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    SS Runic was a refrigerated cargo ship built at Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1949 for the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. She was launched at Belfast in October...
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  • borne the name SS Runic: SS Runic was a livestock carrier launched in 1889 at Harland and Wolff. She was sold to the West India & Pacific SS Company in 1895...
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    the fourth letter, ⟨ᚨ⟩/⟨ᚩ⟩. Runology is the academic study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ; lit. 'Protection Squadron') was a major paramilitary...
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    13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi...
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    SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. 'Death's Head Units') was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible...
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    The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська...
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    Ahnenerbe (redirect from SS Ahnenerbe)
    Schutzstaffel (SS) pseudoscientific organization which was active in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. It was established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler...
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  • Newtown, PA SS Runa, a British cargo ship in service 1949–64 Runa LLC, an American and Ecuadorian beverage company A person who speaks Quechua Rune (disambiguation)...
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    Gottlob Berger (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting...
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    Wewelsburg (category Nazi SS)
    castle were proponents of a kind of SS esotericism consisting of Germanic mysticism, an ancestor cult, worship of runes, and racial doctrines. Himmler, for...
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  • October 1949, completed 27 January 1950. SS Runic, refrigerated cargo ship for Shaw Savill Line, launched 21 October 1949, completed 24 March 1950. MV Kurdistan...
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    Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, lit. 'Mutual aid association of former Waffen-SS members') was a lobby group and a denialist veterans'...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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    the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage, before the German SS Imperator went into service in June 1913. Olympic also held the title of the...
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  • century. There is a limited corpus of runic inscriptions from the 5th to 7th centuries, but the oldest coherent runic texts (notably the inscriptions on...
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    Flag of Germany (category Flags introduced in 1949)
    on all Nazi symbolism (e.g. the swastika), the Schutzstaffel's (SS) double sig rune, etc.) is still in effect within today's Germany, the far right have...
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  • p. 219. ISBN 978-0-313-32763-6. Spurkland, Terje (2005): Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions, translated by Betsy van der Hoek, Boydell Press, Woodbridge...
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    speed to exceed 30 knots (a barrier not surpassed until the completion of SS Normandie in 1935). White Star proposed having over 40 diesel generator sets...
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    White Star Line gold stripe could still be seen along her hull. Only Cunard's SS Parthia (1870) served a longer time afloat than Germanic, ending her days...
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  • Atlantic in 1919 en route to Gibraltar. Runic 1889 1889–1895 5,043 Launched by Harland and Wolff in 1889 under Runic, serving trans-Atlantic routes. Sold...
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  • December 1919. SS Lord Londonderry, cargo ship for Irish Shipowners Ltd, launched 17 November 1888, completed 6 December 1888. SS Runic, livestock carrier...
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    losses. The idea for a Waffen-SS division made up of Hitler Youth members was first proposed by Axmann to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in early 1943...
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    these was Cufic, which entered service in 1888, followed a year later by Runic. Others followed in the 1890s, notably the sister ships Bovic and Naronic...
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    Irish and Manx. Germanic (from Proto-Germanic), earliest attestations in runic inscriptions from around the 2nd century AD, earliest coherent texts in...
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  • Paul de Vries (criminal) (category 1949 births)
    body was covered with Hells Angels-related tattoos including the SS lightning-bolt runes (which in the outlaw biker subculture indicates that the wearer...
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    Contact with countries farther south brought a knowledge of runes; the oldest known Norwegian runic inscription dates from the third century. By the time of...
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    flight, also holding a swastika. The SS was both a paramilitary and a political organization, and its black runic initials on a silver-coloured shield...
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    the 15th century, perhaps at the onset of the Little Ice Age. Except some runic inscriptions, the only contemporary records or historiography that survives...
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    of the Naxi people in southern China. In the Naxi language it is called ²ss ³dgyu 'wood records' or ²lv ³dgyu 'stone records'. The first artifacts with...
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