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OSCHERSLEBEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 347 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OSCHERSLEBEN , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

province of See also:

Saxony, on the See also:

BODE, JOHANN ELERT (1747–1826)

Bode, 24 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.W. of See also:

MAGDEBURG

Magdeburg, and at the junction of lines to See also:

HALBERSTADT

Halberstadt and Jerxheim. Pop. (1905) 13,271. Among its See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments are See also:

SUGAR

sugar-refineries, See also:

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

iron-foundries, breweries, See also:

machine-shops and See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick See also:

WORKS

works. Oschersleben is first mentioned in 803, and belonged in the later See also:

MIDDLE

middle ages to the bishops of Halberstadt.

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