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	The Miracle of the Rhine
		Europe’s busiest waterway, the Rhine is navigable over a distance of 883 kilometers stretching from its source near Basel to its mouth in the Netherlands.
		And all along the Rhine, the main source of pollution is still farm fertilisers, which seep into the river every time it rains.
		One of the most serious is in the Rhine delta’s huge basin in the Netherlands, where toxin-filled mud dredged from the port of Rotterdam has been dumped since the 1970s.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_06/uk/planet.htm (2415 words)

	Rhine - Wikimedia Commons
		German language sign at Lai da Tuma, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland at the source of the Rhine.
		The Rhine in the german town of Koblenz
		Rhine canyon or Ruinaulta, between Ilanz/Glion and Chur, Switzerland
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Rhine (58 words)

	Rhine River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		It leaves the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) just southeast of Arnhem and flows northeastward for 70 miles (113 km) to enter the IJsselmeer (a lake formed from the old Zuiderzee) between the Northeast (Noordoost) and East Flevoland polders.
		From its source high in the Swiss Alps, the Rhine flows 820 miles (1,320 kilometers) through widely varying terrain from east-central Switzerland northward and westward to its North Sea outlet in The Netherlands.
		This city near the Rhine River boasts a very eclectic collection of building styles.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276712 (805 words)

	The Miracle of the Rhine
		Europe’s busiest waterway, the Rhine is navigable over a distance of 883 kilometers stretching from its source near Basel to its mouth in the Netherlands.
		In 1998, the ministers of the Commission set targets to restore natural areas as part of a global ecosystem stretching from the mouth of the Rhine to the Jura, the Alps, the Rhine mountain range, the old softwood forests of the floodplains, and streams of the Rhineland-Palatinate, the Black Forest and the Vosges.
		One of the most serious is in the Rhine delta’s huge basin in the Netherlands, where toxin-filled mud dredged from the port of Rotterdam has been dumped since the 1970s.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_06/uk/planet.htm (2415 words)

	Rhine River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		From its source high in the Swiss Alps, the Rhine flows 820 miles (1,320 kilometers) through widely varying terrain from east-central Switzerland northward and westward to its North Sea outlet in The Netherlands.
		Physically and culturally, the Rhine River has played a major role in shaping European history.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276712 (56 words)

	Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development (SCUPAD)
		Although the Rhine has often been employed as an arbitrary border, the inhabitants of the Regio view it as a source of rapprochement, as the highway flowing through a common space, between the mountain ranges bordering the Rhine plain.
		Situated along the Upper Rhine, at the crossroads of three countries, Switzerland, Germany and France, the "Regio Trirhena" to the south of the Upper Rhine is a European border region.
		The existence of the Inter-governmental Commission and the meeting of heads of state in December 1989 is an illustration of the interest shown by governments in the "Upper Rhine Euregio".
	www.pratt.edu /picced/resource/scuprhin.htm (1104 words)

	The Miracle of the Rhine
		And all along the Rhine, the main source of pollution is still farm fertilisers, which seep into the river every time it rains.
		In 1998, the ministers of the Commission set targets to restore natural areas as part of a global ecosystem stretching from the mouth of the Rhine to the Jura, the Alps, the Rhine mountain range, the old softwood forests of the floodplains, and streams of the Rhineland-Palatinate, the Black Forest and the Vosges.
		For decades, the Rhine was one of Europe’s most repelling waste dumps.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_06/uk/planet.htm (2415 words)

	Worldwatch Paper 128.html: Imperiled Waters, Impoverished Future: The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems
		In one tragic example, when a dam was built on the Mun River in Thailand, more than two thousand families were evicted from their homes, thousands more lost their source of food and income, and all 150 species of fish disappeared from the river.
		In the Mekong River in southeast Asia, the benefits of maintaining the natural flow of the river would allow 52 million people in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to continue supporting themselves with little capital investment.
		An expensive plan to dam and divert the river -- a staircase of dams that would reduce the flow of the Mekong by 50% and provide electricity and water for Thailand's booming economy -- would push the region's people further into poverty and saddle them with a burden of debt to pay for the dams.
	worldwatch.org /pubs/paper/128.html (1376 words)

	Swiss geography. Information about geography in Switzerland : Water: Europe's sources are in Switzerland
		The Rhine Falls, a few kilometers downstream of Schaffhausen, are the largest in Europe.
		The Rhine, Rhone and Inn all take their source here, although their waters flow into three seas: the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
		A small boat enables tourists to visit the rock in the middle of the falls.
	www.swissworld.org /eng/swissworld.html?siteSect=204&sid=3998779&rubricId=10040 (364 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constance
		It followed the Rhine upward to the influx of the Aar, then up this river to the St. Gotthard, whence it turned north-easterly across Canton St. Gall to the source of the Iller.
		Constance, a very ancient town situated where the River Rhine flows out of the Bodensee (between the Bodensee and the Untersee) in the south-eastern part of the Grand Duchy of Baden, was originally a village of lake-dwellers which under Roman rule was fortified by Constantius Chlorus in 304.
		Christianity seems to have been introduced into Constance and the neighbouring country by Roman legionaries as early as the end of the second or the beginning of the third century.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04286c.htm (1481 words)

	Rhine River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The formation of the confederation was preceded by French encroachment in Germany beginning in 1792: all territory west of the Rhine River was annexed outright, and the first steps...
		It leaves the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) just southeast of Arnhem and flows northeastward for 70 miles (113 km) to enter the IJsselmeer (a lake formed from the old Zuiderzee) between the Northeast (Noordoost) and East Flevoland polders.
		From its source high in the Swiss Alps, the Rhine flows 820 miles (1,320 kilometers) through widely varying terrain from east-central Switzerland northward and westward to its North Sea outlet in The Netherlands.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276712 (821 words)

	Grand Ducal Standards until c.1903 (Hesse, Germany)
		745 (inv 1865) Louis III, Grand-Duke of Hesse and the Rhine.
		Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, Grossherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein
		By the way, having a look at Ströhl 1897 reveals how many German sovereigns of the time either were knights of the Garter or used a Garter-like design on their arms, for instance those of Hesse-Darmstadt, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Brunswick and (of course) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
	www.fotw.net /flags/de-he^d1.html (560 words)

	Articles - Hanseatic League
		Well before the term Hanse appeared in a document (1267), merchants in a given city began to form guilds or Hansa with the intention of trading with foreign cities, especially with the undeveloped Baltic, a source of timber, wax, resins, furs, even rye and wheat brought down on barges from the hinterland to port markets.
		German domination of trade in the Baltic was achieved with striking speed over the next century and LÃ¼beck became a central node in all the seatrade that linked the North Sea and the Baltic.
		LÃ¼beck became a base for northern German merchants from Saxony and Westphalia to spread east and north.
	www.beadscenter.com /articles/Hanseatic_League (560 words)

	Travel Classics: A FIVE-DAY WATCH ON THE RHINE: Charles N. Barnard
		The Rhine, from its mountainous source in Switzerland to its sprawling delta on the North Sea, is 1,320 kilometers (818 miles) in length.
		The shipping traffic on the Rhine is an integral part of the river's scenery, a great variety of barges, tugs, tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, all of them spotlessly maintained, many of them permanent homes for their owners and their families.
		Every kilometer from 0 (on the shores of Lake Constance in Switzerland) to 1320 (at Hook of Holland on the North Sea), is marked by a large sign on the bank; tenths of a kilometer are indicated by smaller signs in between.
	www.travelclassics.com /library/germany_rhine.shtml (3417 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Rupert, Count Palatine: Foundation of the University of Heidelberg, 1386
		Medieval Sourcebook: Rupert, Count Palatine: Foundation of the University of Heidelberg, 1386
		We wish this institution to be divided and marked out into four nations, as it is at Paris; and that all these faculties shall make one university, and that to it the individual students, in whatever of the said faculties they are, shall unitedly belong like lawful sons to one mother.
		If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1386heidelberg.html (3417 words)

	RMV.DE - Neu im RMV-Gebiet?
		The Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) organises public transport in the greater Rhine Main area, working closely with the individual transport companies, the district authorities, towns and the State of Hesse.
		Just one ticket allows you to use any method of local transport in the area covered by the association: regional trains (RB), regional express trains (RE), S-Bahn trains, U-Bahn underground trains, trams and buses - regardless of how often you change, if at all, to reach your destination.
		This cooperation allows RMV to offer coordinated bus and train travel from one source.
	www.rmv.de /coremedia/generator/RMV/NeuImRMVGebiet/inhalt=en.htm (377 words)

	GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
		The list of the Kings of the Thuringians is something I have only seen at one source, a historical website.
		While they occupied the left bank of the Rhine during the collapse of the Western Empire, they otherwise were not particularly active in the "fall" of Rome.
		The peninsula was fragmented into the main Lombard kingdom in the north (Lombardy), a Roman salient from Rome to Ravenna and Venice, a couple of semi-independent Lombard duchies in the south (Spoleto and Benevento), and Roman footholds in the south at Naples, Sicily, and other points.
	www.friesian.com /germania.htm (6301 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Ruhr
		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.
		Not to be confused with the river Rur, in western North Rhine-Westphalia, Belgium and Netherlands.
		The Ruhr crosses five artificial lakes on its way to the Rhine, which are largely frequented for leisure activities, e.g.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Ruhr (401 words)

	Concentration Camps List
		Lake Tana in the north is the source of the Blue Nile.
		She later recalled in an interview some 60 years later that while carrying the corpses they were not allowed to wear gloves and she was terrified of contracting typhus.
		The British forced Herta Bothe to place corpses of dead prisoners into mass graves adjacent to the main camp.
	www.tartanplace.com /tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html (12043 words)

	I6489: Serge Alexandrovich Romanov (Grand Duke) (29 APR 1857 - 4 FEB 1905)
		Marie, the wife of his brother, Grand Duke George, felt one source of Sergey's bitterness toward life in general came from by his inability to have children of his own.
		One of the most vocal of them, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich Romanov, husband of Nickolas' sister, Ksenia, detested him and wrote critically of Serguey after the revolution as one of the most negative characters in the government of Nickolas II.
		The Romanov family was split in their opinion of Sergey.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0009/I6489.html (12043 words)

	Grand Ducal Standards until c.1903 (Hesse, Germany)
		797 (inv 1892) Ernst Ludwig Karl Albrecht Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine [Hesse-Darmstadt] (1868-1937).
		Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine, Grossherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein
		745 (inv 1865) Louis III, Grand-Duke of Hesse and the Rhine.
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/de-he^d1.html (560 words)

	Queen Victoria
		Source: Report of a conversation with Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom in which she talked of William'shealth problems.
		Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George III) andPrincess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of Emich, 2nd Prince ofLeiningen.
		The Duke of Kent, marrying at the age50, became the father of the ultimate heiress.
	www.therfcc.org /queen-victoria-25712.html (1727 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Rhine -> Course The Rhine's highest source, the Hinter Rhine, issues from the Rheinwaldhorn Glacier more than 11,000 ft (3,353 m) above sea level and joins the Vorder Rhine, flowing from Lake Tuma, to form the Rhine proper at Reichenau, S of Chur, Switzerland.
		Palatinate -> History Emperor Frederick I bestowed (1156) the title count palatine on his half-brother Conrad, who was in possession of territories on both sides of the Rhine.
		More extensive than the present Rhenish Palatinate, these territories also included the northern part of modern Baden (but not the bishopric of Speyer and other encla...
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=%22Rhine%22 (1727 words)

	Family Births and Marriages K -Waukesha County Wisconsin Genealogy (GenWeb)
		Kern by: J.D. Huber (Source: Old German Reformed Church: New Berlin, WI) KOFFLER: Christian (see Koeffler) res: New Berlin par: Fried.
		Iowa Casualty of Civil War bur: not listed regiment: not listed Source: Waukesha Freeman Mar 4, 1862 KETTLE: See FOY KEYES: See RANKIN KIEFER: Jacob b: around 1802 Ger d: 1 Sep 1871/2 to: Anna Lackas b: around 1802 Germany d: 4 Apr 1870 -Wauk Source: Anon.
		Source: Waukesha Freeman June 30, 1863 KERR: Thomas to: Julia M. Children: Arthur Isaac b: 20 Oct 1882 bap: 19 Nov 1900 spon: Cynthia Ann Peabody, Henry George Bau Source: Grace Episcopal Church Records-see contrib.
	linkstothepast.com /waukesha/marK.html (1727 words)

	Hiking and Discovering the rivers of Switzerland
		The Rhine is by far the longest river of the rivers of Switzerland and is actually one of the longest of Europe’s rivers because it runs from Switzerland through Lichtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
		This is the longest river of the South of Switzerland that has it source in the Nufenen Pass.
		This rivers source is found in a glacier that has the same name, in the region of The Fulka Pass, Grimsel, in Susten.
	www.hiking-in-switzerland.com /rivers-of-Switzerland.html (1727 words)

	Baden-Württemberg
		The geographical boundaries of the Land are the waters of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) and the upper Rhine in the south, the widening Rhine Valley in the west, the River Main in the north, and the River Iller in the east.
		In addition, the source of the River Danube is at Donaueschingen, a popular excursion point, and the river cuts through the eastern part of the state on the first part of its journey across the European continent.
		Other industrial areas are found on the banks of the Rhine near Mannheim—the Land's second largest city after Stuttgart—and near Karlsruhe and Ulm.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/Baden-Wurttemberg/Baden-Wurttemberg.html (1727 words)

	Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development (SCUPAD)
		Although the Rhine has often been employed as an arbitrary border, the inhabitants of the Regio view it as a source of rapprochement, as the highway flowing through a common space, between the mountain ranges bordering the Rhine plain.
		With this department, now detached from the two cantons, for transfrontier co-operation in the Upper Rhine EuroRegion and the associations's general secretariat, the REGIO BASILIENSIS is able to act in both an official and unofficial capacity.
		However, the "Regio Trirhena" grew when transfrontier co-operation was institutionalized in 1975 and an enlarged "Upper Rhine EuroRegion" extends to Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and the south of the Palatinate and has 4.6 million inhabitants.
	www.pratt.edu /picced/resource/scuprhin.htm (1104 words)

	Hiking and Discovering the rivers of Switzerland
		The Rhine is by far the longest river of the rivers of Switzerland and is actually one of the longest of Europe’s rivers because it runs from Switzerland through Lichtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
		This rivers source is found in a glacier that has the same name, in the region of The Fulka Pass, Grimsel, in Susten.
		This is the longest river of the South of Switzerland that has it source in the Nufenen Pass.
	www.hiking-in-switzerland.com /rivers-of-Switzerland.html (1104 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.
		Then the river marks the southern limit of the Ruhr area, passing Hagen, Dortmund, Herdecke, Wetter (Ruhr), Witten, Bochum, Hattingen, Essen, Mülheim and Duisburg.
		The Ruhr crosses five artificial lakes on its way to the Rhine, which are largely frequented for leisure activities, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruhr (289 words)

	HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SHIP - LECTURE NOTES
		SLIDE 306 BLACKFRIARS BOAT 2ad (schematic reconstruction of or) SOURCE Marsden IJNA 5.1 pp:
		In the Dutch Polders, the Rhine and the Swiss lakes other boats have been found which embody the Celtic tradition in other forms.
		SLIDE 497 BLACKFRIARS BOAT 2ad (Reconstructed plan & elevation) SOURCE Bass, G. A History of Seafaring, (London, 1974) pp: 120/6
	cma.soton.ac.uk /HistShip/shlect59.htm (359 words)

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