Annie Oakley question foils Kelly Wadlinger - The Shippensburg News-Chronicle

Annie Oakley question foils Kelly Wadlinger
The Shippensburg News-Chronicle
By DALE HEBERLIG If Kelly Wadlinger had known that sharpshooter Annie Oakley once shot a cigarette from the mouth of German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, she could have become a rich woman. Just the same, the former Shippensburg resident won $23000 in a ...

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Dress like a dictator - WTOP


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Dress like a dictator
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Check out our Top 10 most ridiculous despotic looks. Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia from June 15, 1888 to Nov. 9, 1918 (Photo Courtesy of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs). Click on the image above to see it at ...

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Under the spell of Istanbul - New Straits Times


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Under the spell of Istanbul
New Straits Times
The most recent addition to the square is the German Fountain, which is an octagonal domed fountain in neo-Byzantine style, constructed by the German government in 1900 to mark the German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898.

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Visitors centers offer a warm welcome - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.


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Visitors centers offer a warm welcome
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
So important was the school in Israel's national identity, that when Theodore Herzl visited the country in 1898, he arranged to meet Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German emperor and king of Prussia, at the school's main entrance.

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'An Uncommon Lunch': Kings, Queens and 'Exes' - MidEastPosts

'An Uncommon Lunch': Kings, Queens and 'Exes'
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And what about the successor to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, one of the Queen's closest relatives. How about a Habsburg and a Romanov, or Henri D'Orleans, claimant to the French throne? Come to think of it, why stop there?

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Royal diamond auctioned for $9.7 million - Business Recorder (blog)

Royal diamond auctioned for $9.7 million
Business Recorder (blog)
The 34.98-carat jewel was sold by Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, the great-great-grandson of Germany's last emperor Wilhelm II. The Indian diamond, known as the Beau Sancy, was bought in 1604 by King Henri IV of France. In the ensuing centuries it ...

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Sotheby's Sale of the 500-year-old Beau Sancy Diamond, perhaps the first ... - Internet Stones. COM Media


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Sotheby's Sale of the 500-year-old Beau Sancy Diamond, perhaps the first ...
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The Beau Sancy, that was inherited by successive Kings of Prussia in the 18th and 19th centuries, finally came into the possession of Kaiser William II, the last Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, who ruled from 1888 to 1918.

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