Word: prussia
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...Archduke, who prefers to be known as Dr. Habsburg, is an author and lecturer on the cause of European unification. He lives outside Munich; he and his wife, German Princess Regina, have seven heirs. Also throneless as a result of World War I is Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 68, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He has a doctorate in philosophy and occupies himself with administering the family fortunes. His late wife, the Grand Duchess Kira, was the sister of Vladimir; he has seven children and lives near Bremen...
...French Emperor made his last futile effort, in the famous Hundred Days, to recapture the glory that had been his France. After Wellington put an end to that dream at Waterloo, the leaders of Europe's Quadruple Alliance -Czar Alexander I of Russia, Frederick William III of Prussia, Lord Castlereagh of Britain and, above all, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich of Austria -were free to determine in Vienna the future of the Continent...
Schroder was born in 1940 in East Prussia, but her family moved in the middle of the war to Berlin, where her father was a designer for the Luftwaffe. Growing up in a city under siege made an impression on her that is vague, because she was so young, but nonetheless indelible...
...grinding slabs of travertine-colored floe ice chewing up a wooden ship, goes beyond documentary into allegory: the frail bark of human aspiration crushed by the world's immense and glacial indifference. "The ice in the north must look very different from that," Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia is said to have grumped on viewing this picture. He was right, though it scarcely matters. Friedrich's shipwreck survives as one of the most remarkable images of "sublimity" in all 19th century painting...
...abdication during the Revolution of 1848, and he proceeded to put down and punish the rebels ruthlessly. He stubbornly refused to sell the region of Venetia for nearly $1 billion and then lost it-and many thousands of lives-as a result of a disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife...