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The "Beautiful Blue Danube" was first written as a song for a carnival choir (for bass and tenor), with rather satirical lyrics (Austria having just lost a war with Prussia). [1] The original title was also referring to a poem about the Danube in the poet Karl Isidor Beck's hometown, Baja in Hungary, and not in Vienna.
www.ddsg-blue-danube.at The Erste Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft ( German pronunciation: [ˈeːɐ̯stə ˈdoːnaʊ ˌdampf ˌʃɪffaːɐ̯ts ɡəˌzɛlʃaft] , literally First-Danube-Steamboat-Shipping Company ) or DDSG was a shipping company founded in 1829 by the Austrian government for transporting passengers and cargo on the Danube .
Hitler referred to the Danube as the "river of the future". [15] At other times he was more explicit about its role in the German-dominated Europe: The Danube is the waterway which leads into the very heart of the continent, and for this reason, in a Europe united by us, will have to be regarded as a German river and controlled by Germany.
Jules Verne's The Danube Pilot (1908) (Le Pilote du Danube) depicts the adventures of fisherman Serge Ladko as he travels down the river. In the Star Trek universe, the Danube-class runabout is a type of starship used by the Federation Starfleet, featured prominently in the Deep Space Nine series. Miklós Jancsó's film the Blue Danube Waltz (1992)
Britain and France, however, were less idealistic. Ignoring the fact that they had agreed in 1938 to turn the European Commission of the Danube over to the river-bordering powers (headed by Nazi Germany), they insisted that the Convention of 1921 was still in force and that their rights could not be abolished without their consent. [2]: 51
Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon. It also went by a variety of other names, including Smallboy , the Mk.1 Atom Bomb , Special Bomb and OR.1001 , a reference to the Operational Requirement it was built to fill.
Blue Danube may refer to: "The Blue Danube", a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II; The Blue Danube, a German silent film directed by Frederic Zelnik; The Blue Danube, an American silent film starring Leatrice Joy; The Blue Danube, a British film; The Blue Danube. an American cartoon film by Hugh Harman
The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (in the foreground) near Nuremberg The Ludwig Canal in the context of the Rhine and Danube The various projects to link the Main and Danube. The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), is a canal in Bavaria, Germany.