Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, c.1914 visually-hidden The Biltmore opened with a

The Biltmore opened with a New Year's Eve gala in 1913

Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront (The German Labour Front)

the obverse illustrating the right-facing bust of Frederick the Great

he was diagnosed with a "soft chancre" (chancroid = a bacterial sexually transmitted infection characterized by painful sores on the genitalia)

1944 south-east of Rome

Austria, Imperial. A Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords, c.1914 visually-hidden The Biltmore opened with a(Militrverdienstkreuz). Instituted on October 24th, 1849. Type II (1914 1918 Issue). A Military Merit Cross III Class, of multi piece construction, in silver with red and white enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red and white enamelled arms, with gilded laurel leaves in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed with VERDIENST (Merit), the reverse with white enamelled arms and