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Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey, United States. The band is the musical outlet for singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, preceded by the horror punk bands the Misfits and Samhain. They play in a bluesy doom-driven heavy metal style influenced by the early sound of Black Sabbath.
Danzig is the debut album of the American heavy metal band Danzig, released in August, 1988. The album was the first release on producer Rick Rubin's new label Def American Recordings. Def American's successor, American Recordings reissued the album in the United States and United Kingdom in 1998. It remains the band's best-selling album having been certified Gold in the U.S. in 1994, and has since been certified Platinum.
Danzig is the German name (and former official appellation) of Gdańsk, a city in northern Poland.
Danzig may also refer to:
- Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), a semi-independent city state established in Danzig by Napoleon in 1807
- Free City of Danzig, a semi-autonomous city state in Danzig established by the Treaty of Versailles that existed between 1920 and 1939
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Danzig (band), an American heavy metal band
- Danzig (album), the 1988 debut album from the band of the same name
- Danzig (horse), an American racehorse
- Danzig (surname)
- Danzig, North Dakota, a community in the United States
- 1419 Danzig, an asteroid
- Danzig Trilogy, a series of novels by Günter Grass
- Danzig, a Prussian steam corvette under Adalbert of Prussia
Danzig (February 12, 1977 – January 4, 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best known as a leading sire. He was purchased for $310,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) by Henryk de Kwiatkowski at the 1978 Saratoga Yearling Sale. The son of Hall of Famer Northern Dancer and the most important sire of the second half of the 20th century, he won all three of his races before knee problems ended his racing career.
Regierungsbezirk Danzig was a Regierungsbezirk, or administrative region, within the Prussian Province of West Prussia from 1815–1920. The regional capital was Danzig (Gdańsk).
Danzig is a German-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Avraham Danzig (1748–1820), rabbi, author of works on Jewish law
- Glenn Danzig (born 1955), American rock vocalist, songwriter, and publisher
- Richard Danzig (born 1944), American lawyer and former Secretary of the Navy
- Mac Danzig (born 1980), American professional mixed martial arts practitioner
- George Dantzig (born 1914), American mathematical scientist
Several naval ships of Germany were named Danzig after the city of Danzig, modern-day Gdansk, Poland.
- gunboat
- corvette
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(1905): 3,300 ton light cruiser
Usage examples of "danzig".
In his stateroom on the upper deck of the Archerfish, Captain North was in the middle of a discussion with his executive officer regarding Danzig.
Rockham had been surprised to find out that Danzig had refused to let the Archerfish take part in the practice runs.
In spite of all of the information the Archerfish had in her own charts, and the details Danzig had brought with him, there were changes in the sea floor that were not shown on the charts.
By the time Mrs Danziger took the train to Bremerhaven to catch the S.
One of the chatters knew that not long after the war began Diewerge had become manager of the Reich radio station in Danzig, and another had information on his doings in the postwar period: as the crony of other Nazi bigwigs, such as Achenbach, who became a Free Democratic member of the Bundestag, Diewerge allegedly infiltrated the liberal party of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
And was it not his demand for the return of German Danzig and the other areas in Poland inhabited predominantly by Germans which led to the German attack on Poland and brought on World War II?
Simon Materna, for instance, always had a big chunk of meat up front, even on horseback when he was on his way to wreak vengeance between Dirschau, Danzig, and Elbing.
The friendly seaside resort -- where sea baths were taken as early as 1823 -- with its low-lying fishing village and dome-surmounted casino, its medium-high dunes and scrub pine forest, with its fishing boats, its hundred and fifty feet of pier, and its tripartite bathhouse, with the watch-tower of the German Lifesaving Society, was situated exactly halfway between Neufahrwasser and Glettkau on the shores of the Gulf of Danzig.
New New Hebrides before the Theban survivors can reorganize themselves there, we will first proceed to the Danzig warp point and send a scouting force through.
The cannon balls were of no interest to me, particularly as I knew that they had not stuck in the wall of their own accord, that there lived in the city of Danzig a mason employed and paid conjointly by the Public Building Office and the Office for the Conservation of Monuments, whose function it was to immure the ammunition of past centuries in the façades of various churches and town halls, and specifically in the front and rear walls of the Arsenal.
She was from the Hansa city of Danzig: one-masted like a cog but longer, beamier, of the new sort that were known as hulks.
From the station to the Lycée it was like a promenade through the Danzig Corridor, all deckle-edged, crannied, nerve-ridden.
It seemed equally certain that Erich Keyser's History of the City of Danzig and A Struggle for Rome, which a man by the name of Felix Dahn seems to have fought with the help of Totila and Teja, Belisarius and Narses, had arrived at their present state of dilapidation beneath the hands of the seafaring brother.
I have no intention of boring you with a bird's-eye view of Danzig -- venerable city of many towers, city of belfries and bells, allegedly still pervaded by the breath of the Middle Ages -- in any case you can see the whole panorama in dozens of excellent prints.
On account of this one king, eighteen hundred houses were destroyed, and when poor Leszczynski fled to France because that's where his son-in-law Louis was living, the people of Danzig had to cough up a round million.