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  9. Posted

    The House of Hohenstaufen, kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, Sicily, Jerusalem and other things:

     

    Conrad III 1138-1152

    Frederick Barbarossa 1152-1190

    Henry VI 1190-1197

    Philip of Swabia 1198-1208

    Frederick II 1208-1250

    Henry VII co-regent 1220-1235

    Conrad IV co-regent and king 1237-1254

    Conradin, king of Sicily 1254-1258/1268

    Manfred, king of Sicily 1258-1266

    Enzio, King of Sardinia 1238-1249

     

    957,273-957,283

  12. Posted

    Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe has infection in shoulder - could lose his arm:

    http://www.theguardi...-care-infection

     

    He strikes me as someone who can't live without his sport.

     

    He has also had some depressive episodes recently.

     

    Why, is his dead pool team under performing?

     

     

    If that made him commit suicide in a swimming pool, there would be nice headlines... "Thorpe dead down in pool down under after underperforming dead pool makes him perform under water"... or something like that....

  13. Posted

    941,313-941,323

     

    King Henry I, the Fowler of the Holy Roman Empire

    Emperor Otto the Great of the Holy Roman Empire

    Emperor Otto II of the Holy Roman Empire

    Emperor Otto III of the Holy Roman Empire

    Emperor St. Henry II of the Holy Roman Empire

    His wife Kunigunde of Luxembourg

    Empress Theophanu of the Byzantine Empire, wife of Otto II

    Empress Adelaide of Burgundy, second wife of Otto the Great

    Empress Eadgyth of England, first wife of Otto the Great

    Matilda of Ringelheim, wife of Henry I

  16. Posted

    Two comedians are dead, and the religious fundamentalist still lives.... I guess it's the same refusal-to-go attitude in life that keeps fundamentalists from dying. They probably believe that if they die, the hippies win.

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    166-190

     

    Czar Nikolaj II

    Czar Alexander III

    Czar Alexander II

    Czar Nikolaj I

    Czar Alexander I

    Czar Paul I

    Czarina Catherine II

    Czar Peter III

    Czarina Elisabeth II

    Czar Iwan VI

    Czarina Anna

    Czar Peter II

    Czarina Catherine I

    Czar Peter the Great

    Czar Iwan V

    Czar Alexej

    Czar Michail

    The five Romanov children of Nikolaj

    Nikolaj's brother Michail

    Nikolaj's wife Alexandra

    Rasputin

  20. Posted

    Charles Aznavore is still touring! Royal Albert Hall in June - although it is booked as his Farewell concert, I don't think that means he will be croaking any time soon.

     

    Today I saw a billboard here in Berlin, where he's going to perform in May ("first time in 12 years!"). It's very unlikely that he's close to death.

  24. Posted

    Hmm... considering that she made Hollywood history and is apparently the german actor/actress to receive the most Hollywood fame, she is virtually unknown in Germany today. She's almost from another dimension, a jewish german from before the Third Reich, in retirement for 60+ years.... I wonder if the current roster of german actors actually knows her at all. Compare that to Marlene Dietrich who never won an Oscar, yet is a legend, at least in Germany.

  25. Posted

    Actually Nixon died at age 81 from a severe stroke in 1994, his wife pat had died the previous year, that and the stress from the ups and downs of his life from Watergate and everything I have no doubt contributed to his relatively early demise, at least early compared to his four immediate successors Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush Sr.

     

    Huh, I got a digit wrong there, sorry...

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