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  Louis II of Monaco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis II of Monaco (July 12, 1870 - May 9, 1949) was a Reigning Prince of Monaco from June 26, 1922 till May 9, 1949.
Charlotte was formally adopted by Louis in 1919, and became Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi, Hereditary Princess of Monaco, and Duchess of Valentinois.
Louis Grimaldi ascended to the throne as Louis II, Prince of Monaco.
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 Louis II, Prince of Monaco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis II of Monaco (July 12, 1870 – May 9, 1949) was the Sovereign Prince of Monaco from June 26, 1922 until May 9, 1949.
Louis was raised in Germany by his mother and stepfather, Tassilo, Prince, along with his half-sister, Alexandra, and did not see his father until age 11 when he was obliged to return to Monaco to be trained for his future royal duties.
Prince Louis died in 1949 and is buried at the in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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 LOUIS II. - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS II.
Together with his brother Otto, three years younger than himself, Louis received, in accordance with the wishes of his learned father, a simple and serious education modellec on that of the German Gymnasien, of which the classical languages are the chief feature.
Louis succeeded to the throne on the roth of March 1864 at the age of eighteen.
Louis was entirely possessed by the soaring ideas of the master, and was energetic in their realization.
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 LOUIS II. OF BAVARIA - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS II. OF BAVARIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Three daughters and four sons were born of this marriage, one of whom succeeded him as Maximilian II., while another, Luitpold, became prince regent of Bavaria on the death of Louis II.
Opposed to absolutism, Louis took great interest in the work of organizing the Bavarian constitution (1818) and defended it against Metter-nich and the Carlsbad Decrees (rSig); he was also one of the most zealous of the ardent Philhellenes in Germany at the time.
For this unfortunate issue Louis was not without blame; for from the very first, owing to an exaggerated idealism and love of antiquity, he had totally misunderstood the national character of the Greeks and the problems involved in the attempts to govern them by bureaucratic methods.
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 Louis II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The historical basis for the character of Louis in Pope Joan is Louis II, the great-grandson of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne.
Louis' father, Emperor Lothar I, spent most of his reign fighting for control of the empire with his brothers, Charles the Bald and Louis the German.
Louis II became sole Emperor in 855, when his father died.
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 Louis II, the German, Eastern Frankish King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis tried desperately to work Charles in as a successor, but the three brothers fought him everytime he tried to reform his will.
In 840, Louis the Pious died, and the three surviving brothers began a civil war for the division of the Empire.
In 841, Charles and Louis of Bavaria ganged up on their brother Lothar, who had the support of Pepin II, who were defeated at Fontenay, France.
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 Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Cond, called "the Great Cond" (September 8, 1621 - November 11, 1686).
About this time negotiations between the Poles, Cond and Louis were carried on with a view to the election, at first of Cond's son Enghien, and afterwards of Cond himself, to the throne of Poland.
These, after a long series of curious intrigues, were finally closed in 1674 by the veto of Louis XIV and the election of John Sobieski.
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 Lecture 16: Charles II through Louis XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charles II was 30 years old, tall, friendly, had a cynical humor, was a good intriguer and double-dealer.
Louis XIV was 5 years old when he became king in 1643.
Louis XIV moved the nobility to Versailles and therefore he undermined their power cuz they were pulled away from their power bases and couldn't raise armies, trouble, etc. They also had nothing to do but sit around and play games.
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 Jazz | All About Jazz
Well, kids, when last we left Louis Armstrong; he had solidified his place as America’s first legitimate jazz superstar on the basis of his seminal recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, was married to a legumicidal maniac and trusting his fortunes to a mobbed-up dandy who shared his neckwear with Al Capone.
Louis Armstrong, on a disputed turn where she claimed she was only holding out one finger (the rare "dynamite beats rock" gambit) while Louis claimed that she was indeed holding out two fingers and rock beats scissors in any court in the land.
Louis understood something his detractors could not grasp, that it is the grinning jaw of the jester which often speaks the truth with more razor-sharp relevance than the frowning maw of the most dire academe.
www.allaboutjazz.com /articles/humr0702.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Louis II --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Louis, the son of King Charles II the Bald, was made king of Aquitaine under his father's tutelage in 867.
Louis was elected king of the West Franks in December 877.
Louis II king of Hungary and of Bohemia from 1516, who was the last of the Jagiello line to rule those countries and the last king to rule all of Hungary before the Turks conquered a large portion of it.
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 AllRefer.com - Louis II, king of Hungary and Bohemia (Austria And Hungary, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis II, king of Hungary and Bohemia, Austria And Hungary, History, Biographies
Louis II 1506–26, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1516–26), son and successor of Uladislaus II.
Through the marriage treaty concluded by his father (see Uladislaus II) the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia passed to Louis's brother-in-law, Ferdinand of Hapsburg (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I), but Hungary fell under Ottoman rule.
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 Louis II the Stammerer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis II the Stammerer King of France was the Son of Charles II the Bald King West Franks King of France (-877) and Ermentrude (830- 869)
Louis I, called Louis the Pious, was a decent king, but he wasn't the hero his father had been - or the brute, if you want to digress and take the Saxon viewpoint for a moment.
Louis the Stammerer was the son of this Charles.
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 Informationssökning: Louis II. In English.
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 boys clothing: Hessian royalty -- Louis II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis married Princess Wilhelmina of Baden in 1804.
Louis and Wilhemina had five children: Louis III (1806-), Prince Charles (1809-), Prince Alexander of the Rhine, (1823-), and Princess Marie (1824-).
Prince Alexander was Louis II's third son and a Godson to the Russian Tsar.
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 "Who Is John Paul II?" St. Louis Post-Dispatch
John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square in 1981 on the anniversary of the day that Catholics believe Mary appeared to three children at Fatima, Portugal.
John Paul II, whom Catholics consider the 261st successor to the apostle Peter, is Polish to the core.
John Paul II constantly calls Christians to understand that ethnic and racial divisions are contrary to the Gospel.
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 Louis II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis the German, (804 - 876, ruler of Eastern Francia from 817-876)
Louis II of Nevers, Flemish Count came to power in 1322.
Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (1506-1526, reigning 1516-1526)
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 Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Upon the death of his nephew, Lothar II on 8 August 869, Charles sped to Lotharingia and had himself crowned King of Lotharingia annointed on 9 September in the cathedral at Metz by Bishop Adventius of Metz and Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims.
As soon as Louis II died on 12 August 875, Charles rushed to Italy and received the imperial crown and is annointed by Pope John VIII on 25 December 875.
Before expiring, he named his son, Louis Le Begue as his successor, and the Empress Richilde, crowned by Pope Jean VIII earlier that year, is charged with taking the royal garbs and sword to her step-son.
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 Louis II King Germany, ['The German'] (0800 - 28 Aug 0876)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis II King Of Germany is often regarded as the founder of the German kingdom.
After the death of his father, Louis I, in 1840, he joined with one brother, Charles the Bald, to fight another, Lothair I, for control of the empire.
The Treaty of Verdun in 843 gave Louis all of Germany east of the Rhine River.
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 Hungary Reign of Ulaszlo II and Louis II - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
Hungary Reign of Ulaszlo II and Louis II http://workmall.com/wfb2001/hungary/hungary_history_reign_of_ulaszlo_ii_and_louis_ii.html
When Ulaszlo II died in 1516, his ten-year-old son Louis II (1516-26) became king, but a royal council appointed by the Diet ruled the country.
Louis himself died, thrown from a horse into a bog.
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 Louis II King of East Franks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born: either 804 or 806, son of Louis I, King de France and Ermengarde d'Esbay, Some sources assert that Louis was born in the year 806.
Following a new division of the Empire in favor of Charles "Le Chauve", Louis II joined his brothers Lothaire and Pepin in a revolt against their father King Louis I, "Le Debonnaire" (also "Le Pieux") of France.
Upon the death of Lotaire II, Louis II got a part of Lorraine through the Treaty of Mersen (870).
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 AllRefer.com - Louis II, French king (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis II or Louis the Stammerer, 846–79, French king.
He succeeded (877) his father, Emperor of the West Charles II, as king.
On Louis's death his kingdom was divided between his sons Carloman and Louis III.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Louis II (of Hungary and Bohemia), in Hungarian, Lajos II (1506-1526), king of Hungary (1516-1526) and Bohemia (1509-1526), son and successor of King Ladislas II of Bohemia and Hungary.
Louis assumed actual control of state affairs in 1516, but he was not formally declared king until he came of age in 1521.
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 Pope John Paul II is Coming to St. Louis!
In addition to the Archbishop's ties with John Paul II, St. Louis is a predominately Catholic city.
With over 558,000 Catholics in the St. Louis Archdiocese and 110,000 in the Belleville Diocese, the Pope would be visiting a highly concentrated Catholic area.
Louis has the largest percentage of Catholic students in Catholic parochial, archdiocesan and private schools of any U.S. diocese.
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 Conde, Louis II de Bourbon, 4th prince de --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
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The victory contributed greatly to the surrender of Dunkirk by Spain and to the conclusion of the Peace of the Pyrenees by France and Spain (1659).
Born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 13, 1899, motion picture producer and director Louis de Rochemont is best known for The March of Time, a highly popular newsreel series on current events that he produced from 1935 to 1951.
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 Louis II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor (825-875, reigning 850(855)-875)
Louis the Stammerer, king of West Francia (France) (846-879, reigned 877-879)
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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 Conde, Louis II de Bourbon, 4e prince de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
Their son, Louis, was named the first duke of Bourbon in 1327 and held the position until his death in 1342.
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 NJLM - Louis Bay II Future Municipal Leaders Scholarship Competition
Once again, the League of Municipalities is proud to announce the Louis Bay II Future Municipal Leaders Scholarship Competition for high school Juniors and Seniors planning to continue their education after high school.
The purpose of this scholarship is to advance the virtues of elected and volunteer positions in municipal government while raising awareness of municipal government in general.
Louis Bay II has actively participated as a League Board Member and Past President for 60 years.
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 The Avalon Project : Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of ...
The Avalon Project : Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II A.D. The Avalon Project
Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II A.D. (Altmann u.
I promise this on the part of my lord, that my lord king Louis consents that his brother, king Charles, shall have such portion of the kingdom of king Lothar, as either they themselves, or their faithful followers among themselves, shall find to be most just or most equable.
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 Ernest Trova at St. Louis University II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ernest Trova at St. Louis University II Fans of St. Louis contemporary artist Ernest Trova can now view three examples of his Profile Canto sculpture series on the grassy commons to the south and west of the Edward and Margaret Doisy School of Allied Health Professions on the south campus of St.
Previously installed with three other Trova sculptures at the western edge of St. Louis University's sprawling main campus, the Profile Cantos provide visual contrast to the adjacent university buildings and other nearby artworks.
Cantos V and III are on indefinite loan from St. Louis County's Laumeier Sculpture Park (see Ernest Trova at Laumeier Park for more Trova sculptures).
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 City of St. Louis and Downtown St. Louis Information - Saint Louis, Missouri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hundreds of St. Louis links have been collected and are in the process to be added shortly.
Louis' population estimate in 2001 was 339,211 and St. Louis County had a population estimate of 1,015,417 residents in 2001.
If St. Louis and St. Louis County were to merge, St. Louis would become the nation's 6th most populous city according to the U.S. Census statistics provided in the article.
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 US Youth Soccer Region II
Louis Soccer Club (MO, U15 Girls), Eclipse Select (IL, U17 Girls) and Sockers FC (IL, U19 Boys), were crowned National Champions at the 2005 US Youth Soccer National Championships at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Orlando, Florida.
Of the 12 teams that were sent to represent Region II, four qualified for the finals with 3 of them being victorious.
Be sure to visit the MRL website for a recap of the past year’s MRL action and the success MRL teams had at the 2005 Region II Championships and US Youth Soccer National Championships.
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