Viewed from the air, the wellheads look like oversized anthills pocking the expanse of lifeless desert.
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"That's where I was pocking around and getting ideas," the accounting grad said, referring to his time spent working as a consultant across India, Japan and North America.
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As if to add to the drama on our approach to the fog-shrouded islands, the rain came in torrents, pocking the liquid-mercury surface of the sea.
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What's left behind when these are swallowed up by righteous indignation is not mere gas and steam, but ashy debris pocking a landscape as bleak as it is barren.
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When Tombaugh followed Percival Lowell's efforts and searched for Planet X he struggled in a frigid observatory analyzing dot after dot of information and sifting through asteroids pocking up plates of images until suddenly he hit his mark.
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Along with being one of the main ways kids in backseats learn to curse, these road-pocking craters cost drivers serious cash: AAA found that in 2016, close to 30 million drivers needed post-pothole repairs done, some jobs costing up to $1,000.
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A Roman settlement was founded in the area of Pocking as early as the 1st century AD. The Bajuwaren tribe settled around Pocking in the 6th century AD. In 820 AD Pocking was first mentioned in a historic document. Since 1824 Pocking forms its own political community and in 1971 it was granted the privileges of a town. During the Nazi regime a side camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was set up in Pocking. After World War II the second largest DP camp ("displaced persons") in Germany was located in Pocking.
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The Simbach am Inn–Pocking railway was a single-tracked branch line between Simbach am Inn and Pocking in the province of Lower Bavaria in southern Germany.
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On the trackbed of the Tutting–Pocking section a cycle path was laid in 2008.
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On 29 October 1910 the line from Simbach to Rotthalmünster was opened, the remaining stretch to Kößlarn followed on 1 May 1911. As early as 2 November 1912, however, another law was passed to extend the line from Tutting to Pocking in order to establish a link between Passau and Simbach. On 1 December 1914 the Tutting–Pocking section entered service which meant that the Simbach am Inn–Pocking railway was now open as well.
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In 1946 the camp housed 7,645 people, mostly of Jewish heritage. It was disbanded in 1949. The Rottal area to which Pocking belongs is famous for its horse breeding. That is also why the coat of arms of Pocking includes the head of a horse.
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The other symbols relate to the history of the town and the different villages that formed the political community of Pocking.
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On the contrary, the Rot Valley railway between Neumarkt-St. Veit and Pocking had been built in 1879; and the Pocking–Passau route was established in 1888. On 17 May 1885 representatives of the local communities gathered in Aidenbach to form a committee for the construction of a Lokalbahn ('local line'). Their plan envisaged a stub line from Vilshofen to Aidenbach.
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On 2 November 1912 the Tutting–Pocking line was approved and it went into service on 1 December 1914. It was 8.87 kilometres long.
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The closest municipalities are Haarbach, Beutelsbach, Vilshofen an der Donau, Fürstenzell, and Bad Griesbach im Rottal. The cities of Passau and Pocking are somewhat farther away.
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The line was built in two stages. After construction started in 1878 the 63 km long Neumarkt-Sankt Veit–Pocking section was opened on 1 September 1879 as a Sekundärbahn (secondary line). On 4 October 1883 it was given a junction at Landshut. Following the approval of its extension eastwards in 1884, the second, 35 km long, section from Pocking to Passau was completed in the years 1887 and 1888.
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However, since Austria didn't want to burden the Innviertel with traffic, the plan was given up on the Austrian side. After this, on the German side, the plans were changed so that the A 94 connected with the A 3 at Pocking/Neuhaus am Inn. This makes an eventual northern extension to the Czech border possible. At one point, a route from Mühldorf to Pfarrkirchen to Pocking was planned.
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Pocking () is a town in the district of Passau, in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is situated about 30 km south-west of Passau, close to the Austrian border.
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The 1996 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the third race of the 1996 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 9 July in the Rottalstadion in Pocking, Germanyspeedwaygp.republika.pl.
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The 1998 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the second race of the 1998 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on June 6 in the Rottalstadion in Pocking, Germanyspeedwaygp.republika.pl.
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Since the election in 2008 Franz Krah (Independent citizens) is the mayor of Pocking. His predecessor was Josef Jakob (CSU). Krah was reelected in March 2014 with 82.01% of the votes.
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Now the offensive began for the construction of a link line to Pocking. As early as 27 June 1901 a railway committee for a Simbach–Pocking Lokalbahn set out the necessity for a through link from Simbach to Passau. They pressed for a junction for the new line with the Passau–Neumarkt-Sankt Veit railway. In order to travel by rail from Simbach to Passau at that time the trains had to pass through Austrian territory for 84 kilometres, a journey that took five to six hours.
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On 15 October 1888 the Lokalbahn section was opened in both directions with two mixed trains. Once the route from Pocking to Kößlarn was opened on 1 December 1914 it offered a direct linkt to Simbach am Inn.
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Guy Allen 'Sudden Sam' Ermolenko (born November 23, 1960 Maywood, California) is a former speedway rider. In 1993 he won the Speedway World Championship in Pocking, Germany.Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship.
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Modifications were completed by February 1945 at the FdF's base at Pocking, Bavaria, a Stammkennzeichen alphabetic designation code of KR+LW being applied. Hitler's pilot, Hans Baur, tested the aircraft, but Hitler never flew in it.Sweeting and Boyne 2001, p. 85.
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Trains ran through from Simbach to Pocking and also worked the stub line from Tutting via Rotthalmünster to Kößlarn. In 1921 four pairs of trains ran daily from Simbach to Pocking, the journey time for the 28.4 kilometres being 105 minutes; which represented an average speed of 16 km/h. On the Tutting–Kößlarn railway three pairs of trains worked the line each day, taking 38 minutes to traverse the 9.8 kilometre long route. In the winter of 1953/54 Uerdingen railbuses appeared on both lines, reducing the journey time to 57 and 22 minutes respectively.
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Kasper won the 1982 European Under-21 Championship at the Rottalstadion in Pocking, West Germany. Kasper rode in the UK for the Hackney Hawks from 1982 until their closure the following season at the end of 1983.Fenn, C.(2003). Hackney Speedway, Friday at Eight.
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By building a line from Tutting to Pocking it was argued that the distance could be reduced to 64 kilometres and the time taken to just three hours. There were also complaints that those participating in a pilgrimage from Passau to Altötting had to pay 2,000 marks for travelling on the Austrian Railway and had to put up with customs inspections as well. On 28 July 1906 all the interested parties met in Pocking. A proposal from the Hartkirchen community to run the planned line via their village, was refused, because it would have meant the link being almost twenty kilometres long rather than eight.
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The 1986 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the seventeenth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Pocking, West Germany. The championship was won by Denmark who beat United States after Run-Off (both 46 points). Bronze medal was won by Czechoslovakia (32 points).
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There were even through coaches from northern and western Germany to Pocking. On 1 September 1979 the line's centenary was remembered in Pfarrkirchen with special celebrations, not least as a protest against possible plans for closure. Uerdingen railbuses were usually used for scheduled passenger services in the second half of the 20th century.
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At the time eight train pairs ran daily on each line. Despite that operations were always unprofitable. On 2 October 1960 the Deutsche Bundesbahn closed down the passenger services between Tutting and Kößlarn. On 1 June 1969 passenger services between Pocking and Simbach and goods services between Simbach and Tutting were withdrawn.
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Goods traffic between Rotthalmünster and Kößlarn ceased on 1 January 1970. In February 1972 work began on dismantling the line. Only the goods traffic between Pocking and Rotthalmünster was maintained until the closure of the Tutting–Rotthalmünster section on 1 January 1996. This left the Bundeswehr transport from the Rott Valley Barracks in Kirchham.
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Siopis tinted the flesh colour in different ways, creating tones ranging from the cotton candy sugary sweetness signifying childhood to tones that act as metaphors for violation. Siopis applied thick layers of oil paint onto canvases using only a palette knife, building up areas of relief and texture – pocking and cutting its surface to the desired effect.
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The Rott is a river in Bavaria, Germany, left tributary of the Inn. Its source is in the municipality Wurmsham in Lower Bavaria, between Landshut and Waldkraiburg. It flows east through a rural area with small towns, including Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Eggenfelden, Pfarrkirchen and Pocking. It flows into the Inn near Neuhaus am Inn, opposite of Schärding, on the border with Austria.
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Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium (WDG) is a gymnasium (senior high school/sixth form college) in Pocking, Bavaria, Germany. In 2015 accommodations for 200 Syrian refugees from the 2015 crisis were established adjacent to the school's gymnasium (athletic facility). Athletic classes were relocated to a primary school. In addition the headmaster asked female students to not wear short skirts, short shorts, and revealing blouses.
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From 6 October 1888 the route was fully operational from end to end. At 9.15 am on that day a trial train departed from Passau with seven coaches hauled by a D VII. At 2.30 pm it set off from Pocking on the return journey. The second section was built as a Lokalbahn; it was markedly slower and the trackbed was clearly of lighter and cheaper construction.
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The Condor had a much greater range and was faster than the Ju 52. In 1942, an improved model of the Condor was put into use for Hitler's travels and Baur continued to be his primary pilot. A Ju 290 was assigned to Hitler's renamed squadron, Fliegerstaffel des Führers (FdF) in late 1944. Modifications were completed by February 1945 at the FdF's base at Pocking, Bavaria.
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The 1993 Overseas Final was the thirteenth running of the Overseas Final as part of the qualification for the 1993 Speedway World Championship Final to be held in Pocking, Germany. The 1993 Final was held at the Brandon Stadium in Coventry, England on 13 June and was the second last qualifying round for Commonwealth and American riders.Speedway World Championship History - 1993 ultimate individual prize.
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September 1879 as far as Pocking and finally extended all the way through to Passau by 6 October 1888. The expected trans-regional significance of the railway link never materialised; traffic between Tyrol and Bohemia was largely routed via Munich. The section from Pilsting to Plattling, however, gained significance as part of the (Munich–)Landshut–Plattling(–Passau) route and its operations were immediately aligned to it.
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The Vilshofen (Lower Bavaria)–Ortenburg railway, also known as the Wolfach Valley Railway (German: Wolfachtalbahn), is a branch line or Lokalbahn in the province of Lower Bavaria in southern Germany. It was opened on 16 January 1908 and closed to passenger services on 30 September 1962. The original plans in 1861 envisaged a link from Simbach to Vilshofen via Pocking and Ortenburg, but they were dropped in favour of the present-day Rot Valley Railway (Rottalbahn) from Pocking to Passau via Fürstenzell which entered service in 1879. In 1824/25 a main road (today the B8) was built along the Danube to Passau, which undermined the importance of the old main route from Vilshofen via Ortenburg to Passau. Similarly in 1861 the main railway line on the right bank of the Danube from Vilshofen to Passau was opened, almost totally isolating the Protestant town of Ortenburg.
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Joseph Thomas Schwab was born in Starnberg, Bavaria, West Germany on 25 November 1960. A shy and timid student, he joined the local rifle club in Pocking when aged 15, remaining a member until 1981. On 15 June 1981, he travelled to Adelaide, South Australia, and worked as a cabinet maker while also joining the local pistol club. Owning several rifles and a 4WD, he also went feral pig shooting.
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He then signed with the Wolverhampton Wolves for 1984. In 1980, Sigalos rode in the European Under-21 Championship Final at the Rottalstadion in Pocking, West Germany. After being excluded from his first ride, he showed his class by eventually finishing 3rd with 11 points after defeating future triple World Champion Erik Gundersen in a runoff. The European U/21 Championship was renamed the World U/21 Championship in 1988.
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A few pilots manage to fly to Pocking before they move on to the area of Erding-Holzkirchen-Prien. With 12 aircraft remaining, Bühligen disbands JG 2 on 30 April while parts of JG 2 were dispersed in Leck and Föching near Straubing. The last elements of JG 2 surrender to British forces on 8 May at Leck. An engine failure caused Bühligen to be taken prisoner by the Soviets, being finally released in 1950.
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As a result, five platform tracks were established, two tracks for through freight and four terminating sidings for freight. A local freight yard was built opposite the station building. A locomotive shelter was built east of the station for the Bavarian Eastern Railway. The station was the starting point of further lines. A line was opened on 1 September 1879 from Neumarkt St. Veit to Pocking and it was extended to Passau in 1888.
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Louis is former schoolboy grasstrack champion. He started his professional career at Hackney before moving to Ipswich in 1989 where he rode to the end of his riding career. He has missed a couple of seasons due to injury. Chris Louis made history in 1993 when he became the first son of a former World Finalist to also qualify for the World Final when he finished in third place in Pocking, Germany.
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Ortenburg is situated in the forested area south of the Danube and north of the Rott. It is one of the main centres of population in the Lower Bavarian Upland. The majority of the municipality is located in the Wolfach Valley and the Wolfach itself runs directly through Ortenburg. The market town lies 20 km west of Passau, 10 km south of Vilshofen an der Donau, 12 km northwest of Bad Griesbach and 20 km north of Pocking.
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As a result, the section from Tutting to Kößlarn became a stub line that was operated independently. This Lokalbahn proved to be just as unprofitable as the railway from Simbach am Inn to Pocking. In 1921 three pairs of trains ran daily between Tutting and Kößlarn, each covering the 9.8 kilometre long stretch in 38 minutes. From the winter of 1953/54 Uerdingen railbuses were also laid on, reducing the journey time to just 22 minutes.
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Crump would team with Billy Sanders to finish in fourth place in 1976 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, and seventh in 1977 in Manchester. He teamed with Queenslands John Titman to again finish fourth in Vojens, Denmark in 1979, and another Qld rider in Steve Regeling to finish sixth in 1985 in Rybnik, Poland, and ninth in 1986 in the West German city of Pocking. The 1986 World Pairs Championship was Phil Crump's last appearance in a World Final as a rider.
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After graduating from Wilhelm-Diess- Gymnasium Pocking in 1992, Freudenstein initially completed an internship at unserRadio, a local radio station in Passau. In 1993 she began her studies at the University of Passau, which she completed in 1998. In addition to her studies, she completed another internship at Passauer Neue Presse as a scholarship holder of the Dr. Hans-Kapfinger-Stiftung. After completing her studies, Freudenstein worked as a journalist for Bayerischer Rundfunk and as an author in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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It is also practiced in Italy (where it is called scuccetta), Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia (where it is called turčanje or trkanje), Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken. In parts of Europe it is also called epper, presumably from the German name Opfer, meaning "offering" and in Greece it is known as tsougrisma. In South Louisiana, this practice is called pocking eggs and is slightly different.
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Since the prophet Claudius Aichel (1666–1683) the abbots of the monastery were given the right to bear the miter. Several parishes were also incorporated into the monastery, namely Bavaria, Aidenbach, Alburg, Hartkirchen, Pocking and Mittich, and also in Austria Alkofen, Grieskirchen, Münichreith, Neukirchen, Wimsbach, Roitham at the Traunfall and Pollham. After the dissolution of the monastery, these became independent parishes, which were mostly cared for by the choir-makers of St. Nikola. The monastery of Sankt Oswald was briefly (1431–1563) supervised by St. Nikola, but then passed to the Benedictines.
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Neuburg am Inn is located in the Danube-region forest high above the Inn River, which forms the natural border with Upper Austria. In 2006, a bridge over the Inn was opened to pedestrians and cyclists, which now connects Neuburg to the opposite bank. By Neuburg is the major road B 12, which connects it to the city of Passau 10 km further north and a further 15-kilometer link to Pocking. Just 6 km from the community is the motorway junction ‘’Passau-south’’, a link to the Autobahn 3.
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The siding to the barracks was lifted prematurely and so loading was moved to the station at Tutting until the barracks finally closed in 2002. On 1 July 2003 the Tutting–Pocking railway was finally closed. In 2007 the former trackbed was released from railway requirements by the Federal Railway Office in a process under § 23 of the General Railway Law and so its last formal link with the railways was ended. The only signs of the old railway today are two bridges and the roads that are named after the stations.
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The majority of the cross-country flights were flown on the Gotha Go 145. From 4 April to 28 April 1941 he made the round trip from Markersdorf to Pocking, Nürnberg, Ettingshausen, Ingolstadt, Zwickau, Hildesheim, Braunschweig, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Delmenhorst, Halberstadt and Fürth. At Ettingshausen he received instruction in formation flying and aerobatics. By August 1941 Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, had been underway for two months, and after completing his A/B flight training at Markersdorf Waldmann was transferred to the Jagdfliegerschule 6 (6th Fighter Pilot School) at Lachen- Speyerdorf near Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
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The 1993 season was supposed to see the last of the 'one off' world finals before the Grand Prix was introduced (this was not the case and the GP system did not begin until 1995) Ermolenko was again one of the pre-season favourites. At the world final in Pocking, Germany, Sam had a fantastic start to the meeting winning his first three rides. In Heat 15 he met fellow title contender and three time World Champion Hans Nielsen. In the first staging of the race, Nielsen was adjudged to have knocked Ermolenko off his machine and was excluded.
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The Mühldorf–Simbach am Inn railway is a 39 km long, single-tracked, unelectrified main line in Bavaria in southern Germany. Leaving Mühldorf station it runs in an east-west direction to the German-Austrian state border, where it joins the Innviertel Railway. Until 1969 there was also a junction here with the railway to Pocking. The line is the shortest link between Munich and Vienna, but has losts its importance over the years to the Munich–Salzburg–Linz line. An industrial siding to the „Inntal“ industrial estate branches off at the eastern end of Töging (Inn) station.
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In 1991, Hamill again rode for the Heathens and he also made his World Final debut at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg scoring six points. The 1992 World Championship campaign was cut short for Hamill after breaking his wrist at the Overseas final at Coventry's Brandon stadium, however he was still a major part of the Heathens season, again averaging over eight points. He was also part of the USA team which won the world team cup for a second time, in Kumla, Sweden, scoring 10 points. 1993 saw a belated return to Cradley for Hamill who went on to make his second world final appearance in Pocking, Germany which was won by fellow American Sam Ermolenko.
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Figure 2 – Faded faces on a panel form Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. Although glass as a material is known for its chemical stability resistance to natural deterioration, impurities, and variations in glass composition can cause considerable chemical instability that may further destructive processes (Vogel et al. 2007, 7). Glass is also susceptible to atmospheric pollution, and high levels of humidity or moisture over long periods of time, both of which can speed up the corrosion rate of chemically unstable glass. Over time, corrosion, marked by pitting or pocking of the glass, can deepen and spread until the surface layer itself breaks apart, uncovering the vulnerable, damaged core, until it becomes opaque (Rauch 2004, 3).
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However the energetic and combative Arnulf already defeated a small Hungarian raiding contingent at Pocking near the Rott river on 11 August 909, after they withdrew from a campaign where they burnt the two churches of Freising. In 910, he also beat another minor Hungarian unit at Neuching, which returned from the victorius Battle of Lechfeld and other plundering attacks. Historian István Bóna described the battle as a "destruction of a gang of robbers" who arbitrarily broke the conditions of peace. Other historians, who argue in favour of the lack of central organization of military campaigns, consider the Hungarian plunder attack in Bavaria after returning their war from West, which resulted Battle of the Inn, was merely a private action by a tribal chieftain or a small unit.
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The route between Mühldorf and Neumarkt-Sankt Veit soon proved to be of regional importance for both passenger and goods traffic, thanks to the branches to Landshut and Pocking/Passau. The Neumarkt-Sankt Veit–Pilsting section never had high numbers of passengers, however, due to the relatively sparse population, railway stations that were sometimes a long way from the villages and trade links that were oriented towards Landshut rather than following the railway route. With the rise of private motor car ownership from the 1950s the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) recorded an increasing reduction of the already low traffic volumes between Neumarkt-Sankt Veit and Pilsting. Various rationalisation measures were implemented, including the formal relegation of the Neumarkt-Sankt Veit–Pilsting section from a main line to a branch line in 1964.
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The Mardukans practice with their new weapons and are given a brief course in shipboard combat as they await the arrival of a ship they can safely commandeer. Once such a ship arrives, Pahner orders all weapons-training to cease to avoid detection and to get their "war faces" on. As they await the ship's entry into orbit Roger arranges a huge banquet for the troops, complete with various "awards" being handed to every member of his party (such as a silver pitchfork for Kosutic, a set of four bronzed bead-pistols for Raster and "little pocking wrench" for Portena) and gives Pahner the Order of the Bronze Shield while Pahner, in turn, gives Roger the Combat Infantryman's Badge for having "walked into the fire again and again, and come out not unscathed, but at least, thank God, alive". As the dinner winds down, Despreaux propositions Roger again but he turns her down because she still won't marry him.
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Minister-President of the German state of Bavaria Markus Söder announced that free-to-use coronavirus testing facilities will be constructed at train stations in the cities of Munich and Nuremberg, as well as at three major motorway routes near the Austria-Germany border: the border crossing at Walserberg in Austria, and near the Bavarian towns of Pocking and Kiefersfelden. German Health Minister Jens Spahn also announced that all travellers returning to Germany from countries deemed to be at a higher risk of coronavirus transmission will be required to have a mandatory test for the virus to prevent the possible importation of cases. Health authorities in Greece announced that the government will likely extend legislation requiring people to wear face masks in shopping centres and places of worship. Irish airline Ryanair reported a loss of 185 million euros in the first financial quarter of 2020 as a direct result of restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, with passenger numbers falling by as much as 99 per cent.
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