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5 unusual facts about Luxemburg


Anna Maria Dengel

Permission was granted on 12 June 1925 to begin the new congregation, and on 30 September that year the “First Four”--Anna Dengel along with Johanna Lyons, M.D., of Chicago, Evelyn Flieger, R.N., originally from Great Britain, and Marie Ulbrich, R.N., of Luxemburg, Iowa—came together in Washington, D.C., to found the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries.

Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg (Polish-Jewish-German Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary)

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

The party's predecessor, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), opened its headquarters on the square in 1926.

Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße

During the years of the German Democratic Republic it was named for Rosa Luxemburg, a leading Marxist theoretician and one of the leaders of the Spartacist League, who was killed following the unsuccessful Communist Spartacist uprising in Berlin in 1919.

The best-known building on Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße is the Volksbühne ("people's theatre") at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (which was called Bülowplatz before World War II and Horst-Wessel-Platz during the Nazi period).


1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix

The 1998 Luxembourg Grand Prix (formally the VI Großer Warsteiner Preis von Luxemburg) was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany on September 27, 1998.

Airline teletype system

Recently there have been initiatives in the industry to tackle the high cost of the existing Type B network by deploying secured peer-to-peer solutions, e.g. EDIfly, developed by Innovative Software SARL in Luxemburg and used by companies like Cargolux, TAP, SATS etc.

CFL Class 2000

Outside Luxembourg they are used in conjunction with SNCF Z 11500s to work the Luxemburg - Metz - Nancy services and Bettembourg - Dudelange - Volmerange-les-Mines.

Der Graf von Luxemburg

Der Graf von Luxemburg was filmed in 1957 (directed by Werner Jacobs, with Gerhard Riedmann and Renate Holm) and in again 1972 (directed by Wolfgang Glück, with Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis and Erich Kunz).

Fortresses of the German Confederation

Of these, six—Wesel, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Germersheim, and Landau, were the real Rhine fortresses; the remaining three — Luxemburg and Saarlouis in the South, and Jülich in the North of the German Rhineland, shelter it in some measure against the French, Belgian, and Dutch frontier.

Gustav Simon

Their job was to give the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg – now the CdZ-Gebiet Luxemburg– German administrative structures, and to make it an integral part of the Greater German Reich.

Margarethe von Trotta

Von Trotta replies with an explanation about how real-life characters from her past films, Rosa Luxemburg and Die bleierne Zeit (Marianne and Juliane), fought and died for causes they found to be right: Rosa wanted more equality in her community, and Gudrun Ensslin (Marianne) wanted to revolutionize humanity.

Mimi Lamote

From 2001 until 2005, she was General Manager of the C&A Belgium-Luxemburg company of the Brenninkmeijer family.

Muslim Executive of Belgium

Mohamed Boulif (male French-speaking dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen; economist in a Luxemburg bank) 2003-2005 (ousted by the Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx, who provoked new elections before the Assembly's term)

Noctua interjecta

Noctua interjecta caliginosa (Schawerda, 1919) (southern and central England, Wales, southern Ireland, northern France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands, northern Germany, Denmark, southern Sweden, Czech Republic and Austria)

Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein

Philippe Monsieur, as he was called, married in 1485 Francisca of Luxemburg (1523), daughter of Peter II, Count of Saint-Pol, Lord of Enghien.

Radio Luxembourg

Radio Luxemburg, now RTL Radio, a German-language station begun after World War II

Simon II, Count of Sponheim-Kreuznach

Johannes Mötsch: Trier und Sponheim, in: Johannes Mötsch and Franz-Josef Heyen (eds.): Balduin von Luxemburg.

Sophia N. Antonopoulou

The Critique of K. Marx’s Capital (Papazissis, Athens, 1989) (in Greek), where she exposed the critique of Luxemburg to Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, going further to show that the ‘solution’ that Luxemburg gave to the problem of the expanded reproduction of capital was in its turn problematic.

Zdeněk Tylšar

Together with his brother Bedřich (born 1939), he made recordings of horn duets, and collaborated with several chamber orchestras, such as Collegium Musicum Pragense, Ars Rediviva, Collegium tripartitum and Solistes Européens Luxemburg.


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