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William II

1. known as William Rufus. ?1056--1100, king of England (1087--1100); the son of William the Conqueror. He was killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest
2. known as William the Good. 1154--89, last Norman king of Sicily (1166--89)
3. 1792--1849, king of the Netherlands (1840--49); son of William I
4. German name Kaiser Wilhelm. 1859--1941, German emperor and king of Prussia (1888--1918): asserted Germany's claim to world leadership; forced to abdicate at the end of World War I
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And Tsar Nicholas II was also related to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Queen Victoria's grandsons King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and their cousin, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, were all embroiled, with long-standing arguments and resentments causing problems that exacerbated the rivalry between their countries.
16 ( ANI ): Experts have claimed that Kaiser Wilhelm Il's "incestuous obsession" with his mother, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, was behind his hatred of Britain.
L'epave du paquebot "Kaiser Wilhelm" a ete retrouvee par une mission scientifique nationale depechee sur les lieux durant la periode du 23 au 29 septembre dernier, a la suite d'informations apportees par des membres de l'association "Salam", indique le ministere dans un communique, dont copie est parvenue a la MAP.
This is a study of the philosophical examination of science conducted by German philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1875-1945) which focuses on the often neglected early part of his career during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm. Moynahan (history, Bard College) highlights the influence of the Marburg School's Hermann Cohen and the 18th century mathematician Gottfried Liebniz and uses those influences as a means of understanding how Cassirer and the Marburg school sought to transform the philosophical project of Immanuel Kant in order to investigate the leading edge of contemporary science (particularly in fields such as group theory and logic), radically recast the problem of appearance and reality, and to construct a basis for the political definition of rights and democracy.
The Crown would then have passed to her son, Kaiser Wilhelm II, aka "Kaiser Bill".
Time and again we cross Namibia's borders: the story of the ever popular Biltong brings us to South Africa, the AK-47 rifle used in the Namibian independence struggle points us to the former Soviet Union and a memorial stone in Aus takes us back to the era of the last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
That strategy was an outgrowth of Kaiser Wilhelm II's reckless and amateurish meddling in Oriental affairs.
To understand Nazism, they argue, one must 'explore what happened in Africa under Kaiser Wilhelm II'.
The Commission said it would allow payments to be phased out "to ensure that the process is gradual." The monopoly was established under Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918, but has not been a true monopoly, since the European Court of Justice ruled in 1976 Germany must allow free imports of spirits.
1913 Kaiser Wilhelm banned the tango and the two-step for army and navy personnel in Germany
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