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The Deutsche Mark ( German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈmaʁk] ⓘ; English: German mark ), abbreviated " DM " or " D-Mark " ( [ˈdeːˌmaʁk] ⓘ ), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002. In English, it was typically called the " Deutschmark ...
Whitehead Mark 2 torpedo. The Whitehead Mark 2 torpedo [4] was a Whitehead torpedo adopted by the United States Navy for use in an anti-surface ship role after the E. W. Bliss Company of Brooklyn, New York secured manufacturing rights in 1892. [2] It was identical to the Whitehead Mark 1 torpedo, except for some mechanical details.
A Boston -based ensemble, the Hawthorne String Quartet takes its name from the New England novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and was founded in 1986. [3] Its violist, Mark Ludwig, is also the Founder and Director of the Terezin Music Foundation. [4] Since its founding, the Quartet have toured both in the United States and internationally, and ...
Ludwig III (Ludwig Luitpold Josef Maria Aloys Alfried; 7 January 1845 – 18 October 1921) was the last King of Bavaria, reigning from 1913 to 1918. Initially, he served in the Bavarian military as a lieutenant and went on to hold the rank of Oberleutnant during the Austro-Prussian War. He entered politics at the age of 18 becoming a member of ...
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck ForMemRS (English: / ˈ p l æ ŋ k /, German: [maks ˈplaŋk] ⓘ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Biography. Eberhard II von der Mark was born in Aremberg in 1365, the son of Eberhard I von der Mark and grandson of Engelbert II, Count of the Mark, ruler of the County of Mark and the Count of Aremberg through marriage to his grandmother, Mechtilde of Arenberg. His mother was Marie de Looz, granddaughter of Jean de Looz.
Washington and Lee University ( BA) University of Virginia ( JD) John Michael Luttig ( / ˈluːtɪɡ / LOO-tig; born June 13, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Luttig resigned his judgeship in 2006 to become the general ...
He died at Munich on 9 May 1872. Georg Ludwig von Maurer was married to a member of the Krefelder silk family Heydweiller, Johanna Wilhelmina Friederike Heydweiller. Their only son, Konrad von Maurer (1823–1902), was a Scandinavian scholar of some repute, and like his father was a professor at the university of Munich.