Word: schleswiger
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...German Artist." Nolde himself would have scorned such a simple pigeonhole. "Intellectuals and literati call me an expressionist," he once exploded. "I do not like this narrow classification. A German artist, that I am." Born Emil Hansen in the north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given...
...earl's achievements, none matched the way he pushed forward his handsome young Greek nephew, the fair-haired but indigent Prince Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucks-burg. He arranged his nephew's first meet ing with 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, watched over their friendship until he saw Philip become consort to the Queen...
...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
...little Greek princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed by clamoring...
...after centuries of subjugation to one or another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This they...