Various places and things have been named after the French province: Lorraine, Kansas (USA) Lorraine, New York (USA) Lorraine, Ontario (Canada) Lorraine, Quebec (Canada) the French battleship Lorraine, of World War II Lorraine was the code name used by Amiga Corporation for their home computer project later called the Amiga Lorraine is also used as a feminine name, above all in the US and Canada, after World War I, during which events brought Lorraine to the North ...

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Lorraine was originally an independent kingdom. It was created in 843, when the Carolingian empire was divided between the three sons of Louis the Pious. Named after the new ruler, Holy Roman Emperor Lothar, the area and other territories controlled by Lothar became known as Lotharingia. In France, this became known as Lorraine, while in Germany, it was eventually known as Lothringen. Lorraine is a frenchified version of the German title Lotharingen. In the Alemannic, the language once spoken in Lorraine, the -ingen suffix signified a property; thus, in a figurative sense, "Lotharingen" can ...

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The Cross of Lorraine is a heraldic cross. It consists of a vertical line, crossed by two smaller horizontal bars. The lower bar is as close to the bottom of the vertical as the upper bar is to the top. In the ancient version, both bars were of the same length. In 20th century use, the lower bar is longer than the upper, thus resembling a patriarchal cross, the crossbars of which, however, are both near the top. Cross of Lorraine - Symbol in France. The Cross of Lorraine is part of the heraldic arms of Lorr ...

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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born in Chicago, the youngest child of Carl and Nannie Perry Hansberry. Her parents were politically active Republicans who bequeathed their Afrocentric ideology to their daughter (prior to the 1932 presidential election, a majority of African-Americans voted Republican). Her father was a real estate broker. Hansberry grew up in a white, middle-class neighborhood and attended public school. In order to move into the neighborhood, Hansberry's father had to first overcome a racially restricted cove ...

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Claude Lorrain (Lorraine, c1604 - Rome, November 23, 1682), a French artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, is admired for his achievements in landscape painting. He was born into poverty in the village of Chamagne in Lorraine. His actual name was Claude Gellée, but he is better known by the province in which he was born. Orphaned by age of twelve, he went to live at Freiburg with an elder brother, Jean Gellée, a woodcarver. He afterwards went to Rome to seek a livelihood and then to Naples, where he apprenticed f ...

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The "Cross of Lorraine" symbol appears in Unicode as U+2628 (☨) or U+2021 (‡) and in HTML as ‡ (‡). The electronic music band Psychic TV, more specifically Genesis P-Orridge, produced a "sigil" which is very similar to the "Cross of Lorraine." Psychic TV logo Controversial noise musician and one-time LaVeyan Satanist Boyd Rice has also adopted the Cross of Lorraine as a symbol, ...

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Duchy of Lorraine - House of Ardennes-Bar. Frederick I (959-978) Thierry I (978-1026/1027) Frederick II (1026/1027) Frederick III (1026/1027-1033) Duchy of Lorraine - House of Ardennes-Verdun. Gothelo (r. 1033 - 1044), Duke of Upper and Lower Lotharingia. Godfrey, the Bearded (r. 1044 - 1046) Duchy of Lorraine - House of Ardennes-Metz. Adalbert (r. 1047 – 1048) ...

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Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was the territory originally of the German empire, ceded to Louis XIV by the peace of Westphalia in 1648, but returned by France to the newly-unified Germany under the 1871 Treaty of Frankfurt (which ended the Franco-Prussian War) and restored to France after World War I by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It was annexed by the German Third Reich ...

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The "Cross of Lorraine" symbol appears in Unicode as U+2628 (☨) or U+2021 (‡) and in HTML as ‡ (‡). The electronic music band Psychic TV, more specifically Genesis P-Orridge, produced a "sigil" which is very similar to the "Cross of Lorraine." Psychic TV logo Controversial noise musician and one-time LaVeyan Satanist Boyd Rice has also adopted the Cross of Lorraine as a symbol, explicity because of its hermetic associations. [1] Marilyn Manson is adopting a slightly different version of the Lorraine Cross for his brand new art movement: The Celebr ...

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The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of battles fought along the eastern frontier of France and in southern Belgium shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. The battles represented a collision between the military strategies of the French Plan XVII and the German Schlieffen Plan. Plan XVII, which embodied the military doctrine of offensive à outrance (offensive to the limit), was a disaster and the French army suffered enormous casualties. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fought a relatively minor battle at ...

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The collective term Austrian Crown Jewels or insignia (de: Insignien und Kleinodien) denotes the regalia and vestments worn by the Holy Roman Emperor, and later the Austrian Emperor during the coronation ceremony and at various other state functions. The term refers to the following objects: the crowns, sceptres, orbs, swords, rings, crosses, holy relics, and the royal robes, as well ...

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Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major ruling houses of Europe. Their principal roles were as: Kings of Germany, (several centuries to 1806), mostly also crowned as Holy Roman Emperors, and Rulers of Austria (as dukes 1282–1453, archdukes 1453–1804, and emperors 1804–1918), Kings of Croatia (1527–1918), Kings of Hungary (1437–1918), Kings of Spain (1516–1700), Kings of Portugal (1580–1640),Including:

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Alsace (French: Alsace; Alsatian/German: Elsass) is one of the 26 régions of France. Originally part of the Holy Roman Empire and inhabited by people speaking a dialect of Upper German, Alsace gradually passed under French sovereignty in the course of the 17th century, and became one of the provinces of France. It is located on the eastern border of France, adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. Its capital and largest city is Strasbourg. Alsace - Geography. Alsace has an area of 8280 km ...

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Lorraine was part of the German Holy Roman Empire since the division of the empire of Charlemagne at the Treaty of Verdun in the 9th century, and was acquired by France bit by bit in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the formal takeover of the remaining autonomous duchy of Lorraine in 1766 (which was in fact administered by French administration for a half-century already). However, some parts of Lorraine, such as the hometown of Joan of Arc, had always remained French despite the Treaty of Verdun. In 1871, Bismarck carved out the eastern pa ...

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The Cross of Lorraine is part of the heraldic arms of Lorraine in eastern France. It was originally the symbol of Joan of Arc, renowned for her perseverance against foreign invaders of France (in her case, the English). Between 1871 and 1918 (and again between 1940-1944), the northern third of Lorraine was annexed to Germany, along with Alsace. During that period the cross served as a rallying point for French ambitions to recover its lost provinces. This historical significance lent it ...

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In Rome, not until the mid-1600s, were landscapes deemed fit for serious painting. Northern Europeans, such as the Germans Elsheimer and Bril, had made such views pre-eminent in some of their paintings (as well as Da Vinci in his private drawings[1] or Peruzzi in his decorative frescoes of vedute); but not until Annibale Carracci and his pupil Domenichino do we see landscape become the focus of a canvas by a major Italian artist. Even with the latter two, as with Lorrain, the stated themes of the paintings were mythic or religious. La ...

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He was the son of Yolande of Lorraine and Frederick, Count of Vaudémont. On his mother's side, he was a grandson of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. His father was a member of the Vaudémont family, a junior branch of the Lorraine ducal family, descending from John I, Duke of Lorraine. He was thus both heir-general and heir-male to the Duchy when he succeeded on the death of his cousin Nicholas in 1473. His maternal grandfather René I of Anjou died in 1480 his mother succeeded to René's claims as King of Naples and René t ...

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The objective of the French Plan XVII was to recapture the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, lost in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, pinning the German forces on the Rhine, and to attack the German centre through the southern Ardennes. In opposition to Plan XVII, the German Schlieffen Plan anticipated the target of the French assault and determined to remain there on the defensive, holding the Alsace-Lorraine front with the minimal possible force needed to keep the bulk of the French engaged there. The main German force would be on the right wi ...

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Habsburg - From Counts of Habsburg to Holy Roman Emperors. The name is derived from the Swiss Habichtsburg (Hawk Castle), the family seat in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries at Habsburg in the former duchy of Swabia in present-day Switzerland (Switzerland did not then exist in its present form, and the Swiss lands were part of the mainly Germanic Holy Roman Empire). From Southwest-Germany the family extended its influence and holdings to the south-eastern reaches of the Holy Roman Empire, roughly today's ...

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