In the Ambrosian Rite, ashes are blessed and placed on the heads of the faithful not on the day that elsewhere is called Ash Wednesday, but at the end of Mass on the following Sunday, which in that rite inaugurates Lent, with the fast traditionally beginning on Monday, the first weekday of the Ambrosian Lent.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 â November 28, 1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian and American military officer.
6,719 pages on this wiki. Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (28 February 1833 - 4 January 1913) was a German field marshal and strategist who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1905.His name lived on in the 1905 Schlieffen Plan for the defeat of the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.,719 pages on this wiki. Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (28 February 1833 - 4 January 1913) was a German field marshal and strategist who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1905.