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    Wilhelm Junker (Russian: Василий Васильевич Юнкер; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1840 – 13 February [O.S. 01 February] 1892) was a Russian explorer of Africa...
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    for the junker dominated East was thus Ostelbien or East Elbia. They played a prominent role in repressing the liberal movement in Germany. Junker is derived...
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  • Paralympic judoka Wilhelm Junk (1866–1942), Czech-born antiquarian bookseller and entomologist Junk Bay, Hong Kong Fat Tong Chau, Junk Island in English...
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  • player Ted Junker Wilhelm Junker, Russian explorer All pages with titles containing Junker Juncker Hugo Junkers, 1859–1935, German engineer Junker Jørgensen...
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    Wilhelm Junk born Jeitteles (3 February 1866, Prague – 3 December 1942, The Hague) was a noted Czech antiquarian bookseller in the field of natural history...
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    capital of the Lado Enclave. Travelling through Africa, Russian explorer Wilhelm Junker stayed in Lado in 1884, and wrote complimentarily of its brick buildings...
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    Determined to remain in Equatoria, his communiques, carried by his friend Wilhelm Junker, aroused considerable sentiment in Europe in 1886, particularly acute...
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    William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his...
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    the Shilluk people, and by the mid-1870s, Fashoda was a market town. Wilhelm Junker, one of the first Europeans to arrive in the region described the town...
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    5000 tokuls (round mud huts common to the region). Russian explorer Wilhelm Junker arrived in the Lado area in 1884, fleeing the Mahdist uprising in the...
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    demands repayments 1926 Legal battles end with Junkers losing several companies 1927 Awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal 1928 First east-west transatlantic...
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  • Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (JFM, earlier JCO or JKO in World War I, English: Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works) more commonly Junkers [ˈjʊŋkɐs]...
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    African Republic. It was not until 1882 or ’83 that the German explorer Wilhelm Junker established that the Welle flowed into the Mbomou; the Belgian agent...
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    published maps based on the observations of explorers and travelers (Wilhelm Junker, Emin Pasha, Hans Meyer, Ernst Marno, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Oskar...
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  • contributions to Slavic linguistics, author of Jackobson's Communication Model Wilhelm Junker, explorer and ethnographer of Equatorial Africa, studied the Zande people...
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  • tributaries include the Uala, Afande, Mambo and Ngaue rivers. The explorer Wilhelm Junker reached the river on 6 May 1882. He described it as about a hundred...
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    Wilhelm Hermann Alexander Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten (Alexander, Prince zu Dohna-Schlobitten; 11 December 1899 – 29 October 1997) was a German Junker...
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    Prince Augustus William of Prussia (German: August Wilhelm; 9 August 1722 – 12 June 1758) was the son of King Frederick William I of Prussia and a younger...
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    botanist and philosopher Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915), painter Wilhelm Junker (1840–1892), a Russian explorer of Africa. Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)...
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    The detailed design work was performed by Junkers chief designer Ernst Zindel. He was assisted by Wilhelm Heinrich Evers and American engineer Alfred...
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    participated on an expedition to the African interior under the leadership of Wilhelm Junker (1840–1892). The expedition was a continuation of scientific exploration...
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    that more of his men had deserted. On 2 April 1883 Lupton wrote to Dr. Wilhelm Junker telling him that his force of 2,000 men was expecting to be attacked...
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  • River. They were first described in the Western world in 1880–1883 by Wilhelm Junker. They may be the same as the Kango Mbuti, who are called Batchua (the...
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    military advisor of Menelek II of Ethiopia, explorer of [[Eastern Africa] Wilhelm Junker, explorer of Eastern and Equatorial Africa Grigory Langsdorf, explorer...
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    mistakenly thought it flowed into the Chad Basin rather than the Congo, Wilhelm Junker (1840–1892), who corrected Schweinfurth's hydrographical theories, and...
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    (German: Eiserner Kanzler). From Junker landowner origins, Otto von Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics under King Wilhelm I of Prussia. He served as...
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    Martin Luther (redirect from Junker Jörg)
    toward the top on the right. Coin commemorating Luther (engraving by Georg Wilhelm Göbel, Saxony, 1706) Luther is often depicted with a swan as his attribute...
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    ethnologist Alexander Galich, philosopher Michail Gromov, mathematician Wilhelm Junker, explorer of Africa Peter Lesgaft, anatomist Gregor von Helmersen, geologist...
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    In 1875 Giegler became director of telegraphs in Khartoum. In 1876 Wilhelm Junker, the German-Russian explorer, passed through Khartoum where he met Giegler...
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  • Travels in Africa during the years 1882-1886, translator, original by Wilhelm Junker The Childhood of Man, translator, original by Leo Frobenius Diego Velazquez...
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