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5 unusual facts about Länder


Drei-Länder-Stein

In addition the nature parks of Harz (Lower Saxony), Harz/Saxony-Anhalt and South Harz meet here.

Holly Allen

Holly Katherine Allen (born January 11, 1988) is a beauty queen from Lander, Wyoming who will compete in the Miss USA pageant in the summer of 2012.

José González-Lander

On his return to Venezuela Mr. Gonzalez-Lander was put in charge of the Ministry of Public Works' Office of Transportation Planning where he spearheaded the design of the backbone of the future Caracas Metro system, a 20 km underground double track rail line connecting the East and West ends of the city.

Caracas' rapid growth as a result of the oil boom of the 1970s strained the capacity of the city's road network and the need for a rapid transit system became evident as automotive traffic along its modern expressways became chaotic.

Russell, Pennsylvania

The community is due east of the similar village of Lander and lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 62 and Pennsylvania Route 957.


Bizonal Economic Council

In principle, the Economic Council consisted of three organs concentrated in Frankfurt am Main: the Exekutivrat (Executive Committee) as a second chamber with representatives of the eight Länder in the Bizone, the Direktoren der Verwaltung (Executive Directors) as quasi-ministers presiding over the five already existing administrations, and, finally, the actual Wirtschaftsrat as first post-war parliament.

BonNova

The BonNova rocket team for the Lunar Lander Challenge was led by their chief engineer, Allen Newcomb, a rocket engineer with a career background of combined experience in avionics and design for extreme environments that can expose equipment to extreme heat such as oil wells, and race cars with brutal vibrations and extreme EMI

Chancellor of Austria

Nevertheless, when Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand I succeeded him as Archduke of Austria in 1521, his elder brother Emperor Emperor Charles V (1519–1556) appointed Mercurino Gattinara as "Grand Chancellor of all the realms and kingdoms of the king" (Großkanzler aller Länder und Königreiche).

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Clara Lander, writing in Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, suggests that the typhus may have exacerbated the enteritis Donne had suffered from since childhood.

Education in Bristol

The city was birthplace of Colin Pillinger, planetary scientist behind the Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and is home to Adam Hart-Davis, presenter of various science related television programmes, and the psychologists Susan Blackmore, Richard Gregory, and Derren Brown.

ExoMars

The lander's name refers to 19th century astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, best known for describing the surface features of Mars.

Finnish Meteorological Institute

The institute has been a part of several high-profile NASA and ESA missions, such as Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, Rosetta and BepiColombo, in addition to leading a lander mission of their own, MetNet.

Gau München-Oberbayern

With the ascent of the Nazis to power on 30 January 1933, the so-called Machtergreifung, the party immediately began to disassemble the power of the German states, the Länder.

Hanmer Warrington

Clapperton was accompanied by Richard Lemon Lander, whom he had hired as a servant and it was Lander who finally solved the puzzle of the Niger by sailing all the way down from Timbuktu to the Gulf of Guinea and the Niger delta.

Kittie

Their debut album and supporting tour earned Kittie coverage in Metal Edge, whose readers voted Morgan Lander for "Female Performer of the Year" and Spit in Your Eye for "Home Video of the Year" in the magazine's 2000 Readers' Choice Awards.

Also in 2006, vocalist Morgan Lander provided vocals on the song "It Turns to Rust", from the album In the Arms of Devastation, by the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm.

Kollegstufe

The regulations for the Kollegstufe and also for the Abitur are different in the different "Länder" (federal states) of Germany.

Lander County, Nevada

Created in 1861, Lander County sprang forth as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River, along the old pony express line; taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it.

Lander University

Lander University was founded by Methodist clergyman Samuel Lander in 1872 as Williamston Female College in Williamston, South Carolina.

Lander Van Steenbrugghe

Lander Van Steenbrugghe (born 27 November 1986 in Oudenaarde, Belgium) is a Belgian footballer, who is currently playing at Eendracht Aalst.

Lindstrand Balloons

Per Lindstrand also independently operates a separate company, Lindstrand Technologies, which designs and builds gas balloons, innovative buildings, specialized aerospace equipment (including an advanced parachute for the Beagle 2 Mars-lander) and cutting edge inflatable structures including aircraft hangars, plugs for fire-containment for road tunnels and flood prevention systems.

Lunokhod 2

Ownership of Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander was sold by the Lavochkin Association for $68,500 in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Mario Crocco

Crocca is internationally known for having proposed, in 2006, a new Nomen nudum taxonomic system that would include the hypothetical bacterium thought to have been detected on Mars by the Viking lander in 1976.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Most of the German federal states (Länder) have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order.

Pilgrim Radio

In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in Carson City, Nevada, KNVQ in Elko, Nevada, KDOX in in Big Pine, California, KCSP-FM in Casper, Wyoming, KDNR in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KTME in Rock Springs / Green River, Wyoming, KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming, KMJB in Lander / Riverton, Wyoming, and KLMT in Billings, Montana.

Race to Mars

Jumping to 2029, the narrator explains the mission, 'Project Olympus' and shows the four NTR spacecraft: Cargo lander Shirase, Mars Surface Habitat Atlantis, Mars lander Gagarin, and Crew Transfer Vehicle Terra Nova. In early 2030, the international crew of six astronauts from the United States, Russia, France, Canada and Japan board Terra Nova to begin their 582 day-month journey to Mars and back.

Route of the Oregon Trail

The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

Stony Ridge Observatory

Asteroids 10168 Stony Ridge and 144633 Georgecarroll were discovered at the observatory, and other scientific research (including an extensive lunar photography and mapping project in cooperation with Lockheed upon which the decision on the lunar lander touchdown site was based) has been conducted there.

Take On Mars

The user assumes control of a rover or lander in order to explore Mars.

Taxation in Germany

Taxes in Germany—as it is a federal republic—are levied by the federal government (Bund), the states (Länder) as well as the municipalities (Städte/Gemeinden).

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

The painting shows Lander's Peak in the Wyoming Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an encampment of Native Americans in the foreground.

Tony Horwitz

Horwitz was born Anthony Lander Horwitz in Washington, DC, the son of Norman Harold Horwitz and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer of young adult and adult books.

Viking 1

The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team.

Water board

Most water boards are established on the legal basis of the federal law on water and soil associations (Gesetz über Wasser- und Bodenverbände), complemented by state laws in several German states (Länder) such as in Lower Saxony where water boards are in charge of coastal protection.

Water supply and sanitation in Germany

(For more details on the role of the Länder and municipalities see States of Germany)


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