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  2. Carl Gotthard Langhans - Wikipedia

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    The Brandenburg Gate in 1796. From 1775 until 1788, Langhans headed the building authority for the Prussian province of Silesia. In 1788, King Frederick William II of Prussia appointed him as first director of the royal building commission in Berlin. He immediately commissioned him with a draft for the Brandenburg Gate, which was built ...

  3. Library Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [ 1 ]

  4. 12 Free Library Perks You Didn't Know About - AOL

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    The Libby app should be free with your library membership. Libby users can borrow ebooks and audiobooks and place holds, just like with a regular physical book. Users can download the Libby app on ...

  5. Brandenburg Gate - Wikipedia

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    The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor [ˈbʁandn̩ˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] ⓘ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel , the former capital of the ...

  6. Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv - Wikipedia

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    The Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (Brandenburgian State Main Archive; acronym BLHA) is the central state archive for the State (Land) of Brandenburg. It is located in Potsdam. Records cover the Land of Brandenburg and its predecessors, back to the 10th century.

  7. Talk:Brandenburg Gate - Wikipedia

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    Plus, President Barack H. Obama appeared on the big screen before the Brandenburg Gate audience and broadcast to the world. 71.102.92.13 05:43, 18 November 2009 (UTC) Political History at the Gate is the last section of the Brandenburg Gate article and contains entires for 1963, 1986, 1989, and 1994. As noted in Wikipedia elsewhere, the ...

  8. Zinna Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Zinna Abbey (German: Kloster Zinna) is a former Cistercian monastery, the site of which is now occupied by a village also called Kloster Zinna, today part of Jüterbog in Brandenburg, Germany, about 60 km (37 mi) south of Berlin. The village was established by Frederick II of Prussia as a village for weavers.

  9. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg - Wikipedia

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    A learned man, he founded a university and established the Berlin library. [8] In 1682, at the suggestion of the Dutch merchant and privateer Benjamin Raule, he granted a charter to the Brandenburg Africa Company (BAC), marking the first organised and sustained attempt by a German state to take part in the Atlantic slave trade.