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Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
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Queen Victoria in a personal gesture ( he had edited a volume of Prince Albert's speeches in 1862 ) offered him a grace and favour residence in Kew Gardens.
Albert's personal extravagance led to further animosity, especially after the country faced an economic downturn in 1966.
They are also an heir to Prince Albert's personal fortune, estimated at more than one billion dollars.
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These qualities he had inherited under the tutelage of his father, who took his sons to " sample the pleasures " of Paris and Berlin, to Albert's " horror and shame ".
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The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.
Albert's conduct in these engagements won for him the complete confidence of the army, and during the Siege of Paris his troops formed the north-east section of the investing force.
Watkins prevailed in the Democratic primary runoff and he then gained Albert's endorsement and won the general election with 82 % of the vote.
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Luther for his part did not stop at the suggestion, but in order to facilitate the change made special efforts to spread his teaching among the Prussians, while Albert's brother, Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, laid the scheme before their uncle, Sigismund I the Old of Poland.
His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.
As previously mentioned, Albert's son, Kenny, is also a sports commentator, as he calls baseball and football for Fox, New York Rangers games on the radio, and has been one of NBC's commentators for ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, as well as NBC's NHL coverage.
Bob Costas took over for Albert on the basketball side in the 1997 – 98 season before stepping down after the 2000 NBA Finals for Albert's return.
The attempt to secure these thrones for the Hohenzollerns through this marriage failed, and a similar fate befell Albert's efforts to revive in his own favour the disused title of duke of Franconia.
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At the same time, Elizabeth was courted by James Stuart, Albert's equerry, until he left the prince's service for a better-paid job in the American oil business.
When, however, the only legitimate son of his uncle, Leopold II, died as a child, and Albert's older brother, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, who had been subsequently prepared for the throne, also died young, Albert, at the age of 16, unexpectedly became second in line ( after his father ) to the Belgian Crown.
The royal family stayed at Osborne for lengthy periods each year: in the spring for Victoria's birthday in May ; in July and August when they celebrated Albert's birthday ; and just before Christmas.
In total the park provides habitat for more than a hundred different bird species, including the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, Rufous Fantail, Satin Bowerbird, Whipbird and the Albert's Lyrebird to name a few.
Upon Albert's return from the Empire, he called for a meeting of the peasants in a field, whereupon he surrounded them with loyal troops and had them arrested without incident ; the leaders of the rebellion were subsequently executed.
She was widely known for her role on the 1965 to 1971 television sitcom, Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas.
A political crisis loomed for the Prince because without any other heir, the throne of Monaco would pass to his first cousin Wilhelm, the duke of Urach, a German nobleman who was a son of Prince Albert's aunt, Princess Florestine of Monaco.
The couple met for the first time in August 1869 at a ball hosted by the Emperor and Empress of France ; their marriage had been arranged by Albert's grandmother Caroline.
Sirois recorded and toured with Nate Albert's next band, Kickovers, and also played drums for the Street Dogs and Frank Black.
It took until 1395 for Margaret to force Albert's supporters out of Stockholm.
In late 2001 / 2002, Welsh returned to the Boston music scene by temporarily joining Nate Albert's ( guitarist for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ) band, The Kickovers.
The mostly widely known generative model for a subset of scale-free networks is Barabási and Albert's ( 1999 ) rich get richer generative model in which each new Web page creates links to existing Web pages with a probability distribution which is not uniform, but
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Moreover, he entered into correspondence with Luther, discussing with him the most important problems of faith, and in 1524 he met him personally during the negotiations concerning his brother Albert's secularization of the Teutonic Order's state of Prussia into the secular Duchy of Prussia.
Albert's son, Kenny, replaced him, and has been the radio voice of the Rangers ever since.
Thus, Albert's marriage brought him claims to several Slavic kingdoms and principalities.
The historian who discovered the letter believed that it suggested that Victoria, in her mind, equated Brown's death with Albert's, and that she therefore viewed him as more than a servant.
Albert's intellectual achievements gained him worldwide recognition and in 1909, the British Academy of Science made him a member.
On behalf of her mother Elisabeth of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollern, Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg became Albert's second wife in 1550, and bore him his successor Albert Frederick.
Albert's mother shows up after the broadcast with Charles F. Maude ( the bartender ), informs Albert and Rosie that she has married him, and gives Albert and Rosie her blessing for their long-postponed wedding.
Eventually he decided to pursue Albert's suggestion to him and asked the station's promotion director to get British Overseas Airways Corporation to ship in a copy of " I Want to Hold Your Hand " from Britain.
His recurring role with Eddie Albert's character was eventually a regular character, thanks to him being so popular, in turn made him a household name.
Henry's daughter Margaret could only succeed him in Tyrol, but in 1363 had to bequeath her land to Albert's II son Rudolf IV of Habsburg as well.
;: Albert's best friend who accompanied him in the carnival in Luna.
Albert's parents gave him a tape recorder for his fifth birthday to practice his broadcasting.
Albert's brother, Harry Trott, was named captain of the Australian team which toured England in 1896, though Albert's form ( which saw him average 102. 5 with the bat in the Test series against England ) was, remarkably, insufficient to merit tour selection.
When Albert's mother is murdered in a plane crash engineered by the terrorist Kobra, he becomes consumed by vengeance, nearly crushing Kobra in his hands before he is talked down by his teammate Jack Knight, who convinces him that he should not taint the memory of his mother by associating it with Kobra's murder.
Maxwell Lord's mother however was never truly convinced of this turn of events, instilling into her son the hatred against every figure of higher authority that eventually led him to his fall from grace, convinced that even Albert's suicide was a conspiracy from the higher ups in his company and unwilling to let his regrets tamper with their power.
One of Albert's reports struck him particularly.
They also awarded him a scholarship to St. Albert's Convent, the Dominican monastery in Hong Kong.
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