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grand duke History 1. a prince or nobleman who rules a territory, state, or principality 2. a son or a male descendant in the male line of a Russian tsar 3. a medieval Russian prince who ruled over other princes How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Meanwhile, in Florence, when the Ministry of the Grandduchy of Tuscany received word in 1854 that over the previous 16 months 133 women had reported contracting syphilis from nursing babies they had been given by the Florentine foundling home, the Minister declared that if the Grandduke had known that this would be the result, he would never have recommended sending the foundlings out to the women of the countryside. In the following years it was revised and expanded - with the advice of historians and litterati in Vasari's circle at the court of the granddukes of Tuscany - for publication in 1568. Not many years lay between the abolition of capital punishment by Catherine the Great in Russia and Grandduke Leopold in Tuscany, and the invention of the guillotine. |
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