1) Minden, city, Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Minden, city, Germany, (minŽdn) (KEY) , city (1994 pop. 80,423), North Rhine-Westphalia, NW Germany, a port on the Weser River and the Midland Canal. It is an industrial...
2) Minden, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Minden, city, United States, city (1990 pop. 13,661), seat of Webster parish, NW La.; inc. 1850. It is the shipping center of an area rich in timber, oil, and natural...
3) Boas, Franz. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Boas, Franz, (boŽaz, -as) (KEY) , 1858-1942, German-American anthropologist, b. Minden, Germany; Ph.D. Univ. of Kiel, 1881. He joined an expedition to Baffin Island...
4) Weser. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...central Germany, by the junction of the Fulda and Werra rivers. It flows generally N past Minden, where it passes through the Porta Westphalia into the North German...
5) Ferdinand, Prussian field marshal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Prussia brilliantly in the Seven Years War, notably by his victories at Krefeld (1758) and Minden (1759)....
6) Westphalia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...by a line drawn eastward from the Rhine River at the Dutch border to the Weser River at Minden, a line drawn from Minden southwestward to Siegen (near the border...
7) Germain, George Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Years War, ended in court-martial and dismissal (1760) for insubordination at the battle of Minden (1759). A member of Parliament intermittently from 1741, he attached...
8) Hohenzollern, German princely family. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Great Elector (reigned 1640-88), obtained E Pomerania, the secularized bishoprics of Cammin, Minden, and Halberstadt, and the expectancy to Magdeburg upon the death...
9) Seven Years War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Chatham) came into power; the troops then won the victories of Krefeld (June, 1758) and Minden (Aug., 1759). 5However, Frederick soon found himself in an almost...
10) Prussia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Cleves, together with the counties of Mark and Ravensberg (1614) and the bishoprics of Minden, Magdeburg, and Halberstadt (1648). In the east, Brandenburg gained...
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