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August Stauch (15 January 1878 – 6 May 1947) was a German prospector who discovered a diamond deposits near Lüderitz, in German South West Africa (now Namibia). August Stauch was the third of seven children of a railway worker's family in Ettenhausen, Thuringia. He was a railway employee in Thuringia. Stauch arrived in Lüderitz in 1907.
After the first diamond was found in April 1908 by August Stauch near Grasplatz station, a diamond rush was triggered in German South West Africa. [8] In September 1908, [9] the German government created the Sperrgebiet in its colony in order to make its South West African enterprise profitable, giving sole rights for mining to the Deutsche Diamantengesellschaft ("German Diamond Company").
The New Rush market, Kimberley, South Africa, 1873. A diamond rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area where diamonds were newly discovered. Major diamond rushes took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in South Africa and South-West Africa.
Bavarian King's Crown Royal regalia of Bavaria. The Bavarian Crown Jewels are a set of crown jewels created for the Kingdom of Bavaria, which existed from 1806 to 1918.In 1806, as part of his wholescale re-ordering of the map of Europe, Emperor Napoléon I of the French upgraded the independent German duchy of Bavaria to full kingdom status.
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German Tarok, sometimes known as Sansprendre or simply Tarok, is an historical ace–ten card game for three players that emerged in the 18th century and is the progenitor of a family of games still played today in Europe and North America.
J. W. Spear and Sons was a manufacturer of board games during the 20th century. The company was founded by Jacob Wolf Spier (1832-1893) in Fürth, near Nuremberg, Germany in 1879.
The first clear mention of a game of Schafkopf played according to Bavarian rules (in Gräfenberg) dates to the year 1849; [23] and while Schapfkopf playing in Franconia was already widespread in the 1840s, [24] in the Bavarian Forest, Tarock (the Bavarian game, not the true Tarock game played in Austria) was more popular. [25]