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This is a complete list of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. [1]The primary memorial at the arboretum is the Armed Forces Memorial which lists all British military casualties since 1948.
Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg (d. 1232) Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270–1290) Rudolf I of Bohemia (1281–1307), Duke of Austria and Styria and King of Bohemia; Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (1339–1365) Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Archduke of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor
Forget-Me-Not was an illustrated British annual published by Rudolph Ackermann. It was the first literary annual in English [1] and it was edited by Frederic Shoberl from its launch in 1822. [2] A junior version appeared in 1828.
In the United States, a group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that is created to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members. [1] Many GPOs are funded by administrative fees which are paid by the vendors that GPOs oversee.
For its entire history, the GPO has occupied the corner of North Capitol Street NW and H Street NW in the District of Columbia. The large red brick building that houses the GPO was erected in 1903 and is unusual in being one of the few large, red brick government structures in a city where most government buildings are mostly marble and granite.
The letters Beethoven wrote to Rudolph are today kept at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Franz Schubert and Ferdinand Ries also dedicated works to Rudolf. [1] On 24 March 1819, aged 31, Rudolph was appointed Archbishop of Olomouc in the present day Czech Republic but then known as Olmütz which was part of the Austrian Empire.
Rudolf was married by Archbishop Fulton Sheen to Countess Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov the daughter of Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Chernyshyev-Besobrasov and his wife, Countess Elizabeta Dmitrievna Sheremeteva, on 22 June 1953 at Tuxedo Park, New York. [5]
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...