• Betsie Verwoerd (category Orania, Northern Cape)
    Verwoerd married Carel Boshoff, who later founded the Afrikaner settlement of Orania. Her husband was assassinated on 6 September 1966. Afterwards, she occasionally...
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    ISBN 0-415-15983-0. A. Sper, Capri und die Homosexuellen: Eine psychologische Studie, Orania Verlag, Berlin s.d. ma 1903. Guido Podrecca, La tavola rotonda in Germania...
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  • Boshoff (1927–2011), founder of Orania; mother to: Carel Boshoff IV, Member of the Northern Cape Legislature and leader of Orania. Wynand Boshoff, Member of...
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    List of plant genera named for people (K–P) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    philosophers and scientists. Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for...
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    Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana. One...
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    German submarine U-50 (1939) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    at 22.40 hours on 11 February. The neutral Swedish steam merchant ship Orania (1,854 GRT) was homeward bound from Argentina with a load of maize, bran...
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    were new species, mostly based on collections made by German botanist Wilhelm Kalbreyer in northern Colombia between 1877 and 1881. Working with a very...
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  • ran aground on Hainan Island, China. She was refloated on 22 December. Orania  Netherlands The ocean liner was rammed and sunk at Leixões, Portugal by...
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