Word: prussian
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...fertilizer. He went on: "I stand here and think about all the blood from so many corners of Europe which was spilled over this plain. Every month someone digs up a new skeleton. They can usually tell by the buttons of his uniform whether he was French, British, Prussian, Belgian or Dutch...
Last week, facing autocrats less easily frightened than a Prussian king, Berlin attempted to commemorate the occasion. What happened was typical of the state of Germany today...
...Prussian government, which kept a close watch on him in London, received the following report, probably unique in the literature of espionage, on Marx's apartment at 28 Dean Street, Soho...
...Prussian immigrants, Charley was brought up in Virginia City, Nev., where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
...John Alexander Tyler served in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian...