Search results for "Swiss Guards" - New World Encyclopedia
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- atop it. Paracelsus, a sixteenth century Swiss alchemist identified gnomes ... In the sixteenth century, the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus popularized ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- graves, the usual procedure there. Many guards of Andersonville also died ... The guards, disease, starvation, and exposure were not all that prisoners ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- in Paris, which was defended by the Swiss Guards. Hundreds of Swiss guardsmen ... ordered to disengage. The main body of Swiss Guards fell back through the ...38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
- to release some grenadiers of the French guards, reportedly imprisoned for ... for patriots! This very night all the Swiss and German battalions will ...35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- 14, 1941 by firing squad formed from the Scots Guards. ===Torture=== ... Tower known as Jewel House, where armed guards defended them. ...20 KB (3,219 words) - 04:47, 1 May 2023
- [[Image:Swiss Army marching Fcb981.JPG|thumb|250 px|An exercise near ... One of the most famous and ancient militias is the Swiss Armed Forces ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- that political prisoners and the many Swiss Guards imprisoned in Parisian ... and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ...32 KB (4,786 words) - 22:20, 25 June 2022
- and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ... household, as well as survivors of the Swiss Guards from the royal palace ...69 KB (9,949 words) - 09:52, 26 January 2023
- horses; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; Pontifical Swiss Guards; quartermasters; reformed alcoholics; riders; soldiers; tailors; vintners ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- and maintenance for the Temple, serving as guards, and assisting the Kohanim ... * Loewy, Löwi, Löwy, and Loewe German or Swiss variations (although ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger ... English troops on their March of the Guards to Finchley. ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- Financed by his mother, he stayed in a Swiss health spa before traveling ... of Russian Marxists was held in the Swiss town of Corsier to discuss ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- broke into the palace. The queen's guards were massacred. She and her ... was invaded in their absence, and the Swiss Guard were massacred. The ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Hundred of Swiss guards, who were guarding the King, and revolutionaries ... and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- the peace: the French intervened in the Swiss civil strife (Stecklikrieg ... and several hundred thousand national guards that Napoleon could draft ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- In addition 80,000 National Guards had been conscripted for full military ... *9,000 Swiss (German sources Meyers Konversationslexikon, 3rd ed.(Germany: ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- over a thousand in all, on fears that the Swiss guards imprisoned there would be let out to join counter-revolutionary forces, even though the vast ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- Bulgarian, Yugoslav, British, French and Swiss Communist Groups; the Dutch ... parties (but also playing a role as border guards for the Russian state). ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- Louis Cypress Ayer, was a French-speaking Swiss Calvinist from Neufchatel ... British Labour party. He joined the Welsh Guards when WWII broke out and worked ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- position at St. Privat to prevent the Guards attack from failing too. ... #039;s army into the mountains near the Swiss border. Facing annihilation ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- bequests. Within hearing of the Spanish guards he reminded his sisters in ... turned earth at the cemetery with civil guards posted at the gate. Assuming ...46 KB (7,054 words) - 22:16, 9 December 2023
- as the First World War was raging. The Swiss communist Fritz Platten ... Constituent Assembly, they used the Red Guards to shut down the first session ...42 KB (6,401 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- As a child, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi attended Institut Le Rosey, a Swiss ... seat and covered himself with a blanket as guards waved his driver through ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- waterfronts, but other leaders included the Swiss immigrant Waler Nef, Jack ... was turned over to the lynch mob by jail guards, had his teeth smashed with ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- and top-rated ice hockey leagues (the Swiss Nationalliga) outside of the NHL. ... the heavily padded player who guards the goal; prevents opponents ...69 KB (11,304 words) - 17:15, 10 February 2024
- Henry hired Swiss mercenaries to help him defend himself in Paris. The Parisians, however, claimed the right to defend the city themselves. On ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
