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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
seeing Charlemagne as a German king, Napoleon viewed him as a Frankish conqueror who had extended French rule across Central Europe and Italy, something Napoleon aspired to accomplish as well. Despite his fixation on Charlemagne, there is no evidence that Napoleon aspired to become Holy Roman Emperor. Austria was slow ...
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
an ultimatum demanding that Francis abdicated by 10 August. Still, as late as 2 August, Joseph Haas, the head of the principal commission's secretariat, hoped that the end of the Holy Roman Empire might yet be averted. The general opinion among the Austrian high command was however that abdication was inevitable and th...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
the two imperial vicars Saxony and Bavaria would be entitled to exercise imperial authority and since both were aligned with Napoleon, such an arrangement could cause an abdicated Francis (as only Emperor of Austria) to become a vassal of Napoleon (as Holy Roman Emperor). More crucially, the abdication was also intende...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
the past. With the Holy Roman Empire dissolved, Francis II could focus his attention on the continued rise and prosperity of his new hereditary empire, as Emperor Francis I of Austria. On the morning of 6 August 1806, the imperial herald of the Holy Roman Empire rode from the Hofburg to the Jesuit Church of the Nine Ch...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
a new emperor, Francis II's abdication simultaneously dissolved the empire itself so that there were no more electors. Aftermath Reactions The passing of the Holy Roman Empire, an institution which had lasted for just over a thousand years, did not pass unnoticed or unlamented. The dissolution of the empire sent shockw...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
people within the former empire, its collapse made them uncertain and fearful of their future, and the future of Germany itself. Contemporary reports from Vienna describe the dissolution of the empire as "incomprehensible" and the general public's reaction as one of horror. In contrast to the fears of the general publi...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
fading ideal of universal Christianity and paved the way for the country's unification as the German Empire, a nation state, 65 years later. German historian Helmut Rössler has argued that Francis II and the Austrians fought to save the largely ungrateful Germany from the forces of Napoleon, only withdrawing and abando...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
beyond Habsburg control forced decisive actions to be taken. Compounded with fears of what now guaranteed the safety of many of the smaller German states, the poet Christoph Martin Wieland lamented that Germany had now fallen into an "apocalyptic time" and stating "Who can bear this disgrace, which weighs down upon a n...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
Weimar, "if poetry can go hand in hand with politics, then the abdication of the imperial dignity offers a wealth of material. The Roman Empire now takes its place in the sequence of vanquished empires". In the words of the English historian James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce in his 1864 work on the Holy Roman Empire, the...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
many strange contrasts of the present and the past, and summed up in those contrasts so much of European history". When confronted by the fall and collapse of their empire, many contemporaries employed the catastrophic fall of ancient Troy as a metaphor, due to its association with the notion of total destruction and t...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
denizens of his German lands (Swedish Pomerania and Bremen-Verden) on 22 August 1806, stating that the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire "would not destroy the German nation" and expressed hopes that the empire might be revived. The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire was constituted by Francis II's own personal ab...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
imperium) were never technically abolished. The continued existence of an universal empire, though without defined territory and lacking an emperor, was sometimes referenced in the titles of other later monarchs. For instance, the Savoyard Kings of Italy continued to claim the title "Prince and Perpetual Vicar of the H...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
Austrian imperial title was not (unlike for instance the French or Russian imperial titles) associated with any nationality in particular. Though the German vassals of the Holy Roman Empire had been released from their obligations, Francis II and his successors continued to rule a large German-speaking population and t...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
the only true imperial family. Although the new Austrian Empire lacked many of the key elements of the Holy Roman Empire, it remained close in practice and ideals to the pre-1806 empire. In the aftermath of Francis II's abdication, the new Austrian Empire took steps to distance itself from the older empire. The symbols...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
difference between Austria and the Holy Roman Empire. In addition to the Austrian Empire (and France under Napoleon), the most prominent potential claimant to the Holy Roman Empire's legacy (in the sense of ruling Germany) in the wake of its collapse and dissolution was the Kingdom of Prussia, ruled by the House of Hoh...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
candidate to the position of Holy Roman Emperor in 1740. Frederick II, and other Prussian kings, dismissed these ideas while they remained under imperial rule, arguing that additional territory and power would be more beneficial than the imperial title. In 1795 and again in 1803 and 1804, French representatives suggest...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
nostalgia for Germany's history under imperial rule. The Prussians viewed the survival chances of the Holy Roman Empire as very low and saw the French as the true successors of the ancient Carolingians, an enemy which they believed could not be defeated by the normal military means. The reluctance of the Hohenzollerns ...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
"imperial union" in northern Germany, with an emperor of the Hohenzollern dynasty, these plans were dropped in September of 1806 after they found little support and Emperor Alexander I of Russia objected to the plans. Because the Hohenzollerns lacked imperial ancestry they did not see themselves as an imperial dynasty ...
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Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire
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abdication of Emperor Francis II on 6 August 1806
were made to associate the German Empire with the institutions of the Holy Roman Empire, but its emperors continued to enumerate themselves after the Kings of Prussia; Emperor Frederick III (1888) was enumerated after his predecessor as king, Frederick II, not after the previous imperial Frederick (Emperor Frederick II...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell....
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
its features, commercial and proprietary work-alikes, and even versions based on the licensed UNIX source code (which may be sufficiently "Unix-like" to pass certification and bear the "UNIX" trademark). Definition The Open Group owns the UNIX trademark and administers the Single UNIX Specification, with the "UNIX" nam...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
and discourage its use in hyphenated phrases. Other parties frequently treat "Unix" as a genericized trademark. Some add a wildcard character to the name to make an abbreviation like "Un*x" or "*nix", since Unix-like systems often have Unix-like names such as AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix, Xinu, a...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
a trademark, but lost his case, and lost again on appeal, with the court upholding the trademark and its ownership. History "Unix-like" systems started to appear in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many proprietary versions, such as Idris (1978), UNOS (1982), Coherent (1983), and UniFlex (1985), aimed to provide busines...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
these systems led to the creation of interoperability standards, including POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. Various free, low-cost, and unrestricted substitutes for UNIX emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, including 4.4BSD, Linux, and Minix. Some of these have in turn been the basis for commercial "Unix-like" syste...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
evolved since then, replacing all of the AT&T code. Since the BSD variants are not certified as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification, they are referred to as "UNIX-like" rather than "UNIX". Categories Dennis Ritchie, one of the original creators of Unix, expressed his opinion that Unix-like systems such as Linu...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
of work done at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some of these systems have no original AT&T code but can still trace their ancestry to AT&T designs. Trademark or branded UNIX These systemslargely commercial in naturehave been determined by the Open Group to meet the Single UNIX...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
distributions that have been certified, and a few other systems (such as IBM z/OS) earned the trademark through a POSIX compatibility layer and are not otherwise inherently Unix systems. Many ancient UNIX systems no longer meet this definition. Functional UNIX Broadly, any Unix-like system that behaves in a manner roug...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
implementations of the UNIX design, whether genetic UNIX or not, fall into the restricted definition of this third category due to the expense of obtaining Open Group certification, which costs thousands of dollars for commercial closed source systems. Around 2001, Linux was given the opportunity to get a certification...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
down because of missing interest at the LSB work group. Compatibility layers Some non-Unix-like operating systems provide a Unix-like compatibility layer, with varying degrees of Unix-like functionality. IBM z/OS's UNIX System Services is sufficiently complete as to be certified as trademark UNIX. Cygwin and MSYS both ...
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Unix-like
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operating system that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system
(previously Interix) provides Unix-like functionality as a Windows NT subsystem (discontinued). Windows Subsystem for Linux provides a Linux-compatible kernel interface developed by Microsoft and containing no Linux code, with Ubuntu user-mode binaries running on top of it. Other means of Windows-Unix interoperability ...
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Glossary of German military terms
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position on aircraft. Backbord (Bb) – Port side of a ship. Balkenkreuz – equal-armed black cross flanked in white, the emblem used on German Empire and Third Reich military aircraft and vehicles from March/April 1918 until V-E Day Banditen – bandits, partisans in occupied territories in World War II; bewaffnete Banden ...
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Porsche's unsuccessful prototypes for the Tiger tank, and mounting the 88mm L/71 PaK 43. Elektra – a German radio-navigational system. Endlösung or Endziel – the "Final Solution"; refers to the genocide planned against the Jewish people. Endsieg – final victory. Enigma – German message encryption equipment. Ententeich ...
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operator (from funken [verb], to transmit by radio). Funkgerät (prefix: FuG) – generic term for radio and airborne IFF, RDF and airborne and some ground-based radar equipment. Funkmessbeobachtungsgerät (FuMB) – radar detector. Füsilier – historic term often used to refer to light infantry, originally named after the fu...
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the fuselage Balkenkreuz on most World War II Luftwaffe aircraft. It also included two letters to the right of the cross, the third letter designating the aircraft's individual identification, with the fourth letter designating the aircraft's assigned squadron (Staffel) within the unit. Gestapo – Geheime Staatspolizei ...
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infantry, adopted during World War II from mid-war onward as a morale-building honorific often indicative of low-grade formations. Grenze – border. Grenzschutz – border patrol. Greuelerzählungen – atrocity stories. Gröfaz – German soldiers' derogatory acronym for Größter Feldherr aller Zeiten, a title initially publici...
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a sharp turn. "Hart Backbord" is "hard-a-port" and "Hart Steuerbord" is "hard-a-starboard". Härteübung – hardiness training. Haubitze – howitzer. Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei (HA-SiPo) – Security Police headquarters. Hauptbahnhof – main or central station. Hauptfeldwebel – company sergeant-major or first sergeant. Haupt...
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rolling stock manufacturer, and a firm responsible for many German World War II weapons systems for both the Wehrmacht Heer and the Luftwaffe, especially the heavy Tiger I and Tiger II tanks and the Henschel Hs 293 guided anti-ship missile. "Herr..." – In past and modern German military protocol, "Herr" ("mister") is s...
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might translate as "Yes, indeed!", "Aye, aye, sir!" or "Absolutely yes!" Widely used in World War II. Junkerschule – SS officer academy. K "Kaczmarek" – wingman Kadavergehorsam – "absolute duty and blind obedience till death."; lit.: "carcass obedience" Kaiserliche Marine (KM) – Imperial German Navy Kaiserlicher Yacht-...
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field dressing station Kartenstelle – mapping detachment, normally part of staff company of a division or higher Kaserne – barracks, casern. Kavallerie (Kav.) – cavalry. KdE – abbreviation for the Kommandeur der Erprobungsstellen, the commander of all German military aviation test facilities in World War II, an office ...
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was hitched before a gun and usually transported munitions and crew. The term derives from the Italian "birazzo", a two-wheeled cart. Putsch – coup d'état; the sudden overthrow of a government by a small group, usually the military. Pyrrhussieg – Pyrrhic victory. Q Quartiermeister – quartermaster Quist – one of several...
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front) occupied Denmark during World War II, a lot of food, minuscule fighting. Sanitäter ('Sani') – combat medic Sanitätsoffizier – Medical officer Sanitätsunteroffizier – Medical NCO Sanka – acronym for Sanitätskraftfahrtzeug, a term for German field ambulances. Saukopf – "pig's head", used to refer to the shape of a...
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"StuH" for Sturmhaubitze, when a howitzer was used instead on a tracked chassis. Stützpunkt – military base. Süden – south. Swastika – English term for the German Hakenkreuz. sWS – Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper, late World War II "replacement" half-track vehicle. T Tonne (t) – tonne (metric, 1000 kg) Tonne (ts) – long ton...
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"death's head", skull and crossbones, also the nickname for the Kampfgeschwader 54 bomber wing of the World War II era Luftwaffe. Tornister – Back pack Totenkopfverbände – "Death's Head units", employed as guards in Nazi concentration camps, many later became the members of units of the Waffen-SS, such as the SS Divisi...
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for any military aircraft prototype for the World War II era Luftwaffe. Originated by the Fokker Flugzeugbau in 1916, solely for its own experimental designs. Versuchskonstruktion – prototype. Verwendung – duty position Veterinäroffizier – veterinarian officer Vichy France – French regime set up in the city of Vichy un...
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armed forces under the Third Reich consisting of three branches: the Heer (Army), the Luftwaffe (Air Force), and the Kriegsmarine (Navy). The Waffen-SS was a separate organization, although SS combat units were usually placed under the operational control of Army High Command (OKH) or Wehrmacht High Command (OKW). Wehr...
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entrenchment" – Hitler's first World War II Eastern Front military headquarters, one of several Führer Headquarters or FHQs located in various parts of Europe. The complex, built for Operation Barbarossa (the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union) was located in the Masurian woods, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from R...
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44 light cruisers, 68 destroyers and 249 U-boats by 1944 that was meant to challenge the naval power of the United Kingdom. The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 came far too early to implement the plan. Z3 – pioneering computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1941, it was destroyed by bombardment in 1944. z.b.V. ...
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armed forces during World War II (specifically created for Hermann Göring to distinguish him from the other field marshals). Equivalent to General of the Armies of the United States Generalfeldmarschall – General of the Army during World War II. Generaloberst – General, literally "highest" or "supreme general", usually...
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considered in English the equivalent to a British Army Lance Corporal rank. Oberschütze – Senior Rifleman. Historical rank used up until 1945, not in use in the Bundeswehr. Gemeiner – Private (enlisted personnel). Historically, and up until 1918, the rank of Gemeiner was ordinarily used for an enlisted soldier of Priva...
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rising by the millions of forced laborers German factories. Was, in fact, a major part of the failed July 20 Plot to arrest SS and other Nazi officials and seize control of the German government. Weserübung – Weser Exercise (commonly, Water Exercise); invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940 Wintergewitter – Winter...
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of the Schutzstaffel Comparative military ranks of World War II List of SS personnel Notes General references Andrew, Stephen; Thomas, Nigel; The German Army 1939-45: Blitzkrieg. Osprey Publishing Lt., 1999. Bidermann, Gottlob Herbert. In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front. Kansas, University...
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Rikava Manor
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manor house in Latvia
Rikava Manor is a manor in Rikava Parish, Rēzekne Municipality in the historical region of Latgale, in Latvia. The complex includes a castle, park and three other buildings. History Rikava estate was property of Janovski noble family. In the second half of the 18th century Mihals von Rick bought estate. The red brick m...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
born in Windischgrätz in the Duchy of Styria (now Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia), then a part of the Austrian Empire. From his maternal side, he was related to Herbert von Karajan. He spent most of his life in Vienna, becoming a representative of "New German" trend in Lieder, a trend which followed from the expressive, chro...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
his interest; he was dismissed from the first secondary school he attended as being "wholly inadequate," left another over his difficulties in the compulsory Latin studies, and after a falling-out with a professor who commented on his "damned music," quit the last. From there, he went to the Vienna Conservatory much to...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
family, he returned to Vienna to teach music. Though his fiery temperament was not ideally suited to teaching, Wolf's musical gifts, as well as his personal charm, earned him attention and patronage. Support of benefactors allowed him to make a living as a composer, and a daughter of one of his greatest benefactors ins...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
through his life. When Franck left him just before his 21st birthday, he was despondent. He returned home, although his family relationships were also strained; his father was still convinced his son was a ne'er-do-well. His brief and undistinguished tenure as second Kapellmeister at Salzburg only reinforced this opini...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
the young composer. The song "Zur Ruh, zur Ruh" was composed shortly afterward and is considered to be the best of his early works; it is speculated that it was intended as an elegy for Wagner. Wolf often despaired of his own future in the ensuing years, in a world from which his idol had departed, leaving tremendous f...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
enemies. He composed little during this time, and what he did write he couldn't get performed; the Rosé Quartet (led by Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster Arnold Rosé) would not even look at his D minor Quartet after it was picked apart in a column, and the premiere of Penthesilea was met by the Vienna Philharmonic, whe...
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Hugo Wolf
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Austrian composer
career. After the publication of a dozen of his songs late the preceding year, Wolf once again desired to return to composing, and travelled to the vacation home of the Werners—family friends whom Wolf had known since childhood—in Perchtoldsdorf (a short train ride from Vienna), to escape and compose in solitude. Here ...
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Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "place of death", "Vienna" ] ]
Austrian composer
in October 1889; though Spanish-flavoured compositions were in fashion in the day, Wolf sought out poems that had been neglected by other composers. Wolf himself saw the merit of these compositions immediately, raving to friends that they were the best things he had yet composed (it was with the aid and urging of sever...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "occupation", "Composer" ], [ "Hugo Wolf", "field of work", "Composer" ] ]
Austrian composer
the first concerts of the Mörike works and quickly became a champion of his music, performing a recital of only Wolf and Beethoven in December 1888. His works were praised in reviews, including one in the Münchener Allgemeine Zeitung, a widely read German newspaper. (The recognition was not always positive; Brahms's ad...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "genre", "Opera" ] ]
Austrian composer
who had previously reviled Wolf gave favorable reviews. However, Wolf was consumed with depression, which stopped him from writing—which only left him more depressed. He completed orchestrations of previous works, but new compositions were not forthcoming, and certainly not the opera which he was now fixated on composi...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "genre", "Opera" ] ]
Austrian composer
by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, the darkly humorous story about an adulterous love triangle is one that Wolf could identify with: he had been in love with Melanie Köchert, married to his friend Heinrich Köchert, for several years. (It is speculated that their romance began in earnest in 1884, when Wolf accompanied the Köc...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "genre", "Opera" ] ]
Austrian composer
to failure; it has not yet been successfully revived. A renewal of creative activity resulted in Wolf's completion of the Italienisches Liederbuch with two dozen songs written in March and April 1896, the composition of three Michelangelo Lieder in March, 1897 (a group of six had been projected) and preliminary work du...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "place of death", "Vienna" ] ]
Austrian composer
1897, in a desperate attempt to finish before he lost his mind completely; after mid-1899 he could make no music at all and once even tried to drown himself, after which he was placed in a Vienna asylum at his own insistence. Melanie visited him faithfully during his decline until his death on 22 February 1903, but her...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "place of death", "Vienna" ], [ "Hugo Wolf", "occupation", "Composer" ], [ "Hugo Wolf", "field of work", "Composer" ] ]
Austrian composer
first came to the Vienna Conservatory, encouraged the young composer to persist in composing and to attempt larger-scale works, cementing Wolf's desire to emulate his musical idol. His antipathy to Johannes Brahms was fueled equally by his devotion to Wagner's musical radicalism and his loathing of Brahms' musical "con...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "genre", "Opera" ] ]
Austrian composer
intended by the poets he set and his conceptions of individual songs as dramatic works in miniature, mark him as a talented dramatist despite having written only one not particularly successful opera, Der Corregidor. Early in his career Wolf modelled his lieder after those of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, particu...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "genre", "Opera" ] ]
Austrian composer
often full of anguish and inability to find resolution, and thus so too was the tonality wandering, unable to return to the home key. Use of deceptive cadences, chromaticism, dissonance, and chromatic mediants obscure the harmonic destination for as long as the psychological tension is sustained. His formal structure a...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "occupation", "Composer" ], [ "Hugo Wolf", "field of work", "Composer" ] ]
Austrian composer
von Scheffel, etc. The accompanying volumes include essays by Hans Jancik, texts of the poems, and translations by Lionel Salter (English) and Jacques Fournier and others (French). Oxford Lieder Festival edition The first project to record every song by Wolf was commenced in 2010, the 150th anniversary of the composer'...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Hugo Wolf
[ [ "Hugo Wolf", "place of death", "Vienna" ] ]
Austrian composer
edition In 2010 Austrian Radio and the Departure Centre for Creative Design in Vienna marked Hugo Wolf’s anniversary with a recital series in which 188 of the songs were performed against visuals created by leading designers. The series was intended to bring Lieder to a new audience and was held at the initiative of ba...
[ "Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf" ]
Lake Letas
[ [ "Lake Letas", "instance of", "Lake" ], [ "Lake Letas", "country", "Vanuatu" ], [ "Lake Letas", "basin country", "Vanuatu" ] ]
lake
Lake Letas is the largest lake in Vanuatu, located in the center of the volcanic island of Gaua of the Banks Islands in northern Vanuatu. The place submitted an application to be considered an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. The volcanic Crater lake is U-shaped, surrounding Mount Gharat on all sides except southwes...
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Lake Letas
[ [ "Lake Letas", "instance of", "Lake" ], [ "Lake Letas", "lake outflow", "Siri Waterfall" ] ]
lake
It is a fresh water lake with a temperature of 32° Celsius, where only eels and shrimps can survive. The water in the lake is not very clear, but has a greenish color. Water constantly flows out of the lake at a natural overflow located on the eastern side of the lake. The water flows about 3 km east to Siri Waterfall ...
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Lake Letas
[ [ "Lake Letas", "instance of", "Lake" ] ]
lake
eastern side to get to Mount Gharat. The canoe is sometimes located on the eastern edge of the lake (near the water overflow), or sometimes on the north-eastern edge of the lake (nearest Gaua Airport). A rough estimate of the water flow rate out of the lake (during the dry season month of August 2006) was approximately...
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Chris Landman
[ [ "Chris Landman", "given name", "Chris" ], [ "Chris Landman", "sport", "Darts" ] ]
Dutch darts player
Chris Landman (born January 17, 1981) is a Dutch darts player, currently playing in British Darts Organisation events. Career In 2017, Landman won the Catalonian Open, reached the quarter-final of the WDF World Cup Singles, and reached the Last 16 of the World Masters. He qualified for the 2018 BDO World Darts Champion...
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Cock
[ [ "Cock", "instance of", "Surname" ] ]
family name
Cock or cocks often refers to: Rooster or cock, a male of any bird species Cock, a vulgar nickname for the penis Cock or cocks may also refer to: Human names Cock (surname) Cocks (surname) Places The Cock, Broom, a Grade II listed public house in Broom, Bedfordshire The Cock, Fulham, a historic public house in London T...
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Future Film
[ [ "Future Film", "headquarters location", "Vaasa" ], [ "Future Film", "notable work", "Love Hina" ], [ "Future Film", "notable work", "School Rumble" ], [ "Future Film", "notable work", "Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin" ], [ "Future Film", "notable work...
Finnish-based home-video distribution company headquartered in Vaasa; from early to late 1990s best known for children's animation distribution, now for anime distribution
Future Film Ltd (Future Film Oy) is a Finnish-based home-video distribution company headquartered in Vaasa. From early to late 1990s they were best known as the distributors of children's animation. Future Film's releases were dubbed occasionally by Golden Voice OY (such as the wildly popular Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin) bu...
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Future Film
[ [ "Future Film", "country", "Finland" ], [ "Future Film", "headquarters location", "Vaasa" ] ]
Finnish-based home-video distribution company headquartered in Vaasa; from early to late 1990s best known for children's animation distribution, now for anime distribution
the uncut DVD version of Nagareboshi Gin. Also possibly due to this move, their current anime releases feature subtitles rather than dubbing, which is actually the preferred standard for most television programs and theatrical films in Finland. Additionally Future Film has been doing motion-picture home video releases ...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "place of birth", "Kudirkos Naumiestis" ], [ "Lee Shubert", "country of citizenship", "United States" ], [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
Lee Shubert (born Levi Schubart; March 25, 1871– December 25, 1953) was a Lithuanian-born American theatre owner/operator and producer and the eldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family. Biography Born to a Jewish family, the son of Duvvid Schubart and Katrina Helwitz, in Vladislavov, in the Suwałki Gove...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "place of death", "New York City" ], [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
in difficult financial circumstances, and Lee Shubert went to work selling newspapers on a street corner. With borrowed money, he and younger brothers Sam and Jacob eventually embarked on a business venture that led to them to become the successful operators of several theaters in upstate New York. The Shubert brothers...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "place of death", "New York City" ], [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
moved to New York City, where they laid the foundations for what was to become the largest theatre empire in the 20th century, including the Winter Garden and Shubert Theatres. The all-powerful Theatrical Syndicate essentially excluded competition. Since the Shuberts were not permitted to use Syndicate-controlled theat...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
announced that "Lee Shubert and A. L. Erlanger ... rivals for twenty years" had reached a working understanding. Lee Shubert was a hard nosed businessman who has been criticized for being money and power oriented with little interest in culture. Nonetheless, he recognized the need to attract some of the top stage actor...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
in 1905. At his death Lee Shubert's estate was worth $16 million. He boasted in 1924 of his family success: We began building theaters, and introduced practical commercial methods into a flagrantly impractical and precarious profession....This sordid commercialism has helped to make the American stage a legitimate, fin...
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Lee Shubert
[ [ "Lee Shubert", "place of death", "New York City" ], [ "Lee Shubert", "family name", "Shubert" ] ]
American theatre producer
Miami in March 1949 (Time Magazine reports the remarriage was in February). Lee Shubert died in New York City on December 25, 1953 at the age of 82 and was interred in the family plot at Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn. Notes Further reading "Lee Shubert." Dictionary of American Biography (1977) online Hirsch, Foster...
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Bo Pelini
[ [ "Bo Pelini", "sport", "American football" ], [ "Bo Pelini", "place of birth", "Youngstown, Ohio" ] ]
American college football player, college football coach
Mark Anthony "Bo" Pelini (born December 13, 1967) is the American football defensive coordinator for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team at Louisiana State University. He is the younger brother of former Florida Atlantic head coach Carl Pelini, who as frequently worked under Bo as an assistant coach. He...
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Bo Pelini
[ [ "Bo Pelini", "educated at", "Ohio State University" ] ]
American college football player, college football coach
production with a strong athletic tradition. He was nicknamed "Bo" after former Cleveland Browns running back Bo Scott. After graduating from Youngstown Cardinal Mooney High School (the same high school as Bob Stoops, former head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners), he went on to play free safety for the Buckeyes at Ohio St...
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Harry M. Kuitert
[ [ "Harry M. Kuitert", "occupation", "Theologian" ], [ "Harry M. Kuitert", "place of birth", "Drachten" ] ]
Dutch theologian
Harry M. Kuitert (November 11, 1924 in Drachten – September 8, 2017 in Amstelveen) was a significant theologian of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKN). Harry Kuitert - baptised Harminus Martinus - was a rector at Scharendijk (Zeeland) and a student pastor at Amsterdam before he became a professor of theology...
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Harry M. Kuitert
[ [ "Harry M. Kuitert", "occupation", "Theologian" ] ]
Dutch theologian
theologian in the Netherlands, broke completely with Berkouwer and "Middle Orthodox" tradition (the theological mainstream of the reformed church) in his book, Jesus, the Inheritance of Christianity (1998). "Jesus supported the Jewish view of God, so he never saw himself as God on earth. He is not a Second God, nor the...
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Edith Heath
[ [ "Edith Heath", "place of birth", "Ida Grove, Iowa" ], [ "Edith Heath", "given name", "Edith" ] ]
American designer
Edith Kiertzner Heath (May 24, 1911 – December 27, 2005) was an American studio potter and founder of Heath Ceramics. The company, well known for its mid-century modern ceramic tableware, including "Heathware," and architectural tiles, is still operating in Sausalito, California, after being founded in 1948. Life and w...
[ "Edith Kiertener Heath" ]
Edith Heath
[ [ "Edith Heath", "given name", "Edith" ] ]
American designer
Chicago after graduation taking her first ceramic course. In 1938, Edith married Brian Heath. Relocating to San Francisco, Edith accepted a position as an art teacher at the Presidio Hill School and audited classes at the California School of Fine Arts. She developed a clay body in these classes which she adapted many ...
[ "Edith Kiertener Heath" ]
Edith Heath
[ [ "Edith Heath", "given name", "Edith" ] ]
American designer
extension courses. In 1944, her first major show was at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. She also participated in the Syracuse Ceramic Nationals. A buyer from San Francisco retailer Gumps approached Edith to supply their store with her high quality hand-thrown pottery using the company's pottery studio. Sh...
[ "Edith Kiertener Heath" ]
Edith Heath
[ [ "Edith Heath", "place of death", "Tiburon, California" ], [ "Edith Heath", "given name", "Edith" ] ]
American designer
Heath died on December 27, 2005 at her home in Tiburon, California. Tableware Edith Heath's "Coupe" line remains in demand and has been in constant production since 1948, with periodic changes to the texture and color of the glazes. Other Heath pottery lines include "Rim," designed in 1960, and "Plaza," designed in the...
[ "Edith Kiertener Heath" ]
Edith Heath
[ [ "Edith Heath", "place of death", "Tiburon, California" ], [ "Edith Heath", "given name", "Edith" ] ]
American designer
tiles, in varying brown tones with an undulating surface, made by Edith Heath. They are part of the backdrop many see when viewing the New Year's Rose Parade. References Further reading Klausner, Amos. Heath Ceramics, The Complexity of Simplicity. Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco (2006) External links Heath Ceramics ...
[ "Edith Kiertener Heath" ]
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
[ [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of birth", "Paris" ], [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of death", "Paris" ], [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "occupation", "Novelist" ], [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "father", ...
French writer
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 – April 12, 1777), called "Crébillon fils" (to distinguish him from his father), was a French novelist. Born in Paris, he was the son of a famous tragedian, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon. He received a Jesuit education at the elite Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Early on he co...
[ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon", "Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon" ]
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
[ [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of birth", "Paris" ], [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of death", "Paris" ] ]
French writer
including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos. The publication of Tanzaï et Neadarne, histoire japonaise (1734), which contained thinly veiled attacks on the Papal bull Unigenitus, the cardinal de Rohan and others, landed him briefly in the prison at Vincennes. His novel Les Égarements du cœur et de l'espri...
[ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon", "Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon" ]
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
[ [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of birth", "Paris" ], [ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon", "place of death", "Paris" ] ]
French writer
(1754) (full text in French on Gallica) Les Heureux Orphelins, histoire imitée de l'anglais (1754) La Nuit et le moment ou les matines de Cythère : dialogue (1755) (full text in French on Gallica) Le Hasard du coin du feu. Dialogue moral (1763) (full text in French on Gallica) Lettres de la Duchesse de *** au duc de **...
[ "Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon", "Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon" ]
Dzērbene Manor
[ [ "Dzērbene Manor", "country", "Latvia" ] ]
Manor house in Latvia
Dzērbene Manor (; ) is a manor house in the historical region of Vidzeme, northern Latvia. Modern manor house is built on the place where old Dzērbene medieval castle once stood. Dzērbene manor is mentioned for the first time in 1555 when it was presented to chancellor of Archbishopric of Riga Christoph Sturz. In 1556 ...
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Sagaai
[ [ "Sagaai", "instance of", "Film" ] ]
1966 Hindi film
Sagaai is a 1966 Bollywood film starring Rajshree and Biswajeet. Plot Sheel (Rajshree) and Kailash's (Prem Chopra) marriage is planned by Sheel's father. But fate takes her into the arms of Rajesh Biswajeet, and they celebrate their engagement on Sheel's birthday. Rajesh meets with a car accident, conspired by Kailash,...
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Sagaai
[ [ "Sagaai", "instance of", "Film" ] ]
1966 Hindi film
Rajesh. The film reflects upon the trails and travails of a woman whose husband is ill and paralyzed and she is desired by another man. A very beautiful dance number is performed by Sheel as Visha Kanya, very much before her life is thrown in such a turmoil. Cast Biswajit ... Rajesh Rajshree ... Sheel Prem Chopra ... K...
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CM-21 Armored Vehicle
[ [ "CM-21 Armored Vehicle", "country of origin", "Taiwan" ] ]
type of weapon
The CM-21 is an armoured vehicle designed and manufactured by the Republic of China Armoured Vehicle Development Center, based on the United States' model M113 APC. The first prototype was manufactured in 1979, and the CM-21 officially entered service in 1982. The CM-21 is still in use today, with over 1,000 units manu...
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