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  American Red Cross - Disaster Relief Fund Campaign Donors Help Red Cross Respond
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  Conrad the Red - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conrad the Red (German: Konrad der Rote) (died 10 August 955) was Duke of Lotharingia and Franconia.
The rebellion was quashed and Conrad was deprived of Lotharingia, which was instead granted to Otto I's brother, Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne.
Eventually Conrad and Otto were reconciled, and in 955, Conrad was killed in the Battle of Lechfeld while fighting alongside Otto against the Magyars.
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 Salian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dynasty was founded by Werner of Worms and his son Duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine, who had died in 955.
Conrad the Red was married with Luitgard, a daughter of Emperor Otto I, their son was Otto I, Duke of Carinthia (ruled 978-1004).
The first Hohenstaufen king Conrad III was a grandson of the Salian Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
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 CONRAD II. - LoveToKnow Article on CONRAD II.
died in 1024, the two Conrads were the most prominent candidates for the throne, and are said to have mutually agreed to abide by the decision of the electors.
Conrad then travelled through his dominions, received tribute from tribes dwelling east of Saxony, and by his journey bound the kingdom most firmly in the bond of peace, and the kingly protection.
Unable to take Milan, Conrad issued in May 1037 an edictum de beneficiis, by which he decreed that the principle of heredity should apply in Italy to lands held by sub- vassals, and that this class of tenants should not be deprived of their lands except by the sentence of their peers, and should retain.
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 35th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Conrad von Bavaria II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Germany "The Salic" was born circa 990 and married 1016.
Conrad was thus able to proceed in 1038 to southern Italy, where he installed friendly princes in Salerno and Anversa and appointed the German Richer as abbot of Monte Cassino.
Conrad himself reached Germany safely and held several important courts in Solothurn (where his son Henry was invested with the kingdom of Burgundy), in Strassburg, and in Goslar.
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 Conrad the Red on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The discontented Conrad then led a revolt against Otto with Otto's son, Ludolf, and Frederick, archbishop of Mainz.
Expelled (953) from his duchy, Conrad allied (954) with the Hungarians, who were invading the empire.
Conrad International expands its presence in the Middle East with addition of two Red Sea resorts in Egypt.
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 Senate OK’s Conrad measure for Grafton flood control   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Senator Conrad's Grafton amendment was attached to the Energy and Water Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2004, which also commits $1 million in federal funds for construction of the Grafton flood project.
Conrad's legislation authorizes the federal government to assume a greater portion of the project's costs, while reducing the city's share of the cost obligations.
The project calls for digging a diversion channel and construct a series of levees to protect Grafton from the Park River, which is a tributary of the Red River.
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 Krzysztof Kieslowski
Red is an intricately constructed parable on the need for connection and the complexity of fate.
There is an especially poignant scene where the judge, inside the car, places the palm of his hand onto the window, and Valentine, outside, presses her hand against the glass, to match his.
Red is the color of love and blood - life and death.
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 Hollywood Five-O - Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley, Hitman, Red West
Now Elvis was asking Red to betray everything he believed in to serve the drug-fueled rage that was consuming the troubled singer's soul.
Red recalls his trademark voice was monotone but fierce.
Red's sense of decency and fair play battled with his absolute loyalty to his boss and hero.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Emperor Conrad GERMANY, II ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
Conrad was an enterprising legislator, and he secured the succession for his son Henry and also enlarged his domain by conquering some Polish territory (1028) and inheriting the Kingdom of Burgundy (1032).
"Conrad was born around 990, the son of Count Henry of Speyer, who had been passed over in his inheritances in favour of a younger brother.Henry was descended through the marriage of his great-grandfather Conrad the Red to a daughter of Emperor Otto, from the Saxon house.
Left poor, Conrad was brought up by the Bishop of Worms and did not receive much of a formal education; but conscious of the deprivations suffered by him and his father, he matured early...In 1016 he married Gisela, the widowed Duchess of Swabia and a des- cendant of Charlemagne.
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 VOANews.com - Art on Wheels
Conrad Jay Bladey is a high school history teacher and although he’s not Irish he teaches Irish culture at this community college.
Conrad says music and art are a big part of his life, part of his being.
Conrad’s most elaborate work of art is his “Handie” car: a car with a message.
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 Conrad --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Conrad belonged to a family of Franconian counts with rich lands in the country around Speyer and Worms.
During Henry's struggles with the papacy, however, Conrad turned against his father, joined the papal party, and was crowned king of Italy (1093).
Conrad Hilton was born on Dec. 25, 1887, in San Antonio, N.M. He bought his first hotel in Cisco, Tex., in 1919 and soon bought others in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco.
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 Partners bring progress to downtown Garrett
Conrad said he got off the Chamber board 24 years ago after serving several years.
Conrad has served as president of the Redevelopment Commission, an arm of the city government put together in late 1987, for five years.
Conrad said the red tape wrapped around the former Garrett foundry has put a choke-hold on progressing toward its redevelopment.
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 The Red Shoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Despite such weighty issues, The Red Shoes is not an intellectual exercise because its star, Moira Shearer, is the most beautiful redhead in history, or at least photographed, and a magnificent prima ballerina to boot.
Lermontov secretly attends one of her dance recitals and is enraptured and plans a new ballet for her based on the Andersen story, The Red Shoes, and he commissions Craster to write a score for it.
Lermontov, however, lures her back subsequently to perform The Red Shoes ballet one more time, arguing that her talent is too great to be abandoned merely for love.
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 The American Spectator
Recall that the President was particularly aggressive in campaigning for Republicans in the midterms in 2002, and barring unforeseen political disasters, will be out there again, pressing for added GOP strength in Congress.
Conrad was rumored to be mulling retirement, but indications are now that he will run for re-election.
In a state that tends to run heavily red in national campaigns, with a strong rural and Catholic vote, he will be hard pressed to be a highly visible obstructionist with the GOP putting a spotlight on just about every move he makes in Washington.
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 World's Greatest Classic Books - The Red Badge Of Courage
When The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895 (it first came out in installments in a Philadelphia newspaper at the end of 1894), the Civil War had been over for thirty years.
Stephen’s favorite, General John Bullock Van Petten, had fought at Antietam, which the battle described in The Red Badge of Courage resembles in some ways (although it is closer to the battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863).
After The Red Badge of Courage was published he traveled as a journalist to Cuba, then fighting for its independence from Spain, and to Europe, where he eventually settled in England.
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 The Red Badge of Courage: Critical Reception
Readers of Red Badge, Wyndham concluded, should infer from Henry's experience that "the virtues so instinctual in moments of distress may be useful also in everyday life" (114).
Red Badge was a "tremendously effective battle painting;" the trial of a soldier in war, he maintained, "seems never to have been painted as well before" (118).
One of the most notable features of Red Badge's reception in America is the controversy about Crane's patriotism that raged in the pages of the Dial, a magazine owned by the conservative General Alexander C. McClurg.
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 Conrad the Red. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The discontented Conrad then led a revolt against Otto with Otto’s son, Ludolf, and Frederick, archbishop of Mainz.
Expelled (953) from his duchy, Conrad allied (954) with the Hungarians, who were invading the empire.
He fought with valor under Otto at the Lechfeld but was killed in the battle.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Duke Conrad LOTHARINGIA ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol III, p90, Conrad the Red: "Died 10 Aug 955 Lechfeld Germany, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine) and ancestor of the Salian dynasty of German kings.
Later reunited with the King, he fought and was killed in the battle of the Lechfeld, when the largest Hungarian army to invade German lands was destroyed.
The New Columbia Encyclopedia, 1975, p631, Conrad the Red: "Died 955, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine, 944-953).
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 In the Know: Robert Conrad's career
Actor Robert Conrad has logged nearly 50 years in the entertainment business, bridging the gap between Old Hollywood and today's freelance star system.
Conrad played World War II flying ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.
In 1979, Conrad took his own turn as Dillinger, starring in Roger Corman's 1979 flick "The Lady in Red." Pamela Sue Martin played the notorious Lady in Red.
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The history and future of the "Old Red Gym" will be shared by citizens of this state, other states, and the many countries around the world from which our students come.
It had Olympic-size swimming and diving pools, which were considered by President Conrad A. Elvehjem to be a great improvement over "that bath tub in the old red gym." It was anticipated that the old gymnasium would be demolished soon after the opening of this new building.
Also in 1974, after some controversy, the Red Gym was included in the Bascom Hill Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as a part of the university's 125th anniversary celebration.
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 Conrad the Red — Infoplease.com
The Moral Sense in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.
The adaptation of Joseph Conrad's fiction on American old-time radio.
Phantoms in the brain: subjectivity and objectivity in Conrad's "The Lagoon" and "Karain" (1).(Critical Essay)
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 Red Hat Launches Open Source Consulting Practice
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 Conrad Martin Real Estate - The Most "Red" Sign in Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Whether you are interested in real estate as an investment or are considering buying a home or selling your present home you can do no better than to call the professionals at Conrad Martin Real Estate, located in Richland at 430 Highway 49 South, phone (601) 932-1306 or 1-800-880-1306.
Conrad has been in the real estate business for 30 years.
Whether you are buying or selling, remember to call the friendly people at Conrad Martin Real Estate, where honesty and integrity in every phase of every transaction is assured.
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 Home | Red Feather Development Group
Red Feather supports each family by providing financial literacy seminars, construction training, design services and construction management, and volunteer crews that donate sweat equity on each home.
Red Feather Development Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Stanley Works to become the “Official Hand Tool Supplier” of our American Indian Sustainable Housing Initiative.
Red Feather Development Group is always looking for quality manufactures of home products to join our initiative and lower the cost of construction for the low-income native families we assist.
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 Red River basin progress report
Alert the public in the Red River basin to the reality that while the 1997 flood had a return interval ranging from 100 to 500 years, depending on the location, there is a statistical probability of a similar flood each year.
Information about flooding and the measures in place in case of flooding in the Red River valley should be introduced into the school curriculum throughout the basin, and in particular, in the communities most at risk.
The Commission plans to hold public consultations in the Red River basin in February 1998 to obtain public comment on the interim report and the proposed Plan of Study, and to hear from the people of the basin.
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 Bill Laswell Discography
The "stripped down" band configuration is reflected in the loose, jam session feel of the record, which, unlike the earlier, more sonically varied album Decode Yourself, includes a good number of blues-based tracks ("Ashes," "Gates to Heaven," and "In Every Face").
This is not to say Red Warrior is a straightforward record, by any means.
Red Warrior is just one of several, very impressive releases to be put out in the last two decades by Jackson, who, like contemporary composer Henry Threadgill, has unforgivably been overlooked and unsung all these years.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Otto I (The Great)
Franconia was held by Otto in his own possession; Lorraine fell to Conrad the Red, his son-in-law; his brother Henry received Bavaria, having meanwhile married Judith, daughter of the Bavarian duke; while Swabia was bestowed upon his son Ludolph.
Owing to this crisis, the necessity for a strong, central power was generally recognized, and the insurrection died out.
It was definitively terminated at the Imperial Diet of Auerstadt, where it was announced that Conrad and Ludolph had forfeited their duchies.
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