castle built alongside the Venta River. Ventspils was historically known as Windau in German. It had a Russian name from the time of the Russian Empire, called...

(Almen). Above the tree line the open slopes are used as grazing pasture for sheep, goats, cows and horses. The Windau is surrounded by a large number...

the surviving German troops had been shipped out to Ventspils (German: Windau) on the embattled Courland peninsula by a naval force under the command...

engage in trade and settled near ports: some near the port of Ventspils (Windau) and others near the port of Königsberg. With the rise to power of Catherine...

of a fat-soluble substance is produced, now known as vitamin D3. Adolf Windaus, at the University of Göttingen in Germany, received the Nobel Prize in...

chapel on the summit The Kröndlhorn in autumn from the Windau valley ascent Above the tree line the open slopes are used as grazing for sheep, goats, cows...

Germans failed to break into the gulf. Kolberg was thereafter transferred to Windau and Langemak shifted his flag to Augsburg. On 11 November, Kolberg returned...

only passenger train line in Russia. In 1899 it was merged into the Moscow-Windau-Rybinsk Railway and now forms part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. The first...

to the hospital. Ventspils is referred to by its historical German name, Windau, in sources. Sometimes spelled Wolfe and Sarah Goldstick. There is a discrepancy...

Hans Fischer (Chemistry 1930) Adolf Windaus (Chemistry 1928) Fritz Pregl (Chemistry 1923) Fritz Pregl Adolf Windaus Hans Fischer Victor Franz Hess Anton...

November 1915 Novik led seven Russian destroyers to attack German patrols off Windau. They sank the auxiliary patrol boat Norburg and escaped before German reinforcements...

attended primary school at the Johanneum School, a "simultaneous school" open equally to Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish students.: 12  At age 11, he...

1st Governor-General of Pakistan (d. 1948) 1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) 1878 – Louis...

present-day Latvia (Kurzeme and Zemgale); major towns: Mitau (Jelgava), Windau (Ventspils), Libau (Liepāja). Ösel (the island of Saaremaa) belonging to...

from https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36537. Guy A. Toscano & Janice A. Windau (Spring 1998). "Profile of Fatal Work Injuries in 1996" (PDF). Compensation...

For an expenditure of approximately 12,000 Reichsmarks, master plumber Windau installed a 230-meter-long siphon pipe to address the seeping water issue...

Russian Empire. They were slated to carry an amphibious assault force to Windau in late September, but false rumors of British warships having entered the...

absorption requires trace amounts of copper. In 1927 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus synthesized vitamin D, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in...

merchant fleet of the Duchy of Courland, with its main harbours in Windau and Libau. In Windau 120 ships were built, of which over 40 were warships. The duchy...

was broken up for scrap metal in 1921. Hildebrand was a barracks ship in Windau after she was removed from active duty. She was sold to a Dutch ship-breaking...

and their connection to vitamins 1928 (Chemistry) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus — Constitution of sterols and their connection to vitamins 1939 (Chemistry)...

December 21 – Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975) December 25 Adolf Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder...

their rivers. This was not possible for the Rhine where trade retained an open character. Digging canals for trade was uncommon, although the Stecknitz...

1958 – Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905) 1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) 1960 – Harry...

Prussia, with the right to levy tolls at Pillau, Memel, Danzig, Libau and Windau. From these tolls Gustavus derived, in 1629 alone, 500,000 Riksdalers, a...

2 June — Hermann Haupt, German entomologist (born 1873) June 9 - Adolf Windaus, German chemist (born 1876) July 6 - George Grosz, German artist (born...

(image) Jean Sibelius Mehmed Spaho (image) Georgios Tsolakoglou Adolf Windaus (image) Yordan Yovkov (image) Szmul Zygielbojm (image) Karl Maria Demelhuber...

therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands...

1900) June 8 – Pietro Canonica, Italian sculptor (b. 1869) June 9 – Adolf Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) June 13 – Seán Lester,...

three Nobel prize winners: Max Born, James Franck and Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (in 1954, 1925, and 1928, respectively). On January 19, 1930, Goeppert...