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Daintree Rainforest 
 The Wet Tropics are one of only twelve natural World Heritage Sites in the world which meet all four criteria.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The Daintree Rainforest contains 30% of the frog, marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The Daintree Rainforest is extremely ancient; it is thought to be over one hundred and thirty-five million years old.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The primitive flowering plants Austrobaileya scandens and Idiospermum australiense are also endemic to the Daintree.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The forest is north of Mossman, Queensland, on the coast, north of Cairns in the tropical far north of Australia.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The Daintree Rainforest is loosely defined as the area between the Mossman Gorge and the Bloomfield River.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The roads north of the Daintree River wind through areas of lush forest, and have been designed to minimize damage to the forest.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The Daintree Region is home to a number of rare and endangered species, including the southern cassowary and Bennett's tree-kangaroo.
Daintree Rainforest 
 It is listed as an important bird area, but might just as well be listed for its fungi, which are said to be astonishing.
Daintree Rainforest 
 The rainforest also holds many ancient plants which have survived from the southern supercontinent Gondwana.
Rotes Rathaus 
 The Red City Hall () is the town hall of Berlin, in the Mitte borough on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz.
Rotes Rathaus 
 It is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the Federal state of Berlin.
Rotes Rathaus 
 The Rathaus was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the north Italian High Renaissance by Hermann Friedrich Waesemann.
Rotes Rathaus 
 It was modelled on the Old Town Hall of Toruń, now in Poland, while the architecture of the tower is reminiscent of the cathedral tower of Notre-Dame of Laon in France.
Rotes Rathaus 
 It replaced several individual buildings dating from the Middle Ages and now fills an entire city block.
Rotes Rathaus 
 The building was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in World War II and rebuilt to the original plans between 1951 and 1956.
Rotes Rathaus 
 The Neues Stadthaus, which survived the bombing and had been the head office of the Berlin city fire insurance company  in Parochialstraße was the temporary city hall for the post-war city government for all four sectors of Berlin until September 1948.
Rotes Rathaus 
 The reconstructed Rotes Rathaus, then in the Soviet sector, served as the town hall of East Berlin, while the Rathaus Schöneberg in Schöneberg borough was seat of the West Berlin Senate.
Rotes Rathaus 
 After German reunification, the administration of reunified Berlin officially moved into the Rotes Rathaus on 1 October 1991.
List of mayors of Berlin 
 The Mayor of Berlin (Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin) was democratically elected in January 1991.
Gondwana Rainforests 
 The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, formerly known as the 'Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves', are the most extensive area of subtropical rainforest in the world.
Gondwana Rainforests 
 The Gondwana Rainforests are so-called because the fossil record indicates that when Gondwana existed it was covered by rainforests containing the same kinds of species that are living today.
Gondwana Rainforests 
 The Queensland areas include the Main Range, at its most northern point; and extending south, the Lamington, Mount Chinghee, Springbrook  and Mount Barney national parks.
Gondwana Rainforests 
 The New South Wales areas include the Barrington Tops, at its most southern point; and extending north, the Dorrigo, Mount Warning, New England, Mebbin, Nightcap, Border Ranges, Oxley Wild Rivers, Washpool, Willi Willi and Werrikimbe national parks.
Gondwana Rainforests 
 The most heavily visited parts are Dorrigo National Park and the Natural Bridge section of Springbrook National Park.
Unter den Linden 
 Unter den Linden ("under the linden trees") is a boulevard in the Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany.
Unter den Linden 
 It is named for its linden (lime in British English) trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall in the middle of the road
Unter den Linden 
 Unter den Linden runs east–west from the site of the former Stadtschloss royal palace at the Lustgarten park, where the demolished Palast der Republik used to be, to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate.
Unter den Linden 
 Eastward the boulevard crosses the river Spree near the Dom (Berlin Cathedral) and continues as Karl-Liebknecht-Straße.
Unter den Linden 
 Unter den Linden at the heart of the historic section of Berlin developed from a bridle path laid out by Elector John George of Brandenburg in the 16th century to reach his hunting grounds in the Tiergarten.
Unter den Linden 
 It was replaced by a boulevard of linden trees planted in 1647, stretching from the city palace to the gates of the city, by order of the “Great Elector” Frederick William.
Unter den Linden 
 While the western part of the boulevard retained its character, the area around present-day Bebelplatz was changed after the Thirty Years' War and fortified.
Unter den Linden 
 By the 19th century, as Berlin grew and expanded to the west, Unter den Linden became the best-known and grandest street in Berlin.
Unter den Linden 
 In 1851 the famous equestrian (horse-riding) statue of King Frederick the Great, designed by Christian Daniel Rauch, was put up on the centre strip.
Unter den Linden 
 In the course of the building of the Nord-Süd-Tunnel for the Berlin S-Bahn in 1934/35 most of the linden trees were cut down and during the last days of World War II the remaining trees were destroyed or cut down for firewood.
Unter den Linden 
 The present-day linden were replanted in the 1950s, they are affected by air pollution as well as by soil contamination.
Unter den Linden 
 Since 1937, the numbering has started at the Schlossbrücke (Palace Bridge), connecting Unter den Linden with the Lustgarten and Museum Island.
Unter den Linden 
 1, vis-à-vis the Zeughaus arsenal, the oldest building on Unter den Linden, built between 1695 and 1706, today the seat of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (No.
Unter den Linden 
 Buildings along the street include (from east to west) the Kronprinzenpalais (former palace of the Hohenzollern crown princes, No.
Unter den Linden 
 9), favoured residence of Emperor Wilhelm I; in the north the main building of the Humboldt University (No.
Unter den Linden 
 77) at the corner of Pariser Platz, which has been completely rebuilt on the site of the prewar hotel.
Unter den Linden 
 Well-known statues of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in front of the university as well as of the Prussian generals Scharnhorst and Bülow also adorn the street.
Chihuahua City 
 The predominant activity is industry, including domestic heavy, light industries, consumer goods production, and to a smaller extent maquiladoras.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick II (; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was a King in Prussia (1740–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Victorious in war, he became known as Frederick the Great () and was nicknamed der alte Fritz ("Old Fritz").
Frederick II of Prussia 
 When he was young, Frederick was mostly interested in music and philosophy and not military affairs.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick tried to escape from his strict father, Frederick William I, with childhood friend, Hans Hermann von Katte.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 After the death of Frederick William I in 1740, Frederick the Great only attended his wife with formal visits once a year.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Shortly after becoming King in Prussia, he attacked Austria and claimed Silesia during the Silesian Wars.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Near the end of his life, Frederick united most of his separated parts of his kingdom through the First Partition of Poland.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Because he died childless, Frederick was succeeded by his nephew, Frederick William II of Prussia, son of his brother, Prince Augustus William of Prussia.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 In 1732, Queen Sophia Dorothea tried to arrange a dual marriage of Frederick and his sister Wilhelmina with Amelia and Frederick, the children of her brother, King George II of Great Britain.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Fearing an alliance between Prussia and Great Britain, Field Marshal von Seckendorff, the Austrian ambassador in Berlin, bribed Field Marshal von Grumbkow, the Prussian Minister of War,  and Benjamin Reichenbach, Prussian ambassador in London.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Angered by the idea of the marriage Frederick William made impossible demands to the British, such as Prussia acquiring Jülich and Berg, leading to the collapse of the marriage proposal.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 After von Kattel died Frederick was granted a royal pardon and released from his cell on 18 November, but he was not given back his military rank.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Instead of returning to Berlin, however, he was forced to stay in Küstrin and began learning statecraft and administration for the War and Estates Departments on 20 November.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Tensions eased slightly when Frederick William visited Küstrin a year later, and Frederick was allowed to visit Berlin on the occasion of his sister Wilhelmina's marriage to Margrave Frederick of Bayreuth on 20 November 1731.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick William considered marrying Frederick to Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the niece of Empress Anna of Russia, but this plan was opposed by Prince Eugene of Savoy.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick himself proposed marrying Maria Theresa of Austria in return for renouncing the succession.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Instead, Eugene persuaded Frederick William, through Seckendorff, that the crown prince marry Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern, a Protestant relative of the Austrian Habsburgs.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Although Frederick wrote to his sister that, "There can be neither love nor friendship between us," and he considered suicide, he went along with the wedding on 12 June 1733.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 He had little in common with his bride and resented the political marriage as an example of the Austrian interference which had plagued Prussia since 1701.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Once Frederick secured the throne in 1740, he would not let Elisabeth visit his court in Potsdam, and instead gave her Schönhausen Palace and apartments at the Berliner Stadtschloss.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick bestowed the title of the heir to the throne, "Prince of Prussia", on his brother Augustus William; despite this, his wife remained devoted to him.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick was given back a rank in the Prussian Army as Colonel of the Regiment von der Goltz, stationed near Nauen and Neuruppin.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 When Prussia gave troops to help Austria during the War of the Polish Succession, Frederick studied under Prince Eugene of Savoy during the campaign against France on the Rhine.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick William, weakened by gout brought about by the campaign, gave Frederick Schloss Rheinsberg in Rheinsberg, north of Neuruppin.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 He spent his time reading, watching dramatic plays, making and listening to music, and regarded this time as one of the happiest of his life.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick formed the "Bayard Order" to discuss warfare with his friends; Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué was made the grand master of the gatherings.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The works of Niccolò Machiavelli, such as The Prince, were considered a guideline for the behaviour of a king in Frederick's age.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick's years dedicated to the arts instead of politics ended upon the 1740 death of Frederick William and his inheritance of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 When Frederick ascended the throne as "King in Prussia" in 1740, Prussia consisted of scattered territories, including Cleves, Mark, and Ravensberg in the west of the Holy Roman Empire; Brandenburg, Hither Pomerania, and Farther Pomerania in the east of the Empire; and the former Duchy of Prussia, outside of the Empire bordering the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 He was titled King in Prussia because this was only part of historic Prussia; he was to declare himself King of Prussia after acquiring most of the rest in 1772.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick's goal was to modernize and unite his vulnerably disconnected lands; toward this end, he fought wars mainly against Austria, whose Habsburg dynasty reigned as Holy Roman Emperors, almost continuously from the 15th century until 1806.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick established Prussia as the fifth and smallest European great power by using the resources his frugal father had cultivated.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The First Silesian War (1740–1742), part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748), resulted in Frederick conquering the Polish part of Silesia.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Austria attempted to recover Silesia in the Second Silesian War (1744–1745), but Frederick was victorious again and forced Austria to stick to the previous peace terms.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Habsburg Austria and Bourbon France, traditional enemies, allied together in the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756 following the collapse of the Anglo-Austrian Alliance.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 On 29 August 1756 his well-prepared army crossed the frontier and invaded Saxony, thus beginning the Seven Years' War which lasted until 1763.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 He faced widespread criticism for his attack on neutral Saxony and for his forcible incorporation of the Saxon forces into the Prussian army following the Siege of Pirna in October 1756.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Facing a coalition which included Austria, France, Russia, Saxony, and Sweden, and having only Great Britain and Hanover as his allies, Frederick narrowly kept Prussia in the war despite having his territories frequently invaded.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Although Frederick did not gain any territory in the ensuing Treaty of Hubertusburg, he was able to keep Silesia.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Late in his life Frederick also involved Prussia in the smaller War of the Bavarian Succession in 1778, in which he stopped Austrian attempts to exchange the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 When Emperor Joseph II| tried the scheme again in 1784, Frederick created the Fürstenbund, making Germans see him as a defender of German liberties, in contrast to his earlier role of attacking the imperial Habsburgs.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick frequently led his military forces personally and had six horses shot from under him during battle.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick is often admired as one of the greatest tactical geniuses of all time, especially for his usage of the oblique order of battle.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Even more important were his operational successes, especially preventing the unification of numerically superior opposing armies and being at the right place at the right time to keep enemy armies out of Prussian core territory.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick transformed Prussia from a European backwater into an economically strong and politically reformed state.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 His conquest of Silesia, which provided Prussia's new industries with raw materials, helped boost industrial production and development, and he protected these industries with high tariffs and a minimum of restrictions on internal  domestic trade.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The modernizing mechanisms and technology of the state also enabled Frederick, in 1747, to undertake a massive six-year drainage and "reclamation" program in the country's northern marsh-land.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 This rationalist-mided program, which Frederick saw as the "taming" and "conquering" of "useless" and "barbarous" nature,  created roughly 150,000 acres of arable farmland, but also eliminated vast swaths of natural habitat, destroyed the region's biodiversity, and displaced numerous indigenous communities.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 With the help of French experts, Frederick also reorganized Prussia's taxation policy, implementing a system of indirect taxation, which was more lucrative than the previous policy of direct taxation.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick also commissioned the eminent Prussian merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky to help promote trade.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Gotzkowsky directed Frederick to reform the Prussian system of toll levies and import restrictions, and to construct a major a silk factory in an effort to compete with the French silk trade.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 In 1763, when Gotzkowsky went bankrupt during an Amsterdam-based financial crisis, Frederick took over a porcelain factory of his.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The effects of the Seven Years' War and the acquisition of Silesia had transformed the economy, depreciating the national currency and leading to high nation-wide inflation.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The Prussian Mint Edict of May 1763 revalued the national currency, stabilizing the rates of highly depreciated coinage and mandating that the payments of taxes be in currency of prewar value.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Other European rulers soon undertook similar monetary reforms, which helped to lower region-wide prices.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick also presided over other important modernization efforts in Prussia, including the establishment of a modern governmental bureaucracy, the cultivation of one of Europe's most highly-regarded educational systems, and the abolition torture and corporal punishment.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 After the acquisition of Royal Prussia (West Prussia) in 1772, Frederick also changed his title from the  "King in Prussia,"  which had been the royal title used since the coronation of Frederick I, to the  "King of Prussia," underscoring the increasing prominence of his state and his own importance as a ruler.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick was generally a champion of religious tolerance, including accepting Jesuits, fleeing the suppression of Pope Clement XIV, as teachers in Silesia, Warmia, and the Netze District.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 He was interested in attracting many skills to his country, whether from Jesuit teachers, Huguenot citizens, or Jewish merchants and bankers, particularly from Spain.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 As an example of this practical-minded but not fully unprejudiced tolerance, Frederick wrote in his Testament politique that:
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Jews on the Polish border were therefore encouraged to perform all the trade they could and received all the protection and support from the king as any other Prussian citizen.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The success in integrating the Jews into those areas of society that Frederick encouraged them in can be seen by the role played by Gerson von Bleichröder in financing Bismarck's efforts to reunite Germany.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick had famous buildings constructed in his capital, Berlin, most of which still exist today, such as the Berlin State Opera, the Royal Library (today the State Library Berlin), St. Hedwig's Cathedral, and Prince Henry's Palace (now the site of Humboldt University).
Frederick II of Prussia 
 However, the king preferred spending his time in his summer residence Potsdam, where he built the palace of Sanssouci, the most important work of Northern German rococo.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Sanssouci, which translates from French as "carefree" or "without worry", was a refuge for Frederick. "
Frederick II of Prussia 
 His circle of friends at Sanssouci gradually died off without replacements, and Frederick became increasingly critical and arbitrary, to the frustration of the civil service and officer corps.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The people of Berlin always cheered the king when he returned to the city from provincial tours or military reviews, but Frederick took no pleasure from his popularity with the common folk, preferring instead the company of his pet Italian greyhounds, whom he referred to as his 'marquises de Pompadour' as a jibe at Madame de Pompadour.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Frederick had wished to be buried next to his greyhounds on the vineyard terrace on the side of the corps de logis of Sanssouci.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 His nephew and successor Frederick William II instead ordered the body be entombed next to his father in the church of the Potsdam garrison.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Near the end of World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered the coffins of Frederick and Frederick William I, as well as those of Paul von Hindenburg and his wife, transferred first to an underground bunker near Berlin, then hidden in a salt mine close to the town of Bernrode, Germany, to protect them from destruction.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 The US Army discovered the four coffins on 27 April 1945, behind a 6-foot-thick (1.8 m) masonry wall deep within the mine, and moved them to the basement of Marburg Castle, a collection point for recovered Nazi "treasure".
Frederick II of Prussia 
 As part of a secret project dubbed "Operation Bodysnatch", the US Army relocated both kings first to the Elisabeth Church of Marburg and then on to Burg Hohenzollern close to the town of Hechingen.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 After German reunification, the body of Frederick William was entombed in the Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum in Sanssouci's Church of Peace.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 On the 205th anniversary of his death, on 17 August 1991, Frederick's casket lay in state in the court of honor of Sanssouci, covered by a Prussian flag and escorted by a Bundeswehr guard of honour.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 After nightfall, Frederick's body was finally laid to rest on the terrace of the vineyard of Sanssouci, according to his last will without pomp and at night ("... Im übrigen will ich, was meine Person anbetrifft, in Sanssouci beigesetzt werden, ohne Prunk, ohne Pomp und bei Nacht..." (1757)).
Frederick II of Prussia 
 "I speak French to my ambassadors, English to my accounts, Italian to my Mistress, Latin to my God, and German to my horse."
Frederick II of Prussia 
 King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is named after the King of Prussia Inn, itself named in honor of Frederick.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 In the 2004 German movie Der Untergang, Adolf Hitler is shown sitting in a dark room forlornly gazing at a painting of Frederick, possibly a reference to the dictator's fading hopes for another Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 In the 1970 movie Patton, General Patton incorrectly cites Frederick the Great as saying, "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" ("
Frederick II of Prussia 
 Although Frederick is never seen on screen, he is mentioned several times in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 movie Barry Lyndon.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 In the movie, he is referred to as "The great and illustrious Frederick" and his army is both praised and criticized.
Frederick II of Prussia 
 For example, a quote from the film: "During the five years which the war had now lasted, the great and illustrious Frederick had so exhausted the males of his kingdom that he had to employ scores of recruiters who hesitated no crime, including kidnapping, to keep supplied those brilliant regiments of his with food for powder."
King in Prussia 
 The rulers, who were also Princes and Margraves of Brandenberg wanted to be Kings, but knew that the Holy Roman Emperor would not allow them the title.
King in Prussia 
 In return for support in the War of the Spanish Succession Emperor Leopold I allowed Frederick to call himself King in Prussia.
Tabasco sauce 
 Tabasco sauce  is the brand name for a hot sauce produced by  US-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana.
Kansas–Nebraska Act 
 The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowing the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not.