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	Giants in Western Europe
		Normal attrition in the ranks of the giants, caused by sickness and age, required that a few hundred new recruits be found each year.
		When a giant was at stake, Frederick William was not above forgetting diplomatic channels and negotiating for the tall fellow himself.
		As the ranks of giants marched before them, Frederick William asked the French minister if he thought an equal number of French soldiers would venture to engage with his Potsdam giants.
	www.stevequayle.com /Giants/W.Europe/W.Europe9.html (1864 words)

	Potsdam Giants
		The Potsdam Giants was a Prussian infantry regiment composed of taller-than-average soldiers.
		The Potsdam Giants was based on the king's personal regiment that his father has given him to play with.
		Official name of the regiment was the 'Grand Grenadiers of Potsdam' or ' Potsdam Grenadiers' for short.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/potsdam_giants (529 words)

	Potsdam
		Potsdam, Ohio Potsdam is a village located in 2000 census, the village had a total population of 203.
		Potsdam (town), New York Potsdam is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 15,957.
		Potsdam Agreement The Potsdam Agreement was an agreement on policy for the occupation and reconstruction of 1945.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/potsdam.html (200 words)

	Giants
		Giants' grave Giants' grave, or tomba di giganti, is the name given by local people and archaeologists to a type of Sar...
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	The giant woman (a 18th century fan)
		Giants were, during the XVIIIth century, a show for fairs and several items remind it.
		For almost everyone knows the story of the Potsdam Grenadiers Guards, the regiment of giants, recruits for which were sought throughout Europe.
		At the beginning of the last century, against the wall of the old Potsdam Castle still stood the measure the King used for his giant Guards.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /eventail/quest3giant.htm (910 words)

	The giant woman (a 18th century fan)
		Normal attrition in the ranks of the giants, caused by sickness and age, required that a few hundred new recruits be found each year.
		These giants were his greatest delight, and the things for which he went to the heaviest expense."134 A part of that expense was for costly uniforms and weapons.
		A Prussian giant must also have been about this height, for it was said of him that no ordinary man could reach the top of his head.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /eventail/quest3gianttxt.htm (2291 words)

	Potsdam Giants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Official name of the regiment was the 'Grand Grenadiers of Potsdam' or ' Potsdam Grenadiers ' for short.
		The king never risked the Giants in battle.
		He liked to paint their portraits from memory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potsdam_Giants (486 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The '''Potsdam Giants''' was a Prussia n infantry regiment composed of taller-than-average soldiers.
		Its founder was the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia ( 1688 - 1740) When Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia ascended to the throne in 1713 he proceeded to decrease expenses of the court and strengthen his military.
		Official name of the regiment was the 'Grand Grenadiers of Potsdam' or ' Potsdam Grenadier s' for short.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Potsdam_Giants.html (537 words)

	Playing with the phantoms of Prussia past [Free Republic]
		Beyond him in the Klosterkeller, Potsdam's oldest tavern - founded in 1730 - all is warm and cosy.
		The new, communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) which gained control of Potsdam, Prussia's earlier capital, went beyond mere words, expelling a large part of the city's population and, in an attempt to lay the ghosts of the past, resettling Germans there from elsewhere.
		As Versailles was to Paris, Potsdam was to Berlin.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a55600b652b.htm (5621 words)

	History of Friedrich II by Thomas Carlyle: DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO Chapter 5 ...
		Grenadier Guards, Potsdam Lifeguards, to be the regiment; and next year he is nominated Major, and, a vacancy occurring, appointed to begin actual duty.
		Giant "Macdoll,"--who was to be married, no consent asked on EITHER side, to the tall young woman, which latter turned out to be a decrepit OLD woman (all Jest-Books know the myth),--he also was an Irish Giant; his name probably M`Dowal.
		Potsdam, now a pleasant, grassy, leafy place, branching out extensively in fine stone architecture, with swept pavements; where, as in other places, the traveller finds land and water separated into two firmaments,--Friedrich Wilhelm found much of it a quagmire, land and water still weltering in one.
	carlyle.classicauthors.net /Friedrich/Friedrich62.html (4847 words)

	Potsdam (village), New York Definition / Potsdam (village), New York Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Potsdam is a village A village is a human settlement commonly located in rural areas.
		As of the 2000 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year for a Culture of Peace.
		The village is named after the city, Potsdam Potsdam [ˈpɔtsdam] is a city in eastern Germany of around 150,000 people, and the capital of the state of Brandenburg.
	www.elresearch.com /Potsdam_%28village%29,_New_York (268 words)

	The giant woman (a 18th century fan)
		Giants were, during the XVIIIth century, a show for fairs and several items remind it.
		For almost everyone knows the story of the Potsdam Grenadiers Guards, the regiment of giants, recruits for which were sought throughout Europe.
		At the beginning of the last century, against the wall of the old Potsdam Castle still stood the measure the King used for his giant Guards.
	perso.orange.fr /eventail/quest3giant.htm (909 words)

	Dagny Looper
		One eventual goal among planet seekers is to be able to detect these much smaller bodies within the habitable zone of a star (the area around a star where the temperature is such that liquid water can exist and may be capable of supporting life).
		First, a gas giant forms a rocky-ice core of approximately one earth mass and then the forming planet pulls in large amounts of gas from its surrounding disk.
		These ice giants had perhaps one hundred million years to form before the disk material was dissipated and planetary growth halted.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~sciwrite/journal03/A-L/looper.html (2326 words)

	Well known Stars And Constellations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To the ancients, the figure represented the giant Orion, placed in the heavens, in a heroic gesture holding the shield against Taurus the mighty Bull.
		Capella is a giant star yellow in color and 100 times brighter than the sun.
		It is a member of a class of stars called Super Giant for being so large.
	www2.potsdam.edu /PHYS/islamma/Phys335Constellations.htm (5409 words)

	Vergie.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The unit was known as the Potsdamer Riesengarde“ ("giant guard of Potsdam") in German, but the Prussian population quickly nicknamed them the Lange Kerls“ ("Long guys").
		The Potsdam Giants was based on the king's personal regiment that his father had given him to play with.
		Official name of the regiment was the 'Grand Grenadiers of Potsdam' or 'Potsdam Grenadiers' for short.
	www.vergie.com /potsdam_giants.html (1036 words)

	History of Friedrich II by Thomas Carlyle: DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO Chapter 5 ...
		Giant "Macdoll,"--who was to be married, no consent asked on EITHER side, to the tall young woman, which latter turned out to be a decrepit OLD woman (all Jest-Books know the myth),--he also was an Irish Giant; his name probably M`Dowal.
		And that is the real Biography of one Potsdam Giant, by a literary gentleman who had lodged with him on occasion.
		Potsdam, now a pleasant, grassy, leafy place, branching out extensively in fine stone architecture, with swept pavements; where, as in other places, the traveller finds land and water separated into two firmaments,--Friedrich Wilhelm found much of it a quagmire, land and water still weltering in one.
	www.classicauthors.net /Classics/Carlyle/Friedrich/Friedrich62.html (4847 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Berlin and Potsdam
		The frieze is a snapshot of the battle's climax, as the serene yet powerful gods and goddesses triumph over the giants.
		Ironically, the carving is so crisp because the frieze was broken down and used in the foundation of a fortified wall where it stayed safely buried for over 1000 years until it was unearthed and brought to Berlin.
		If you have plenty of time you can cruise around Potsdam's lakes, or you can catch a bus in front of the station to take you straight to the palace complex.
	www.ricksteves.com /tvr/berlintie301_scr.htm (2504 words)

	Encyclopedia: Potsdam Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Infantry in the First World War Infantry (or Infantrymen) are soldiers who fight primarily on foot, using personal weapons.
		A mercenary is a soldier who fights, or engages in warfare exclusively for money, without any regard for ideological, national or political considerations.
		The soldiers wore a hat without a brim in order to be able to throw their heavy grenades with ease.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Potsdam-Giants (1414 words)

	Potsdam Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He let Prince Leopold ofAnhalt-Dessau improve the drill and weapons of his army and hired 40,000 foreign mercenaries.
		However, whenthe amount of tall soldiers increased, the regiment earned its nickname 'Potsdam Giants'.
		They attempted desertion or suicide.King's idea to stretch his troopers to make them taller was met with open rebellion.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/potsdam-giants-156389.html (452 words)

	History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol 5
		Grenadier Guards, Potsdam Lifeguards, to be the regiment; and next year he is nominated Major, and, a vacancy occurring, appointed to begin actual duty.
		His age is not yet fifteen by four months;--a very tiny Major among those Potsdam giants; but by rank, we observe, he rides; and his horse is doubtless of the due height.
		And so the tiny Cadet-drillinga have ended; long Files of Giants, splendent in gold-lace and grenadier-caps, have succeeded; and earnest work instead of mimic, in that matter, has begun.
	manybooks.net /pages/carlyletetext0005frd10/50.html (351 words)

	The giant woman (a 18th century fan)
		These giants were his greatest delight, and the things for which he went to the heaviest expense."134 A part of that expense was for costly uniforms and weapons.
		The king apparently was unable to fill all his ranks with giants.
		A Prussian giant must also have been about this height, for it was said of him that no ordinary man could reach the top of his head.
	perso.orange.fr /eventail/quest3gianttxt.htm (2291 words)

	SUNY Potsdam Athletics
		Fallon scored 18 of her 26 in the second half as the Giants overcame a three point deficit against the pesky Bears.
		The Giants held a slim four point advantage at the half, 37-33, only to see that lead evaporate five minutes into the second half.
		After being out-rebounded by double digit margins in their first two games, the Giants held a slight edge over the Bears on the glass, 57-53.
	www.potsdam.edu /ens.php?ensID=CDA9CA2B86FC0C08C8C01C1CE52F774E§ionID=F82FCBEB74C203F84C54FDC87DDA062A (258 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Ejnar Hertzsprung
		In 1909 he was invited to Göttingen to work with Karl Schwarzschild, whom he accompanied to the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory later that year.
		He is best known for his discovery that the variations in the widths of stellar lines discovered by Antonia Maury reveal that some stars (giants) are of much lower density than others (main sequence or “dwarfs”) and for publishing the first color-magnitude diagrams.
		He was the first to calibrate the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars and he used it to estimate the distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Hertzsprung/Hertzsprung.html (262 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia
		Friedrich Wilhelm concentrated on building up the military power of Prussia.
		He is best remembered for his fondness for military display - leading to his special efforts to hire the tallest men he could find in all of Europe for a special regiment nicknamed Potsdam Giants.
		He was succeeded as king of Prussia by his son, Friedrich II, known as Frederick the Great.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Frederick_William_I_of_Prussia.html (124 words)

	snarkout: giants in the earth
		Frederick Wilhelm went to great trouble indeed to collect his giant soliders; when recruits and the offerings of tall men from rival potentates weren't enough, he relied upon a network of agents that kidnapped lanky farmers and priests from throughout Europe.
		The Potsdam Grenadiers were sketched from memory by the king, used as an honor guard and to impress diplomats, and paraded like toy soldiers (dressed in pointed hats that made them look even taller), but they were never used in actual combat.
		Morale was low among the Potsdam Grenadiers, and keeping them was proving so expensive that Frederick Wilhelm had contemplated recruiting giant women and breeding a giant race.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2003_09_09.php (534 words)

	Beno Gutenberg, June 4, 1889—January 25, 1960 \| By Leon Knopoff \| Biographical Memoirs
		He also had hoped to be the successor to Angenheister at Potsdam.
		(This was the first time that the two giants of geophysics and seismology--Jeffreys and Gutenberg--had met.) One of the recommendations was for the establishment of a chair at Caltech.
		It was clear that the decision to establish the chair had been made before the meeting had convened.
	www.nap.edu /readingroom/books/biomems/bgutenberg.html (8087 words)

	Little Big Man - David Wallace-Wells
		To ensure the Potsdam Giants were not merely a brief sideshow in Prussian history but a kind of vanguard unit of military history, the king insisted his giant grenadiers marry only equally giant women.
		One of his first acts as king was disbanding the Potsdam Giants.
		For Hall, the story of the Potsdam Giants is not a historical curiosity, but a neat allegory of our modern wrong-headedness about size.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2006/0612.wallace-wells.html (1293 words)

	Potsdam News
		Shortly after 2:00 this afternoon in Potsdam a woman was hit by a car as she crossed the intersection of Pierrepont Avenue and Bay Street.
		Dressed in a Quidditch costume adorned with the Gryffindor crest, complete with goggles, broomstick and golden snitch, the 11-year-old Potsdam resident was...
		POTSDAM, N.Y. The State University College at Potsdam plans to use one million dollars given in memory of a former student to establish four scholarship endowment funds and create a new cafe and meeting area on...
	www.topix.net /city/potsdam-ny (723 words)

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