Search results for "SS Great Eastern" - New World Encyclopedia
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- to Adolf Hitler. As Protective Squadron (SS) commander, he came to control ... Party member," in a 1943 speech to SS leaders in Poland. Shortly ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- Washington D.C., New York City, and other Eastern cities. These delegations ... In 1943, a United States Liberty ship named the SS Peter Cooper was ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- Nazi official Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to ... Heydrich. Whatever its outcome, a great Jewish emigration will commence ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- were unsuccessful, he later turned to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and ... a fierce rivalry commenced between the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- is the largest of North America's Great Lakes. Receiving water from ... (1,332 feet at its deepest point) of the Great Lakes. Its drainage basin ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- Schindler not only with affection, but with great admiration: "He drank ... in the 1930s they went bankrupt during the Great Depression. As a teenager ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- of Christianity among the Slavs of Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through ... Cyril also took an active role in relations with the other two great ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ... *SS Great Eastern *Bell Rock Lighthouse *Brooklyn Bridge ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Rome when he was sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxon ... the same time, he founded the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul, which would ...8 KB (1,136 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- (SS), an elite Nazi corps, and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei ... rise in numbers in part to the onset of the Great Depression, when many Germans ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- against millions of people of Central and Eastern Europe. ... that the Nazis themselves had planned for Eastern Europe. Both Churchill and ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- it instead of paddle wheels to power the SS Great Britain. ... being used at this time (vide the 1858 SS Great Eastern). ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- C.V. Walker, electrician to the South Eastern Railway, submerged a wire ... were finally achieved by the SS Great Eastern with the 1866 cable ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- which can be seen in many early pieces. Two great examples of these themes ... such as the use of silks and Middle Eastern designs. It was strongly ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- bad enough to cause major failure. In any great enterprise, personality conflicts ... *The 6th SS Panzer Army, led by Sepp Dietrich. Newly created on October ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- to the position of cardinal-priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti. ... Paul was the first pope in centuries to meet the heads of various ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- 1956, especially during the period of the Great Purges. It was also also ... During the period of Stalinism a series of purges, known as the Great ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- was photographed wearing a Waffen-SS uniform and a pistol on her ... and other top men of both the Brownshirt and SS branches of NSDAP, intercut ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- In his final hours, Goebbels arranged for an SS doctor, Helmut Kunz, to kill ... in 1938, Goebbels was well aware that the great majority of Germans did not ...35 KB (5,510 words) - 00:39, 11 August 2022
- side of the Oder River, just across from eastern Germany. He grew up as a ... nor activity, nor understanding." (SS, vol. 4, Weg zu Christo, "Von ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- century, much later than the rest of eastern Europe, many knights from ... Royal Prussia) while retaining eastern Prussia under nominal Polish ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- [[Image:SS Ukkopekka steam engine.jpg|thumb|left|[[S/S Ukkopekka|SS ... October 7, 2008. engines power two Great Lakes ships still trading ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- Western (Rear-Admiral Alan G. Kirk) and Eastern (Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian). ... * 716th Infantry Division (Static) defended the Eastern end of the ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Commonwealth forces fought back with great tenacity, but were vastly ... was forced to make withdrawals from Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- in the Far East were distant from the Eastern Front and often icebound ... then Gallipoli might not have been so great a defeat. On the other hand ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- hope of regaining the initiative on the Eastern Front. Losses were considerable ... troops, was higher and steeper than the eastern. There were very few available ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Frederick Barbarossa. The relics had great religious significance and ... by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden. The eastern arm was completed under ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- similar to that of Lübeck. Danzig gained great importance in the Baltic ... a population of 77,000, the largest of any eastern European city, and annual ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- However, the Nuremberg Code did find great relevance in being a source ... (1911-1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- line to Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), a great Swiss scholar of art and ... This was also the first time Göring saw his future wife. A great ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- killing was at its worst in Central and Eastern Europe, which had more than ... Women were forced into brothels for the SS guards. Russian prisoners of ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- full employment after the ravages of the Great Depression (achieved mainly ... and the reduction in the power of the SS was needed. Some oppositionists ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- Reich, or literally translated "Great German Realm" often ... designed to foster German colonization of Eastern Europe. In northern and ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- in Western Europe in response to the Soviet SS-20 missiles. Soviet-U.S. arms ... every Soviet man wants. This is what the great founder of our state, Vladimir ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- the country freely, settling also in the eastern portions. Aside from Cologne ... in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The Great Elector Frederick William ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- established itself in eight countries in Eastern Europe. Today, Allianz serves ... 1970s by the establishment of business in Great Britain, the Netherlands ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- circumstances of the camp, which can vary a great deal. In many cases, concentration ... of War: Internment in Canada During the Great War (McGill-Queen's ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- and a seventh-generation American. His great-great-great-great-grandfather ... minister to the Court of St. James (Great Britain), and he arrived ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- 58 and 28.14 longitude, Latvia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea ... . Prior to World War II, Latvia bordered eastern Poland, but as a result ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large ... The five Great Lakes of North America are: *Lake Superior (the largest ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- on the cable-laying expedition of the SS Great Eastern but the voyage was again ... from his experiences on the Agamemnon and the SS Great Eastern. ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- with airborne drops: near Caen on the eastern flank to secure the Orne ... supporting the American sectors and the Eastern Naval Task Force (under ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- was the major part of the war on the Eastern Front. The planning for ... Barbarossa. Strategy and tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941. (Novato: Presidio ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- by Lelewel in February 1848 about a great future for the slavs, whose ... Amursky, who had been Governor of Eastern Siberia for ten years. Muravyov ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- life and thought of the time which is of great interest to church historians. ... The popular Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis (Martyrdom of SS. ...57 KB (8,333 words) - 20:17, 31 January 2024
- including many Orthodox Jews from Eastern Europe. Hitler was slowly ... *At the beginning of the Great War, or even during the War, if twelve ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Ceremony' on Board the Troop Transport Ss Empress of Australia, on An ... recognized as a Kindi, a social leader with great moral authority. ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- Hitler wanted to end the fighting on the Eastern Front or at least minimize ... were ordered into Stalingrad. The eastern border of Stalingrad was ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- agreements had been made between the Great Britain and China during ... Tokugawa navy was already the largest of Eastern Asia, organized around eight ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- The Korbel family emigrated from the United Kingdom on the SS America ... Washington, D.C., in 1982, specializing in Eastern European studies. ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central ... during the reign of tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by disciples of ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- a close, the Soviets laid claim to much of Eastern Europe and the Northern ... Russian state, specifically hegemony over Eastern Europe, access to warm water ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- area to 20 inches (500mm) in the eastern area. Snowfalls can be heavy ... status. Philip's son Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.E.) managed ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- ==The Great Escape == On the outbreak of war, Bose advocated a campaign ... and later transferred to the Waffen SS. Hartog, 2001, 159-160. ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- Prince Wenceslas wanted Bohemia, part of the Great Moravian Empire ... instituted Roman Empire when Otto I the Great from the Saxon dynasty became ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- the "formal role for a [male] 'great leader' as a cultural ... and he began to encourage it following the Great Purges.Anita Pisch, The Personality ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- of coming to a separate peace with the Eastern bloc instead of being drawn ... responding to the stationing of Warsaw Pact SS-20 medium-range missiles in ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- the Spaniards to establish a factory in eastern Japan, mining specialists ... "The Great Ship left Toshima-Tsukinoura for the Southern Barbarians ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- work for the unemployed, and allowed for great land owners to control subsidies ... rigid governmental control of industry. A great deal of money was spent on ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the SS Rajputana ... #039;s predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- 17, 1939, to conquer Poland and to divide Eastern Europe. ... Western Europe later aligned as NATO and Eastern Europe as the Warsaw Pact ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- of the era that originated from the eastern coast of the Baltic sea ... territories in Slavic-dominated areas of Eastern Europe. The Persian traveler ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- threat of "inferior stock" from eastern and southern Europe. This ... pure" single women were impregnated by SS officers (Lebensborn). Many ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- that of the United States, called "great Satan" by the Iranians ... In response to these, Iran began launching SS-1 "Scud" missiles ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- depth-charged the U.S. submarine Nautilus (SS-168), which had earlier carried ... knew that the United States had won a great victory, but he was still ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- areas of Saudi Arabia. Iraq also launched SS-1 Scud missiles against targets ... Iraq would have gained control of the Eastern oil fields but it is heavily ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- an empire that would match those of France, Great Britain, the Netherlands ... of the first German Emperor as "Wilhelm the Great." ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Influenced by China's Great Leap Forward, in 1968 Castro proclaimed ... In Eastern Europe, socialist governments fell to capitalist reformers ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
