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Essen
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Es·sen  (sn)
A city of west-central Germany near the confluence of the Ruhr and Rhine rivers north of Cologne. Founded in the ninth century, it is a major iron and steel center that was largely rebuilt after heavy bombing during World War II. Population: 583,000.
Essen (German) [ˈɛsən]
n
(Placename) a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr; university. Pop.: 600 700 (1999 est.)
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Noun1.Essen - a city in western Germany; industrial center of the Ruhr
Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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His close encounter came as he left his home in Essen, Germany.
I WAS HIT BY 30,000MPH METEORITE.. AND LIVED by The Mirror (London, England)
Herds of grazing and resting deer and cattle tend to align themselves, on average, with Earth's magnetic field lines, report Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen, Germany, and his colleagues online August 25 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Grazers align north to south: deer, cattle may sense Earth's magnetic ... by Perkins, Sid / Science News
It happened on June 2, 1942, when a Vickers-Wellington bomber was returning from an attack on Essen, Germany and was shot down by a German fighter.
War crash plea by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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