Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should read "Theodore Roosevelt and Friends," omitting "Kaiser Wilhelm," for he was not there. This picture was taken early in the morning, May 10, 1910, at the exit of the private waiting room of one of Berlin's railroad stations (Stettiner Bahnhof, I think), while the Colonel and members of the American Embassy there to receive him waited for their conveyances to come up. The crowd outside was cheering. I recall this occasion very distinctly and even more distinctly the actual meeting of Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor Wilhelm, which took place the next day at an entrance...
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...Mexican Lindbergh" Colonel Pablo Sidar, circumnavigator of South America, alone...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...
...Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace...