The coffins of Frederick and his father, Frederick William I, were unloaded, and the latter received a simple reinterment in a church. Frederick’s coffin lay in a courtyard of Sans Souci ...

On May 31, 1740, Frederick William I of Prussia died and was succeeded by Frederick II, who became known as Frederick the Great. In 1819 poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, N.Y. In 1889 ...

The torso of a long-lost monument to Prussian King Frederick William I has been discovered in the Polish city of Koszalin, ending an 80-year mystery. Archaeologist Jacek Borkowski, who led the ...