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Bis·marck

(bĭz′märk′)

The capital of North Dakota, in the south-central part of the state on hills overlooking the Missouri River. It was originally a camp for laborers building the Northern Pacific Railroad.

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Bismarck

(ˈbɪzmɑːk)

(Placename) a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)

Bismarck

(German ˈbɪsmark)

(Biography) Prince Otto (Eduard Leopold) von (ˈɔto fɔn), called the Iron Chancellor. 1815–98, German statesman; prime minister of Prussia (1862–90). Under his leadership Prussia defeated Austria and France, and Germany was united. In 1871 he became the first chancellor of the German Reich

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Bis•marck

(ˈbɪz mɑrk)

n.

1. Otto von, 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.

2. the capital of North Dakota, in the central part. 44,485.

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Noun	1.	Bismarck - German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898) Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, von Bismarck
	2.	Bismarck - capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river capital of North Dakota North Dakota, Peace Garden State, ND - a state of north central United States bordering on Canada

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The fight had not lasted five minutes before the appearance of the Hermann to the east, and immediately after of the Furst Bismarck in the west, forced the Americans to leave her, but in that time they had smashed her iron to rags.

The American fleet, headed by the Theodore Roosevelt, was crossing behind them, pounding them in succession, steaming in between them and the big modern Furst Bismarck, which was coming up from the west.

Whack, whack, whack, went the quick-firing guns of the Americans' battery, and smash came an answering shell from the Furst Bismarck. Then a second and third flying-machine passed between Bert and the American ironclad, dropping bombs also, and a fourth, its rider hit by a bullet, reeled down and dashed itself to pieces and exploded between the shot-torn funnels, blowing them apart.

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The King of Prussia and Bismarck issue decrees and an army enters Bohemia.

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A corps student told me it was of record that Prince Bismarck fought thirty-two of these duels in a single summer term when he was in college.

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You remember, of course, that this place was forcibly annexed at the time of Bismarck's very earliest schemes of consolidation-- forcibly, that is, but not at all easily.

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He had relatives in Bismarck, a German settlement to the north of us, but for a year now he had been working for grandfather.

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The Vicar, finding his comfort in the practice of a Christian virtue, exercised forbearance; but he revenged himself by calling the churchwarden Bismarck behind his back.

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He had lived in Silesia, a member of a despised and persecuted race, and had taken part in the proletarian movement in the early seventies, when Bismarck, having conquered France, had turned his policy of blood and iron upon the "International." Ostrinski himself had twice been in jail, but he had been young then, and had not cared.

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But the first friend of the telephone in Germany was Bismarck. The old Unifier saw instantly its value in holding a nation together, and ordered a line between his palace in Berlin and his farm at Varzin, which lay two hundred and thirty miles apart.

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And if there are no openings there we'll go on to the Bismarck Archipelago.

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The superficial reason was obvious enough, but there was a real one behind it that struck him as rather wanting in the solidity which should characterise the motives of an emissary of Prince Bismarck. The superficial reason was a belief that Mrs.