Word: prussia
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Karen Lyle Burns King of Prussia...
Sherman Siegel King of Prussia...
Japan learned that lesson, in reverse, not once but twice. After the Meiji Restoration, the new imperial government sent study missions to the U.S., France and Prussia, then tried to set up a national education system based on Western liberal utilitarian thought. The experiment was short-lived. Much the same thing happened after the U.S. occupation. The American-imposed structure of grade school, junior high and high school was retained, along with coeducation and compulsory attendance until age 15. But many of the other...
Absurd things had a way of occurring in Kleist's life as well as his art. The man who could never hang on to money served briefly as an assistant to the Finance Minister of Prussia. In 1810 he became editor of Berlin's first daily newspaper and made it into a popular journal that kept the city chatting. One of the things it chatted about was Kleist. Goethe decided that the young author was "no common talent" but "barbaric" and "misshapen...
...forgery hastened war and the unification of Germany. In 1870, King William I of Prussia met with the French ambassador at Ems and sent a report of what took place to Premier Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck edited this account to make the King appear insulting toward the diplomat and then released his version to the press. As he had hoped, the outraged French attacked Germany, enabling Bismarck to embark on the Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term...