Barbarossa

• “BARBAROSSA BROTHERS: The red-bearded Barbarossa brothers (Aruj and younger brother Hizir) raided along Africa's Barbary Coast.”

  Thestar.com - Home Page

• “Lately he comes to my room and sits in the dark for hours rambling about something he calls Barbarossa; it takes you and me away from each other.”

  Simon & Schuster: Tours of the Black Clock

• “Again, most cultures have such a figure of legend (the emperor Barbarossa is perhaps the best-known example).”

  That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle

• “In February, 1941, as preparations for the surprise attack on Russia proceeded, he exclaimed to his generals: "When Barbarossa (the code word for the Russian campaign) commences, the world will hold its breath!”

  The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

• “The fact that the Germans did well in Barbarossa doesn’t mean that their logistics were any good.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Civil War: Now With Better Drive Shafts

• “Everett Collection A painting shows Frederick I, called 'Barbarossa.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Heirs to Germany's Royal History

• “Teuber (pronounced "TOY-burr"), a dental technician living with his wife and three kids in a white row house in Rossdorf, Germany, had created a game a few years earlier called Barbarossa and the Riddlemaster , a sort of ur-Cranium in which players mold figures out of modeling clay while their opponents try to guess what the sculptures represent.”

  Wired: Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

• “Now, the course of the war convinced him he could no longer count on her timidity; little did he know that within forty-eight hours Germany would invade Russia in an operation called Barbarossa and everything would change.”

  Simon & Schuster: Tours of the Black Clock

• “Right, right!" the red-bearded man, whose name was Frederick Munns but who was called Barbarossa by the others, shouted back.”

  Red Dog

• “At all events Urūj is the real Barbarossa, though modern writers generally give the name to his younger brother Kheyr-ed-dīn, who was only called Barbarossa on account of his kinship to the original.”

  The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

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