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    The technological developments that assisted bombing, the impact of bombing on the German economy, the impact of bombing on the German civilian morale and also the effects on the German war effort all help explain why the Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was significant to quite a far extent. Each of the following paragraphs will analyse the impacts of the Allied strategic bombing on different aspects of Germany and also what factors assisted the Allied bombing campaign

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    Pina Bausch - Café Müller (1978) Café Müller premiered May 20th of 1978 at the Opera House Wuppertal in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It featured six dancers including, Pina herself; and arias by Henry Purcel. This piece has become one of Pina’s most famous choreographies and has been presented in stages around the world years after it’s first presentation in Europe (Baush). Pina is considered as the creator of Tanztheater or Dance Theatre. After she became director of dance for the

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    Persistent Subcultures

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    Perhaps the most culturally diverse nation on the globe, the United States is home to a dominant Anglo-American Protestant culture intermixed and alongside a host of sub-cultures that live and thrive on US soil. Among these cultures exists an array of distinct form of living all who boast an identity specific to only that select group. These subcultures exist in a couple different forms; convergent subcultures and persistent subcultures. First, convergent subcultures intend toward assimilation with

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    affair, Peter Paul rubens was born. Peter Paul Rubens passion was to paint. He had said "My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings.” He was born on June,28,1577 in Siegen, Nassau-dillenburg, Holy Roman Empire ( now known as North Rhine-Westphalia)- and died on may,30,1640( age 64) Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands( now known as Belgium).

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    idea of invasion; proved England's power Napoleon→ attacked Austro-Russian army at Austerlitz and took Venetia In the meantime, Napoleon is preparing to challenge Britain Napoleon as “protector”→ merged the German states into the Confederation of the Rhine Battles Jena and Auerstadt→ Prussia declared war on France and France claimed victory Battle at Friedlands→ Napoleon defeated the

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    At this time, France also sold their North American continental holdings to the Americans in the “Louisiana Purchase”. Britain cancelled the treaty in May 1803, and war resumed. Europeans formed seven coalitions between 1792-1815 to defeat French forces. In May of 1804, Bonaparte had himself

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    Thirty Years War Philip, Spanish kings. Philip I (the Handsome), 1478-1506, king of Castile (1506), was the son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. He inherited Burgundy and the Low Countries from his mother and was titular joint ruler of Castile with his wife, Joanna. But her father ruled these lands as his regent, so he contested (1504) Ferdinand's regency and assumed (1506) joint rule of Castile with his wife. Philip's early death, however, and his wife's deteriorating

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    the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland. Germany has a maritime influenced climate that usually never has any long periods of cold or hot weather. The Koppen-Geiger classification classifies Germany as a Cfb climate; a warm temperate humid climate with the warmest month lower than 22°C over average and four or more months above 10° (“Weather Online: Germany” WeatherOnline LTD n.d. Web. 9 Mar ) The terrain in Germany isn 't too diverse, In the north there are lowlands in

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    Germany there are many man made canals made to connect waterways for commercial and local traffic. Germany used to be divided into 2 sides which were East and West, until 1898 when the two had unified and became 16 states combining the two sides. North

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    I am the son of Wilhelm Böing and Marie Ortmann. I was born in 1881. My family emigrated to the United States from North Rhine-Westphalia way before i was born. My father died of influenza while on a business trip when I was eight, my mother remarried. I personally did not get along with my step-father. I was sent to several boarding schools thought out my life. I went to a prep school to prepare myself for Yale University. I went to Yale and joined the engineering department of the Sheffield Scientific

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