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Hindenburg:

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, Ger. Hindenburg, city (1992 est. pop. 202,800), Śląskie prov., S Poland. It is a railway junction in the Katowice mining and industrial region. Local coal deposits form the basis of Zabrze's coke and chemical industries. Founded in the 13th cent.
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Hindenburg:

see airshipairship,
an aircraft that consists of a cigar-shaped gas bag, or envelope, filled with a lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, a propulsion system, a steering mechanism, and a gondola accommodating passengers, crew, and cargo.
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Hindenburg

Paul von Beneckendorff und von . 1847--1934, German field marshal and statesman; president (1925--34). During World War I he directed German strategy together with Ludendorff (1916--18)

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"That was the last I heard about it until 1931 when the value of the documents I captured was revealed - a complete plan of the Hindenburg Line defences.

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In the decades before the Hindenburg, accidental fires downed 26 airships and killed 250 people.

Lessons from the Hindenburg

Who can forget the news headlines and newsreel images of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 in New Jersey?

Airship: Design, Development, and Disaster

Veteran non-fiction author Larry Verstraete says he loves "larger-than-life stories." His latest book, Surviving the Hindenburg, recounts one part of the dramatic true story of the 1937 zeppelin crash.

Surviving the Hindenburg

re-of has 1937: The German airship Hindenburg exploded at its moorings in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people aboard.

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"I get the Hindenburg question all the time," chuckled Newton, director of business development for Quebec-based Discovery Air Innovations (DAI).

Poised for takeoff: airships changing transportation game in Canada

The battle of Bellicourt Tunnel; tommies, diggers and doughboys on the Hindenburg Line; 1918.

The battle of Bellicourt Tunnel; tommies, diggers and doughboys on the Hindenburg Line; 1918

It is also the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg airship disaster.

Anniversaries 2012

The word cult sputters through the airwaves be- tween Illinois and Florida like the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg blew up in Lakehurst, New Jersey, ten years before I was born, when I was still cells in the prepubescent cra- dles of our mother and father, who hadn't yet met at St.

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Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis.

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis

One Twitter user called the campaign the "Hindenburg of social media strategies".

Qantas' social media gaffe

A blackened bottle of Lowenbrau beer found in the wreck of the Hindenburg zeppelin was auctioned for about $18,000 in the U.K.