Definitions
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- noun a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League
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Examples
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She had been fascinated by the medieval world ever since her days as an honors student at the German gymnasium in Memel, Lithuania, in the late 1920s and early 1930s; In her undergraduate as well as graduate work at the University College of London during the 1930s, she studied both English and Arabic literature, in preparation for her later work.
Dorothee Metlitzki. 2009
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An overview of the vegetation of the Vrede-Memel_warden area, north-eastern Orange Free State.
Highveld grasslands 2008
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Von der Maas bis an die Memel, von der Etsch bis an den Belt:
In keeping with the Jessica Simpson theme - Happy 4th everyone! 2006
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On the sweltering afternoon of July 14, the Hydekrug sergeants were taken in closed cattle cars to the port of Memel on the Baltic Sea, where they were herded into the stinking holds of two rusty coal freighters, “packed in,” said one POW, “worse than slaves in the old slave ships.”
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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On the sweltering afternoon of July 14, the Hydekrug sergeants were taken in closed cattle cars to the port of Memel on the Baltic Sea, where they were herded into the stinking holds of two rusty coal freighters, “packed in,” said one POW, “worse than slaves in the old slave ships.”
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Towns like Harrismith, Warden, Memel, Vrede and Hennenman saw residents rallying against alleged poor service delivery and corrupt councillors.
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After the Harrismith incidents concerned residents at other towns in the eastern Free State such as Warden, Memel, Kestell and
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Memel and Warden, saw similar protests by residents over the past two weeks.
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Prior to that, residents in Memel handed a memorandum of protest to the mayor of the Phumelela municipality, Sillo Letawane.
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(Qwa Qwa, Harrismith, Kestell) and Phumelela (Vrede, Warden, Memel) have seen sporadic protests against alleged poor service delivery in recent months.
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