"Empire (1871–1918) were: Georg Friedrich Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, is currently head of the House of Hohenzollern, which was the former ruling dynasty of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Karl von Habsburg is currently the head of the House of Habsburg. Kaiser Kaiser is the German word for ""emperor"". Like the Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian Tsar it is directly derived from the Roman emperors' title of Caesar, which in turn is derived from the personal name of a branch of the ""gens"" (clan) Julia, to which Gaius Julius Caesar, the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged."
"Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), known by his nomen and cognomen Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, military general, and historian who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. He is also known as an author of Latin prose. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as ""Populares"" were opposed by the"
"Polish, with which the German had greater familiarity, titled some leaders 'czars.' The term czar was used to designate the Russian, Bulgarian or Serbian monarchs of pre-World War I Europe. During the latter stages of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson appointed financier Bernard Baruch to run the War Industries Board. This position was sometimes dubbed the ""industry czar"". One of the earliest known metaphorical usages of the term in the U.S. were to Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who was named commissioner of baseball, with broad powers to clean up the sport after it had been dirtied by the Black"
"of Austria. Joseph Franz Kaiser Joseph Franz Kaiser (11 March 1786 in Graz – 19 September 1859 in Graz) was an army officer, bookbinder, lithographer and publisher from the Styrian region of Austria. His sons Eduard and Alexander were also lithographers. In 1806 he is recorded as a member of Graz's militia cavalry and when the militia developed into the Landwehr in 1808 he rose to officer rank, becoming an ensign on 29 March 1809. As a member of the 2nd Graz Landwehr-Battalion and commander of its 6th Company, he fought at the battle of Raab under the command of"
"word ""Caesar""), the German word for emperor. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary, successor of the Austrian Empire, would both fall in the aftermath of the First World War along with the Russian and Ottoman Empires who had both claimed succession from the Eastern Roman Empire. With junior colleagues titled Caesar listed below the reign of each emperor. Maximian was elevated to ""caesar"" by Diocletian in 285, after Diocletian defeated Carinus. He became Western Emperor in 286, with the establishment of the Tetrarchy. On 1 May 305, both Maximian and Diocletian abdicated, leaving Constantius and Galerius as emperors. Constantius Chlorus was"
"Peter Kaiser (historian) Peter Kaiser (1 October 1793 – 23 February 1864) was a historian and statesman from Liechtenstein. Kaiser was born in Mauren, in the Principality of Liechtenstein as one of eleven children. He studied languages and history in Feldkirch, Vienna and Freiburg/Breisgau. Kaiser became known as a proponent of the rights of the common people or serfs in his home country. In 1820 during the Congress of Vienna, he promoted German unification and rights issues. Due to the unpopularity of this stand in an age of imperialism, he was subsequently forced out of Germany. Kaiser moved to Switzerland"
"Joseph Franz Kaiser Joseph Franz Kaiser (11 March 1786 in Graz – 19 September 1859 in Graz) was an army officer, bookbinder, lithographer and publisher from the Styrian region of Austria. His sons Eduard and Alexander were also lithographers. In 1806 he is recorded as a member of Graz's militia cavalry and when the militia developed into the Landwehr in 1808 he rose to officer rank, becoming an ensign on 29 March 1809. As a member of the 2nd Graz Landwehr-Battalion and commander of its 6th Company, he fought at the battle of Raab under the command of Archduke John"
"of Poland and Lithuania. The name was imported into Western Europe via Germany, where it was borne by some royalty. Casimir Casimir is an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are: Casimira, Kazimiera. The name may mean ""someone who destroys opponent's prestige/glory during battle"", and is derived from the Slavic elements: ""kaziti"" ""to destroy"" and ""měr"" ""prestige, fame"". The latter element is often conflated with the word ""mir"" (""peace, world"") and the former element is suggested to derive from ""kazati"", ""to show"", thus some sources translate the name as ""the one who reveals or"
"of Sallust. The later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources. Caesar is considered by many historians to be one of the greatest military commanders in history. His cognomen was subsequently adopted as a synonym for ""Emperor""; the title ""Caesar"" was used throughout the Roman Empire, giving rise to modern cognates such as Kaiser or Tsar. He has frequently appeared in literary and artistic works, and his political philosophy, known as ""Caesarism"" inspired politicians into the modern era. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into a patrician family, the ""gens Julia"", which claimed descent from Iulus, son"
"Gaius Julius Caesar (name) Gaius Julius Caesar () was a prominent name of the ""Gens Julia"" from Roman Republican times, borne by a number of figures, but most notably by the general and dictator Julius Caesar. The name ""Caesar"" probably originated from a dialect of Latium which did not share the rhotacism of the Roman dialect. (That is, the ""s"" between vowels did not change to ""r"".) Using the Latin alphabet as it existed in the day of Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC) (i.e., without lower case letters, ""J"", or ""U""), Caesar's name is properly rendered (the spelling"
"Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"". The title became ""Kaiser"" in German and Tsar or Czar in the Slavic languages. The last Tsar in nominal power was Simeon II of Bulgaria, whose reign ended in 1946. This means that for two thousand years after Julius Caesar's assassination, there was at least one head of state bearing his name. Suspected Children Roman society viewed the passive role during sexual activity, regardless of gender, to be a sign of submission or inferiority. Indeed, Suetonius says that in Caesar's Gallic triumph, his soldiers sang that,"
"Casimir Casimir is an English, French and Latin form of the Polish name Kazimierz. Feminine forms are: Casimira, Kazimiera. The name may mean ""someone who destroys opponent's prestige/glory during battle"", and is derived from the Slavic elements: ""kaziti"" ""to destroy"" and ""měr"" ""prestige, fame"". The latter element is often conflated with the word ""mir"" (""peace, world"") and the former element is suggested to derive from ""kazati"", ""to show"", thus some sources translate the name as ""the one who reveals or establishes peace"". Several Polish kings have borne this name, including Casimir III the Great and Saint Casimir, a patron saint"
"Kaiser (card game) Kaiser, or three-spot, is a trick-taking card game popular in the prairie provinces in Canada, especially Saskatchewan and parts of its neighbouring provinces. It is played with four players in two partnerships with a 32-card deck. The origins of this game are a mystery and there seems to be no historical record (spoken or written) that justifies it being a solely Saskatchewan-area game. It is especially popular among Ukrainian communities, and was possibly brought to Canada by Ukrainian immigrants, although it is not now played in Ukraine. ""Kaiser"" means ""emperor"", the ruler of Germany from 1871 to"
"Franz Beckenbauer Franz Anton Beckenbauer (; born 11 September 1945) is a German former professional footballer and manager. Early in his playing career he was nicknamed ""Der Kaiser"" (""The Emperor"") because of his elegant style, dominance and leadership on the field, and also as his first name ""Franz"" is reminiscent of the Austrian emperors. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. A versatile player who started out as a midfielder, Beckenbauer made his name as a central defender. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern"
"pessimistic direction; to avoid bad luck, thirteen children on a life-raft drown the youngest of them. (See the frigate ""Méduse"" for the historical shipwreck and ""The Raft of the Medusa"" for its famous depiction in art.) Georg Kaiser Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (25 November 1878 – 4 June 1945) was a German dramatist. Kaiser was born in Magdeburg. He was highly prolific and wrote in a number of different styles. An Expressionist dramatist, he was, along with Gerhart Hauptmann, the most frequently performed playwright of the Weimar Republic. Georg Kaiser's plays include ""The Burghers of Calais"" (1913),"
"Karl Litzmann Karl Litzmann (22 January 1850 – 28 May 1936) was a German World War I general and later Nazi Party member and state politician. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Łódź (1914); he earned the nickname ""the Lion of Brzeziny"" there. On 29 November 1914 he was awarded the ""Pour le Mérite"" for military bravery and Oak Leaves (signifying a second award) on 18 August 1915. Litzmann became a member of Nazi Party in 1929 having previously become a member of SA; he was elected to the Reichstag in 1932 but declined to"
"Jakob Kaiser Jakob Kaiser (8 February 1888 – 7 May 1961) was a German politician and resistance leader during World War II. Jakob Kaiser was born in the Franconian town of Hammelburg. Following in his father’s footsteps, Kaiser began a career as a bookbinder. It was during this time that he became politically active as a member of a Catholic trade union, through which he became a leader of the Christian labor movement during the Weimar Republic. Kaiser increased his participation in politics by becoming a member of the Centre Party, where he began serving in the role of representative"
"Caesar (title) Caesar (English Caesars; Latin ""Caesares"") is a title of imperial character. It derives from the ""cognomen"" of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator. The change from being a familial name to a title adopted by the Roman Emperors can be dated to about AD 68/69, the so-called ""Year of the Four Emperors"". For political and personal reasons, Octavian chose to emphasize his relationship with Julius Caesar by styling himself simply ""Imperator Caesar"" (whereto the Roman Senate added the honorific ""Augustus"", ""Majestic"" or ""Venerable"", in 27 BC), without any of the other elements of his full name. His successor as"
"Kaiserschmarrn Kaiserschmarrn or Kaiserschmarren (Emperor's Mess) is a shredded pancake that takes its name from the Austrian emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I, who was very fond of this kind of fluffy shredded pancake. Kaiserschmarrn is a popular meal or dessert in Austria, Bavaria, and many former parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, e.g. Hungary, Slovenia, and northern Croatia, which usually use the name as a loan word or translations of it. In Slovenia, it is called ""cesarski praženec"" or ""šmorn"". Its Hungarian name is ""császármorzsa""; its Czech name is ""(Císařský) trhanec"" or ""kajzršmorn"". The name ""Kaiserschmarren"" is a compound of the"
"almost exclusively to denote Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859). In a rough classification of the members of this brilliant triad, Mickiewicz, the master of the epic and lyric, may be called the poet of the present; Krasiński, the prophet and seer, the poet through whom the future spoke; while Słowacki, the dramatist, was the panegyrist of the past. The concept of a bard was a Polish approximation of the Ancient Latin term ""poeta vates"", denoting a poet to whom the gods granted the ability to foresee the future. Imported to Poland in the 16th century"
"borrowed from the Gothic language and ultimately from Greek. The evolution of the name would have been ""καισαρ"" → ""kaisar"" → *""kēsar"" → ""Kíarr"" → ""Kiárr"". A third possibility is that it originates from contacts with Rome beside the probably early borrowing ""Rúm"" in words such as ""Rúmverjar"" (""Roman soldiers""). A less common theory is that it stems from Old Irish ""Kíarr"" or from Cearbhall of Valland (Wales). Kjárr Kjárr, or ""Kíarr"", is a figure of Norse mythology that is believed to be the reflection of the Roman Emperors. Kjárr is regarded as the Norse equivalent of Russian Tsar, etymologically"
"uncertainty with the phrase, ""from the legendary association of such a delivery with the Roman cognomen ""Caesar"""". Some link with Julius Caesar or with Roman emperors exists in other languages as well. For example, the modern German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish and Hungarian terms are respectively ""Kaiserschnitt"", ""keisersnitt"", ""kejsersnit"", ""keizersnede"", ""kejsarsnitt"", ""sezaryen"" and ""császármetszés"" (literally: ""emperor's cut""). The German term has also been imported into Japanese (帝王切開 ""teiōsekkai"") and Korean (제왕 절개 ""jewang jeolgae""), both literally meaning ""emperor incision"". Similarly, in western Slavic (Polish) ""cięcie cesarskie"", (Czech) ""císařský řez"" and (Slovak) ""cisársky rez"" means ""emperor's cut"", whereas the south"
"of Fame in The California Museum, Sacramento, California. Henry J. Kaiser Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882 – August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyards, which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care for his workers and their families. He led Kaiser-Frazer followed by Kaiser Motors, automobile companies known for the safety of their designs. Kaiser was involved in large construction projects such as civic centers and dams, and invested"
"Tsar Tsar ( or ; Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь [usually written thus with a title] or цар, царь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe, originally Bulgarian monarchs from 10th century onwards. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism. The term is derived from the Latin word ""Caesar"", which was intended to mean ""Emperor"" in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman"
"Kurt Caesar Kurt Caesar (also known as Cesare Avai or Caesar Away, true name Kurt Kaiser; 30 March 1906 – 12 July 1974) was a German-Italian painter, journalist and comic book artist. He was born at Montigny-lès-Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, to German father. He studied Engineering in Leipzig, but later he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin; in the meantime he had a boxing career which led him to win a German title. In 1929 he became correspondent for a magazine in Zürich and collaborated for several German magazines; his journalist career led him to travel in Europe and"
"to the hero!"" Several Polish football clubs and other sports teams were named after him, including, Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Several dramas have been made based on his life. Zawisza Czarny Zawisza Czarny ( or Zawisza the Black; 1379 – 12 June 1428), Sulima coat of arms, was a Polish knight and nobleman who served as a commander and diplomat under Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło and Hungarian-Bohemian king Sigismund of Luxembourg. During his life, he was regarded as a model of knightly virtues and was renowned for winning multiple tournaments. His nickname is due to his black hair and his custom-made,"
"West Slavic languages and Slovene language, the use of the terms is nearly identical to the one in English and German: a king is designated with one term (Czech ""král"", Slovak ""kráľ"", Polish ""król"", Slovene ""kralj""), an emperor is designated with another, derived from ""Caesar"" as in German (Czech ""císař"", Slovak ""cisár"", Polish ""cesarz"", Slovene ""cesar""; Croatian ""cesar"" and Montenegrin ""ćesar"" fell into disuse after World War I), while the exotic term ""tsar"" (Czech, Slovene and Polish ""car"", Slovak ""cár"") is reserved for the Bulgarian, Russian and Serbian rulers. In the Polish language however ""tsar"" is used as an equivalent"
"Kjárr Kjárr, or ""Kíarr"", is a figure of Norse mythology that is believed to be the reflection of the Roman Emperors. Kjárr is regarded as the Norse equivalent of Russian Tsar, etymologically in close proximity to 'Ceasar', possibly a variation of Kvasir. In Old Norse sources, he appears as a king of the Valir (Celtic/Romance southerners) who were the people of Valland (the Celtic/Roman south). Many scholars have suggested that the name is derived from ""Caesar"", but the route it took to Scandinavia is not clear. In his ""Skáldskaparmál"", Snorri Sturluson lists Kjárr as a descendant of Auði, the founder"
"Zygmunt Krasiński Count Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859), a Polish nobleman traditionally ranked with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three National Bards — the trio of great Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness during the period of Poland's political bondage. He was the most famous member of the aristocratic Krasiński family. Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński was born in Paris on February 19, 1812 to Count Wincenty Krasiński, a Polish aristocrat and military commander, and Countess Maria Urszula Radziwiłł. Spending his childhood in the town of Chantilly, where Napoleon Bonaparte's"
"""Caesar"" originated, according to Pliny the Elder, with an ancestor who was born by caesarean section (from the Latin verb to cut, ""caedere"", ""caes-""). The ""Historia Augusta"" suggests three alternative explanations: that the first Caesar had a thick head of hair (Latin ""caesaries""); that he had bright grey eyes (Latin ""oculis caesiis""); or that he killed an elephant (""caesai"" in Moorish) in battle. Caesar issued coins featuring images of elephants, suggesting that he favoured this interpretation of his name. Despite their ancient pedigree, the Julii Caesares were not especially politically influential, having produced only three consuls. Caesar's father, also called"
"Decline of the West"". Caesar (title) Caesar (English Caesars; Latin ""Caesares"") is a title of imperial character. It derives from the ""cognomen"" of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator. The change from being a familial name to a title adopted by the Roman Emperors can be dated to about AD 68/69, the so-called ""Year of the Four Emperors"". For political and personal reasons, Octavian chose to emphasize his relationship with Julius Caesar by styling himself simply ""Imperator Caesar"" (whereto the Roman Senate added the honorific ""Augustus"", ""Majestic"" or ""Venerable"", in 27 BC), without any of the other elements of his full"
"highly appreciated already in the contemporary literature, which lauded her as a talented artist. Augusta Kaiser Augusta Kaiser (16 January 1895 – 27 September 1932) was a modern German sculptor and ceramic artist who called herself ""Gust Kaiser"" from 1922 on. She is also known as ""Gustl Kaiser"" in connection to her ceramics work for the Kieler Kunst-Keramik pottery works. Augusta Theodora Priscilla Kaiser was the daughter of teacher Peter Josef Kaiser and Augusta Schneider. From 1906 her father worked in Wiesbaden, where Augusta graduated school. She graduated with top honors from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Mainz and continued her education"
"Stanisław Leszczyński Stanisław I Leszczyński (; also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, , ; 20 October 1677 – 23 February 1766) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire. Stanisław was born into a powerful magnate family of Greater Poland, and he had the opportunity to travel to western Europe in his youth. In 1702 King Charles XII of Sweden marched into the country as part of a continuing series of conflicts between the powers of northern Europe. Charles forced the Polish nobility to depose Poland’s king, Augustus"