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Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman

Fritz Stern reviewed the book for the Political Science Quarterly and said that while there are many other biographies of Bismarck that are more detailed, "as a perceptive psychological sketch of this massively complex being, Mr. Taylor's Bismarck stands unsurpassed".


2011 Missouri River Flood

All six major dams along the Missouri River released record amounts of water to prevent overflow which led to flooding threatening several towns and cities along the river from Montana to Missouri; in particular Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as putting countless smaller towns at risk.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Bismarck Airport

Bismarck Municipal Airport in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States (FAA: BIS)

Bismarck apple

The Bismarck is believed to have originated from Bismarck in Tasmania which was a German settlement.

Bismarck Henning High School

Bismarck Henning High School or BHHS is a high school located in Bismarck, Illinois, and is currently hosting students from Rossville, Alvin, Bismark, Henning, and parts of Danville.

Bismarck Mausoleum

When Prussia established the German Empire in 1871, Bismarck was awarded the Saxony Forest as an endowment by Emperor Wilhelm I.

Bismarck monument

In 1899 (i.e. one year after Bismarck's death), Wilhelm Kreis created a fundamental tower design, known as Götterdämmerung ("Twilight of the Gods") for a competition by the German Student Union in the shape of a massive pillar of fire.

Bismarck, Arkansas

There are also two markets: the BCM (Bismarck Community Market), and the Dollar General.

Bismarck, Missouri

Johnny Reagan - Basketball Hall of Fame; Finished season with 691 points, offensive star and noted all around player of several sports.

It was named after the Iron Chancellor of Germany, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, as there was a strong desire to attract German immigrants to the growing railroad area.

Brandon Jovanovich

Jovanovich excelled in sports and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Cat lady

Florence Nightingale had many cats named after famous public figures such as Gladstone and Bismarck.

Cecilia Parker

Bismarck, North Dakota Tribune, Fifth Hardy Family Picture Delightful, Friday, December 2, 1938, Page 8.

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative (CATC) is a non-profit rural telephone utility cooperative serving the cities of Bismarck and Donaldson and the surrounding rural areas of Hot Spring County, Arkansas.

Christian Wilhelm Allers

Several other books and maps (collections of prints) followed, for the sake of example about Bismarck, so at the beginning of the 1890s he was able to build a villa on Capri.

CKND-DT

In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Donegal Corridor

A notable episode was when a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from No. 209 Squadron RAF based at Lough Erne located the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, leading to the ship's destruction.

Duane Sand

On June 4, 2008, Sand was piloting his personal airplane, a Cessna 172, on a flight from Bismarck, North Dakota to Fargo, North Dakota.

Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell

The rise of Bismarck's new Germany made this reactionary policy too dangerous for a great empire to risk.

Georg Lindemann

He was the 1st cousin of Dr. jur. Ernst Lindemann, father of Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann, the only commander of the German battleship Bismarck.

German Progress Party

Vincke, former member of the Frankfurt Parliament, a polished orator and firebrand, had fallen out with Prime Minister Otto Theodor von Manteuffel over his reactionary policies and in 1852 even fought a duel with Bismarck after a heated verbal exchange in parliament (both men missed).

House of Bismarck

Two ships of the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine), as well as a battleship from the World War II-era, were named after Otto von Bismarck.

Jackie Lockhart

She started in the buzzing atmosphere that enveloped the Scottish Championships in Glasgow, where her team - largely inexperienced at the highest level apart from herself at skip - overcame Rhona Martin's rink in a three-match final to claim the right to represent Scotland at the World Championships in Bismarck, North Dakota, ahead of the newly-famed Olympic gold medallists.

Johanna von Puttkamer

Johanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore von Puttkamer (11 April 1824 – 27 November 1894) was a Prussian noblewoman, also known as Johanna von Bismarck.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Kaiser tower

The construction of these towers was also intended to counter the so-called Bismarck cult which had resulted, for example, in the erection of hundreds of Bismarck towers and columns.

KFYR

KYYY, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, which formerly used the call sign KFYR-FM

KLBE

KLBE-LP, a low-power radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Bismarck, North Dakota, United States

La Baule-Escoublac

It not only serviced the German submarine fleet, but was also the only dry dock on the Atlantic capable of housing the German battleship Tirpitz, one of two Bismarck-class ships built for the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.

Long Lake Wetland Management District

Headquarters for the Wetland Management District is located in the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge office near Moffit, North Dakota, which is about 35 miles southeast of Bismarck.

Longwy

Bismarck later bitterly regretted his decision when it was discovered that the region of Briey and Longwy was rich with iron ore.

Ludwig Lenel

The grandfather on the mother's side of Ludwig Lenel was the Prussian democrat Friedrich Kapp (1824–1884), who emigrated to the USA, but returned later and became a national-liberal deputy to the German Reichstag and a friend of Bismarck.

Mandan language

As of 2007, extensive materials in the Mandan language at the college and at the North Dakota Heritage Center, in Bismarck, North Dakota, remained to be processed, according to linguists.

Martin Harlinghausen

During his time as Fliegerführer Atlantik, Harlinghausen was held responsible for the Luftwaffes failure to prevent the loss of the battleship Bismarck.

Max Heindel

He was born into the noble family Von Grasshoff, which was connected to the German Court during the lifetime of Prince Bismarck.

Mitchell Campbell King

Bismarck's letters to him are preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress, while some of King's letters are kept by the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg (Germany), which is a commemorative German Government Foundation in memory of the Chancellor of the German Empire (similar to the Presidential libraries in the United States).

New Hanover

New Hanover Island is a volcanic island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea

North Ludlow Beamish

Whilst attached to the vice-regal suite in Hanover he subsequently published a translation of Count von Bismarck's Lectures on Cavalry, with original notes, in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry.

Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill

Russell was trusted by Victoria, the Crown Princess and the Hohenzollerns, but his cordiality to Bismarck's enemies was never tainted by the suspicion of intrigue.

Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck

Otto Christian Archibald, Prince von Bismarck (25 September 1897, Schönhausen, Brandenburg – 24 December 1975) was a German politician and diplomat, and the Prince of Bismarck from 1904 to his death.

Otto K. Eitel

In 1949, he assumed the office of President of the Bismarck Hotel Co., which he held until the sale of the hotel in 1956 to the hotel and sports entrepreneur Arthur Wirtz.

Rusticle

They may be familiar from underwater photographs of shipwrecks, such as the RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck.

Saint Anthony, North Dakota

The community is near the site of several transmitter towers of Bismarck broadcast television and radio stations.

Serene Highness

Other non-reigning princes of the German nobility, but not (always) their cadets (e.g. the Princes von Bismarck, Carolath-Beuthen, Pless, Wrede).

The Werewolf of Paris

The novel is filled with allusions to notable historical figures including Bismarck, Blanqui, Courbet, Dumas, Haussmann, and Thiers.

Wanborough, Surrey

West entertained many political figures at the manor, including Gladstone, Queen Victoria and Bismarck.

Wick Airport

On 21 May 1941, a photographic reconnaissance Supermarine Spitfire piloted by Flying Officer Michael F. Suckling took off from Wick, and flew to Norway, in search of the German battleship Bismarck.

Wilfrid Patterson

He participated in the naval battle that sunk the German battleship Bismarck.


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