Hindenburg

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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:

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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.

The Welsh soldier who helped end World War I; Ruth Mosalski looks at the life of Ernest Rollings, the Welsh copper injured in World War I who found the German plans which ended the carnage

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Lessons from the Hindenburg

His latest book, Surviving the Hindenburg, recounts one part of the dramatic true story of the 1937 zeppelin crash.

Surviving the Hindenburg

An Australian historian specializing in the First World War, Blair describes how a combined Australian US force fought a series of battles on the Western Front that, though they did not break through the German line as hoped, eventually forced the Germans to abandon the Hindenburg Line.

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

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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After serving as army chief of staff and virtual codictator of imperial Germany during the First World War, Hindenburg was elected president of the Weimar Republic in 1925.

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

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

Anniversaries 2012

Hindenburg remains a unique phenomenon in modern German history, acting as something of a link between the Wilhelmine era and the Nazis.

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

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

FDA questions safety of alcoholic energy drinks

The Hindenburg Letter" follows a tale where one may be prepared to do just that.

The Hindenburg Letter

THIRTY-SIX PEOPLE DIED TODAY WHEN THE ZEPPELIN LZ129 HINDENBURG BURST INTO A BALL OF FLAME AND PLUNGED TO THE GROUND.

It happened on the Hindenburg

While giving Ludendorff his due at almost every turn, Hindenburg routinely cuts through the cluttering details to present insight and analysis that every commander can appreciate.