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  • Thumbnail for Switzerland at the 1948 Winter Olympics
    Switzerland was the host nation for the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. It was the second time that Switzerland had hosted the Winter Games, after...
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  • Thumbnail for Markranstädter Automobilfabrik
    The Markranstädter Automobilfabrik is a former producer of automobiles from Markranstädt, Germany, which was active between 1909 and 1923. Hugo Ruppe founded...
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  • The Drevani (German: Draväno-Polaben or Drevanen) were a tribe of Polabian Slavs settling on the Elbe river in the area of the present-day Lüchow-Dannenberg...
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  • Milieudefensie (Dutch for "environmental defense") is a Dutch environmental organisation, founded on 6 January 1971, by a group of scientists in response...
    3 KB (360 words) - 07:48, 14 January 2023
  • The French Voulet-Chanoine Mission, led by the captains Paul Voulet and Julien Chanoine, had been dispatched in 1898 to Africa by the French government...
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  • Thumbnail for Basilica of St Plechelm
    The Basilica of St Plechelmus (Dutch: Sint-Plechelmusbasiliek) is a Catholic church in the Dutch town of Oldenzaal dedicated to the 8th-century Irish monk...
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  • Thumbnail for Château de Lavardin
    The Château de Lavardin is a ruined castle in the village and commune of Lavardin in the Loir-et-Cher department of France. The property of the commune...
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  • Armand Renaud (29 July 1836–15 October 1895) was a French poet. Renaud was born in Versailles. He worked as an official in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, where...
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  • Thumbnail for Georg Krücken
    Georg Krücken (born September 21, 1962 in Bad Honnef, Germany) is a German sociologist and higher education researcher. He is director of the International...
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  • Withego von Furra or de Wuor (also Witigo, Witticho), otherwise Withego I of Meissen or Withego I von Furra (died 6 March 1293) was Bishop of Meissen from...
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  • Wolfgang Ott (born 1957) is an Austrian sex offender, murderer and alleged serial killer, whose actions are considered some of the most spectacular criminal...
    6 KB (709 words) - 22:58, 20 September 2022
  • The FPS Information and Communication Technology (Dutch: FOD Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie, French: SPF Technologie de l'Information et de la...
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  • Thumbnail for St. Vedast Church, Vlamertinge
    The St. Vedast Church (Dutch: Sint-Vedastuskerk) is a church in Vlamertinge, Belgium. The church is named after the holy Vedastus. In 857 a chapel would...
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