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The Black Forest was visited on several occasions by Count Otto von Bismarck during his rule 1873-1890.
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He places them also between the Naristi ( Varisti ), whose location at the very edge of the ancient Black Forest is well known, and the Marcomanni and Quadi.
Upstream from it and between the Rhine and Abnoba ( in the Black Forest ) are the Ingriones, Intuergi, Vangiones, Caritni and Vispi, some of whom were there since the days of the early empire or before.
On the other side of the northern Black Forest were the Chatti about where Hesse is today, on the lower Main.
There are the Tubanti just south of the Chatti and at the other end of what was then the Black Forest, the Varisti, whose location is known.
Ptolemy's view of Germans in the region indicates that the tribal structure had lost its grip in the Black Forest region and was replaced by a canton structure.
Remembering their expensive defeat at the Battle of Vesontio, the Germans withdrew to the Black Forest, concentrating there a mixed population dominated by Suebi.
There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.
The Black Forest (, ) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany.
The name Schwarzwald ( German for " Black Forest ") derives from the Romans who referred to the thickly forested mountains there as Silva Nigra ( Latin for " Black Forest ") because the dense growth of conifers in the forest blocked out most of the light inside the forest.
The Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss and granites.
During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.
Rivers in the Black Forest include the Danube ( which originates in the Black Forest as the confluence of the Brigach and Breg rivers ), the Enz, the Kinzig, the Murg, the Nagold, the Neckar, the Rench, and the Wiese.
The Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin ( drained by the Rhine ) and the Black Sea drainage basin ( drained by the Danube ).
A Girl of the Black Forest, Baden, Germany wearing a Bollenhut
Administratively, the Black Forest belongs completely to the state of Baden-Württemberg and comprises the city of Pforzheim as well as the following districts ( Kreise ).
Similar to other forested regions, the Black Forest has had areas that were annihilated by mass logging.
In addition to the towns and monuments noted below, the Black Forest is crossed by numerous long distance footpaths, including some of the first to be established.
The European long-distance path E1 crosses the Black Forest following the routes of some of the local long-distance paths.
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It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
The rest of Black Bottom was a rabbit warren of homes in every condition of neglect, disrepair and careful upkeep.
Mr. Justice Black was one of the minority that rested on the Article 1, power.
This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.
Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.
If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.
Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.
Thirty years' experience let him know, even at this early stage, that Black was his man.
Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.
Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.
Black sign language was born out of this isolation.
The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).
Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.
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More also DJed on pirate radio, hosting the Meltdown Show on Kiss FM and worked at the Reckless Records store on Berwick Street, London where Black visited as a customer.
The Christian community that became the Russian Orthodox Church is traditionally said to have been founded by the Apostle Andrew, who is thought to have visited Scythia and Greek colonies along the northern coast of the Black Sea.
When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").
Formerly three types of dolphins, short-beaked common dolphin, common bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise, regularly visited the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea.
The park has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports populations of endangered Short-billed Black Cockatoos and Western Whipbirds, and is visited by endangered Long-billed Black-Cockatoos.
In 1981 many of the stars of the show, Catherine Bach, James Best, Sorrell Booke, and Rick Hurst visited Hazard, Kentucky during the Black Gold Festival.
" The song had been performed in conjunction with Black History Month activities and when the author of the book I Am Barack Obama visited the school the next month
A few days afterwards, Harry is visited by a group of wizards and Mad-Eye Moody and is whisked off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London, the home of Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, and the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.
Black learned people's names, visited the plant frequently, and asked customers if they were happy with what they purchased.
He visited the Black Virgin of Puy to offer gifts, so he could make sure this was the best course of action and, astounded by its exceptional beauty, he decided to surrender the fort and converted to Christianity.
According to Helen C. Black, James visited Broughton every evening, when they were both in London.
On a trip to New York he visited the many night clubs, and on return left the Merchant Navy and became a salesman during the day ( he sold insurance, sewing machines and vacuum cleaners ), to enable him to run dance nights at a local church hall, and then open his own club in Sheffield, the Black Cat Club.
HRH Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay, visited the town in April, 2012 to take the salute of the Black Watch during the regiment's homecoming parade, marking its return from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The head of the Black Hand movement, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević ( called Apis, the bee ), one of the greatest intiguers of his time, visited northern Albania several times in order to get in touch with the leaders of the Albanian uprising, especially Isa Boletini.
The Black Stone was first described in Western literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries by European travellers in Arabia, who visited the Kaaba in the guise of pilgrims.
Since the incident with Psylocke, New Excalibur has met up with a repowered Chamber, visited and saved Camelot ( while the Black Knight temporarily traveled with them ), and have attempted to help Juggernaut with some recent troubles stemming from his powers that he received from the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak.
Sir James Black himself visited the centre in October 2006 and was reportedly excited and pleased by what he saw.
The reservoir has been visited by many scarce and rare migrant birds, including White-winged Black Tern ( 1970, 1974, 1992, 1999 ), Whiskered Tern ( 1969 ), Caspian Tern ( 1968, 1992 ), Spotted Crake and Spotted Sandpiper ( 1982 ).
Black and Russell visited Soviet Russia in 1920, soon after the Bolshevik revolution.
The Black Lion was visited by criminals such as Joseph " Blueskin " Blake, Sheppard's future partner in crime, and self-proclaimed " Thief-Taker General " Jonathan Wild, secretly the linchpin of a criminal empire across London and later Sheppard's implacable enemy.
Henry Smeathman, a plant collector and entomologist who had visited Sierra Leone, propounded to the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor that the country would be an excellent location.
Captain John Black also visited the island just after Reed and named it King's Island after Governor Philip Gidley King.
* In Adult Swim's Black Dynamite ( TV series ) episode titled " Just Beat It or Jackson Five Across Yo ' Eyes " the Soul Train variety show is visited by character Cream Corn.
Geo-Force is visited by his sister, who has been reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps, Claiming to have been freed from the dark force that was controlling her, Tara begs Brion to kill her.
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