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...third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg, in a united Prussian Germany about to go down to defeat...
...Party, found Foreman Horst Kewitsch angrily complaining: "Serious ... is the lack of replacement parts. To keep working, we have had to replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts from Furnace Four." Carpenter Giinter Blankenburg groused that the solitary electric bulb in his barracks gives "less light than a candle flame." But the chief complaint was lack of food: "Sometimes," said Walter Jerkisch, "you can't buy butter or margarine...
...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
...Zephir shot away, uneventfully buzzed the 2,390 miles to Pan American's Long Island base at Manhasset Bay. With four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
Four miles back chugged the Blankenburg. While Patrolman Corliss dried himself in the Harbor Patrol's office, police statisticians computed salaries, fuel, wear & tear, concluded that the rescue had cost Philadelphia $250. Then they sat down to try. to figure out what to do with...