In Silicon Valley, bankruptcy is treated like a duelling scar in a Prussian officers' mess.
Even Bild, Germany's leading tabloid, elevated Mr Draghi as an honorary German, depicting him with a Prussian helmet.
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He had read On War, the classic written in 1832 by Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, you see, a smallpox epidemic had swept through Europe killing millions of citizens.
It is unclear whether the Prussian landowner much cared for Hitler, who came to power in Germany in 1933.
The sky turns pink, peach and apricot, shading into pale Prussian grey.
In the early nineteenth century the Prussian military with guidance from strategists Karl von Clausewitz established a military general staff.
There's also a Confederate national flag and various Imperial Russian, Prussian and German parade helmets, rank caps, medals, insignia and uniforms.
Meanwhile on the other side of the battle lines, the Prussian army, almost all of whom had been vaccinated, remained strong.
Even the French, somewhat better informed, tend to remember him only as the Prussian king who had the wit to befriend Voltaire.
In the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the two nations together fielded close to two million troops, of whom nearly a half-million were killed or wounded.
The von Kleist family was a long line of Prussian landowners, who had served the state for centuries in high-ranking military and administrative positions.
One of the German groups, the Preussische Treuhand (the Prussian Claim Society), has said it will take cases to the Polish and European courts.
In 1871, Paris surrendered to the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War.
Born in 1922 in an area of north-eastern Germany that is now part of Poland, Mr von Kleist came from a long line of Prussian landowners.
Showing up to spring training that early is like a high-school kid going back to class during Christmas break because he just felt like reviewing the Franco-Prussian War.
The young Napoleon was a close student of Frederick's methods and, after defeating Prussian armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806, took his marshals to visit Frederick's tomb in Potsdam.
The key to implementing OODA is making sure everyone in the organization understands the mission--schwerpunkt, to use Boyd's favorite Prussian military term--and is given authority to modify tactics on the fly.
His father was a successful industrialist from Alsace (which had fallen to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71), supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank.
Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.
When Bismarck introduced the world's first state pension system in 1889, he set the retirement age at 70, some 25 years beyond the average Prussian's life expectancy, so it did not cost much to run.
Overtaken by Germany when it won the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Alsace and a good part of Lorraine sent streams of refugees to Nancy, whose population nearly doubled in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Developed largely from his study of the ancient Chinese theoretician Sun Tzu and Prussian military reformers of the 19th century, the theory explains how a combatant can defeat the enemy on the mental battlefield, before the real shooting starts.
Japanese school uniforms bear an uncanny resemblance to the military outfits of 19th-century Europe -- high-collared Prussian-style tunics with brass buttons for boys and pleated navy blue skirts, white blouses with matching scarves and short white socks for girls.
The 34.98-carat Beau Sancy diamond, the signature gem of the Prussian crown jewels, has made it through the last three turbulent centuries firmly in the hands of the House of Hohenzollern, the ruling dynasty of Prussia and, later, imperial Germany.
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Yet a mere thirty years after the end of the Franco-Prussian War, when the smallpox epidemic swept through the United States, a whole host of intelligent people refused to be vaccinated, convinced that the vaccine did more harm than good.
He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
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