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Ya`fūr

The early Fatimid Caliphate was nearly overthrown in the 10th century by the rebel Abu Yazid, known as the "Man on the Donkey", while in Morocco the 12th century founder of the Almohad movement, Ibn Tumart, insisted on riding a donkey.


Action for World Solidarity

The Action for World Solidarity (AWS) has its roots in the 1957 Aufruf für die Hungernden ("Appeal for the Hungry"), initiated by Lothar Kreyssig and signed by important public figures in Germany, such as Heinrich Albertz, Willy Brandt, Heinz Galinski, Kurt Scharf and Otto Suhr.

Antoine Godin

Initially there was no alarm, for this group was assumed to be an American Fur Company supply train led by Lucien Fontenelle, which had failed to arrive in time for the rendezvous.

Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie

It was edited until 1945 by Wilhelm Wirth and published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie .

Archive for Reformation History

The first volume of the journal was published in 1903/04 by Verlag Gerd Mohn, based in Gütersloh, under the auspices of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte with Walter Friedensburg as the editor who served until his death in 1938.

August Wenzinger

Wenzinger received his basic musical training at the Basel Conservatory, then went on to study cello with Paul Grümmer and music theory with Philipp Jarnach at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.

Baumberge

Weitere prominente Beispiele für die Verwendung dieses Baustoffes sind der Ludgerus-Dom in Billerbeck, die Innenausstattung der zwischen Billerbeck und Coesfeld gelegenen Abtei Gerleve und der Longinusturm auf dem Westerberg.

Before the Fall

Before the Fall (also known as NaPolA: Hitler's Elite; German: Napola - Elite für den Führer) is a 2004 German drama film written and directed by Dennis Gansel.

Bei Nacht

On 5 May 2011 Bei Nacht was performed by the ALEA Ensemble at the Musik-Forum München, Studio für neue Musik (studio for new music), together with chamber music of Gerhard Präsent (Trio intricato), Herbert Blendinger (Fantasie in G) and Iván Erőd (Trio).

Benjamin Frobisher

They were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the London merchant John Strettell.

Berlin School of Library and Information Science

The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (in German, "Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft") offers study programmes at three levels: bachelors, masters (both a standard program and a postgraduate distant learning program), and doctoral.

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Later, in the 1920s, it was relocated to become part of the Berlin Conservatory, and then in the 1930s, part of the Museum für Völkerkunde (now the Ethnological Museum of Berlin), with which the Phonogramm-Archiv had earlier cooperated.

Biscotasing, Ontario

From railway construction camp, to fur trade depot and lumbering centre, in 1922 Biscotasing became the first place in Northern Ontario to use aircraft (Curtiss NC) for forest fire surveillance.

Blue of Sint-Niklaas

The Van Beveren, also a fur-rabbit breed, is family and has been bred in the same region of Flanders, the Waasland.

Caddoan Mississippian culture

Artifacts found in "The Great Mortuary" (Craig Mound) at the Spiro site included wood, conch shell, copper, basketry, woven fabric, lace, fur, feathers, and carved stone statues.

Canadian military fur wedge cap

In Canadian Forces nomenclature it is known as Cap, Man’s Winter, Fur, C.F. Exactly when the fur cap stopped being in general issue is unclear; however, it is still being worn today by the officer cadets of the Royal Military College of Canada.

Dan Mathews

He is known for heading PETA's most controversial and attention-getting campaigns, including the "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads, as well as campaigns involving celebrities such as Morrissey, Pamela Anderson, Pink, and Paul McCartney.

Danatbank

The Darmstädter Bank für Handel und Industrie (often called Darmstädter Bank) was founded as the Bank für Handel und Industrie by Gustav von Mevissen and Abraham Oppenheim with a capital of 25 million guilders and modelled after the French bank Crédit Mobilier.

David Stuart

David Stuart (fur trader), fur trader with the North West Company and Pacific Fur Company, and one of the founders of Fort Astoria

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

First published in 1961 by Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, it was an enlarged and revised English version of Wehr's German Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart ("Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language") (1952) and its Supplement (1959).

Distinguished Service Medal of the National People's Army

On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER- UND-BAUERN- MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS-AND-FARMERS-POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.

Donald MacLaren

After recovering MacLaren, his father and his brother opened a fur trading post at a remote point on the Peace River.

Ernst Behm

In 1872 Behm published an article (Beweise für die Identität des Lualaba mit dem Congo), which scientifically demonstrated that the Lualaba was a headstream of the Congo River.

Franz Johann Joseph Bock

Baldachin-Altäre aus St. Stephan in Wien und aus der Teinkirche zu Prag; oder: wie ist es mit dem Neubaue von Altären zu halten?, In: Organ für christliche Kunst, 7 (1857), Nr. 21, 241–243 u.

Free International University

Interviews with Hans Peter Bull (SPD), Heiko Hoffmann (CDU), Gerald Häfner (Grüne), Joseph Beuys and Direkte Demokratie, das Kunstwerk Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie approx.

Für alle Zeiten

Für alle Zeiten is the fifth studio album by German recording artist Alexander Klaws.

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958

Germany was represented by Margot Hielscher, with the song '"Für zwei Groschen Musik", at the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 12 March in Hilversum, Netherlands. "Für zwei Groschen Musik" was chosen at the German national final held on 20 January. This was Hielscher's second consecutive Eurovision appearance for Germany.

GFK

GfK (Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung), a market research organisation

Hans Markowitsch

For many years, he was co-director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZiF)) at Bielefeld University and has cooperated with neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists at the national and international level.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Hohe Warte, Vienna

In 1872, the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik relocated from Wieden to the Hohe Warte; its new home had been built by Heinrich von Ferstel between 1870 and 1872.

Jeder stirbt für sich allein

Jeder stirbt für sich allein is the German title of a book written by Hans Fallada in 1947.

Joseph Gale

As early as 1830, Joseph Gale had traveled the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to Taos and was fur trapping in the southern Rocky Mountains.

Kaiserslautern University of Technology

German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH) (DFKI)

Kneiphof

Banks with locations along the street in the 20th century included Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank, Landesbank der Provinz Ostpreußen, Stadtsparkasse, and Ostbank für Handel und Gewerbe.

Kneissl

In February 1989, BREG Gesellschaft für Bau und Revitalisierung, belonging to Hans Peter Haselsteiner and Erhard Grossnigg and Reinfried Spazier, took a majority stake.

Methye Portage

Along the Portage Trail there were marked graves from the fur trade era according to the following Oblate account written in 1933 by Father Louis Moraud (translation).

Michael Korstick

After graduating from high school he entered the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne as a student of Jürgen Tröster, and in 1974 he became a student of Hans Leygraf in Hanover.

Miriam Butt

She subsequently held research and teaching positions at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung at the University of Stuttgart, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Tübingen before taking up her current position at the University of Konstanz.

Nic Romm

After Nic Romm finished the gymnasium in Jülich, a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he visited the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover.

Niele Toroni

Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.

Notman House

It stood on a substantial plot of land surrounded by fields with Elm and Maple trees, purchased from the subdivided estate of John Clarke (1781-1852), a retired fur-trader of the North West Company.

Oskar Ritter

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, today, the Max-Planck Institut für Physik) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.

Pat Munday

In 1987 and 1988 he was a visiting researcher and Fulbright Scholar at the Universität Hamburg, Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik.

Pierre Chouteau, Jr.

In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River.

Problem solving

In H. Gundlach (Ed.), Psychologische Forschung und Methode: Das Versprechen des Experiments. Festschrift für Werner Traxel (pp. 53-87).

RTL Nitro

Charlie's Angels (Drei Engel für Charlie); drama series (2012—present)

Saskatchewan River fur trade

The boreal forest region to the north was inhabited by Cree who had migrated northwest as middlemen in the fur trade and, in the early and middle 19th.

Simon Bedwell

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo show “The Furnishers” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, and Studio Voltaire London.

Ulster Defence Association

The name is derived from the furry fictional creatures The Wombles, and was given to the UDA because many of its members wore fur-lined anoraks.

Wathiq Naji

In 1967, he awarded a Higher Diploma in Football and Sport Science from the German University of physical culture and sport, which is better known as Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur und Sport (DHfK) in Leipzig, This university is attached later to the University of Leipzig after the German reunification on 3 October 1990.


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