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    Wesel (German pronunciation: [ˈveːzl̩] ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Wesel district. Wesel is situated at the...
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    Wesel (German pronunciation: [ˈveːzl̩]) is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Borken...
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    Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The crossing of the river was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant...
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    TV-mast Wesel is a 320.8 metre tall guyed steel framework radio mast of the Deutsche Telekom AG at Wesel-Büderich, Germany. FM and TV-mast Wesel was built...
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  • Wesel is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Wesel may also refer to: Wesel (district), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Wesel station, Wessel, Germany...
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    divisions on its eastern bank near the village of Hamminkeln and the town of Wesel. The plans called for dropping two divisions from U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps...
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    Andreas Vesalius (redirect from Van Wesel)
    court of Emperor Charles V. Vesalius was born as Andries van Wesel to his father Anders van Wesel and mother Isabel Crabbe on 31 December 1514 in Brussels...
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  • Uwe Wesel (2 February 1933 – 11 September 2023) was a German academic, lawyer, and legal historian. He taught at the Free University of Berlin (FU). Born...
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    The Wesel–Datteln Canal (German: Wesel-Datteln-Kanal) is a 60-kilometre (37 mi) long canal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It runs along the northern...
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    The German town of Wesel was heavily bombed in Allied air raids during World War II. Between this and the attacks in support of the crossing of the Rhine...
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