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Wehr (other)
Wehr may refer to: * WEHR, a former radio station owned by Penn State University * Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Wehr, a village in Selfkant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany People with the surname * Dick Wehr (1925–2011), American professional basketball player * Hans Wehr (1909–1981), German Arabist * Julian Wehr (1898–1970), American author of children's books * Marcus Wehr (born 2000), American football player * Todd Wehr (1889–1965), American industrialist and philanthropist * Wesley Wehr (1929–2004), American palaeontologist * Thomas Wehr, American psychiatrist See also * Ver (other) * Vera (other) * Vere (other) * Verus (other) Verus may refer to: People * Verus (gladiator) (fl. 80), Roman gladiator * Verus (senator) (died 219), Roman centurion and senator * Gnaeus Julius Verus (born c. 112), Roman general and senator * Lucius Verus (130–169), Roman co-emperor with M ... * WER (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEHR
Wehr may refer to: * WEHR, a former radio station owned by Penn State University * Wehr, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Wehr, a village in Selfkant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany People with the surname * Dick Wehr (1925–2011), American professional basketball player * Hans Wehr (1909–1981), German Arabist * Julian Wehr (1898–1970), American author of children's books * Marcus Wehr (born 2000), American football player * Todd Wehr (1889–1965), American industrialist and philanthropist * Wesley Wehr (1929–2004), American palaeontologist * Thomas Wehr, American psychiatrist See also * Ver (other) * Vera (other) * Vere (other) * Verus (other) Verus may refer to: People * Verus (gladiator) (fl. 80), Roman gladiator * Verus (senator) (died 219), Roman centurion and senator * Gnaeus Julius Verus (born c. 112), Roman general and senator * Lucius Verus (130–169), Roman co-emperor with M ... * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wehr, Baden-Württemberg
Wehr () is a town in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 9 km north of Bad Säckingen, and 18 km east of Lörrach Lörrach () is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the district seat of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, inclu .... Wehr is the home of two very old and large families: the Trefzgers and the Nagelins. It is also home to the Weck Jar company. On 25 September 1848, after the loss of the Battle of Staufen, which had ended the Second Baden Uprising, Gustav Struve one of the leaders of the Baden Revolution, was captured at the Krone inn in Wehr.J.B. Bekk: Ein wort der erwiederung auf den Nachtrag zu der "Bewegung in Baden", Herder, 1851, p. 64Google Books References External links Wehr Web Page (in German)Wehr history, places of interest, destination (in German) Waldshut (dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate
Wehr () is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Wehr is a small village off Bundesautobahn 61 is an autobahn in Germany that connects the border to the Netherlands near Venlo in the northwest to the interchange with A 6 near Hockenheim. In 1965, this required a redesign of the Hockenheimring. The autobahn runs parallel to the A .... References Ahrweiler (district) {{Ahrweiler-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selfkant
Selfkant (; or ''Zelfkant'' ; Limburgish: ) is a municipality in the Heinsberg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the most westerly municipality in Germany. Geography Isenbruch in Selfkant is the most westerly point in Germany since 1919; before that, the position was held by Gravelotte, in Alsace-Lorraine. Selfkant's border with the Netherlands is long, but the border with the rest of Germany is only long. History The most important domain in Selfkant in the Middle Ages was the castle and village of Millen, the residence of the lords of Millen, which became part of the domain Heinsberg in 1282. In 1499 these were joined by the duke of Jülich and Millen became the seat of an ''Amtmann''. The places Tüddern, Wehr, Süsterseel and Hillensberg belonged to the ''Amt'' Born and after 1709 to the ''Amt'' Sittard. From 1794 to 1815 Selfkant was part of the French canton Sittard (department of the Roer). After the Congress of Vienna it became part of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Wehr
Richard Wade Wehr (December 9, 1925 – December 1, 2011) was an American professional basketball player and college coach.Dick Wehr basketball-reference.com. Retrieved on January 28, 2013.Former GSU Coach Wehr Passes Away at Age 85 . December 3, 2011. Retrieved on January 28, 2013. Wehr played for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wehr
Hans Bodo Wehr (; 5 July 190924 May 1981) was a German Arabist. He is best known for his work on '' A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic'', originally published in German as in 1952. The system of transliteration used in the dictionary has become known as Hans Wehr transliteration. Life Wehr was born in Leipzig in 5 July 1909. He attended a gymnasium in Halle, and then studied at universities in Halle, Berlin, and Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1935 and his habilitation in 1939. He joined the Nazi Party in 1940, and wrote an essay arguing that Germany should ally with the Arabs against Great Britain and France. He had begun work on an ArabicGerman dictionary, and the project received funding from the German government, which intended to use make use of the dictionary in translating ''Mein Kampf'' into Arabic. For a time, Wehr was assisted in his project by Hedwig Klein. His dictionary, entitled , was eventually published in 1952. An English version, edited by J Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Wehr
Julian Wehr (1898–1970) was known as the "American Master of Animated Books". Around 9 million copies of Wehr's books were sold in the United States and Great Britain, and were translated and sold in France, Germany, and Spain during the 1940s and 1950s. Animated and Pop-Up Books Wehr invented and patented the animated children's book that contained moveable paper parts using tabs, commonly read by children in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. An animated pop-up book consists of three elements: a story, colored illustrations of the text, and two or more animated illustrations with their movement mechanisms working between a double page. Selected bibliography Wehr created over 30 animated books, including: * * * * * * * * Sculptor career Trained at the Art Students League in New York City during the ascendance of Picasso and other modern artists, Wehr's work reflects the abstract renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. His teacher, the noted artist John French Sloan, was a cle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Wehr
Marcus Wehr (born December 1, 2000) is an American football offensive guard for the Montana State Bobcats. Early life and high school Wehr attended Billings Central Catholic High School in Billings, Montana, helping the football team win the Class A state championship as a senior. He committed to play college football for the Montana State Bobcats. College career In his first two collegiate seasons in 2019 and 2020, Wehr appeared in just one game for Montana State. In 2021, he appeared in just three games notching three tackles. Ahead of the 2022 season, Wehr made the switch from defensive line to offensive line. In his first season on the offensive line he started seven games before sustaining a season-ending injury. In 2023, Wehr made 12 starts for Montana State, where for his performance he was named a consensus first-team FCS All-American and first-team All-Big Sky. In 2024, he made 16 starts for the Bobcats, and was once again named first-team all-Big Sky and first-team FCS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Wehr
C. Frederick "Todd" Wehr (April 14, 1889 -September 28, 1965) was an industrialist and philanthropist. He was co-founder of the Wehr Steel Company and founder of the Todd Wehr Foundation, Inc. Biography Wehr was a graduate of West Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and of Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. Fordson.html" ;"title="Motor grader made by the Wehr Co, using a Fordson">Motor grader made by the Wehr Co, using a Fordson tractor as a power unit He and his brothers comprised the executive team of the Wehr Steel Company, which was founded in 1910 by his father, Henry Wehr. The company manufactured steel alloy castings for machine parts, magnetic separators, and brakes. During World War II, it received numerous "E" awards from the government for excellence in steel production. In 1958, when the company was re-organized as a division of the Wehr Corporation, Wehr became the chairman of the board, a position he held until his retirement in 1963. Venturedyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Wehr
Wesley Conrad Wehr (April 17, 1929 – April 12, 2004) was an American paleontology, paleontologist and artist best known for his studies of Cenozoic paleobotany, fossil floras in western North America, the Stonerose Interpretive Center, and as a part of the Northwest School (art), Northwest School of art. Wehr published two books with University of Washington Press that chronicled his friendships with artists and scientists. Early life Wesley Wehr was born as the only child of Conrad J. Wehr and Ingeborg (Hall) Wehr, in Everett, Washington on April 17, 1929. As a child he displayed an aptitude for music which was encouraged with private lessons. In his senior year of high school two of his compositions, ''Pastoral Sketches for Violin and Piano'' and ''Spanish Dance'', came to the attention of George Frederick McKay, George F. McKay, then an instructor at the University of Washington. McKay invited Wehr for private study with him, and in 1947 Wehr entered the University. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wehr
Thomas Alvin Wehr is an American psychiatrist, research scientist, and author. He is a scientist emeritus and former chief of the Clinical Psychobiology branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Education Wehr received his degree in medicine from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1969. He subsequently completed his psychiatric residency at Yale School of Medicine and an internship at Michael Reese Hospital. Research In a 1990s study on photoperiodicity in humans, Wehr placed a group of volunteers in an environment in which it was dark for 14 hours each day for a month. The subjects were able to sleep as much as they wanted during the experiment. On the first night, the subjects slept an average of 11 hours a night. This was concluded to be probably repaying a chronic sleep debt. By the fourth week, the subjects slept an average of eight hours a nightbut in two separate blocks. First, subjects tended to lie awake for one to two hours and then fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ver (other)
Ver or VER may refer to: * Voluntary Export Restraints, in international trade * VER, the IATA airport code for Veracruz International Airport * Volk's Electric Railway, Brighton, England * VerPublishing, of the German group VDM Publishing, reproduces Wikipedia content * Voluntary Emission Reduction (or Verified Emission Reduction), used for carbon credits * Ver (command), a shell command in DOS, Windows etc. * an abbreviation for "versine", a trigonometric function * ver (function prefix) (versus), a prefix for versed trigonometric functions in mathematics * an abbreviation for "version" *places in France: ** Ver, Manche, in the Manche ''département'' ** Ver-lès-Chartres, in the Eure-et-Loir ''département'' **Ver-sur-Launette, in the Oise ''département'' **Ver-sur-Mer, in the Calvados ''département'' *River Ver, in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom * Ver, Belgium, a small village in the municipality of Houyet, Belgium *Roger Ver, a Bitcoin entrepreneur *Ver (music), songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
