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  Albrecht Kossel Summary
Albrecht Kossel was one of the earliest scientists to apply the exact methods of organic chemistry to problems in the chemistry of living tissue.
Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was born on September 16, 1853, in Rostock, Germany.
Kossel was born in Rostock as the son of Prussian consul Albrecht Kossel and his wife Clara.
www.bookrags.com /Albrecht_Kossel   (1602 words)

  
  Albert of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert of Sweden (or Albrecht von Mecklenburg in German or Albrekt av Mecklenburg in Swedish) was born in 1338 and became king of Sweden in 1363.
He was the second son of Duke Albert II of Mecklenburg and Euphemia of Sweden {Eriksdotter}, the daughter of duke Erik Magnusson of Södermanland and the sister of king Magnus Eriksson of Sweden.
Albert based his claims on two family ties with the Sverker dynasty of Sweden, both through Albert's mother, through whom he was granted the first spot in the Swedish succession order, and through Kristina Sverkersdotter, a daughter of Sverker II Karlsson of Sweden, also known as Sverker the Young.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_of_Sweden   (530 words)

  
 swissinfo - Swiss skier Albrecht slaloms to Swiss gold.
Albrecht was seventh after the downhill leg and laid down a perfect slalom run for a combined time of 2 minutes, 28.99 seconds.
Albrecht was the 2003 world junior champion in combined, though, and finished fourth in the discipline at the Turin Olympics last year.
Albrecht and Berthod are both 23 and all-around skiers, athletes capable of competing in all four disciplines.
www.swissinfo.org /eng/front/detail/Albrecht_combines_talents_to_take_gold.html?siteSect=105&sid=7510264   (724 words)

  
 Sweden
Charles IX (of Sweden) (1550-1611), king of Sweden (1604-11), the youngest son of King Gustav I Vasa, born in Stockholm.
Zygmunt landed in Sweden in 1598 and was defeated by Charles at Stãngebro.
Gustav VI Adolph (1882-1973), king of Sweden (1950-73), son of King Gustav V, born in Stockholm, and educated at the universities of Uppsala and Oslo.
website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/sweden.htm   (4127 words)

  
 Christian_I_of_Denmark
In Sweden his short tenure as monarch was preceded by viceroys (Regents), Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and Erik Axelsson Tott and succeeded by viceroy (regent) Kettil Karlsson Vasa.
His rival Charles Knutsson having as king of Sweden aroused certain antipathy and driven to exile, Christian finally was, under the idea of Kalmar Union, elected King of Sweden in 1457, receiving power from temporary Swedish regents archbishop Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and lord Erik Axelsson Tott.
Euphemia of Sweden herself was the sister of King Magnus II of Sweden (King Magnus Eriksson) and daughter of Duke Eric of Sudermannia, the second son of Magnus I of Sweden (King Magnus Ladislaus Birgersson).
www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Christian_I_of_Denmark   (880 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Army - Erzherzog Karl Albrecht
Erzherzog Karl Albrecht Nikolaus Leo Gratianus was born on the 18th of December 1888 at Pola as the eldest son of Admiral Erzherzog Karl Stephan and Erzherzogin Maria Theresia.
On the 27th of April 1912 Erzherzog Karl Albrecht received the grand cross of the Bulgarian Order of Cyrill and Methodius and was transferred to the reitende Artillerie Division (Mounted Artillery Detachment) number 2 on the 23rd of September 1912.
Erzherzog Karl Albrecht was now attached to the General staff performing duty at the Landesverteidigungskommando in Tyrol shortly followed by his promotion to Hauptmann on the 1st of March 1915.
www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk /biog/erzhkarlalbrecht.htm   (739 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Albrecht
German Karl Albrecht (born Aug. 6, 1697—died Jan. 20, 1745, Munich) Elector of Bavaria (1726–45) and Holy Roman emperor (1742–45).
Franz Albrecht August Karl Emanuel, prince von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (born Aug. 26, 1819, Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha—died Dec. 14, 1861, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, Eng.) Prince consort of Queen Victoria of Britain and father of Edward VII.
There, in the Thirty Years War, Gustavus II of Sweden defeated (1632) General Albrecht Wallenstein, but was killed in the battle; Marshal Gottfried zu Poppenheim, on the imperial side, was also mortally wounded.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Albrecht&StartAt=21   (895 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Swiss delight as Albrecht grabs men's combined gold
Are, Sweden- Swiss slalom specialist Daniel Albrecht of Switzerland came from seventh in the downhill for a surprise men's super-combined victory at the ski world championships Thursday.
It was the first championship medal for Albrecht, who was fourth in the combined at the 2006 Olympics, and the second upset at the championships after Italy's Patrick Staudacher won the super-g on Tuesday.
Albrecht, 23, clocked 2 minutes 28.99 seconds to beat Raich, who was lying only 13th after the downhill, by 0.08 seconds.
rawstory.com /news/2006/Swiss_delight_as_Albrecht_grabs_men_02082007.html   (341 words)

  
 Chronology of Sweden (1600-1629)
Sweden renounces all claims to the Russian throne and Novgorod, gives back three towns for 20,000 rubles, and holds Gdov until new boundaries are delimited.
Sweden annexes Dagö island, near the coast of Estonia.
Sweden retains control of Livonia and the mouth of the River Vistula.
www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/swedhis/swed1600.htm   (1809 words)

  
 Timeline Sweden
1924 Mar 15, Sweden recognized the U.S.S.R. 1927 Jan 30, Olof Palme, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86), was born in Stockholm.
In Sweden construction of a controversial tunnel was halted when water draining from the tunnel was found to be contaminated by the sealing compound, Rhoca-Gil.
Sweden took advantage by scoring twice, with both goals by Detroit Red Wings players: Henrik Zetterberg slightly less than five minutes into the period and Niklas Kronwall eight minutes later.
timelines.ws /countries/SWEDEN.HTML   (8594 words)

  
 Albert of Sweden - TheBestLinks.com - Albrecht, Mecklenburg, 1389, 1336, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Albert of Sweden - TheBestLinks.com - Albrecht, Mecklenburg, 1389, 1336,...
1336-1412), King of Sweden, Duke of Mecklenburg, son of Albert II of Mecklenburg and Eufemia Eriksdotter, who was daughter to Magnus II of Sweden.
The principal agents behind the throne were his father Albert II of Mecklenburg and the advisors of the Privy Council.
www.thebestlinks.com /Albrecht.html   (119 words)

  
 Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden - WikiMirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was born in Stockholm, the son of Charles IX of the Vasa dynasty and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
He was King of Sweden from 1611, and as such one of the major players in the Thirty Years' War.
The crown of Sweden was inherited in the family of Vasa, and from Charles IX's time excluded those Vasa princes who had been traitors or descended from deposed monarchs.
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Gustavus_Adolphus   (1039 words)

  
 Albrecht von Wallenstein Summary
The Bohemian soldier of fortune Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (1583-1634) was one of the major figures in the Thirty Years War.
Albrecht von Wallenstein was born on Sept. 24, 1583, at Hermanitz in Bohemia of noble family.
Also in 1629 he attempted to aid forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, which were fighting Sweden; however, Wallenstein failed to engagage any major Swedish forces and thus significantly affect the outcome of this conflict.
www.bookrags.com /Albrecht_von_Wallenstein   (1893 words)

  
 Albrecht wins shock super-combined gold, Miller finishes sixth | Sports | Reuters
ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht made his first victory a world gold medal when he surprised the favorites to win the men's super-combined event at the Are championships on Thursday.
Albrecht, who was in seventh position after the downhill section, mastered a tricky slalom course on which many competitors skied out to win in a combined time of two minutes 28.99 seconds.
Albrecht's victory was the second totally unexpected result in as many men's races in the two-week festival after Italian Patrick Staudacher's stunning super-G gold on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com /article/sportsNews/idUSL0876685420070208   (511 words)

  
 Modern Times Group's Hans-Holger Albrecht
President and CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht is confident that his company's cost-efficiency and multiple revenue streams will assure profitability in the future.
ALBRECHT: Two or three years ago, when we bought a big TV event, we aired it on our free-TV channel, we got ratings, and we collected advertising and that was it.
ALBRECHT: Not more complicated than the Baltics, where we are very profitable, and not more complicated than Poland was five years ago.
www.worldscreen.com /print.php?filename=albrecht01.txt   (987 words)

  
 Titles of European hereditary rulers
Sweden aquired Karelia and Ingria by treaty of Stolbovo (1617).
Sweden ceded Livonia, Estonia and Ingria to Russia (1721).
Sweden ceded Bremen and Verden to the Elector of Hanover.
www.geocities.com /eurprin/sweden.html   (6372 words)

  
 Miller finishes 6th in World's combined - Boston.com
Daniel Albrecht of Switzerland celebrates after winning the Men's Combined, at the World Alpine Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007.
ARE, Sweden --This is what happens when Bode Miller fails to finish with a flourish.
The gold medal went to Daniel Albrecht of Switzerland, who was seventh after the downhill leg but had a near-perfect slalom run for a combined time of 2 minutes, 28.99 seconds.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/02/08/daniel_albrecht_wins_combined_ski_race   (730 words)

  
 Artnews.info: Albrecht Tübke
My first experience of Albrecht Tübke's exacting photographic sensibility, and the quietude of his images, was seeing his Dalliendorf series.
Dalliendorf is a small village in the north east of Germany where Albrecht Tubke came to live with his family when he was ten years old.
Albrecht Tubke's acute sensitivity to the fragile but recordable relationships that are struck between photographers and their subjects is born out in the series Citizens with a different emphasis than his earlier work.
www.artnews.info /artist.php?i=27   (778 words)

  
 JHR Abstracts Volume 34, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Albrecht, James W., Per-Anders Edin, Marianne Sundström, and Susan B. Vroman.
James W. Albrecht and Susan B. Vroman are professors of economics at Georgetown University.
Albrecht and Vroman thank the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Institute for Social Research of Stockholm University, and the Swedish Council for Work Life Research, and Sundstrom thanks the Swedish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences for financial support.
www.ssc.wisc.edu /jhr/1999ab/albrecht.html   (279 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal Court of Sweden
Albert of Sweden (or Albrecht von Mecklenburg in German) was born in 1338 and was elected king of Sweden in 1363.
This treaty is signed to establish the border between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of Novgorod and as a token of friendship to end the hostilities between the two soverign countries.
Sweden at this time can be said to consist of six rich agricultural provinces with great plains, their neighboring dark woods (see the table) and the more independent people at the coast and in the archipelago.
forum.paradoxplaza.com /forum/showthread.php?t=201485   (12500 words)

  
 Three crowns of Sweden
This cross flag Sweden became the sign of the Swedish state under the reign of Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) [abe74, pp 13-23].
Svane's argument that the three crowns were adopted by Albrecht of Mecklenburg - the long dominant view - has been killed, because the arms of Sweden was discovered in an Avignon palace fresco dated to 1336.
Royal Standard on the other hand is the three-tongued flag with the large coat of arms on a white field in the intersection of the arms of the cross.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/se-3kron.html   (786 words)

  
 ALBRECHT in Sweden?
Cannot find birth record/info for German grt grandfather Carl Theodore ALBRECHT, born abt 29 July 1849.
His parents were German (names yet unknown) but there is reference made to the possibility that Carl may have actually been born in Sweden.
Later, prior to emigrating from Germany (via Hamburg) in Nov 1881 Carl, his wife Marie (WAGNER) and their 4 children were "from" area of Griebenow, near Grimmen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
genforum.genealogy.com /sweden/messages/25851.html   (82 words)

  
 Norway & Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Being the grandson of Haakon V, King of Norway, and a nephew of Birger, King of Sweden, Magnus had claims to both kingdoms and was accepted in Norway on Haakon's death and in Sweden when Birger was deposed.
But the nobility responded by inviting Albrecht, son of the Duke of Mecklenburg, to invade Sweden.
During the offensive Magnus II was captured and held in prison until 1371 when he left for Sweden.
www.heritagesites.eu.com /norway/bohus.htm   (364 words)

  
 Albrecht von Wallenstein
He grew more and more involved in negotiations which finally led him into treason against the emperor.
Sometimes he was engaged in negotiations with the Swedes, sometimes with Saxony against Sweden and the Habsburgs, and finally even with France.
At one time he desired, by combining with the estates of the empire, to establish peace.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/wallenstein,albrecht_von.html   (1683 words)

  
 Katherine Albrecht: Religiously Motivated?
Wired News this week did an article on Albrecht, which noted her impressive academic credentials (a masters from Harvard, with a doctorate from same in the works), media savvy (hundreds of interviews, including Business Week and Times of London), and good looks ("youthful-looking and attractive, with fair skin and cherry-blonde hair").
Anyone who has seen an Albrecht interview, whether or not they agree with her, is immediately struck by her effectiveness.
According to Wired, she worries -- as many Christians with literal interpretations of the Bible do -- that RFID may be the technological enabler of the Mark of the Beast described in the Book of Revelations as one of many signs heralding the biblical end of the world.
www.rfidupdate.com /articles/index.php?id=912&from=righttag   (476 words)

  
 Dnaiel Albrecht Wins Combined Ski Race - Central Florida News 13
Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht won the combined at the world ski championships Thursday, with Bode Miller finishing sixth after leading the downhill portion of the event.
Albrecht was seventh after the downhill but delivered a perfect slalom run for a combined time of 2 minutes, 28.99 seconds.
The American lost more than half his lead at the split point and couldn't ski anywhere near as fast as Albrecht on the bottom portion.
www.cfnews13.com /Sports/SportsHeadlines/2007/2/8/dnaiel_albrecht_wins_combined_ski_race.html   (415 words)

  
 Skiing: Raich happy with silver in a Swiss sandwich
Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht competes during the men's combined slalom at the world ski championships in Are, Sweden.
Albrecht grabbed a first world title at his first attempt when he dominated the men's super-combined.
Albrecht was surprised when he pushed Raich off the top step of the virtual podium by just 0.08sec, and the gold was his when Miller and Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal failed to follow solid downhill performances in the slalom.
turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=162101   (615 words)

  
 Albrecht Schmidt - Context Aware Computing - Ubiquitous Computing - Context-Awareness
Albrecht Schmidt is working in the area of situated interaction and context-awareness in the research field of ubiquitous computing.
Albrecht Schmidt is interested in the use of sensors to gain context, models and mechanisms to distribute and provide context, and the resulting implications for human computer interaction.
Currently Albrecht Schmidt is involved in the project 'Smart-Its' that envision small-scale smart devices that can be attached to mundane everyday artefacts to augment these with a "digital self".
www.comp.lancs.ac.uk /~albrecht   (848 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Super-combined champ Albrecht gets even with friend Berthod By Barry Whelan
Albrecht zoomed to his first major championship victory when he
Albrecht and Berthod are both 23 and have been friends, rooming
Albrecht, who also wants to be considered as a contender in the
rawstory.com /news/2007/Super_combined_champ_Albrecht_gets__02082007.html   (536 words)

  
 17th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1700-21: Russia supplants Sweden as the dominant Baltic power after the Great Northern War.
Queen Christina of Sweden, high profile Catholic convert, matron of arts (1626 - 1689)
Albrecht von Wallenstein, German General in the Thirty Years' War, Catholic (1583 - 1634)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/17th_century   (1148 words)

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