Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Oakway Road to East Broadway (Ferry St Bridge), Coburg Road, Lane County
Author: Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg
Author: Alan R. RushtonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527518434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Charles Edward was ruler of the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, and the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was closely allied with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the implementation of eugenic policies designed to improve German racial health. When war began in 1939, Hitler ordered a secret program of murder by poison gas and starvation to eliminate the mentally and physically handicapped “ballast people”; approximately 250,000 people were eventually killed. Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated this murderous program, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme. Although Charles Edward traveled to neutral countries during the war, he did nothing to broadcast the inhumane treatment of his own and thousands of other families whose relatives disappeared into the murder machine.
The Marriage of the Queen to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Considered, in a Letter to the People of Great Britain; by Fair Play. Second Edition
Author: The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Author: John ClarkePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520228016
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.
Reply to the Duke of Coburg's Pamphlet on Russia and France. “Despots as Revolutionists.”
Author: IsmaëlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Letters Addressed to H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha
Author: Adolphe QueteletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Letters addressed to the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities, as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences. Translated from the French, by O. G. Downes
Author: Lambert Adolphe Jacques QUETELETPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
We Two
Author: Gillian GillPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345514920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” —USA Today It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century—and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years—each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic—and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters—We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend. BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide.
Time Table of the Victorian Railways Including the Deniliquin and Moama Railway and Koondrook Tramsway, and General Information
Author: Victorian RailwaysPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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