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4 unusual facts about King of Prussia


In the King of Prussia

The group of anti-war activists were charged with the September 1980 destruction of nose cones designed for nuclear warheads at the Re-Entry Division of the General Electric Space Technology Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Patri Friedman

Friedman grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Upper Merion Area High School, class of 1994, where he went by the name Patri Forwalter-Friedman.

Philip Berrigan

On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Daniel, and six others (the 'Plowshares Eight') began the Plowshares Movement when they entered the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where nose cones for the Mark 12A warheads were made.

Plowshares Movement

They illegally trespassed onto the General Electric Nuclear Missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files.


Jay C. Smith

Smith was principal of Upper Merion Area High School in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Lübeck-Büchen Railway Company

Among the supporters for Lübeck's proposal were such renowned figures as Alexander von Humboldt, Klemens von Metternich and the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV.

Pennsylvania Route 252

PA 252 was designated by 1928 to run from PA 320 north of Chester north to US 122/PA 52 (now US 202) in King of Prussia.

Pennsylvania Route 52

PA 52 ran concurrent with US 122 between West Chester and New Hope by way of Paoli, King of Prussia, Norristown, Montgomeryville, Chalfont, Doylestown, and Buckingham.

The Fudge Family in England

It was a sequel to his 1818 work The Fudge Family in Paris, which had depicted the visit of the fictional British Fudge Family to Paris where the daughter Biddy had fallen in love with a young man who she had taken to be the King of Prussia but was in fact a draper.

Wedding dress of Victoria, Princess Royal

She married Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, son of Wilhelm I and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, on 25 January 1858 at St. James's Palace, Chapel Royal, St. James's, London, England.

Year of the Three Emperors

Wilhelm I had been the King of Prussia before the formation of a German Empire due largely to Bismarck's efforts.


see also

Bernhard Rode

His paintings include several works depicting, in various guises, the King of Prussia Frederick the Great, who ruled the Prussia during much of Rode's lifetime.

Joe Gaetjens

His great-grandfather Thomas, a native of Bremen, had been sent to Haiti by Frederick William III, the King of Prussia, as a business emissary.

Kaisermarsch

The victory in the Franco-Prussian War and the consequent proclamation of William I, King of Prussia, as German Emperor spurred patriotism and incited several German composers to write patriotic music dedicated to the nation and the new empire.

Lustgarten

In 1713, Friedrich Wilhelm I became King of Prussia and set about converting Prussia into a militarised state.

Wilhelm Hohenzollern

Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), last German Emperor and King of Prussia