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Everybody (well, nearly everybody) has heard of mad King Ludwig II, the eccentric scion of the Wittelsbachs, who dotted Bavaria's picturesque hilltops with an insanely extravagant clatch of castles, pavilions, hideaways and other architectural follies in the 1870s and 1880s. Was he totally deranged? Not according to Dr. Michael Petzet, 35, the Munich art historian who oversees Bavaria's state-run castle-museums (including Ludwig's). Petzet, pointing out that Ludwig was the patron of Richard Wagner, sees the king as "a creator in his own right, someone who aimed to fulfill what Wagner understood...
...then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building the transalpine line between Trieste and Ingolstadt in Bavaria, completed last year...
...Prussian army chaplain, Schleiermacher studied theology and philosophy at the University of Halle, was ordained a Reformed minister. After serving as a hospital chaplain, and pastor of churches in Bavaria and Pomerania, in 1810 he was named head of the University of Berlin's theology faculty, a post he held until his death. A product of both the Enlightenment and Germany's Romantic revival, Schleiermacher saw clearly that the traditional bases for faith in God were gradually being eroded by man's intellectual advances. Rationalist historians had begun to cast doubt on the authenticity of Scripture; scientific...
...Hessian post office forwarded Tolstoy's letter to Bavaria. The Atlantic concludes that Schramm decided not to join the army, but to flee the country instead...
...faith. In his last message to Maria, written at Christmas time, 1944, he said: "What is happiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on that which happens inside a person." Four months later he was hanged at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria...