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GERA , a See also:town of See also:Germany, See also:capital of the principality of See also:Reuss-See also:Schleiz (called also Reuss younger See also:line), situated in a valley on the See also:banks of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Elster, 45 M. S.S.W. of See also:Leipzig on the railway to Probstzella. Pop. (1885) 34,152; (1905) 47,455• It has been mostly rebuilt since a See also:great See also:fire in 178o, and the streets are in See also:general wide and straight, and contain many handsome houses. There are three Evangelical churches and one See also:Roman See also:Catholic. Among other noteworthy buildings are the handsome town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall (1576, afterwards restored) and the See also:theatre (1902). Its educational establishments include a gymnasium, a commercial and a See also:weaving school. The See also:castle of Osterstein, the See also:residence of the princes of Reuss, See also:dates from the 9th See also:century, but has been almost entirely rebuilt in See also:modern times. Gera is noted for its See also:industrial activity. Its See also:industries include See also:wool-weaving and See also:spinning, See also:dyeing, See also:iron-See also:founding, the manufacture of See also:cotton and See also:silk goods, machinery, sewing See also:machines and See also:machine oil, See also:leather and See also:tobacco, and See also:printing (books and maps) and See also:flower gardening.
Gera (in See also:ancient See also:chronicles Geraha) was raised to the See also:rank of a town in the 11th century, at which See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time it belonged to the See also:counts of Groitch. In the 12th century it came into the See also:possession of the lords of Reuss. It was stormed and sacked by the Bohemians in 1450, was two-thirds burned down by the Swedes in 1639 during the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, and suffered afterwards from great conflagrations in 1686 and 1780, being in the latter See also:year almost completely destroyed.
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