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125 - Stollen - A german fruit bread originated in Saxony. Usually eaten during the Christmas season.
Charlemagne's Saxon Wars
The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of more than thirty years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of disaffected tribesmen was crushed.
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King of Poland and Elector of Saxony and a Swedish noblewoman: the Countess Maria Aurora of Königsmarck. She is less known now, but Voltaire called her “the most famous woman of two centuries”. Augustus II fathered a legendarily large number of illegitimate children
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Anonymous (Lower Saxony)
Saint Maurice (between Saints Anthony and James the Greater)
Germany (c. 1480)
Polychrome and Gilded Wood (right wing), 125 x 65 cm.
The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, Harvard University
The male King of Saxony bird-of-paradise has some of the most extraordinary feathers in the world - their uniquely modified occipital plumes can be 50cm long with 40-50 glossy blue enamel-looking flags decorating the bare feather shaft and help to attract a mate #ornithology
I tried to draw one of my favorite birds of all time, a King of Saxony.