Word: prussia
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...puncture the sound tube and turn it elegantly tangent to his lips. In classical antiquity, "Phrygian pipes" were played by prostitutes, and during the Renaissance an epidemic of flute playing swept across Europe. Henry VIII owned 148 flutes and tootled several hours a day. Frederick the Great of Prussia caught flute fever as a boy, and hid his teacher in a closet to escape the wrath of his flute-hating father. Though Couperin, Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel wrote stacks of magnificent music for it, the flute in those days was easy to hate. ("You ask me what is worse...
Sometimes he certainly acted crazy. Like the day he stood talking earnestly to an oak tree, which he mistook for the King of Prussia. Or during the last years before his death in 1820, when he was shut up in Windsor Castle telling stories, laughing and crying, with a kingdom full of imaginary friends. Besides, he had acted pretty irrationally toward his American colonies. So, on evidence, historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians...
...jobs in the new industrial world, and the young acquired greater economic importance than ever before. On the Continent, they also began to perform an entirely new political role in the liberal revolutions of 1848. They manned the barricades-against Louis Philippe in France, against King Frederick William in Prussia, against Metternich in Austria. They set up a quasi-revolutionary government at the University of Vienna, issued proclamations and organized an Academic Legion uniformed in blue coats, red-black-and-gold sashes and scarlet-lined cloaks...
Right v. Right. Bonn's policy, from the early days of Konrad Adenauer through the present regime of Ludwig Erhard, has never publicly changed. Official West German maps label Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia Zurzeit unter Polnischer Verwaltung (temporarily under Polish administration), and Germans still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
...lunatic fringe, but it made many politicians wonder if the time would ever be ripe for a realistic abandonment of the "lost territories." A poll by the authoritative Aliens-bach Institute this year showed that only 28% of West Germans still believe that Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia will ever be returned to Germany-compared with 66% in 1953. But 23% is still a good-sized practical fragment to deal with...