[German, short forStammlager,base camp:Stamm,base, stem(from Middle High Germanstam, from Old High German; seestā-inIndo-European roots) +Lager,camp, bed(from Middle High Germanleger, from Old High Germanlegar,bed, lair; seelager).] ...
The RAF Museum Midlands is set to hold a community day on Sunday, September 15, on Lysander Avenue, Cosford, and is inviting locals to experience the 'spirit' of the region as it throws open its doors for the vibrant, free event in partnership with theTelfordand Wrekin I...
Near the city of Hillertød there is Frederiksborg Castle (the National History Museum). E. M. SOKOLOV Natural and technological sciences. Science began to develop in Denmark in the late 15th century. T. Brahe, who worked in the second half of the 16th century, founded an observatory in ...
Browse through the former home of famous author Margaret Mitchell or pop into the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum for details on the life and times of the former president and his family. Whether you choose modern urban endeavors or old southern pleasures, Atlanta will not disappoint. Read ...
One of its arms, Nærøyfjord, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as is the 12th-century Urnes Stave Church near Lustrafjorden, an excellent example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier on mainland Europe, is home to a national park with ...
Small-scale exploitation of coal (in the city of Kenadsa, in the northwestern Algerian Sahara), copper ore (in Ain Barbar, near the city of Annaba—4,600 tons per year), and also of pyrites, barites, antimony, and kieselguhr is carried on. The largest deposits of iron ore in the ...
104 Schumacher, Ackerbau(Rbm.-Germ. Zentral- Museum, 1922), 22. Altenburg near Cassel; six Roman ploughshares-a merchant's stock in trade ? K6rner, a cache of tools-old iron ? Schetelig (supra, p. 204, n. 70), 145, Norwegian tools under Roman influence. 105 0. Davies, Roman ...
helicopter,type of aircraft in which lift is obtained by means of one or more power-driven horizontal propellers called rotors. When the rotor of a helicopter turns it produces reaction torque which tends to make the craft spin also. On most helicopters a small rotor near the tail compensates...