Ruhr Valley
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In 2016, Huseby, who’s now based in the city, founded the fashion label GmbH with Serhat Işik, a child of Turkish immigrants who grew up in the Ruhr Valley, West Germany’s industrial heartland.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
He has been following a cohort of older women in the Ruhr Valley, an urban region of Germany, who are exposed to road-traffic pollution at levels similar to those in countless other communities worldwide.
From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018
Two months later, he was one of the 133-strong squadron who dodged anti-aircraft fire, power cables and mountainous terrain to drop the four-tonne skipping bomb on dams in the Ruhr Valley.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2017
Instead, pockets of industrialization appeared, as in the coal-rich Ruhr Valley of west central Germany.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
At the moment I write, coal is the storm center of controversy that ranges from the Ruhr Valley of Germany to the Welsh fields of Britain and affects the destinies of statesmen and of countries.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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