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She called one of my professors at Macalester, the great political scientist Theodore Mitau, and asked what sort of young man I was.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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She called one of my professors at Macalester, the great political scientist Theodore Mitau, and asked what sort of young man I was.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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She called one of my professors at Macalester, the great political scientist Theodore Mitau, and asked what sort of young man I was.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Dual Monarchy forces seized Lublin, Cholm, and Ivangorod in Russian Poland by August, while the Germans drove into northern Poland and Courland, capturing Mitau, Warsaw, Brest-Litovsk, Grodno, and
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In Courland the Germans took Windau (July 18) and Mitau (Aug. 1), while in northern Poland they (Gen. Max von Gallwitz with the 12th army) advanced to the Narev and took Warsaw (Aug. 47).
1915 2001
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The 4th Panzer Division had failed to reach its objective of Mitau and was located in Shagarev.
Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992
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At that very moment when Bor issued his call to arms, the Russians 'right wing in the Baltic states was being roughly handled by a counterattack from East Prussia and Courland which recaptured Tukums and Mitau (Jelgava), and which diverted reinforcement from the centre.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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In the extreme north, in the Russian Baltic Province of Courland, the Germans still held the port of Libau, (1,) and a fierce battle was in progress south of Shavli, (2,) where the Russians stopped the raid toward Mitau.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Mitau (twelve) is worthy of note, as illustrating the interest in Sterne still keenly alive in this small and far away town, undoubtedly a direct result of the admiration so lavishly expressed in other years by Herder,
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May 1 -- Germans advance in their invasion of the Russian Baltic provinces, a Russian force retreating toward Mitau; fighting is being renewed along the East Prussian frontier and in Central Poland;
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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