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    Heligoland (/ˈhɛlɪɡoʊlænd/; German: Helgoland, pronounced [ˈhɛlɡoˌlant] ; Heligolandic Frisian: deät Lun, lit. 'the Land', Mooring Frisian: Hålilönj, Danish:...
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  • Heligoland is the fifth studio album by English electronic music duo Massive Attack, released on 8 February 2010 by Virgin Records. Named after a German...
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  • Helgoland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Heligoland (Helgoland) is a German island in the North Sea. Heligoland or Helgoland may also refer to: Helgoland...
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    The Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty (German: Helgoland-Sansibar-Vertrag; also known as the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890) was an agreement signed on 1 July...
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  • The Gentleman of Heligoland is the nickname of an unidentified decedent whose body was found in the waters off Heligoland in 1994. His body showed signs...
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    The Heligoland Bight, also known as Helgoland Bight, (German: Helgoländer Bucht) is a bay which forms the southern part of the German Bight, itself a bay...
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  • Battle of Heligoland, Battle of Helgoland, or Battle of Heligoland Bight may refer to Battle of Heligoland (1849), a First Schleswig War naval battle Battle...
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  • their breakup in 1991. He currently releases solo albums under the name Heligoland. He is the grandson of filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene and great-grandson...
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    dialect of the North Frisian language spoken on the German island of Heligoland in the North Sea. It is spoken today by some 500 of the island's 1,650...
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    relational interpretation of it that Rovelli developed. The title refers to Heligoland, an island in the North Sea where Werner Heisenberg secluded himself while...
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  • German football and multi-sport club located on the North Sea island of Heligoland. Due to the island's remoteness and high travel expenses, the club does...
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    Heligoland Airport (IATA: HGL, ICAO: EDXH) (also known as Helgoland Airfield) is an airfield on the German island of Düne, the smaller of the two isles...
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  • Heligoland is a novel by British author Shena Mackay, first published in 2003 by Jonathan Cape. The Guardian reviewer saId of the book: "This is drawn...
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    Massive Attack, for whom she sang "Paradise Circus" on the 2010 album Heligoland and the 2016 single "The Spoils". Sandoval was born June 24, 1966, in...
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    the Bahamian-flagged Polesie, collided in the North Sea near Germany's Heligoland islands, with the Verity sinking. Verity was carrying steel from the northern...
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  • Heligoland are a five-piece band from Melbourne, Australia. The band is now based in Paris, France. Heligoland's songs and sound have been compared to...
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    The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first Anglo-German naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between ships of the United Kingdom...
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    A Heligoland trap (or funnel trap) is a large, building-sized, funnel-shaped, rigid structure of wire mesh or netting used to trap birds, so that they...
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    destruction of bunkers and other military installations on the island of Heligoland. The explosion used 7400 tons (6700 metric tons) of surplus World War...
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  • Eidinger, and Fahri Yardim. A violent storm blusters around the island of Heligoland and cuts off the island from the rest of the world. Linda, a 24-year-old...
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    Heligoland Lighthouse (‹See Tfd›German: Leuchtturm Helgoland) is located on Germany's only offshore island, Heligoland. Constructed during World War II...
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    The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson...
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    only album he did not have major input on. Reuniting (minus Vowles) for Heligoland and more recent projects, the group divided the production work between...
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    Konteradmiral who commanded the German naval forces at the first Battle of Heligoland Bight. He lost his life when his flagship, the light cruiser SMS Cöln...
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    Fallersleben wrote the text in 1841 while on holiday on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom (now part of Germany). Hoffmann...
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    shot down. The coastal gun batteries on the islands of Heligoland and Düne in the Heligoland Bight, the south-eastern extremity of the North Sea, were...
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    During the period when Heligoland (a German island in the North Sea) was a British possession, about 20 postage stamps were issued between 1867 and 1890...
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    album was released on 12 November 2009, called Heligoland, after the German archipelago of Heligoland, after a previous project called "Weather Underground"...
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    after the workers on Hamburg's waterways, known as Fleetenkieker. The Heligoland pilot's cap (Helgoländer Lotsenmütze) or Elbe pilot's cap (Elblotsenmütze...
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    of Heligoland was ceded to Germany 1890 when the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the German Empire signed the Treaty of Heligoland. The...
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