* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

Andreas Schlüter was born in Hamburg His early life is obscure as at least three different persons of that name are documented.

This is the first reference to " the Baltic or Barbarian Sea, a day's journey from Hamburg.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

* Fritz-kola is a cola soft drink from Hamburg, Germany.

The 21st and current Commissioner is Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg.

The largest port is that of Hamburg.

The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks # 2 in Europe, # 7 worldwide ( 2004 ), in total container traffic.

Franzbrötchen, which originated in the area of Hamburg, is the small, sweet pastry roll baked with butter and cinnamon.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe ( after the port of Rotterdam ) and eleventh largest worldwide.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

Hamburg is a major transport hub in Northern Germany and is one of the most affluent cities in Europe.

The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors ; Hamburg ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2011, and, in 2010, the city ranked 10th in the world.

Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south and Scandinavia to its north.

The North Sea is west and the Baltic Sea is northeast of Hamburg.

Hamburg is located on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster and Bille.

But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808.

In Germany, he registered his name as " Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta ", and went by the name, " Mohamed el-Amir " at the Technical University of Hamburg.

Examples include the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, USA ), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA ), the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research ( in Exeter, UK ), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, or the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l ' Environnement ( LSCE ), France, to name but a few.

The name " löser " most likely was derived from a large gold coin minted in Hamburg called the Portugalöser, worth 10 ducats.

It campaigned in 1996 for a new name for Fishkill, New York, and in April 2003 offered free veggie burgers to Hamburg, New York, if it would call itself Veggieburg.

Hamburg: Named for the fort and original name of Glenville, the township is served by NC 107.

The others finally agreed to allow the Messrs. Grisson to decide, and they choose the name of their hometown, Hamburg, Germany.

It takes its name from the town of Harburg upon Elbe, which used to be the capital of the district but is now part of Hamburg.

The Mannerheim family descends from a German businessman and mill owner from Hamburg, Hinrich Marhein ( 1618 – 1667 ), who emigrated to Gävle in Sweden and adopted the Swedish spelling of his first name, Henrik.

Holstein's name comes from the Holcetae, a Saxon tribe mentioned by Adam of Bremen as living on the north bank of the Elbe, to the west of Hamburg.

First Peace Builders International Conference, Hamburg, Germany Out of which came the name " Servas " ( 1952 )

There remained one last great controversy during the war which would blacken the name of Bomber Command and surpass the firestorm of Hamburg in both destruction and casualties.

goNet moved to Hamburg, Germany, changed its name to GoLive Systems, Inc, and the name of its product to CyberStudio.

Koehler was born in Hamburg ; his family spelled their name Köhler until they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854.

Some people have claimed that the name " Hamburg " was selected due to the presence of German settlers in the town, but they did not arrive until long after the town was formed and named.

In 2003, Joseph Haptas, a spokesman from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) approached then-Town Supervisor Patrick Hoak and asked him to have the name of Hamburg changed to Veggieburg.

Haptas offered the Hamburg School District $ 15, 000 in free veggie burgers as an incentive for the name change.

Several years later, the town also changed its name from " East Hamburg " to " Orchard Park ," after the village.

This might mean that he sailed off from Hamburg or Bremen instead of some port in Baltic Sea, since the later account by Adam of Bremen gives the distance of Scania and Birka to be only 5 days at sea.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

On May 13, 1987, Rust left Uetersen near Hamburg and his home town Wedel in his rented Reims Cessna F172P D-ECJB, which was modified by removing some of the seats and replacing them with auxiliary fuel tanks.

In mid July 2001, some of the hijackers and members of the Hamburg cell gathered near Salou, Spain, for a period of a few days up to a couple of weeks.

In mid-July 2001, some of the hijackers and members of the Hamburg cell gathered near Salou, Spain, for a period of a few days up to a couple of weeks.

After the war, Steinway completed the restoration of the Hamburg factory with some help from the Marshall Plan.

Some great pianists of the past and some active pianists today have expressed a preference for Steinway pianos produced at Steinway's factory in New York City or at Steinway's factory in Hamburg.

However that may be, some visual differences are well known, for example: the Hamburg models have a high polish polyester finish and rounded corners ; New York models have a satin lustre lacquer finish and square or Sheraton corners.

The majority of the world's concert halls have at least one Steinway concert grand piano model D-274, some ( for example Carnegie Hall ) have model D-274s from both the New York City factory and the Hamburg factory in order to satisfy a greater range of preferences.

" Here we are told that some fifty years before, a bishop met him in a church at Hamburg, repentant, ill-clothed and distracted at the thought of having to move on in a few weeks ".

Moin () is a Frisian and Low German greeting from East Frisia, Southern Schleswig ( including North Frisia and Flensburg ), Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the eastern Netherlands and Southern Jutland in Denmark, meaning " hello " and in some places " goodbye ".

A southwestern portion of the hilly lakeland called " Holsteinische Schweiz " ( Holsatian Switzerland ) belongs to the district, as well as some northern suburbs of Hamburg.

In 1937-by a territorial redeployment within the scope of the Greater Hamburg Act-the city of Geesthacht ( formerly a part of Hamburg ), some Mecklenburgian exclaves, including Ratzeburg's Cathedral immunity, and some Lübeckian exclaves within the district territory, were incorporated into the district.

Many left the immediate area, moving elsewhere in the Lowcountry region ( including a new hamlet called Switzerland ) or upriver to the new communities of Augusta and Hamburg, though some remained.

Walhalla began as a settlement of German immigrants who left from Hamburg, Germany and Bavaria with some English, Scots and Irish who came over in the same ship.

He also was the author of Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands to Paris, of some volumes of verse and of translations from the French and German.

At Hamburg, he got some money and letters of recommendation from the Hebraist Friedrich August Wolf, and took ship to Amsterdam.

During his student career he made a special study of Hebrew and Greek ; and in order to learn Hebrew more thoroughly, he for some time put himself under the instructions of Ezra Edzardi at Hamburg.

On leaving Lüneburg he spent some time in Hamburg, where he became a teacher in a private school, and made the acquaintance of Nikolaus Lange.

Mahler made some major revisions for the second performance, given at Hamburg in October 1893 ; further alterations were made in the years prior to the first publication, in late 1898.

In some of the books the 27th Regiment does guard duty for the Gestapo in Hamburg ( Assignment Gestapo ) and also at the military prison at Torgau ( March Battalion ).