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  SMS Leipzig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SMS Leipzig was a light cruiser, of the Bremen class commissioned in 1906 into the German Imperial Navy.
Admiral Spee's squadron of two armored cruisers (SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau) and three light cruisers, appearing at Port Stanley for a planned raid on the port installations, was caught by surprise by the presence of the faster and more powerful battlecruisers and was destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
SMS Leipzig was caught and sunk several hours after the start of the engagement by the faster and more heavily gunned British light cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Glasgow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SMS_Leipzig   (240 words)

  
 SMS Dresden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SMS Dresden was a German Kaiserliche Marine light cruiser of the Dresden class, commissioned in 1908.
Together with SMS Leipzig she damaged and forced the escape of the British cruiser HMS Glasgow.
Approximately one month later, SMS Dresden was the only German cruiser to escape at the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, her turbine engines proving faster than her expansion-engined squadron mates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SMS_Dresden   (555 words)

  
 Admiral Graf Spee
The squadron consisted of the armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst (flag) and Gneisenau and the light cruisers Emden, Leipzig and Nürnberg.
SMS Scharnhorst and her sister SMS Gneisenau were modern and powerful armoured cruisers.
SMS Leipzig was the oldest of the German cruisers based overseas.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /GrafSpee.html   (827 words)

  
 Research Report 2003 > Faculty of Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology
In a recent study it was shown that the genes encoding heterochromatin protein SU(VAR)3-9 histone H3 methyltransferase and eukaryotic translation initiation factor subunit eIF-2γ are fused to a dicistronic unit (Krauss and Reuter, 2000; Genetics 156, 1157).
At Leipzig we surveyed (during 2000-2003) and survey the genomes of many species for their content of this extraordinary gene arrangement.
Barry Smith (systematic philosophy) at the Universität Leipzig sponsered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is an important event.
www.uni-leipzig.de /forschb/03/e22.htm   (4187 words)

  
 CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Battles of Coronel & The Falkland Islands
Leipzig and Dresden were detached to find Glasgow and Otranto, both heading for the Falkland Islands whilst the rest of the squadron made for Valparaiso to coal and provision.
Meanwhile SMS Gneisenau and SMS Nürnberg were detached from Spee's main squadron to attack the wireless station and port facilities at Port Stanley.
The Glasgow's object was to endeavour to out-range the Leipzig with her 6-inch guns and thus cause her to alter course and give the Cornwall and Kent a chance of coming into action.
www.christopherlong.co.uk /pub/coronelfalklands.html   (6373 words)

  
 SMS Bremen
SMS Bremen of the Bremen Class German Light Cruisers.
Her sister ships were, SMS Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck, Munchen, Leipzig, and SMS Danzig.
SMS Bremen was built at A G Weser at Bremen, and laid down in 1902, launched 9th July 1903 and completed 19th May 1904.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /sms_bremen.htm   (384 words)

  
 Ifra press release
Under the Internet address http://mobile.ifraexpo.com it is possible to retrieve information about travelling to Leipzig, tickets, hotels, exhibitors and stand numbers, the programme for the IfraExpo Solution Park, other events at the exhibition, up to and including tips for going out and restaurant recommendations in Leipzig.
The SMS to order the service is charged at the regular SMS rate.
These vouchers can be used to obtain special rates and discounts in Leipzig: free drinks in various Leipzig restaurants, city tours at reduced rates, discounts for car hire, cabaret performances, museums, entry to Leipzig zoo as well as sport and wellness facilities (e.g.
www.ifra.com /website/News.nsf/0/A3FD838E145010A2C125707D0034891D?OpenDocument   (754 words)

  
 On An Overgrown Path: I am a camera - Leipzig
This new home for Leipzig University was a pet project of the then GDR dictator Walter Ulbricht, a native of Leipzig.
It is particularly appropriate that the collapse of the Communist GDR began in this city with its many connections to the despised regime, not the least of which was the headquarters of the dreaded Stasi secret police (logo above) located on the Dittrichring.
The history of the four churches in Leipzig in which Bach worked is closely associated with the turbulent politics of the 20th century.
theovergrownpath.blogspot.com /2006/03/i-am-camera-leipzig.html   (2825 words)

  
 Research Report 2004 > Faculty of Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology
As accepted by the senate of the University of Leipzig the chair of Microbiology is now part of the institute of biochemistry.
In cooperation with Fischer Analysen Instruments (Leipzig) a new instrument for thermoluminescence measurements has been designed and will be commercialised in next future.
It was based on the study results about ontogenesis of interest in biology among students in grades 5-10 (DFG Project of the Universities of Gießen and Leipzig) and a preliminary study (N=192) about the state of development of interest in biology in basic and advanced biology courses in years 11 and 12.
www.uni-leipzig.de /forschb/04/e22.htm   (3620 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
In company with Vice-Admiral von Spee's other ships - which were SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Gneisenau, SMS Leipzig, and SMS Nürnberg - the Dresden participated in the victorious Battle of Coronel on November first.
In early December, SMS Dresden was the only German cruiser to escape at the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, her turbine engines proving faster than her expansion-engine squadron mates.
SMS Dresden belonged to the light cruises class: 3.664 tons with two shaft Parson turbines reaching a speed of 24 knots.
www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=7309   (1244 words)

  
 Leipzig's Beer Bottle Book Readings | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 29.04.2006
Though it was Leipzig's Auerbachs Keller that was among Goethe's favorite haunts, today the city's literary audience is attracted to a number of other underground bars for unconventional book readings.
Shows like "Turboprop," Fischer's "Live-Lyrix" and other gallery and club performances and exhibitions aim to develop a contemporary German-speaking literary subculture in Leipzig for the quiet months when Leipzig Book Fair's doors are closed and the city is not full of visiting authors.
Leipzig as the quasi-uncrowned queen of German-language literature."
www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1979474,00.html   (359 words)

  
 Courtney Pulitzer's
Cyber Scene: February 2006
Leipzig was the birthplace of Richard Wagner, where he was taught harmony and counterpoint at the St. Thomas School.
In 1989, the citizens of Leipzig showed their uncommon valor as a political force when thousands of them gathered in the area just outside the St. Nicholas Church to protest their lack of freedom at the hands of the Communist regime.
Leipzig is a city of great musical tradition, and a city on the cutting edge in the new Germany.
pulitzer.com /thecyberscene/archive/2006_02_01_archive.html   (12122 words)

  
 SMS Berlin
Her sister ships were, SMS Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, Munchen, Leipzig, and SMS Danzig.
SMS Berlin was built at Danzig Imperial Dockyard., and laid down in 1902, launched 22nd September 1903 and commissioned into the German navy on the 4th April 1905..
S.M.S Berlin served over overseas up to 1911 rejoining the fleet in 1914 and during 1915 and 1916 for a short period was used as a minelayer.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /sms_berlin.htm   (381 words)

  
 Deserters from German Warships in Australian Ports
After putting in at the port of Levkuka in Fiji a heavy storm caused so much damage to the Bismarck that she had to make an unscheduled trip to Sydney for repairs.
This meant that the ship was able to represent Germany at Sydney's World Exhibition and the crew were able to visit the city.
This photo of S.M.S. Bismarck in dry-dock at Sydney was taken by the crewman Claus Franzen.
www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/deserter.htm   (638 words)

  
 Forgotten Cruiserwarrior - SMS Dresden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
he Imperial German light cruiser SMS Dresden "..at first...sank very slowly, going down by the bows." She was a rusty hulk with water lines running down her side, and she sat high in the pristine waters of Cumberland Bay, Chile.
Her valves were open and she was taking on water when suddenly a small charge detonated.
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, and Nurnberg were outgunned and slower than their opponents and all went down, along with Admiral Spee.
www.cronab.demon.co.uk /Dresden.htm   (3954 words)

  
 SMS Noveltiques - Vintage Post Cards, Collectible Post Cards, Antique Post Cards, Real Photo Post Cards, Post cards ...
On the back it is marked "No. C 914 Published by the Bridgeport News Co., Bridgeport Conn., Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden.".
On the back it is marked "No. B 12534 Published by The Bridgeport News Company, Bridgeport, Conn. Leipzig, Berlin Dresden." Condition is good with rounded corners, and someone has written a note on the front of the card.
On the back it is marked "No. B 12547 Published by the Bridgeport News Co., Bridgeport Conn., Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden.".
www.smsnoveltiques.com /postcardsusviews.asp   (7927 words)

  
 EMS-Newsletter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
During the opening ceremony of the DMG Leipzig meeting (see herafter), Werner Wehry has been awarded the Rheinhard-Süring-Medaille for "his work concerning the integration of the European Meteorological Societies and publications of meteorological knowledge".
SMS organize jointly with International Glaciological Society - Section Alpes Occidentales (Grenoble) a glaciological excursion in the Formazza Valley, Italy (near Simplon Pass), 27 through 30 August 1998.
In Sweden, a subdivision of SMS (Swedish Meteorological Society), SMS North, was organized during the autumn of 1998.
www.emetsoc.org /ems_newsletter4.html   (5508 words)

  
 Bremen Class Cruiser - SMS Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Lubeck, Munchen, Leipzig, Danzig
They introduced to adopt the naming policy of using city names, a policy that was continued in subsequent classes.
SMS Lübeck was completed with turbines, unlike the rest of the class, and was the first major German warship with turbines.
SMS Bremen along with SMS Lübeck were re-armed during the war with 2 x 150mm (5.9in) guns replacing 4 x 105mm (4.1in) guns) as part of German acknowledgement that the 105mm gun lacked firepower against modern light cruisers.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /cruisers/sms-bremen.html   (418 words)

  
 Myskina upsets Henin to lift WTA tournament in Leipzig - Sept. 29, 2003
Myskina upsets Henin to lift WTA tournament in Leipzig - Sept. 29, 2003
LEIPZIG, Germany -- Third seed Anastasia Myskina of Russia picked up her fifth WTA tour title defeating world number two Justine Henin-Hardenne 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the 585,000 dollar tournament here Sunday.
The 22-year-old Moscow native, ranked number ten in the world, ended the 22-match winning streak of French and US Open winner Henin and made amends for last year when she lost to American powerhouse Serena Williams in the final.
www.inq7.net /brk/2003/sep/29/brkspo_3-1.htm   (271 words)

  
 Internet PTV AG
The Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, the Free State of Saxony and the city of Leipzig, represented by DEGES, asked PTV AG to implement a traffic management centre (VSMZ) in Leipzig.
The project focuses on a computer-based traffic management system designed to organise Leipzig's entire traffic flow as from 2006 - also a vitally important factor for the quickly approaching FIFA World Cup.
He believes that Leipzig's decision in favour of a traffic management centre has been an important step towards sophisticated mobility concepts.
www.english.ptv.de /cgi-bin/news/ptv_newsletter.pl?art=english.ptv.de/cgi-bin/news/news_archiv.pl&nr=05_02_05&de=562   (424 words)

  
 Human B Cells Secreting Immunoglobulin G to Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase-65 from a Nondiabetic Patient with Multiple ...
SMS and a proportion of antibodies in polyendocrine autoimmune
For footprinting, the immune complexes were incubated with trypsin (0.1 mg/mL) at 30 C for 20 min.
The three high molecular mass fragments of 42–50 kDa that are protected by serum from all multiple autoantibodies patients, the SMS patient, and one IDDM patient (lane 4) are indicated by arrows.
jcem.endojournals.org /cgi/content/full/82/8/2664   (4552 words)

  
 Infendo - Nintendo Blogging: Shocking Leipzig news: Elebits is multiplayer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Another Wii-only title is getting some love in Leipzig.
This time it's Konami's as of yet unnamed game featuring those strange little bundles of energy, the Elebits.
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
www.infendo.com /2006/08/shocking-leipzig-news-elebits-is.html   (227 words)

  
 World War One Battles
Cradock had received word, again via intercepted radio signal on 31 October that SMS Leipzig, the slowest light cruiser in Spee's fleet, was in the area.
Each of the British battle cruisers were fitted with eight 12-inch guns, whereas Spee's SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau each had 8.2-inch guns.
The only German ship to escape was the light cruiser SMS Dresden, which roamed at large for a further three months before its captain surrendered off the Juan Fernandez Islands on 14 March 1915.
webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/WW1_Battles1.htm   (15644 words)

  
 Neo-Nazis plan march in Leipzig for World Cup : Mail & Guardian Online
They are apparently planning on holding a protest in Leipzig, in the former East Germany, on June 21, where Angola will be playing Iran.
Controversial hardline Ahmadinejad has often caused outrage throughout the world for making allusions and claims that the Holocaust is a myth and that Israel should be "wiped from the map".
President of the German police Konrad Freiberg told Der Spiegel that such a protest in Leipzig could cause a "state of emergency for the police," as they "would not be able to ensure the safety of such protests during the World Cup".
www.mg.co.za /articlePage.aspx?articleid=272329&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__sport   (521 words)

  
 India hockey team ranked sixth
Australia have returned to the top of the Sahara World Hockey team rankings in the latest list.  They have reclaimed pride of place after their maiden Olympic Gold in Athens last year.
The change at the top of the ranking was the result of Germany's failure to defend their European Nations Cup title in Leipzig earlier this month, the release said.
Netherlands have taken Germany's place at number two and are 51 points behind Australia.
www.rediff.com /sports/2005/oct/01hock.htm   (249 words)

  
 Revolutionvault.com- Best place for Latest Nintendo Revolution News!
Way back on August 5th, we had reported that Nintendo was working on a new SMS sequel on Wii.
There wasn’t really a lot of meaty information from Nintendo at the “Wii Prove Our Promise” from the Games Convention in Leipzig, but at least they announced that Battalion Wars 2 is coming to Wii.
Fresh from Nintendo’s rather disappointing Leipzig press conference “Wii Prove Our Promise”, Nintendo decided to unveil that it’s currently set to unleash the pink DS Lite in Europe onOctober 27th, just in time for the all important festive period.
www.revolutionvault.com   (1503 words)

  
 Unstrung - Avaya Converges on World Cup - Wireless Networking News Wire
The Final Draw takes place today at the Messe Leipzig conference centre in Germany and will be viewed by up to 350 million people worldwide who will tune in to see which teams will play each other in the Finals to take place in Germany next summer.
Attending the draw night celebrations will be over 1500 guests including VIPs from the worlds of football and celebrity, leading FIFA representatives, country dignitaries and other members of the Football Federation.
As a signal of confidence in the Avaya technology, the Messe Leipzig has purchased Avaya's voice solution for permanent installation following the Final Draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
www.unstrung.com /document.asp?doc_id=85442&WT.svl=wire1_4   (786 words)

  
 From Liverpool to Leipzig : Mail & Guardian Online
I later heard a reporter from Finnish TV dismissed with a crisp “No votes in Leipzig".
Dole's familiarity with both British accents and European geography may have been slightly off, but the point was clear enough.
Material may not be published or reproduced in any form without prior written permission.
www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/insight/insight__international&articleid=138082   (1128 words)

  
 MacNN | MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Apple can eat it and to those who call me a whinner, let me remind you what happened when apple pulled 1-800-sos-apple.
SMS messaging lets you send a short text message to the majority of cell phones (individually of course).
SMS is a messaging standard for sending text messages to cellphones, kind of like AOL Instant Messenger or IRC.
www.macnn.com /news/16496/&startNumber=0   (738 words)

  
 Wild gorillas spotted using tools for first time
WASHINGTON - Two female gorillas have been photographed using sticks as tools to get through swampy areas, the first time the apes have been seen doing so in the wild, researchers reported on Thursday.
“This is a truly astounding discovery,” said Thomas Breuer of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who led the study.
The findings can help shed light on how human beings came to use tools, and also broaden the understanding of how animals use them, the researchers said.
www.kashar.net /complete.asp?id=2335   (439 words)

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