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  Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees - pafg549 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Albrecht Achilles Elector Of BRANDENBURG [Parents] was born on 24 Nov 1414 in, Tangermhunde, Saxony, Prussia.
Albrecht Margrave Of BRANDENBURG was born on 16 Jul 1470 in, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.
Albrecht Margrave Of BRANDENBURG was born on 5 Mar 1466 in Of, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia.
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 Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert III (in German Albrecht Achilles), (9 November 1414 – 11 March 1486), Margrave of Brandenburg, given the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities, was the third son of Frederick I of Brandenburg of Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg, later Burgrave of Nuremberg, and was born at Tangermunde.
Albert Achilles had a son named Frederick V, Margrave of Ansbach.
After passing some time at the court of the emperor Sigismund, he took part in the war against the Hussites, and afterwards distinguished himself whilst assisting the German king, Albert II, against the Poles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albrecht_Achilles   (742 words)

  
 U-Boat Operations
Albrecht Achilles hit nine ships on this patrol, one was from convoy ON-60.
U-161 departed under Albrecht Achilles from Lorient on 28th Apr 1942 and arrived back at Lorient on 7th Aug 1942 after fourteen and a half weeks on patrol.
Albrecht Achilles hit three ships on this patrol, one was from convoy AS-4.
u-boat.info /ops/boat.cgi?boat=161   (625 words)

  
 Order Swordbruden Brethen of the Sword
To meet the threat posed by the powerful Albrecht Achilles of Habsburg, the men of Ulm in Lucerne decided to build up their forces in preparation for a confrontation.
Shortly afterwards Albrecht sent a message to the town forces inviting them to come and fish in the pond at Pillenreuth.
When the forces of Albrecht Achilles met the town army they wished to destroy the pikes of the Swiss contingent first.
users.bigpond.net.au /defendersoflight/camppillenreuth.html   (367 words)

  
 At the Times of Jan van Eyck and the 'Housebook Master' Albrecht Dürer the Elder
The very respected Albrecht Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg since 1470, is mentioned to have been pock-marked all over his body, surely a good reason for the growing of a beard.
Beside the supposed Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg there stands in the central group a smartly dressed man, who I guess may be meant to show Elector Friedrich I, der Siegreiche, of Pfalz; he was probably not wanted at the peace conference owing to certain ties to Charles the Bold.
His son Eitel Friedrich II of Zollern (Eitelfritz) was born in 1452, raised at the court of Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg in Ansbach and educated together with his elder brother Friedrich at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Erfurt in the late 1460s.
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 Righteous Ally and Achilles Heels : RFID News
"Privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht, an opponent of the use of radio tags on consumer goods and in ID documents, is a woman any X-Files fan could love.
Albrecht and the EFF have misguided a grassroots movement.
Instead of lobbying for federal guidelines on how identifying information is collected and stored, resources are devoted to preventing elementary school identification cards and being spied on by razor blades.
www.rfidnews.org /weblog/2005/07/15/righteous-ally-and-achilles-heels   (326 words)

  
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Albrecht von Eyb One of the earliest German humanists, born in 1420 near Anabach in Franconia; died in 1475.
After preliminary studies at Erfurt he went to Italy and devoted himself to humanistic study at the Universities of Pavia and Bologna.
In 1462 he became archdeacon of Würzburg, not, however, without encountering violent opposition from the Bishop of Würzburg, who hated Eyb as a partisan of the Hohenzollern Margrave, Albrecht Achilles.
www.ewtn.com /library/HOMELIBR/05731B.TXT   (499 words)

  
 Foundation Chronicles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A deal is cut to fund a new von Hausser project, Project: Achilles, to produce super soldiers for the Grand Imperium.
Project: Achilles headquarters is setup in the new Grand Imperium research facility near Bruneau, Idaho.
Project: Achilles headquarters and test subjects are lost when the Wardens with the help of Gauss and Surge raid the base near Bruneau, Idaho.
foundation.angeva.com /histories/timelines/tl-grandempire2.asp   (2280 words)

  
 Schoeck Penthesliea [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- April 2003 MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The queen is thrown from her horse by Achilles who spares her.
When he comes to her with the intention of declaring his unconditional love for her she wounds him with an arrow and sets her dogs on him.
Learning the truth about Achilles’ feelings she collapses into madness and at his funeral flings herself across his corpse and dies.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/May03/schoeck_penthesliea.htm   (752 words)

  
 Balthasar Augustin Albrecht (1687 - 1765) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Johann Balthasar Probst, Achilles is given in care of the clever Chiron to acheive the art of fighting, 17th - 18th century
From Albrecht Dürer’s 17th-century studies of the male figure to Kenyon Cox’s late 19th-century drawings of male nude models, a wide array of images will allow viewers to discover the ways in which real and mythical male bodies were dr...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, examining for the first time the extraordinary artistic and cultural impact of husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames on twentieth-centu...
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 Index to Obituaries in the Mennonite Weekly Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Albrecht*, Helen Jantzen 1878, 4 Sept 1952 p.
Albrecht, John (Mrs.) 1896?, 20 Jun 1974 p.
Albrecht, Mary Preheim (John Albrecht; Jonas Preheim) 1881?, 2 Dec 1965 p.
www.bethelks.edu /services/mla/holdings/mwr/mwra.php   (1743 words)

  
 Deutsche Wappen (Gemeindewappen Kreiswappen) - BAYREUTH
Already in the 15th century the two sticks were placed on the quartered fl and silver arms of the margraves form the Hohenzollern dynasty.
On December 22, 1457 Margrave Albrecht Achilles officially granted the city the present arms, but with, as was usual at the time, the mantling, helmet and crest of the family (see image below).
The arms thus show the arms of the dynasty (fl and white quartering), the lion as the arms of the State of Nürnberg and the two sticks.
www.ngw.nl /int/dld/b/bayreuth.htm   (397 words)

  
 Women in power 1450-1500
In the end she retired to her dowry, before she married Archduke Albrecht VI., the younger brother of Emperor Friedrichs III, though they mainly lived apart, from 1456 mainly in Rottenburg lebte, but she remained in the possession of her main dowry Böblingen.
She was a daughter of Emperor Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia and Hungary and Elisabeth of Bohemia-Hungaria (1437-48), and lived (1436–1505).
She was daughter of margrave Albrecht Achilles Hohenzollern and his wife Anna, and lived (1464-1515).
www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower1450.htm   (7425 words)

  
 Ansbach, Germany
Ansbach became the permanent residence of the Franconian Hohenzollerns.
Magnificent jousts were seen during the reign of Albrecht Achilles (1400-1486).
When Reformation came, Margrave George the Pious supported Martin Luther and the first neoclassic houses in the center of town were built during his reign and that of his son, Georg Friedrich (1557-1603), who ruled the country peacefully.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/ansbach.htm   (633 words)

  
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Albrecht, A. W.-Dr. and Elinor Emily F. - Married, 1920's
Albrecht, Charles and Lizzie A. - Married, 1880's
Albrecht, daughter of Rev. Imanuel and John-Rev. B.
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 uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - Fairport (Steam merchant)
At 15.43 hours on 16 Jul, 1942, U-161 attacked the convoy AS-4 about 500 miles north of St.Thomas, Virgin Islands and observed two hits on a first ship after 2 minutes 32 seconds and heard a third detonation after 3 minutes 35 seconds.
Achilles reported one ship sunk and another possible damaged.
In fact, only the Fairport was sunk by two torpedoes.
uboat.net /allies/merchants/1939.html   (308 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
1298-1308: ALBERT I HABSBURG (Albrecht I; Duke of Austria)
DUCHY OF PRUSSIA 1525-1701 (POLISH FIEF TO 1657):
1592-1628 and 1631-58: Adolphus Frederick I (Adolf Friedrich I) 1628-1631: Albert of Waldstein (Albrecht von Waldstein)
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 National Team - U 18 - EC 2000 in Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Only a century later, the Hohenzollern era began for Ansbach.
Under margrave Albrecht Achilles the town turned into a shining residency within the realm.
The splendour of Baroque absolutism was reflected in 18th century Ansbach, when the art of Rococo architects such as Gabriel de Gabriell and Johann David Steingruber reached its perfection.
www.dfb.de /dfb-team/jugend/u18/em/orte/e_ansb.html   (486 words)

  
 Military History - Pen and Sword Books, military history book publisher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The following six years of bitter combat found the flotilla at the forefront of distant operations.
Leading the attack, Legendary commanders such as Albrecht Achilles, Werner Hartenstein and Reinhard Hardegen littered the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with the twisted steel of sunken ships.
Drawn extensively from various war diaries and veterans¹ personal reminiscences, the Second U-Boat Flotilla describes the tumultuous fortunes of the most successful unit of Karl Donitz¹s Grey Wolves.
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk /cgi-bin/uk/0104.html   (130 words)

  
 Hotel Franke, Albrecht Achilles Strasse 57, Berlin, Stadt Berlin, Berlin, 10709, Germany
Hotel Franke, Albrecht Achilles Strasse 57, Berlin, Stadt Berlin, Berlin, 10709, Germany
Hotel Franke, Albrecht Achilles Strasse 57, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 10709
Albrecht Achilles Strasse 57, Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 10709
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 Second U-boat Flotilla - Lawrence Paterson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Three years later, Fritz-Julius Lemp's tragic sinking of the Athenia in another 'Saltzwedel' boat, triggered Germany's U-boat war against England.
Leading the attack on the Americas, India, Africa and the oil-rich Caribbean merchant traffic, men such as Albrecht Achilles, Werner Hartenstein and Reinhard Hardegen littered the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with the twisted steel of sunken ships.
However, while the Second U-boat Flotilla mounted the most shattering submarine offensives of the Second World War, it was the intact capture of two of its boats, complete with their Enigma code machines, that would ultimately spell doom for Germany's undersea warriors.
www.uboatwar.net /2uboatbk.htm   (232 words)

  
 Achilles
1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1894 Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1486 Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71
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 Images
The links are to the image files in the Perseus Project obtained by permission from the following museums: Berlin Antikenmuseen (BA), Musee du Louvre (L), Boston Museum of Fine Arts (BMFA), Harvard University Art Museum (HU), University of Mississippi (UM), University of Pennsylvania (UP), and the Toledo Museum of Art (T).
Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game (BA)
Peleus Bringing the child Achilles to Chiron (L)
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 Mark Franke - Franke
In week 4 of Tour De Franke, Eric went from Waunakee to Middleton after viewer e-mail reminded him that Money Magazine named Middleton the seventh best place to live in America.
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 Prussia
1i) Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Karl Feodor (Berlin 26 Dec 1912-Wiesbaden 12 Jun 1985); m.Dresden 19 Dec 1938 Armgard Weygand (Mainz 22 Aug 1912- Wiesbaden 3 Dec 2001)
3j) Helmut Albrecht Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Piltz, b.Frankfurt 24 Jun 1969
11i) Rudolf Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Gunther Hug, b.Stuttgart 22 Jun 1957; m.Gabriele Albrecht
pages.prodigy.net /ptheroff/gotha/prussia.html   (5282 words)

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