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4222923 | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mille%20Lacs%20Kathio%20State%20Park | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, also known as Kathio Site, is a Minnesota state park on Mille Lacs Lake. The park preserves habitation sites and mound groups, believed to date between 3000 BC and 1750 AD, that document Sioux Indian culture and Ojibwe-Sioux relati... | 37,300 |
4222923 | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mille%20Lacs%20Kathio%20State%20Park | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
time, Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) were moving in from the east. Ojibwe oral tradition, published by William Whipple Warren, suggests that there was a battle in which they successfully took control of the area from the Sioux; as of 2012 no archaeological evidence has as yet been found to corroborat... | 37,301 |
4222923 | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mille%20Lacs%20Kathio%20State%20Park | Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
The name "Kathio" is actually a corruption of "Izatys", a name the Mdewakanton Sioux people gave themselves. Explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut visited the area in 1679. He named the area "Izatys", but his poor handwriting led people to mistake the "Iz" as a "K". Further errors led to... | 37,302 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for hosting several late-night talk shows; since 2010, he has hosted "Conan" on the cable channel TBS.
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, O'Brien was raised in an... | 37,303 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
take over David Letterman's position as host of "Late Night" in 1993. A virtual unknown to the public, O'Brien's initial "Late Night" tenure received unfavorable reviews and remained on a multiweek renewal cycle during its early years. The show generally improved over time and was highly regarded by the t... | 37,304 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
narrative-driven short films (remotes)". He has hosted "Conan" since 2010 and has also hosted such events as the Emmy Awards and "Christmas in Washington". O'Brien has been the subject of a documentary, "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (2011), and has also hosted a 32-city live comedy tour and later an 18-city ... | 37,305 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Ruth O'Brien (née Reardon), is a retired attorney and former partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray. O'Brien has three brothers and two sisters.
O'Brien attended Brookline High School, where he served as the managing editor of the school newspaper, "The Sagamore". In his second year, O'Brien was an inte... | 37,306 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
years. He concentrated in History & Literature, and graduated "magna cum laude" in 1985. O'Brien's senior thesis concerned the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. During college, O'Brien briefly served as the drummer in a band called "The Bad Clams", was a wr... | 37,307 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Night Live" (1987–1991).
O'Brien moved to Los Angeles after graduation to join the writing staff of HBO's "Not Necessarily the News". He was also a writer on the short-lived "The Wilton North Report". He spent two years with that show and performed regularly with improvisational groups, including The Gro... | 37,308 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
O'Brien put on an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow "SNL" writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel called "Happy Happy Good Show". While living in Chicago, O'Brien briefly roomed with Jeff Garlin. In 1989, O'Brien and his fellow "SNL" writers received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing ... | 37,309 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
starring Adam West, which aired on NBC in 1991. The pilot never went to series, but it became a cult hit. It was later screened at "The Other Network", a festival of unaired TV pilots produced by Un-Cabaret; it featured an extended interview with O'Brien and was rerun in 2002 on the Trio network.
Things ... | 37,310 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
New York City, and an idea will come to me." Mike Reiss and Al Jean, then dual showrunners of "The Simpsons", called O'Brien and offered him a job. The series was notorious in the writing community at the time; O'Brien recalls "everyone wanted to be on that show, but they never hired." O'Brien was one of ... | 37,311 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
at Harvard in 2000, O'Brien credited "The Simpsons" with saving him, a reference to the career slump he was experiencing prior to his being hired for the show.
## "The Simpsons" (1991–1993).
From 1991 to 1993, O'Brien was a writer and producer for "The Simpsons". When O'Brien first arrived at the Fox lo... | 37,312 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Josh Weinstein called it a "ten-hour Conan show, nonstop". According to John Ortved, one of his fellow writers ventured that if Conan hadn't left to do "Late Night", he was a shoo-in to take over as showrunner on "The Simpsons".
When not contributing to others' scripts, O'Brien managed to craft what are ... | 37,313 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Along with those episodes, he has sole writing credits on "New Kid on the Block" and "Treehouse of Horror IV", on which he wrote the episode wraparounds. Wallace Wolodarsky described a "room character" Conan put on for the writers: "Conan used to do this thing called the Nervous Writer that involved him o... | 37,314 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Michaels approached O'Brien to produce; then-agent Gavin Polone stressed that O'Brien wanted to perform, rather than produce. He arranged with Michaels that O'Brien would do a test audition on the stage of "The Tonight Show". Jason Alexander and Mimi Rogers were the guests, and the audience was composed o... | 37,315 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
as the new host of "Late Night" on April 26, 1993. As the writers headed to the voice record for "Homer Goes to College", O'Brien received a phone call from Polone informing him of the decision. "He was passed out facedown into this horrible shag carpet. He was just quiet and comatose down there on that c... | 37,316 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Night" at lunch the day following their midnight broadcast and analyze them. During his time at "The Simpsons", O'Brien also had a side project working with Smigel on the script for a musical film based on the "Hans and Franz" sketch from "Saturday Night Live", but the film was never produced.
## "Late N... | 37,317 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Tom Shales of "The Washington Post" suggested that "the host resume his previous identity, Conan O'Blivion." Generally, critics viewed O'Brien as nervous and fidgety on-camera, and that he was "too smart, too East Coast, too sophisticated, too young and even too tall to be successful." The show was consta... | 37,318 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
his vacation activities as follows: "I sat back and reminded myself what it's like to be unemployed." The in-joke referenced the rumors floating in the trades that NBC was near canceling the program.
Things would improve slowly. Banter between O'Brien and Richter improved, and sketches grew in popularity... | 37,319 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
was a morale boost," said O'Brien. "I'm thinking, If the guy who created the 12:30 thing comes on and says we're smart and funny, let's go." The show went through a wobble in January 1995 when Robert Smigel, feeling burned out, quit as head writer. The show's quality improved slowly over time, and most cr... | 37,320 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
"When I leave this earth, at the funeral, just show this, because this pretty much says who I'm all about."
O'Brien's audience, largely young and male (a coveted demographic), grew steadily and the show began to best competitors in the ratings, which it would continue to do for 15 seasons. In the early d... | 37,321 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
first and only time in 2007. In 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004, he and the "Late Night" writing staff won the Writers Guild Award for Best Writing in a Comedy/Variety Series. In 2001, he formed his own television production company, Conaco, which subsequently shared in the production credits for "Late N... | 37,322 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
we were embraced like a national treasure."
During the writers' strike in 2008, O'Brien staged a mock feud with Comedy Central's Jon Stewart (of "The Daily Show") and Stephen Colbert (of "The Colbert Report") over a dispute about which of the three were responsible for giving a "bump" to Mike Huckabee's ... | 37,323 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
and the White Stripes also appeared. O'Brien ended the episode by destroying the set with an axe, handing out the pieces of the set to the audience, and thanking a list of people who helped him get to that point in his career. Among those thanked were Lorne Michaels, David Letterman, Jay Leno, and O'Brien... | 37,324 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
"Tonight Show" guest on the couch and Pearl Jam appeared as his first musical guest.
Conan acquired the nickname "Coco" after its use in the first "Twitter Tracker" sketch during the second episode of his "Tonight Show" run. Guest Tom Hanks used the nickname during his subsequent interview, even getting ... | 37,325 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
the same day. A rerun was aired that night, but O'Brien returned to work the following Monday and poked fun at the incident.
By January 2010, O'Brien's ratings for "The Tonight Show" were much lower than they had been when the show was hosted by Jay Leno. On January 7, 2010, NBC executive Jeff Zucker met... | 37,326 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Show" would be moved to 11:35 pm following NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Sources familiar with the situation told the "New York Post" that O'Brien was unhappy with NBC's plan. On January 12, O'Brien released this statement: "I sincerely believe that delaying "The Tonight Show" into the next... | 37,327 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
was designated for distribution to his staff, who had moved with Conan to Los Angeles from New York when he left "Late Night".
The final "Tonight Show" with Conan aired January 22, 2010, and featured guests Tom Hanks, Steve Carell (who did an exit interview and shredded Conan's ID badge), Neil Young (sin... | 37,328 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Winter Olympic Games. Under the $45 million deal with NBC, Conan was allowed to start working for another network as soon as September 2010. Conan's rumored next networks ranged from Fox to Comedy Central. Other networks reportedly interested in O'Brien included TNT, HBO, FX, Showtime, Revision3, and even... | 37,329 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
insiders have speculated that O'Brien had chosen to stay on the west coast in order to facilitate a return to late night television and because he did not want to put his children through another move.
O'Brien has been named to the 2010 Time 100, a list compiled by TIME of the 100 most influential people... | 37,330 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
He also said he "absolutely" expected NBC to give him more of a chance and that, if in Jay Leno's position, he would not have come back to "The Tonight Show". However, Conan said he did not feel he got shafted. "It's crucial to me that anyone seeing this, if they take anything away from this, it's I'm fin... | 37,331 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Show Band, joined O'Brien on the tour. Max Weinberg, however, was not able to join, except for a guest appearance at one of Conan's New York City shows.
On April 12, 2010, O'Brien opened his two-month comedy tour in Eugene, Oregon, with a crowd of 2,500 and no TV cameras. The tour traveled through Americ... | 37,332 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
on November 8, 2010, and airs Monday through Thursday at 11:00 pm ET/10:00 pm CT. O'Brien's addition moved "Lopez Tonight" with George Lopez back one hour. Refusing at first to do to Lopez what had happened to him at NBC, O'Brien agreed to join the network after Lopez called to persuade him to come to TBS... | 37,333 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
resulted in O'Brien and Steven Yeun to also visit North Korea on a technicality by stepping across the border line at the DMZ. Conan commented on the significance during the sketch, claiming, "The idea that you and I could be in North Korea, talking and communicating freely, seems like kind of a cool mess... | 37,334 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
own weekly podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend". The podcast debuted November 18, 2018, with Will Ferrell as the first guest. The title of the podcast refers to the premise that O'Brien is lonely and is thus inviting people onto the show to see if they could be his actual friend. The podcast has receiv... | 37,335 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
out a 90-minute, cast-contingent pilot order to the medical-themed "Operating Instructions" from O'Brien's production banner; O'Brien served as an executive producer through his Conaco label. In January 2010 NBC ordered two pilots from Conaco, the one-hour courtroom drama "Outlaw" and a half-hour comedy. ... | 37,336 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
"Xmas Story". O'Brien played himself as a head in a jar and still alive in the year 3000.
O'Brien has made multiple voice appearances on the Adult Swim series "Robot Chicken", including the specials "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" and "".
Other voice work performed by O'Brien has included the voice of Robert... | 37,337 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
of lead character Liz Lemon, who works in the same building. In the episode "Tracy Does Conan", Conan appears as himself, awkwardly reunited with Lemon and coerced by network executive Jack Donaghy into having the character Tracy Jordan on "Late Night", despite having been assaulted in Jordan's previous a... | 37,338 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
himself in the web series "Web Therapy" (opposite Lisa Kudrow) for three episodes.
## Hosting duties.
O'Brien has hosted several awards shows and television specials. O'Brien hosted the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2002 and the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, to critical acclaim. O'Brien also hoste... | 37,339 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
NFL Honors in San Francisco, California.
# Influences.
O'Brien lists among his comedic influences David Letterman, Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Johnny Carson, Ernie Kovacs, Bob Hope, and Woody Allen. In turn, actors and comedians who claim O'Brien as an influence include Mindy Kalin... | 37,340 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
The couple dated for nearly 18 months before their 2002 marriage in Powel's hometown of Seattle. O'Brien and Powel have a daughter, Neve (born 2003) and a son, Beckett (born 2005).
O'Brien often affirms his Irish Catholic heritage on his show. On a 2009 episode of "Inside the Actors Studio", he stated th... | 37,341 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
"Labels Are For Jars" with his friend and former Harvard dormmate Father Paul B. O' Brien. He also helped open the "Cor Unum" meal center in 2006.
In January 2008, after his show was put on hold for two months owing to the strike by the Writers Guild of America, he reemerged on late-night TV sporting a b... | 37,342 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
Los Angeles, California, to prepare for his move there in 2009 from New York City to host "The Tonight Show" at Universal Studios Hollywood. As part of a long-running gag, he brought his 1992 Ford Taurus SHO with him to California, showcasing it on both the inaugural episodes of "The Tonight Show" and "Co... | 37,343 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
2011, and broadcast on "Conan".
## Victim of stalking.
Starting in September 2006, O'Brien was stalked by Father David Ajemian of the Archdiocese of Boston, who, despite multiple warnings to stop, sent O'Brien letters signed as "your priest stalker" and came into contact with O'Brien's parents. O'Brien ... | 37,344 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
seemed to make a death threat, saying, "Remember Frank Costello once dodged a bullet in your building and so can you."
Ajemian then tried to forcefully enter a taping of "Late Night" but was caught and arrested. He was previously warned by the NBC security team to stay away from the studio. After a psych... | 37,345 |
4221870 | Conan O'Brien | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conan%20O'Brien | Conan O'Brien
"Late Night" but was caught and arrested. He was previously warned by the NBC security team to stay away from the studio. After a psychological evaluation, he was deemed fit to stand trial. He was bailed out of jail. He was then reported missing by his father on November 10, 2007. He was found and underwe... | 37,346 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
Lohr am Main
Lohr am Main (officially: "Lohr a. Main") is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken") in Bavaria, Germany and the seat (but not a member) of the "Verwaltungsgemeinschaft" (municipal association) of Lohr am Main. It has a population of ... | 37,347 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
the river Main, which swings towards the south here, forming the beginning of the "Mainviereck" ("Main Square" – the southern part of the Spessart). In Lohr, the river Lohr empties into the Main. Perhaps for its geographical location or the fact that two major valleys lead into the interior of the range, t... | 37,348 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
Canal connecting the North Sea with the Black Sea.
## Geology.
The bedrock, with a depth of about 400 m, is made up mainly of sedimentary minerals. In the Spessart is found a great deal of bunter. This geological plain with a slight slope to the southeast is the product of a large continental sea that dr... | 37,349 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
drinking water. Currently large amounts of this water are pumped to areas as far away as Würzburg.
## Subdivisions.
Lohr am Main's "Stadtteile" are , Lindig, , , , , , and .
The town has the following "Gemarkungen" (traditional rural cadastral areas): Halsbach, Lohr a. Main, Pflochsbach, Rodenbach, Rupp... | 37,350 |
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am Main and Rechtenbach.
# History.
The town of Lohr am Main was settled no later than the 8th century, and by the time of its first documentary mention in 1295 it was already the main centre of the County of Rieneck.
In 1333 Lohr was granted town rights, which can be explained by the disagreement about... | 37,351 |
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From 1603 to 1618, during the "Recatholization" many townsfolk fell victim to persecution as witches. The former "Oberamt" of the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg was secularized in favour of Prince Primate von Dalberg's Principality of Aschaffenburg and passed along with this state in 1814 (by this time it ha... | 37,352 |
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1940 and 1945, under Nazi rule more than 600 children, women and men were deported to Sonnenstein and Grafeneck, as well as to the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps from what was then the Health and Care Institute (now the Regional Hospital for Psychiatry) as part of the Euthanasia programme, "A... | 37,353 |
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Sackenbach, Steinbach, Wombach and Pflochsbach were amalgamated with the town. On 1 July 1972, the greater part of the District of Lohr ("Landkreis Lohr") became part of the new District of Mittelmain ("Landkreis Mittelmain"), which in 1973 was given its current name, Main-Spessart. At first, Lohr am Main ... | 37,354 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
some 5,500 actually live in Lohr. The greater number of roughly 6,200 workers commute each day to Lohr. Comparing Lohr am Main with the district seat of Karlstadt, Lohr's importance stands out even more sharply. Although both towns have roughly the same population, Lohr am Main has about three times as man... | 37,355 |
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are:
- Bosch Rexroth AG (hydraulics, engine building and automation technology) with 6,620 employees, including the former Indramat
- "Bezirkskrankenhaus Lohr" (hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine) with 607 employees
- Gerresheimer Lohr GmbH (specialty glass and plastics) w... | 37,356 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
more than 6,300 ha of woodland (of which around 4,000 ha are municipally owned) Bavaria's second largest municipal forest owner. The town's woodlands are a mixed broadleaf forest managed under the precepts of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Naturgemäße Waldwirtschaft" (ANW, "Natural Forest Management Working Grou... | 37,357 |
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Reich" (1933-1945).
Germany's smallest museum is to be found on Haaggasse in a former transformer hut under monument protection, it shows all kinds of insulators.
## Buildings.
Some of the sights of Lohr are the (1599-1602), the "Lohrer Schloss" (an Electoral Mainz palatial castle, 15th to 17th century,... | 37,358 |
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and church in Steinbach.
The ' ("Lohr old Main bridge"), an arch bridge, has spanned the river Main since 1875. One hundred years later, the 417 m-long ' ("Lohr new Main bridge"), a prestressed-concrete structure was constructed.
## Events.
The Lohr Good Friday Procession each year draws thousands of vi... | 37,359 |
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back to a vow made during the Plague in 1666 is the Lohr custom of holding a procession each year on Saint Roch's Day (16 August) to the Valentinusberg (hill) above the town and holding festive church services there in honour of the Holy Trinity.
"Spessartsommer" combines an array of summertime events suc... | 37,360 |
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centrepiece. There are also rides and a fireworks finale. In 2008, the 63rd "Spessartfestwoche" was held. The "Festwochen-Express" bus service’s 12 special lines to and from the festival saw a ridership of 23,416.
There are also cabaret and amateur theatre events in Lohr and the outlying centres.
# Gover... | 37,361 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
wavy bend most likely refers to the Lohrbach, a local stream. The town’s oldest known seal, from 1408, already shows this design. Over time, the number of bars in the escutcheon has varied, as has the tincture of the bend (a version published in the 1920s, for instance, showed “Barry of nine gules and Or a... | 37,362 |
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arrangement for Sudeten Germans driven out of their homeland in the town and district known in German as Preßnitz. The town itself no longer exists. In 1974, its former site became the bed of a new reservoir.
# Infrastructure.
## Transport.
### Rail.
The Main-Spessart Railway ("Main-Spessart-Bahn") fro... | 37,363 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
1977, although this part of the line is still in use for occasional goods transports. The former Lohr-Town station was converted to a pub.
A direct early InterCity service to Munich was replaced with a Regionalbahn to Würzburg when the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway came into service in 2006. The nea... | 37,364 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
The nearest Autobahnen are the A 3 (Munich - Würzburg – Frankfurt) through the Weibersbrunn, Hösbach and Marktheidenfeld interchanges, and the A 7 (Würzburg - Kassel) through the Hammelburg interchange.
### Waterway.
The river Main is a "Federal Waterway" ("Bundeswasserstraße") of the first order, admini... | 37,365 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken").
# Education.
- Primary schools: Lohr am Main, Rodenbach, Sackenbach, Sendelbach, Wombach
- Special education schools: St. Kilian-Schule Sonderpädagogisches Förderzentrum Marktheidenfeld – Lohr; St. Nikolaus-Schule with emphasis on mental development
- Hauptschule: G... | 37,366 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
für Waldwirtschaft
- IGM education centre
- Music school: municipal singing and music school
- Folk high school: Volkshochschule der Stadt Lohr am Main
# Notable people.
- Hans Blum (between 1520 and 1527-around or after 1552), architectural theorist
- Philipp Valentin Voit von Rieneck (1612-1672), P... | 37,367 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
politician and Reich minister in the Weimar Republic
- Ignatius Taschner (1871-1913), artist between Jugendstil and Neoclassicism
- Alfred Rexroth (1899-1978), Engineer, Entrepreneur, and Anthroposophist
- (1937-2016), pharmacist and pharmaceutical historian
- (1944–2013), writer and translator
- Herm... | 37,368 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
Landkreis. Hrsg. von der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007,
- Loibl, Werner: Die kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) und die Nachfolgebetriebe im Spessart, 3 Volumes. Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffe... | 37,369 |
4222718 | Lohr am Main | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lohr%20am%20Main | Lohr am Main
n der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Laßleben, Kallmünz 2007,
- Loibl, Werner: Die kurmainzische Spiegelmanufaktur Lohr am Main (1698–1806) und die Nachfolgebetriebe im Spessart, 3 Volumes. Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenbur... | 37,370 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Jastrzębie-Zdrój (; , originally "Jastrzemb", ) is a city in south Poland with 89,128 inhabitants (31.12.2018). Its name comes from the Polish words "jastrząb" ("hawk") and "zdrój" ("spa" or "spring"). Until the 20th century it was a spa village situated in Upper Silesia. It was grant... | 37,371 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
("Liber fundationis episcopatus Vratislaviensis"). Administratively, the town is made up of several old settlements, whose origins go back to the distant past. The original name of the town was Jastrzemb. The name's origin, means hawk in Polish language and is connected with the legend of the black kni... | 37,372 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
1862, the health resort of "Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzemb" was brought into life. Shortly after, the town joined the exclusive circle of the most prestigious health resorts in Europe.
In 1895, the natural health centre was taken over by a Polish doctor, Mikołaj Witczak, who lent great service to the devel... | 37,373 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
the intensive exploitation of coking coal deposits. Within a period of 12 years, 5 coal mines were set up. Between 1954-1975, Jastrzębie was part of the Wodzisław County. During the time of political transformation in Poland, Jastrzębie-Zdrój went down the annals of Polish modern history as the place w... | 37,374 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
than the national average of 8.8% (as of November 2010).
# Districts.
Jastrzębie-Zdrój is a powiat (county) divided into 15 districts and 6 sołectwos that have its own administrative body. Most of the districts are suburban, some are densely built with many blocks of flats generating huge housing est... | 37,375 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
""
- 4. Ruptawa ""
- 5. Skrzeczkowice ""
- 6. Szeroka ""
# Notable residents.
- Henryk Sławik (1894–1944), Polish politician, social worker, activist, and diplomat, who during World War II helped save over 30,000 Polish refugees, including 5,000 Polish Jews in Budapest, Hungary by giving them fals... | 37,376 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
Sports.
- The most famous clubs
- GKS Jastrzębie - Polish professional football club, who play at City Stadium Jastrzębie-Zdrój
- Jastrzębski Węgiel - men's volleyball team Polish Champion 2004 in Polish Volleyball League
- JKH GKS Jastrzębie - Polish professional ice hockey club, Polish Hockey Sup... | 37,377 |
74638 | Jastrzębie-Zdrój | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jastrzębie-Zdrój | Jastrzębie-Zdrój
H GKS Jastrzębie - Polish professional ice hockey club, Polish Hockey Superleague
- Other clubs
- BKS Jastrzębie - boxing
- UKH Białe Jastrzębie - women's ice hockey
- LKS Granica Ruptawa - football
- LKS Zryw Bzie - football
- LKS Hadex Szeroka - football
- Koka Jastrzębie - judo
- UKS Romi Ja... | 37,378 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
A2 autostrada (Poland)
The autostrada A2 in Poland is a motorway which runs from west to east through central Poland, from the Polish-German border in Świecko/Frankfurt, where it connects to the German A12 autobahn, through Poznań and Łódź to Warsaw. The motorway is a part of the European route ... | 37,379 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
August 2012. The second long segment between Mińsk Mazowiecki and Warsaw will be completed in 2020. The part between Mińsk Mazowiecki and the border () will be completed after 2020 and the precise schedule will depend on government funding decisions.
A2 does not formally run through Warsaw, inst... | 37,380 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
by the war and never finished, but traces of its earthworks were clearly visible on satellite photographs for decades afterwards, especially between the border with Germany and Nowy Tomyśl. Most of these traces have now disappeared as the modern motorway was built largely following the same route... | 37,381 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
in the 1970s, possibly with the goal of completing it in time for the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Because of the economic crisis which hit the country in the late 1970s and continued throughout the 1980s, only a section from Września to Konin was opened in the 1980s. Construction of another stretch ... | 37,382 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
– Września – Konin) has been fully open since 2004. This section is a toll road, with the exception of a short stretch through Poznań which serves as that city's bypass (between the interchanges at Głuchowo and Kleszczewo). An additional section from Konin to Stryków near Łódź was opened on 26 Ju... | 37,383 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
capital its first motorway connection to the European motorway network in time for the Euro 2012 football championships. That ambitious goal was jeopardised due to various difficulties encountered in finalizing the construction contracts and the delays that resulted. The section from Stryków to W... | 37,384 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
of the road were signed on 28 September. The section had been divided into 5 parts and so construction work began in 2010. The contractors were required to have the motorway open to traffic in time for Euro 2012. This goal was an ambitious one and ultimately proved challenging, given the possibil... | 37,385 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
it was not clear whether even this limited goal would be reached, but the motorway opened to traffic in June 2012 after very intensive construction work in the final few months.
In November 2011 construction of the stretch to the German border from Nowy Tomyśl had been completed. The road was op... | 37,386 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
traffic to reach from the "Świebodzin South" interchange to the existing stretch of the S3 expressway at Sulechów. In July 2013 the elevated bypass of Świebodzin between the interchanges "Świebodzin North" and "Świebodzin South" fully opened to traffic thus fully extending the S3 from Szczecin to... | 37,387 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
with Belarus at Kukuryki near Brest (connecting with M1), about in length, is still in planning stages. The decision finalizing the route of this section was announced in December 2011 but actual construction on the whole segment will not begin in the near future, and the schedule depends on the ... | 37,388 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
section between Mińsk Mazowiecki and Siedlce likely starting first because of higher traffic density. The construction of the remaining section east of Siedlce to the border with Belarus may begin considerably later, since the traffic density along this route is low and there is no urgent need fo... | 37,389 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
through two "express roads" (S2 and S8), of lower standard than the originally planned motorway. Paradoxically, one of these roads (S2) will run along the originally planned motorway corridor, so the residents who protested the construction will still end up with a busy road running through their... | 37,390 |
4222879 | A2 autostrada (Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A2%20autostrada%20(Poland) | A2 autostrada (Poland)
nts who protested the construction will still end up with a busy road running through their districts, possibly even more inconvenient than the original road would have been. In the most affected area, the district of Ursynów, the express road will run in a tunnel, which will be built at consider... | 37,391 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
Francesco Graziani
Francesco "Ciccio" Graziani (; born 16 December 1952) is an Italian football manager and former football player who played as a forward.
He began his career with Arezzo in 1970, and later joined Torino in 1973, where he remained until 1981, winning a Serie A title in 1976 and the... | 37,392 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
reaching the 1984 European Cup Final. He later spent two seasons with Udinese, before ending his career with Australian club APIA Leichhardt in 1988.
At international level, he won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team, and also managed fourth-place finishes at the 1978 FIFA World C... | 37,393 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
and then to Torino in 1973. Graziani played eight seasons for Torino, making his debut in Serie A on 18 November 1973 against Sampdoria and scoring his first goal in the top flight on 16 December of that same year against Bologna. In total, Graziani scored 122 goals in 289 games for Torino, divided a... | 37,394 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
helped Torino reach the Coppa Italia final in 1980, but was one of the players who failed to score his penalty in the resulting shoot-out defeat to Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
Graziani left Torino when, with his teammate Pecci, he transferred to Fiorentina for two seasons in 1981, missing t... | 37,395 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
Australian National Soccer League with APIA Leichhardt, Graziani abandoned his playing career in 1988. He totalled 353 appearances, with 130 goals, in the Italian Serie A.
# International career.
Graziani was also an important international player for Italy: he represented the "Azzurri" at the 1978... | 37,396 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
first goal for Italy on 7 April 1976, in a 3–1 home win against Portugal.
Graziani also played a key role in Italy's victorious 1982 FIFA World Cup campaign: he scored one goal in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a 1–1 draw against Cameroon, which proved to be decisive for the Azzurri's qualification to t... | 37,397 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
by Alessandro Altobelli; Italy won the match 3–1 to claim the title. Graziani's final official appearance for Italy came on 29 May 1983, in a 2–0 away defeat to Sweden in a UEFA Euro 1984 qualifying match.
He returned to the national team for the 25th anniversary of the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final on ... | 37,398 |
4222921 | Francesco Graziani | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Graziani | Francesco Graziani
even on the wing, due to his ability to play off of his teammates. Although in his youth he was not known for being particularly skilful, he showed great technical improvements throughout his career; these characteristics, along with his determination, work-rate, eye for goal, heading accuracy, abili... | 37,399 |
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