Wisby

[ vis-bee ]

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Wisby rights were granted it in 1582, and in 1603 it received municipal privileges from the duke of Holstein.

Next, Wisby—who paints things as they are not, and will be famous when the public gets educated down to him.

Laws of Wisby contain early reference to marine insurance, § 66.

In 1856 he became a school teacher, and in 1858 a master in the grammar school at Wisby.

"Before the gates of Wisby the Goths fell under the hands of the Danes," runs the inscription.

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