Word: prussianize
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...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...
Engaged. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian...
...possible elements charted by Mendeléeff, five remained to be found until last week, when a German Curie, Dr. Ida Tacke of Berlin, assisted by Drs. Walter Noddack and Otto Berg, proclaimed their discovery of numbers 43 and 75, which they promptly named "masurium," after the East Prussian lakes where General Von Hindenburg defeated the Russians in 1915, and "rhenium," after the River Rhine...
...ascended in a balloon to observe the heavens, wrote his researches in books that surpassed in popularity the works of Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon the Prussian troops with his long telescope. An admirer, one M. Meret, presented him with a country place at Juvisy, where he built an observatory, passed his time peering at the planet Mars and collecting ghost stories. Never a great scientist, he was still mumbling about the probable inhabitability of Mars while...
...these times of peace and plenty hatred lives on, eating its way into the core of patriotism. Under the guise of national devotion. America still nourishes her pre war malice, keeping it going with parades, anniversaries, and celebrations. The spirit that was once typical of Germany's Prussian leaders is still charged to the whole nation...