Kleve


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Kle·ve

 (klā′və) also Cleves (klēvz)
A city of west-central Germany west-southwest of Münster. It was the seat of a historical duchy and passed subsequently to Brandenburg, Prussia, France, and Prussia again.
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Howard Hively then sold the Ferrari to Ohio resident and nuclear physicist, Karl Kleve. It later passed to noted Belgian Ferrari importer, racer and close friend of Enzo Ferrari, Jacques Swaters, founder of the highly successful Ecurie Francochamps racing team.
FITCHBURG - Dozens of members of a jazz band from Fitchburg's sister city of Kleve, Germany, were given citations of appreciation yesterday.
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Any further discussion of the issue now rests with members of the twinning committee who have already fostered successful links with Kleve, in Germany, Le Vesinet, France and more recently Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States.
The integration of National Starch into the Dusseldorf-based group will be accompanied by the closure of the Kleve plant, two in France and one in the UK.
The pair were sitting on a bench in Kleve Walk, Worcester, at around 8pm on Monday, January 7 when they were threatened by two youths.