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...It had survived the Kaiser’s Zeppelins and Hitler’s V2 bombs. It had been a perch for dynasties of pigeons....
...You’ll be able to see some of those Riesling vineyards sloping away from you and you will also spot the gilded onion dome of St Elizabeth’s, an absolute jewel of a Russian Orthodox Church, built in the mid...
...The only note of insubordination was supplied by the four-year-old Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, later the Kaiser, biting the legs of two of his British uncles. But Britain had had enough of weeping....
...One of the jewels of this exhibition is a simple 1909 still life “From the Studio on the Snow”....
...There may have been the expedient name change to Windsor – prompting Kaiser (“Cousin Bill”) Wilhelm to quip that he looked forward to the next performance of the Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha – but few...
...Mounting the stairs to 221B Baker Street I was perplexed to hear the Kaiser Chiefs’ melody “Ruby” drifting from the half-open front door of my friend Sherlock Holmes....
...This fulfilled an order received at a Berlin trade fair in 1879, at the behest of Kaiser Wilhelm I, for 2,000 such timepieces for the use of deck officers in the German navy....
...Baden-Baden’s roll-call of 19th century visitors included Courbet, Wagner, Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck....
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