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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Germany on the Danube River north-northeast of Munich. An ancient Celtic settlement, it was an important Roman frontier station and later a free imperial city before passing to Bavaria in 1810.
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- proper noun a city in
Bavaria ,Germany , also called Ratisbon
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Recently I came across a drawing of a gothic ciborium in Regensburg, and it struck me that it might show forth an example of how the ciborium could be well manifest in gothic revival churches.
Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches 2009
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A speech he gave in Regensburg, Germany, made reference to a 14th-century Byzantine emporer's slur on the prophet Mohammed, and set off protests worldwide.
Pope: Religions should cooperate, but be clear on differences 2008
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On the determination to be tragic, recent reactions to the Pope's lecture in Regensburg, 12
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Nov. 22 in Regensburg, Germany, of wounds suffered on Nov. 9 in Jisr Naft,
Gulf War II 2007
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“I believe that the speech in Regensburg,” he said, “is prophetic.”
(Continuing) Islamophobia in the Vatican JDsg 2007
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Writing about the Pope's incendiary speech about Islam in Regensburg last September, Kramer reports that Vatican correspondents received copies of his speech at six in the morning of the day he gave it, and, at ten, they assembled in the university's makeshift pressroom and informed the Vatican spokesman ... that the passage [disparaging Islam] was going to be incendiary.
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Writing about the Pope's incendiary speech about Islam in Regensburg last September, Kramer reports that Vatican correspondents received copies of his speech at six in the morning of the day he gave it, and, at ten, they assembled in the university's makeshift pressroom and informed the Vatican spokesman ... that the passage [disparaging Islam] was going to be incendiary.
Is That Legal?: "So We Said, 'Hey, Where Is The Shoah?'" 2007
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Benedict's stop in Regensburg, where he celebrated an outdoor Mass Tuesday for some 230,000 people, gave him a chance to spend several hours with his brother, the retired choir director at the city's cathedral.
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Pope Benedict XVI appears before thousands of people Tuesday in Regensburg, Germany. swapContent ( 'firstMainStoryPhoto', 'applyMainStoryPhoto');
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P ope Benedict's speech in Regensburg -- about which you'll undoubtedly be hearing more in the coming days -- is available here.
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