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Frau Wagner was Wagner's second wife. They had both been married previously, she to the composer von Bulow and he to Wilhelmina Planer, actress in the Königsberg theatre. Wagner died at Venice in 1883 and was buried at Wahnfried, near Bayreuth in Bavaria. It was there that King Ludwig rode alone in the dead of night to pay his last tribute to the great German...
...left bank Rhine. They have followed the old example of Cardinal Richelieu, who allied himself even with the Protestants in Germany to break up any possible union, because he considered the Protestants weaker than the Catholics and more favorable toward the French. Thus he set Munich against Berlin, and Bavaria against Prussia...
...with despatches announcing the evacuation of Boston by the British troops. In 1783 he was advanced to a colonelcy in the "King's American Dragoons" and placed on half pay. In the same year he was knighted by George III. He then entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria and remained at Munich for eleven years. In 1791 he was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire and chose the title Rumford from the name of the town in America to which his wife's family belonged (later Concord, New Hampshire). Rumford was not only celebrated...
...confusion and uncertainty which surrounds that chaotic state known as Germany, one vital fact has been brought out by the overthrow of the Kapp regime,--the German people are in favor of a democratic form of government. Unexpected as this may appear, it is hardly to be denied. In Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttemberg, and the north-western parts of the country, where the influence of the Prussian eagle had been least marked, it was to be expected that a new despotism would be unpopular. But the amazing thing is that Berlin, the center of Junkerthum, far from acclaiming Kapp...
...cast of the so-called Emperor Konrad III, the oldest equestrian statue of German sculpture, has been received by the Germanic Museum from His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent of Bavaria. It stands on a pillar in the transept of Bamberg Cathedral; and, since Konrad III is buried in this Cathedral, it is indeed possible that this equestrian statue was erected in his memory. There is, however, no direct evidence of this, and the statue itself shows unmistakable affinity to some princely figures of Rheims Cathedral. It is, therefore, probably safest to consider it as an ideal impersonation...