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    teachers' workloads to be reduced. In May 2015, when students from the Gymnasium in Brake protested Heiligenstadt's school policies on their school's homepage...
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    Björn Thümler (category People from Brake, Lower Saxony)
    Panzergrenadier Division in Oldenburg until 1991. Thümler got his Abitur at the Gymnasium Brake in 1990. From 1991 he studied political science at the University of...
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    mathematics and computer science at the Städtisches Gymnasium in Wermelskirchen. After graduating from Gymnasium in 1998 and an alternative civilian service,...
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    The Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building (known locally as the Castle or Library Hall) in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania is a building from...
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    Department sustained fatal internal injuries when his patrol jeep, the parking brake of which had not been set properly, rolled forward and pinned him against...
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    included the invention of brake lining; after some longer downhill slopes she ordered a shoemaker to nail leather onto the brake blocks. Bertha Benz and...
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    poor students in 1590. Sinapius eventually graduated from the Krumlov Gymnasium, where he studied poetry and rhetoric, and became a pharmacist himself...
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    a single-speed roadster bicycle. This had a lugged steel frame and rod-brakes. This bicycle is still in production more than 50 years later. More modern...
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    the engine provides more power than the tire can transmit; "braking marks", if the brakes "lock up" and cause the tire to slide; or "yaw marks", if the...
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    on October 20, 2005, to challenge IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, but his brakes malfunctioned and he skidded into a wall, unharmed. His daytime talk show...
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