Search results for "States of Germany" - New World Encyclopedia
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- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... regimes. The conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... Astor was born in 1763 to a poor working class family in Waldorf, ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ... an emphasis on the physical properties of materials and the manner of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- The gnome is a class of legendary creatures throughout Europe and ... Despite varying forms, gnomes have the common attribute of being able ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as Germany, the ... While a number of countries have prep schools as part of their education ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known ... Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that ...5 KB (705 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically ... it is connected with the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, spouse of the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- He is famous for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two ... Lincolnshire, England, the eldest son of Draper and Fanny Anne Hewitt ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- A gas chamber is an apparatus consisting of a sealed chamber into ... The practice of using the gas chamber for executing condemned prisoners ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine during World ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...19 KB (2,885 words) - 18:15, 14 May 2024
- the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- economist. He began his career as a member of the Austrian School of economics ... Morgenstern was born on January 24, 1902 in Görlitz, Germany. His ...9 KB (1,193 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- first journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934. In 1939, Time magazine ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- early contributions to the development of radar. He served as a professor ... become an often-unseen but indispensable part of modern life. ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- and distribute leaflets under the group name of the White Rose non-violent ... Sophie and her family loved Germany, and she and her brother had both ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... Union rejects aggression as a way for states to resolve disputes. With ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer ... the 29th New York Infantry, made up entirely of Germans and also known as the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany where he achieved international ... when he was eight years old as the last of the ten children of Henry and ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 2024
- Britannica (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993, ISBN 978-0852295717 ... imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop of Chichester, George ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... Schröder started a process whereby Germany, after having been excluded ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... The concertina was developed independently in both England and Germany. ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- quot; that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science. His ... in organic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Upon his ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 20:03, 9 February 2023
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... Italy actually acquired a larger African territory than Germany did ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Abraham Lincoln. He was a staunch supporter of the Union and of the emancipation ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- League contributed significantly to the work of the League of Nations. During ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Lyer optical illusion with arrows. Both set of arrows are exactly the same ... The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of a set ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- in the European Union. It originates in Germany's Black Forest as the ... Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman ...23 KB (3,172 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, ... present their stories as faithful renditions of direct folkloric materials ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
