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German Unification
Overview of the struggle for unification in 19th-Century Germany, under Otto Von Bismark and the Kaiser.
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Internment High Seas Fleet 1918
At the close of World War One, the victorious allies ordered that the powerful and undefeated High Seas Fleet present itself for interment until a final peace.
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Origin and Causes of World War One
German principalities united with Prussia by Otto Von Bismarck were a fuse in a powder keg that Balkan volatility ignited when the unwise Kaiser Wilhelm II took control.
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Salvage of the High Seas Fleet
More than forty of the 74 ships of the Imperial German Navy's High Sea Fleet only left their final anchorage as scrap if at all.
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Scuttling of the High Seas Fleet
Interned at the close of World War One in Scotland the German fleet chose to scuttle itself at anchor rather than surrender
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W. B. Yeats' 'Lapis Lazuli'
Yeats' interest in Eastern Philosophy influenced many of his poems. His widely anthologized poem, "Lapis Lazuli," is about finding tranquility in chaos.
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Baby in the Palace - PART I
At last, Russia had an heir to its throne. Born in the midst of the turmoil that was the Russo-Japanese war, Aleksei Nikolaievich was indeed a ray of light -- a Sunbeam -- and the most anxiously awaited Baby in the Winter Palace. This is the first half of his life.
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Baby in the Palace - PART II
Delve into the life of Russia's last Tsar-to-Be, Aleksei Nikolaievich Romanov. This article covers the years of his life for which he is most famous -- neither the innocent playing in the nursery, nor the laughter of his fifth birthday. Here, you will find him after illness tightened its grasp on his life. Here you will read of war, and of the Revolution. Yet you will also see Aleksei's own personal sunshine glimmmer again down the palace halls...
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