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Steyr
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Steyr , city (1991 pop. 39,337), Upper Austria prov., central Austria, on the Enns and Steyr rivers. It has been an ironworking center...ball bearings, machinery, and guns. Among Steyr's numerous well-preserved historic buildings...
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Joseph Anton Bruckner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...courses at Linz, Bruckner was certified as an assistant teacher for elementary schools. He taught in a small village near Steyr, where he continued his organ studies. In 1845 he became a teacher and assistant organist at St. Florian and was finally...
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Jakob Prandtauer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Prandtauer also built the beautiful pilgrimage church on the Sonntagberg (1706-1728) and the monastery at Garsten near Steyr (1703-1708), and he reconstructed the monastery of Sankt Florian near Linz, taking over the works from Carlantonio Carlone...
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Upper Austria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mines, oil wells, and gas fields in the region and a large number of electric power stations. Industry is centered at Linz, Steyr, the Traun and Ager valleys, and Ranshofen. Manufactures include chemicals, iron and steel, aluminum, processed foods...
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Firearms
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...stone shot weighing hundreds of pounds, and their gunners personified them, giving them names such as Mons Meg and Pumhart von Steyr. When employed in sieges, bombards could pummel medieval walls and towers into ruin, allowing attacking soldiers to storm...
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Austria
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Linz Other Cities: Baden, Bregenz, Dornbirn, Eisenstadt, Enns, Klagenfurt, Leoben, Steyr, Villach, Wels, Wiener Neustadt EDITOR'S NOTE This chapter was adapted from the Department of State Post Report 1999 for...
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