He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

Frederick the Great ( 1712 – 1786 ) was one of Europe's enlightened monarch s.

Frederick William, known as the " Great Elector ", who had succeeded his father George William as ruler in 1640, initiated a policy of promoting immigration and religious tolerance.

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Returning from Saint Petersburg, they visited Frederick the Great in Rheinsberg.

After his death Frederick the Great, who several times needed Algarotti writing texts in Latin, sent in a text for a monument to his memory on the Campo Santo in Pisa, Italy.

* Correspondence with Frederick the Great at Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier

* MacDonogh, G. ( 1999 ) Frederick the Great.

* Frederick Douglass appears as a Great Humanitarian in the 2008 strategy video game Civilization Revolution.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

He was the father of Frederick William, the " Great Elector ".

Their only son Frederick William later became known as the " Great Elector ".

From 1640, Brandenburg-Prussia had started to rise under the Great Elector, Frederick William.

Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.

But in the Silesian Wars and in the Seven Years ' War she had to cede Silesia to Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia.

In Hesse-Kassel, the Landgrave Frederick II, ruled 1760 – 1785 as an enlightened despot, and raised money by renting soldiers ( called " Hessians ") to Great Britain to help fight the American Revolutionary War.

* 1640 – 1688: Frederick I / III William the Great Elector ( son of, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* Matter, Evelyn P. The Great House Rapp House Constructed 1826 and Frederick Rapp House Constructed about 1828 at Old Economy.

* 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years ' War.

Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick the Great playing the flute as Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach | C. P. E. Bach accompanies on the keyboard.

Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick the Great playing a flute concerto in Sanssouci, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | C. P. E. Bach at the piano, Quantz is leaning on the wall to the right ; by Adolph Menzel, 1852.

* Frederick B. Owens, American entertainer best known for playing Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 2000s

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

The original headquarters was a greenhouse on East Bank Road lent by Thomas Asline Ward, father of the first club president Frederick Ward, and the adjacent field was used as their first playing ground.

Sir Frederick Pollock who chaired Fight for Right wrote to The Morning Post in February 1917 charging the Magazine with pacifist propaganda, and with playing on its connection with the University as if it had official status.

In 1974-75, he starred in several episodes of the ABC produced mega-hit series The Six Million Dollar Man playing a number of characters, including the role of Major Frederick Sloan.

This was an important development, as Frederick Henry, could not lean exclusively on the latter faction, but instead took a position " above the parties ", playing off the two factions against one another.

In 1748, the family of Frederick, Prince of Wales partook in the playing of a baseball-like game.

His portrait statues include Frederick the Great playing the flute, and the crown-princess Louise and her sister Frederica.

Like Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, he has a fertile imagination, and one of his storylines featured him playing the role of " F. Frederick Skitty ", an undercover agent sworn to stop the distribution of " Tee Hee Hee ", a drug that turned people into homosexuals.

Alan Leonard Hunt ( 7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007 ) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.

Hunt continued playing Frederick Norton, who had by now become the footman, until the eleventh episode of the fifth series, " Alberto ".

Frederick Feast ( 5 October 1929 – 25 June 1999 ) was a British television actor, best remembered for playing the role of Fred Gee in Coronation Street.

Frederick Oxby ( born 6 February 1987 in London ) is an actor most famous for playing " Young Robert " in the film A Dog Of Flanders ( 1999 ).

* Kevin Frederick was a Major League Baseball pitcher ( 2002, 04 ), playing most of his career with the Toronto Blue Jays.

John Frederick " Jack " Rowley ( 7 October 1920 – 28 June 1998 ) was an English football striker from the 1930s to the 1950s, mainly remembered for playing for Manchester United.

Frederick Douglass always recited this speech on stage when playing Curran.

Philip Anthony Mair Heald, known professionally as Anthony Heald ( born August 25, 1944 ), is an American actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jail nemesis, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public.

Donnelly returned to Broadway a number of times, replacing Albert Finney in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968, playing Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth and appearing as Frederick Treves opposite David Bowie as The Elephant Man.