When Friar Tetzel was on his death bed, disgraced and abandoned by friends, Luther sent him a consoling letter, essentially telling Tetzel not to blame himself for triggering the Reformation. Luther said it had many causes and would have happened anyway.
Luther College is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Decorah, Iowa, United States. Established as a Lutheran seminary in 1861 by Norwegian immigrants, the school today is an institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483, which was 292 years before the founding of the United States Marine Corps on 10 November 1775.
The date of the fall of the Berlin Wall is given as November 9 or 10, 1989, in differing sources, probably due to the uncertainty in announcements.
Günter Schabowski, the party boss in East Berlin and the spokesman for the SED Politburo, had the task of announcing the regulations on the opening of the Wall. However, he had not been involved in the discussions about the new regulations and had not been fully updated. Shortly before a press conference on 9 November, he was handed a note announcing the changes, but given no further instructions on how to handle the information. These regulations had only been completed a few hours earlier and were to take effect on Nov. 10 so as to allow time to inform the border guards. But this starting time delay was not communicated to Schabowski.
At 10:45 pm on November 9, Harald Jäger, the commander of the Bornholmer Straße border crossing yielded to the crowds that had been gathering for hours after Schabowski’s announcement, allowing for the guards to open the checkpoints and allowing people through with little or no identity checking.
The municipal coat of arms of Berlin, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, features a black bear on a white field beneath a golden crown.
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The WWII fighter airplane, the P-47 Thunderbolt built by Republic Aviation, could carry more than half the bomb load of a B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber.
The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latin word avis (“bird”) and the suffix -ation.
Avis Rent A Car is not named for anything avian, but for its founder, Warren Avis. Their corporate motto is “We Try Harder”. It was adopted in 1962 (during the tenure of Robert Townsend as its CEO) to make a more positive reference of Avis’ status as the second largest car rental company in the United States, at the expense of its larger competitor The Hertz Corporation.
Hertz auto rental is not named after anything to do with frequency measurement, but after John D. Hertz, the Slovakian-born founder of the company. Hertz originally founded Chicago city bus and taxi fleets, and spun off the rental car business in 1925.
John D. Hertz’s son, John D. Hertz Jr., was briefly married (1942-44) to film star Myrna Loy.
The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando FL received a $30,000 donation from Hertz Car Rental in 2014 to celebrate a 30 year advertising relationship between the golfer and the rental car company. According to a Hertz press release, Palmer has been associated with Hertz since 1983.
In 1958, Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to pass $1 million dollars in prize money. The same year, he became the youngest player to win the Masters.
Dutch Masters Cigars has been a leading brand of cigar in the USA for more than 100 years. The product features detail of Rembrandt’s “Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild” as the package logo.
Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” was actually painted as a daytime scene. The painting was covered with a layer of varnish to protect it; this darkened it so that people thought it was assumed to be designed to be night. The painting has also been cut down in 1715 in order to fit between two columns. Two figures have been lost in the alteration.
The 1635 painting “The Surrender of Breda” by Velazquez was analyzed and a background figure was found to be remarkably similar to what may be one of the few surviving self-portraits of the artist, recently cleaned and rediscovered.
In his painting “The Night Watch,” Rembrandt displayed the traditional emblems of the arquebusiers. The little girl in the background carries the claws of a dead chicken, representing defeated foes, on her belt. She is holding the militia’s goblet. The man in front of her is wearing a helmet with an oak leaf, another traditional motif of the arquebusiers.
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Rembrandt died within a year of his son, on 4 October 1669 in Amsterdam, and was buried as a poor man in an unknown grave in the Westerkerk. It was in a numbered ‘kerkgraf’ (grave owned by the church) somewhere under a tombstone in the church. After twenty years, his remains were taken away and destroyed, as was customary with the remains of poor people at that time.
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Rembrandt’s The Night Watch is big, about 14 feet x 12 feet. Rumors exist of its being poorly received by the public. Even KLM airlines, in 1967, featured the painting in an advertisement that said, “See Night Watch, Rembrandt’s spectacular ‘failure’ (that caused him to be) hooted… down the road to bankruptcy.”
The myth has no reasonable origin as there is no record of criticism of the painting in Rembrandt’s lifetime, and Captain Cocq even commissioned a watercolor of it for his personal album.
Rembrandt produced at least 90 self-portraits. Some are still being rediscovered after being attributed to other painters; for example, a self-portrait of him laughing was long thought to be by Franz Hals and was definitively identified only in 2008. Around 50 of them are paintings, with the rest being etchings and drawings. They show a great variety of expressions, costumes, backgrounds and artistic styles.
Archduke Franz Karl Joseph of Austria (1802 – 1878) from the House of Habsburg was father of two emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico), as well as the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I.