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  Order of Adolph of Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Order of Adolph of Nassau, fully Ordre du Mérite Civil et Militaire d'Adolphe de Nassau ("Civil and Military Order of Merit of Adolph of Nassau") is a military decoration of Luxembourg which was created in the year 1858 by Duke Adolph of Nassau.
The Order of Adolph of Nassau may also be issued to foreigners and is common as a diplomatic order.
Because of the small size of Luxembourg, and its minor role as a campaign theater, the Order of Adolph of Nassau was not issued as frequently as other major World War II orders, such as the Croix de Guerre.
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 Reichenau Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Adolph Albert Reichenau, adventuresome youth, soldier, Indian fighter, rancher, father, and citizen of Texas was born in Germany on November 16, 1822 or 1824.
Adolph sold his ranch in Llano County to C. and A. Evans July 20, 1862 and moved his family between July and November to the Putman improvements on the south banks of the Big Saline Creek in a wide-open valley at the foot of some mountains, now known as Reichenau Gap.
Adolph Reichenau a German patriarch of the old school, bold, dignified, and unafraid was an asset to his chosen country and state.
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 The President of the Republic of Estonia: ARNOLD RÜÜTEL, President of the Republic of Estonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (Estonia), 2001
The Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III of the Republic of Cyprus, 2004
The Order of the Falcon of the Republic of Iceland, 2004
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 The Almanach de Chivalry , The International and Royal Council for Orders of Chivalry .
The chapel of the order is The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy.
Order of the Vandals Crown of the House of Mecklemburg
Order of Saint Mary of the Teutons in the Netherlands, Bailiwick of Utrecht,(1 Class) (Teutonic Order)* held under the Supreme Authority of H.I.&.R.H. Prince Karl Friedrich of Germany, Duke of Swabia, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, de jure Charles VIII I.R. as the 60th Hochmeister.
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About 804 Charlemagne, in order to defend the line of the Saale against the Slays, founded the Thuringian mark, which soon became practically coextensive with the former duchy.
In 849 King Louis the German recognized Thakulf as duke (dux Sorabici limitis), and some of his successors bore the title of margrave until the death of Burkhard in 908, when the country was seized by Otto the Illustrious, duke of Saxony.
Albert's sons Frederick the Undaunted and Dietrich contested this transaction, and the attempts of Adolph and his successor Albert I. to enforce it led to the infliction of great hardships upon the Thuringians.
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 Luxembourg's WW2 Medals
A silver gilt palm to be worn on the ribbon of the crosses and medals of this order was created in 1945.
It served to distinguish patriotic acts performed by members of the grand ducal household or soldiers who had joined the armed forces before the war.
Non-military personnel who rendered distinguished services to the Luxembourg nation were entitled to this order founded by the Grand Duchess Charlotte on 30 March 1946.
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 OIther Countries Lots, Current sale - FJP Auctions, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Order of Adolph, knight, w/o crown 900-1200 671 Oldenburg.
Order of Adolph of Nassau, knt civil 300-400 968 Malaysia.
Order of Naval Merit, knight 35-55 989 Peru.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: NASSAU FARM
Nassau Farm, founded in 1843, was on the William Jack league in northeast Fayette County near Round Top.
Nassau Farm had been considered as a possible base for newly arrived immigrants and some permanent settlement, but the society sent the settlers to New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, and other locations instead.
Further legal complications developed when the Bexar District Court ordered the sheriff of Fayette County to sell the league to the highest bidder in order to satisfy creditors of the society.
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 Category:orders And Decorations - Category:Orders and decorations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
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 Our Most Recent Sale- FJP Auctions, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Order of Adolph, knight, w/o crown 900 671 Oldenburg.
Order of Adolph of Nassau, knt civil 300 968 Malaysia.
Order Guadalupe, sash badge, mil 6500 970 Mexico.
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 Germany, the Stem Duchies & Marches
The county of Nassau was divided in 1255 ("prima divisio") by Walram and Otto, sons of Count Henry II the Rich.
In short order the German lands fell to a single line, with the death of Frederick Augustus, Prince of Usingen and Duke of Nassau.
Wallenstein himself was shortly to be assassinated, on orders of the Emperor.
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 Succession in Nassau and Luxemburg
Nassau info, in particular historical maps of Nassau and a genealogical table.
The pact is a convention between the branches of the house of Nassau, that is, all agnates (males and females descended in male line) of the 13th c.
The death of the last male Nassau in 1912 resulted in the application of article 42, whereby the Nassau estates passed to the eldest daughter of the last male.
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 Austro-Hungarian Army - Fritz Reichsgraf Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht
During this last siege Fritz Graf Wolff-Metternich received serious wounds, later he was honored for his heroic performance during this action with the award of the knight's cross of the papal Order of Pius (7th August 1861) and the papal commemorative medal for Ancona.
During the Prussian-Austrian war in 1866 Herzog Adolf von Nassau joined the Austrian side and after the occupation of his country by the kingdom of Prussia he took permanent residence in Austria and Kaiser Franz Joseph granted him an officer for his personal use.
Because of the growing illness of King Wilhelm III of the Netherlands, Adolf Herzog von Nassau became temporary ruler of Luxemburg and finally, with the title of Großherzog von Luxemburg, the new sovereign of this country on the 23rd of November 1890.
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 Long Island- Notable Families from Nassau & Suffolk Counties (Requested Names)
Since 1921, when the Nassau County Sanatorium for patients afflicted with tuberculosis was founded, he was a member of the board of directors of that institution.
Dodge was born at Bellmore, in Nassau County, on March 22, 1915, the son of famed William C. Dodge and Lavinia E. (Hunt) Dodge.
From 1917 until 1924 he was clerk of the Nassau County Board of Supervisors and during this period he saw military service, being a veteran of the 7th New York Infantry Regiment (107th Federal), Company C, which outfit participated in the Mexican Border affair in 1916.
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 Tagebuch von Graf Adolph zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg und Steinfurt
These prints were known in the Nassau family[95] and may have provoked some of the enthusiasm about this architectural design which was shared by their neighbour, the Landgrave of Hesse -Cassel.
The story of the order of the Templars which was secularised by the French king Philipp the Fair because of accusations of fl magic and sinister rites such as the sacrifice of babies[101] might have appealed to Bentheim who records similar acts of cruelty in his diary[102].
He probably had to rely on the expertise of the local craftsmen which explains the presence of sculptural elements of the Weser as well as the somewhat practical approach to the restructuring of the medieval remains which are partly incorporated in the outside wall of the Renaissance wing.
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 Home - Order of Charles XIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Order of Charles XIII is a Swedish order of knighthood, founded by King Charles XIII in 1811.
Swedish orders of knighthood are known unofficially by the colors of their cordons, and the Order of Charles XIII is "the red ribbon".
Concurrently, Militant monastic orders were established during the time of the crusades, and from the 14th century imitated by numerous chivalric orders.
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 LIPPE (RIVER) - LoveToKnow Article on LIPPE (RIVER)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
three lines stand in the above order as regards their rights to the Lippe succession, the counts being descended from Simon's eldest son and the princes from his youngest son.
These facts were not in dispute when in March 1895 the death of Prince Woldemar, who had reigned since 1875, raised a dispute as to the succession.
On the death of Woldemar, Prince Adolph of Schaumburg-Lippe, fourth son of Prince Adolph George of that country and brother-in-law of the German emperor, took over the regency by virtue of a decree issued by Prince Woldemar, but which had until the latter's death been kept secret.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIPPE_RIVER_.htm   (1313 words)

  
 Schulers Books (The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1559-60 - 2/7)
The elder remained in Germany, ascended the imperial throne in the thirteenth century in the person of Adolph of Nassau and gave to the country many electors, bishops, and generals.
Engelbert the Second was distinguished in the turbulent councils and in the battle-fields of Charles the Bold, and was afterwards the unwavering supporter of Maximilian, in court and camp.
She instilled into the minds of all her children the elements of that devotional sentiment which was her own striking characteristic, and it was destined that the seed sown early should increase to an abundant harvest.
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 Friedrich Adolph Riedesel FzE (1738-1800)
Friedrich Adolph's joyful letter of thanks to his unwitting father brought, in return, an angry letter and a cutting off of his allowance.
While he was on good terms with the rest of his family by now and eventually assumed his right as a member of the family Condominium, Friedrich Adolph spent almost none of his adult life in Lauterbach.
From the relative comfort of the Boston area, the captured troops (British and Brunswickers) were ordered to march south to Virginia with General Riedesel at their head in late 1778.
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 01-3372 -- Doebele v. Sprint/United Management Company -- 08/28/2003
"[I]n order to demonstrate a plaintiff's major life activity of interacting with others was substantially affected, a plaintiff must show that his relations with others were characterized on a regular basis by severe problems, for example, consistently high levels of hostility, social withdrawal, or failure to communicate when necessary." Id.
Dillard not to name names, presumably in order to protect the privacy of those employees who had been counseled for claims of mental impairments.
Doebele also challenges the district court's denial of her motion to file a surreply to Sprint's reply brief to which Sprint attached new evidentiary material relevant to the issue of pretext.
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 The History of New York State, Book II, Chapter V, Part II
In 1845 the building at Nassau and Spruce Streets,, to which the "Tribune" had moved from 30 Ann Streets, was burned down, but was immediately rebuilt, and the paper was published at this address until 1923, when it moved to new quarters on West fortieth Street.
The change was the logical result of commercial development and the new order of procedure appeared to meet every requirement of the big business constantly coming from the city from every quarter.
Booksellers are not very successful in gaining large markets for their books by means of mail orders and entire debarments are given over to the writing of attractive advertisement and letters to solicit the trade.
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 KOLBE'S GREATEST BOOKS: Pope Clement V   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
In July of that year it was agreed between the pope and the king that the guilt or innocence of the order itself should be separated from that of its individual (French) members.
Its members, acting in the name and with the authority of the pope, were opposed to the use of torture, hence before them hundreds of knights maintained freely the innocence of the order, while many of those who had formerly yielded to the diocesan inquisitors now retracted their avowals as contrary to truth.
The majority of its three hundred members were opposed to the abolition of the order, believing the alleged crimes unproven, but the king was urgent, appeared in person at the council, and finally obtained from Clement V the practical execution of his will.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Boniface VIII
Boniface VIII, therefore, before leaving Naples, ordered Celestine V to be taken to Rome in the custody of the Abbot of Monte Cassino.
Adolph's government proving unsatisfactory, three of the electors deposed him at Mainz (23 June, 1298) and enthroned Albert.
The national concern for the independence and honour of the French king was further heightened by a forged reply of the king to Boniface, known as "Sciat maxima tua fatuitas".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02662a.htm   (9059 words)

  
 multiracial.com - Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
He describes the uneasy relationship between mixed and putatively full blooded Indians, suggesting that it is time for the Indians to reject the racial classification imposed by the whites and accept all those of Indian or part Indian culture as Indians.
He is sympathetic to their lot, noting that fls have resented Mestees denying their fl ancestry, but sees it as a result of their attempt to avoid white racism rather than symptomatic of their own bigotry.
Adolph Dial has just written a new book entitled The Lumbees as one in a series of studies on the American Indians for young people.
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 Liechtenstien_Orders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Order of the Golden Lion of the House of Nassau
29.1.1858 as a common Family Order for the two lines of the House of Nassau, the Ottonian in the Netherlands and the Walramian in Luxemburg.
Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
www.antiquesatoz.com /orders/luxord.htm   (229 words)

  
 Welcome to Nassau Church
Because Nassau has made the connection with Tabernacle, Robert Lee (at First Pres) facilitated 15 couches and chairs to be given to Tabernacle congregants.
These are to be distributed to members for their own needs first, while the congregation meets for worship in an undamaged nearby building that doubles as a relief supply storeroom for the community.
To you, our Nassau congregation, we say thanks for being where you are and sending us where we’ve been.
www.nassauchurch.org /mission/katrina.htm   (6065 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Clement V
During the usual public procession the pope was thrown from his horse by a falling wall; one of his brothers was killed on that occasion, also the aged Cardinal Matteo Orsini who had taken part in twelve conclaves and seen thirteen popes.
Since the final expulsion (1291) of the crusading forces from the Holy Land, the ecclesiastico-military orders in Europe had aroused much adverse criticism, partly because to their jealousies (Templars, Hospitallers or Knights of St. John, Teutonic Order) was attributed the humiliating defeat, partly because of the vast wealth they had acquired in their short existence.
In the first year of the pontificate of Clement V the French king began to demand from the pope the suppression of this ecclesiastical order and to set afoot a campaign of violence and calumny such as had so far succeeded in the case of Boniface VIII.
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 World War 2 Awards.com - Luxembourg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
(Knight with Crown to the Civil and Military Order of Merit of Adolph of Nassau)
(Knight to the Civil and Military Order of Merit of Adolph of Nassau)
(Officer with Crown to the Civil and Military Order of Merit of Adolph of Nassau)
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 GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
They wished to extend their power to the river Delaware also, and erected on its shores two or three small forts, which were, however, soon after destroyed by the natives of the country.
Governor Printz was now in a position to put the government upon a safe footing to maintain the rights of the Swedes, and to put down the attempts of the Hollanders.
Fort Nassau was on Delaware Bay at the mouth of Timber Creek, below Gloucester Point, in New Jersey.
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