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    Dueling scar (redirect from Schmiss)
    Dueling scars (German: Schmisse) have been seen as a "badge of honour" since as early as 1825. Known variously as "Mensur scars", "the bragging scar",...
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  • 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024. Bonk, Lennart (2 December 2023). ""Ich schmiss mein Studium und flog direkt nach Irland"" ["I dropped out of university...
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    World War II. The scar resulting from a hit is called a "smite" (German: Schmiss), and was seen as a badge of honour, especially in the second half of the...
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    became a member of the student fraternity (this was the origin of the "Schmiss" – German for "dueling scar" – on his left cheek). He graduated in 1927...
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    Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (11 October 1892 – 6 January 1946) was the head of the house of Saxe-Meiningen from 1941 until his death. He was born in...
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    and cranial wounds, which often result in a scar which is called Schmiss. The Schmiss was once regarded as the passport to a better future, because the...
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    wound that left a dramatic dueling scar—known in academic fencing as a Schmiss (German for "smite" or "hit")—on his cheek. In May 1932, Skorzeny joined...
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    Crouser in race to break the next world record World Athletics Für Gold schmiss der deutsche Held bei der Polizei hin "Results of Tallinn European Junior...
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    Painted Photographs of Meiji Japan, with Elizabeth A. Burns (2017) Mensur & Schmiss: German Dueling Societies, A Photographic History, Elizabeth A. Burns (2014)...
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    on the defensive each time. So he received the (at his time) desirable schmiss ("duelling scar"), but was also released from the Corps Suevia without...
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    and anvil are canting for the first syllable in the municipality’s name (Schmiß– comes from the base of Schmiede, meaning “smithy”). The following are listed...
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    Bravo auch unserm Colmarer «Elsässischen Theater», das mit Schwung und Schmiss eine sehr amüsante Komödie geschaffen, und ins Repertoire der elsässischen...
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