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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oldenburg
Oldenburg in 1811 and by embodying it in the Departments of Wesermündung and Oberems.
Oldenburg was transferred to the Prussian bishopric of
Oldenburg were not affected by the severe trials of the Kulturkampf.
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  Oldenburg (district) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oldenburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.
It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Diepholz, Vechta, Cloppenburg and Ammerland, the city of Oldenburg, the district of Wesermarsch and the city of Delmenhorst.
The district of Oldenburg was established in 1933.
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 OLDENBURG - LoveToKnow Article on OLDENBURG
Oldenburg is a Protestant country, and the grand-duke is required to be a member of the Lutheran Church.
The northern and western parts of the present grand-duchy of Oldenburg were in the hands of independent, or semi-independent, Frisian princes, who were usually heathens, and during the early part of the 13th century the counts carried on a series of wars with these small potentates which resulted in a gradual expansion of their territory.
In i8o6 Oldenburg was occupied by the French and the Dutch, the duke and the regent being put to flight; but in 1807 William was restored, and in 1808 he joined the Confederation of the Rhine.
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 Oldenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oldenburg was a wealthy town in a time of war and turmoil and its population and power grew considerably.
From 1810-14, the Oldenburg region was occupied by Napoleonic France and in 1829 became a grand duchy which it remained until 1918.
The city center of Oldenburg is surrounded by a ring of highways (Autobahnen) consisting of A28, A29 and A293.
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 Breeds of Livestock - Oldenburg Horse
The Oldenburg is bred in a small area near the modern region of Lower Saxony surrounding the city of Oldenburg, a breeding area historically confined to approximatively 5,400 square kilometers, in the center of the Hannoverian region.
Ownership of Oldenburg stallions by private breeders, who can afford the best and most expensive, has resulted in many mare owners from the surrounding Hannoverian breeding area bringing their horses to Oldenburg stallions despite the fact that breeding fees are often as much as twice those offered by government owned Hannoverians.
Despite its size, the well-bred, modern Oldenburg is a compact horse with relatively short legs; short cannons; powerful hindquarters; a long, strong neck inherited from its days as a carriage horse; a deep chest; and large hooves able to bear the weight of such a large animal.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/oldenburg/index.htm   (1624 words)

  
 School Arts - Claes Oldenburg: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
Oldenburg's approach differs from that of pop artists like Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein; his idiosyncratic approach to his subjects stems in part from his affinities to the earlier movements of dada and surrealism.
Oldenburg's New Haven studio was home to a sizeable mouse population; thus, the artist quipped, "a rodent subject was unavoidable." But the motif actually emerged in the early sixties as a mouse mask for a performance called Moveyhouse.
In Oldenburg's print Notes of 1968 the mouse appears as a hilltop sculpture, as a city park (the eyes serving as swimming pools), and as a floating sculpture.
www.nga.gov /education/schoolarts/oldenburg.htm   (1353 words)

  
 THE OLDENBURG LAW FIRM Peachtree City, Georgia
Oldenburg was appointed a Special Assistant Attorney General by the Attorney General of the State of Georgia and in that capacity represented the State of Georgia Department of Administrative Services.
Oldenburg served as the attorney for the Peachtree City Development Authority from 1997 through 2004 and has served as the attorney for the Peachtree City Water and Sewerage Authority from 1999 to the present.
Oldenburg is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the Fayette County Bar Association and the Atlanta Claims Association.
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 Equiworld - Equestrian Information - Oldenburg -horses and ponies on the internet
The Oldenburg is the heaviest German warmblood breed.
The Oldenburg is not only the heaviest German warmblood breed, but with 165 cm also one of the largest.
The heavy warmblood horse for farming use as well as for stately carriages was until the mid of the 20th century one of the few breeds in Europe with a very constant and stable appearance.
www.equiworld.net /uk/horsecare/Breeds/oldenburg   (557 words)

  
 Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg was the eighth-largest member state of the German Empire in size and the tenth-largest in population.
Oldenburg had managed to stay out of the Thirty Years' War and the initial phases of the Napoleonic Wars, but in 1808 Oldenburg was forced to join Napoleon's Conferation of the Rhine and was to contribute an 800-man infantry regiment.
The Oldenburg Regiment became part of the army of the German Confederation established in 1815 and in 1830 was expanded to two regiments of 10 companies.
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 AllRefer.com - Oldenburg, city, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Oldenburg was first mentioned in 1108 and was chartered in 1345.
It was the seat of the counts of Oldenburg until 1667, when it passed, with the county, to Denmark.
From 1777 to 1918 it served as the residence of the dukes (later grand dukes) of Oldenburg.
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 AllRefer.com - Oldenburg, former state, Germany, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The largest of these, Oldenburg proper, now forms the district of Oldenburg, stretching S from the North Sea, W of the Weser River; the two other divisions, both very small, were Birkenfeld and the district (but not the city) of LUbeck.
Oldenburg proper is a low-lying, fertile, and marshy land.
Peter I of Oldenburg, nephew and successor of Frederick Augustus, lost the duchy to Napoleon I but recovered Oldenburg and the bishopric of LUbeck in 1813 and subsequently acquired Birkenfeld and obtained the title grand duke.
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 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Oldenburg - Biography
Oldenburg studied literature and art history at Yale University, New Haven, from 1946 to 1950.
Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a six-by-three-foot rectangular hole in the ground.
Oldenburg was honored with a solo exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1969, and with a retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1995.
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 Claes Oldenburg
Oldenburg himself has stated, "The problem has always been how to make the print statements as personal as the drawing statements." Viewing the printed image as a special class of drawing, the artist has tried to translate drawing's direct and uninhibited energy into his printed work as much as possible.
Oldenburg is also drawn to the multiplicity of his printed imagery as a metaphor for a consumer-oriented culture.
Oldenburg claims ownership of all this material, notwithstanding that some of it falls outside traditional art boundaries, and refers to it as his "printed stuff".
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 Curt Oldenburg
Oldenburg, C.M., S.W. Webb, K. Pruess, and G.J. Moridis, Mixing of stably stratified gases in subsurface reservoirs: a comparison of diffusion models, Trans.
Oldenburg, C.M., and F.J. Spera, Modeling transport processes in nonlinear systems: The example of solidification and convection, in Chaotic Processes in the Geological Sciences, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 41, D.A. Yuen, ed., Springer, 317 pp., 1992.
Kneafsey, T.J., C.M. Oldenburg, R. Salve, The effect of clay swelling on fracture flow in the paintbrush nonwelded unit of the Topopah spring tuff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-48125, 2001.
www-esd.lbl.gov /ESD_staff/oldenburg/oldenburg_pubs.html   (1122 words)

  
 What is a Third Place and Why Are They Important?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Their disappearance in our culture is unhealthy for our cities because, as Oldenburg points out, they are the bedrock of community life and all the benefits that come from such interaction.
According to Oldenburg, World War II marks the historical juncture after which informal public life began to decline in the U.S. Old neighborhoods and their cafes, taverns, and corner stores have fallen to urban renewal, freeway expansion, and planning that discounts the importance of congenial, unified and vital neighborhoods.
Oldenburg points out that segregation, isolation, compartmentalization and sterilization seem to be the guiding principles of urban growth and urban renewal.
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 Oldenburg
This was the foundation of the Oldenburg breed in North America.
The Oldenburg horse in Germany is bred in the far northern part of Germany, in the relative small breeding area of the former kingdom of Oldenburg.
The Oldenburg horse belongs to one of Europe's oldest warmblood breeds.
www.furrycritter.com /resources/horses/Oldenburg.htm   (791 words)

  
 Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The son of a Swedish diplomat, Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm.
After attending Yale University from 1946 to 1950, Oldenburg returned to Chicago, where he worked as a cub newspaper reporter and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Oldenburg's practice of situating objects within an environment, sometimes created as a context for theater, has remained to the present day a mainstay of his artistic approach.
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 Ray Oldenburg | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
Ray Oldenburg, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
Oldenburg holds a Bachelor of English and Social Studies from Mankato State University, Minnesota, and a Master and PhD in Sociology from the University of Minneapolis.
Third places “host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work.” Oldenburg suggests that beer gardens, main streets, pubs, cafés, coffeehouses, post offices, and other third places are the heart of a community's social vitality and the foundation of a functioning democracy.
www.pps.org /info/placemakingtools/placemakers/roldenburg   (1578 words)

  
 Distance Education for Sustainable Development - Universität Oldenburg
The University of Windsor and Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Hans Kaminski is Professor for Economics and the Didactics of Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
At the University of Oldenburg he has had numerous functions, such as vice president, dean, member of the senate, member of the faculty board, university development etc. From 1990 through 1994, Hans Kaminski was member of the governing board of the Stiftung Verbrauchsinstitut (Consumer Institute Foundation), Berlin (appointed by the Federal Ministry of Economics).
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 Claes Oldenburg-Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929 to a Swedish diplomat.
What Oldenburg gleaned from the happenings was the idea of breaking barriers between art and actual experience.
They produced and installed large scale outdoor sculptures across the US and Europe, some of which are the Giant Closepin in Philadelphia, the Spoonbridge and Cherry in Minneapolis, and Bicyclette Ensevlie (buried bicycle) in Paris.
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 Take a bow / Sculptors Oldenburg and van Bruggen talk about their 'Cupid's Span,' which has dropped anchor on the ...
Born in Sweden and a resident of the United States since childhood, Oldenburg, 73, is renowned as a pioneer of Pop Art and Happenings.
She and Oldenburg were married in 1977, soon after they began collaborating on large-scale sculpture projects.
As Oldenburg has envisioned small things magnified to architectural scale in his drawings since the early '60s, I wondered whether his civic-scale projects typically began on paper.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/12/23/DD234651.DTL   (1390 words)

  
 Holiday Destination Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) - Oldenburg
This summer, Oldenburg will once more play host to the “summer of culture”, which will be stirring up the city from 2nd July to 8th August, with a great variety of events.
In the Landesmuseum, the focus is on the landscapes of North-West Germany, such as moorland, the "Geest" coastal sandy moorland, coast and marsh.
Whether for the Oldenburger Promenade music festival in the spring, the Summer of Culture or the Christmas Market “Lambertimarkt”, Oldenburg is always worth a trip.
www.niedersachsen-tourism.de /en/regionen-staedte/staedte/oldenburg/index.php   (588 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Claes Oldenburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the event that you’re too busy to notice the little things in life, sculptor Claes Oldenburg has made them big for you.
Oldenburg is most famous for his monuments to absurdity, such as the enormous spoon and cherry sculpture that shades the lawn of the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.
During the 1960s, Oldenburg became involved in Happenings, dealing mostly with props and environments.
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 Oldenburg Florist | Flower Delivery Oldenburg, Indiana (IN) | Florists in Oldenburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The distance from Oldenburg to Washington DC is 465 miles.
Oldenburg is positioned 39.33 degrees north of the equator and 85.20 degrees west of the prime meridian.
Our Oldenburg, Indiana florist directory is provided through a strategic partnership with Regional Direct.com, which has established partnerships with the most reliable, customer service-driven area Oldenburg florist and florists in Indiana, including Oldenburg, Indiana.
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 Oldenburg - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The largest of these, Oldenburg proper, now forms the district of Oldenburg, stretching S from the North Sea, W of the Weser River; the two other divisions, both very small, were Birkenfeld and the district (but not the city) of Lübeck.
Paul gave Oldenburg to his maternal great uncle, Frederick Augustus of Holstein-Gottorp, bishop of Lübeck, who assumed (1777) the ducal title.
Peter I of Oldenburg, nephew and successor of Frederick Augustus, lost the duchy to Napoleon I but recovered Oldenburg and the bishopric of Lübeck in 1813 and subsequently acquired Birkenfeld and obtained the title grand duke.
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