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unusual facts about Glas


Dingolfing

In the 1950s this plant began producing automobiles under the Glas car company.


Alfred Escher

Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, known as Alfred Escher (20 February 1819 in Zurich – 6 December 1882 in Zurich/Enge) was a Swiss politician, business leader and railways pioneer.

Along the Templar Trail

As word of their peace walk spreads, national television networks and newspapers in cities such as Belgrade (Glas, Public Voice, Novosti), Sombor (TV Speckar), Sofia (Balkan Bulgarian Television), Plovdiv (Labor), Niš (Niska Televizija), and Alanya, Turkey (Kanal A TV Nightly News and Memleketim Alanya) interview the pair.

Amanda Strydom

In a prolific year (1997) Strydom toured Belgium with Vrou by die Spieël and State of the Heart, staged the same works at arts festivals in South Africa, and also created the cabaret n Vuur gevang in Glas using texts by Hennie Aucamp.

Bontino

Almost all components of the car are produced by Hungarian firms including Carbon Composite Kft of Pécsely and Hirschler Glas Kft of Sopron.

Distinction of blue and green in various languages

In traditional Welsh (and related Celtic languages), glas could refer to blue but also to certain shades of green and grey, and llwyd could refer to various shades of grey and brown; however, modern Welsh is tending toward the 11-color Western scheme, restricting glas to blue and using gwyrdd for green, llwyd for grey and brown for brown.

Esclusham

... the towneshipp of Esclusham, beeing part of ye said manno', is bounden from Minera by a little purle of water running from the mountayne called Glas-bry, downe by the landes called Tir Kelin, and so to Clywedog vpon ye west by the landes of Hugh ap Robert ap Howell in ye manno' of Minera, and part of Glasbrie, and part of ye mountayne towardes y Groes Newydd ; but the certaine boundes vpon ye said mountayne they cannot sett downe.

George Glas

The son of John Glas, the divine, Glas was born at Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon.

George Glas Sandeman Carey

Major General George Glas Sandeman Carey (1867-1948), an officer in the British Army who, during World War I, prevented a breakthrough of the German forces to Amiens in the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918 by assembling a scratch force of British and American troops.

Geraint Talfan Davies

In 2000 he was one of a group that formed Glas Cymru Cyf, with the aim of acquiring Welsh Water with a view to turning it into a not-for-profit company.

Glas 1700

The Glas 1300 GT launched in 1963 had been developed by the Piedmontese firm Frua of Moncalieri, and a contract had at the same time been entered into for the development of a new middle class saloon.

Glas GT

The body had been designed by the Piedmontese firm Frua of Moncalieri, and the body shells were built in Moncalierei by the coach-builders Maggiora before being transferred to the Glas factory at Dingolfing for final assembly.

Glas Isar

In the manufacturer’s Lower Bavarian homeland the River Isar is the principal river and would have enjoyed a warm resonance with customers, though subsequently, as the company began to implement an export strategy, it was found that customers in some non-German speaking countries thought the name “Isar” sounded “funny” and cars exported to these markets were branded as the “Glas Isard” which presumably sounded less “funny” .

Glas javnosti

Modern Glas javnosti assumes a continuity from a newspaper of the same name published in Kragujevac during 19th century.

Goggomobil Dart

The Dart was based on the chassis and mechanical components of the German Goggomobil microcar, which was a product of Hans Glas GmbH of Dingolfing, in Bavaria, Germany.

J. B. Hutto

A "J.B. Hutto" model guitar is often used to refer to a mid-1960s, red, Montgomery Ward Res-O-Glas Airline guitar.

Kasandrin Glas

Kasandrin Glas (Serbian Cyrillic: Касандрин Глас; trans. Cassandra's Voice) were a Serbian progressive/gothic rock band from Beočin.

Phibsborough

The original Irish language name, Glas Mochonóg, means Monck's Green, which evolved to the variants Manogue and Minogue, and anglicised as Monck.

Uschi Glas

In the 1980s and 1990s Glas concentrated on her television work, appearing in a succession of TV series tailored to her person, playing, among other characters, a veterinarian in Tierärztin Christine (1993), an energetic businesswoman in Anna Maria – Eine Frau geht ihren Weg (Anna Maria – A Woman Does it Her Way, 1995–1996), and the ideal teacher in Sylvia – Eine Klasse für sich (Sylvia – A Class of her Own, 1998–2000).

Win Labuda

Labuda is the author and co-author of a number of patents and extensive technical literature, published by the publishing house of the VDI (Association of German Engineers) and by the GIT publishing house, in addition to numerous online publications.


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