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However, since preparations for the new journal were already well advanced in Bonn, the plan was pursued and the first issue of the journal "Erdkunde Archiv für Wissenschaftliche Geographie" was published in 1947. [3] The title of the journal emerged from the original plan to continue the "Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin".
In 1992, the 3-inch/50-caliber main battery on USCGC Storis was removed and was supposedly the last 3-inch/50-caliber gun in service aboard any US warship, although US Navy Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships retained their forward mounts until USS El Paso (LKA-117) was decommissioned in 1994.
The Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (Berlin Geographical Society) was founded in 1828 and is the second oldest geographical society. It was founded by some of the foremost geographers of its time. The founder Carl Ritter and the founding member Alexander von Humboldt can also be considered the founders of modern scientific geography.
The data only consider carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions from land use, land-use change and forestry [n 2] Over the last 150 years, estimated cumulative emissions from land use and land-use change represent approximately one-third of total cumulative anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. [6]
The AEV 3 Kodiak shares a common powerplant (the MTU 873 Ka-501) with the Leopard 2 MBT. In common with the Leopard 2 MBT, the AEV 3 Kodiak is powered by a powerpack assembly consisting of an MTU 873 Ka-501 V-12 diesel coupled to a Renk HSWL 354 transmission. The rear-mounted powerpack weighs 2.59-tonnes (dry) and is designed engine first with ...
Bunte Blätter (English: Colorful Leaves), Op. 99, is a collection of piano pieces by Robert Schumann assembled from earlier unpublished pieces after the success of the Album for the Young (Album für die Jugend), Op. 68. Upon publication the pieces were issued both as a complete set and individual pieces, the latter in differently colored covers.
Carl Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a doctor, F. W. Ritter.. Ritter's father died when he was two. At the age of five, he was enrolled in the Schnepfenthal Salzmann School, a school focused on the study of nature (apparently influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings on children's education).
[2] Cosmos was influenced by Humboldt's travels and studies, but mainly by his journey throughout the Americas. As he wrote, “it was the discovery of America that planted the seed of the Cosmos.” [3] Due to all of his experience in the field, Humboldt was preeminently qualified for the task to represent the universe in a single work. [1]