The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts, Volumes 1-4William Rose Benét |
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... German form Franz Jo- sef ( 1830-1916 ) . Emperor of Austria ( 1848- 1916 ) . A great “ imperial civil servant , " unin- spired and stubbornly devoted , the last sym- bolic embodiment of the principle of a non- national empire by the ...
... German form Franz Jo- sef ( 1830-1916 ) . Emperor of Austria ( 1848- 1916 ) . A great “ imperial civil servant , " unin- spired and stubbornly devoted , the last sym- bolic embodiment of the principle of a non- national empire by the ...
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... German principalities . The song remained in official disgrace under the later German emperors until President Ebert recog- nized it as the German national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1919. The first line of the first stanza ...
... German principalities . The song remained in official disgrace under the later German emperors until President Ebert recog- nized it as the German national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1919. The first line of the first stanza ...
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... German colonel general in World War II . Commanded panzers through the Ar- dennes in first rush through France ( 1940 ) ; stormed Southern Russian front ( 1941 ) ; ad- vanced through Ukraine and Don region into Caucasus ( 1941-1942 ) ...
... German colonel general in World War II . Commanded panzers through the Ar- dennes in first rush through France ( 1940 ) ; stormed Southern Russian front ( 1941 ) ; ad- vanced through Ukraine and Don region into Caucasus ( 1941-1942 ) ...
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