Prussia Germany
Monday, 3. December 2007
Prussia Germany
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Kaiser Wilhelm I King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany $24.99 Kaiser Wilhelm I King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany Photographic Print by A. Kampf. Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Map of Germany (Prussia) Showing the Various Nation States $39.99 Map of Germany (Prussia) Showing the Various Nation States Giclee Print by . Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Austria, Prussia and Germany, 1806-1871 $1.5 No Synopsis Available |
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Prussia: The Atlantic Bridge to Germany $29.2 No Synopsis Available |
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Austria, Prussia and Germany, 1806-1871 $27.5 No Synopsis Available |
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August Wilhelm Photo Mugs AUGUSTUS WILHELM OF PRUSSIA Fourth of the six sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Married Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- Gluckburg….. |
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Bismarck In Reichstag Photo Mugs Bismarck announces to the North German Bund that, sadly, Prussia has no choice but, with the utmost reluctance, to go to war with France… …. |
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Deputation To The King 2 Photo Mugs A deputation calls on Friedrich Wilhelm IV, king of Prussia, at Potsdam, but he turns his back on them. …. |
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GIANT Wall Sticker of: Fish and vegetable market, Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany wall sized poster (photochrom) photochrome measured in inches $44.00 Museum quality Wall Sticker by Emerald Honeybee. From the collection of nearly 6,000 photochrom (photochrome) prints from the Detroit Publishing Company collection of the Library of Congress. Emerald Honeybee offers only the BEST in quality. Our Wall Stickers are printed by a Professional Graphics Company using a MIMAKI Eco-Solvent Printer and archival inks. (Which means your poster is UV protecte… |
Landmark At Top – Basilique Du Sacre Coeur
The ‘Basilique du Sacre Coeur’ is positions at the top of butte Montmartre. To get here one can climb the endless steps, or take a cable car. The basilica and the beauty of the landscape draw thousands of visitor’s everyday. To find an “original” souvenir, one can go to the neighbor Place du Tertre where one will find many caricature artists.
Basilica in Paris, devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a famous landmark atop the Monometer, from which it tower above the city. Built during 1875 -1914 by subscriptions as a votive offering after the Franco-Prussian War, it was consecrated in 1919 after World War I and has a patriotic as well as religious symbolic significance. Designed by the architect Paul Abadie, the basilica is a huge and harmonious edifice in the Byzantine-Romanesque style. Behind its tall dome rises a bell tower 276 ft high.
The Sacré-Coeur Catholic basilica was constructed at the end of the 19th century at the top of the Montmartre hill in Paris. Its famous white pastry like architecture is dominating the city. The Sacré-Coeur is a holy place and a flagship of Catholic devotion to the Holy Virgin in Paris. It pull towards itself many pilgrims from all over the world and has a large network of affiliated churches .The Sacré-Coeur has been represented many times by the Montmartre painters near-by on Place du Tertre.
The principal frontage, with the broad bronze doors, is framed equestrian statues of Louis Saint and Jeanne d’ Arc. She opens on a square which dominates the town of Paris and makes it feasible to welcome a splendid sight on the capital.Inside, the apse is adorned with an immense mosaic of 475 m signed of Luc-Olivier Merson, representing the Trinity and the devotion of France to the Sacred Heart.Many statues also decorate the vaults. The basilica of the Sacred Heart is one of the Parisian monuments most famous and most visited.
It was decided to establish in front of the Basilica, a public garden inclined repurchasing the 50 meters of difference in level between the boulevard and the hillock and to largely open this public garden on the boulevard by cutting down the block of houses which masks the aspect of it. The study of the venture was entrusted to Jean Formigé, who with the assistance of Bévière, draws up a great project of inclined garden, leading by slopes and embranchments simply laid out, initially with a large water tower, then with the esplanade which precedes the Basilica.
The basilica of the Sacred Heart was born from the wish of the catholic church of expier the “revolutionary crimes” of the insurrectionary movement of the Commune and to wash the defeat of France at the time of the war of 1870 against Prussia.
In rise, Abadie took as a starting point the church of style romano-Byzantine of Saint-Face-of-Périgueux, which it itself restored. The Sacred Heart, entirely built out of white stone, comprises four domes encircling a vast cupola which culminates to 94 Mr. a bell-tower; high of 94 m contains a large bell melted in 1895.
But, as one walks a few meters away from the core tourist area, one discovers very quiet and charming spots, quite unexpected in such a large city as Paris.Anil Gupta recommends that you visithttp://www.bookings.fr/city/fr/paris.html?aid=305255for more information on Paris hotels.
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”Cradles of culture, gardens of civilization”: Elementary schooling in Germany, 1900–1914. $49.99 This dissertation examines the elementary schools of late Imperial Germany as agents of socialization and “civilization” and arbiters of morals and manners, health and hygiene, that changed relations between the family, the community, and the state. Using the official regulations surrounding the schools, scholars have embedded the elementary school (Volksschule) in a master narrative of German history. This so-called Sonderweg neglects the lived experiences of the schools with all their attendant diversity, complexity, and conflict. Beginning inside the elementary school itself, this study argues that the impact of education was open ended and multifaceted. The state remained present and powerful at the Volksschule but schooling was also a social phenomenon, enmeshed in a web of shifting cultural and communal relations. Not only did government ministers determine educational policies and practices, so too did a variety of social groups as well as the Protestant and Catholic churches. There is no better indication of the diversity of German schools than the absence of a national education ministry before 1934.;This study takes an ethnographic approach to its subject, showing how the school’s rituals and rules, hierarchy of age and grade, splintering of information into separate subjects, and division of boys and girls, Protestants and Catholics, shaped the pupil’s ways of seeing and knowing. Focusing on Prussia and Saxony, it uses textbooks, lesson plans, the pedagogical press, didactic literature, memoirs, and school journals (Schukhroniken) to illustrate the ways in which the Volksschule and its teachers mediated ideas about the family, community, and the nation. Moral messages on cleanliness, thrift, punctuality, obedience, and order accompanied portraits of the Kaisers and patriotic texts. Pupils took field trips to local landmarks and celebrated the invented traditions of Sedan Day and the birthday of Wilhelm II. More than policies and prescriptions, the |
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14th-Century German People $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377, presumably in Castle Schöneck in Kiens August 2, 1445 in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat. In the latter capacity, he traveled through much of Europe, even as far as Georgia (as recounted in “Durch Barbarei, Arabia”), and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon. He lived for a time in Seis am Schlern. Oswald’s father was Friedrich von Wolkenstein and his mother Katharina von Villanders. When he was ten years old, Oswald left his family and became squire of a knight errant. Oswald described the journeys undertaken by him in the following 14 years in his autobiographical song “Es fügt sich…”, mentioning travels to Crete, Prussia, Lithuania, Crimea, Turkey, the Holy Land, France, Lombardy and Spain, as well as being shipwrecked in the Black Sea. After the death of his father in 1399, Oswald returned to the Tyrol and began a drawn out quarrel with his older brother Michael about their inheritance. In 1401-1402 Oswald participated in the failed Italian expedition of King Rupert of Germany. In 1407 he and his brother finally agreed on how to split the inheritance: Oswald received a third of Castle Hauenstein and the accompanying estates in Seis am Schlern. The other two thirds of the castle belong to a knight named Martin Jäger, but Oswald did not respect the property situation, occupying the entire castle and appropriating Jägers share of the tithe. In 1408, in preparation for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Oswald paid for a memorial stone to be installed on the wall of the cathedral in Brixen. The stone has survived, and shows him in the garb of a Crusader, with the long beard associated with pilgrims. Before he left, he wrote several songs for his beloved, Anna Hausmann, the wife … |