The Silver Empire : How Germany Created Its First Common CurrencyThe story of the largest currency union in world history and its creation at the hands of the Holy Roman Empire. Providing a historical perspective on multilateralism, the book makes early monetary policies widely accessible and draws...
How was the Federal Republic of Germany formed?Physical Barrier:The Berlin Wall was both a symbolic and physical structure that separated East Germany from West Germany after the second World War. It established both physical and ideological differences between the two regions....
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
BMW — Bayerische Motoren Werke — began life in the air, not on the road. And its history has been a winding road, too. Read the eventful story of an emotional company name here.
No one is sure exactly who found the first pterosaur skeleton, but it was dug out of a 150-million-year-old limestone layer in Germany sometime between 1767 and 1784 [source: Switek]. The specimen then made its way to Cosimo Alessandro Collini, an Italian natural scientist who didn't rea...
In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear from John DePaola, the creator of The Pain Brush Cover, who started selling his product door-to-door.
Following Germany's reunification, Berlin's urban landscape was transformed by the need to accommodate different urban dynamics and understandings of the past and, following the subsequent move of the capital from Bonn, provide a representative landscape for the new Berlin Republic. This rekindled an...
After Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany the basic democratic structure of the Germany was weakened then abolished. This then created a sense of fear the German population, and they were too scared to fight back. The lives of many millions of people across Europe would be devastated...
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