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Refused. Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef Anton Ignatz Hubert Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis; by Princess Ilia of Bohemia; at the altar, in Regensburg, Bavaria. Reason: She preferred to espouse his younger brother, Prince Philip Ernst Maria Adalbert Josef Maximilian Anton Ignatz Stanislas Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis, whom she had met while preparing to marry Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef...
...Seligman family is one of four Manhattan Jewish families (along with the Schiffs, the Lewisohns, the Warburgs) particularly famed for philanthropic as well as for financial activities. The house was founded in 1848 by Joseph Seligman, U. S. immigrant from Bavaria in 1835. Becoming wealthy as merchant and importer, Joseph Seligman entered the banking business, sent for his seven brothers. Since then there have always been several Seligmans in the Seligman House. Present representatives of the family in the firm are Henry, Jefferson and Walter Seligman. Perhaps the most distinguished in the firm is shy, quiet, poetry-loving Frederick Strauss...
...Town in Bavaria where was built and dedicated a theatre for Richard Wagner's operas. Tourists today gather from all over Europe for the summer festival at which performances of famed excellence are given...
...telegram told meagerly that both Servitor Tschirpe and his wife (also old) had been murdered, at Leuthen, near Sagan in Silesia. Soon the curtly ordered equerry panted and scrambled down with a presidential telegram which took automatic priority over every other message on the wires between Bavaria and Silesia...
...deep guttural oration issued from the cavern of his throat. He did not move a muscle when the bottle of champagne tinkled and exploded. Afterwards Old Paul von Hindenburg rode away to begin his vacation, hunting chamois in Bavaria. But Germans remembered his words...