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4 giorni fa · The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany. When it first appeared in hardback in 1994, John Rohl’s remarkable collection of essays won the Wolfson History Prize. And clearly it deserved to.
3 giorni fa · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
2 giorni fa · On July 7th, 1930, Henry J. Kaiser embarked on the monumental project of building the Boulder Dam, now celebrated as the Hoover Dam. This iconic engineering ...
3 giorni fa · The War Production Board (not the military) originally contracted with Henry Kaiser and Hughes to produce the gigantic HK-1 Hercules flying boat for use during World War II to transport troops and equipment across the Atlantic as an alternative to seagoing troop transport ships that were vulnerable to German U-boats.
3 giorni fa · Frederick did not forgive Henry the Lion for refusing to come to his aid in 1176. By 1180, Henry had successfully established a powerful state comprising Saxony, Bavaria, and substantial territories in the north and east of Germany.
4 giorni fa · Over his career he has worked on numerous side projects with a wide range of musicians, including John Martyn, Elvis Costello, Henry Kaiser, David Thomas of Pere Ubu, and David Byrne. In 2006 Thompson was presented with the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards lifetime achievement award, and in 2011 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the ...
4 giorni fa · Today, Henry VIII is apparently a pariah who is unmentionable. This was evident in the decision by the BBC to cancel him from an eight-part television series on the history of British art.
