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She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.
Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest the Iron of the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family, the ruler of Inner Austria, i. e. the duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, and of Ernest's wife Cymburgis of Masovia.
Iron Duke may refer to:
* Two dukes, both military officers, were nicknamed the " Iron Duke " during their lifetimes:
*** The Iron Duke ( film ), 1934 film starring George Arliss as Wellington
* HMS Iron Duke named after Wellington, is the name of three ships in the Royal Navy, one of which is still in active service ( a frigate )
* GM Iron Duke engine, the nickname given to a 151 cid ( cubic inch displacement ) 4-cylinder internal combustion engine used in many 1980s-era General Motors automobiles, pickup trucks, and the United States Postal Service's LLV Mail trucks
* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England
* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
* Iron Duke is the name of a supervillain character in the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game, based in part on Isambard Kingdom Brunel
* Archbishop of Vancouver, William Mark Duke, was also known as " Iron Duke " for being a strict disciplinarian and financial manager of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver during the Great Depression of the Dirty Thirties and World War II years
* John F. Thompson, former Massachusetts state Speaker of the House, nicknamed the Iron Duke
* Iron Duke is an iron ore mine connected to a port and steelworks at Whyalla, South Australia
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The core of the Lithuanian Land Force structure is the Iron Wolf Mechanised Infantry Brigade ( MIB " Iron Wolf ") consisting of two mechanized infantry battalions ( King Mindaugas and Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas battalions ), two motorized infantry battalions ( Grand Duchess Birutė and Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis battalions ), artillery battalion and Lithuanian Duke Vaidotas Forward support battalion.
* William Iron Arm ( before 1010 – 1046 ), Duke of Apulia
Though in some ways unsuccessful in his forays in England, he was brushed aside by the " Iron Duke " ( Duke of Wellington ), the then British Foreign Secretary, and reported bitterly to Jardine of being insulted by an arrogant and stupid man.

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In Michigan, there is fine color on route 27 up to the Mackinac Straits, while the views around Marquette and Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula are spectacular.
The Iron is a famous 19th century landmark in central Norrköping
Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.
Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.
If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.
Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.
" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.
The Harappan culture, which dates from 1700 BC to 1300 BC, overlapped the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age ; thus it is difficult to date this transition accurately.
A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.
Iron is especially common because it represents the minimum energy nuclide that can be made by fusion of helium in supernovae.
This now is identified as Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, near Swindon.
The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.
One episode in Series 5 of Steptoe and Son was entitled " Any Old Iron ", for the same reason, when Albert thinks that Harold is ' on the turn '.
Captain America is purportedly laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, but Tony Stark ( Iron Man ) and others have actually returned Rogers ' body to the Arctic where Rogers had been found years before.
It is thought that the impact was witnessed by the Iron Age inhabitants of the area.
Iron ( III ) oxide hydrated is known as rust.
< p > There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek.
At the novels ' beginning, the majority of Westeros is united under the rule of a king in what is known as the Seven Kingdoms, with each of nine regions controlled by a different major house: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Westerlands, the Reach, the Stormlands, the Crownlands, and Dorne.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to 1991 leaves the United States as the world's single superpower and triggers the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany and an accelerated process of a European integration that is ongoing.
The ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes is assumed to have occurred during the Nordic Bronze Age, or at the latest during the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
Iron is removed from heme and salvaged for later use, it is stored as hemosiderin or ferritin in tissues and transported in plasma by beta globulins as transferins.

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His diplomacy of Realpolitik and powerful rule gained him the nickname the " Iron Chancellor ".
A nickname that would stick with Bennett for the remainder of his political career, " Iron Heel Bennett ," came from a 1932 speech he gave in Toronto that ironically, if unintentionally, alluded to Jack London's socialist novel:
The Fed disbanded after that year, and when the team returned from Cleveland to Toledo in 1916, they had acquired a new nickname, the " Iron Men ".
He is better known under his nickname as the Iron Felix or abbreviation FD.
The lines met near Waynesboro, giving the town the nickname as the " Iron Cross ".
* Iron Lady, a nickname used to describe female heads of government around the world
The city was incorporated in 1888 as " Blacksburg " but still holds its nickname " Iron City " to this day.
Petrosian's consistent ability to avoid defeat earned him the nickname " Iron Tigran ".
* " The Captain ", a nickname for the fascist Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
She survived an attempted coup d ' état in 1995, and her hard line against the trade unions and tough rhetorical opposition to her domestic political rivals and to neighboring India earned her the nickname " Iron Lady "; she is also respectfully referred to as " B. B .".
There were also Norman mercenaries with him, under William de Hauteville, who won his nickname Iron Arm by defeating the emir of Syracuse in single combat.
That team had been known as the " Little Men of Iron " because of the players ' tenacity and small stature, and the nickname carried over to the new club.
During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Henri fought the Spanish at the battle of the Messina Revolt, lost his right hand in a grenade explosion and, from that time on, wore a prosthetic hook covered by a glove, thus earning the nickname " Iron Hand ".
As commanding general in Korea, Ridgway gained the nickname " Old Iron Tits " for his habit of wearing hand grenades attached to his load-bearing equipment at chest level.
While in Iraq, 1st Armored Division, in addition to its own brigades, had operational command over the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division ; the command, called " Task Force Iron " in recognition of the Division's nickname, " Old Ironsides ", was the largest division-level command in the history of the United States Army.
Initially he was successful and earned the nickname Iron Hans or Iron Minister because of his ability to exercise strict budget discipline.
One example is the Iron Bowl, a nickname given to the annual game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn University Tigers.
On March 7, 1939, after brief stints as Minister of Health and Minister of Education, he replaced the ailing Miron Cristea as Premier, being considered the " man of steel " able to prevent Iron Guard's political violence and to keep Romania out of the pro-German war camp ( the nickname " The Man of Steel " probably originated, under the form l ' homme d ' acier, in essays written by the French journalists Jérôme and Jean Tharaud on Romanian topics ).
The division is also sometimes referred to as the Iron Division, a nickname earned during the bitter fighting of 1916, during the First World War.
Her alleged tough policies in this department, including a firm stance on asylum policy, earned her the nickname " Jern-Erna " ( Norwegian for " Iron Erna ") in the media.
In 1981 the main supporter club " Blue Saints " was formed, but due to its notorious fans and bad reputation, the supporter club changed its name to Järnkaminerna, literally " The Iron Furnices " ( An old nickname for Djurgården from the 1950s ).
McGinnity acquired his nickname, " Iron Man ," before his doubleheader pitching became widely discussed.

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