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  Luxembourg (country) - Search View - MSN Encarta
Luxembourg is part of the geological region in which the Lorraine plateau of northern France meets the hills of southwest Belgium and the Mosel (Moselle) Valley and Rhineland of western Germany.
Northern Luxembourg is crossed by the foothills of the Ardennes to the west.
Luxembourg was among the first group of EU member states to adopt the euro, which entered use for accounting purposes and financial transfers beginning in 1999.
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 Adolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolf, or Adolph, was a popular given name, especially in the German-speaking countries and in Scandinavia, but is rarely given today because of the association with Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Adolf Fredriks kyrka, a church in Stockholm, Sweden
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 Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 at Braunau am Inn, Austria, a small town in Upper Austria, on the border with Germany.
Adolf was legally born a Hitler, however, and was also closely related to Hiedler through his maternal grandmother, Johanna Hiedler.
Adolf Hitler was brought up in his family's religion by his Roman Catholic parents, but as a school boy he began to reject the Church and Catholicism.
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 Luxembourg - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Luxembourg is drained by the Sûre (Sauer) and Alzette rivers, both tributaries of the Moselle (Mosel), which forms part of its eastern border.
Luxembourg's grand duke is the titular head of state; the head of government is the prime minister, who is aided by a council of ministers.
The county of Luxembourg (originally Lützelburg), extending between the Meuse and Moselle rivers and including the Luxembourg province of Belgium, was one of the largest fiefs in the Holy Roman Empire.
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 Adolf Hitler Biography
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20 1889 at Braunau-am-Inn, a small town near Linz in the province of Upper Austria, near the German border, in what was then Austria-Hungary.
Adolf Hitler never used the name Schicklgruber: this was a canard circulated later by his political enemies—as were insinuations that he was of Jewish descent.
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 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Adolf Hitler (April 20 1889 – April 30 1945) was the Führer (Leader) of Nazi Germany and of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party.
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 what was then Austria-Hungary.
Adolf was an intelligent but moody boy he twice failed to pass the high admission examinations in Linz.
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 Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River from Germany.
Adolf received good marks in primary school, but he was a poor student in secondary school.
Adolf had an income from the money his mother left her children and inherited some money from his aunt.
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 Luxembourg, grand duchy, W Europe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Tourism is also important, and Luxembourg derives great economic benefits as a center for many European Union functions, including the European Investment Bank and the European Court of Justice.
Grand Duke Adolf was followed in 1905 by William IV and in 1912 by Marie Adelaide.
In 1961, Prince Jean, son and heir of Grand Duchess Charlotte, was made his mother’s representative as head of state; she formally abdicated in 1964, and Prince Jean became grand duke.
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 Adolf Hitler - Uncyclopedia
Adolf "Elizabeth" Hitler (née Adolf Schickelgruber, A Golf Hitter), famous humanitarian rabbi, jazz trumpeter, brother of Mother Theresa and Carol Vorderman, and father of Yoko Ono (May 41, 1939–July 4, 1945).
Adolf Hitler served as a ninja in World War II, which he referred to as "Operation European freedom", running messages, selling medicated condoms and starting Der Frontseite Westliche Choralgruppe, a musical comedy team that remains active to this very day.
Adolf Hitler, in his infamous attempt to reinvent himself as a member of the Republican party.
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 Royalty.nu - Grand Dukes and Duchesses of Luxembourg, the House of Nassau
Luxembourg is a constitutional monarchy; the grand duke is the head of state, but he swears to observe the country's laws and has little political power.
In the early Middle Ages, Luxembourg belonged to the Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Lotharingia, and became part of the Holy Roman Empire.
France conquered the Austrian Netherlands in 1795, and for the next 20 years Luxembourg was France's "Department of Forests." In 1815, after the overthrow of Napoleon I, the Congress of Vienna granted Luxembourg independence as a grand duchy and gave it to King William I of the Netherlands.
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 Adolf Schreyer - LoveToKnow 1911
ADOLF SCHREYER (1828-1899), German painter, was born at Frankfort-on-Main, and studied art first at the Staedel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart, Munich, and Dusseldorf; but he formed his style in Paris, whilst he found his favourite subjects in his travels in the East.
Of his battle-pictures there are two at the Schwerin Gallery, and others in the collection of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the Ravene Gallery, Berlin.
His painting of a "Charge of Artillery of Imperial Guard" was formerly at the Luxembourg Museum.
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 HELLO! Royalty
After 400 years of being passed between various European nations, in 1815 Luxembourg was declared a grand duchy and gifted by the Congress of Vienna to King William I of The Netherlands.
In 1914 Luxembourg was overrun by German troops and remained under occupation for the duration of the war.
Today Luxembourg is ruled by the sixth grand duke, Henri, who came to power on October 7, 2000, when his father, Grand Duke Jean, abdicated.
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 Adolf Hitler Resource Page - adof hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, at Braunau am Inn, Austria, a small town 90 km (55 miles) west of Linz in the province of Upper Austria, on the bank of the River Inn, which formed the border between Germany and what was then Austria-Hungary.
In adolf hittler July 1919, Hitler was appointed a V-Mann (Verbindungsmann is the German term for a police spy) of "Aufklärungskommando" ("Intelligence Commando") of the Reichswehr, for the purpose of influencing other soldiers towards similar ideas and was assigned to infiltrate a small nationalist party, the German Workers' Party (DAP).
When adolf hitlers life they realized the loss of Hitler would effectively mean the end of the Party, he seized the moment and announced he would religion of adolph hitler return on the condition that he was made chairman and given dictatorial powers.
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 ADOLF OF NASSAU. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He owed his election to the ecclesiastical electors, who, fearing the growing power and ambition of the Hapsburgs, chose him rather than Albert of Austria (later King Albert I), son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg.
Seeking to strengthen his rule by establishing a territorial power of his own, Adolf seized Meissen and Thuringia.
He entered into an alliance with Edward I of England against Philip IV of France in an effort to halt French encroachment of German territory; the alliance produced no results, however, and led to Adolf’s deposition (1298) and the election of Albert.
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 Adolf of luxembourg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Grand Duchy
It has been a grand duchy since 1815, when the Netherlands became an independent kingdom and Luxembourg was handed over to the King of the Netherlands, William I.
Luxembourg remained a Dutch dominion until 1890, when King William III of the Netherlands, who was also Grand Duke Guillaume III of Luxembourg, died without leaving a male heir to the Luxembourgian Grand Duchy.
The throne then passed to his cousin, Duke Adolf of Nassau who became HRH Grand Duke Adolf I of Luxembourg.
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 Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because Adolf's mother was his father's second cousin, an episcopal dispensation had to be obtained for the marriage.
Adolf Hitler with Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS
Adolf Hitler was brought up as a Roman Catholic by his Roman Catholic parents.
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 Luxembourg : In Depth : Dateline | Frommers.com
1308 Henry VII, count of Luxembourg, is elected king of Germany, and in 1312 is crowned Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
1506 Luxembourg is inherited by the future Habsburg Emperor and King of Spain Charles V. Following the 1554 destruction of the Town Hall by a gunpowder explosion, construction is completed on the original wing of the ducal palace.
Adolf of Nassau serves as the first "indigenous" grand duke.
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 Namnlöst dokument
When King Willem I received Luxembourg in exchange for his Nassau territories in 1815 both he, the head of the Branch of Otto, and the Duke of Nassau, the head of the branch of Walram, decided that the Nassau Family Treaty would also apply to the succession in Luxembourg.
His daughter succeeded him as Queen of the Netherlands, but in Luxembourg he was succeeded by the head of the branch of Walram: Duke Adolphe of Nassau, since Luxembourg at that time had Salic law (male succession only).
Grandmasters are the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and the King of the Netherlands.
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 Hexapedia - Adolf of Luxembourg (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg, Adolph Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich of Nassau-Weilburg (July 24, 1817 - November 17, 1905) was the last Duke of Nassau, and the fourth Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
In 1890, when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was excluded from the succession to Luxembourg by the Salic Law, the Grand Duchy passed to the dispossessed Duke Adolph.
One of them was the eldest son, William (1852-1912), who became Grand Duke at his father's death in 1905.
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 Adolf Hitler - Enpsychlopedia
Adolf's strict Catholic upbringing was typical for the region.
Adolf was legally born a Hitler, however, and was also closely related to Hiedler through his mother's family.
Hitler's alleged health problems have long been the subject of debate, and he has variously been suggested to have suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, skin lesions, irregular heartbeat, tremors on the left side of his body, syphilis, Parkinson's disease and a strongly suggested addiction to methamphetamines.
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 Luxembourg: Grand Duke's standard
The difference with the former arms is the inversion of the arms of Luxembourg proper (now in the first and fourth quarters) and of the arms of Nassau (now in the second and third quarters).
My impression is that the cloth covering the coffin resembles the Luxembourg ensign except that the upper and lower bands, white and light blue respectively, were quite thick.
I suspect that this is not intended to be the civil ensign as such but rather a pall of the arms of the Grand Duchy.
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 Luxembourg, grand duchy, W Europe: History
In 1914, Germany violated the neutrality of the grand duchy and occupied it for the duration of World War I. Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide abdicated in 1919 in favor of her sister,
Luxembourg entered the United Nations (1946) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, and it received
In 1958, Luxembourg joined with Belgium and the Netherlands to establish the
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 Adolf Hitler Biography
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945), German political and military leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, in 1889, the fourth child of Klara and Alois Hitler.
Underestimating the Americans, Hitler launched his last reserves west into the Ardennes country of Belgium and Luxembourg in the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944-January 1945).
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 Namnlöst dokument
The low countries (today the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) originally were a part of the Holy Roman Empire.
King Willem I of the Netherlands, who was the owner of the northern part of Nassau, received the Duchy of Luxembourg in exchange.
His daughter succeeded him as Queen of the Netherlands, but in Luxembourg he was succeeded by the head of the branch of Walram: Duke Adolf of Nassau, since Luxembourg at that time had Salic law (male succession only).
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 Adolf Eichmann (1906-62)
SS Lieutenant-Colonel who was Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo during World War II and implemented the 'Final Solution' which aimed at the total extermination of European Jewry, Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen on 19 March 1906.
But at the stage of passing sentence consideration must also, and perhaps primarily, be given to the injury inflicted on the victims as individuals, which was implicit in these crimes, and the immeasurable anguish which they and their families suffered and still suffer to this very day because of these crimes.
This Court sentences Adolf Eichmann to death, for the crimes against the Jewish People, the crimes against humanity and the war crimes of which he has been found guilty.
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 The Ultimate Adolf Hitler Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Hitler wanted to create his own party, but was ordered by his superiors in the Reichswehr to infiltrate an existing one instead.
Between 1942 and 1945 the SS, assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, systematically killed approximately 6 million people in concentration camps, ghettos and mass executions, or through less systematic methods elsewhere.
On 12 March 1938 Hitler pressured his native Austria into unification with Germany (the Anschluss) and made a triumphal entry into Vienna.
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