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  Kiel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiel is a center for German shipbuilders and the eastern terminus of the Kiel Canal.
Kiel was first originally founded in 1233 as Holstenstadt tom Kyle by Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg, and granted town privileges (Lübisches Stadtrecht) in 1242 by Adolf's eldest son, Johann I of Schauenburg.
Kiel, the capital of Holstein, was a member of the Hanseatic League from 1284 until it was expelled in 1518 for harbouring pirates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiel   (1000 words)

  
 Kiel, Germany
In 1242 Kiel was granted city status and proof of this was given to the town by Adolfs eldest son, Count Johann I.
Kiel left the Hanseatic League during the 16th century, but the date is uncertain and the reason unclear.
Kiel was pointing the way to the future for the shipbuilding industry: the submarine (1850), the gyrocompass (1904) and the sonar (1913) were invented here.
worldfacts.us /Germany-Kiel.htm   (2630 words)

  
 City Portrait Kiel: By the sea, on the sea
For residents of Kiel, the maritime view of the city with harbour facilities, the huge ferries and the giant portal cranes on the dock side is the best expression of their special feeling of living and belonging here.
Kiel, the capital of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, is a traditional maritime and naval city.
With the fresh Kiel air in their noses and the typical sounds of the harbour in their ears, the people of Kiel enjoy the advantages of a green city in the middle of the holiday state of Schleswig-Holstein, with parks, ferries and their own beaches.
www.kiel.de /Aemter_01_bis_20/05/City_Portrait_english/1Cityport.htm   (281 words)

  
 uboat.net - Boats - Flotillas - Bases - Kiel, Germany
In January 1940 the organization of the German U-boat force was totally changed and there were developed three new front flotillas, from which two were based in Kiel, the 1st and the 7th (combat) flotilla.
The 5th flotilla was re-founded in June, 1941 as a training unit and served until the end of the war in Kiel.
Kiel was the second most important U-boat construction location in Germany with over 230 U-boats launched, second only to Hamburg.
uboat.net /flotillas/bases/kiel.htm   (439 words)

  
 KIEL SCHOOL
The "Kiel School" refers to the group of German reform economists attached to the Kiel Institute of World Economics during the interwar period.
In the Kiel School approach, technical progress continuously modifies the real rate of return on capital, thereby causing for sectoral maladjustments, permanent excess capacity and technological unemployment during the process of growth.
The Kiel School's structural growth theory implied policy measures which were different from the conventional ones: "aggregate" measures to reduce unemployment, such as lowering wages or stimulating demand, ignored inter-sectoral difficulties, the root cause of the problem, and thus needed to be more precisely directed.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/kiel.htm   (697 words)

  
 Kiel
Kiel was originally founded in 1233 as tom Kyle by Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg, and granted town rights (LГјbisches Stadtrecht) in 1242 by Adolf's eldest son, Johann I. Kiel was a member of the Hanseatic League from 1284 until it was evicted in 1518.
Kiel's university, the Christian-Albrechts-Universität, was founded on September 29 1665 by Christian Albrecht, duke of Gottorf.
Because of its status as a naval port, Kiel was heavily bombed by the Allies during World War II; it is estimated that 80% of the remaining old town, 72% of the residential areas, and 83% of the industrial areas were destroyed.
www.governpub.com /Capitals-K/Kiel.php   (1418 words)

  
 Kiel, Friedrich (1821-1885) Classical Compositions and Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885) classical music sheets.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born on 7 October 1821 in Puderbach on the Lahn (Westphalia), Friedrich was the second of five children of the schoolmaster Jost Kiel.
Kiel’s first position there was as professor of counterpoint and fugue and of vocal and instrumental composition, and from 1882 he sat on the board of directors.
Kiel died in Berlin on 13 September 1885 as the result of injuries from a traffic accident.
www.naxos.com /composerinfo/555.htm   (500 words)

  
 Kiel Laboratories - Terms and Conditions and Disclaimers
Kiel Laboratories shall not be held responsible for any action taken that is based on the information presented on this website.
Kiel Laboratories reserves the unconditional right to terminate your access to and use of this website at any time, without prior notice, if Kiel Laboratories believes you to have violated any of these Terms and Conditions, or other terms and conditions applicable to a section of this website.
Kiel Laboratories reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms and Conditions, including the right to block access from a particular Internet address or user to the website.
www.kielpharm.com /terms.html   (731 words)

  
 Kiel Hoteles - Hotele Comodidad en Kiel | Schleswig-Holstein Alemania
Kiel is attractively placed at the end of the Kieler Förde, an arm of the Baltic which extends some 17 km inland.
As the largest hotel in Kiel, the Steigenberger Conti-Hansa is located in the heart of Kiel’s downtown district, facing the Oslo Quay.
Kiel is an important port city, with ferry services to Scandinavia, site of a number of industries and a naval base.
www.simplehotels.com /es/de/kiel   (235 words)

  
 THW Kiel - German 1st division handball team
För att våra skandinaviska vänner och kollegor ska kunna hålla sig informerade om THW Kiel och alltid få de senaste nyheterna snabbt erbjuder i er nu ett nyhetsbrev på svenska.
THW Kiel is the most successful German handball team of the last 15 years and was seven times German champion in the last eleven years.
THW Kiel was home to many of the world most respected handball players like Magnus Wislander (world handballer 1990), Staffan Olsson, Nikolaj Jacobsen, Demetrio Lozano or former German national team captain Klaus-Dieter Petersen.
www.thw-provinzial.de /thw/ethw.htm   (244 words)

  
 The Kiel Intonation Model - KIM
The integrated framework of prosodic research at Kiel is illustrated by an excerpt from a spontaneous dialogue recording, its prosodic label file and its TTS simulation.
The Kiel prosodic model for German is comprehensive and detailed enough for its TTS realization to generate highly intelligible and natural sounding synthetic output for continuous text.
The TTS implementation of KIM is also capable of simulating spontaneous speech on the basis of phonetic and prosodic label files that have been created for natural speech files using KIM and its symbolization system, as in Example Spontaneous.
www.ipds.uni-kiel.de /kjk/forschung/kim.en.html   (6403 words)

  
 Kiel Ferry Port - information for travelling to Kiel ferry port
The main Railway station in Kiel has direct connections to the German Rail network.
From the main railway station in Kiel take bus no. 11 or 12 going to Dietrichsdorf and get off at the "Grenzstrasse" bus stop.
We can also arrange hotels in Kiel and many cities and destinations throughout Europe.
www.directferries.co.uk /kiel.htm   (163 words)

  
 Kiel, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kiel is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
The city is located mostly within Manitowoc County, though a portion extends west into adjacent Calumet County.
[[Image: Kiel is located at 43°54′53″N, 88°1′55″W (43.914718, -88.031812)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiel,_Wisconsin   (388 words)

  
 Welcome to Kiel Week
It is well known among sailors in all the continents, it has a good reputation among parliamentarians, diplomats and mariners, it is a festival involving an entire city and year after year it goes on attracting over 3 million visitors to Kiel.
Founded on the protected firth in the middle ages, expanding to a maritime location with the navy and shipyards and successfully achieving international recognition through the Kieler Woche, to this day, water remains the definitive element for Kiel.
Accomodation, regatta tours on the water and touristic support of all kinds: the Tourist Information Kiel will be pleased to help you.
www.kieler-woche.de /eng/englishdefault.htm   (273 words)

  
 KIEL MAGAZIN One Day in Kiel shopping sightseeing tourist attractions monuments Sights Ships Water english history
The Tourist-Information Kiel, which will gladly answer all your questions and will also offer you sightseeing-tours, is in the New Town Hall (“Neues Rathaus”) on Andreas-Gayk-Strasse, on the right-hand side of the Holstenstrasse.
This indoor arena is the side of the home matches of the THW Kiel (team handball) and of major top acts in music, sports and entertainment from around the world.
The history of Kiel can be sensed in a manor house from the 17th century, the Stadtmuseum Warleberger Hof.
www.kiel-magazin.de /stadtfuehrer/st_one-day-in-kiel.htm   (649 words)

  
 Kiel Historical Society news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Presented jointly by the Kiel Historical Society and the Kiel Public Library, Founder's Day 2005 will honor families steeped in the history of settling the Kiel area.
Kiel historical photos will be on display from noon to 3 p.m.
Kiel Area Historical Society officers are Faye Konen, president; Carolyn Johnson, vice president; Delores Schulz, secretary; and Michelle Rabe, treasurer.
www.kielwi.org /historical.html   (653 words)

  
 Treaty of Kiel Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
El Hajdib's arrest Saturday in the German city of Kiel followed a tip...
After a short war with Sweden, Norway accepted entering into a personal union with Sweden at the Convention of Moss.
The treaty of Kiel did not include the ancient Norwegian dependencies of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, which remained under Danish rule.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Treaty_of_Kiel   (432 words)

  
 Kiel Lax Meeting - Lacrosse Club Kiel e.V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the same year the first Kiel Lacrosse Meeting was held, and in the following years brought awesome game experiences during the day and incredible parties at night to lacrosse addicts from all over Germany.
Since then it has been 10 years and the Kiel Lacrosse Club is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary next year.
The tournament will be held traditionally on the Nordmarksportfeld in Kiel at the 30th and 31st of July 2005.
www.kiel-lacrosse.de /klm_english.php   (456 words)

  
 IfM Kiel: Sonderforschungsbereich 460: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB)460 was established in 1996 at the University of Kiel with the majority of its research located at IfM Kiel.
A significant contribution to SFB research was provided by R/V Poseidon of IfM Kiel with two SFB cruises in almost every year (subprojects A1 and A3), except for 2001 due to fire damage.
Using global circulation models and simplified conceptual climate models, the mechanisms of climate fluctuations on time scales of 100 to 1000 years are being analyzed within the framework of paleoclimate research by this group.
www.ifm.uni-kiel.de /allgemein/research/projects/sfb460/sfb460-e.htm   (877 words)

  
 Kiel Laboratories
Kiel Laboratories' mission is to grow a fully integrated and operationally excellent pharmaceutical company that markets quality products developed internally.
Kiel Laboratories is a developer of pharmaceutical products.
We distribute our products through a variety of methods, including partnering with sales and marketing organizations that focus on specific therapeutic areas.
www.kielpharm.com   (114 words)

  
 Kiel-Flanschen GmbH
Founded in 1934 by the brothers Heinrich and Otto Kiel, the company is now being managed by the third generation.
Dirk Breyer, the grandchild of the founder Otto Kiel is now grouping a young, dynamic crew, who - thanks to the support of collegues being connected to the company for more than 30 years - continue the tradition of the company.
This well-balanced combination of experience, innovation, tradition and state-of-the-art sum up Co. KIEL-FLANSCHEN GmbH which is honoured and appreciated by their customers.This combination guarantees the product quality and business continuation of the company.
www.kiel-flanschen.de /e_wub.html   (646 words)

  
 Der Kieler Kreis -- Kiel
The Nord-Ostsee-Kanal extends southwest from Kiel Bay to the Elbe River.
There are a number of lakes in the northeast.
The Baltic is connected with the North Sea by the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal (the Kiel or Kaiser Wilhelm Canal),
www.geocities.com /redmidnightcat/schleswig.htm   (2247 words)

  
 Actor Richard Kiel - James Bond`s Jaws
A biographical novel by Richard Kiel and Pamela Wallace
Richard Kiel is also working with Adam Phelps with Las Vegas Autographs to do Wizard World Texas November 10th - 12th.
On the pages containing autographed photos you will find many James Bond photos, plus great shots of Richard in "Happy Gilmore," "Twilight Zone" and even "The Monkees." Richard's Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man" is considered one of the classic Twilight Zone episodes of all time.
www.richardkiel.com   (411 words)

  
 Kiel Adventure Travel - Kiel Travel Guide
Its perfect natural harbor at the end of a 16km (10-mile) extension of the Baltic Sea made Kiel a center for commerce with other northern European countries.
The opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895 connected the Baltic with the North Sea and Western trade.
Although the town celebrated its 750th anniversary in 1992, the streets and buildings do little to suggest that Kiel was ever anything other than a modern city.
away.com /destination-overview/Kiel-314673-travel-guide.html   (304 words)

  
 Søren Søgaard Kiel Open
Unfortunately there is only a very small number of billiardplayers in the NBV (Northern German Billard Confederation).
After a break we started the first big tournament in cooperation between BCHW and bg Hamburg with the Hamburg Open '98 (winner Frank Eversmann).
In this tournament there was a big support by the Billardverein Kiel which led to the Kiel Open, initialized by a team based on the crews of BV Kiel and BCHW added by our main sponsor Keld Sogaard.
www.kiel-open.de /gbr/konzept_gbr.htm   (470 words)

  
 Rechnergestützte Programmentwicklung - The KIEL System
The KIEL-System is an interactively controlled computer system for the visual execution of first-order functional programs written in a simple subset of Standard ML.
KIEL is an acronym for "Kiel Interactive Evaluation Laboratory", and has especially been designed for teaching undergraduate students of computer science.
There are three different versions of KIEL: A Java Applet (with a restricted language), an application in the C programming language for Unix systems (current version: 2006), and a Linux port (also in C and also from 2006).
www.informatik.uni-kiel.de /~progsys/kiel.shtml   (236 words)

  
 Sven Buchholz, Cognitive Systems Group, CAU Kiel
Buchholz, S. Technical Report 0504 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Informatik, Mai 2005.
Buchholz, S. Dissertation, Institut für Informatik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2005.
Please note: This is a cached copy of Sven Buchholz's staff home page at the University of Kiel.
www.ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de /~sbh   (331 words)

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