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Holy Roman Empire was an American rock band formed in Chicago in late 2003. It was founded by musicians from the late-1990's hardcore scene: guitarists Neeraj Kane and Jay Jancetic, and bassist Geoff Reu, with drummer Tony Tintari of Shai Hulud joining the group a few months later. Classically trained singer Emily Schambra joined about a year ...
18th-century musicians from the Holy Roman Empire (7 C, 6 P) 12th-century German musicians (1 C, 2 P) 13th-century German musicians (1 C, 3 P)
A distinguishing feature of the Holy Roman eagle was that it was often depicted with haloes. In the 16th century, the double-headed eagle was the most powerful heraldic mark up to that time, as it symbolized the union of the imperial dignity of the Holy Roman Empire (the Habsburg empire) with the Spanish Monarchy.
The Eagles had their origin in early 1971, when Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan recruited musicians Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band. [6] Henley had moved to Los Angeles from Texas with his band Shiloh to record an album produced by Kenny Rogers, [7] and Frey had come from Michigan and formed Longbranch Pennywhistle; the two then met in 1970 at The Troubadour in Los Angeles ...
The Quaternion Eagle (1510, from woodcut by Hans Burgkmair and Jost de Negker). The Quaternion Eagle [needs IPA] (German: Quaternionenadler; Italian: aquila quaternione), also known as the Imperial Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionen-Reichsadler) [1] [2] or simply Imperial Eagle (German: Reichsadler), [a] was an informal coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1804, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II established the Austrian Empire from the lands of the Habsburg monarchy, and adopted the double-headed eagle, aggrandized by an inescutcheon emblem of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the Order of the Golden Fleece, as its coat of arms; the Holy Roman Empire was subsequently dissolved in 1806.
The English term "Holy Roman Emperor" is a modern shorthand for "emperor of the Holy Roman Empire" not corresponding to the historical style or title, i.e., the adjective "holy" is not intended as modifying "emperor"; the English term "Holy Roman Emperor" gained currency in the interbellum period (the 1920s to 1930s); formerly the title had ...
The Reichsadler ("Imperial Eagle") was the heraldic eagle, derived from the Roman eagle standard, used by the Holy Roman Emperors and in modern coats of arms of Germany, including those of the Second German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the "Third Reich" (Nazi Germany, 1933–1945).