Word: wilhelm
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...Kingdom of Hanover, and that was lost forever in 1866 when his son took the losing side in a war with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg...
...Wilhelm Pieck, the doddering old puppet who makes a show of ruling East Germany for the Communists but is usually seen napping through his public appearances, was re-elected President for four years by unanimous vote of East Germany's Parliament. A top Communist proudly contrasted the results of this "landslide" election with the election of Dwight Eisenhower, "who was put into office only after months of bitter wrangling and with a not too convincing majority...
Died. Joseph Sigall, 61, Polish-born portrait painter of European monarchs (Britain's George VI, Germany's Wilhelm II), U.S. Presidents (Coolidge, Hoover, F.D.R.) and celebrities (General Douglas MacArthur, Film Siren Pola Negri); of a heart ailment; in La Jolla, Calif...
...sseldorf, Dr. Wilhelm Meyer-Cords, chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of Germany's Space Research Society, told fellow rocketeers that U.S. scientists are probably already at work building a space station. In case anyone doubted him, Dr. Meyer-Cords also presented a paper by Space Prophet Wernher von Braun, guided-missile expert for U.S. Army Ordnance. Von Braun already has plans for a man-carrying rocket that can reach the moon. His rocket would carry 20 passengers and make the round trip in ten days. Give him some $4 billion, says Von Braun...
...decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany...