• Joachimsthal, sometimes spelled Joachimstal, may refer to: Joachimsthal, Bohemia, former name of Jáchymov, Czechia, famous for its silver and uranium...
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    Joachimsthal is a small town in the district of Barnim, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated within the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve on the...
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    Joachimsthal station is a railway station in the municipality of Joachimsthal, located in the Barnim district in Brandenburg, Germany. Eisenbahnatlas...
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    Jáchymov (redirect from St. Joachimsthal)
    Jáchymov (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaːxɪmof]; German: Sankt Joachimsthal or Joachimsthal) is a spa town in Karlovy Vary District in the Karlovy Vary Region...
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    Georg Joachimsthal (8 May 1863 – 28 February 1914) was a German orthopedist who was native of Stargard in Pommern. In 1887 he earned his medical doctorate...
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    Ferdinand Joachimsthal was a German mathematician. He was born on March 9, 1818, at Goldberg (Złotoryja), Silesia and died on April 5, 1861, at Breslau...
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  • of Joachimsthal in the Schorfheide region. The Amt Joachimsthal consists of the following municipalities: Althüttendorf Friedrichswalde Joachimsthal Ziethen...
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    Joachimsthal Kaiserbahnhof is a railway station in the municipality of Joachimsthal, located in the Barnim district in Brandenburg, Germany. Eisenbahnatlas...
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    The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German Joachimsthalsches or Joachimsthaler Gymnasium), was a princely high school (German Fürstenschule) for gifted boys, founded...
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    minted there. The dollar received its name after them (Joachimsthal Groschen led to Joachimsthal, which was further shortened to "thaler" (German), which...
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    the mountainous regions of the Sudetes. In the mining town of Sankt Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov), famous coins called Joachimsthalers were coined, which...
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    Middle Ages, pitchblende was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring...
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    Schätzung, vgl. Otfrid Pustejovsky: Stalins Bombe und die „Hölle von Joachimsthal“. Uranbergbau und Zwangsarbeit in der Tschechoslowakei nach 1945. History...
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    May 1895) was a German mineralogist and physicist. Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, near Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his...
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    Bohemia began minting a silver coin known as a Joachimsthaler, named after Joachimsthal, the valley in the Ore Mountains where the silver was mined. Joachimsthaler...
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    political districts: Eger Falkenau Plan Tachau Carlsbad Luditz Graßlitz Joachimsthal Saaz Kaaden Brüx Teplitz Pilsner Kreis – 13 political districts: Pilsen...
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    major deposits of uranium in 1940: in Colorado, in northern Canada, in Joachimsthal in Czechoslovakia, and in the Belgian Congo. All but Joachimstal were...
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    Middle Ages, pitchblende was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring...
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    intersect this pluton at Joachimsthal, one trending northwesterly from Schneeberg through Johanngeorgenstadt to Joachimsthal, and a second trending north–south...
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  • supposed curative properties of radioactivity, a spa was opened up in Joachimsthal, the place at which Madame Curie gathered some of her original samples...
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    is shortened from Joachimsthaler, the original thaler coin minted in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, from 1520. While the first standard coin of the Holy Roman...
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  • in the German ballad Es freit ein wilder Wassermann, recorded 1813 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg, where a male water spirit woos a young woman. The song...
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    with radon and health occurred in the context of uranium mining in the Joachimsthal region of Bohemia. In the US, studies and mitigation only followed decades...
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    Supplement from 1912 (the article uses the Austrian name of the town, Joachimsthal). Similar spas currently exist in Germany, Ukraine, Belarus and Austria...
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    border. The type locality is the historic mining and spa town known as Joachimsthal, the modern-day Jáchymov, on the Czech side of the mountains, where F...
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    qualified to teach secondary school and was offered a position at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin. Jacobi decided instead to continue to work towards...
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    1st Belorussian Front had captured Moabit, Anhalter Railway Station, Joachimsthal to the north of Berlin, and Neukölln, Marienwerder and Liebenwalde. Troops...
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    (Saxony-Anhalt) Jessen (Elster) (Saxony-Anhalt) Jever (Lower Saxony) Joachimsthal (Brandenburg) Johanngeorgenstadt (Saxony) Jöhstadt (Saxony) Jüchen (North...
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    Princess Anna Amalia on his death, who subsequently bequeathed it to the Joachimsthal Gymnasium from which it was transferred to the Royal Library of Berlin...
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    minted in Kingdom of Bohemia from 1520 until 1672 in Jáchymov (German: Joachimsthal). On obverse of the coin is depicted Saint Joachim with coat-of-arms...
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