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friesland
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Population (2000): 298 Housing Units (2000): 114 Land area (2000): 1.027194 sq. miles (2.660420 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.027194 sq. miles (2.660420 sq. km) FIPS code: 28000 Located within: Wisconsin ...
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Friesland is a district ( Landkreis ) in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch , Ammerland , Leer and Wittmund , and by the North Sea . The city of Wilhelmshaven is enclosed by, but not ...
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On February 26, 1782, the northern province of Friesland voted to instruct its delegates in the States-General to move formally to receive John Adams as minister from the United States.
And the first Mophead will be cycling to Friesland tomorrow, by way of the dike?
A certain Cornelius Rijpma, president of the Sea Polder board in Leeuwarden, in Friesland, is on record as saying some months ago that the dykes in his area consist of nothing more than layers of sand and that if a big storm comes they are certain to break.
Antonius Deusing (1612-1666), physician to the Stadholder of Friesland, published in 1656 a treatise on this subject.
It was the Nieuw Friesland Military Academy answer, and it was the right answer this time beyond question.
Miss Rohde (Old English Herbals) says: 'It is interesting to find that Turner identifies the Herba Britannica of Dioscorides and Pliny (famed for having cured the soldiers of Julius Caesar of scurvy in the Rhine country) with Polygonum bistorta, which he observed plentifully in Friesland, the scene of Pliny's observations.