Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answered not only with gunfire but with taunts and with determination. They shouted a new version of the classic boast: "We shall throw them into the sea-into the Baltic Sea." They talked a little prematurely of the day the war would end-when Evzones would march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...
Bach-Third Brandenburg Concerto...
Among these vital targets, said Berlin officials, were the house of the Union of German Engineers, which has given the world many a scientific blessing; the Academy of Art, where the decadence has supposedly been distilled from modern painting; a home for aged Jews; the innocent Brandenburg Gate; a gymnasium; a bed of roses in the garden of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels...
Caroline of England, subtitled An Augustan Portrait, is the story of the smooth-bosomed, strong-minded Princess of Brandenburg-Anspach who married George Augustus of Hanover (George II) and contrived to rule him and England in the spacious years 1727-37. Peter Quennell's biography of Caroline is the second to appear within the last six months. Less formal than the first, Caroline of Anspach by R. L. Arkell (TIME, Aug. 7) it is actually less a history of the queen than an able and entertaining study of the society in which she moved...