Friday, February 17, 2006

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All of them arminus-varminus...

Teutoburg Forest or Ger. Teutoburger Wald:

Range of hills, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, S of Osnabrück; highest point ab. 1530 ft. (466 m.). Scene of battle 9 AD in which German tribes under Armin defeated Roman legions under Gen. Publius Quintilius Varus establishing Rhine as German-Latin border.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary (2001).

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