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17 unusual facts about Strasburg


Benjamin Ide Wheeler

In the spring of 1885, he received on examination at Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, presenting a thesis entitled Der griechische Nominalaccent, afterwards published at Strasburg as a separate book.

Cyriacus Spangenberg

After getting expelled, he went on a short retreat to Vacha before moving to Strasburg, where his youngest son, Wolfhart Spangenberg, a celebrated poet, lived, and where he died on February 10, 1604.

Europae Archaeologiae Consilium

The inaugural meeting of the EAC took place at the Council of Europe in Strasburg on 25 November 1999.

Gwen Le Gouil

Le Gouil started his journalism career when he became a freelancer with Arte television, which is based in Strasburg, Germany with an office in Paris, France.

Jeane Dixon

In 2002, he opened the Jeane Dixon Museum and Library in Strasburg, Virginia, to display what he owned.

John Otho Marsh, Jr.

Meanwhile, in 1952, he was admitted to the Virginia Bar, and started practicing law in Strasburg, Virginia, where he served as town judge.

Junkers Jumo 211

From 1937 to mid-1944, production was spread between factories in Magdeburg, Köthen, Leipzig, Stettin and Strasburg.

Nathaniel P. Banks

When Banks's men reached the southern Valley at the end of a difficult supply line, the president recalled them to Strasburg, Virginia, at the northern end.

Princess Sophie of Sweden

During the revolution of 1848, she was forced to flee from Karlsruhe with her family to Strasburg.

PRR 4465

Pennsylvania Railroad #4465 was placed on static display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg across from the Strasburg Rail Road.

PRR D16

In 1960, the 1223 was leased and transferred to the Strasburg Rail Road, a tourist line in the Amish hamlet of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where it was returned to operating condition.

Strasburg, Ohio

Strasburg is the location of the Lynn Auto Theatre and Strasburg-Franklin High School.

Strasburg, Pennsylvania

However, in 1793 construction on the new Strasburg Road started, roughly following the old road, passing through West Chester on the way to Philadelphia.

It developed as a linear village along the Great Conestoga Road, stretching about two miles along path later known as the Strasburg Road.

The town was named by its early settlers in memory of the city in Alsace from which they had come.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

Uckermark

With German reunification in 1990, most of the Uckermark voted to become part of the restored state of Brandenburg, with the exception of the small Strasburg region becoming part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.


6th Ohio Cavalry

Following completion of training, the regiment moved to Wheeling, West Virginia on May 13 and then to Strasburg, Virginia to join Major General John C. Fremont's army in the Shenandoah Valley.

Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur

Adolphe Bazaine was then given responsibility for the construction of the railway line from Mulhouse to Thann; then, with Mr. Chaperone, he established the project of the section Strasburg Bâle.

Battle of Rutherford's Farm

Following two unsuccessful Union attacks on his flanks at Kabletown and Berry's Ferry, General Early ordered a withdrawal from the Confederate position at Berryville towards a more secure position at Strasburg on July 19.

D. Holmes Morton

In 1989 he established the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pennsylvania to focus on these diseases.

Delwyn Young

On June 8, he hit a two-run homer against Stephen Strasburg during Strasburg's first start as a big league pitcher.

Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose

Entering the magistracy, he became attorney-general for the district of Besançon in 1830, but having received holy orders at Strasburg, under the episcopate of Jean François Marie Lepappe de Trevern, he was made professor of sacred eloquence in the school of higher studies founded at Besançon by Cardinal de Rohan.

Intef the Elder

Intef may also be mentioned on a stele from Dendera, now in Strasburg, which further gives him the title of "Great prince of the southland".

Jean-François Baltus

Réponse à l'historie des oracles de M. de Fontenelle (Strasburg, 1707), was a critical treatise on the oracles of paganism, on which Fontenelle had written in Histoire des oracles.

Lamprecht

There are three manuscripts of Lamprecht's poem extant, one from Vorau which is not quite complete, one from Strasburg dating from 1187, which is about five times as extensive as the preceding, and lastly a version interpolated in the manuscript of a Basle chronicle.

Landolin Ohmacht

His principal works are: “The Judgment of Paris,” in the royal garden at Munich; the statue of Neptune at Münster, and that of Desaix between Kehl and Strasburg; the mausoleum of the emperor Rudolph in the cathedral of Spa; the statue of Luther at Weissenburg, and that of “Venus leaving her Bath,” which is regarded as his masterpiece.

Manassas Gap Railroad

The B&O also acquired or built additional mileage to connect its east-west main line at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, with Winchester, Virginia, and Strasburg, and south past Harrisonburg to eventually reach Lexington.

Marta Klimasara

The young artist holds scholarships from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe and the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and was commended by the European Cultural Foundation in Strasburg for her outstanding musical and artistic personality.

MS Jan Heweliusz

In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg ruled that the official investigation of the sinking was not impartial and granted 4600 euros in damages each to eleven relatives of the victims.

Raleigh, North Dakota

The name comes from Sir Walter Raleigh and was settled by a wave of German Russians who had previously settled near Strasburg in Emmons County.

Samuel Naumbourg

After having held the office of chazzan and reader at Besançon and directed the choir of the synagogue at Strasburg, he was called, in 1845, to officiate in the synagogue of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth at Paris, where he became professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite.

Strasburg Rail Road

The 4½-mile (7.2 km) Strasburg Rail Road takes visitors on a 45-minute round-trip journey from Strasburg to Leaman Place Junction.

Tassos Denegris

He has also given readings of his work in Belgrade, New Delhi, Strasburg, Tübingen, Colombia, and in 1998 was on of gathering of "Poets of the World" who met in Lima.