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CeBIT (Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik; German for "Centre of Office and Information technology") is the world's largest computer expo. It is held each spring on the world's largest fairground in Hanover, Germany, and is a barometer of the...
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Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ( listen)), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the...
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| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz |
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (German pronunciation: [ˈgɔtfrit ˈvɪlhɛlm fən ˈlaɪpnɪts]; 1 July 1646 [OS: 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher, polymath and mathematician who wrote primarily in Latin and French.
He occupies a grand...
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Hannover |
Hanover or Hannover (German: Hannover (help·info), IPA: [haˈnoːfɐ]), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great...
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| Kurt Schwitters |
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Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting,...
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| Lower Saxony | Niedersachsen |
Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen [ˈniːdɐzaksn̩]) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining....
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| William Herschel |
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Sir William Herschel |
Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a Hanoverian astronomer, technical expert, and a composer. Early in his life Wilhelm followed his father into the Military Band of...
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| Wilhelm Busch |
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Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.
After initially studying mechanical engineering and then art in Düsseldorf, Antwerp, and...
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| George II of Great Britain |
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George II (George Augustus; German: Georg II. August; 10 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727...
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| Frederick, Prince of Wales |
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Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis; 1 February 1707 – 31 March 1751) was a member of the House of Hanover and therefore of the Hanoverian and later British Royal Family, the eldest son of George II and father of George III as well as the...
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| Frank Gehry |
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Ephraim Owen Goldberg |
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
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| Hannover-Nordstadt | North City |
The Nordstadt (North City) is the university quarter in the German city of Hanover.
It was originally characterized by small factories and a big railway freightyard closed in 1996. During World War II large parts of the district were destroyed....
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The Georgengarten is a landscape garden in the northwestern borough of Herrenhausen of the German city Hanover. It is a part of Herrenhausen Gardens.
Around 1700, country estates for several noblemen were established in the former flood plain of the...
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| Carl Wilhelm Siemens |
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Sir William Siemens |
Carl Wilhelm Siemens (en: Charles William Siemens, known as Sir William Siemens) (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883) was a German born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject.
He was born in the village...
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The Leine is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller river (and so of the Weser river as well) and 281 km in length.
The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. Forty...
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| Chris Barrie |
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Chris Barrie (born 28 March 1960) is a British actor. He first achieved success as a vocal impressionist, notably in the ITV sketch show Spitting Image. He is best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, as Gordon...
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| Fritz Haarmann |
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Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann |
Friedrich "Fritz" Haarmann (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was a German serial killer who is believed to be responsible for the murder of 27 boys and young men.
Fritz Haarmann was born on October 25, 1879, the sixth child of poor parents. Fritz...
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| Hannover 96 |
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Hannover 96 is a German football club in Hanover, Lower Saxony.
Hannover 96 was founded on 12 April 1896 as Hannoverscher Fußball-Club 1896, upon the suggestion of Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke, founder of the Deutscher FV 1878 Hannover. Their initial...
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| Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel |
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (March 10, 1772 – January 12, 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar. He was the younger brother of August Wilhelm Schlegel.
Schlegel was born at Hanover. He studied law at Göttingen and Leipzig, but...
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| Caroline Herschel |
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Caroline Lucretia Herschel (16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, the sister of astronomer Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was...
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| Henry Muhlenberg |
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Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (an anglicanization of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg) (September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German Lutheran pastor sent to North America as a missionary.
Muhlenberg was integral to the founding of the first Lutheran...
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| Emile Berliner |
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Émile Berliner |
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was an American inventor, born in Hanover, Germany. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph in American English). He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The...
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| Gehry Tower |
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Gehry Tower is a nine-story building constructed by architect Frank Gehry; it is located at the Steintor, Goethestraße 13a, in Hanover, Germany. The building was commissioned by the city-owned Hanover Transport Services (üstra), for whom Gehry also...
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| Prince George, Duke of Cambridge |
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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (George William Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 – 17 March 1904) was a member of the British Royal Family, a male-line grandson of King George III. The Duke was an army officer and served as commander-in-chief of...
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| Hanover Zoo |
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Hanover Zoo in Hanover, Germany, is one of the most spectacular adventure zoos in Germany. About 2,000 animals from all over the world live in the six Zoo Worlds, that recreate their natural environment without visible barriers. Show-feedings and up...
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| Ferdinand von Lindemann |
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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (April 12, 1852 – March 6, 1939) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, i.e., it is not a zero of any polynomial with rational coefficients....
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| Ernest Augustus II of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale |
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Ernst August, Crown Prince of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, (Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick; 21 September 1845 – 14 November 1923), was the eldest child and only son of George V of Hanover and his wife, Marie of...
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| Niki de Saint Phalle |
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Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930–21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.
Niki de Saint Phalle was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, to Jeanne Jacqueline ...
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| Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover |
Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (German: Ernst August Albert Paul Otto Rupprecht Oskar Berthold Friedrich-Ferdinand Christian-Ludwig Prinz von Hannover, in English also known as Ernest Augustus of Hanover) (born 26 February 1954 in Hanover, Lower...
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| Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher |
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Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (October 21, 1817 - June 4, 1894) was a German economist from Hanover.
He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and...
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| Emil Knoevenagel |
Heinrich Emil Albert Knoevenagel (18 June 1865 – 11 August 1921) was the German chemist who established the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The Knoevenagel condensation reaction of benzaldehydes with nitroalkanes is a classic general method for...
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| Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
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Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie (Luisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia) (10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen consort of Prussia.
Louise was born in Hanover, where her father, Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was field marshal of the household brigade....
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| Cliff Johnson |
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Cliff Johnson (born 1953) is an American game designer, best known for the early computer puzzle games The Fool's Errand (1987) and 3 in Three (1990). Both games were notable for unique visual puzzles and a metapuzzle structure.
Johnson was born...
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| Mark Field |
Mark Christopher Field (born October 6, 1964), is British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster.
Field was born at the British Medical Hospital in Hanover, Germany, the son of a British Army...
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| Sprengel Museum |
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The Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building designed by Peter and Ursula Trint (Cologne) and Dieter Quast (Heidelberg) adjacent to the Maschsee. The museum...
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| Otto Fritz Meyerhof |
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951) was a German-born physician and biochemist.
Meyerhof was born in Hanover, the son of wealthy Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Berlin, where he started his study of medicine. He...
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| Leibniz University of Hanover |
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LUH |
The University of Hanover, officially the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover or LUH, is a university located in Hanover, Germany. It was founded in 1831 and is organized in nine faculties.
The university was founded in 1831 as a Higher...
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| University of Hanover | ||||
| Pam Ferris |
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Pam Ferris (born 1 January 1948) is a German-born Welsh actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May and Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme, and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie Matilda...
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| Staatsoper Hannover |
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Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house and opera company in Hanover. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.
During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the...
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| Princess Marie of Hanover |
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Princess Marie of Hanover (German: Marie Ernestine Josephine Adolphine Henrietta Theresa Elizabeth Alexandrina Prinzessin von Hannover und Cumberland; 2 December 1849 – 4 June 1904) was the younger daughter of King George V of Hanover and of his...
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| Peter Behrens |
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Peter Behrens (April 14, 1868 – February 27, 1940) was a German architect and designer.
Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882. He studied painting in his native Hamburg, as well as in Düsseldorf and...
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| Sophia Dorothea of Hanover |
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Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (16 March 1687 – 28 June 1757) was the Queen consort in Prussia.
Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born, on 16 March 1687, in Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was the only daughter of George Louis of Brunswick...
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| Carl Buchheister |
Carl Buchheister (October 17, 1890 – February 2, 1964) was a German constructivist artist noted for his multiple series of "model paintings" at Galerie Lambert Weyl, Paris. which he began in 1925.
He was born in Hanover, Germany. Although he was not...
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| Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain |
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For other princesses known as Amelia, see Princess Amelia. For the daughter of George III, see Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom
The Princess Amelia (Amelia Sophia Eleanor; 10 July 1711 – 31 October 1786) was a member of the British Royal Family...
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| Pascual Jordan |
Pascual Jordan (b. 18 October 1902 in Hanover, Germany; d. 31 July 1980 in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany) was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He...
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| Vladimir Vasilj |
Vladimir Vasilj (born in Hanover, Germany, July 6, 1975) is a Croatian football goalkeeper.
He was born in Hanover and started his professional career at Croatian club Hrvatski Dragovoljac in the 1995-96 season. He continued to play for the club in...
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| Otto Schindewolf |
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (7 June 1896, Hanover, Germany - 10 June 1971, Tübingen, West Germany) was a German paleontologist who studied the evolution of corals and cephalopods.
Schindewolf was on the faculty at the University of Marburg from 1919...
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| AWD-Arena |
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Niedersachsenstadion |
The AWD-Arena is a football stadium located in Hanover, Germany. The 49,000 capacity stadium is the home ground of the Bundesliga club Hannover 96.
The stadium was originally known as Niedersachsenstadion (Eng: Lower Saxony Stadium), built between...
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| Per Mertesacker |
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Per Mertesacker (born 29 September 1984 in Hannover) is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Werder Bremen and Germany. Despite his sometimes intimidating height, his game is unusually clean for a defender, evident by his relatively few...
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| Karl von Müller |
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Karl von Muller |
Karl Friedrich Max von Müller (June 16, 1873 – March 11, 1923) was Captain of the famous German commerce raider, the light cruiser SMS Emden during World War I.
The son of a Prussian Army Colonel, he was born in Hanover. After attending gymnasium at...
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| Princess Charlotte of Clarence |
Princess Charlotte of Clarence (Charlotte Augusta Louisa; 21 March 1819) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George III.
Princess Charlotte was born on 21 March 1819 at the Fürstenhof in Hannover. Her father was The Prince...
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| Steve Lomas |
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Stephen "Steve" Lomas (born 18 January 1974) is a former Northern Ireland international professional football player, currently the Player/Manager of United Counties Football League Premier Division side St Neots Town.
Lomas, a midfielder, first...
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| Volkan Arslan |
Volkan Arslan (born 29 August 1978 in Hannover, West Germany) is a Turkish footballer who played in midfield for Hannover 96, Adanaspor, Kocaelispor, Galatasaray, Ankaraspor and Antalyaspor in the Super Lig. Now, he plays for Ankaragücü.
Arslan has...
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| Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum |
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The Hannoversches Strassenbahn-Museum or Hanover Tramway Museum comprises a collection of tramcars from all over Germany, and is located on the site of a former potash mine in Sehnde, southeast of the city of Hanover.
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| Hannover |
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Hannoversche Waggonfabrik AG was a German aircraft manufacturer of the World War I era. It was known as a railway rolling stock constructor until required by the German government in 1916 to start the construction of aeroplanes. The aircraft branch...
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| Elly Beinhorn |
Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot.
She was born in Hanover, Germany on 30 May 1907.
In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had recently completed a historic East-West Atlantic...
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| Theodore Schwan |
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Theodore Schwan (July 9, 1841 – May 27, 1926) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Peebles' Farm. He also served with distinction during the Spanish-American and...
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| Heinrich Wendland |
Heinrich Ludolph (Ludwig) Wendland (29 April 1791, Hanover – 15 July 1869, Teplice) was a botanist who authored a number of Acacia species.
Heinrich Wendland was born on 29 April 1791 into a family well known in botany. His father Johan had...
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| Erich Topp |
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Rear Admiral Erich Topp (2 July 1914 - 26 December 2005) was the third most successful German U-Boot Experten commander of World War II. He sank 35 ships for a total of 197,460 gross register tons (GRT).
Topp was born in Hannover, and joined the...
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| Herrenhausen Gardens |
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The Herrenhausen Gardens (German: Herrenhäuser Gärten), located in Lower Saxony's capital of Hanover are made up of the Great Garden (Großer Garten), the Berggarten, the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten. The gardens are a heritage of the Kings of...
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