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Metro: WWII ace inspects replica of his old fighter plane at Grout. Don't have an account. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
NEIGHBORS IN THE NEWS Jul 13, 2008
celebrated their 80th birthday by cruising for two weeks on a small ship on the Rhine River, sightseeing in Holland, Germany, France and Switzerland. Margery and Maxine were born July 28, 1928 to Fred and Grace Busse on the family farm in rural Esmond. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
WWII ace inspects replica of his old fighter plane at Grout Jul 13, 2008
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Wine of the Week: Trimbach Pinot Blanc 2005 Jul 13, 2008
The Alsace, nestled between the Vosges Mountains to the west and the Rhine River and Germany to the east, is predominantly known for its white wines, which is more than 90 percent of its production. Pinot blanc grapes are second in acreage behind riesling and are related to pinot gris, creating acidic wines with low aroma. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
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Lukas, 18, will graduate Stefan-George High School in Bingen am Rhein -"Bingen on the Rhine River" - in 2010. "I enjoyed my year," he said, "but now I'm anxious to go home.". (Dowagiac News, MI)
Zermatt to St. Moritz Drive Jul 6, 2008
You will literally drive up a mountain, reach the peak (the Furkapass) and then drive down the other side where you will see the inception of the Rhine River. The Rhine flows north to Rotterdam and into the North Sea. (Suite101.com)
Family Tree Tour Sprouts Relatives, Connections Jul 4, 2008
"It was the season for Rapseed, the bright yellow flower that they also grow for biofuel. It was everywhere." After touring both towns for six days, the group traveled to Boppard, a city on the Rhine River. They enjoyed a four-hour river cruise, stopping at Kln to see the Old Castle Tower and the Cathedral of St. Peter and Mary, which took over 600 years to build - it was started in the 1200s and finished in the 1800s. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
No more dingy airport bars for business travelers Jul 2, 2008
Take a Rhine River cruise, visit the Neuschwanstein Castle and more, from $2,045. If your taste runs to hard liquor, HMSHost has bars for you, tooseveral, in fact. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Deals: Germany air/hotel Jul 2, 2008
Take a Rhine River cruise, visit the fairy-tale Neuschwanstein Castle, more. Joerg Koch / AFP - Getty ImagesTake a Rhine River cruise, visit the fairy-tale Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps, wander through the Black Forest, and check out Berlin's art scene ... The fine print: Eleven buffet breakfasts and six dinners, hotel taxes, airport-hotel transfers, transportation, guided sightseeing tours, entrance fees, and a Rhine River cruise are included. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Redeeming airline vouchers could cost you Jul 2, 2008
Take a Rhine River cruise, visit the Neuschwanstein Castle and more, from $2,045. Where United is keeping up with the times, though, is the issuance of electronic certificates in situations such as its Low Fare Guarantee program, where you can get $50 plus the difference in fare between what you booked on United. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Alive And Hitting Jun 27, 2008
I never got to the Rhine River, Hooks said. I spent six months in the hospital, and about three months in I started trying to walk. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
Former residents return and reminisce Jun 26, 2008
The Allies had dropped 30,000 men on the other side of the Rhine River, and 240 B-29 s were assigned to get supplies to them. Paul was piloting the lead plane as usual, and all of them took a lot of flak because they had to fly so low. (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
With return of the storks, French region is reborn Jun 25, 2008
Twenty-five years ago, the iconic emblem of Alsace - a bird revered for centuries as the bringer of fertility and luck to any home where it nested - had dwindled to fewer than nine pairs in the entire upper Rhine River Valley. Though flocks of the white storks resided elsewhere in the world, they had all but disappeared from the region most closely identified with them. (Boston Globe)
Rhine Day Cruises from Frankfurt Jun 20, 2008
The Rhine River and Loreley are within easy reach by train from Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof and International Airport (FRA) for day trips and short Rhein boat cruises. Although boats do not depart for Rhine cruises from Frankfurt itself, day trips to the Rhine Valley (Rheintal) as well as short cruises on the Rhine River (Rhein)are easy to arrange from Frankfurt am Main as well as from Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) ... desheim and Bingen that offer a wealth of departures to the most... (Suite101.com)
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Now Haas and his partners' have bet their money on the future of Bonn, building a $465 million real estate development at a scenic bend in the Rhine River. The five-star luxury Elysion Hotel, under construction, was originally planned to be 160 rooms, but strong local growth led the planners back to the drawing board to expand it to 254 rooms. (International Herald Tribune)
Top Castles in Europe: Burg Eltz Jun 14, 2008
Burg Eltz, near Koblenz at the confluence of the Mosel and Rhine Rivers, is one of the most romantic medieval castles in Germany and all of Europe ... Most castles in the Moselle and Rhine River valleys where destroyed through the centuries. (Suite101.com)
Lionel Capoldo (from left) 82; Dorman Clayton, 86; and Henry Smith Keel, 86, recently relived their World War II combat experiences during the D-Day invasion at Normandy. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Jun 6, 2008
Once we crossed the Rhine River, for all practical purposes, the war was over; it was just a matter of time. . (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Solemn march Jun 5, 2008
Prior to volunteering for submarine duty, Flasco had served on the Rhine River Patrol in Germany. As a Submariner, he qualified on SSK-1, attended Nuclear Power School, and then served in USS Triton (SSRN 586) during the 84-day submerged circumnavigation of the earth in 1960. (The Dolphin, CT)
Pilgrim Reflections Jun 5, 2008
The next weekend, we headed over to visit the Schonburg castle on the Rhine River in western Germany. What a treat it was to venture into this massive structure, which has stood for hundreds of years, and to think of all the battles thatd been fought in that area. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
The great push to cross the Rhine Jun 4, 2008
Allied Engineers use floating Pontoon and portable Treadway bridges to cross the Rhine River ... January of 1945 began the great rush to reach and span the Rhine River by the allies into the heartland of Germany ... The only thing still standing between Germany and the approaching combined seven armies of America, Britain, Canada, and Russia, were its natural defensive waterways, primarily the Rhine River. (Suite101.com)
International Bridge Conference set to begin Monday May 31, 2008
An associated luncheon will be held Monday at the Westin Convention Center hotel to present special awards to individuals and for bridge projects of distinction, including a unique pedestrian crossing of the Rhine River between Huningue, France, and Weil am Rhein, Germany, whose mayor, Wolfgang Dietz, is coming to Pittsburgh to accept the medal. Joe Grata can be reached at or 412-263-1985. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Obituaries for Saturday, May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008
Herbert was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in the 99th Infantry Division K Company as a T/5 rifleman and bazooka tech in the European North African Middle Eastern Theater in World War II. He was awarded four Battle Stars for his participation in the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine River Remagen Bridge Head, the Ruhr Pocket and the Danube River Crossing. He was also awarded The Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Expert Infantry Badge. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
The classical bookshelf (I): Mahler and Schumann May 11, 2008
The usual perception of Schumann is that he was mentally unstable from a very young age and remained that way until his sad end in a mental asylum at Edendich, where he died at age 46, having been confined there for two years after trying to drown himself in the Rhine River, clad only in his morning gown and slippers, in the middle of February. Worthen s essential point is that Schumann was, aside from his musical genius, a normal person whose insanity is attributable to the syphilis he... (The Palm Beach Post)
Love loves the stuff in his Love's Gun and Pawn May 8, 2008
Having been in the U.S. Marines and served in Korea, Love has a penchant for military memorabilia with a certain USA bravado: A plastic soldier in full Army pack greets customers, and Love proudly displays a picture of Gen. George Patton urinating in the Rhine River in Germany. There are other items, however, that don't seem to fit his jingoism, such as a flag that was used by the Japanese in World War II. Love said the flag was draped on Japanese doorways to indicate a son was serving in the... (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Shackelford recalls WWII and the fight to live for tomorrow Apr 23, 2008
One dark evening, the troops were approaching a bridge over the Rhine River. Two German planes dropped flares that lit up the sky. (Maryville Daily Forum, MO)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Hands-on Apr 18, 2008
With the objective of opening the Rhine River for the invasion of Germany, Operation Market Garden ended as one of the worst Allied defeats of the war. The only thing we're wondering is how in the world the folks at Gearbox plan to deliver a rewarding experience if it ultimately has to end in a loss. (IGN PC Games)
AP PhotoMuseum pieceThe former Soviet Space Shuttle Buran is transported down the Rhine River past the Lorelei sculpture in St. Goarshausen, Germany, Thursday. The one-time pride of the Russian space program will be housed at the Technik-Museum Speyer in southwestern Germany. Apr 11, 2008
AP PhotoMuseum pieceThe former Soviet Space Shuttle Buran is transported down the Rhine River past the Lorelei sculpture in St. Goarshausen, Germany, Thursday. The one-time pride of the Russian space program will be housed at the Technik-Museum Speyer in southwestern Germany. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Soviet spaceship sails to German home Apr 10, 2008
A wide-angle picture shows the Soviet-built Buran 002 space shuttle being transported over the Rhine River by barge at Dsseldorf on Tuesday ... COLOGNE, Germany - The one-time pride of the Soviet space program is making a decidedly sedate journey to its new home, chugging up the Rhine River aboard a pontoon boat. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Russian space shuttle sets sail up the Rhine for new German home Apr 9, 2008
COLOGNE, Germany (AP): The one-time pride of the Soviet space program is making a decidedly sedate journey to its new home, chugging up the Rhine River aboard a pontoon boat. The Buran 002 space shuttle is headed for the Technik-Museum Speyer in southwestern Germany, which says it has long had its eye on the spacecraft. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Soviet space shuttle Buran cruises Rhine for final home Apr 8, 2008
But different from its U.S. equivalents soaring into the sky, the retired aircraft is gliding up the Rhine river on three barges at bicycle speed. The bizarre sight of the 36 meter-long, black and white shuttle, which weighs nearly 100 tonnes, attracted sightseers in Germany Monday and gained publicity for at the museum which is to be its final home. (Xinhuanet, China)
Sarkozy ponders return of France to NATO military command Apr 4, 2008
Symbolizing the change of course, he announced with Chancellor Angela Merkel that France and Germany would jointly host NATO's 60th anniversary summit next year in the eastern French city of Strasbourg and its German sister town of Kehl, just across the Rhine River. The full reintegration of France, which like Britain is a nuclear power with a permanent United Nations Security Council seat, would end the oldest rift in the trans-Atlantic defence alliance. (Globe and Mail)
Smith Receives Another Medal Apr 3, 2008
On December 16, 1944 Smith had the misfortune of being in the path of the German offensive as it slashed through American lines north of Strausberg on the Rhine River. He and his entire company were captured. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Sights in Liechtenstein, Europe Apr 3, 2008
Most of the border with Switzerland is formed by the upper reaches of the Rhine River. The majority of towns it has no less than eleven municipalities are in the Rhine Valley. (Suite101.com)
Journal account from European choir tour Mar 26, 2008
On Monday, we bid a temporary goodbye to our host families and headed to the Rhine River and Cologne. We enjoyed a beautiful boat ride up the Rhine and saw more castles than I knew existed. (Daily Triplicate)
Your Weekend Away Mar 25, 2008
Vineyards and road along the Rhine River, Germany. Amy Woodward. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Best Riverboat Cruises in Germany Mar 15, 2008
Luxury Riverboat Cruises on the Rhine River, Germany ... The Main-Danube Canal makes it possible to cruise both the Danube and Rhine river systems on the same boat. (Suite101.com)
Hot Tix For Soccer Fans Mar 7, 2008
For bona fide dungeons and faint echoes of derring-do, she recommended the castle at Marksburg on the Rhine River ( ). Most castles that would capture a 14-year-old's interest date from the 12th and 13th centuries, and almost all have been at least partially destroyed in the years since. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Liechtenstein Feb 29, 2008
Saving a Banking Boom from Berlin - TIME. Saving a Banking Boom from Berlin. (Time.com)
Water gushes created Mars 'steps' Feb 22, 2008
"What you could imagine is something like the Mississippi River flowing for 10 years and then turning off, or the Rhine River flowing for 100 years and then turning off," Kraal said. "It's hard to image being able to get that much water to start so suddenly and stop so suddenly," Kraal added. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Water Burst From Mars' Interior Feb 21, 2008
"Water volumes would be between that of the Mississippi River over the course of 10 years or the Rhine River flowing for 100 years into a 62-mile wide basin," Kraal said. But, looking at an image from Mars, the water channel looks nothing like the Mississippi River -- being hundreds of times smaller than such a river. (Science Daily)
Oceans of water flooded Mars Feb 21, 2008
"Water volumes would be that of the Mississippi River over the course of 10 years, or the Rhine River flowing for 100 years into a 100-kilometre wide basin," said Krall. Rainfall could not have accounted for so much water over such a short time span, which means that it must have come from deep within the planet. (iAfrica.com)
River-Size "Flash Floods" May Have Carved Mars Craters Feb 21, 2008
"On Earth it would look like the Mississippi River or the Rhine River turning on from a single source and flowing for between ten and one hundred years and then just shutting off," said lead author Erin Kraal, who is now at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Because there are no drainage networks on the surface of Mars, the study authors believe an unknown geological process triggered the huge releases of water. (National Geographic)
Water gushes created staircases on Mars Feb 21, 2008
"What you could imagine is something like the Mississippi River flowing for 10 years and then turning off, or the Rhine River flowing for 100 years and then turning off," Kraal said in a telephone interview. "It's hard to image being able to get that much water to start so suddenly and stop so suddenly," Kraal added. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Rhine River Day Cruises, Germany Feb 17, 2008
Pleasure boats cruise on the Rhine River but the UNESCO-listed Mittelrhein and the Loreley Rock are particularly popular with day-trippers from Frankfurt and Cologne. For many tourists, a cruise on the romantic Rhine River (Rhein) is highlight of a trip to Germany ... Multiple-day cruises down the Rhine River on luxury riverboat liners such as Peter Deilmann or Viking River Cruises are popular but many visitors do not have sufficient time (or funds) to enjoy such trips. (Suite101.com)
Rhine River Day Trip Cruise Lines Feb 17, 2008
Kln-Dsseldorfer (KD) and other riverboat cruise lines operate day trips on the Rhine River in the UNESCO-listed Loreley Valley between Rdesheim, St Goar, and Koblenz. Several riverboat companies offer day cruises on the Rhine River (Rhein) ... sseldorfer usually simply abbreviated to KD has the largest fleet of all day cruise lines operating on the Rhine River. (Suite101.com)
America surprises German student Feb 2, 2008
Lukas, who turns 18 Feb. 8, will not graduate Stefan-George High School in Bingen am Rhein - which translates into "Bingen on the Rhine River" - until 2010. Lukas, who lives in Dowagiac with dentist Dr. Matthew and Beth Cripe and their son Drew and daughter Maggie, spoke to Dowagiac Rotary Club Thursday noon at Elks Lodge 889. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Students at Quincy Middle School show their knowledge in annual geography bee Jan 18, 2008
Shannon Farwell probably knows the answers are the Rhine River and Iran, respectively. The Quincy Middle School (QMS) eighth grader won the school's annual geography bee on Tuesday afternoon after outwitting 54 other students in grades six through eight. (Coldwater Daily Reporter, MI)
After war, winning the peace Dec 23, 2007
Sam Lombardo, now of Carlisle, was a first lieutenant leading a rifle platoon assigned to expand an American bridgehead over the Rhine River. Artillery officer Jurgen Raths commanded the German batteries firing upon the now famous bridge at Remagen. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Russia, Iran tighten the energy noose Dec 21, 2007
The dynamics on this front will doubtless play out on a vast theater stretching well beyond the Eurasian space, all the way to China and Japan in the east and to the very heart of Europe in the west where the Rhine River flows. What places Russia in an early lead in the upcoming scramble is its fantastic win in the Eurasian energy sweepstakes in 2007. (Asia Times Online)
Watson ancestory questions exposes race enigmas Dec 12, 2007
Alsace-Lorraine is the region in France that borders the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains. Gabriel's company scans DNA to illuminate virtually anyone's genetic dowry. (Newsday -- Long Island)
Even in Germany and Russia, people criticized Cincinnati's strange ways Dec 11, 2007
Named for a long-gone canal that early German and Austrian settlers equated with the Rhine River, the neighborhood has the largest group of Italianate buildings in the country -- as well as abundant drug trafficking and prostitution. It's now "the worst of both worlds," neither slum nor reborn neighborhood, he said. (Cincinnati Nation)
Napa's Secret Art Cave Dec 4, 2007
Friends describe them as exuberant - bungee jumping on vacation and swimming in the Rhine River - and they appear that way outwardly as well, wearing wildly colorful and imaginative clothing (including blazers made from bubble wrap). It is their passion for life and art that makes them interesting clients, indicated their art adviser, Thea Westreich in New York, who has worked with the couple for 17 years. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Arcadis Says New Orleans Levee Contract Will Lead to California Flood Work Dec 4, 2007
Formerly known as Heidemij NV, Arcadis designed and helped strengthen the dikes along the Rhine River. Noy said he may spend as much as $300 million on civil- engineering companies in the U.S. Since becoming CEO in 2000, the 56-year-old has made 10 acquisitions to add sales of $464 million. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
Remind me, which are the dumb animals? Dec 1, 2007
St Kilda's Fraser Gehrig on doing a Dame Nellie Melba and coming out of retirement: "I was at the local gym and having a run on the treadmill and looking out over the Rhine River, and it was cold and snowing, and I thought, 'Oh well, if I'm going to be running on a stupid treadmill here, I probably should be running around a footy field'.". England five-eighth Jonny Wilkinson reminisces about those days in October last: "The [World Cup] games were intense and precise and very much based around... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Their special day Nov 14, 2007
His unit crossed the Rhine River on April 1, 1945, at Mannheim, then went on the autobahn, headed for Munich. On May 8, they were 11 miles from Innsbruck when the war in Europe ended. (Pontiac Daily Leader, IL)
Resident awarded Legion of Honor Nov 14, 2007
After the Gambsheim raid, Livingston's unit fought alongside French troops against the German Army in the Vosges Mountains on the French side of the Rhine River. During a firefight on March 1, 1945, he was shot in the arm and struck by shrapnel within a span of minutes, he said, which earned him two Purple Hearts. (Greenwich Time)
A veteran's story Nov 13, 2007
" Cortez refused to leave after being wounded. "I told the chaplain, 'I want to go back to where I was because if I quit now, I'll be no good to myself or nobody else,'" he said. He talks of securing a communication line in the dark night and expecting to be hit by enemy fire at any time from out of nowhere; about standing guard over ammunition trucks with the threat of snipers always present. Each account is fluid and transitions seamlessly to the next, as if suppressed for too long. The words... (Pasadena Citizen, TX)
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We wound up fighting in the same engagement along the Rhine River in Germany during the last days of World War II, Eddins said. The two men were also in the same basic training unit in Mineral wells, Texas in September of 1944, in which, during the war, they kept showing up in the same units during the European Campaign. (Stuttgart Daily Leader, AR)
Veteran skied through the hills of Germany Nov 10, 2007
After about a week and a half the snow melted and 310th division moved on with the goal to reach the Rhine River. Reichert was injured on March 2, 1945, when he ran over a tank mine while driving a jeep. (Watertown Daily Times, WI)
Seven days like no other Nov 10, 2007
We rolled on to the Rhine River and the Germans on the other side. Early in our march to Munich and seven days like no other we reached the Rhine River and I was able to see and even walk on part of the famous, Remagen Bridge. (Boerne Star, TX)
To our WWII veterans Nov 10, 2007
Crossed over the Rhine River to invade Germany ... He was involved in the Battle of the Bulge and also in trying to penetrate the Seigfried Line to get to the Rhine River. (Bainbridge Post Searchlight, GA)
European vacation: Join retired Tribune business editor Ken Brekke and his wife, Sue, on an eight-countries-in-18-days trip of a lifetime Nov 6, 2007
We took a cruise on the Rhine River, and it was one of the highlights of the whole trip. It looks a little like the Mississippi River in the Coulee Region, except some of the German bluffs have castles on top of them. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Around the world in 500 days Oct 28, 2007
They even took us on a local hike up to a fantastic viewpoint of the Rhine River. Through many wonderful conversations over several days, it became evident that everyday life in Germany and the U.S. are more similar than not. (North County Times)
'Greatest Generation' honored Oct 14, 2007
When the PBS series he War aired and an episode showed the Allies crossing the Rhine River into Germany, Schaefer knew what it was like. was there. (Austin Daily Herald, MN)
Company Opened New Concrete Plant Thursday Oct 6, 2007
In turn, the corporation plans to sell the property to Andy Unerstall for his proposed Rhine River Center, a planned mixed-use development that would include retail, office and residential units ... TIF assistance will be used to finance part of the cost to buy and relocate the concrete plant and for public improvements related to the Rhine River Center development. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
