Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second threat loomed up at the congress of European powers at Verona, Italy, in the autumn of 1822. In Spain a revolution had forced the tyrannical Ferdinand VII (Ferdinand the Unbeloved) to accept a liberal constitution. Bent on preserving absolutism, France and the Holy Alliance powers-Russia. Austria and Prussia-decided at Verona to intervene in Spain to crush the revolution...
Such was the fate in the 18th century of Frederick the Great, who led Prussia to its peak as a great European power but whose successors could not stop Napoleon; such also was the fate in the 19th century of Bismarck, whose political genius created modern Germany and helped give Europe more than 40 years of peace-both destroyed, after his death, by World War 1. Adenauer is painfully aware of these parallels in German history, and is determined to delay his departure as long as possible, despite his domestic critics...
...Seven Years' War. Britain defends Prussia against Austria, Russia and France...
...this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died in 1887 at the age of 67, a memorial was inscribed to her in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey-the first time in the Abbey's history a woman had been...
...such as Lippe-Biesterfeld. the stamp-sized German principality once ruled by the family of Prince Bernhard, Juliana's live-wire husband. Some of the noblest names were borne by hard-working royals such as Britain's globe-trotting Princess Alexandra and Dr. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while 1,500,000 loyal Dutchmen enthusiastically lined the city's ancient canals to roar...