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6 unusual facts about Spree


Badeschiff

Situated in the East Harbour section of the River Spree, the Badeschiff allows citizens to swim in a sanitary environment near the river.

Spree

The name of the river Spree was recorded by Thietmar of Merseburg as Sprewa (Middle German sprejen, sprewen, High German sprühen meaning to spray water).

It runs on the border for a short distance at two points (near Ebersbach and Oppach) before leaving the hills and passing through the old city of Bautzen/Budyšin, the center of the Sorbs in Upper Lusatia.

In the Spreewald the river passes through the towns of Lübbenau, Lübben and Leibsch.

Larger craft can reach as far upstream as Leibsch, although the upper reaches are relatively shallow and are generally only used by leisure craft.

Spreepark

The area is situated in the north of the Plänterwald, next to the river Spree.


1958 NSWRFL season

Having been wooden spooners in NSWRFL season 1955, Wests embarked on a massive spending spree to recruit internationals Harry Wells, Kel O'Shea, Arthur Summons, Dick Poole, Darcy Henry and Ian Moir over a five-year period.

2005 in England

On a killing spree in July last year, 35-year-old Hobson killed his girlfriend Claire Sanderson, Claire's sister Diane Sanderson, as well as pensioners James and Joan Britton.

34th Tank Division

On April 19 Klitten and Nieder Prauske fell in succession and the brigade reached the river Spree in the evening.

Captain Stingaree

Teaming up with Captain Cold and Captain Boomerang I, the three captains went on a crime spree kidnapping other captains to show supremacy over air, land and sea, before they are taken down by Captain Comet and Black Canary II.

Cassie Hack

When Evil Ernie awakens in the Hack/Slash universe he begins a killing spree, murdering six women near a strip club in New Jersey.

Christian Patterson

Also in 2005 Patterson began working on his second project, Redheaded Peckerwood, which is loosely inspired by the late 1950s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate across Nebraska.

Christophe Caze

Returning to France, he led a group of mostly Algerian terrorists, based in Roubaix, France on a spree of robbing banks, armoured cars and shops - before they were raided at their apartment after police discovered a bomb inside a Peugeot three blocks from the 1996 G7 meeting.

Crime Spree

Crime Spree is a 2003 Canadian-British film written and directed by Brad Mirman starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel, as well as French singers Johnny Hallyday and Renaud.

DDR Museum

The museum is located in the former governmental district of East Germany, right on the river Spree, opposite the Berlin Cathedral.

Einen Jux will er sich machen

Einen Jux will er sich machen (1842) (He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang, by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 10 March 1842.

Eyal Gabbai

This period was characterized by vigorous privatization of state companies, including El Al, Bezeq, Israel's Oil Refineries and Zim, selling shares in a total value of 14b NIS in an unprecedented privatization spree.

Fleet Robert Current

Despite his status as a federal fugitive, Current continued his crime spree participating in the robbery of $5,148 from the American Trust Company with two Oakland criminals on June 25.

Ganghwa Island shooting

The Ganghwa Island shooting occurred on July 4, 2011 11:50AM at a coastal sentry in Ganghwa County when a corporal assigned to the ROK 2nd Marine Division went on a shooting spree towards his team with a K-2 rifle and later attempted a suicide with a grenade.

Gentleman ranker

Billy Bragg borrows part of this poem in his song "Island Of No Return": "Me and the corporal out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity".

GNU Emacs

Markus Hess exploited a security flaw in GNU Emacs' email subsystem in his 1986 cracking spree in which he gained superuser access to Unix computers.

Gothic science fiction

In his history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss contends that science fiction itself is an outgrowth of gothic fiction-- pointing to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein as an example.

Ignacio Gómez

Gómez is best known for his coverage of the Mapiripán massacre, a "five-day killing spree" in July 1997 in which Colombian Army officers colluded with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) to kill at least 49 people in the village of Mapiripán suspected of being guerrilla sympathizers.

Isaac Darkin

This spree culminated notably in the robbery of around 13 guineas and a pistol from Lord Percival, the son of the Earl of Egmont who was travelling to Bath; the attack took place on 22 June 1760 near Devizes.

Istres

On April 25, 2013, a gunman shot and killed three people with a Kalashnikov rifle in a shooting spree in Istres.

Jessie Godderz

He then returned the next season on Big Brother 13 again with a Pandora's Box offering a shopping spree with Tori Spelling.

However, Rachel, was locked inside Pandora's Box with Godderz for a shopping spree of "Mr. Pec-tacular" merchandise, while the rest of the house earned the shopping spree with Tori Spelling.

Keever

Jack Keever (1938–2004), American journalist and author, best known his coverage of Charles Whitman's 1966 shooting spree

Laventille

It is the heart of the steelpan world, where pioneer Winston "Spree" Simon lived and created one of the century’s new acoustical musical instruments.

Lucinda Roy

Roy received some attention in April 2007 when, after the Virginia Tech massacre, it was revealed that two years earlier she recognized spree shooter Seung-Hui Cho's behavior and writings.

Matthew Lamb

Mathew Charles Lamb (1948–1976), Canadian spree killer and psychiatric patient, latterly a soldier in the Rhodesian Security Forces

Monte Cristo Gold Mine

After a drinking spree, they arrived at the mouth of the Arroyo Seco where, finding themselves in need of more liquor to bolster their courage, they stopped.

Nation of Islam

So why did Army major Nidal Malik Hassan, a Muslim psychologist at Fort Hood go on a shooting spree after being assigned to debrief soldiers who came back from the theater of war.

No Grounds for Pity

Howard Unruh is a WWII veteran who embarked on a killing spree in 1949

Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Dahme-Spreewald, Spree-Neiße, the districts Kamenz and Riesa-Großenhain in Saxony, and the district Elbe-Elster.

Patrick Muzingo

Looking back Muzingo experienced the 1st wave of Pool skating, was one of the original Eagle Rock ramp (featured in Thrasher, Trans World skate mag and others) crew, witnessed many genres of music in its infancy including the 1st wave of Punk rock and the late 80's signing spree of rock bands in Los Angeles.

Robert Irwin

Robert George Irwin (1908–1975), American sculptor convicted in 1937 murder spree in New York City

Sidney Prescott

Becoming a suspect in the murders, Sidney stays in town with her cousin Jill Roberts (Emma Roberts) and aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell) but the family becomes embroiled in the Ghostface murder spree.

Snapped: Killer Couples

"Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow" - A California woman begins a relationship with a prisoner, and when he is released, the two embark on a killing spree.

Sowers, Texas

Hinton and Alcorn later participated in the fatal ambush that halted Barrow and Parker's spree on May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana.

Spreelauf

The Spreelauf starts in Spandau (Berlin) and follows the river Spree upstream to one of its three sources in Eibau (Upper Lusatia).

The D.I.Y. Guys

The CD portion also contains "Niteclub In Bali", a B-Side off their Back 2 Base X album as well as "Get Em Up", a track featuring the Subnoize Souljaz, and a new hardcore punk song called "Killing Spree".

The Mark of the Berserker

As Paul and Clyde take advantage of the pendant's power on their shopping spree, The Kooks' track "Do You Want to See the World?" is played on the soundtrack.

Theodor Fontane

In 1843, he joined a literary club in Berlin called Tunnel über der Spree (Tunnel over the river Spree) where he came into contact with many of the most renowned German writers including Theodor Storm, Joseph von Eichendorff and Gottfried Keller.

Tunnel über der Spree

Der Tunnel über der Spree was a German literary society based in Berlin, founded on 3 December 1827 by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir.

To avoid confusion with fanclubs of the singer Henriette Sontag, the name was changed to "Tunnel over the Spree," a topical reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel under the Thames, which would lead to an abortive effort to create a similar tunnel in Berlin.

Vogelsang

Vogelsang, Brandenburg, a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, Brandenburg, Germany

Wait EP

"Sonic Bloom" is a cover of a song by Tripping Daisy, the former band of three Polyphonic Spree members, Tim DeLaughter, Mark Pirro, and Bryan Wakeland.

Wax Murdaraz

Wax Murdaraz released an album in 2005 entitled City Ta City Killin' Spree which was executive produced jointly with scratch DJ legend Rob Swift, and released on their own record label Deep Krate Recordingz.

William Bonner

William Ray Bonner (born 1948), perpetrator of a shooting spree in Los Angeles, California, 1973

William Unek

His first murder spree occurred near Mahagi, Belgian Congo in 1954, where he killed 21 people with an axe, before escaping and finally ending up in British occupied Tanganyika Territory.


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