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Oct 16, 2019 · The Incredible Story of the Captain of Köpenick. war/crime 16. October 2019 1 Tabea Tietz. On October 16, 1906, German shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt, just released from prison for forgery, purchased parts of used captain’s uniforms. In this masquerade of a Prussian military officer he arrested the mayor and the treasurer of Köpenick for suspicion ...
Sep 4, 2018 · After 2009, state production of the fair was discontinued, and the fair became a privately sponsored event. (This year's Michigan State Fair is at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich ...
Mar 4, 2020 · The Captain of Köpenick was the center of drama to the last—and well beyond. As the funeral procession was on its way to reinter Voigt’s remains at his new resting place in the Notre-Dame cemetery, it passed a platoon of French soldiers, and a member of the funeral cortège informed its commanding officer that the famous Captain of Köpenick was going on his last journey.
The first Michigan State Fair was held in Ann Arbor in 1839, however it drew very few attendants. The event was revived a decade later in Detroit. The 1849 event is considered the first “official” Michigan State Fair, reportedly making it the second oldest event of its kind behind the New York State Fair. Michigan had been a state for only ...
Aug 15, 2022 · This year it will be held Sept. 1-5. One year-round attraction at the old fairgrounds was the world’s largest stove, built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and moved to the fairgrounds from East Jefferson in 1965. Alas, in 2011, the stove was destroyed, apparently by lightning. In 2020, Amazon announced it would build a distribution center ...
The Captain of Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer.First produced in 1931, the play tells the story, based on a true event that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker (Wilhelm Voigt) who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small town to ransom, and successfully "confiscates ...
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Sep 1, 2010 · The Michigan State Fair had been a state tradition for 160 years and held at Eight Mile and Woodward, within Detroit city limits, since 1905. Fewer than 220,000 people passed through last year. At ...
