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FRANKENTHAL and during the war “The Guns,” “The City of Fear,” “The Woman of the Horizon,” and “The Judgment of Valhalla.” In 1919 appeared “One of Them.”  FRANKENTHAL, a city of Germany, in the Bavarian Palatinate, eight miles N. W. of Mannheim and near the Rhine canal. As an important industrial center is especially famous for its production of iron and steel machinery, and toys, soap and cement. Pop. about 19,000.  FRANKFORT, a city of Indiana, the county-seat of Clinton co. It is on the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, the Lake Erie and Western, the Vandalia, and the Toledo, St. Louis and Western railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural region. Its industries include the manufacture of kitchen cabinets, brick, lumber, agricultural implements, etc. There are several large wholesale grocer establishments and railroad repair shops. Among the important public buildings are a Carnegie library, a court house, and a high school. Pop. (1910) 8,634; (1920) 11,585.  FRANKFORT, a city, capital of the State of Kentucky, and county-seat of Franklin co.; on the Kentucky river, and on the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Louisville and Nashville railroads; 65 miles E. of Louisville. The city is built on a high plain and is regularly laid out. Here are the capitol, court house, governor's residence, the Kentucky Military Institute, the State Home for Feeble-Minded Children, State Colored Normal School, penitentiary, Young Men's Public Library, Odd Fellows' Hall, King's Daughters' Hospital, street railroad and electric light plants, waterworks, several banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of brooms, shoes, furniture, lumber, flour, twine, carriages. On one of the hills in the vicinity of the city is a cemetery where lie the remains of Daniel Boone, several governors, and other prominent persons of the State. Pop. (1910) 10,465; (1920) 9,805.  FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, a city of Germany, the capital of a district of same name, on the Main, 20 miles above its conflux with the Rhine. It is divided by the river into two unequal parts; the one on the N. bank, called Frankfort proper, being considerably larger than the other, which is called Sachsenhausen; and the two communicate by stone bridges. Frankfort was formerly fortified; but most of its outworks are now

converted into gardens and promenades, and it is entered by nine gates. The principal streets are wide; there are also many squares, and a number of large buildings, among which may be named the Rœmerberg, or old palace, in which the emperors of Germany were elected and place of the assembling of the Diet; the Taxis palace, a place of residence of the emperors; the Saalhof , a modern imperial palace; the Lutheran, or High church; other churches, Jews' synagogues, hospitals, an academy of painting, and the Senckenberg Museum. Manufactures, carpets, table-covers, oil-cloths, cotton and silk fabrics, woolen stuffs, jewelry, tobacco and printer's black. It has also large printing, lithographic and stereotyping establishments. Frankfort was founded by the Franks in the 5th century. Charlemagne, who had a palace in this city, summoned a council in 794, and it was surrounded with walls by Louis I. in 838. It was the capital of the Eastern Franks from 843 to 889, when Ratisbon was selected. Frederick I. was elected at Frankfort in 1152. From that time it became the place of election of the emperors. Frankfort was made a free city in 1257. The bridge over the Main was built in 1342. Frederick of Prussia signed a treaty, known as the Union of Frankfort, with the empire, France, and Sweden, at this city, May 13, 1744. The French captured it Jan. 2, 1750, and again in 1792; but the Prussians wrested it from them Dec. 2, 1792. It was bombarded by the French July 12, and surrendered July 19, 1796. It formed part of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Napoleon I. erected Frankfort into a duchy in 1810. The Declaration of the Allied Powers was issued at Frankfort Dec. 1, 1813. By the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, it was made one of the four free cities of Germany, and the seat of the Germanic Diet. It was made a free port in 1831. The constituent assembly, elected in 1848, held its sittings at Frankfort. It was occupied by the Prussians July 16, 1866, and is now incorporated with Prussia. Councils were held here in 794, 853, 1001, 1007 (Feb. 2), 1234, and 1400. Pop. about 415,000.  FRANKFORT-ON-THE-ODER, a well-built town of Prussia, the capital of a district of the same name, province of Brandenburg, 48 miles from Berlin. Its university, founded in 1506, was, in 1811, transferred to Breslau. Manufactures are woolens, silks, leather, earthenware, tobacco, mustard, etc. Near it is Kunersdorf, the scene of the victory of the