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  Prussian
In this case the barrel of the model 1789 was to shortened to the new regulation 8" (241mm) and using the stock of two broken pistols.
In 1850 the Prussian government decided to convert the pistols to the more reliable percussion ignition, changing the lock and equipping it with a safety-lid.
This pistol was made 1829 in Potsdam, and the conversion happened in 1851.
www.horstheld.com /0-Prussian.htm   (242 words)

  
  Franco-Prussian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prussian army was commanded by Field-Marshal Helmuth von Moltke and the Prussian General Staff.
The Prussian army was unique in Europe for having the only General Staff in existence, whose sole purpose was to direct operational movement, organise logistics and communications and develop the overall war strategy.
Two Prussian corps attacked the French advanced guard thinking that it was the rearguard of the retreat of the French Army of the Meuse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franco-Prussian_War   (6894 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Prussia
Frederick's son, Frederick William I, greatly increased the size of the Prussian army and rebuilt the organization of the state around the military establishment.
Frederick's regime was noted as a model of “enlightened despotism.”Frederick William III succeeded to the throne in 1797 and with the aid of his ministers, Baron vom und zum Stein and Prince Karl August von Hardenberg, instituted a series of liberal reforms within the kingdom.
Prussian fortunes rose after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 that resulted in the fall of the French Empire.
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 Questions and Answers on Prussian Blue
Prussian blue has been used as a treatment to speed up the excretion of radioactive cesium or non-radioactive thallium, from the body according to studies reported in the literature.
Prussian blue works by trapping thallium and cesium in the intestine, so that they can be passed out of the body in the stool rather than be re-absorbed.
Prussian blue is available only by prescription and should be given only under the supervision of a physician after assessing your medical condition.
www.fda.gov /cder/drug/infopage/prussian_blue/Q&A.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Prussian people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Prussian people, or (old) Prussians, inhabited the area around the Curonian and Vistula Lagoons, in the region roughly occupied by the Mazurian Lakes.
Significant pockets of Prussians were left in a matrix of Germans in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad), and so the duchy returned it to the order.
The first certain mention of the Old Prussians in historical sources is in connection with Adalbert of Prague who was slain in 997 during a crusade to Christianise the Prussians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussian_people   (1069 words)

  
 Prussian Blue   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prussian blue is manufactured through the action of an oxidizing agent, such as potassium bichromate and sulphuric acid, upon a mixture of copperas (ferrous sulphate), sodium ferrocyanide and ammonium sulphate.
Prussian blue dissolves in concentrated mineral acids, but is resitant to dilute (10%) mineral acids, polar and nonpolar solvents, fatty acids, drying oils and plasticizers.
Prussian blue is amorphous in colloidal aggregates and so finely divided that it almost has the characteristics of a dye.
www.sewanee.edu /chem/Chem&Art/Detail_Pages/Pigments/Prussian_Blue   (1358 words)

  
 Prussian   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Old Prussian Texts Electronic versions of some of the most important sources of information on the Old Prussian language, including the Elbing Vocabulary, Simon Grunau's Vocabulary, the Prussian Catechismus I and II, and the Prussian Enchiridion.
Schaumburg-Lippe A German principality, surrounded by the Prussian province of Westphalia Hanover, and an exclave of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (the Prussian County of Schaumburg).
Prussian Language Reconstructions General linguistic information and dictionary of an extinct language within the Baltic family.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Prussian.html   (284 words)

  
 Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the growth of German cultural nationalism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most German-speaking Prussians came to consider themselves to be part of the German nation, often underlining what were seen as the Prussian virtues: perfect organization, sacrifice, the rule of law.
From the late 18th century the expanded Prussia dominated North Germany politically, economically and in terms of population size, and was the core of the unified German Empire formed in 1871.
During this period the great Prussian military machine and efficient state bureaucracy were founded, institutions which were to form the foundations of the German state until 1945, and (in some respects) of the GDR after that.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia   (2243 words)

  
 Franco Prussian Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: )
No Prussian is said to have lived to reach the foot of the ridge, yet alone threaten the French position.
Prussians in command at the battle near Metz have been seen arguing amongst themselves, trying to distance their reputations from such a crushing blow to Prussian pride.
Prussian Grand Battery gunners soon felt the wrath of the French Chassepot fire as gun after gun fell silent.
www.piquet.org /Campaigns/1.htm   (1508 words)

  
 Austro Prussian War   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Only the Saxons, who retreated into Bohemia, allowing the Prussians to occupy their small kingdom, proved of any help to the Austrians in the war.
Prussian élan and the careful planning of Prussian Chief of the General Staff Helmuth von Moltke resulted in a quick Prussian victory, the war being decided in the Battle of Königgrätz (Sadowa) on July 3, only six weeks after the beginning of the war.
The Treaty of Prague on August 23, 1866 resulted in the dissolution of the German Confederation, Prussian annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Nassau, and Frankfurt, and the exclusion of Austria from German affairs.
www.wikiverse.org /austro-prussian-war   (303 words)

  
 Franco-Prussian War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
It was provoked by Otto von Bismarck (the Prussian chancellor) as part of his plan to create a unified German Empire.
The emergence of Prussia as the leading German power and the increasing unification of the German states were viewed with apprehension by Napoleon III after the Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.
Prussian militarism had triumphed and laid the groundwork for German imperialistic ventures.
www.bartleby.com /65/fr/FrancoPr.html   (806 words)

  
 CDC Radiation Emergencies | Prussian Blue
Prussian blue was first produced as a blue dye in 1704 and has been used by artists and manufacturers ever since.
Prussian blue traps radioactive cesium and thallium (mainly Tl-201) in the intestines and keeps them from being re-absorbed by the body.
Prussian blue usually is given 3 times a day for a minimum of 30 days, depending on the extent of the contamination.
www.bt.cdc.gov /radiation/prussianblue.asp   (804 words)

  
 FDA ENCOURAGES NEW DRUG APPLICATION SUBMISSIONS FOR PRUSSIAN BLUE AS A TREATMENT FOR THALLIUM OR RADIOACTIVE CESIUM ...
Prussian blue capsules would be safe and effective for the treatment of patients with known or suspected internal contamination with radioactive thallium, non-radioactive thallium, or radioactive cesium.
Prussian blue is the first therapy that would be available to immediately help reduce the body’s burden of exposure to radioactive particles (isotopes).
In determining the safety and effectiveness of Prussian blue, FDA evaluated reports of a 1987 incident in Brazil, where 250 people were contaminated with cesium-137 that had been abandoned after use in a cancer clinic.
www.fda.gov /bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00868.html   (732 words)

  
 Prussian Blue Package Inert
IND 51,700, insoluble Prussian Blue, is to be used in the U.S. as a decorporation agent for patients internally contaminated with medically significant amounts of cesium and thallium.
Insoluble Prussian Blue is supplied from HEYL GmbH in Germany as a 0.5 gram gelatin capsule for oral administration.
Prussian Blue decorporation therapy for radiocesium in these cases should be initiated at an initial dosage of one gram TID and titrated as necessary.
www.orau.gov /reacts/prussian.htm   (4004 words)

  
 Was Slavic a Prussian Dialect?
Common Slavic and Common Prussian both represent an unaspirated long versus short four-vowel4 satem system with s,z as reflexes of Indo-European k', g'(g'h) rather than either th, d as in Albanian and Old Persian (which is Southwest Iranian), or š, ž as in Lithuanian.
These special features, unique to Lithuanian, Latvian, and Prussian, which underscores the equation of ruki law reflexes with reflexes of Indo-European palatals k', g', g'h, are what I call "fortifying" -k- and -g-14 These began to be used, essentially, for morphological purposes.
Prussian, Latvian, and Lithuanian "fortifying" -k- and -g-are found primarily before an expected ruki law reflex, then before the reflexes of Indo-European palatals k', g', g'h, and finally before the reflexes of Indo-European s in otherwise analogous environments, principally when they appear before a consonant, in most cases, t or d.
www.lituanus.org /1987/87_2_01.htm   (5020 words)

  
 Nevada Journal: Prussian surfs
The Prussian system may seem familiar to Americans in that it demanded compulsory attendance, national training for teachers, national testing for all students (important because it gave the government the ability to classify children for potential job training), national curriculum set for each grade, and mandatory kindergarten.
The substance of the course work in Prussian universities in tandem with the educational philosophy tended to be socialist and collectivist in nature.
Implementation of the Prussian System Implementation of the Prussian system was to become the goal of Edward Everett, America’s first Ph.D. As Governor of Massachusetts, Everett had to deal with the problem of the influx of poor Irish Catholics into his state.
nj.npri.org /nj98/05/prussian.htm   (1699 words)

  
 Franco Prussian War
The French ambassador to the Prussian court, Comte Vincente Benedetti, was dispatched to Ems, a spa in northwestern Germany being visited by William I, king of Prussia.
The Prussian statesman realized that this move would in all probability precipitate war, but he knew that Prussia was prepared, and he counted on the psychological effect of a French declaration of war to rally the south German states to Prussia's cause, thus accomplishing the final phase in the unification of Germany.
William I, the Prussian king, was crowned emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
history-world.org /franco_prussian_war.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Prussian Education System
After the defeat of the Prussians (Germans) by Napoleon at the battle of Jena in 1806, it was decided that the reason why the battle was lost was that the Prussian soldiers were thinking for themselves on the battlefield instead of following orders.
The Prussian philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), described by many as a philosopher and a transcendental idealist, wrote "Addresses to the German Nation" between 1807 and 1808, which promoted the state as a necessary instrument of social and moral progress.
An important part of the Prussian system was that it defined for the child what was to be learned, what was to be thought about, how long to think about it and when a child was to think of something else.
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 Prussian Language Reconstructions
All testified Prussian words are provided with references to their sources, all reconstructed words having references to authors of the reconstruction.
The latter became to be generalized on the stressed positions, too, in Prussian of the 13th c., and coincided with the back open /ā/ tending to be diphthongized under the stress parallelly to the diphthongized pronunciation of the stressed long /ē/ (Klusis, cf.
In this section Prussian words are represented in the same generalized achronical spelling, as in the Dictionary; supposed forms are marked with the asterisk; for the attested spellings cf.
poshka.bizland.com /prussian/reconstructions.htm   (3036 words)

  
 Prussia's Role during the Weimar Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Prussian population equated France and England and outnumbered all other neighbouring countries, and the Prussian territory was larger than all German neighbours, surpassed only by France and Poland.
His continuous government of the "Prussian Coalition" presents a political continuity that the Reich politics could never reach, and it is the reason why Prussia seemed so stable during those years in contrast to the Reich.
The "stability" that the Prussian state is entitled with does not refer to stable majorities given in the Landtag.
www.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~goebel/ha/ha_prussia.htm   (3123 words)

  
 Wired News: FDA Wants Anti-Radiation Drug
Prussian blue has been around since the 18th century, when the pigment was first made in Berlin.
Studies later showed that Prussian blue protects against radiation contamination by absorbing thallium and cesium-137 into the intestines.
The FDA determined that a 500-milligram dose of Prussian blue would be safe and effective by reviewing reports of how the treatment was effective in protecting against radiation contamination.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,57511,00.html   (908 words)

  
 Franco-Prussian War
Many Parisians, watching from their rooftops, cynically assumed that Nadar was dropping advertisements for his photographic studio; but in fact the leaflets were propaganda tracts accusing the Prussians of barbarism for attacking refined Paris, the capital of civilization.
The Prussians opened fire with artillery and rolling volleys of musketry as the balloon passed over their lines.
The success of the French balloonists was frustrating to the Prussians, who strove to develop a counter-weapon.
www.oldnewspublishing.com /balloons.htm   (993 words)

  
 The Franco-Prussian War and Immediate Aftermath   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An ill-written French denunciation was matched by a Prussian distortion, and soon the French Empire and the North German Confederation -- joined by the south German states of Baden, Württemburg, and Bavaria -- were preparing for war.
A series of increasingly desperate battles were waged by the French Imperial Army and local Alsatian and Lorrainer militias, culminating in the disastrous Battle of Saverne, on the 1st of September.
At that northern Alsatian town, the main French army was crushed and the Emperor Napoléon III himself captured by the Prussian and Baden forces.
www.ahtg.net /TpA/frpruswar.html   (424 words)

  
 Prussian Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prussian Assembly The Prussian constituent assembly was created by a government traumatized by the bloody Berlin uprising of March 18 and was anxious to restore confidence in the monarchy.
King Frederick William IV and his new liberal ministers hoped that the "assembly to agree with the crown on a constitution" would quickly approve the government's draft constitution, but, to their dismay, the assembly proved to be independent-minded.
The assembly was elected at almost the same time as the Prussian deputies to the Frankfurt parliament (May 1 and May 8) on a very similar and quite democratic franchise.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/prusamb.htm   (545 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Austro-Prussian War, 1866
Prussian troops marched into Saxony and from there into Bohemia, where the Austrian forces were defeated in the BATTLE OF SADOWA (Königgrätz) on July 3rd.
Prussian troops in the meantime had occupied Hannover, Hessen-Kassel and Nassau, and defeated a Bavarian force.
The Prussian victory at Sadowa has been credited to (1) Prussian superior weaponry (the NEEDLE GUN which coulf ne reloaded faster), (2) superior Prussian military leadership and (3) the diversion of some Austrian troops to the Italian theatre of operation.
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/19cen/austroprus.html   (692 words)

  
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Shortly thereafter a majority of the lower house of the Prussian parliament moved a declaration for the protection of German interests in the eastern provinces.
If we met them with trust and when [they] compared the welfare measures of the Prussian government to the conditions that prevailed previously or--and I can say this without insulting our [Russian] neighbors--that are to be found among the Poles living on the other side of the border, then gradually their hearts would be won.
They [deputies to the Prussian lower house] tried to extort from me the confidential secrets of the convention [with Russia] which would have delivered the means for the rest of the European cabinets to persecute us, to make known to them our weaknesses and errors.
www.h-net.org /~german/gtext/kaiserreich/speech.html   (3848 words)

  
 Prussian Blue
Prussian Blue is the combination of 14-year-old twin sisters named Lynx and Lamb.
Prussian Blue is also probably one of the most controversial up and coming bands on the music scene today.
The city of Bakersfield is in an uproar again and at the center of the storm are the courageous duo of Prussian Blue.
prussianbluestore.com   (1411 words)

  
 Franco-Prussian War at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, the National Guard and the workers of Paris refused to accept defeat, blaming the conservative government for failing to organise effective national resistance, and seized control of the French capital on March 18, establishing the Paris Commune.
With tacit Prussian support, the French army re-conquered Paris and executed tens of thousands of workers and revolutionaries in the "Bloody Week" (May 21-28).
France was obliged to cede three eastern départements (until 1919 the Prussian province of Alsace-Lorraine) and to pay a war indemnity of 2000 million francs.
wiki.tatet.org /Franco-Prussian_War.html   (536 words)

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