Word: prussia
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...last name comes from the defunct state of Prussia. Its old capital, Konigsberg—renamed Kaliningrad by the Russians—seldom makes the news for much of anything. That changed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the day after Barack Obama’s election to the White House that Russia would place missiles in Kaliningrad in response to a Bush administration project, a planned missile shield in Poland...
...been cleared away. France, in fact, has long been something of a demographic exception in Europe. Its birthrate started to drop in the late 18th century, and over the course of the 19th century it was the French who worried as the British and Germans bred like rabbits. Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 strengthened the idea that having babies was a patriotic duty, an idea compounded by the national trauma of World War I, which cost France 10% of its working-age male population. Well before Marshal Pétain placed the Vichy regime...
...King of Prussia...
JOHN ADAMS AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The second U.S. President came under fire in 1797 when he appointed his son John Quincy as Minister to Prussia--then a prominent diplomatic post...
...cleanup approached its final stages, Watertown created the WADC in January 1997 to spearhead the redevelopment of the complex. After an extensive selection process, the corporation sold the Arsenal to O’Neill Properties, a developer based in King of Prussia, Pa. Because the site still needed a great deal of work, O’Neill paid only $24 million for the complex, making four separate $1 million contributions to Watertown charitable causes in addition to the $20 million purchase price...