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...at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the arm... ...Barbie Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth'... ...ectrelations.html Berliner When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 - then besieged by the Russians - he visited Ger... ... and famously said, in a public speech: "Ich bin ein Berliner". Alas, "Berliner" in German is also a kind of yummy doughnut with jam filling and van... ...he Economist" - that "Berliner" is wrong usage or gaffe. It is not. "Berliner" in German means "that which belongs to Berlin or of Berlin". The Be... ...88, ratified by 1790. The first constitution of the USA was titled "Articles of Confederation" and was in force between 1781 and 1788. It create...

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...d etiquette. Thus after Mataafa became involved in hostilities against the Germans, and had another code to observe be- side his own, he was always as... ... has begun to exercise the minds of the natives themselves. Soon after the German heads were taken, Mr. Carne, Wesleyan missionary, had occasion to vi... ...rd set up, and to read that this historic vil- lage is the property of the German firm. But these boards, which are among the commonest features of th... ...fele, the one really town-like portion of this long string of villages, by German bars and stores and the German con- sulate; and reach the Catholic m... ...f Mulivai) is a frontier; behind is Matafele; beyond, Apia proper; behind, Germans are supreme; beyond, with but few exceptions, all is Anglo-Saxon. H... ...The king and minister at least con- ceived between them a scheme of island confederation – the most obvious fault of which was that it came too late –... ...n with delight. Letters were exchanged between him and Kalakaua; a deed of confederation was signed, 17th February 1887, and the signature celebrated ... ...ith coffee, and sent home. As a first chapter in the history of Polynesian Confederation, it was hardly cheering, and Laupepa remarked to one of the e...

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...’t only us neither. There’s the Japanese; you bet they got, it too—and the Germans!” The soldier stood with his legs very wide apart, and filled his p... ...a leading hotel in Piccadilly, in which he tried to horse-whip a prominent German musician upon some personal account, delayed his promised ascent. Th... ...!” This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his br... ...emed to matter to Mr. Bert Smallways that a newspaper placard proclaimed:— GERMANY DENOUNCES THE MONROE DOCTRINE. AMBIGUOUS ATTITUTDE OF JAPAN. WHAT W... ... AN OFFER. LATEST BETTING FROM TEHERAN. or this:— WILL AMERICA FIGHT? ANTI-GERMAN RIOT IN BAGDAD. THE MUNICIPAL SCANDALS AT DAMASCUS. MR. BUTTERIDGE’S... ...arvelling millions in the plain of the Ganges. But the preparations of the Confederation of Eastern Asia had been on an altogether more colossal scale... ...ces—the latter spreading like wildfire from Gobi to the Gold Coast—and the Confederation of Eastern Asia had seized the oil wells of Burmha and was im...

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...nd. Long before Europe was familiar with the engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (... ...he trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Germans have been spending and making the world spend the comfort, the luxu... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... .... The apologists for war are in a hopeless minority; a certain num- ber of German Prussians who think war good for the soul, 8 What Is Coming? and th... ...great feat for a naive imagination to suppose the Presi- dent of the Swiss Confederation or the President of the United States—for each of these two s... ...possibility of an “inconclusive peace” which so many people seem to dread. Germany, I believe, is going to be beaten, but not completely crushed, by t... ...nd out of that state of affairs comes, I believe, the hope for an ultimate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league... ...achieved. Many Indians think (and I agree with them) that India might be a confederation of sovereign states in close alliance with the British Empire...

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...ms would have roused a mutinous protest against this arrogant mandate. But Germans are generally mild and facile in their tempers; so the light was co... ...l no more burn than the leaves of a closed book. Privately, therefore, the Germans drew an inference, that Mr. Williams must have had some urgent moti... ...rticu- lar case there is seldom any reason to complain—since really out of Germany and Italy there is no city, if you except Paris and London, possess... ... pid man; but he moves about with more eclat by far than the ablest man in Germany. And, in days of old, the man that burned down a miracle of beauty,... ...itted in some such adventitious way before he ever could have risen to his German celebrity. What was it that raised him to his momentary distinction?... ...en the Argonautic expedition, which is rather of the darkest, im- plied no confederation except amongst individuals. How could it? For the Argo is sup...

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...nadian idea would be that the two Canadas should form two States of such a confederation, and the other provinces a third State. But this slight parti... ...a federal government as this, I shall of course be understood as meaning a confederation acting in connec- tion with a British governor, and dependent... ...s the different colonies are now dependent. I cannot but think that such a confederation might be formed with great advantage to all the colonies and ... ...f pioneers of agriculture— those frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ru... ...nfusion—so much so that the Western towns appear to have been peopled with Germans. I found regiments of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And ... ...ed the fact that hired labor is chiefly done by fresh comers, by Irish and Germans, who have not as yet among them any combination sufficient to prote... ... sickle! We found a completed regiment at Wisconsin consisting entirely of Germans. A thousand Germans had been col- lected in that State and brought ... ...- ment, and I was informed by an officer on the ground that there are many Germans in sundry other of the Wis- consin regiments. It may be well to men... ...and the same thing, the point to me does not seem to bear an argument. The confederation of States had a com- mon army, a common policy, a common capi...

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...sed for the basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that... ...Spanish blood, a native of Spain; the second, a Roman born in Spain. So of Germanus and Germanicus, Italus and Italicus, Anglus and Anglicus, &c.; an ... ...s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Arabian, a combination hard to judge of.... ...on or other, [in fact I believe it was myself,] published a paper from the German of Kant, on a very interesting question, viz., the age of our own li... ...fore me: for it takes the shape of a dream; and this most brilliant of all German writers wanted in that field the severe simplicity, that horror of t... ...g voice of races the most highly civilized, may be looked on as tending to confederation against it; that sentence of extermination has virtually gone...

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... Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written Constituti... ...nglish, the Irish with the Swiss, the Greeks or Italians compared with the German races, so women compared with men may be found, on the average, to d... ...ntries which have produced first rate composers, even of the male sex, are Germany and Italy— countries in which, both in point of special and of gen ... ...three centuries have not produced fifty emi nent male composers either in Germany or in Italy. There are other reasons, besides those which we have n...

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...dst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized ...

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... essen- tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspir... ... of this “war to end war,” the diplomatists of the Powers al- lied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, we... ... few of us were saying this was a war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- i... ...hese two writers seem disposed to welcome a peace with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterl... ... H.G. Wells tially religious end of peace on earth. And also there must be German writings upon this same topic. I mention these di- verse sources not... ... way for, and prepared at last to sacrifice and merge itself in, the world confederation of free and equal peoples. § 2 § 2 § 2 § 2 § 2 This letter wa...

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...make their way in the world simply leagued together by certain articles of confederation. It was declared that each State retained its sovereignty, fr... ...as bearing on the question of the present war, but as showing that a loose confederation, not sub- versive of the separate independence of the States,... .... South Carolina took upon herself to act as she might have acted had that confederation remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledg... ...cal life lay in prolonged ascendency at Washington. The swelling crowds of Germans, by whom the Western States were being filled, enlisted themselves ... ...onal greatness. Secession will, I think, be accomplished, and the Southern Confederation of States will stand something higher in the world than Mexic... ...binet declare old John Brown to be a hero and a martyr. All the Protestant Germans are abolitionists— and they have become so strong a political eleme... ...y in the towns of Kentucky. This work is chiefly in the hands of Irish and Germans. Considerably above one-third of the population of the whole 96 No... ...f the town, I should say that nearly every man was either an Irishman or a German. St. Louis has none of the aspects of a slave city. I can- not say t... ...r effort to rid herself of her painted sepulcher of an ancient throne; how Germany was made desolate, in order that Prussia might become a nation. Ire...

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...y the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller: German Writer — 1759-1805. Volume One Preface THE PRESENT IS the only colle... ... of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany. — Count Tilly takes the 5 Friedrich Schiller Command of the Imper... ...lenstein. — Battle of Lutzen. — Death of Gustavus Adolphus. — Situation of Germany after the Battle of Lutzen. Book IV. Closer Alliance between France... ... Termination of the Thirty Years’ War. History of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany Book I F ROM THE BEGINNING of the religious wars in Germany, to the... ...of a religious party which it was his aim and en- deavour to extirpate. In Germany, the schisms in the church produced also a lasting political schism... ...ainst him with loud and bitter reproaches, endeavoured to force him into a confederation with the Bohe- mians. One of them, seizing him by the button ... ... gave up his forces to Tilly, and signed the revocation of the acts of the Confederation. An imperial army, which had lately returned from Italy, unde... ...e imperial pro- hibition, continued his preparations, and ad- hered to the confederation of Leipzig. At this conjuncture, when the proximity of the Ki... ...irit of its inhabitants, the vigilance of its numerous princes, the artful confederation of its states, the number of its strong castles, its many and...

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...of the union to your political prosperity The insufficiency of the present confederation to preserve that union The necessity of a government at least... ... in expecting an easy accommodation of such differ- ences. The articles of confederation obliged the parties to sub- mit the matter to the decision of... ...sury. The hereditary dominions of the 53 The Federalist Papers Emperor of Germany contain a great extent of fertile, culti- vated, and populous terri... ...ate to it appears to be demon- strable. It is not a great deal larger than Germany , where a diet representing the whole empire is continually assembl... ...3 The Federalist Papers FEDERALIST No. 15 The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON T... ... point next in order to be exam- ined is the “insufficiency of the present Confederation to the preservation of the Union.’’ It may perhaps be asked w... ...ich merit particular consideration. The first which presents itself is the Germanic body. In the early ages of Christianity, Germany was occupied by s... ..., its warlike monarch, carried his victorious arms in every direction; and Germany became a part of his vast dominions. On the dismemberment, which to... ...tures of a confederacy, has grown the federal system which constitutes the Germanic empire. Its powers are vested in a diet representing the component...

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...died jurisprudence, philosophy, politi- cal economy and history at various German universities. In philosophy he imbibed the doctrines of Hegel, who w... ...led from Paris and went with Engels to live in Brussels. There he formed a German Working Men’s Association and edited a paper which was their organ. ... ...was their organ. Through his activities in Brussels he became known to the German Communist League in Paris, who, at the end of 1847, invited him and ... ...th, February, the revolution broke out in Paris, and in March it spread to Germany. Fear of the revo- lution led the Brussels Government to expel Marx... ...rnment to expel Marx from Bel- 14 Proposed Roads to Freedom gium, but the German revolution made it possible for him to return to his own country. In... ...Bertrand Russell The organization upon which Syndicalism de-pended was the Confederation Generale du T ravail, commonly known as the C. G. T ., which ... ... has been the avowed policy of the Syndicalists, whose organization is the Confederation Generale du T ravail.” Or, to put it otherwise, the intellige...

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...e the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics is not a fact... ...arch. Not one in twenty of the boys of the middle and upper classes learns German or gets more than a misleading smattering of physical science. Most ... ... lassitude and 23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material lead... .... I would as soon put to sea in St. Paul’s Ca- thedral. If I were fighting Germany, I would stow half of them away in the Clyde and half in the Bristo... ...common enemy to weld it to- gether from without. It is too usual to regard Germany as the common enemy. We in Great Britain are now intensely jealous ... ...erica will be working out its destinies, perhaps in the form of a powerful confederation of states. All Europe will be schooling its John Smiths to fi...

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...to my father,” he went on, emitting a smoke ring. “La balance y est...** A German knows how to skin a flint, as the proverb says,” remarked Shinshin, ... ... preparing to re- sent any slight that might be put upon the children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, and kinds of des... ...sert, in order to send a full de- scription of the dinner to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler with a bottle wrapped... ...I fear it will be our turn next.” The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evi- dently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian. He re... ...is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking 36 War & Peace with a German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He declares in ze... ...ll of the people also transferred to their conqueror? W as the will of the Confederation of the Rhine transferred to Napo- leon in 1806? W as the will...

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...ersian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon archies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and ... ... posed of Magyars, Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Roumans, and in some districts Germans, so mixed up as to be incapable of local separation; and there is n... ...49, seems to be ripening and dispos ing them for such an equal union. The German colony of East Prussia is cut off from Germany by part of the ancien... ...ust, if geographical continuity is to be maintained, be either under a non German government, or the interven ing Polish territory must be under a Ge... ...her considerable region in which the dominant element of the population is German, the provinces of Courland, Esthonia, and Livonia, is condemned by i... ... their own liberty of action; and consequently, whenever the policy of the confederation, in things reserved to its cognizance, is different from that... ... wretched internal constitution. It effects none of the real purposes of a confederation. It has never bestowed on Germany a uniform system of customs... ... ance. It has never, in any European war, prevented single members of the confederation from allying themselves with foreign powers against the rest.... ...re countries under kingly government to be joined together in an effectual confederation, it seems necessary that they should all be under the same ki...

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...t New Braunfels, on the Guadalupe River. At that point was a settlement of Germans who had only that year come into the State. At all events they were... ...he founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Each colony considered itse... ... experiment. Each colony considered itself a separate government; that the confederation was for mutual protec- tion against a foreign foe, and the pr... ..., was in ad- 399 U. S. Grant vance on the right, and marched directly for Germania Ford, preceded by one division of cavalry, under General J. H. Wil... ...General J. H. Wilson. General Sedgwick followed Warren with the 6th corps. Germania Ford was nine or ten miles below the right of Lee’s line. Hancock,... ...d by another road, farther east, directly upon Ely’s Ford, six miles below Germania, preceded by Gregg’s division of cavalry, and fol- lowed by the ar... ... branch goes by Gates’s, thence to Spottsylvania. The Brock Road runs from Germania Ford through the battle-field and on to the Court House. As 400 P... ... our ancestors for the express purpose of insur- ing the permanency of the confederation of the States. After I left General Lee at Appomattox Station...

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...l more people with uranium.” 50 Bin Ladin seemed willing to include in the confederation terrorists from 60 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7... ...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ...al leader of the 9/11 conspiracy , Mohamed Atta, went online from Hamburg, Germany, to research U.S. flight schools.Targets of intelligence collection... ...e head of his computer operations and weapons procurement, was arrested in Germany. He was the most important Bin Ladin lieutenant captured thus far. ... ...on, and Yemen—they had formed a close-knit group as stu- dents in Hamburg, Germany.The new recruits had come to Afghanistan aspir- ing to wage jihad i... ...ation, the late 1999 arrival in Kan- dahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.The Hamburg group ... ...ed to run a particular agency, the CIA. He is expected to manage the loose confederation of agencies that is the intelligence community. He is expecte...

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...m what was, at least, a very solemn contract, and formed themselves into a Confederation professing as its fundamental principle not merely the perpet... ...he pleasure of an exasperated slave owning oligarchy? Could it abandon the Germans who, in Western T exas, have made so meritorious a commencement of ... ...e most explicit manner the right of search. T o allow the slave ships of a Confederation formed for the extension of slavery to come and go free, and ...