Frederick

Frederick the Great introduced the potato to Prussia.

Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use.

King Frederick loved hunting, wine, women and feasts.

"The base ingredient in Coca-Cola is the kola nut that's indigenous to Africa," says Frederick Opie, professor of history and foodways at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Frederick III was emperor of Germany for only ninety-nine days. He died of cancer of the larynx from constant smoking. Thus, tobacco influenced German history.

Hung round the room are the portraits of Frederick, of Catharine, of Lekain—one of Voltaire himself, taken at the age of forty, and full of expression, with a number of silhouettes of the celebrated men of the day.

The manor was built in 1748 by Frederick van Cortlandt, the patriarch of a prominent Dutch mercantile family.

"Anger empties the soul of all its resources, so that at the bottom appears the light", said Frederick Nietzsche.

George Frederick Handel, unquestionably the greatest master of music the world has ever known, was born at Halle, in Upper Saxony, on the 24th of February, 1684. Scarcely could he speak, before he articulated musical sounds; and his father, a physician, then upwards of sixty, having destined him for the law, grieved at the child’s propensity to music, banished from his house all musical instruments. But the immortal spark of genius, which Heaven had kindled in the infant’s bosom, was not to be extinguished by the caprice of a mistaken parent. The child contrived to get a little clavichord into a garret; where, applying himself after the family retired to rest, he soon found means to produce both melody and harmony.

Have you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the great soldier who miscarried at sea?

When I referred to the confusion which would result from the presence in the house of two people with the same name, she tossed her head and said it would be easy to obviate that by calling me Frederick instead of Fred. - - - Imagine Harry Bolles and other kindred spirits calling me stiff, august Frederick! I vowed that this should not be brought to pass - - -