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Imperial German naval ensign (1903-1921)

Spanish imperial eagle By: Unknown photographer From: WWF Threatened Animals 1986

Imperial Eagle at Sea, Steven Majo

A bow-view of Captain Charles Barkley's British fur-trading ship Imperial Eagle in a gale as the ship approaches the Pacific Northwest in 1787.

heinrixcore

Spanish IMperial Eagle - Águia-imperial-ibérica (Aquila adalberti): adult

Mértola/Portugal (23/04/2024)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR with Nikon AF-S TC-14E III; 1/2500s; F8; 640 ISO]

"Dynastic alliances were thus as much in the mind of the future King Edward VII as they were in that of the Kaiser, although Wilhelm's matchmaking ambitions had been part of a grandiose plan for the creation of a powerful new Zollverein - a continental alliance of Germany, Russia and France. Steering Alix of Hesse in the direction of Nicholas of Russia had been one way of shoring this up. Perhaps, in the wilder reaches of his vivid imagination, Wilhelm nursed visions of being another Frederick the Great, the Prussian monarch who had been instrumental in brokering the marriage of his German relative Sophie van Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, and with it her rise on the Russian throne as Catherine the Great. The new Tsaritsa Alexandra would, however, never demonstrate any of Catherine's breadth of vision and energy as Empress. If anything, she inherited the prosaic, domestic Victorian values of her mother Alice - of example, duty, morality and a sense of service. But in one thing at least Alexandra would later demonstrate an instinct that she shared with her cousin Wilhelm: an entrenched belief in absolutist autocratic power. Wilhelm's mother, the Dowager Empress Victoria, had certainly hoped that her niece Alexandra's succession to the Russian throne in November 1894, on the sudden death of Alexander III, might foster improved relations between Russia and Germany. In the years up to 1908 Nicholas and Wilhelm made frequent visits to each other for army manoeuvres, reviews of the fleet or simply to enjoy the shooting at their respective hunting lodges in Prussia and the Russian imperial game reserves in Poland. They had even gone yachting together - the Romanovs on the imperial yacht, the Standart, the Kaiser on the Hohenzollern - at Kiel and around the Finnish skerries. But far too often the prickly, meddlesome Kaiser had succeeded in upsetting those around him. Despite this, in his letters to Nicky, Willy repeatedly assured him of his love and devotion; after all they shared the same fundamental belief in their divine right as sovereigns. "We, Christian Kings and Emperors have one holy duty imposed on us by Heaven,” he told Nicky. ‘"That is to uphold the principle “von Gottes gnaden" [by the grace of God].”

The race to save the Romanovs | Helen Rappaport

Posting birds until I hit post limit: Eastern imperial eagle

I lost my gold Aquila pin about 3 or 4 weeks ago.

I could not find it anywhere. I thought it was gone forever!

But today I found it. It turned up in a place I had previously searched.

The Emperor Protects =v=

Made an Imperial Aquila cross stich, because why not? Actually made the pattern quite a while ago, but didn't test it until now. Now I did while procrastinating other projects.

Pattern is here

I also have a smaller version here

this is when my stormcloak radicalization began

Knight before the Castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg by Léo Schnug

that "satire requires clarity of purpose lest it be mistaken as genuine" post but it's about e/delgard being an empirical dictator that kills everyone

Imperial Eagle at sea, by Steve Majo

A bow-view of Captain Charles Barkley’s fur-trading ship Imperial Eagle in a gale as the ship approaches the Pacific Northwest in 1787.

(by "French Imperial Eagle" Poster for Sale by DerickBatista30)