In 1508, Maximilian, with the assent of Pope Julius II, took the title Erwählter Römischer Kaiser (" Elected Roman Emperor "), thus ending the centuries-old custom that the Holy Roman Emperor had to be crowned by the pope.

During World War I, to avoid ground fights between brothers, many Alsatians served as sailors in the Kaiserliche Marine and took part in the Naval mutinies that led to the abdication of the Kaiser in November 1918, which left Alsace-Lorraine without a nominal head of state.

" Tree also took his productions on tour in America many times and visited Berlin's Royal Opera House in 1907 at the invitation of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

Instead, the office was held by the Superintendent of Mines for Utah Fuel, then later by Kaiser Steel Corporation when it took over in 1950.

Due to alliances orchestrated by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, France was initially isolated, but after Kaiser Wilhelm II took the throne in 1888 and gradually estranged Germany from Russia and Britain, the prospect of fighting a future war on two fronts simultaneously caused increasing unease among German leaders.

This honour came to be known as the Blue Riband ; in 1897 Germany took the award with a series of new ocean liners, starting with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Große.

However, in March 1938, Consolidated Industries ( a consortium led by the Kaiser Company ) initiated work on a contract for the upper half of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, and took over responsibility for the thousands of workers who had worked for a different construction consortium on the first half of the dam.

It took Keene 15 years to realize that Kaiser had forced Garfield to ask Keene to become his replacement.

The sailors ' revolt which took place during the night of 29 to 30 October 1918 in the naval port of Wilhelmshaven spread across the whole country within days and led to the proclamation of a republic on 9 November 1918 and to the announcement of the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Ken returned to the Digital World and, through the subtle, unseen manipulations of Arukenimon, assumed the mantle of the Digimon Emperor / Kaiser and took over the Digimon using Dark Rings with which he enslaved a number of Digimon, similar to the Black Gears that Devimon used on the Digimon in File Island.

His grand-nephew, Gaius Octavius, duly took the full name " Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus " upon his posthumous adoption in 44 BC, and the name became fused with the imperial dignity ; in this sense it is preserved in the German and Bulgarian words Kaiser and Tsar ( sometimes spelled Czar ), both of which refer to an emperor.

Kaiser Wilhelm II took up residence in the sanatorium and the Oranienhof was used by the general staff.

Kaiser took control of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company in 1969.

* Thomas John George ' Tommy ' Moeller ( born 23 February 1945, Liverpool ): lead vocalist, guitar, piano ; was the brother of Billy Moeller, who became public face of the one-hit wonder, Whistling Jack Smith, and took " I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman " to number five in 1967.

In 1955, Kaiser phased out both the Kaiser and Willys passenger car lines, and shipped the dies to Argentina where the joint venture with the Argentina Government owned Industrias Kaiser Argentina ( IKA ) continued to build cars through 1977 when Renault took over.

When Louis Ferdinand's older brother Prince Wilhelm renounced his succession rights to marry a non-royal from the lesser nobility in 1933 ( he was later to be killed in action in France in 1940 fighting in the German army ), Louis Ferdinand took his place in line for the throne following the deaths of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince.

During World War I, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II fought a two-front war against French, British, Belgian, and ( later ) American forces on the Western Front while simultaneously fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front, until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 took Russia out of the war.

As the market for K-F products slowed in 1949 with the introduction of new designs from the Big Three, Kaiser pushed for more production creating an oversupply of cars that took until mid-1950 to sell.

After some persuasion on the part of the Grand Duke, the Emperor had finally accepted the appeal for an audience and it took place in Palestine in the 28 October 1898, while the Kaiser was in his pilgrimage trip to Palestine.

After Kaiser / Globe took over, the AM side at first broadcast a format with music and local news of interest to listeners in Cambridge and nearby communities, but was not very successful.

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ( in German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche ) is located in Berlin on the Kurfürstendamm in the centre of the Breitscheidplatz.

The two quarreled a lot, mostly, she said, because she could not stand his unruly Kaiser moustache.

The first book on benchmarking, written and published by Kaiser Associates, is a practical guide and offers a seven-step approach.

" Weltpolitik " (" world policy ") was the foreign policy adopted by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1897, replacing the earlier " Realpolitik " approach.

Royalty from all over Europe attended, including the future Kaiser Wilhelm II and future King George V, these royal encounters provided Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West an endorsement and publicity that ensured its success.

Following the First World War, Vanderbilt and his wife frequently returned to Europe, becoming friends and guests of numerous members of European royalty including former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and his brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, King Albert I of Belgium, Crown Prince Olav of Norway, Queen Marie of Romania, Reza Pahlavi of Iran, and every British monarch since Queen Victoria.

After post-doctoral position with John Jacob Abel at Johns Hopkins University Medical School ( 1927-1928 ), he traveled to Europe as National Research Council Fellow in 1928-1929, where he worked with Max Bergmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Leather Research in Dresden, and with George Barger at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.

: Also appearing in Europe, this one is commandeered by Kaiser Kikai himself and merged with a junked battleship on Dream Island.

' Frederick, to be sure, did mount the throne ( as Frederick III ) in March the following year ( Kaiser Wilhelm I died on March 9, 1888 ) and for a brief time it seemed that a new era would begin for Germany, and indirectly for Europe.

The end of the story represents Mann's changing political views ; he moved from staunch support of the Kaiser during his early life to a belief in progressive, democratic values in Europe and a desire to rid the continent of fascist influences.

Kaiser cars were assembled through 1954 with NEKAF exporting to Europe, South America and the Middle East.

Like many of the grandest summer residents of Newport, Edward Berwind was " new money " ( his parents were middle-class German immigrants ); by 1900 his friends included Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhem II of Germany as well as many high-ranking government leaders from Europe and America.

The band also spent time touring northern Europe, including France, Holland and Germany and also supported the Kaiser Chiefs in Scandinavia.

Prussia leads Europe, but has herself fallen into the hands of foreigners, among I count the Kaiser and the Jews.

The Kurfürstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz.

The next big growth occurred with the advent of World War II, when large numbers of people moved to the Bay Area to work in the many war industries, such as the immense Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond.

In the latter part of the war, Germany was practically a military dictatorship, with the Supreme High Command ( German: OHL, " Oberste Heeresleitung ") and General Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg as commander-in-chief advising the Kaiser.

Seven hundred is precisely the number of people which Kaiser Friedrich III brought with him when he entered Rome in 1468, to show the Pope who the most powerful man in the world was ".

Fritz was a master of the subtle sell, and cultivated a close rapport with the Kaiser, Wilhelm II.

The report by Kaiser Permanente and published in the Journal of Urology, considered that " regular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use is associated with erectile dysfunction beyond what would be expected due to age and other condition ".

Left-wing journalists opposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II's policies outed a number of prominent members of his cabinet and inner circle — and by implication the Kaiser — beginning with Maximilian Harden's indictment of the aristocratic diplomat Prince Eulenburg.

He attempted to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm I that he should be endowed with the sovereign duchy of Lauenburg, in reward for his services to the imperial family and the German empire.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

He met with King Ludwig III on 29 May, and later with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg, who replied positively to the Papal initiative.

Kaiser Wilhelm II, August von Mackensen and others wearing Pickelhauben with cloth covers in 1915

David Kaiser of MIT mentioned in his book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, that the possibilities of instantaneous long-range communication derived from Bell's theorem stirred interest among hippies, psychics, and even the CIA, with the counter-culture playing a critical role in its development toward practical use.

Squire and Couzens started a new band, The Fireside Chaps, with bassist Gary " Mani " Mounfield, later recruiting a singer named Kaiser and drummer Chris Goodwin, and changing their name to The Waterfront ( after the film On the Waterfront ), their sound influenced by 1960s groups and contemporary bands such as Orange Juice.

Brown joined The Waterfront in late 1983, for a time sharing vocals with Kaiser.

Effectively a stalemate, with no clear legal arguments, it continued until the boundary issue was eventually placed in the hands of Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany for arbitration in 1871.

Despite being trapped by ice for nearly fourteen months until February 1903, the expedition discovered new territory in Antarctica, the Kaiser Wilhelm II Land with the Gaussberg.

* M, with digital transfer supervisor Torsten Kaiser and restoration supervisor Martin Koerber, plus audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang

Nevertheless, the marketing category was created in 1966 with Kaiser Jeep's luxurious Super Wagoneer.

The war ended in 1918 with the defeat of Germany and the abdication and exile of the Kaiser.