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  Schleswig-Holstein Question - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A papal dispensation from oaths taken under duress excused a new war; but Valdemar himself was beaten at Bornhovede on the 22nd of July 1227, and Holstein was permanently secured to the house of Schauenburg.
On the death of Christopher eight years later, Adolf's influence secured the election of his nephew Count Christian of Oldenburg to the vacant throne.
On the death of King Frederick I. (1523-1533), under whom the Reformation had been introduced into the duchies,' occurred the Subdi?i- first of several partitions of the inheritance of the house of the of Oldenburg; the elder son, Christian III., succeeding sion duchies.
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 Adolf VIII of Holstein Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adolf VIII of Holstein (German: Adolf von Schauenburg) (1401 – December 4, 1459), Duke of Southern Jutland (Danish, Sønderjylland), i.e Schleswig, and Count of Holstein, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm.
He was a cognatic descendant of King Eric V of Denmark, whose mother Queen Dowager Margaret Sambiria had obtained a papal confirmation to the right of also female descendancy of Christopher I of Denmark to succeed to the throne of Denmark.
Adolf, old and childless, declined and supported the candidacy of his own nephew the count of Oldenburg who became Christian I of Denmark.
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  Adolf VIII of Holstein
Adolf VIII of Holstein (German: Adolf von Schauenburg) (1401 – December 4, 1459), Duke of Southern Jutland (Danish, Sønderjylland), i.e Schleswig, and Count of Holstein, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm.
Prince Adolf's father was Gerhard IV of Holstein, duke of Schleswig, who was murdered 1404.
Adolf, old and childless, declined and supported the candidacy of his own nephew the count of Oldenburg who became Christian I of Denmark.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Adolf VIII of Holstein () (1401 – December 4, 1459), Duke of Southern Jutland (Danish, Sønderjylland), i.e Schleswig, and Count of Holstein, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm.
Adolf's lands were located in both sides of the border between Denmark and Germany.
Adolf succeeded his elder brother, Henry IV, Duke of Schleswig and count of Holstein in 1427.
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 Redux on George W. Bush similarities to Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was not elected by the majority of the people in Germany, but was appointed by President Hindenburg in January 30, 1933.
Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt SS orchestrated the Reichstag fire to turn Germany into a dictatorship and later utilized a Communist as a scapegoat or patsy for the action.
Adolf Hitler was readily a proponent of eugenics, population control, and abortion all throughout Nazi Germany and his followers carried all of it out.
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 Historical Figures - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 at Braunau-am-Inn, a small town near Linz in the province of Upper Austria, not far from the German border, in what was then Austria-Hungary.
Adolf Hitler never used the name Schickelgruber: this was a canard circulated later by his political enemies—as were insinuations that he was of Jewish descent.
Eighteen-year-old Adolf was orphaned and he soon left home for Vienna, where he had vague hopes of becoming an artist.
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 Edward VIII - MSN Encarta
Edward VIII (1894-1972), king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and emperor of India (January 20-December 11, 1936), later known as the duke of Windsor.
Edward was born June 23, 1894, in White Lodge, Richmond Park, and was educated at the naval preparatory college at Osborne; the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; and Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
During World War II he served as a major general in the British Expeditionary Force, and he was governor of the Bahamas from 1940 to 1945.
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 thePeerage.com - Heilwig zur Lippe and others
     Adolf VIII Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg was the son of Adolf VII Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg and Hedwig Gräfin von Schwalenberg.
     Simon von Holstein-Schauenburg was the son of Adolf VII Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg and Hedwig Gräfin von Schwalenberg.
     Adolf IX Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg-Pinneburg was the son of Otto I Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg-Pinneburg and Mechtild von Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
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 ADOLF von Nassau, deutscher König
Möglicherweise ließ Adolf sich jedoch vom französischen König bestechen; es kam zu keinen Kampfhandlungen, wodurch er in Deutschland an Ansehen verlor.
Damit hatte Adolf die Kurfürsten von Köln, Mainz und Böhmen verärgert, die sich in ihren Erwartungen geprellt fühlten.
Adolf war gescheitert, als er begonnen hatte, eine von den Kurfürsten eigenständige Politik zu führen.
www.bautz.de /bbkl/a/adolf_v_na.shtml   (1043 words)

  
 Encyclopedia
During World War II he served as a major general in the British Expeditionary Force, and he was governor of the Bahama Islands from 1940 to 1945.
In France, the duke of Windsor--formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain and Northern Ireland--marries Wallis Warfield, the American divorcee for whom.
After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne.
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 Germany in the Late Middle Ages - Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adolf agreed to do favors all around—for Bohemia, for Mainz, for Bavaria, and of course for Cologne.
Because his own estates were tiny, much of Adolf's efforts were directed toward adding to his family's holdings and in finding foreign allies who would help him along these lines.
Adolf lost the battle, was wounded, and died soon after.
www.idbsu.edu /courses/latemiddleages/politics/germany/09.shtml   (450 words)

  
 Adolf Hitler - Uncyclopedia
Poland must have been on the rag, because it had decided that Hitler's world-renown band, "Adolf and the Hiplers", was ruining the minds of the young Poles and a boycott of their music was necessary.
The King of the Aryans was Adolf Hitler, whose symbols are the swastika, the noble eagle, and the lightning bolt.
Adolf Hitler survives to this day on the dark side of the moon, where he has built a large military base and has used life-lengthening techniques to survive in perfect health.
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 Ancestry of Adolf Fredrik greve Munck
The Ancestry of Adolf Fredrik greve Munck (1749-1831)
Gustaf IV Adolf ascended the Swedish Throne at the age of 13 when Gustaf III was assassinated (29 March 1792).
Gustaf IV Adolf was crowned on 3 April 1800, and reigned until his abdication on 29 March 1809.
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 Blue Corn Comics -- Adolf Hitler:  A True American
Adolf Hitler's mad genetic vision embraced the ancient religion of the wondering Israelites; and like Moses, Hitler preached ethnic cleansing, racial purity for the "Chosen" Master Race, and woe to all "inferior" and "subhuman" species of woman and man.
And like the ancient Israelites whose god demanded the death of all inferior "evil" women and men—innocents whose only crime was to live on land the Israeli god had decided should belong to his own "godly children"—Adolf Hitler proclaimed that the lands should be cleansed of all inferior peoples.
Yes, young Adolf was inspired by none other than the good ol' US of A. Born in 1889, the year before Wounded Knee, Hitler was well aware of the American Holocaust.
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 Duchy Holstein
In 1237, Duke Abel of Schleswig marries the daughter of Count Adolf IV of Holstein-Stormarn and thus establishes a relationship between the two houses.
The newly crowned Danish King Christopher III is forced on April 30, 1440 to transfer the entire Duchy of Schleswig to Duke Adolf VIII as hereditary fiefdom.
A further partitioning occurs in 1581 when the Hadersleben [Haderslev] part is divided between King Frederik II and Duke Adolf II of Gottorf: Duke Adolf received the districts of Tondern [Tønder], Lügumkloster [Løgumkloster] and Bordesholm in addition to Nordstrand, the Osterharde on Föhr, Sylt, Fehmarn as well as the northern part of Dithmarschen.
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 Edward VIII — FactMonster.com
Edward VIII, 1894–1972, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1936), known in later years as the duke of Windsor; eldest son of
In World War II the duke went to France as a major general, serving briefly as a liaison officer between British and French headquarters.
Mary, 1867–1953, queen consort of George V of England - Mary Mary, 1867–1953, queen consort of George V of England.
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 The Predicament of the Christian Historian1
Adolf von Harnack was one of the most celebrated humanistic scholars of his time and, by common consent, the outstanding–and the most controversial–historian of Christianity in the learned world.
As Karl Barth once lamented, evidently contrasting his teacher Adolf Harnack (and Harnack's most significant predecessor, Ferdinand Christian Baur of Tübingen) with Schleiermacher, "In the history of Protestant theology the nineteenth century brought with it the none too dignified spectacle of a general flight, of those heads that were wisest, into the study of history."
Adolf von Harnack, "Die Religion Goethes in der Epoche seiner Vollendung," Erforschtes und Erlebtes (Gieen, 1923), 141-70.
www.ctinquiry.org /publications/reflections_volume_1/pelikan.htm   (4673 words)

  
 taylorsurname - pafg03 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Johannes Gustafsson was born on 29 Mar 1807 in Abbarp, Gustav Adolf, Skaraborg, Sweden.
Sven Gustafsson was born on 25 Jul 1812 in Starback, Gustav Adolf, Skaraborg, Sweden.
Hedda Lovisa Andersdotter was born on 15 Jun 1817 in Gustav Adolf, Skaraborg, Sweden.
www.eoni.com /~paf/Heather_Web/taylorsurname/pafg03.htm   (1064 words)

  
 Biography of Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler absolutely loved it because it had raised him from a beggar, and sometime later, a street artist, to a hero.
Hess had fallen in love with the greatest mob orator of the century: Adolf Hitler.
In 1923 after the failed Beer Hall Putsch (revolt led by Adolf Hitler to overthrow the government) Hitler and Hess were to share the same cell in Landsdorf Prison.
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 Schleswig-Holstein Question - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A papal dispensation from oaths taken under duress excused a new war; but Valdemar himself was beaten at Bornhovede on the 22nd of July 1227, and Holstein was permanently secured to the house of Schauenburg.
On the death of Christopher eight years later, Adolf's influence secured the election of his nephew Count Christian of Oldenburg to the vacant throne.
On the death of Adolf in 1459 without issue, King Christian I., though he had been forced to swear to the Constitutio Valdemariana, succeeded in asserting his claim to Schleswig in right of King- his mother, Adolf's sister.
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 Oldenburg
Through the influence of his uncle, Duke Adolf VIII of Schleswig, Heilwig's eldest son, Christian, became King of Denmark in 1448, King of Norway in 1450, and King of Sweden in 1457.
He became, after the death of Duke Adolf, Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein.
Christian became the ancestor of the House of Holstein-Oldenburg, branches of which are reigning to-day in Denmark, Greece, Norway, Russia, and Oldenburg.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/oldenburg.html   (2102 words)

  
 Adolf VIII. (Holstein)
Dezember 1459) aus dem Geschlecht der Grafen von Schauenburg und Holstein war Graf von Holstein von 1427 bis 1459 sowie als Adolf I. der Herzog von Schleswig.
Adolf war mit Margarete von Hohnstein verheiratet und verstarb 1459 kinderlos.
Er war der letzte Graf des Schauenburger Geschlechtes in Holstein, abgesehen von der bis 1640 bestehenden Pinneberger Linie des Hauses (siehe auch Zwillingssturz von Gottorf).
www.kalkriese.de /Adolf_VIII._(Holstein).html   (187 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Royalty.nu - Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
King Edward VIII was the eldest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary.
A study of the life of Edward VIII, from boyhood to Prince of Wales, uncrowned King, in exile, and as governor of the Bahamas.
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 Adolf VIII
Adolf VIII is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
At the time of the accession of Christian VIII, 1839, the line of succession and chief cognatic heirs was as follows: Crown Prince Frederik, later Frederik VII of Denmark, only son of the king, born 1808, already once divorced and yet childless.
Landgrave Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark in 1840's to succeed on the Danish throne if the latter's male line dies out.
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 Edward VIII - Biography and Lineol Portrait Figure
Edward VIII, also known as the Duke of Windsor was born on 23rd June 1894 at White Lodge in Surrey, England.
Son of George V and Queen Mary, he was named Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor but was known to his family as "David" and later became publicly known as the Duke of Windsor.
However, there was no proof of this, albeit it was known that he sympathized with the Nazis.
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 The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor
One of the biggest public relations hoaxes ever perpetrated by the British Crown, is that King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1938, due to his support for the Nazis, was a ``fl sheep,'' an aberration in an otherwise unblemished Windsor line.
When Philip arrived at Hahn's school in Schloss Salem, it was in control of the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party, and the curriculum had become Nazi ``race science.'' Hahn became an adviser to the Foreign Office in London, urging policies of appeasement based upon appeals to the ``centrist'' Nazis.
Prince Christoph's brother, Philip of Hesse, married a daughter of the King of Italy, and became the official liaison between the Nazi and Fascist regimes.
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 The Words of Adolf Hitler
The foundation stone of Adolf Hitler’s doctrine is represented by His book, Mein Kampf—My Struggle—in which He sets forth the essential tenets of a new faith.
To make the teachings of Adolf Hitler more accessible to the adherents of our Movement, as well as others, we offer this selection of some of the most relevant and poignant quotations contained in that monumental work.
Uppermost in mind in the selection of these quotations has been the need to provide a concise stock of material which can be readily committed to memory as a useful reference and guide in daily life.
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 Von Willebrand disease definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Von Willebrand factor is also a carrier of clotting factor VIII, another protein that helps the blood to clot.
Levels of factor VIII may also be lower than normal.
In 1925 von Willebrand saw as a 5-year-old patient from the Åland Islands in the Sea of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden.
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 ADOLF MALKIEWICZ FAMILY
Adolf Stanislaus died in Rosita, Custer, Colorado on 1 May 1932, he was 59.
On 18 Jun 1893 when Adolf Stanislaus was 20, he married Eva L. Wilczewski, daughter of Joseph Wilczewski & Julianna Justiewicz, in Syracuse, New Youk.
Born on 24 Dec 1867 in Lissewo, Germany.
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