The irony of the submarine ban symbolically burdening Austria is it that may have been aimed indirectly at (West) Germany, whose U-boats were iconic weapons in both world wars and which deployed and exported military submarines during the Cold War. Moreover, Germany was not subjected to a ...
You want a reason to choose Germany for that unforgettable summer holiday? Author and keen German phenomenologist Simon Winder has 14 of them. Start counting. Start planning.
Why did the War on Terror increase the U.S. economy? Why is it called 'the Great War'? Why was the Onin War important? Why did the Treaty of Versailles blame Germany for WWI? Why did the Srebrenica massacre occur? Why did the French Wars of Religion start?
Why did the Vikings die out in Greenland? Why did William the Conqueror invade England? Why did the Vikings stop the Crusaders' raids? Why did the Vikings want slaves? Why did Germany invade France during WW2? Why did the Vikings leave the U.K.? Why did the Frisians invade England?
as part of the Jones Act. Germany had miscalculated, believing it would be many more months before they would arrive and that the arrival could be stopped by U-boats.The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, destroyers to...
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 ...
Thus, we find the use of the article "the," pa, which did not exist in Classical Middle Egyptian but was present in the New Egyptian of the XVIII Dynasty. Thus we know it was "the Aton," , pa-Aton. We see it written that way, even in the names of Court women -- but not, ...
Robert Stirling invented his first engine in 1816 and, at that time, it did compete well with the existing steam engines of the day in terms of power density. However, the first Stirling engines had a problem compared to the first Steam engines. The material that was available for building...
In the wake of the Somme's and other battles’ grim death tolls, Germany eventually shifted its strategy away from the Western Front to initiate submarine warfare, which played a part in bringing the United States into the war. The Battle of the Somme, says Gary Sheffield, Professor of War...
By the time the Soviet Union advanced on Germany’s eastern front in January of 1945, it was clear the advantage in World War II was with the Allies. The fall of the Third Reich was by this point inevitable; Berlin would succumb within months. Among the German populace,...