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  History of Dresden
Dresden becomes the chief residence of the Albertinian Wettins following the division at Leipzig of the Wettin estates between the Ernestine and Albertinian lineages.
Suppression of the "May Uprising" in Dresden (May 3-9) by Saxon and Prussian troops.
Dresden is made one of the fourteen district centres.
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 Dresden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dresden During Saxony's March Revolution its metropolis of Dresden did not play a major role because of the weakness of its anti-governmental opposition.
Public life in the city was not highly politicized until the appointment of the liberal March cabinet on March 16 and preparations began for elections of the Frankfurt National Assembly.
The uprising began when a crowd of people assembled around the armory demanding weapons and ammunition for the defence of the city and the military opened fire on the surging crowd.
www.ohiou.edu /~chastain/dh/dresden.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Guide to Bach Tour - Dresden
Dresden (about 500,000 ihabitants), the capital city of the German state of Saxony, is located in the picturesque setting of the Elbe valley (“Florence of the Elbe”).
Between 1806 and 1918 Dresden was the capital of the kingdom of Saxony, a part from 1871 of the German Empire.
Bach's heritage is kept alive in Dresden today primarily by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, the Virtuosi Saxoniae, the Dresdner Kammerchor, the Dresden Bach Choir, Dresdner Barockorchester and the Bach Camera Musicale.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Tour/Dresden.htm   (708 words)

  
 Dresden - ExampleProblems.com
Template:Infobox Town DE Dresden is the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe.
Dresden is located at Template:Coor dm, in the southeastern corner of eastern Germany; about two hours south of Germany's capital, Berlin, and about two hours north of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
Dresden was not the only German city devastated by World War II bombing, but the bombing of Dresden in 1945 has become one of the most controversial events of that war.
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 A1 GP Destinations
Trivia: Dresden is the capital city of the German Federal State of Saxony and situated in a valley on the River Elbe.
Four miles from the centre of Dresden, this historic downtown microbrewery and dance hall was established in 1898 on the banks of the Elbe River.
The Standseilbahn Dresden is a funicular railway in Dresden, Germany connecting the districts of Loschwitz and Weisser Hirsch near the "Blue Wonder" bridge.
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 Dresden, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dresden is located at 51°03′ N 13°45′ E, in the southeastern corner of eastern Germany; about two hours south of Germany's capital, Berlin, and about two hours north of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
Dresden's reputation for culture is better known than its highly developed optics industry (Carl Zeiss later Praktica), which according to unverified intelligence reports produced precision aiming devices during the war.
Dresden as a major urban center has developed much faster and more consistently than most other regions in the former East Germany, but the city still faces many social and economic problems which stem from the collapse of the communist system, including high unemployment levels.
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 Dresden
Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with extraordinary cultural and artistic splendor.
Dresden lies on both banks of the river Elbe, mostly in the Dresden Elbe Valley Basin, with the further reaches of the eastern Ore Mountains to the south, the steep slope of the Lusatian granitic crust to the north and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains to the east at an altitude of about 113 meters.
Dresden is attempting to take up its old cultural importance among the European cities that it had from the 19th century to the 1920s when it was a centre of fine and visual arts, of architecture and music.
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 Feb 13-15, 1945: Bombers dropped 3,900 tons on Dresden - Military Photos
Dresden itself was most noted as a cultural centre, with noted architecture in the Zwinger Palace, the Dresden State Opera House and its historic churches.
This directive led to the raid on Dresden and marked the erosion of one last moral restriction in the bombing war: the term "evacuation from the east" did not refer to retreating troops but to the civilian refugees fleeing from the advancing Russians.
The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated decision, and the action is still widely perceived as lacking military justification, even within the context of the controversial area bombing policy pursued against Germany by Britain's Bomber Command in 1942-1945.
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 Dresden - Dresden Sister City, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dresden is the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, in a valley on the river Elbe.
Dresden is slightly less than two hours south of Berlin, and about two hours north of Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
Often seen as a culture capital, Dresden is a primarily residential city and home to many researchers: one of the oldest technical universities in the world is just south of the city.
www.dresdensistercity.org /dresden/index.phtml   (515 words)

  
 Richard Wagner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Richard Wagner, born May 22, 1813, into the family of a municipal court clerk, spent his childhood in Dresden, studied music in Leipzig from 1831 to 1833 and worked later as a chorus and music director in several towns, last in Riga.
Wagner was actively engaged in the Dresden uprising from May 3-9, 1849.
Together with the leaders of the uprising, he left Dresden on May 9 for Chemnitz, from which the music director avoid the warrant for his arrest by flight to exile in Switzerland.
www.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/wagner.htm   (628 words)

  
 Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813.
The Wagners' stay at Dresden was brought to an end by Richard's involvement in left-wing politics.
It is to be feared, ere long the nation may really take this simulacrum for its mirrored image: then one of the finest natural dispositions in all the human race were done to death, perchance for ever.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Wagner.html   (3404 words)

  
 BAKUNIN A Revolutionary Life
Forced to fly from Dresden he was captured, sent to prison, and condemned to death in May 1850.
Michael Aleksandrovich Bakunin born May 18, 1814 (Russian calander), May 30, 1814 (European calander), in the village of Premukhino in the province of Tvar.
September 28, 1870 a popular uprising is suppressed, and Bakunin is forced to flee in the face of an arrest warrant.
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 May Uprising in Dresden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The May Uprising took place in Dresden, Germany in 1849; it was one of the last of the series of events known as the Revolutions of 1848.
On May 3, 1849, the municipal guards were told to go home, but the town councillors organised them into defensive units to stop expected Prussian intervention.
Before the events of May 1849, Dresden was already known as a cultural centre for liberals and democrats; the anarchist Dresdner Zeitung newspaper was partly edited by the music director Karl August Röckel and contained articles by Mikhail Bakunin, who came to Dresden in March 1849.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_Uprising_in_Dresden   (985 words)

  
 Workers World News Service: May Day around the world
May Day demonstrators took over the Church of San Francisco in Quito demand ing that leaders of the January uprising be released.
On May 3, over 80,000 workers in a broad range of industries were on the picket line demanding higher wages and five weeks' paid vacation.
On May 5, the LO warned that it would escalate the strike to make it the biggest strike since 1945.
www.workers.org /ww/2000/mayday0518.php   (1249 words)

  
 Firebombing of Dresden - Armchair General Forums
The bombing of Dresden was seen as a way to help the red army, by clogging the roads with refugees, and sowing terror into the hearts of any would be defenders.
Dresden was also the cultural center of Germany so many artistic buildings and works were destroyed.
One has to remember that the planning for the Dresden raid was in no way extraordinary or or different from the other raids performed by Bomber Command earlier as well as later in the war.
www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=18097   (1600 words)

  
 Great is this truth by David Pryce-Jones
The Hungarian uprising of 1956 was in his view a Jewish conspiracy, and as such the Soviets were right to suppress it.
Irving may have thought that this was virtually unprovable, in which event he could expect considerable damages.
The bombing of Dresden left about 25,000 dead, according to those German officials in charge of the city at the time, and Irving simply inflated the figure with an extra nought.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/19/may01/pjones.htm   (2045 words)

  
 1849 - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
May 3 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
May 22 - Maria Edgeworth, Irish novelist (b.
May 25 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b.
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 Richard Wagner - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 to the family of Friederich and Johanna Wagner.
After her remarriage, Johanna moved with her son and husband to Dresden, where Wagner was brought up as part of a theatrical family, four of his elder sisters becoming actors.
Because of Wagner's later affairs, she is often pictured as a betrayed wife, but in fact as early as May 1837 she had run off for a while with another man. Wagner, also beset with financial problems, turned to Bulwer Lytton's Rienzi, Last of the Tribunes, which he adapted to a libretto.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,506569,00.html   (2791 words)

  
 Saxony information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Its capital is Dresden, and the other principal cities are Leipzig and Chemnitz.
After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Gustav Stresemann's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation.
It was dissolved in 1952, and divided into three smaller 'Bezirke' based on Leipzig, Dresden and Karl-Marx-Stadt, but reestablished within slightly altered borders in 1990 upon German reunification.
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 Harvard University Press/The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music/Richard Wagner
Its Dresden premiere on 20 October 1842 was a huge success (despite this, the opera was twice revised, in 1843-44 and 1847).
But revolution came to Dresden in 1849, and Wagner became deeply involved, to the extent of obtaining hand grenades for the fight.
When the uprising was crushed by Prussian troops Wagner fled to Weimar, where Liszt arranged for his safe transport to Paris.
www.hup.harvard.edu /features/ranhab/wagner.html   (3164 words)

  
 St John's Kenilworth Dresden
It has been exhilarating to follow the progress of the reconstruction since 1995 alongside our Dresden friends, to share their joy, having waited since 1945 for this time, and to build our friendships at the same time.
In May we also took advantage of the enlarged European Union: we went to Görlitz and crossed the bridge there to Poland, and met some veterans of the WWII resistance movement there.
We may not be able to solve the world’s problems, but we aim to bridge the gulf made by old wars by building (and maintaining) new friendships.
www.kenjohn.plus.com /Dresden.html   (685 words)

  
 Warsaw Uprising Witnesses: Hans Thieme
During the first 3 or 5 days of the uprising everyone Polish, of any age or gender, was shot on the personal orders of Hitler.
Strangely enough, and may the Lord be praised for this, I never did personally witness the murder of a single person to the last day of this war, despite seeing large numbers of dead bodies.
The uprising, which broke out as the Red Army was approaching, was only intended to secure the future independence of Poland.
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 Chilam Balam: Translation: XXII: A Book of Katun-Prophecies
in order that the charge of the course of the katun may be known, of each katun, whether it is good or bad.
It may be merely a reference to the god of this name as the idol or presiding deity of the katun.
One of the objects in the accompanying picture may be intended for a shield and two arrows.
www.sacred-texts.com /nam/maya/cbc/cbc27.htm   (8540 words)

  
 Semperoper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Semperoper (Engl: Semper Opera House) or Saxon State Opera Dresden (Ger: Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden) is an opera house in Dresden, Germany, and is one of the most famous in the world.
It was first built in 1841, by architect Gottfried Semper, in the Early Renaissance style.
It is situated on the Theater Square in central Dresden on the bank of the Elbe River.
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 The Infidels - Mikhail Bakunin
The revolutionary movement of 1848 gave him the opportunity to join a radical campaign of democratic agitation, and for his participation in the May Uprising in Dresden of 1849 he was arrested and condemned to death.
In 1870 Bakunin led a failed uprising in Lyons on the principles later exemplified by the Paris Commune.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels later approved of the Paris Commune and described it as an example of a dictatorship of the proletariat; however, Marx was of the view that the rising in Lyons had been premature and adventurist.
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 Poniatowski
On May 6, 1792 Poniatowski became commander of the Polish army in the Ukraine, which was about to defend the country and its newly established May 3 Constitution (of 1791, the second oldest after the United States Constitution, a modern, progressive work, written largely by the King himself) against the Russian invasion.
Everywhere enthusiastically received by the Poles, Poniatowski was thus able to liberate large areas of Galicia (for a while as far as Lvov on May 27 and beyond) and by July (in a separate, masterful raid, intended to preempt the Russians, already after Austria was dealt by Napoleon the defeat at Wagram), Cracow.
On May 7, as the Russians were getting close again, while the previously allied Austria moved toward neutrality and allowed Prince Jozef's army only a passage through its territory, he went from Cracow through Bohemia to Saxony, to join Napoleon and his 1813 offensive in Germany.
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 22 May History: This Date
On May 19, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, an ardent abolitionist, began a two-day speech on the Senate floor in which he decried the "crime against Kansas" and blasted three of his colleagues by name, one of which—South Carolina Senator Andrew P. Butler—was elderly, sick, and absent from the proceedings.
The next year Der fliegende Holländer (produced at Dresden, 02 January 1843) was less successful, since the audience expected a work in the French–Italian tradition similar to Rienzi, and was puzzled by the innovative way the new opera integrated the music with the dramatic content.
When the uprising failed, a warrant was issued for his arrest and he fled from Germany, unable to attend the first performance of Lohengrin at Weimar, given by his friend Franz Liszt on 28 August 1850.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4may/h4may22.html   (10991 words)

  
 polska: I wonder...
During the Warsaw uprising small children were used as carriers and resupply runners, often carrying weapons.
The winners (or survivors, as the case may be) get to write the history books, after all.
However, I think that may be partly due to the potential for backlash if they did use it.
community.livejournal.com /polska/325016.html   (2193 words)

  
 Hunter: Violence and the Labor Movement
The calumnies, the feuds, the misunderstandings, the clashing of doctrines, the antagonism of the ruling spirits, the plots and conspiracies, the victories and defeats-all these various phases of this war to the death between socialists and anarchists-will in that case present to history the most vital struggle of this age.
But, whatever may be the outcome of the socialist movement, it is hardly too much to say that to both anarchists and socialists these struggles seemed, at time they were taking place, of supreme importance to the destinies of humanity.
However that may have been, the "practical," "coldblooded" Marx was completely outwitted by his "sentimental" and "visionary" antagonist.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/hunterbakandmarx.html   (6590 words)

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