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Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 0.270463 sq. miles (0.700497 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.270463 sq. miles (0.700497 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30040
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.907548 N, 77.278684 W
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Hassell
Wikipedia
Hassell can refer to:
- Hassell (surname)
- Hassell, North Carolina
- Hassell Creek, a river in Tennessee
- Hassell National Park, a national park in Australia
- Hassell (architecture firm), a multidisciplinary design practice based in Australia
Hassell (stylised HASSELL) is a multidisciplinary design practice, with offices in Australia, China, Singapore, Thailand and United Kingdom. It was founded in Australia in 1938. In 2010 it was ranked the largest architecture company in Australia and the 25th largest in the world.
The firm received Australian Institute of Architects national awards for the Sydney Olympic Park railway station (1998), the VS1/SA Water building in Adelaide (2009), ANZ Centre in Melbourne's Docklands and the railway stations of the Epping to Chatswood railway line (2010).
Olympic Park railway station. Ryde station entrance.jpg|North Ryde railway station, Sydney. Docklands.jpg|ANZ Centre in Melbourne’s Docklands.
Hassell, also von Hassell, is an English and German surname. Notable people with the surname include the following:
- Albert Young Hassell (1841-1918), Australian pastoralist and politician
- Bill Hassell (born 1943), Australian former politician
- Bobby Hassell (born 1980), English footballer with Mansfield Town and Barnsley
- Gerald Hassell (born 1952), American banker
- John Hassell (artist) (c. 1767 – 1825), English artist
- John Hassell (settler) (1788-1883), Australian pastoralist
- Jon Hassell (born 1937), American trumpet player and composer
- Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. (1955–2011), American judge; first African-American Chief Justice of Virginia
- Michael Hassell (born 1942), a British biologist, noted for his work in population ecology, especially in insects
- Randall G. Hassell, American karate expert
- Trenton Hassell (born 1979), American basketball player
- Ulrich von Hassell (1881–1944), German diplomat; executed for his participation in the 20 July assassination plot against Hitler
Category:English-language surnames
Usage examples of "hassell".
Two veteran career diplomats, Ulrich von Hassell, the ambassador in Rome, and Herbert von Dirksen, the ambassador in Tokyo, were relieved, as was Papen in Vienna.
On Sunday, December 18, 1938, he entertained the deposed Ambassador von Hassell at his manor house at Achterberg, near Soltau, which the Army had put at his disposal after his retirement.
A fine Greek scholar as well as eminent economist, he, along with General Beck and Hassell, was a member of the Wednesday Club, a group of sixteen intellectuals who gathered once a week to discuss philosophy, history, art, science and literature and who as time went on - or ran out - formed one of the centers of the opposition.
A member of an old Hanover noble family, married to the daughter of Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, the founder of the German Navy, and a gentleman of the old school to his finger tips, Hassell, like so many others of his class, seems to have needed the shock of being cast out by the Nazis before he became much interested in doing anything to bring them down.
August 14, Hassell dined alone with Beck, and recorded their feeling of frustration in his diary.
Could the unemployed Hassell see his friend Henderson at once and also Goering to this end?
Even to Hassell the Poles, who were threatened with imminent attack on trumped - up Nazi charges, were not supposed to ask questions.
If an educated, cultivated and experienced diplomat such as Hassell could be so woolly in his thinking is it any wonder that it was easy for Hitler to take in the mass of the German people?
Berlin Ambassador von Hassell used the holidays to confer with his fellow conspirators, Popitz, Goerdeler and General Beck, and on December 30 recorded in his diary the latest plan.
He had contacts in Downing Street, and Hassell, once they had met, was personally impressed by him.
After the fiasco of the attempt of Major Stevens and Captain Best in Holland to get in touch with the German conspirators, the British were somewhat skeptical of the whole business, and when Bryans pressed Hassell for some reliable information as to whom he was speaking for the German envoy became cagey.
To initiate him and also General Alexander von Falkenhausen, the military commander in Belgium, into the new scheme of things Hassell was sent by the conspirators in mid-January 1942 to confer with the two generals.
A few, like Hassell, though full of admiration and respect for the former General Staff Chief, had some doubts about him.
And also some differences, for Stauffenberg was not satisfied with the kind of stodgy, conservative, colorless regime which the old rusty leaders of the conspiracy, Beck, Goerdeler and Hassell, envisaged as soon as National Socialism was overthrown.
Friedrich Werner von Schulenburg, the former ambassador in Moscow, and Hassell, the former ambassador in Rome, both of whom were to have taken over the direction of foreign policy in the new anti-Nazi regime, were executed on November 10 and September 8, respectively.