Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane ( Hilton ) Beiderbecke.

There is disagreement over whether Beiderbecke was christened Leon Bismark ( and nicknamed " Bix ") or Leon Bix.

However, more recent research — which takes into account church and school records in addition to the will of a relative — has suggested that he was originally named Leon Bismark.

In a letter to his mother when he was nine years old, Beiderbecke signed off, " frome your Leon Bix Beiderbecke not Bismark Remeber ".

A post office named Bismark was established on January 26, 1871, with Hatch J. Loomis as the first postmaster, and operated until June 30, 1904.

On March 24, 1910, a post office charter was issued for Bismark, a name chosen by the Dierks brothers, company founders, for a Nebraska town where they formerly operated a lumber outlet.

With the Altmark, Bismark was part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg until it was adjudicated to the Prussian Province of Saxony after the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

Otto von Bismark was elected to the very first Landtag elected under the new monarchical constitution.

On 9 July 2011, in a friendly game against local team Bismark, Salihamidžić's left arm was broken in a duel with another player.

Unlike most British war movies, however, Sink the Bismark was surprise hit in North America, as well.

As originally released the record label used the common misspelling " Bismark ", this was corrected for later releases of the song.

The name of the town and post office changed to Wright during World War I because of public association of the Bismark name with that of the former German chancellor.

Between November 8 and 10, the Nez Perce left Fort Buford for Custer's post command at the time of his death ; Fort Abraham Lincoln across the Missouri River from Bismark in the Dakota Territory.

On 29 April, the Soviet Information Bureau announced that troops of the 1st Belorussian Front continued to clear the streets of Berlin, occupied the northwest sector of Charlottenburg as far as Bismark Street, the west half of Moabit, and the east part of Schoeneberg.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

* von Bismark, Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf, Beamish, North Ludlow, ( translator ), On the Uses and Application of Cavalry in War from the Text of Bismark: With Practical Examples Selected from Antient and Modern History, T. & W. Boone, London, 1855

Bismark built on a tradition of welfare programs in Prussia and Saxony that began as early as the 1840s.

Bismark began the process, and by 1884 had acquired German New Guinea.

When William II became emperor in 1888, he discarded Bismark, began using bellicose language, and planned to build a navy to rival Britain's.

Beiderbecke's childhood home at Leon Bismark Beiderbecke House | 1934 Grand Avenue in Davenport, Iowa, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

There are two Girl Scout district offices in North Dakota in Fargo and Bismark and two field offices in Minot and Grand Forks.

* Six miles west of the town centre is the Adobe Bismark, a 1: 1 scale model of the World War II German battleship Bismarck, constructed from earth, with wooden gun barrels, as an identification training aid for RAF pilots.

Wright City, formerly known as Bismark and Wright, is located ten miles northeast of Valliant and two miles north of Little River on State Highway 98 in western McCurtain County.

Brewdog recently released " Sink the Bismark ", a 41 % ABV pale ale Even though the malt used by distillers in Scotland is no longer dried by peat burning, some peat smoke flavour is added during malting by an additional process.

Bismark is a town in the Stendal district, in the historic Altmark region of northern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

The Command post was underground, and well camouflaged.

Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

It was a post of honor, held inviolate for him ; ;

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.

On the Ohio or Wabash was to be built another post `` at the fork of two great rivers ''.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.