Word: schleswiger
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...married Count Kuno von Rantzau, scion of a distinguished Schleswig-Holstein house. She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg. Her father's triumphs up to that time, after the peace of Vienna, after "1870", had brought Europe literally to the feet of the Bismarcks. But typhus fever swept away her lover, so she married Count Rantzu, who later was German Ambassador to Holland...
...years earlier the present ruling house of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Gliicksburg had displaced the Oldenburgs upon the Danish throne. The Oldenburgs, notably Frederik VI, had been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
Queen Alexandra, although usually described as "the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark," was not, curiously enough, born of the blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses...
...Empress she had always disliked, principally because she was a German, and perhaps because she still harbored memories of the war of 1864, in which her father, King Christian IX, lost the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg to the Austrians and Prussians. Later her abhorrence of the infamous Rasputin greatly augmented her detestation of the Imperial Court...
...Synagogue Defeated from Bamberg Cathedral; six busts of Patriarchs and Saints from the Monastery of Blaubeuren; two 13th century statues of Abraham and Melchisedek from the church at Wechselburg; a 16th century Crucifixion from St. James Church at Lubeok; and the centrepiece of Bruggemann's High Altar at Schleswig Cathedral...