Topic: Germany
This essay presents an exploration into the events of the German Autumn, a set of violent political attacks by a terrorist left-wing organization called the Red Army Faction in 1977. The political circumstances surrounding of the group's terrorist activities are reviewed, along ...
Hoping to avoid a Katrina redux, two million people flee the Louisiana coast today as Hurricane Gustav closes in on New Orleans. In Minneapolis-St. Paul, where the GOP convention is scheduled to open tomorrow, the Republican party trims activities to a bare ...
Spartacus League, German Spartakusbund, revolutionary socialist group active in Germany from autumn 1914 to the end of 1918. The league developed as an offshoot of the Social Democratic Party, among elements who violently opposed Germany's role in World War I and who ...
Jan. 15, 1919, Berlin), German Social Democrat, who, with Rosa Luxemburg and other radicals, founded the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League), a Berlin underground group that became the Communist Party of Germany, dedicated to a socialist revolution. With financial help from the party, he ...
click to enlarge (Photoshop H/T: I both pity and condemn the sane, silent majority (heh) of the Republicans for letting those teeth-gnashers turn their beloved Party of Lincoln into little more than a flailing, incompetent joke. You're welcome, uncompromising theists! Used to ...
US signs agreement with Germany to cooperate on homeland security research projectsThe U.S. and Germany signed an agreement Monday to share science and technology research in an effort to improve the security of both nations.U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said after ...
US Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano will visit Germany next week in her first foreign trip, followed by visits to neighboring Canada and Mexico in April, her spokeswoman said Friday.Napolitano's foreign travels are aimed at " strengthening relationships between the United States ...
The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through ...
The United States on Tuesday welcomed indications that some European governments were willing to resettle detainees of the Guantanamo Bay military prison if president-elect Barack Obama follows through on his pledge to close the notorious camp.State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said reports ...
London will host second G-20 summit on the financial crisis in AprilBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that London will host an April meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging economies on the financial crisis.Brown told lawmakers that U.S. ...
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Germany Partial Solar Eclipse
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Australia Flooding
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Germany Alpine Skiing World Cup
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Tom Hanks on German Autobahn
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Bailout Sellout: 'Germany desperate to chop ...
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Max Keiser: Financial holocaust looms as ...
Protesters in Athens are clashing with police, some throwing stones ...2012-02-10
