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"Thurn" comes from the Italian word for tower and "Taxis" from the badger.
TreeHugger 2009
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Then there were a couple, such as Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis, and Clotilde, Princess of Savoy, whose bridal gowns were designed to conceal their pregnancies.
Yvonne Yorke: PHOTOS: Bad And Beautiful Royal Wedding Dresses Yvonne Yorke 2011
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Then there were a couple, such as Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis, and Clotilde, Princess of Savoy, whose bridal gowns were designed to conceal their pregnancies.
Yvonne Yorke: PHOTOS: Bad And Beautiful Royal Wedding Dresses Yvonne Yorke 2011
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Most of them are pretty common {King George V stamps from England, German ‘Deutches Reich’ stamps from 1930s - the end of WW2, Russian ones from the 50s and 60s, etc} BUT there was one in a small plexiglass case with a label reading ‘1859 VF MNH [very fine grade, mint - never hinged], 5gr Thurn and Taxis’ Do I have a potential gold mine here moneywise?
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Then there were a couple, such as Gloria, Princess of Thurn und Taxis, and Clotilde, Princess of Savoy, whose bridal gowns were designed to conceal their pregnancies.
Yvonne Yorke: PHOTOS: Bad And Beautiful Royal Wedding Dresses Yvonne Yorke 2011
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The newly built 25-story hotel is attached to Frankfurt's MyZeil shopping center, and is part of the city's PalaisQuartier redevelopment project, which is also made up of a 135-meter office tower and the reconstructed 18th-century Palais Thurn und Taxis.
New Fast-Train Service from Edinburgh to London Jeff Mills 2011
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Basel art " Thurneysser Superstar " explores the 16th-century art patron Leonhard Thurneysser zum Thurn, showing documents and stained glass windows glorifying his life as physician, alchemist, pharmacist and astrologer.
What 2010
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Meanwhile, Germany's Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (net worth: $2.2 billion), who owns 74,000 acres of woodland in southern Germany, reportedly plans to spend $165 million to build one of the world's largest solar farms in Bavaria.
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The protagonist of the story is a future Prince von Thurn und Taxis, a fictional scion of a perfectly genuine aristocratic family.
Archive 2009-04-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Then, most importantly, I found a section on Johannes von Thurn und Taxis in a book called Aristocrats, which was about modern aristocrats and their modern lives.
Elegy for Angels and Dogs Walter Jon Williams 2009
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