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 Prussia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 North German Confederation formed in 1867, renamed German Empire 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.
In 1862 Prussian King William I appointed Otto von Bismarck as Prime Minister of Prussia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussia   (2276 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Prussian people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prussian people, or (old) Prussians, inhabited the area around the Curonian and Vistula Lagoons, (in what is now northern Poland), in the region roughly occupied by the Mazurian Lakes.
The Curonian Lagoon (or Bay, Gulf) is sundered from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit and belongs to Lithuania and Russia.
The Prussian people, or (old) Prussians, were indo-European Balts inhabiting the area around the Curonian and Vistula Lagoon s (i.e., Baltic Prussia).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prussian-people   (314 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Prussian people)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Nevertheless one must be careful not to immediately identify these people with the states of Prussia (A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland) and Kingdom of Prussia (additional info and facts about Kingdom of Prussia).
Currently, an interesting experiment in cultural and linguistic revival is underway in Lithuania (A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea), exploring the modern Lithuanians connections with the old ethnic Prussians from the same Baltic family.
Most of the native Prussians remaining after the bloody conquest were settled to Sambia (additional info and facts about Sambia).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prussian_people.htm   (273 words)

  
 Prussian people - TheBestLinks.com - Prussians, Adalbert of Prague, Baltic language, Balts, ...
Prussian people - TheBestLinks.com - Prussians, Adalbert of Prague, Baltic language, Balts,...
Prussians, Prussian people, Adalbert of Prague, Baltic language, Balts...
Their first mention in historical sources is in connection with Adalbert of Prague who was slain in 997 during a crusade to Christianize the Prussians.
www.thebestlinks.com /Prussians.html   (297 words)

  
 CDC Radiation Emergencies | Prussian Blue
People may become internally contaminated (inside their bodies) with radioactive materials by accidentally ingesting (eating or drinking) or inhaling (breathing) them, or through direct contact (open wounds).
People who are concerned about the possibility of being contaminated with radioactive materials should go to their doctors for advice and treatment.
People who have had constipation, blockages in the intestines, or certain stomach problems should be sure to tell their doctors before taking Prussian blue.
www.bt.cdc.gov /radiation/prussianblue.asp   (792 words)

  
 The Public School Nightmare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up--and that all this money and all these people, all the time we take out of children's lives and away from their homes and families and neighbourhoods and private explorations--gets in the way of education.
He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
In effect he told the Prussian people that the party was over, that the nation would have to shape up through a new Utopian institution of forced schooling in which everyone would learn to take orders.
www.missionislam.com /homed/publicschoolnightmare.htm   (2797 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hurrians are an ancient non Semitic people of northern Mesopotamia, Syria, and eastern Asia Minor circa ?1500 BC and possibly identical with the Horites (the Horites are an ancient people of the biblical period prior to Abraham that inhabited the Dead Sea region of the eastern Mediterranean).
Livonian is a district in Latvia and the Veps are a Finnish people of Russia.
Bulgaro Turkic - the Bulgars Turkic people are extinct 4.
www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/Lecture9.doc   (11390 words)

  
 GHDI - Document
The German people [nation]* will never give up its claim to federal unity, which is recognized by the united authority of the Confederation and by all individual German governments, and has found legal expression in the Reich Constitution of 1849.
The Prussian people, above all, must show that, in spite of its brilliant history and in spite of the great power status of the Prussian state, it feels itself to be part of the German people [nation] and that, like any other German state, it will subordinate itself to the German central power and parliament.**
However the relationship of these provinces to the rest of Germany may be shaped in the near future: the Association remains firmly confident that, in the long run, this inextinguishable inner community cannot be without the proper form of external political unity.
germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org /document.cfm?document_id=241   (468 words)

  
 [No title]
If to the people, then it was a mere question of convenience whether the monarchy were continued in form; there was little to choose between a constitutional monarchy where the king was appointed by the people and controlled by Parliament, and an avowed republic.
At the Revolution, the English people were in a very different condition from that of Prussia to-day; after a century of revolution and civil war, it was in a position to be able to give away a crown and add conditions which William of Orange accepted.
He pointed out that by them and by their blood the Prussian State had been built up; the Prussian nobles were, he maintained, not, as so often was said, unpopular; a third of the House belonged to them; they were not necessarily opposed to freedom; they were, at least, the truest defenders of the State.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/4/0/12400/12400.txt   (17091 words)

  
 Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 183 December 1848
For centuries the Prussian state had carefully concealed the fact that the departments of war, internal and foreign affairs, church and educational matters and even the treasury of the royal household as well as faith, hope and charity depended on profane financial matters.
In the eyes of the proletariat and the urban democrats this cabinet and the Assembly of conciliators, whose majority was represented in the cabinet, and the Prussian bourgeoisie, the majority of whom constituted the majority in the Assembly of conciliation, represented the old, refurbished police and bureaucratic state.
As far as the people are concerned, the Hansemann ministry is in practice epitomized by the old Prussian policeman, and in theory by the offensive Belgian differentiation [140] between bourgeois and non-bourgeois.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1848/12/31.htm   (3380 words)

  
 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, Vol. 2 Chap. 10
People recognized only the gross irregularities and the continual encroachments of that hated institution in the Metropolis of the Reich and directed their anger towards Berlin and Prussia, all the more because in certain quarters (the Bavarian Government) nothing was done to correct this attitude, but it was even welcomed with silent rubbing of hands.
It was a shrewd and expert manoeuvre on the part of the Jew, to set the different branches of the German people quarrelling with one another, so that their attention would be turned away from himself and he could plunder them all the more completely.
But in the case of a people like the Germans, whose history has so often shown them capable of fighting for phantoms to the point of complete exhaustion, every war-cry is a mortal danger.
www.stormfront.org /books/mein_kampf/mkv2ch10.html   (8286 words)

  
 Viceland - HELLO, WHITE PEOPLE! - Prussian Blue Look to the Future
A lot of pro-racemixing people try to justify their beliefs by saying that it is purely human nature for people to be sexually attracted to their opposites.
Even Slavic people who have lived for a long time in the West and/or North America, who have been influenced by music and the "way of life" here will still CHOOSE to be with their own.
People should realize that the ignorance of a few does not tie the whole people to a reputation as being dull-witted, just as being of a non-Caucasian race should not tie one to any other characteristic, good nor bad.
www.viceland.com /issues/v11n10/htdocs/hello.php   (16008 words)

  
 Prussia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The national name Prussia at different times has denoted a geographical region, a dukedom, a Polish province, a Polish fief, a kingdom under Brandenburg's rule which became the leading kingdom of the German Empire (comprising in its last form almost two-thirds of the Germany's area) and as republic state of Germany.
the land of the Prussian people (6th-13th centuries)
Royal Prussia and Ducal Prussia forming together the Prussian province of Poland, 15th century-1660
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prussian   (201 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Napoleonic Europe (1799-1815): Prussia in the Napoleonic Era
With these losses, Napoleon lopped off a considerable amount of Prussian land, adding this territory to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
Prussian national pride soared, the nation increased its resolve to fight Napoleon, and Prussia became a focal point for German nationalism.
By 1815, the Prussian state, economy, and army were once again powerful, and played a substantial role in bringing down Napoleon at Waterloo.
www.sparknotes.com /history/european/napoleonic/section8.rhtml   (843 words)

  
 Ezion-Geber's Home Page - Preussen Gloria - Prussia, the Glorious Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The survival, and subsequent rise, of nazism may therefore be squarely laid at the feet of Bavarian monarchist nationalists and not the Prussian people or the Prussian government.
The Prussians were not subversive but intensely loyal to integrity and honour.
All of this was forcibly crushed between 1944 and 1947 when the Prussian state was disbanded by the Allies and blamed for the war.
www.nccg.org /ezion_geber/preussen3.html   (1063 words)

  
 The Public School Nightmare
It’s important to note that the underlying premise of Prussian schooling is that the government is the true parent of children -- the State is sovereign over the family.
In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations --not by their own individual accomplishments.
While this development has had a markedly adverse effect on people and on our democratic traditions, it has made schooling the single largest employer in the United States, and the largest grantor of contracts next to the Defense Department.
www.halexandria.org /dward036.htm   (2811 words)

  
 Ludwig Windthorst Speaks in the Prussian Parliament (1873)
Ludwig Windthorst, Speech in Favor of Reforming the Prussian Suffrage, in the Prussian House of Deputies,  26 November 1873
In the [Prussian] House of Deputies, during the debate on the national election law, the conservative spokesmen von Blanckenburg and Wagener expressed themselves in similar fashion.  [Voice from the left:  Wagener?]
Commotion.]  People were summoned two or three times to appear for the voting and to vote for the National Liberals [Laughter.]  There must be an end to this.  We must afford people the opportunity to vote according to their convictions, without putting their livelihoods at risk.
h-net.org /~german/gtext/kaiserreich/windhorst.html   (1326 words)

  
 Teen People Spikes Story About "Olsen Twins" Of White Supremacist Movement... | The Huffington Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Teen People spiked a story it planned to run on teen twin hate-mongering singers, after learning a magazine staffer had cut a deal to avoid using the words "Nazi," "supremacist" and "hate" in the article.
You know, there are people who just glance at headlines about celebrities and then move on, because celebrity "news" typically isn't news.
Discrimination against persons with disabilities and mistreatment of native people are still ongoing problems that are not being addressed.
www.huffingtonpost.com /2005/11/23/teen-people-spikes_n_11138.html   (3475 words)

  
 LITTLE LITHUANIA
That is why those Prussians who did not flee to the borderlands tried to defend themselves militarily and were succesful in doing so for 57 years until 1283.
We are approximately one million Prussians still living in Diaspora, yet we--the autochthonous people of Prussia--were denied our right to participate in the negotiations involving the territory of our homeland during the talks pertaining to the re-unification of Germany.
The history of people is a genetic history and not always reflected in their names.
www.network54.com /Forum/5317/viewall-page-18   (7119 words)

  
 First European Christian Polygamy Page: Stan's Personal Page: 12. My Lost World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Prussian Memelland was recovered off Lithuania (1939), which had illegally annexed it in 1923, and Danzig (1939).
The Prussian state was dissolved Prussian territories divided up between Poland (the major beneficiary), Russia (northern East Prussia) and Lithuania (the Memelland) (see Map 4).
There, the Schlonzaks - a hybrid German-Polish Prussian people - again voted overwhelmingly to remain in Germany, but instead of honouring the voters' wishes, the Allies appeased the Poles, aided and abetted by terrorists led by Korfanty, and partitioned the territory, given Poland the richest coal-bearing part.
www.nccg.org /fecpp/Stan12-LostWorld.html   (2030 words)

  
 vol2chap10
And it was just in those years that our movement had to engage in a bitter strife with the Centre Party not for religious ends but for national, racial, political and economic ends.
Thus deprived of their internal raison d’être, they renounced all right to survival and were induced by purely practical reasons to fuse with their neighbours or else they joined the more powerful states out of their own free will.
The Reich was forced to secure possession of resources which had to be constantly increased in order to satisfy the demands made by further extortions.The form in which the powers of the Reich were thus extended to embrace the federal states was often ridiculously stupid, but in itself the procedure was logical and natural.
www.adolfhitler.ws /lib/mk/vol2chap10.html   (6514 words)

  
 Mein Kampf - Volume II, Chapter X
This pestilential adulteration of the blood, of which hundreds of thousands of our people take no account, is being systematically practised by the Jew today.
The success we then achieved showed that we were right, but it does not speak today in favour of those who thought they knew better.
The controversy over federation and unification, so cunningly propagandized by the Jews in 1919-1920 and onwards, forced National Socialism, which repudiated the quarrel, to take up a definite stand in relation to the essential problem concerned in it.
www.hitler.org /writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv2ch10.html   (8304 words)

  
 Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
Although the Prussian language eventually disappeared, the Prussian people either converted, surrendered and converted, or fled to pagan Lithuania in the course of the Crusade.
But "Republic" would imply the sovereignty of the people, and "State" at least leaves this ambiguous, since some might think that God, or the Messiah, not the People, should be sovereign in Israel.
A dangerous people, to be sure, since it is an open secret that Israel has nuclear weapons, but the way things are going, there are many Arabs, and certainly many Palestinians, who would settle for a great deal of mutual destruction if only Israel itself could be wiped out.
www.friesian.com /outremer.htm   (13900 words)

  
 The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? [Free Republic]
This is one of my personal favorite "oldie but goodie" articles I have saved from the web.
I know in mnay states you are supposed to inform the district that you are going to homeschool before the start of a new school year but I know there must be loopholes to that because I hear of people pulling out in the middle of the school year all the time.
Homeschools laws vary state by state so it would be most helpful to get in touch with some local organizations to help you out with your situation specifically.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3acbaf9a757e.htm   (4272 words)

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