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unusual facts about Oestrich-Winkel


Oestrich-Winkel

Inside the crane are two treadmills in each of which two men used their body weight to work a winch, which could then lift loads onto or off ships.


Adrian P. Winkel

Winkel also served as an administrative assistant to Congressmen Eugene McCarthy and Philip Burton.

Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

Winkel was born in Lippstadt,1777, settled in Amsterdam shortly after 1800, and in 1814, while experimenting with pendulums, he discovered that a pendulum weighted on both sides of the pivot could beat steady time, even for the slow tempos often used in European classical music.

European Business School

EBS University of Business and Law in Oestrich-Winkel and Wiesbaden (Germany), up to 2011 operating under the name European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen

Hellmuth Heye

Hellmuth Guido Alexander Heye (9 August 1895 in Beckingen – 10 November 1970 in Mittelheim) was born on August 9, 1895, son of father, August Wilhelm Heye, and mother Else Karcher Heye.

Hester Winkel

In July 2010, and in October 2013 Winkel has been the Playmate of the month in the Dutch issue of the Playboy magazine.

Huttenheim

Although the Rhine is some distance to the east, Huttenheim is positioned right on the eastern bank of the River Ill a major river originating in the Jura region and which is thought to have given Alsace/Elsaß its name: the Ill here flows from south to north, approximately parallel with the Rhine, before the two rivers fully connect at Strasbourg.

The City in Europe and the World

Contributions from: Graham Bishop, Alex Brassey, Mario Cerrato, Patrick Diamond, Brendan Donnelly, Howard Flight, Alexandra Forter, Chris Huhne, Mario Jung, Angela Knight, Peter Mandelson, Agnes Oestrich, Giancarlo Perasso, Alice Rogers, Sanjiv Sachdev, L.V. Spagnolo, Richard Woodward.

Winkel tripel projection

Goldberg and Gott show that the Winkel tripel fares well against several other projections analyzed against their measures of distortion, producing small distance errors, small combinations of Tissot indicatrix ellipticity and area errors, and the smallest skewness of any of the projections they studied.

Winkel, Rhineland-Palatinate

This lordship comprised the villages of Wollmerath, Filz, Wagenhausen and Niederwinkel, several mills (among them one in Winkel) and estates (among them the great estate in Oberwinkel, whose chapel still stands).


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