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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 abbreviated form "Erdkunde" resulted from the fact that the licensing regulations initially did not permit designations such as "Zeitschrift", "Gesellschaft" and "Berlin". When it became clear that a continuation of the "Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin" was intended, the subtitle "Archiv für Wissenschaftliche ...
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).
The German Timber-Frame Road (German: Deutsche Fachwerkstraße) is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to the Black Forest and Lake Constance in the south. Numerous cities and towns each with examples of the vernacular timber-framed houses traditional to the German states are situated along the road.
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This marks the transition from the Stelliferous Era to the Degenerate Era; with too little free hydrogen to form new stars, all remaining stars slowly exhaust their fuel and die. [144] By this time, the universe will have expanded by a factor of approximately 10 2554. [136] 1.1–1.2×10 14 (110–120 trillion)
The Fliegende Blätter ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") [1] was a German weekly [2] humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch , Count Franz Pocci , Hermann Vogel , Carl Spitzweg , Julius Klinger , Edmund ...
Die Weißen Blätter were published from 1913 to 1915 by Erik Ernst-Schwabach in Leipzig in the Verlag der weißen Bücher.In 1915 René Schickele took over. From 1916 to 1917 they were printed by the Verlag Rascher in Zurich, in 1918 in the Verlag der Weißen Blätter in Bern, from 1919 to 1920 Paul Cassirer published the magazine in Berlin.