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  Emden - LoveToKnow 1911
EMDEN, a maritime town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, near the mouth of the Ems, 49 m.
Emden (Emuden, Emetha) is first mentioned in the 12th century, when it was the capital of the Eemsgo (Ernsgau, or county of the Ems), one of the three hereditary countships into which East Friesland had been divided by the emperor.
In 1810 Emden became the chief town of the French department of Ems Oriental; in 1815 it was assigned to Hanover, and in 1866 was annexed with that kingdom by Prussia.
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 Emden - Industry
Emden’ s core function in the Lower Ems and East Frisian region is illustrated by the number of employees in the industrial sector per 1000 residents: In 2004 Emden accounts for 231 employees, the adjacent region of Aurich 24 employees per 1000 inhabitants.
This underlines that Emden is located in an agriculture-oriented region, for which Emden at the same time plays the role of a working and industrial town.
The Emden seaport is the westernmost German North Sea port, consisting of an inner and an outer port directly flanking the river Ems.
www.emden.de /de/wirtschaft/engl/industry.htm   (673 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - EMDEN, JACOB ISRAEL BEN ẒEBI ASHKENAZI   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Emden became well versed in all branches of Talmudic literature; later he studied philosophy, Cabala, and grammar, and made an effort to acquire the Latin and Dutch languages, in which, however, he was seriously hindered by his belief that a Jew should occupy himself with secular sciences only during the hour of twilight.
Emden is especially known for his controversial activities, his attacks being generally directed against the adherents, or those he supposed to be adherents, of Shabbethai Ẓebi.
Emden's cause was subsequently taken up by the court of King Frederick of Denmark, and on June 3, 1752, a judgment was given in favor of Emden, severely censuring the council of the three communities and condemning them to a fine of one hundred thalers.
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 Emden
Emden is a town located in "Eastern Frisia", in northwestern Germany.
Emden is located at 53°20' N 07°12' E. According to the Hompage of City of Emden (http://www.emden.de), the city has a total area of 112.4 km².
Emden was a very rich city during the 17th century, due to large numbers of dutch immigrants.
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 Jacob Emden
Jacob Emden was regarded as one of the outstanding scholars of his generation.
Emden went after the Zohar, the bastion of the Shabbateans.
Next, Emden questioned the Guide For the Perplexed, which he found to contain heretical tendencies; he did not believe that Maimonides was its author.
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 On November 1, 1906, amid the massive battleship-building mania that would eventually lead Germany and Great Britain to ...
Emden's 10 4.1-inch high-velocity cannons were already matched in range and surpassed in punch by the 6-inchers equipping Britain's newest generation of light cruisers, against which her armor, ranging from 2 to 4 inches thick, could not provide adequate protection.
Emden's greatest weapon was neither her guns nor her torpedoes, however--it was the ingenuity of her captain and officers, who devised a strategy of self-help around making maximum use of whatever ships she captured, combined with carefully worked-out rendezvous with Markomannia and prizes impressed into service as additional supply ships.
Emden's growing fame was all the more reason for Müller to continue to play a careful game, keeping an erratic course and sometimes exchanging friendly, though distant, greetings with passing merchant ships to keep the Allies guessing as to his whereabouts before choosing to strike again.
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 Emden, IL (Illinois) Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
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Median gross rent in Emden, IL in 2000: $529
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 SMS Emden
The Emden arrived at Penang in the early morning of October 28 and using her false forth funnel and flying the white Ensign slipped past the harbour pilot into the harbour.
Emden immediately ceased fire, and later apologised, when it was realised that the vessel was an unarmed patrol vessel.
At first Emden's lookouts thought Sydney was Buresk but when she was identified as a cruiser the landing party was recalled but were too slow and so at 0930 Emden pulled out of the lagoon without them.
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 SMS Emden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SMS Emden was a light cruiser of the German navy.
On April 1, 1910 Emden officially entered the German fleet and was assigned to the German naval base and garrison at Tsingtao, in Germany's Chinese Kiautschou colony.
Emden saw her first action suppressing the Sokehs Rebellion on the island of Ponape in the German colonies of the Carolinas Islands in January of 1911.
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 Emden Operational History
Emden shells the oil storage at the port of Madras, causing heavy damage in the storage facilities.
Emden is able to deceive the Russian cruiser Schemtschug, and sink the ship from a distance of only 300 meters.
The wreck of the Emden, is destroyed in a tropical storm.
german-navy.de /hochseeflotte/ships/smallcruiser/emden/operations.html   (235 words)

  
 Naval Battle between the SMS Emden and HMAS Sydney
On November 9, 1914, the German Light Cruiser SMS Emden under the command of Captain von Müller entered Port Refuge off Direction Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Group of Islands with the intention of destroying the British Cable and Wireless Station on the island.
The Emden's sirens were blown to alert the shore party to return to the Emden.
The Emden tried to close with the Sydney to get in range and at one stage was able to do so, but her guns had been put out of action.
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 Emden
The Volkswagen plant at Emden is located where other people like to take their holidays: in the northwest of East Frisia, at the mouth of the river Ems as it flows out into the North Sea.
The maritime atmosphere is represented throughout Emden with its parks, canals and Delft in the centre.
Emden has had a colourful history after its founding in the 12th century.
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 Emden (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Emden used a plain yellow-red-blue flag in the 16th century, see also this scan from Danckerts 1705.
Emden became a city probably at the end of the 14th century.
Emden had several old flags, well known in the Netherlands — Emden was a very important refuge in the 16th century for Dutch protestants fleeing from the Roman Catholic Spaniards, and in the 17th century for Dutch protestants fleeing for Dutch protestants.
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 Emden c.1595-c.1811 (Lower Saxony, Germany)
It appears that "Emden" and "East Frisia" were used indistinctly to refer to the same entity, Emden being the capital of East Frisia —; were the Emden flags we have actually the flags of East Frisia?
Emden had a very large merchant fleet at times, especially during the war between the Netherlands and Spain when the Dutch harbours were blocked.
Emden was the capital of East Frisia from 1464 to 1561, after then the capital was Aurich.
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 About the Emden
The S.M.S Emden was a German Light Cruiser built in Danzig in 1907 and 1908 and named after the City of Emden, a port on the Ems River.
The Emden was a master of disguise by being able to set a fake fourth funnel made out of canvas, giving her the appearance of a British cruiser.
On November the 9th, the Emden entered the harbour of Direction Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands with the intention of destroying the British Cable and Wireless Station on the island.
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 Loss of SMS EMDEN
With the second salvo of the Emden two very lucky hits were scored; one shell, which unfortunately did not explode, hit the forward range-finder station (in whose neighbourhood the captain and navigating officer were standing), destroyed the rangefinder, and killed the operator.
When the Emden gave up her second attempt to get within torpedo- range of the Sydney as impossible, the Sydney had also turned to starboard and followed us in a running fight towards the north-west.
As the Emden was now incapable of fighting, and lay a helpless wreck on a coral reef, I ordered a white flag to be shown in token that the rest of the crew surrendered, and at the same time had the ensign, which was still flying at our main-mast head, hauled down and burnt.
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 S.M.S. Emden   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Emden was designed for a speed of 23.5 knots, but her recent best speed was 24 knots.
The Emden was known as the "Swan of the East".
The Emden's luck finally ran out during a raid on the British underwater cable relay station on Cocos island, when the HMAS Sydney, a larger, faster, light cruiser of 5,400 tons with eight 6 inch guns, caught up with her.
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 the Career of the Emden
Picture a young man of; about thirty, tall, cleanshaven, with closely cut hair land keen eyes, a neatly proportioned body, the manners of a man used to drawing-rooms, revealing deference to women and children, possessed of a keen sense of humour, and an extensive knowledge of the sea and its affairs.
Directly the Emden appeared on the horizon, a- message had been sent out from the island announcing her approach, and before the active captain knew what was happening, the Australian cruiser Sydney appeared.
Over two-thirds of the officers and men of the German ship were killed, and thirty wounded were taken from the vessel after she had been driven ashore, burning fiercely after the terrific cannonade.
www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Naval/Emden_03.htm   (1401 words)

  
 Reports of the Emden
The Emden was directed to intercept the squadron at a predetermined rendezvous in the South Sea....
At sunrise on the morning of November 9th the Emden was close to the entrance to Port Refuge, the anchorage of the island of Keeling.
In a few minutes the Emden hoisted her battleflags and opened fire on an opponent that could not be seen from the boats.
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 .:Robert Emden:.
Emden is Principal of PBS Realty Advisors, LLC.
Emden has over thirty five years experience in real estate, both as tenant representative and as a landlord’s leasing agent.
Emden is a graduate of Adelphi University and earned a diploma in Financial Analysis from the New York University Real Estate Institute.
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 Holiday Destination Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) - Emden - the Harbour Town
The superb Emden ramparts with their avenue-like trees and broad meadows offer visitors and residents alike peaceful walks and extended cycling tours of the town.
Peat excavations, models of harbour and fishing boats (Emden was the first German herring harbour), pictures of the Dutch school and various findings from East Frisia bring a rich past to life.
There's always great cinema at the Emden international film festival in May. Actors, directors and cameramen from all over Europe descend on Emden for a whole week to meet the public in the flesh.
niedersachsen-tourism.de /en/regionen-staedte/staedte/emden/index.php   (595 words)

  
 Alfred Emden and Headington
Emden ran a hostel in London for disadvantaged boys from 1913 to 1915, and then served in the Royal Navy.
In 1951 Emden's health broke down and he resigned the principalship of St Edmund Hall at the age of 63 and came to live with his mother in this house in Headington.
Emden House, the sheltered accommodation in Barton Lane, is named after Alfred Emden.
www.headington.org.uk /history/famous_people/emden.htm   (278 words)

  
 Emden History
The two small cruisers Dresden and Emden were the most famous german ships of this kind in World War I. Technically, they did not differ much from their predecessors, but both ships had a different engine system.
Both, Emden and Dresden were stationed in overseas stations at the outbreak at the war, Emden was part of the East Asian Squadron while Dresden was operating in the Caribbean.
The wreck of the Emden was left on the reef for 35 years and broken down in the 1950s.
www.german-navy.de /hochseeflotte/ships/smallcruiser/emden/history.html   (320 words)

  
 WHKMLA : Conflict over Emden, 1602-1603
In the 1590es there was dissent between the Count and Emden city Council, the Count having complained with the Emperor about Emden disobedience, and having achieved a mandate in his favour.
Cirksena of Ostfriesland (East Frisia) laid siege to Emden, without success; On April 8th 1603 he had to sign the Treaty of 's-Gravenhage in which he not only accepted the presence of a Dutch garrison in Emden, but agreed to pay the costs for the Dutch garrison.
Emden in der Neuzeit, from Historisches Handdbuch der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Niedersachsen und Bremen, in German
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 Industrie- und Handelskammer für Ostfriesland und Papenburg
Einen Einblick, wie dieses ehrgeizige Projekt realisiert werden soll, erhielten jetzt die Wirtschaftsjunioren Ostfriesland und Papenburg bei der BARD Engineering GmbH in Emden.
Ausbildungsmesse mit über 1000 Teilnehmern war voller Erfolg
In den Berufsbildenden Schulen II in Emden gab es am Dienstag teilweise kein Durchkommen mehr.
www.ihk-emden.de   (441 words)

  
 Rabbi Jacob Emden - Later Achronim
Rabbi Jacob Emden was born in Altona (near Hamburg) in the summer of 1697.
Rabbi Emden did not live at peace with the two leading rabbis of his community, Rabbi Moshe Chagis, head of the rich Portuguese community, and Rabbi Jezekiel Katzenelnbogen, chief rabbi of the triple communities, the position previously held by Rabbi Emden's father.
It was generally agreed that although Rabbi Jacob Emden was prompted by good motives to defend Judaism against what he believed to be a grave danger, he was blinded by his zeal, and his fiery nature had the better of him.
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 Amazon.com: LAST CORSAIR: The Story of the Emden: Books: Dan Van der Vat   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Thus, through expertly calculated risks, the "Emden" was able to elude all pursuit for weeks on end, although it was virtually inevitable that she would eventually be cornered.
The book briefly covers Emden's pre-war career in the German East Asia squadron, then spends about one-third of the text covering the period September-October 1914 when Emden was most active in raiding and concludes with her destruction.
Even those readers familiar with the Emden's cruise will be interested in the details of those sailors who refused to surrender and made it back, as well as the treatment of those who were captured.
www.amazon.com /LAST-CORSAIR-Dan-Van-Vat/dp/1841580619   (2135 words)

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