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...several guest artists to varying degrees of success. Eight of the ten tracks borrow vocals from other musicians, and for the most part, their efforts are much appreciated. There’s a great deal of variety in the voices that carry the melodies of “Heligoland,” a welcome dose of diversity on an album that tends towards monotony in its musical textures...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Massive Attack | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...took advantage of clear weather to bomb Heligoland (which Britain traded for Zanzibar in 1890), claimed hits on two Nazi cruisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: King Out | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...earnest Germans such Sylt whimsy meant that they can thank Hitler for a brand new Heligoland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Laying Cannon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were to do the job. Eight hours to over 500 hours in 12 years, that is progress. T. S. DOBRIN Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Exercise | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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