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    about the names and titles of the wedding guests to include in his report to the Queen of England. After he entered the palace, the Dowager Duchess proceeded to the palace church accompanied by her daughter, Karolina, Theresia and their servants. The wedding guests waited in the Knight’s Hall before being summoned to the palace church for the wedding ceremony. As he waited to drink a cocktail, the Grand Duke of Baden spotted the arrival of the British Chargé d 'affaires and quickly steered him to a nearby corner of the great hall. “Remember”, he said to the chargé d 'affaires, “The British Queen has a friend in Baden if any future difficulties arise with France”. The Grand Duchy of Baden and all of the southern German Confederation royal rulers convinced themselves that alternating their allegiance between Great Britain and France would ensure their survival. Therefore, the Grand Duke wanted to convey his support to Queen Victoria and her government. He mentioned to the chargé d 'affaires how the residents in the small German Duchies and Principalities, including his own, were becoming restless after observing the liberal reforms taking place in France. “Citizen King”, he scoffed as he said the nickname applied to Louis Phillipe, King of France by the newspapers. “The King is the ruler of all of France and its colonies and should be feared by the French People. Opening the vote up to all the French taxpayers, as Louis is proposing, is heresy. Only the noble citizens of France…

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    The city’s populace celebrated the marriage of Princess Marie to the Duke of Hamilton’s son along with the nobles from the German Confederation. The palace gates thrown open and everyone invited into the square to celebrate the grand occasion. Inside the Knight’s Hall, Karolina did not notice the noble guests were dancing at one end of the great hall and she and her friends relegated to the other end. In fact, she did not care. This was her first royal invitation and she was going to be eighteen…

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    Karolina and Theresia sat in the back of the dining room at a small table reserved for other lesser known nobles and guests awed by the abundance and variety of the rich food dishes that were served to them. During the wedding banquet, each of the royal guests made congratulatory toasts to the bride and groom. The Duke of Hamilton stood and welcomed his son’s new bride into his family and spoke of his intention to build a new Bavarian styled castle in Scotland for the happy couple. All of the…

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    Chapter Eight Johannes was aware that the Dowager Duchess Stéphanie de Beauharnais had returned to Paris when her nephew Louis-Napoleon reclaimed the Emperor’s throne. He knew she would be able to help him. The Emperor had arranged for the Dowager Duchess to stay at the Hôtel de Ville close to the Tuileries Palace. Stéphanie de Beauharnais had merely transferred her royal court from the Mannheim Palace where she had resided since the death of her husband to the Hôtel de Ville after the…

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    tried to make sense of how we currently regulate our roadways. I first looked closer at the vehicle titles the state provides, given the fact this this was of great interest to me. What I discovered was that the titles they provide are not an Allodial titles which would constitute absolute ownership of real property but instead feudal titles. These feudal titles are exactly like the land titles granted to peasants by nobles in medieval Europe when feudalism was the dominant social system. These…

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    Importance Of Rural Idyll

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    When looking at a person’s identity in related to a place, wind power scholars have shown the rural idyll to be important, but have failed to acknowledge the acceptance of turbines, instead focusing on opposition to them (Bohn and Lant, 2009; Phake, 2011; Pasqualetti; 2011). Also, research on the rural idyll has failed to explore the pre-construction/pre-decision stage of wind infrastructure in relation to social reasons behind its acceptance or dismissal (Pedersen et al. 2007; Bohn and Lant,…

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    Brown will likely prevail in establishing that Mrs. Sullivan “owned” the dog as defined under the Illinois Animal Control Act (the Act), and is thus liable for damages for the injuries Brown sustained. The Act defines an “owner” as “any person having a right of property in a dog…or who keeps or harbors a dog…or who has it in his care, or acts as its custodian”. 510 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/2.16 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through P.A. 99-608, except for portions of P.A. 99-576, P.A. 99-585, and…

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    Wealth Matters Case Study

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    expressed in various ways over the centuries. The law of lost and found is rooted in ancient Roman laws and the concept of finders keepers derived from the work of the second century jurist Gaius, who suggested that unowned property (res nullius) became “the property of the first taker.” Emperor Justinian of Rome further proposed that property intentionally abandoned by its owner (res derelicta) turned into no one 's property (res nullius) and could thereafter be claimed by any individual who…

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    Ms. Clover will probably not be able to prove the Ms. Austin is the owner or keeper of the dog. Ms. Clover must prove that Ms. Austin was the keeper of the dog Trixie at the time of the bite. Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 140, § 155 (West). Keeper is defined by statute as a person or corporation other than the owner who harbors or has in their possession any dog. Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 140, § 155 (West). M.G.L.A. c. 140, § 155 creates a strict liability statute, which imposes liability onto the…

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    For my topic of choice I wanted to bring up video games, but not just any old game, games made by Bethesda, in this case, I will only be talking about some of their big name titles to stay relevant. A company who knows their target audience for games, Bethesda 's ad’s for games are magnificent at generating hype. I for one, enjoy their ad 's for many great titles and I believe the way they make ads are perfect and sell every time. But what games were successes and why start with the big start,…

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