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Giessen

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Giessen (gē`sən), city (1994 pop. 73,705), Hesse, central Germany, on the Lahn River. It is an industrial center and rail junction. Its manufactures include machinery, textiles, rubber goods, and tobacco products. Iron ore is mined nearby. Giessen was chartered by 1248 and became the chief town of Upper Hesse Hesse (hĕs, hēs`ē, hĕs`ə), Ger. Hessen, state (1994 pop.
..... Click the link for more information. . The city was heavily damaged in World War II. It is the seat of a famous university (founded 1607), where the chemist Justus von Liebig taught (1824–52).
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Jackson in South Carolina and Giessen in Germany were the bases selected for participation.
Keeping score: documenting the benefits of army recreation by Stennes, Marcy / Parks & Recreation
Hans-Peter Howaldt of the Justus-Liebig-University Medical School in Giessen, Germany, as saying, "The skull is now smooth to the touch, the missing parts replaced by thin but solid bone.
Heading for The Island: The Island portrays the immorality of the ... by DuBord, Steven J. / The New American
This was the case at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg, and Leiden in the sixteenth century, and Giessen in the early seventeenth.
The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation* by Grendler, Paul F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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