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Strasburg

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Strasburg

City in southern North Dakota, 32 km/20 mi east of Lake Oahe and 16 km/10 mi north of the South Dakota border; population (1990) 600. Settled and named by German farmers from Russia's Volga basin late in the 19th century, it lies in a wheat producing area.

The home of bandleader Lawrence Welk has been turned into a museum of Russian-German life on the plains.



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A year or two ago, the principal Heidelberg expert was a big Kentuckian; he was invited to the various universities and left a wake of victory behind him all about Germany; but at last a little student in Strasburg defeated him.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
We can go to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
After leaving college he became Private Secretary to Lord Binkie, and was then appointed Attache to the Legation at Pumpernickel, which post he filled with perfect honour, and brought home despatches, consisting of Strasburg pie, to the Foreign Minister of the day.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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