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441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Mortimer was conveyed to the Tower. Accused of assuming royal power and of various other high misdemeanours, he was condemned without trial and ignominiously hanged at Tyburn on 29 November 1330, his vast estates forfeited to the crown. His body hung at the gallows for two days and nig... | 6,128,600 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Mortimer's widow Joan petitioned Edward III for the return of her husband's body so she could bury it at Wigmore Abbey. Mortimer's lover Isabella had buried his body at Greyfriars in Coventry following his hanging. Edward III replied, "Let his body rest in peace." The king later relent... | 6,128,601 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Mortimer (13045 May 1337), married Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley
- Maud Mortimer (1307after 1345), married John de Charlton, Lord of Powys
- Geoffrey Mortimer (1309–1372/6), who inherited the French seigneurie of Couhé as the assigned heir of his grandmother Joan of Lusignan... | 6,128,602 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
married firstly, Edward of Norfolk (died before 9 August 1334), son and heir apparent of Thomas of Brotherton, by whom she had no issue, and secondly, before 13 September 1337, Thomas de Brewes (died 9 or 16 June 1361), by whom she had three sons and three daughters.
- Blanche Mortime... | 6,128,603 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
British monarchs.
# In fiction.
Mortimer appears in Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II" (c. 1592) as well as Bertolt Brecht's "The Life of Edward II of England" (1923). In Derek Jarman's film "Edward II" (1991), based on Marlowe's play, he is portrayed by Nigel Terry.
Mortimer is... | 6,128,604 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
XXVI, 1911), 331–2
- D. A. Harding, "The Regime of Isabella and Mortimer, 1326–1330", M Phil Thesis (University of Durham, 1985).
- "Calendar of the Gormanston Register" (ed. Mills/McEnery), Dublin, 1916.
- Ian Mortimer, 'The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle', English Historica... | 6,128,605 |
441235 | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger%20Mortimer,%201st%20Earl%20of%20March | Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
ctions of the Denbighshire Historical Society, XXXIX", 1990).
- J. H. Round, "The Landing of Queen Isabella" (EHR, XIV, 1899)
- G. W. Watson, "Geoffrey de Mortimer and his Descendants", (Genealogist, New series, XXII, 1906), pp. 1–16.
- A. Weir, "Isabella she-wolf of France, Queen o... | 6,128,606 |
441268 | Adalbert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adalbert | Adalbert
Adalbert
Adalbert is a German given name which means "noble bright" or "noble shining", derived from the words "adal" (meaning noble) and "berht" (shining or bright). Alternative spellings include Adelbart and Adalberto. Derivative names include Albert and Elbert. The name Adalbert may refer to:
# Given name... | 6,128,607 |
441268 | Adalbert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adalbert | Adalbert
Adalbert Pilch (1917–2004), Austrian artist
- Adalbert Schnizlein (1814–1868), German botanist
- Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), Austrian writer
- Adalbert von Blanc (1907–1976), German admiral
- Adalbert von Ladenberg (1798–1855), Prussian politician
- Adalbert Zafirov (born 1969), Bulgarian football playe... | 6,128,608 |
441268 | Adalbert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adalbert | Adalbert
Archbishop of Salzburg
- Adalbert of Bavaria (1828–1875), German prince
- Adalbert of Egmond (died 710), Northumbrian missionary
- Adalbert of Hamburg (1000–1072), Archbishop of Hamburg
- Adalbert of Italy (936–971), Margrave of Ivrea
- Adalbert of Magdeburg (910–981), Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Adalbert ... | 6,128,609 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
10th Armored Division (United States)
The 10th Armored Division (nicknamed "Tiger Division") was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. In the European Theater of Operations the 10th Armored Division was part of both the Twelfth United States Army Group and... | 6,128,610 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
division was activated on 15 July 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia, around a nucleus of the reorganized and redesignated 3rd and 11th Cavalry Regiments.
## Nickname.
The "Tiger" nickname of the 10th originates from a division-wide contest held while it was training in the United St... | 6,128,611 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
a month of training at Teurtheville, France, before entering combat, as part of the Third Army under General George S. Patton. Leaving Teurtheville, 25 October, the Division moved to Mars-la-Tour, where it entered combat, 2 November, in support of the XX Corps, containing enemy tro... | 6,128,612 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
troops to reach the threatened town. CCB’s commander, Col. William L. Roberts, split his command to form a crescent-shaped arc facing eastward five miles from the city. A task force commanded by Maj. William R. Desobry went north to Noville, while a similar group under Lt. Col. Hen... | 6,128,613 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
fought a column of German Panzer IV tanks on the Houffalize-Noville highway, turning them back. More enemy armor followed and with the road blocked, the battle spilled into the snow-covered fields and woods. For eight hours, CCB alone withstood multiple German attacks before reinfo... | 6,128,614 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
in any direction.
CCB endured the cold, artillery barrages and bombing while their supplies and ammunition dwindled. Fourth Armored Division tanks finally broke through on 26 December, but CCB continued to fight until 18 January.
After the battle, the 10th Armored Division's 21st... | 6,128,615 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
role in the Bastogne battle."
## Across the Saar.
In early February 1945, the 10th reassembled at Metz and was able to rest briefly after rejoining the XX Corps. On 20 February 1945, the 10th again attacked the German defenses. In one day, they broke the German lines, and after 4... | 6,128,616 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
Rhine River on 28 March 1945, and continued east. The division helped to seize Heilbronn, defended the Crailsheim Salient, and moved south to isolate Stuttgart. As part of the VI Corps the 10th crossed the Danube River on 23 April 1945. By 27 April 1945 it was one of several Sevent... | 6,128,617 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
Virginia on the same day. The 10th Armored Division had captured 650 towns and cities along with 56,000 German prisoners.
In one week, the 10th advanced 100 miles and captured 8,000 prisoners from 26 different enemy divisions. After a four-day respite, the 10th was one of several ... | 6,128,618 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
Assignments.
The 10th Armored Division served under the following commands in the ETO:
- 5 September 1944: III Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group.
- 10 October 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group.
- 23 October 1944: XX Corps.
- 7 December 1944: Third Army, 12th Army Group, but a... | 6,128,619 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
10 February 1945: XX Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group.
- 23 March 1945: Third Army, 12th Army Group, but attached to the XXI Corps, Seventh Army, 6th Army Group.
- 1 April 1945: VI Corps, Seventh Army, 6th Army Group.
- 8 April 1945: VI Corps.
## Casualties.
- Total battle c... | 6,128,620 |
441247 | 10th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 10th Armored Division (United States)
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge.
The 10th Armored Division is also represented in the epic 1970 Academy Award-winning film "Patton". General George Patton was played by George C. Scott.
# See also.
- Kenneth Althaus... | 6,128,621 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
11th Armored Division (United States)
The 11th Armored Division (11 AD) was a division of the United States Army in World War II. It was activated on 15 August 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana and moved on 24 June 1943 for the Louisiana Maneuvers. Transferred then to Camp Barkeley, Te... | 6,128,622 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
29 December, and entered Germany on 5 March 1945. The 11th Armored Division was disbanded in August 1945.
# Combat chronicle.
The division was activated on 15 August 1942. It arrived in England 11 October 1944 and prepared for combat with two months' training on the Salisbury Pla... | 6,128,623 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
B Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion of the 11th Armored Division, describes the killing of Waffen-SS prisoners by American soldiers at the Chenogne massacre "Machine guns were being set up. These boys were to be machine gunned and murdered. We were committing the same crimes... | 6,128,624 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
the Prum and Kyll Rivers, taking Gerolstein and Nieder Bettingen against violent opposition. Andernach and Brohl fell 9 March, in the sweep to the Rhine. In the swing southward to clear the Saar-Moselle-Rhine pocket, the Moselle River was crossed at Bullay and the Worms Airport cap... | 6,128,625 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
Neufelden, and Zwettl. The enemy put up its last fanatical resistance along the approaches to Linz, Austria, but the 11th entered that city, 5 May. Pushing onward, elements contacted Soviet forces, 8 May, the first unit of the Third Army, to meet the Soviet Red Army.
On 5 May 1945... | 6,128,626 |
441250 | 11th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=11th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 11th Armored Division (United States)
y ended 9 May, and the division was placed on occupational duty until it was disbanded on 31 August 1945.
# Casualties.
- Total battle casualties: 2,877
- Killed in action: 432
- Wounded in action: 2,394
- Missing in action: 11
- Prisoner of war: 40
# External links.
- Euro... | 6,128,627 |
441269 | Teri (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teri%20(disambiguation) | Teri (disambiguation)
Teri (disambiguation)
Teri is a given name.
Teri may also refer to:
- Teri, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a village and Union Council in Karak District, Pakistan
- Teri, Leh, a village in India
- Teries, people from Hawick, Scotland
- The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an Indian research insti... | 6,128,628 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
13th Armored Division (United States)
The 13th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II.
# History and combat chronicle.
The division was activated on 15 October 1942 at Camp Beale, east of Marysville, California.
The 13th Armored, know... | 6,128,629 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
Gladbach, then toward Duisburg and Mettmann by 18 April.
Shifting south to Eschenau, the Division prepared for Bavarian operations. Starting from Parsberg, 26 April, the 13th crossed the Regen river, then the Danube at Matting and secured the area near Dünzling. On the 28th, eleme... | 6,128,630 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
made for further advances when the war in Europe ended. The 13th remained in Germany until 25 June and left Le Havre, France, for home, 14 July 1945.
The division moved to Camp Cook, California after returning to the United States. It was training in amphibious operations at the t... | 6,128,631 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
allotted to the Sixth Army area of the Organized Reserves (specifically California, Oregon, and Arizona). In 1947, the 19th Armored Division was reflagged as the 13th Armored Division at California's request. In 1952, the division was reflagged as the 63rd Infantry Division in Los ... | 6,128,632 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
59th Armored Infantry Battalion
- 67th Armored Infantry Battalion
- Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 13th Armored Division Artillery
- 497th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 496th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 498th Armored Field Artillery Battalion
- 93rd Cava... | 6,128,633 |
441257 | 13th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 13th Armored Division (United States)
)
- 124th Armored Engineer Battalion
- 153rd Armored Signal Company
- Headquarters and Headquarters Company. 13th Armored Division Trains
- 135th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion
- 83rd Armored Medical Battalion
- Military Police Platoon
- Band
# Statistics.
## Casua... | 6,128,634 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German adventure-drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship ove... | 6,128,635 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
to three injuries. The film’s original star Jason Robards got sick halfway through filming, so Herzog hired Klaus Kinski, an actor with whom he had previously clashed violently during production of “Aguirre: The Wrath of God.” Their second partnership fared no better and an extra even offered to kill Kinsk... | 6,128,636 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
and incomplete Trans-Andean railways. A lover of opera and a great fan of the internationally known Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, he dreams of building an opera house in Iquitos. Numerous Europeans and North African Sephardic Jewish immigrants have settled in the city at this time, bringing their cultures w... | 6,128,637 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains that while it is located on the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon, it is cut off from the Amazon (and access to Atlantic ports) by a lengthy section of rapids. Fitzcarraldo sees that the Pachitea River, another Amazon tributary, come... | 6,128,638 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
areas because of its indigenous people hostile to outsiders. Fitzcarraldo plans to go to the closest point between the two rivers and, with the manpower of impressed natives (who are nearly enslaved by many rubber companies), physically pull his three-story, 320-ton steamer over the muddy 40° hillside acro... | 6,128,639 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
and his ship, the natives start working for him without fully understanding his goals. After great struggles, they successfully pull the ship over the mountain with a complex system of pulleys, worked by the natives and aided by the ship's anchor windlass. When the crew falls asleep after a drunken celebra... | 6,128,640 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo sells the ship back to the rubber baron, but first sends the captain on a last voyage. He returns with the entire cast for the first opera production, including Caruso. The entire city of Iquitos comes to the shore as Fitzcarraldo, standing atop the ship, proudly displays the cast.
# Cast.
-... | 6,128,641 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Milton Nascimento as Black Man at Opera House
- Ruy Polanah as Rubber Baron
- Salvador Godínez as Old Missionary
- Dieter Milz as Young Missionary
- William "Bill" Rose as Notary
- Leôncio Bueno
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus as one of the Opera Singers (uncredited)
# Production.
The story was inspired by t... | 6,128,642 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
in "Fitzcarraldo" on the physical effort of transporting the ship, partly inspired by the engineering feats of ancient standing stones. The film production was an incredible ordeal, and famously involved moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill. This was filmed without the use of special effects. Herzog beli... | 6,128,643 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Three of the six people involved in the filming were injured during this passage.
Casting of the film was difficult. Jason Robards was originally cast in the title role, but he became ill with dysentery during early filming. After leaving for treatment, he was forbidden by his doctors to return. Herzog co... | 6,128,644 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
cast, but due to the delays, their shooting schedule expired. Jagger parted to tour with the Rolling Stones. Herzog dropped Jagger's character from the script altogether as he reshot the film from the beginning. Brazilian actor Grande Otelo and singer Milton Nascimento play minor parts.
Kinski provoked cr... | 6,128,645 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Fiend", Herzog says that one of the native chiefs offered in all seriousness to kill Kinski for him, but that he declined because he needed the actor to complete filming. According to Herzog, he exploited these tensions: in a scene in which the ship's crew is eating dinner while surrounded by the natives, ... | 6,128,646 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
as "Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story" (1982) from Fjord Press (). He made alterations while writing the screenplay.
## Deaths, injuries, and accusations of exploitation.
The production was also affected by the numerous injuries and deaths of several indigenous extras who were hired to work on the film as... | 6,128,647 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
has been accused of exploiting indigenous people in the making of the film, with some drawing similarities between Herzog and Fitzcarraldo. Michael F. Brown, a professor of anthropology at Williams College, notes that initially Herzog was on good terms with the Aguaruna people, some of whom were hired as e... | 6,128,648 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Seele" (1979) and "Sei still, wisse ich bin" (1981), performances by Enrico Caruso, and others. The film uses excerpts from the operas: Verdi's "Ernani", Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" ("Ridi, Pagliaccio"), Puccini's "La bohème", Bellini's "I puritani", and from Richard Strauss' orchestral work "Death and Trans... | 6,128,649 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
of the film, and of the making of the film" and concluding that "[t]he movie is imperfect, but transcendent".
# Awards.
The film won the German Film Prize in Silver for Best Feature Film. The film was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film, the Palme d'Or award of the Cannes Film Festival, a... | 6,128,650 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
documents its many hardships. Blank's work contains some of the only surviving footage of Robards' and Jagger's performances in the early filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Herzog later used portions of this work in his documentaries: "Portrait Werner Herzog" (1986) and "My Best Fiend" (1999). "Burden of Dreams" h... | 6,128,651 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
of the film, including a scene where a massive ship is pulled over a mountain.
In her 1983 parody "From the Diary of Werner Herzog" in "The Boston Phoenix", Cathleen Schine describes the history of a fictitious film, "Fritz: Commuter", as "a nightmarish tale of a German businessman obsessed with bringing ... | 6,128,652 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
Üter complains, "I feel like I'm 'Fitzcarraldo'!" Nelson replies "That movie was flawed!", punching Üter in the stomach. A later episode's title – "Fatzcarraldo" – referenced the title of the film and parodied aspects of it as well.
The Dutch artist Legowelt released the three-track "Klaus Kinski EP" in 2... | 6,128,653 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
a reference to Fitzcarraldo's title.
In the mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness, which represents itself as a documentary on the making of a Werner Herzog movie Enigma of Loch Ness, during an argument between Herzog and the purported producer, Zak Penn, Herzog remarks the movie is stupid, ridiculous and im... | 6,128,654 |
441249 | Fitzcarraldo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo | Fitzcarraldo
nt at Loch Ness, which represents itself as a documentary on the making of a Werner Herzog movie Enigma of Loch Ness, during an argument between Herzog and the purported producer, Zak Penn, Herzog remarks the movie is stupid, ridiculous and impossible to which Penn mutters under his breath "At least we're ... | 6,128,655 |
441299 | List of Zeppelins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Zeppelins | List of Zeppelins
List of Zeppelins
This is a complete list of Zeppelins constructed by the German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938. Other types of rigid airships that are also sometimes referred to as zeppelins are not included.
The Zeppelin companies based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, numbered their aircraft... | 6,128,656 |
441299 | List of Zeppelins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Zeppelins | List of Zeppelins
Marine"'s Zeppelins were labelled "L 1/2/ ...".
Since 1997, airships of the new type Zeppelin NT have been flying. They are not included here, as they are not Zeppelins in the traditional sense.
# Zeppelins constructed during World War I.
Usage: military
This September 1917 group photograph shows ... | 6,128,657 |
441299 | List of Zeppelins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Zeppelins | List of Zeppelins
Navy
- Rigid airship
# References.
- Bruce, J.M. "The Sopwith Pup: Historic Military Aircraft No 6". "Flight". 1 January 1954. p. 8-12.
- (Word document) from The Last Flight of the L48, linked from Theberton and Eastbridge Parish Council History.
- Robinson, Douglas H. "Giants in the Sky". Henle... | 6,128,658 |
441299 | List of Zeppelins | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Zeppelins | List of Zeppelins
LZ: 1,3,5,6,8,10,13,14,18,21,23,25,26,36,40,59,62,91,94,95,100,104,113,120
- Important airship types, Lueger 1904–1920, Table 1 lists data on selected Zeppelins
- fengatesroad.com story of L21's last flight
- Luftschiffe in Tondern – illustrated list of Zeppelins stationed at Tønder
- LZ 3 Photogr... | 6,128,659 |
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airship types, Lueger 1904–1920, Table 1 lists data on selected Zeppelins
- fengatesroad.com story of L21's last flight
- Luftschiffe in Tondern – illustrated list of Zeppelins stationed at Tønder
- LZ 3 Photographs by Franz Stoedtner: perspective; cross-section and front elevation; exiting the han... | 6,128,660 |
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Gr... | 6,128,661 |
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group pits fourteen of the world's best against each other in a round-robin tournament, and has sometimes been described as the "Wimbledon of Chess". Since 1938, there has been a long list of famous winners, including: Max Euwe, Bent Larsen, Tigran Petrosian, Paul Keres, Lajos Portisch, Bori... | 6,128,662 |
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record for most wins at the tournament, with seven titles to his name. Viswanathan Anand is the only other player to have won the event five or more times, and also holds the record of most consecutive games played at the tournament without a loss (70 – from 1998 to 2004).
# Tournament hist... | 6,128,663 |
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held in 1946. The main tournament field was expanded to ten, with invitations to Alberic O'Kelly de Galway (Belgium) and Gösta Stoltz (Sweden) along with a Dutch contingent of eight.
The tournament field remained at ten until 1953 when it was increased to twelve, and an international women'... | 6,128,664 |
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event and 'Masters Reserves' events. There also began a tradition to operate a year on year invitation policy that resembled the system used in football 'league tables'; the winner of a lesser category event would receive an invitation to the next higher event the following year.
The 1946 t... | 6,128,665 |
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of the top group:
- 1938 – Philip Bakker
- 1939 – Nicolaas Cortlever
- 1940 – Max Euwe
- 1941 – Arthur Wijnans
- 1942 – Max Euwe
- 1943 – Arnold van den Hoek
- 1944 – Theo van Scheltinga
- 1945 – no tournament
- 1946 – Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
- 1947 – Theo van Scheltinga
- 1948 ... | 6,128,666 |
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Ivkov
- 1962 – Petar Trifunović
- 1963 – Jan Hein Donner
- 1964 – Paul Keres and Iivo Nei
- 1965 – Lajos Portisch and Efim Geller
- 1966 – Lev Polugaevsky
- 1967 – Boris Spassky
## Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee.
The tournament was moved to the Dutch seaside town Wijk aan Zee in 1968.
In th... | 6,128,667 |
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1977 – Genna Sosonko and Efim Geller
- 1978 – Lajos Portisch
- 1979 – Lev Polugaevsky
- 1980 – Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan
- 1981 – Genna Sosonko and Jan Timman
- 1982 – John Nunn and Yuri Balashov
- 1983 – Ulf Andersson
- 1984 – Alexander Beliavsky and Viktor Korchnoi
- 1985 –... | 6,128,668 |
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Viswanathan Anand
- 1999 – Garry Kasparov
## Corus tournament.
From 2000, the popular name for the tournament was more or less equally shared between "Wijk aan Zee" and "Corus".
- 2000 – Garry Kasparov
- 2001 – Garry Kasparov
- 2002 – Evgeny Bareev
- 2003 – Viswanathan Anand
- 2004 –... | 6,128,669 |
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2013 – Magnus Carlsen
- 2014 – Levon Aronian
- 2015 – Magnus Carlsen
- 2016 – Magnus Carlsen
- 2017 – Wesley So
- 2018 – Magnus Carlsen
- 2019 – Magnus Carlsen
# Event crosstables.
## 1990s.
### 1994.
The tournament was held in Wijk aan Zee along with the first round of 1994 FIDE C... | 6,128,670 |
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three Grandmaster groups remained a 14 player single round robin. The participants in group A included eight of the world's top ten players (country, October 2007 rating and rank in brackets): Viswanathan Anand (India, 2801, 1), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2787, 2), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, ... | 6,128,671 |
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van Wely (Netherlands, 2679, 31). The average rating of 2742 made it a Category 20 tournament. The only top ten players not participating were Alexander Morozevich (Russia, 2755, 5=) and Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739, 10).
The tournament was won by Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen (both scorin... | 6,128,672 |
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(Russia, 2755, 5=) and Alexei Shirov (Spain, 2739, 10).
The tournament was won by Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen (both scoring 8 out of 13).
Grandmaster group B was won by Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia with 9½ points, and group C by Italy's Fabiano Caruana with 10, two points ahead of his... | 6,128,673 |
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14th Armored Division (United States)
The 14th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army assigned to the Seventh Army of the Sixth Army Group during World War II. It remains on the permanent roll of the Regular Army as an inactive division, and is eligible... | 6,128,674 |
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reorganized from a heavy division to a light division on 20 September 1943. The reorganization saw the loss of two tank battalions from the Armored regiments, one battalion each. The 1st Battalion of the 47th Armor was redesignated as the 786th Tank Battalion and the 3rd Battalion ... | 6,128,675 |
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of Operations) via Camp Shanks, New York where it went for final processing. Units departed Camp Campbell on 1 October and completed their arrival at Camp Shanks on the 6th of that month. After completing their processing, the division boarded four transport ships for deployment on... | 6,128,676 |
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Reserve (CCR) was detached, and ordered to the Maritime Alps by 6th Army Group to relieve units in defensive positions there. On 15 November, Combat Command A moved north from the area of Marseille to Epinal to take part in the VI Corps drive through the Vosges Mountains, and was f... | 6,128,677 |
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in the Ardennes, General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, ordered the Seventh Army to stop its attack and withdraw from the Westwall, where its units assumed positions south of the Lauter River. The order was poorly timed as elements of the 14th Armored Division had penetrated de... | 6,128,678 |
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in the rugged Vosges Mountains in the area of Bannstein in France, southeast of Saarbrücken. The balance of the division was placed in Corps Reserve to protect against a Saar Valley penetration by the Germans. Additionally, it was ordered to be prepared to move to the vicinity of P... | 6,128,679 |
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before midnight on New Year's Eve 1944, the German Army Group G launched Operation Nordwind, the last major German counter-offensive of the war. The advancing German units were from the XC and LXXXIX Corps, attacking through the Low Vosges. TF Hudleson held only a thin line of stro... | 6,128,680 |
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supported by five (5) Mark IV tanks". The troops of TF Hudelson took the brunt of the German advance which had penetrated to Bannstein by day-break. The Task Force was soon overrun or bypassed by the German divisions but it managed to delay and slow the German advance until substan... | 6,128,681 |
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positions. On 2 January, the 45th Division along with the attached Task Force, occupied positions to block any further penetration by the Germans. This allowed for the relief of Task Force Hudelson and its return to division control.
The major fighting between 1 and 8 January occu... | 6,128,682 |
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Nordwind, was halted by the 14th Armored in the fierce defensive Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen which ranged from 9 to 21 January 1945.
### Hatten and Rittershoffen.
As the fighting in the VI Corps sector intensified, the Germans committed the 21st Panzer and the 25th Panzer Gren... | 6,128,683 |
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from the 242nd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 315th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division . With heavy fighting in and around the towns, success was measured in how many buildings were controlled by each side as the Americans controlled the western half... | 6,128,684 |
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defending positions in and around Hatten. Combat Command B took up defensive positions behind the Rittershoffen to Leiterswiller road.
The resupply of the division was becoming very difficult due to the constant reorganizing of forces, the evacuation of the wounded and the shrinki... | 6,128,685 |
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was devised by the Division ammunition officer to use this in American 81mm mortars. Artillery ammunition was strictly rationed after 15 January when 6,247 rounds of ammunition were expended out of a total of nearly 40,000 rounds for the entire seven days. In order to alleviate the... | 6,128,686 |
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the 499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion.
Approximately 39 American and 51 German tanks were destroyed, damaged or abandoned. Recovery of disabled vehicles was very difficult due to the complete lack of cover. Following the battle, the division's G-4 (staff officer) reported to... | 6,128,687 |
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Battalions. At the height of the fighting the 47th reported that it had a total of 17 operational tanks out of an authorized strength of 50, all were committed to holding its portion of the line. The 48th Tank Battalion report for the same period included the comment that its tank ... | 6,128,688 |
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to withdraw to prepared defensive positions. On 21 January, after the rest of Seventh Army had withdrawn to the south bank of the Moder River, the 14th and its supporting units withdrew from Hatten and Rittershoffen and moved south to join the rest of the army.
Lieutenant-General ... | 6,128,689 |
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Commander" that the battle "... was one of the hardest and most costly battles that had ever raged on the western front." These are strong, telling words from a professional German panzer officer who had fought with Rommel's famed Afrika Korps in North Africa, served two tours of d... | 6,128,690 |
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on 15 March 1945; it drove across the Moder River, cracked through the Siegfried Line and by the end of the month, had captured Germersheim on the Rhine River. On Easter Sunday, 1 April, the 14th moved across the Rhine near Worms, protecting the long left flank of the Seventh Army ... | 6,128,691 |
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the Spessart Forest and into the rear of the German forces. The command advanced 75 miles on the first day with the lead elements reaching the town of Lohr. Approaching the town, the leading elements came under heavy small arms fire. As the infantry dismounted to clear the resistan... | 6,128,692 |
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layer south of Hammelburg and the POW camps to the south. The operational plan called for the 47th Tank battalion to advance from the north and the 19th Armored Infantry battalion to block and secure the roads to the south and east of the camps. As the units approached the camps, t... | 6,128,693 |
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Allied enlisted men - American, Australians, British and others.
## Liberation of Stalag VII-A.
Following the Battle of Nuremberg, the division raced to the Danube, crossing the river at Ingolstadt and passed through the 86th Infantry Division. Its mission was to secure crossings... | 6,128,694 |
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the camp garrison of over 200 men. Initial reports had listed the number of prisoners liberated as 27,000. This was wrong, there were over 130,000 Allied prisoners liberated from Stalag VII-A, the largest prisoner of war camp in Germany. The division rapidly moved eastward to the a... | 6,128,695 |
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several sub-camps of the Dachau concentration camp. Upon entering the towns of Mühldorf and Ampfing, units of the division discovered three large forced labor camps containing thousands of Polish and Soviet civilians. Units also liberated two additional camps nearby holding Jewish ... | 6,128,696 |
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to report to a retraining center where they received basic instruction in infantry skills and tactics. In March 1945, the first contingent of soldiers, organized into 12 platoons, were assigned to the 7th Army which organized them into three companies of four platoons each. They we... | 6,128,697 |
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was also required to staff, arm and equip it. The division, with the assistance of Corps and Army support, was able to provide the company with its basic needs for future operations. Initially, the company was attached to the 19th Armored Infantry Battalion but it was then reassign... | 6,128,698 |
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helping to secure the towns. The company, when employed in less than company size, performed well. When employed as a company, the results were less satisfactory. This was a result of the way in which the companies were formed and trained, as platoons and not as a company. The unit... | 6,128,699 |
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