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  Germany. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Germany is a federal republic whose 16 states have their own constitutions, legislatures, and governments, which can pass laws on all matters except those that are the exclusive right of the federal government such as defense, foreign affairs, and finance.
The chief theater of the war, Germany was reduced to misery and starvation, lost a large part of its population, and became, as a result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648; see Westphalia, Peace of), a loose confederation of petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor.
In Mar., 1936, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon and Albert proved to the world that the Church is not opposed to the study of nature, that faith and science may go hand in hand; their lives and their writings emphasize the importance of experiment and investigation.
Albert respected authority and traditions, was prudent in proposing the results of his investigations, and hence "contributed far more than Bacon did to the advancement of science in the thirteenth century" (Turner, Hist.
This doctrine Albert based upon the Distinction of the universal ante rem (an idea or archetype in the mind of God), in re (existing or capable of existing in many individuals), and post rem (as a concept abstracted by the mind, and compared with the individuals of which it can be predicated).
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 Monarchie - Albert II
Albert II King Albert II was born in Brussels, at the Chateau of Stuyvenberg, on 6 June 1934.
King Albert II, who was given the title of "Prince of Liège" on birth, is the son of King Leopold III and of Queen Astrid, born Princess of Sweden.
King Albert II and Queen Paola have three children: Prince Philippe (born on 15 April 1960), Princess Astrid (born on 5 June 1962) and Prince Laurent (born 19 October 1963).
www.monarchie.be /en/monarchy/history/albert_II.html   (542 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
Albert II of Habsburg (August 10, 1397 – October 27, 1439), was King of the Romans (ruler of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire) from 1438 until his death, as well as King of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) Duke of Austria
He was born in Vienna, the son of Albert IV of Austria, Duke of Austria.
Her maternal grandfather was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary).
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 Albert II of Germany
Albert II Habsburg (1397 - 1439), German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was born on August 10, 1397, the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria.
When Sigismund died in 1437, Albert was crowned king of Hungary on January 1, 1438, and although crowned king of Bohemia six months later, he was unable to obtain possession of the country.
Albert was an energetic and warlike prince, whose short reign gave great promise of usefulness for Germany.
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 William II (of Germany and Prussia) - MSN Encarta
William II's first major action as emperor was his dismissal in 1890 of the aged chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck, who had been largely responsible for the growth of the German Empire under the emperor's grandfather, William I.
Thereafter William II participated significantly, often decisively, in the formulation of foreign and domestic policies.
His administration of internal affairs was marked by the rapid transformation of Germany from an agricultural to a major industrial state and by the accompanying development of serious problems in capital-labor relations.
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 World Almanac for Kids
Germany has a temperate climate; the lowlands of the N are somewhat warmer than the higher elevations in the central and S regions.
Germany’s principal seaports are Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea, and Lübeck and Rostock on the Baltic.
Albert II died in the midst of civil war in Bohemia and an Ottoman invasion of Hungary.
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 Germany - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Germany is an ancient nation-state in the European Alliance on Earth's European continent.
One of the most famous Germans of the 20th century was the physicist Albert Einstein who formulated the Theory of Relativity.
During the 20th century, as one of the Axis Powers, Germany saw its darkest period under the lead of Adolf Hitler being one of the combatants in the Second World War.
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 Wilhelm II of Germany:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
William II or Wilhelm II (born Frederick William Albert Victor; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Victor) (27 January 1859–4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (German: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling both the German Empire and Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.
The role of William II in German history is sometimes a controversial issue in historical scholarship.
Bismarck resigned at William II's insistence in 1890, at age 75, to be succeeded as Chancellor of Germany and Minister-President of Prussia by Leo von Caprivi, who in turn was replaced by Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst in 1894.
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 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
All these tribes in Germany were eventually subjugated by the Franks, the Alemanni in 496 and 505, the Thuringians in 531, the Bavarians at some point after 553, and then finally the Saxons, in a protracted campaign by Charlemagne himself, by 804.
Albert IV The Saxons were the last German tribe to be conquered by the Franks and Christianized.
Albert's elder brother, Ernest II, succeeded to the Duchy; but when Ernest died in 1893, the Duchy was passed to Albert and Victoria's son Alfred, and when he died in 1900, to their grandson Charles Edward.
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 Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born on 14th March, 1879 at Ulm, Germany.
Albert Einstein began school in Munich, but does not seem to have been particularly interested in what was offered there.
Albert Einstein became a temporary teacher of mathematics, first at the Technical High School in Winterthur, and secondly at a private school at Schaffhausen.
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 Richest Germans: Silver Spoon Baby | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 10.12.2005
Albert II, Prince of Thurn and Taxis was born into his wealthy surroundings, and at the tender age of just 22, he is not only the hereditary head of the family estate, but officially Germany's youngest billionaire.
Prince Albert II was born to Johannes, Prince of Thurn and Taxis and Gloria Maria Thurn und Taxis (nee Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau) in the southern German city of Regensburg in 1983.
Albert, who is reckoned to be worth 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) is the twelfth head of the family since it was granted aristocratic status.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Albert II
Otto proceeded to Rome, accompanied by Albert, where hi was crowned by the Pope on 4 Oct., 1209, and soon after seized Ancona and Spoleto--part of the papal territories.
Albert, after some hesitation, published the bull of excommunication and thenceforth transferred his allegiance to Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, son of Henry VI.
Albert is said to have died in 1232 during an interval of peace between the Empire and the Papacy.
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 Leaders and Battles: Albert II,
Albert II of Germany and V of Austria (Albert II of Hapsburg)
German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and duke of Austria (Albert V).
Albert assisted the German emperor Sigismund, who was also the king of Hungary and Bohemia, in his campaigns against the Hussites.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John I Albert of Poland (, 1459 – 1501) was King of Poland (1492 – 1501), Duke of Głogów (1491 - 1498).
He was the third son of Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland, and Elizabeth, daughter of Albert II of Germany.
At the conference of Leutschau (1494) the details of the expedition were arranged between the kings of Poland and Hungary and the Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg, with the co-operation of Stephen III of Moldavia, hospodar of Moldavia, who had appealed to John for assistance.
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 King Albert I
Albert, the younger son of Philip, Count of Flanders, was born in 1875.
Albert responded by taking personal command of the armed forces and although outnumbered, decided to resist the German invasion that began on 4th August.
Albert took command of the Belgian Army in the Courtrai offensive against the Central Powers during the autumn of 1918 and on 22nd November he entered Brussels in triumph.
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 Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century.
He was supposed to remain in Germany and finish school.
Hitler was rising to power in Germany, and though Einstein had renewed his German citizenship, he was considered suspect as both a Jew and a pacifist.
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 Albert Einstein - Biography
Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879.
Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics.
After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined, and he collaborated with Dr. Chaim Weizmann in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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 Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The era from 1914 to 1990 has been tumultuous and often horrific but, at the dawn of the 21st century, Germany seems to have achieved a level of unity seldom seen previously.
A record of the rulers of German states is an exceedingly complex undertaking, inasmuch as German feudal theory encouraged rampant subdivision of territories within various branches of governing noble families.
These conditions created between the 12th and 18th centuries many hundreds of small or often miniscule statelets, each with a considerable degree of autonomy, each with its own peculiar traditions and customs, and each liable to be united with its neighbours - or further subdivided - depending upon genealogical accident.
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 St. Casimir
Prince of Poland, born in the royal palace at Cracow, 3 October, 1458; died at the court of Grodno, 4 March, 1484.
He was the grandson of Wladislaus II Jagiello, King of Poland, who introduced Christianity into Lithuania, and the second son of King Casimir IV and Queen Elizabeth, an Austrian princess, the daughter of Albert II, Emperor of Germany and King of Bohemia and Hungary.
Of his four younger brothers, John I, Albert, Alexander, and Sigismund in turn occupied the Polish throne, while Frederick, the youngest, became Archbishop of Gnesen, Bishop of Cracow, and finally cardinal, in 1493.
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 St. Albert the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was known as the "teacher of everything there is to know," was a scientist long before the age of science, was considered a wizard and magician in his own lifetime, and became the teacher and mentor of that other remarkable mind of his time, St. Thomas Aquinas.
Albert the Great was born in Lauingen on the Danube, near Ulm, Germany; his father was a military lord in the army of Emperor Frederick II.
As a young man Albert studied at the University of Padua and there fell under the spell of Blessed Jordan of Saxony, the Dominican who made the rounds of the universities of Europe drawing the best young men of the universities into the Dominicans.
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 Biography
In 1945, after Germany surrendered, Speer was put on trial as a war criminal at Nuremberg, Germany.
Largely because of the OT's wide use of slave labor, Speer was sentenced (1946) to imprisonment for 20 years by the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal.
Thereafter he became convinced that Germany must try to lose the war, as she was bound to do, with the least possible long-term damage to her economy and, when he became aware of Hitler's nihilistic intentions, did what he could to thwart them - towards the end with decreasing care for secrecy.
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 Ancestors and Family of William II of Germany Hohenzollern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
William II (1859-1941, ruled 1888-1918), the last German emperor, gave up his throne when Germany was defeated in World War I. He was the grandson of William I and the eldest son of Frederick III.
Germany at this time was forging rapidly ahead to become a great industrial nation.
Germany, along with the major powers of Europe, was drawn into World War I. Although he was nominally the German supreme commander during the war, he did not interfere when his generals took the conduct of the war into their hands.
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 Namnlöst dokument
Leopold I died on the 10 of December 1865 and was succeeded by his son, Leopold II.
Albert I of the Belgians and Queen Elizabeth (née Duchess in Bavaria).
He died on the 31 of July 1993 and was succeeded by his brother, King Albert II.
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 The Role of Synthetic Fuel In World War II Germany
For Germany, it was precisely the outbreak of the war in 1939 and the concurrent termination of overseas imports that most endangered its ability to conduct mobile warfare.
Furthermore, Germany’s leadership increasingly was concerned with the requirements of a war economy, and after 1938 these concerns occupied a substantial position.
With respect to the first reason, Germany’s armaments blanket was simply too thin when the war broke out and instead of broadening Germany’s armaments base it became necessary to supply the existing plants so that they could produce arms at an optimal rate.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/becker.htm   (4742 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer: Books: Dan Van Der Vat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BERTHOLD KONRAD HERMANN ALBERT SPEER was born at 11.15 a.m.
Albert Speer had admitted that he knew something was going on in the concentration camps, but could not bring himself to investigate it.
Albert Speer was a Nazi and an evil man, if for nothing else than being a part of that regime and for not investigating further into its atrocities which was his duty.
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 Albert II of Germany Details, Meaning Albert II of Germany Article and Explanation Guide
Albert II of Germany Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
Elizabeth (1438-1505), who married Casimir IV of Poland, and whose son Ladislas VI of Bohemia later became king of Bohemia and Hungary.
This is an Article on Albert II of Germany.
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 Dunlop Tires | Latest News
It was Albert Andrade’s dad who got him started on cars, and he climbed behind the wheel for the first time when he was only 12-years-old.
Albert has attended the Skip Barber Racing School, and describes his driving style as “loose, yet smooth.”
Albert says that what he loves most about motorsports are “the Gs.” So he's looking forward to lots of cornering during the upcoming competition.
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