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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Main Rivers west-southwest of Frankfurt. Built on the site of a Roman camp founded in the 1st century BC, it is an important industrial and commercial city. Johann Gutenberg established a printing industry here in the 15th century.
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- proper noun The capital of
Rhineland-Palatinate ,Germany .
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Born in Mainz around the year 780, Rabanus entered the monastery when he was still very young: the name Maurus was given him precisely in reference to the young Maurus who, according to the second book of St. Gregory the Great's "Dialogues," had been given at a very young age to the abbot Benedict of Nursia by his own parents, who were Roman nobles.
Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought" 2009
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Ink, we saw several of the original Gutenberg Bibles in Mainz and they are pretty off the chain.
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They visited the officers 'camp at Crefeld, the Allied officers' camp at the old fort in Mainz-Castell (primarily British officers, but holding some French and Russian officers as well), and the military hospital in Wiesbaden.
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: A “synod of the archdiocese in Mainz ordered Jews to wear yellow badges.”
Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals 2005
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"Report Mainz" is a German TV show/magazine of the SWR (Sudwest-Rundfunk = South-West broadcasting).
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Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz,
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Stockholm, E. Muscholl in Mainz and John Gillespie in
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1259: Synod of the archdiocese in Mainz ordered Jews to wear yellow badges.
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Next week the German Marathon championships will take place in Mainz, which is further upstream at the Rhine.
IAAF.org - News 2009
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Next week the German Marathon championships will take place in Mainz, which is further upstream at the Rhine.
IAAF.org - News 2009
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