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Albert the Bear

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Albert the Bear (Albrecht der Bär; Adelbertus, Adalbertus, Albertus; 1100 – 18 November 1170) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg (as Albert I) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142. [1]

79 relations: Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt, Aschersleben, Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden, Ballenstedt, Battle of Chlumec, Béla I of Hungary, Bear, Berlin, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, Bernhard, Count of Anhalt, Billung, Bishopric of Brandenburg, Bohemia, Chronica Slavorum, Cognomen, Conrad III of Germany, Děpold I of Jamnitz, Demmin, Eilika of Saxony, Eilika of Schweinfurt, Elbe, Esico of Ballenstedt, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Gerberga of Burgundy, Havelberg, Hedwig of Brandenburg, Henry II, Margrave of the Nordmark, Henry the Lion, Henry X, Duke of Bavaria, Herman II, Duke of Swabia, Hevelli, Holy Land, House of Ascania, Italy, Jaxa of Köpenick, Knights Hospitaller, Lambert II, Count of Louvain, Lamspringe, List of administrators, archbishops, bishops, and prince-archbishops of Bremen, List of German monarchs, List of rulers of Brandenburg, List of rulers of Saxony, Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, Lusatia, Magdeburg, Magnus, Duke of Saxony, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Mieszko II Lambert, Milan, Northern March, ..., Olaf II of Norway, Ordulf, Duke of Saxony, Orlamünde, Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg, Otto I, Margrave of Meissen, Otto II, Margrave of Meissen, Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, Pribislav-Henry, Prince-elector, Quedlinburg Abbey, Richeza of Lotharingia, Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary, Saxony-Anhalt, Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia, Sophia of Hungary, Sophie of Winzenburg, Spandau Citadel, Stendal, Thomas Carlyle, Udo IV, Margrave of the Nordmark, Vassal, Vazul, Walter Schott, Weimar, Wendish Crusade, Wends, Werben (Elbe), Wulfhild of Norway. Expand index (29 more) »

Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt

Adalbert II of Ballenstedt (– 1076/1083), an early member of the House of Ascania, was Graf (count) in Saxony and Vogt of Nienburg Abbey.

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Aschersleben

Aschersleben is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Astrid Olofsdotter of Sweden

Astrid Olofsdotter (Norwegian: Astrid Olavsdatter; English: Aestrith) (died 1035) was the Queen Consort of King Olav II of Norway.

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Ballenstedt

Ballenstedt is a town in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Battle of Chlumec

The Battle of Chlumec was the culmination of a 12th-century war of succession in the Duchy of Bohemia.

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Béla I of Hungary

Béla I the Champion or the Wisent (I., Belo I.; before 1020 – 11 September 1063) was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death.

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Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bernard II, Duke of Saxony

Bernard II (c. 995 – 29 June 1059) was the Duke of Saxony between 1011 and 1059, the third of the Billung dynasty as a son of Bernard I and Hildegard.

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Bernhard, Count of Anhalt

Bernhard (– 2 February 1212), a member of the House of Ascania, was Count of Anhalt and Ballenstedt, and Lord of Bernburg through his paternal inheritance.

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Billung

The House of Billung was a dynasty of Saxon noblemen in the 9th through 12th centuries.

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Bishopric of Brandenburg

The Bishopric of Brandenburg (Episcopatus Brandenburgensis or Dioecesis Brandenburgensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese established by King Otto I of Germany in 948, in the territory of the Marca Geronis (Saxon Eastern March) east of the Elbe river.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy;; Czechy; Bohême; Bohemia; Boemia) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic.

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Chronica Slavorum

Chronica Sclavorum or Chronicle of the Slavs is a medieval chronicle which accounts the pre-Christian culture and religion of Polabian Slavs, written by Helmold (ca. 1120 – after 1177), a Saxon priest and historian.

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Cognomen

A cognomen (Latin plural cognomina; from con- "together with" and (g)nomen "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions.

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Conrad III of Germany

Conrad III (1093 – 15 February 1152) was the first King of Germany of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

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Děpold I of Jamnitz

Děpold I (also Děpolt, modern English Theobald) was the second son of Duke Vladislav I of Bohemia and brother of Duke and later King of Bohemia Vladislav II.

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Demmin

Demmin is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

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Eilika of Saxony

Eilika of Saxony (– 16 January 1142) was the younger daughter of Magnus, Duke of Saxony and Sophia (married 1071), a daughter of Béla I of Hungary.

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Eilika of Schweinfurt

Eilika of Schweinfurt (c. 1005 – 10 Dec aft. 1059) was Duchess consort of Saxony.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Esico of Ballenstedt

Esico of Ballenstedt (died around 1060) is the progenitor of the House of Ascania, i.e., the oldest known member of the dynasty, and during his life was the count of Ballenstedt.

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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick I (Friedrich I, Federico I; 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa (Federico Barbarossa), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 2 January 1155 until his death.

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Gerberga of Burgundy

Gerberga of Burgundy (c. 965/6 – 7 July 1018/9) was a member of the Elder House of Welf.

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Havelberg

Havelberg is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Hedwig of Brandenburg

Hedwig of Brandenburg, also called Hedwig of Ballenstedt (– end of March 1203), a member of the House of Ascania, was Margravine of Meissen from 1156 until 1190 by her marriage with Margrave Otto II.

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Henry II, Margrave of the Nordmark

Henry II (1102 – 4 December 1128), Margrave of the Nordmark, also Count of Stade (as Henry IV), son of Lothair Udo III, Margrave of the Nordmark, and Irmgard, daughter of Dietrich, Count of Plötzkau, and Mathilde von Walbeck.

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Henry the Lion

Henry the Lion (Heinrich der Löwe; 1129/1131 – 6 August 1195) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony, as Henry III, from 1142, and Duke of Bavaria, as Henry XII, from 1156, the duchies of which he held until 1180.

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Henry X, Duke of Bavaria

Henry the Proud (Heinrich der Stolze) (– 20 October 1139), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Bavaria (as Henry X) from 1126 to 1138 and Duke of Saxony (as Henry II) as well as Margrave of Tuscany and Duke of Spoleto from 1137 until his death.

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Herman II, Duke of Swabia

Herman II (also Hermann) (died 4 May 1003) was a member of the Conradine dynasty.

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Hevelli

The Hevelli or Hevellians, also known as Stodorans (sometimes Havolane; Heveller or Stodoranen; Hawelanie or Stodoranie; Havolané or Stodorané) were a tribe of the Polabian Slavs, who settled around the middle Havel river in the present-day Havelland region of Brandenburg in eastern Germany from the 8th century onwards.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקּוֹדֶשׁ, Terra Sancta; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River.

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House of Ascania

The House of Ascania (Askanier) is a dynasty of German rulers.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jaxa of Köpenick

Jaxa of Köpenick (sometimes Jaksa or Jacza of Copnic, Jaksa z Kopnika or Jaksa z Kopanicy, Jaksa being an early Sorbian and/or Polish form of James) (fl. 1151-1157) was a prince of the West Slavic Sprevan Duchy of Kopanica.

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Knights Hospitaller

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), also known as the Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers, was a medieval Catholic military order.

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Lambert II, Count of Louvain

Lambert II (died Tournai, June 19, 1054) was count of Louvain between 1033 and 1054.

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Lamspringe

Lamspringe is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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List of administrators, archbishops, bishops, and prince-archbishops of Bremen

This list records the bishops of the Roman Catholic diocese of Bremen (Bistum Bremen), supposedly a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Cologne, then of the bishops of Bremen, who were in personal union archbishops of Hamburg (simply titled Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen), later simply titled archbishops of Bremen, since 1180 simultaneously officiating as rulers of princely rank (prince-archbishop) in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Erzstift Bremen; est. 1180 and secularised in 1648), a state of imperial immediacy within the Holy Roman Empire.

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List of German monarchs

This is a list of monarchs who ruled over the German territories of central Europe from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 (by which a separate Eastern Frankish Kingdom was created), until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918.

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List of rulers of Brandenburg

This article lists the Margraves and Electors of Brandenburg during the period of time that Brandenburg was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire.

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List of rulers of Saxony

This article lists dukes, electors, and kings ruling over different territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Saxon Duchy in the 9th century to the end of the Saxon Kingdom in 1918.

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Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor

Lothair II or Lothair III (before 9 June 1075 – 4 December 1137), known as Lothair of Supplinburg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1133 until his death.

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Lusatia

Lusatia (Lausitz, Łužica, Łužyca, Łużyce, Lužice) is a region in Central Europe.

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Magdeburg

Magdeburg (Low Saxon: Meideborg) is the capital city and the second largest city of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Magnus, Duke of Saxony

Magnus (– 23 August 1106) was the duke of Saxony from 1072 to 1106.

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Margraviate of Brandenburg

The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.

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Mieszko II Lambert

Mieszko II Lambert (c. 990 – 10/11 May 1034) was King of Poland from 1025–1031, and Duke from 1032 until his death.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Northern March

The Northern March or North March (Nordmark) was created out of the division of the vast Marca Geronis in 965.

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Olaf II of Norway

Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – 29 July 1030), later known as St.

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Ordulf, Duke of Saxony

Ordulf (sometimes Otto) (– 28 March 1072) was the duke of Saxony from 1059, when he succeeded his father Bernard II, until his death.

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Orlamünde

Orlamünde is a small town in the Saale-Holzland district, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg

Otto I (c. 1128 – July 8, 1184) was the second Margrave of Brandenburg, from 1170 until his death.

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Otto I, Margrave of Meissen

Otto I was the Margrave of Meissen from 1062 until his death in 1067, and the second Margrave of the family of the counts of Weimar and Orlamünde.

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Otto II, Margrave of Meissen

Otto II, the Rich (Otto der Reiche; 1125 – 18 February 1190), a member of the House of Wettin, was Margrave of Meissen from 1156 until his death.

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Otto, Count of Ballenstedt

Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, called Otto the Rich (– 9 February 1123), was the first Ascanian prince to call himself count of Anhalt, and was also briefly named duke of Saxony.

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Pribislav-Henry

Pribislav-Henry (d. 1150) was a Slavic Christian prince and the last ruler of the Hevelli (Stodorani) tribe in the Northern March of Brandenburg.

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Prince-elector

The prince-electors (or simply electors) of the Holy Roman Empire (Kurfürst, pl. Kurfürsten, Kurfiřt, Princeps Elector) were the members of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Quedlinburg Abbey

Quedlinburg Abbey (Stift Quedlinburg or Reichsstift Quedlinburg) was a house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in Quedlinburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Richeza of Lotharingia

Richeza of Lotharingia (also called Richenza, Rixa, Ryksa; born about 995/1000 – 21 March 1063) was a German noblewoman by birth, a member of the Ezzonen dynasty.

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Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary

Adelaide/Richeza of Poland (11th century) was Queen Consort of Hungary by marriage to Béla I of Hungary.

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Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt,, official: Land Sachsen-Anhalt) is a landlocked federal state of Germany surrounded by the federal states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia.

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Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen

Siegfried of Anhalt or Siegfried of Ballenstedt (c. 1132 – 24 October 1184) was born as the third son of Sophie of Winzenburg and her husband Albert the Bear, then Count of Anhalt, of the House of Ascania.

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Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia

Soběslav I (also "Sobeslaus"; c.1075 – 14 February 1140) was Duke of Bohemia from 1125 until his death.

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Sophia of Hungary

Sophia of Hungary (– 18 June 1095), a member of the royal Árpád dynasty, was a Margravine of Istria and Carniola from about 1062 until 1070, by her first marriage with Margrave Ulric I, as well as Duchess of Saxony from 1072 until her death, by her second marriage with Duke Magnus Billung.

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Sophie of Winzenburg

Sophie of Winzenburg (1105 in Winzenburg, near Hanover – 6 or 7 July 1160 in Brandenburg an der Havel) was the first Margravine of Brandenburg.

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Spandau Citadel

The Spandau Citadel (Zitadelle Spandau) is a fortress in Berlin, Germany, one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe.

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Stendal

Hansestadt Stendal is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Udo IV, Margrave of the Nordmark

Udo IV (died 15 February 1130), Margrave of the Nordmark and Count of Stade (as Udo V) and Count of Freckleben, son of Rudolf I, Margrave of the Nordmark, and Richardis, daughter of Hermann von Sponheim, Burgrave of Magdeburg.

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Vassal

A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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Vazul

Vazul, or also Vászoly, (before 997–1031 or 1032) was a member of the House of Árpád, a grandson of Taksony, Grand Prince of the Hungarians.

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Walter Schott

Walter Schott (18 September 1861, Ilsenburg - 2 September 1938, Berlin) was a German sculptor and art professor.

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Weimar

Weimar (Vimaria or Vinaria) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.

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Wendish Crusade

The Wendish Crusade (Wendenkreuzzug) was a military campaign in 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, led primarily by the Kingdom of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire and directed against the Polabian Slavs (or "Wends").

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Wends

Wends (Winedas, Old Norse: Vindr, Wenden, Winden, vendere, vender, Wendowie) is a historical name for Slavs living near Germanic settlement areas.

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Werben (Elbe)

Werben (Elbe) is a town in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Wulfhild of Norway

Wulfhild of Norway (1020 – 24 May 1071), Old West Norse: Úlfhildr Ólafsdóttir, Swedish: Ulfhild Olofsdotter, was a Norwegian princess, and a duchess of Saxony by marriage to Ordulf, Duke of Saxony.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_the_Bear

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