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Dresden gears up for celebrations
; DRESDEN: Dresden, "Florence on the Elbe" as the city was once known, is celebrating its...written record of it as a place. Originally a Slavic fishing village, Dresden still had no city charter when its name appeared in a legal document on...
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Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945
; Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor. HarperCollins...with information surrounding the Allied bombing raids of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945. Just the mention of the city...strafing terrorized civilian refugees after the bombing raids. Dresden's raging firestorm is true-and the city ...
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Saxony: jealous sisters. (cities of Leipzig and Dresden)
; LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN WHEN first one German city, then another...Saxony's ever- jealous sisters, Leipzig and Dresden, risk stepping on each other's toes as...were wiped out by German unification. Now Dresden, the old seat of Saxon royalty, and Leipzig...
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AMD CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF INNOVATION IN DRESDEN
; Today in Dresden, Germany, AMD (NYSE: AMD) commemorated the 10- year anniversary of its Dresden-based operations with a ceremony attended by...CEO, Hector Ruiz and General Manager of AMD Dresden, Hans Deppe. On October 24, 1996 AMD broke...
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Was Dresden an atrocity? New history suggests 1945 raid was justified
; DRESDEN Tuesday, February 13, 1945 By Frederck Taylor HarperCollins. $26.95. 'Dresden no longer exists in its entirety," wrote a sad 19-year...those words in 1760, after the Prussians, driven out of Dresden the previous year by the Austrians, returned to the jewel...
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Dresden extends its olive branch to royalty
; The last time British royalty came to Dresden - in 1992 - things did not go well. Angry...Kent attends a series of ceremonies in Dresden on Monday, the desire for reconciliation...fiftieth anniversary of the nightmare of Dresden, on 13 February 1945. At least 35,000...
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Midweek Travel: Short Break - Dresden In May, the Saxon capital is filled with music. Stay on for stunning scenery, fine art and architecture. It's an uplifting experience, says ANTHEA MILNES
; DOWN PAYMENT Dresden is a short hop from Germany's Berlin Schonefeld...70. From there, the non- stop train to Dresden takes about 90 minutes and costs EUR54...Several companies run short city breaks to Dresden, some flying via Frankfurt rather than...
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DRESDEN SHUTDOWN COULD JOLT TAX BODIES COMED PLANT: MAJOR ECONOMIC, TAX IMPACT
; COAL CITY -- Dresden Nuclear Power Station is the biggest employer...beginning to worry about a future without Dresden. "It'd be devastating," said Tom Runty...elimination of my position." Property taxes from Dresden make up about 70 percent of the school...
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TOWERS KEEP DRESDEN COOL THIS SUMMER
; ...cooling towers built in last two years at Dresden Nuclear Power Station will be turned on...environmental engineering supervisor at Dresden who came up with the plan to add the cooling...ComEd didn't need so much power from Dresden in past summers. "In the middle '80s...
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Germans Still Keep Silence On Terror of Dresden Bombs
; DRESDEN, Germany On the apocalyptic night when the British bombers...from the cellar of her family's burning home to find the Dresden sky a red dome of fire. It sucked the air from her lungs...grief and anger is acceptable concerning the 70,000 dead of Dresden. But with the 50th anniversary of the bombing ...
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