He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24 April 1155 in Pavia and emperor by Pope Adrian IV on 18 June 1155 in Rome. Two years later, the term sacrum ("holy") first appeared in a ...
Who did Germany ask to help with the Zimmermann Telegram? Who was convicted in the Watergate Scandal? Who enforces the Patriot Act? Who sent troops to help South Korea in 1950? Who were the Hessian Soldiers of the American Revolution?
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By Peter Bergen, CNN Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University, and the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room,” also on Apple and Spotify. He is the author of The Cost of...
In 1941, about the same time that guy above was blowing up his first Nazi in Greece, Germany decided to invade the Soviet Union. Zinaida Portnova, a 15-year-old girl away at Soviet summer camp (which was probably even less fun than it sounds), was caught by surprise and tried to get...
And so with the help of many other golems that he used to terraform the environment he did. Karn was eventually forced to planeswalk away to help Jeska, another one of his friends, after he created his perfect world. He gave over the stewardship of Argentum to another golem. This golem...
Emmanuel Macron caved in to some of the agricultural workers most significant demands with a caveat from the French Farmers Union that they were ready to do it all again if the government did not deliver on its promises, in Germany things seemed to be getting even more heated over the ...
child-shaped sponge. I vaguely recall watching the first of the series, but my daughter did not, so I must have seen it in a theater, possibly when the Gentleman With Whom I (Once) Kept Company was on one of his yearly visits to Texas. Cute movie, and one which loaded in a lot ...
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President Joe Biden’s prepared remarks contained the word “abortion” but he did not say the word, an omission that might have been a mere mistake or last-minute change. But will be noted by abortion rights advocates who want the president to say the word more frequently. “Because T...