Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jewels the Emperor had given her (once, after a hunt, he had sent her a boar dressed up in necklaces, earrings, diamond bracelets). She made only one important revelation: in 1931 she made it clear that the mysterious double death of the Archduke Rudolf and his beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera at the famed hunting lodge at Mayerling was definitely suicide...
...launched the steamboat Megiddo, with 95 followers plied up & down the Mississippi and Ohio making new converts. Later he sold the boat, settled his mission at Rochester, N. Y. Founder Nichols died in 1912. Present pastor of the Megiddo Mission is his sister, 83-year-old Ella Maria Skeels...
...Empress Maria Theresa died in 1780, and Diarium became the Wiener Zeitung. (In England, five years later, the first issue of London's Times appeared.) So great was the prestige of the Zeitung that in 1805 the Emperor Franz II made it an official Government organ. But it remained the property of Schönwetter's successors until 1857. That year the young Emperor Franz Josef took it over...
...acquired during World War I and while he was an obscure revolutionary, hating the "Jewish republic." More than Hitler or Goebbels or the late Ernst Röhm, who were abnormal anyway, Göring is a product of Germany's generation of defeat, of which Erich Maria Remarque has written...
Christened Maria Elizabeth Katerina Gabrielle Dorothea Constance Edwarda in Manhattan's Corpus Christi Catholic Church was the daughter of Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein, former leader of the Catholic party in Germany. Godparents: Dr. Eduard Benes, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler...