A series of 16th-century manuscripts that have been making waves on the Internet look like a Monty Python version of the Renaissance: They show cats outfitted with flaming backpacks, attacking castles...
Richard Attenborough, who after a distinguished stage and film acting career in Britain reinvented himself to become the internationally admired director of the monumental “Gandhi” and other films,...
We, The President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, have met these four days past, in this, the Capital of our ally, Iran, and have shaped...
The Navy Department of the United States has reported to me that on the morning of September fourth the United States destroyer GREER, proceeding in full daylight towards Iceland, had reached a point...
Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right...
Germany, Germany above all, Above all in the world, When for protection and defense, it always takes a brotherly stand together. From the Meuse to the Memel, From the Adige to the Belt, Germany,...
I'm Julia Szabo, also known as a Pet Reporter, and I am the ""Living with Dogs"" columnist for dogster.com. I've actually written 6 books and I'm hard at work on my next one. It...
19th Century Politics: Germany Ever since the end of Charlamagne's empire, Austria and Germany had not been unified as a single nation. This was finally achieved by the Prussian Otto von Bismark after...

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Vienna is famous for its foods. It's not surprising. Vienna was once a center of a large empire. People came from all over Europe to live in Vienna. The cuisine is influenced by that. And so you can...
In 1517, Martin Luther wrote his famous 95 theses. A collection of insults towards the Catholic religion which at the time had become corrupted with concubinage, priests who practiced the rape of...