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- 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
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony, Germany. His father ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- to viaducts, which is a bridge composed of several small spans constructed ... their capital city, Nineveh. The full length of the aqueduct ran for 50 miles ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of ... on world religions, tackling the problem of how one can acknowledge their ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- he played a key role in the leadership of the Confessing Church that ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- The U–2 Affair of 1960 occurred when an American U–2 spy plane ... On May 1, 1960, fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 01:20, 3 May 2023
- and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Austria-Hungary. He was born into a family of wealth, to Anton Lang (August ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:20, 15 May 2024
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... Intellectuals, perceiving the United States as hypocritical, turned away ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Division (UNSD), includes the countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary ... Using this definition, the nations of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... "marching swastika" in the center of the cross and reinstituted ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- (Finlayson and Moser 1991). The United States Environmental Protection ... plant and animal species. They are a source of peat, which can be dried and ...13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
- [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of ... conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education. ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since ... and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... Where strife exists, rightly of wrongly, on ethnic lines and national ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
- by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The ... By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- as the common ground for and at the root of diverse religions, spiritual ... He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg ... for his discovery, Röntgen chose the path of humility. When others wished ...11 KB (1,777 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
