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	Ruhr Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ruhr Area, also called simply Ruhr, (German Ruhrgebiet) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large (former) industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north.
		In January 1923 French forces occupied the Ruhr area as a means of reprisal after Germany proved incapable of fulfilling excessive reparation payments demanded from her after World War I.
		In 2006 the city of Essen, representing the whole Ruhr Area, was recommended by an independent jury to be the European Capital of Culture 2010.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruhr_Valley (979 words)

	Ruhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ruhr is a medium-size river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) having its source at an elevation of approximately 2,200 feet near the town of Winterberg in the mountainous region of the Sauerland and flowing into the lower Rhine river at an elevation of only 56 feet in the municipal area of Duisburg.
		The Ruhr crosses five artificial lakes on its way to the Rhine, which are largely frequented for leisure activities, e.g.
		The Ruhr is used for the preparation of drinking water and has a good water quality, which is ironic, since the word "Ruhr" means dysentery in the German language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruhr (301 words)

	Ruhrgebiet Tourismus
		Through the idyllic Ruhr valley, one can go to be sure also per excursion ship or with the historic museum railroad.
		The military-strategic fitness of the Ruhr valley is the ruling knew to use already earlier for its interests: the constructed castles.
		In this idyllic side valley of the Ruhr with its forests, meadows and fields were once over 60 little mines in business.
	www.ruhrgebiettouristik.de /daten/staedte_detail.php?LA=en&ZIEL_ID=11 (1573 words)

	Ruhr Valley (Ruhrpott) - Region - Ruhr Area, Germany
		Ruhr valley is famous for its industrial history, originally based on coal mining and steel production and now benefiting from its industrial mix of energy production, environmental technologies and modern service industries.
		Most coal mines in the Ruhr Valley were shut down and the number of jobs was halved.
		In 1856 the mysterious remains of a dead man were found while mining in a rather unknown valley in the Ruhr region called 'Neandertal'.
	www.about-germany.org /regions/ruhrpott.php (308 words)

	Australian Military Units
		The battle of the Ruhr was one of three major bombing offensives launched by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command in 1943-44.
		The Ruhr, nicknamed "Happy Valley" by bomber crews, proved a difficult target to attack due to the haze generated by its industrial plants and a high concentration of German defences.
		The battle of the Ruhr also included renowned "Dambuster" raids mounted on the night of 16 May 1943 against three Ruhr valley dams -Möhne, Elder and Sorpe.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_213.asp (258 words)

	Guardian Century \| 1940-1949 \| R.A.F. breach giant dams
		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 News Service last night.
		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.
		The purpose was to subject the whole Ruhr valley to almost as severe an ordeal as it has undergone by fire in the last three months, and to do the same for another industrial area farther east.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127593,00.html (939 words)

	Ruhrgebiet Tourismus
		This year the city of Essen with its outlook of a rich application to the culture capital of Europe stands 2010 as a deputy for the total Ruhr region in the limelight of the international culture scene.
		Under direction of Jürgen the Ruhr Valley also this year is flamed a breathtaking art festival of curious for curious.
		Already tradition has the Ruhr Piano festival, that composes in its 17th levy with hopes of tomorrow, out of 60 concerts again a symphony of the senses, that passes from the classic to modern.
	www.ruhrgebiettouristik.de /daten/in_1_1.php?LA=en&IN_ID=4 (170 words)

	Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr - The White Fleet
		Now and again jazzbands charter a "Ruhr riverboat" for a lively "shuffle"; the "steamers" are sometimes transformed into "swinging" ballrooms on the waters of the Ruhr.
		The fleet of four pleasant "Ruhr ships" consists of two spacious passenger and conference boats, the "Mülheim an der Ruhr" and the "Heinrich Thöne", together with two other passenger boats.
		According to the schedule, it"s a 50-minute trip through the Ruhr valley to Kettwig, the "weaving town" at the lock gate leading to the "South Seas" of the Ruhr, founded by the Romans to secure the river crossing.
	www.muelheim-ruhr.de /the_white_fleet1.html (576 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| RAF breach giant German dams
		Aerial reconnaissance shows that the Moehne Dam has been breached over a length of 100 yards, that water is pouring down the Ruhr valley, that railway and road bridges have been broken down, and that hydro-electrical power stations have been destroyed or damaged.
		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.
		Its purpose was to subject the whole Ruhr valley to almost as severe and ordeal as it has undergone by...
	www.guardian.co.uk /fromthearchive/story/0,12269,957618,00.html (1532 words)

	Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr - The new Mülheim
		For centuries the Ruhr was also a vital economic artery: On the banks and in the valleys of the streams were the mills which gave the town its name.
		So it is no wonder that the walk through the Ruhr gardens and along the towpath from the town centre to Kettwig has been the "Sunday programme" for many of Mülheim´s citizens and for visitors from other towns for many years now.
		It is almost taken for granted that many of the restaurants and cafés along the Ruhr that invite walkers to stop and have a breather were popular with the Mölmschen´s great-grandparents ("Mölmsche" is what the people of Mülheim call themselves in their dialect).
	www.muelheim-ruhr.de /554f10ed6b44343dd82e215365ea69fb.html (1770 words)

	Ruhr Valley, Ruhr river & Koln cathedral - photos of scenic walks in North Rhine-Westphalia on Worldisround
		These photos were taken in Ruhr Valley in Germany on March 9, 2002.
		The bridge across Ruhr Valley is one of the photos.
		This is the photo of a swan in the lake in Ruhr Valley in Germany.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/9624/index.html (220 words)

	Water Quantity Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Under www.ruhrverband.de we inform you on Integrated River Basin Management in the Ruhr catchment area.
		The Ruhrverband - as it stands today - is the union of the former Ruhrverband (Ruhr River Association) and Ruhrtalsperrenverein (Ruhr Reservoirs Association).
		It ensures that the Ruhr River has always enough water - the whole year round - to meet the supply requirements of some five million people, relying on a network of reservoirs it owns and operates in high-rainfall regions.
	www.ruhrverband.de /ruhrverband_en/html/frame_wassermengen.html (165 words)

	Ruhr - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ruhr, name of a river and a region of Germany.
		Mülheim an Der Ruhr, city in west central Germany, on the Ruhr River, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), near Essen.
		- region of western Germany, comprising the valley of the Ruhr River and adjacent areas, and including the cities of Düsseldorf and Dortmund.
	encarta.msn.com /Ruhr.html (128 words)

	The Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Valley) quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This city is famous for its steelworks, its brewing industry (the highest output in Germany, second highest in Europe) and its soccer club (with the highest total of attendance in Europe).
		What part of the Ruhrgebiet is the actual Ruhr Valley (the part where the river Ruhr runs through a hilly landscape, called Ruhrtal in Germany)?
		The Ruhrgebiet is one of the world´s biggest cultural regions, with a high concentration of theaters, museums, concert halls and universities.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=187912 (252 words)

	Historisches Centrum Hagen : Air Battle of the Ruhr - 1
		With a heavy attack on the Ruhr main city Essen in the night of March 5/6, 1943, the RAF Bomber Command started an air offensive against the Rhine-Ruhr area, which was to last four months.
		Like the lost "Battle of Stalingrad" against the Sowjet army in January 1943, the "Battle of the Ruhr" had showed that the German Reich was on the way to lost the war.
		The gigantic flood in the Ruhr valley killed over 1,600 people in that night, mostly slave worker from Russia in the town of Neheim-Husten in the near the confluence of the Möhne into the Ruhr.
	www.historisches-centrum.de /index.php?id=415 (691 words)

	Mahoning Valley Service Plaza
		Along the Mahoning River, north of the Mahoning Valley Service Plaza, lies a 25-mile stretch of steel mills and related industries so important to this nation’s economy that it is often compared with Germany’s prized Ruhr Valley.
		Alliance, at the upper end of the Mahoning Valley, was established in 1805 by six Quakers from Virginia.
		There is some strip-mining in the valley, evidences of which may be seen in the spoil banks at several locations along the Turnpike.
	www.ohioturnpike.org /sp_mahoning_valley.html (715 words)

	Migration and Urbanization in the Ruhr Valley, 1821-1914. - Review - book review Journal of Social History - Find ...
		Migration and Urbanization in the Ruhr Valley, 1821-1914.
		James Jackson, then, has focused on the kind of city that grew most rapidly in the peak period of industrialization on the continent, creating a large, polluted industrial center from a small town whose population grew from about 10,000 to nearly 150,000 in 60 years (1853-1914).
		Jackson's introductory chapter lays out the historical context for the study of migration and urbanization in the Ruhr Valley.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_3_33/ai_61372251 (874 words)

	Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These western lands were to be of vital importance because they included the Ruhr Area, the centre of Germany's fledgling industrialisation, especially in the arms industry.
		The idea of breaking up Prussia into smaller states was considered by the German government, but eventually traditionalist sentiment prevailed and Prussia became the "Prussian Free State" (Freistaat Preußen, sometimes also called Free State of Prussia), by far the largest state of the Weimar Republic - comprising 60% of its territory.
		Since it included the industrial Ruhr Area and "Red Berlin", it became a stronghold of the left, being governed by a coalition of the Social Democrats and the Catholic Centre for most of the 1920s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia (6097 words)

	About ChemSite - Excursion into the Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Ruhr region does not just offer companies the ideal opportunity for expansion and proximity to the European sales market - it also offers its residents a high standard of living.
		The Ruhr Valley is not just the driving industrial motor that has made North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) the leading economic State in Germany, but - contrary to some outdated stereotyped attitudes - the Ruhr valley is also a particularly beautiful place to work and to live in.
		Nature and technology, old and new, traditional and experimental - the charm of the northern Ruhr Valley lies in its interesting, fascinating contrasts.
	www.chemsite.de /englisch/streifzug.htm (376 words)

	Archiprix 1999 \| Greening the Ruhr
		The project consists of an analysis of the Ruhr Valley in Germany, on whose basis I selected a number of strategic sites.
		The Ruhr, a former mining region and the largest agglomeration in Germany, is a supremely fragmented area with a low average population density.
		The landscape function accorded the central elongated island is the cultivation of biomass, in keeping with the policy of using environmental technology to improve the Ruhr's image.
	www.archiprix.nl /e/1999/ruhr_e.html (283 words)

	Operation Chastise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The potential value of the mission became all the more apparent when reports from the British Government’s Ministry of Economic Warfare predicted widespread chaos in the Ruhr valley if these dams could be damaged.
		So the enemy would not suspect an attack, targets throughout the Ruhr valley were selected for bombing by the RAF during this period.
		Steel production in the valley was halted for the remainder of 1943 and traffic on the canals and railroads in the valley was interrupted for months.
	aia.lackland.af.mil /homepages/pa/spokesman/Mar01/heritage.htm (1689 words)

	BBC - Lincolnshire People - Dambusters - Get on board the bomber
		To mark the 60th anniversary of the famous Dambusters raids on the Ruhr Valley in Germany we are taking you on a tour of one of the surviving Lancaster Bombers.
		Their destination was the Ruhr Valley where their mission was to destroy three dams - the Eder, the Mohne, and the Sorpe.
		Of the 19 aircraft that left the base, 8 failed to return, but despite these losses the mission was considered a success with two of the dams breached and the third damaged.
	www.bbc.co.uk /lincolnshire/asop/people/dambusters/lancaster_tour.shtml (378 words)

	RUHR.TV > German Ruhr Metropolis City Livecams + Infos
		Ruhr City is embedded inside the Ruhr Valley between the Rivers "Ruhr" in the south and "Lippe" in the north.
		Also draw the Ruhr Valley Towns through the River "Emscher", crossed the country from south to north flewing inside the Large Main River "Rhine".
		The Region is mentioned as "Ruhr Valley" and appears in this City Guidance Visual Network Ruhr.tv with all life live city webcams and further infos, also to the "Culture Capital 2010".
	www.ruhrcity.net (1644 words)

	Germany - Regions of Germany - German Counties
		Due to its stunning beauty, the Rhine Valley is a popular holiday destination.
		Castles, cathedrals, woods and vineyards, hiking trails and a romantic river bed all contribute to the scenery.
		Ruhr Valley is famous for its industrial history, originally based on coal mining and steel production.
	www.about-germany.org /regions/counties.php (192 words)

	The Ruhr Valley: Touring Germany's Industrial Past \| Visit Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 11.01.2004
		Germany's Route of Industrial Heritage traverses the Ruhr Valley, once the coal-dust covered center of European heavy industry.
		After its mining and steel industries fell into decline in the 1970s, the Ruhr Valley decided on an unusual strategy for economic renewal: turning the dying industrial landscape into a giant history and technology museum, as well as a top recreation destination.
		The Ruhr Valley is situated in the western state of North-Rhine Westphalia; it is Germany's most densely populated region.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,1081956,00.html (909 words)

	TIME.com: Thorny Package -- Apr. 16, 1945 -- Page 1
		An Allied patrol crossed the Ruhr River to parley with the German major commanding Duisburg, and called on him to surrender.
		The Ruhr industries were lost to Germany; but the war was much too far along for the Allies to sit back and wait for the loss to take effect.
		The Allied commanders evidently decided that the Ruhr must be reduced at all costs—even the cost of delaying the push deeper into the heart of Germany.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,775564,00.html (497 words)

	SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Bombing Nazi Dams \| PBS
		Spring rains had swelled the water dammed up in Germany's Ruhr valley, and on May 16, 1943, Operation Chastise was about to begin.
		The Ruhr region was an important industrial center for Germany, and the demolition of these dams was expected to create widespread destruction, cut off the supply of water for industrial purposes, and halt work in coal mines and factories.
		Operation Chastise was so top-secret that Gibson was at first told nothing of the task that lay before him, other than that he needed to train his pilots rigorously in the art of low level flying.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_nazidams (807 words)

	Ruhr Valley roars confusion over lack of reference price - Scrap - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included American ...
		LONDON -- The ferrous scrap market in Germany has been thrown into a state of confusion for March business as steel mills in the Ruhr Valley region failed to reach agreement on a new reference price.
		Steel mills in the Ruhr Valley region normally agree at the start of each month on a common price that they will pay for scrap.
		Several of the major scrap processing companies in the region are owned or affiliated with the steel mills there.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3MKT/is_42_110/ai_83700766 (338 words)

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