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...King George II of Greece is a member of house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...
This fantastic vitamin was isolated in 1936 by Professor Fritz Kögl of Utrecht, Holland but Biochemist Vincent Du Vigneaud of Cornell and his colleagues identified it as an animal vitamin in 1940. The possible molecular patterns ran into millions. Last January, Dr. Du Vigneaud and colleagues were able to announce that the possible molecular patterns had been reduced to five; then when the position of the nitrogen atoms was ascertained, these were...
Though her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexandra had been strictly brought up in the vikingly virtues of sewing and Swedish movements. Sometimes Hans Christian Andersen would drop in to read her one of his morbid little masterpieces for children. In England his place was less excitingly filled by Lord Tennyson who hailed Alexandra's marriage with these lines...
Back home after the war, he plugged for restoration of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg monarchy. George II, living in genteelly poor exile, had indicated his willingness to take his old job back and restoration fever grew. Little John glimpsed victory, but at the last moment powerful old General George Kondylis neatly elbowed him aside, brought George back to the throne, and himself became first commoner. Only a falling out between George and the General, followed by an opportune death, finally dropped the plum of premiership into Little John...
There were no set speeches, no previously formulated accusations. Herr Hitler's first words about the Reichstag fire were stagy, forced, phony: "Das ist das Werk der Kommunisten." (This is the work of Communists.) This time his first statement was spontaneous, slangy, more relief than calculated vindictiveness: "Glück muss der Mensch haben." (A fellow has got to be lucky...