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berg
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n 1: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of
a polar glacier [syn: iceberg, berg]
2: Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system
(1885-1935) [syn: Berg, Alban Berg]
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burg
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n 1: colloquial American term for a town; "I've lived in this
burg all my life"
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burgh
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n 1: a borough in Scotland
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brandenburg
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n 1: the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that
expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
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hamburg
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n 1: a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was
founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the
largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with
Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
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sandburg
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n 1: United States writer remembered for his poetry in free
verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln
(1878-1967) [syn: Sandburg, Carl Sandburg]
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strasberg
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n 1: United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who
was a leader in developing method acting in the United
States (1901-1982) [syn: Strasberg, Lee Strasberg,
Israel Strassberg]
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ginsberg
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n 1: United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) [syn:
Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg]
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goldberg
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n 1: United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of
very complicated and impractical contraptions that
accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) [syn:
Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg]
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habsburg
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n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several
European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire
from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
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hapsburg
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n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several
European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire
from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
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lindbergh
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n 1: United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo
nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) [syn:
Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh,
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy]
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salzburg
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n 1: city in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of
Mozart
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schonberg
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n 1: United States composer and musical theorist (born in
Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) [syn:
Schonberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schoenberg, Arnold
Schoenberg]
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steinberg
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n 1: United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his
caricatures of famous people (1914-1999) [syn: Steinberg,
Saul Steinberg]
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vicksburg
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n 1: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the
Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an
important campaign during the American Civil War as the
Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut
the Confederacy into two halves
2: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after
being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates
surrendered [syn: Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg]
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warburg
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n 1: German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical
techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies
of cellular respiration (1883-1970) [syn: Warburg, Otto
Heinrich Warburg]
2: German art historian (1866-1929) [syn: Warburg, Aby
Warburg, Aby Moritz Warburg]
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wurzburg
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n 1: a city of south central Germany [syn: Wurzburg,
Wuerzburg]
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bergh
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burge
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vandenberg
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vandenbergh
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vandenberghe
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vandenburg
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brandenberg
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duisburg
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limburg
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coburg
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newburg
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wallenberg
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