baptists throughout the nineteenth century (Melton, 441), mixed pietism with the Anabaptist tradition, blending a renewed emphasis on spirituality with the Anabaptist emphasis on outward expression of faith.
		The candidate was asked three questions to confirm their faith and then, with the agreementof the entire congregation, the person was received into the fellowship by the hand and a holy kiss -- a kiss on the lips between members of the same sex (Bowman, 1995:67).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/brethren.html (3729 words)

	The Ultimate Eder Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Eder is a river in Germany (ca.
		It rises from the Ederkopf mountain in the mountains of western North Rhine-Westphalia near the springs of the Lahn and Sieg rivers, but flows east and north and into the Fulda river which at its confluence with the Werra in Hannoversch Münden creates the Weser river which flows into the North Sea north of Bremen.
		A dam (47 m high, 400 m long) completed in 1914 near the small town of Waldeck created the large reservoir Edersee, which is 27 km long and used to generate hydro-electricity and to regulate water levels for shipping on the Weser river.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Eder (164 words)

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