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EBERSWALDE , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

Prussia, 28 m. N.E. of See also:

Berlin by See also:

RAIL

rail; on the Finow See also:

canal. Pop. (1905) 23,876. Thb town has a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic and two Evangelical churches, a school of forestry, a gymnasium, a higher-grade girls' school and two See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of domestic See also:

ECONOMY

economy. It possesses a See also:

MINERAL

mineral See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, which attracts numerous summer visitors, and has various See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries, which include See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding and the making of See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-See also:

SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe nails, roofing material and bricks. A considerable See also:

trade is carried on in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

wood and coals. In the immediate neighbourhood are one of the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

brass-foundries in Germany and an extensive See also:

government See also:

paper-See also:

mill, in which the paper for the notes of the imperial See also:

BANK

bank is manufactured. Eberswalde received its municipal See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter in 1257. It was taken and sacked during the See also:

THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

War. In 1747 See also:

Frederick the See also:

GREAT

Great brought a See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony of Thuringian cutlers to the town, but this See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry has entirely died out. About 4 M. to the See also:

north lies the old Cistercian monastery of See also:

CHORIN, AARON (1766–1844)

Chorin, the See also:

FINE

fine See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

church of which contains the tombs of several margraves of See also:

BRANDENBURG

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