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- Former President FW de Klerk and the staff of the FW de Klerk Foundation and its Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) would like to extend their congratulations and best wishes to Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he celebrates his 84th birthday.
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Case White Case White. Case White (German: Fall Weiss), also known as the Fourth Enemy Offensive (Serbo-Croatian: Četvrta neprijateljska ofenziva/ofanziva) was a combined Axis strategic offensive launched against the Yugoslav Partisans throughout occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. It was one of the most significant confrontations of World War II in Yugoslavia.
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Charles N. DeGlopper Charles N. DeGlopper entered the United States Army in November 1942. He trained at Camp Croft, South Carolina. He was deployed overseas in April 1943, where he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France. He was ultimately killed in action on June 9, 1944 in La Fière, Manche, Normandy, France.
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Franz von Papen Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Koeningen (. [köningen ˈfʁants fɔn]. ; ˈpaːpən 29 october – 1879 2 may) 1969 was A german, Nobleman General staff officer and. Politician he served As chancellor Of germany in 1932 and As-Vice chancellor Under Adolf hitler in–1933. 1934apen was captured along with his son Franz Jr. at his own home by First Lieutenant Thomas McKinley and members of the 194th Glider Infantry, in April 1945. McKinley rushed into the lodge to find Franz von Papen having dinner with his family. McKinley pulled out a photograph and identified Papen.
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F.W. de Klerk F.W. de Klerk, in full Frederik Willem de Klerk, (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af.), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country.
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Women in Politics Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997.
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F. W. de Klerk Quotes It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time. F. W. de Klerk
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Klemens von Metternich Facts Prince Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian politician and diplomat, suppressed nationalistic and democratic trends in Central Europe but was also the architect of a diplomatic system which kept Europe at peace for a century.
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Walter Ulbricht Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later (after spending the years of Nazi rule in exile in France and the Soviet Union) in the early development and establishment of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic).
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- He is known to have made five large canvases (most of them 3.10 meters high) for a grand house owned by Count Floris II van Pallandt, at Lange Vijverberg, The Hague. — Artist Dirck van Delen was born in Heusden, near Den Bosch.In 1625 he married in Middelburg and settled in nearby Arnemuiden. Dirck van Delen was mainly active in Middelburg, but also in Delft. Not in Delft Guild, but connected in style with Van Bassen. When he married in 1625 he was a citizen of Middelburg, but he settled in nearby Arnemuiden, where he became master of the toll-house.
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The Denial of Free Will in Hasidic Thought Reb Zadok [Zadok HaCohen of Lublin, a disciple of Mordechai Joseph Leiner (the Izbicer Rebbe), who believed that humans do not cause their own actions, also] denies free will in the strong sense of teaching that none of our acts result from our own volition; God is the true agent of human deeds.
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- He died in Paris 23 June 1953. He was buried at the Saulcy-sur-Meurthe Cemetery, near the place of his birth. René Fonck with a SPAD S.XII Canon fighter. The stork painted on the fuselage is the insignia of Escadrille 103, “Les Cignones.” (Historic Wings)
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Case study â the origins of Jan Dirkse van Eps Marritgen Damen, widow of Dirck van Eps and wife of Henrick Andriesz is about to depart for New Netherland and gives power of attorney to Jan Arnoldus Huydekoper to receive wages owing to her from the East India Company and the West India Company.ince Van Eps is an uncommon name in Amsterdam and there was just one Dirck van Eps at that time that we know of, this must be a brother of Jan van Eps. This shows that the family was still living in Amsterdam in 1655.
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- This World War I siege stemmed from German General Erich von Falkenhayn’s edict to elicit major bloodshed from the French defense of the fortress complex around Verdun. German forces advanced quickly in February 1916, claiming Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux after brutal subterranean melees. In his so-called Christmas Memo of 1915, Erich von Falkenhayn, the chief of the German General Staff, made a uniquely cynical proposal: not to take territory but to take lives, to cause the French army to “bleed to death” defending the fortress complex around Verdun on the Meuse heights.
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Alfred von Schlieffen Alfred von Schlieffen. Alfred von Schlieffen was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1833. He attended the Berlin War Academy (1858-61) and was a staff officer during the Austro-Prussian War (1866).In 1891 Schlieffen replaced Helmuth von Moltke as Chief of General Staff.Schlieffen feared that France and Russia would join together to attack Germany. His main concern was to devise a plan that could deal with a war against Russia in the east and France in the west.lfred von Schlieffen. Alfred von Schlieffen was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1833. He attended the Berlin War Academy (1858-61) and was a staff officer during the Austro-Prussian War (1866).
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- Hitler proposed to build a cheap car that almost anyone could afford. He gave it the name “KdF Wagen,” which we know as the Volkswagen. KdF was the abbreviation for “Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), a subsidiary of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front), headed by Robert Ley.
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Who's Who - Rene Fonck Site Information. Who's Who - Rene Fonck. Paul Rene Fonck (1894-1953) was the Allies' most successful fighter pilot of World War One, and also the highest-scoring survivor of the war (second only to Manfred von Richthofen). Fonck was conscripted into the French Army in 1914 and attended Flying School the following February.
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- Von Papen organised another election in November. The support for Von Papen in this election was even less. The Von Schleicher Government. 1  He was Chancellor for two months. 2  Hindenburg had no choice, and on 30 January 1933, he appointed Hitler as Chancellor.he Von Papen Government. Von Papen, at the time a member of the Centre Party, became Chancellor. He only had 68 supporters in the Reichstag. He hoped to win more support in the 1932 election, but he was disappointed. The largest party in the Reichstag was the Nazi party. Hitler wanted to be appointed Chancellor.
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Afrika Korps Afrika Korps. The Deutches Africa Korps (also simply called Afrika Korps or DAK) was an expeditionary force of the Wermatch that attacked at Northern Africa during World War II, The Afrika Korps became famous alongside it's first commander, Erwin Rommel. Lacking resources and manpower, the Afrika Korps were defeated in May 1943.
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- Gerhard Domagk-Biographical. Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was born on October 30, 1895, at Lagow, a beautiful, small town in the Brandenburg Marches. Until he was fourteen he went to school in Sommerfeld, where his father was assistant headmaster.is mother, Martha Reimer, came from farming stock in the Marches, where she lived in Sommerfeld until 1945 when she was expelled from her home; she died from starvation in a refugee camp. Domagk himself was, from the age of 14, at school in Silesia until he reached the upper sixth form.
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Graaff-Reinet 1 Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff (31 January 1808 – 21 April 1881) was the second President of the Orange Free State, from 1855 to 1859. 2  He was born in Kogmanskloof, Montagu and completed his schooling in Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet where he worked for a further 14 years. The first Graaff-Reinet citizen to die in the jail at the Castle in Cape Town. 2  Coenraad de Buys (1761–1822) A Boer farmer of the Eastern Cape frontier who rebelled against both the Dutch and English authorities. 3  Nearly 7 ft tall, he is reputed to have been the first white man across the Vaal River.
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- However, the official position of the South African government throughout the 1990s was that the program had been a strictly defensive one. South Africa's CBW program was headed by Dr. Wouter Basson, a former Special Forces Army Brigadier and personal heart specialist to former President P.W. Botha.
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- Friedrich Kluge (1856–1926), German linguist. Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), German field marshal. Wolfgang von Kluge (5 May 1892 – 30 October 1976), German World War II general.
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- Cavalry in Future Wars Frederick von Bernhardi. Dr. Johnson, who was a sufferer from folie du doute, had to touch every post he passed. Religion and Lust James Weir. Some of them went into the folie Wood nearby and met seven German officers strolling about the glades, as though no war was on. Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs. Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.
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- Rudolph Von Dorsten was the Secretary of the Dutch Legation in New York City and describes Washington's entrance into the city: President George Washington made his entry into New York on Thursday, April 23d. On the previous day a barge left this city. The barge was built expressly by the citizens of New York, and was rowed by thirteen pilots, all dressed in white.
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- • 1990 – South African President F.W. de Klerk and the National party lift the ban on the ANC and its leader, Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years. • 1991 – President F.W. de Klerk repeals the rest of the apartheid laws and calls for the drafting of a new constitution.