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He was born on November 23, 1882, in Hamburg. He spent nearly 30 years of his life in China, working for the Siemens company. In 1934, like many German citizens of that time, he joined the NSDAP. A typical expat, a successful businessman, a loyal citizen of the Third Reich. It would seem his story could have been lost in the archives as just another biography of an ordinary party functionary.

He was born on September 26, 1895, in Würzburg into the family of a commercial agent. He served in the First World War as a machine-gun officer, receiving the Iron Cross of both classes and sustaining several wounds. After the war, he became involved with the Freikorps, suppressing communist uprisings, then joined the NSDAP, graduated from university, and earned a doctorate in political science. Seemingly, a typical Nazi careerist.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thrasivoulos Marakis grew up hearing stories about the grandfather he was named after but who he never met — about how the tall man was executed during Nazi reprisals in Greece during World War II.

USSR, 1963. Moscow decided to strengthen its influence in Africa and began to befriend Morocco. King Hassan II had a problem: his citrus fruits were rotting on the plantations, and he was short on money.

Felix was not a cat, but a Polish Szlachcic (Nobleman) in the Russian Empire.

Leningrad. The Siege lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 (872 days).

From November 20th to December 25th, 1941, the bread ration reached its lowest point throughout the entire blockade: 125 grams per day for employees, dependents, and children, and 250 grams for soldiers, industrial workers, and engineering/technical staff. It was a piece the size of a child’s palm—black, heavy, and sticky. Yet, this piece was what separated life from death. People cut it with thread so it wouldn’t crumble, hid it under their pillows, and ate it slowly, stretching it out for the entire day. This 125-gram piece became the symbol of the Siege.

Leningrad. Summer 1941. At the zoo, while preparing for evacuation, the staff understood that reptiles were among the most vulnerable.

Leningrad. July 1941. In the zoo, just as the war was closing in and bombs were about to rain down on the city, a terrible order was issued: liquidate the large predators.

Leningrad. Summer 1941. In the zoo, even before the blockade ring closed around the city, a tiger cub named “Kotik” (rus. The Kitten) was born.

In 1958, during the Brussels World’s Fair, Expo 58 (one of the largest and most famous expositions of the 20th century, where the famous Atomium was built), a so-called “Congolese Village” (village indigène or Kongorama) was organized in the “Tropical Gardens” section dedicated to the Belgian Congo (then still a Belgian colony). Approximately 598 people were brought there from the Congo (273 men, 128 women, and 197 children—entire families). During the day, about 120 of them were displayed in the reconstructed “village” behind a bamboo fence, dressed in “traditional” clothing.

Initially, they tried to build the metro using the cut-and-cover method. That is, they dug huge trenches across the streets. Because of this, the city was paralyzed, and historical buildings suffered significant damage. The construction curator, Lazar Kaganovich, was furious. Authoritative engineers offered excuses: “Moscow’s geology is terrible. Groundwater will flood everything.”

Georgy Malenkov. You don’t know him, yet he was.

Leningrad. Autumn 1941, the beginning of the blockade. In a wooden house designed for 4 apartments, all the food had run out.

Let me tell you briefly. The Revolution destroyed the Russian Empire. However, the First World War was still ongoing. German troops broke through the front line and were advancing towards Petrograd. The old Imperial Army had effectively disintegrated. Soldiers, weary of the war, were heading home. There was almost no one left to defend the capital.

This map shows the spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa and across the globe, with very approximate dates.

The year 1914. The Russian Empire enters World War I. Nicholas II makes a risky decision. He introduces total Prohibition. All alcohol stores are shut down. The country is obliged to welcome the New Year of 1915 sober.

New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz! But Prohibition is in effect across the country. Yet, people are preparing to welcome 1927 with a glass of champagne. Nobody knows that the government has prepared a deadly gift for them.

December 1941. The Siege of Leningrad. The city is under continuous shelling. The ration is 125 grams of bread per day. That year, the command made a desperate decision: to arrange a holiday for the children. A single train car filled with tangerines was sent from Georgia (a country in the Caucasus region; not the 14th state) to the besieged city.

Leningrad. Winter 1941. In the center of this hell, in the zoo, lived a female hippopotamus named “Beauty.”

February 1942. Leningrad is dying of starvation.

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Louis P. Bénézet’s map of “Europe As It Should Be” (1918), depicting nations based on ethnic and linguistic criteria. Bénézet’s book The World War and What was Behind It (1918) blamed the war on German aggression combined with perceived threats to the traditional social order from radicals and ethnic nationalists.

Euromaidan was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. The scope of the protests widened to include calls for the resignation of Yanukovych and the Azarov government. The uprising climaxed on 18–20 February 2014, when fierce fighting in Kyiv between Maidan activists and police resulted in the deaths of almost 100 protesters and 13 police. As a result, Yanukovych and the parliamentary opposition signed an agreement on 21 February to bring about an interim unity government, constitutional reforms and early elections. This photograph shows the crowd of protesters in Kyiv on 2 February 2014.

George Bush’s Department of Defense made a decision in 2001, after 9/11, that it was going to “take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958, recruiting scientists to design the first large-scale computer network, which was intended to support the American military during the Cold War. Academics would use the network to communicate with one another via email between several US research universities.

DNA analysis proves Beachy Head woman was light-eyed blonde

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Interesting site where you can explore snippets of history around the world.

In Hitler’s eyes, the time had come to settle the struggle between the right and the left once and for all.

The court of unstable French king Charles VI devised elaborate entertainment to keep him amused. One was the dance of the wood savages, in which the king himself participated. The highly flamable costumes caught fire and killed the courtier and almost killed the king.