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3 days ago · Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the Nazis within Germany and its occupied territories and, in partnership with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; “Security Service”), was responsible for the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps. Heinrich Himmler. When ...
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In preparation for the invasion of Poland in September 1939,...
- Ordnungspolizei
Ordnungspolizei, uniformed police agencies of the Third...
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4 days ago · The Rifleman. Following a father and son who begin a life of ranching in 1880s New Mexico, The Rifleman is another great 20th-century Western. The series features writing from The Wild Bunch ...
1 day ago · Hopper directed and starred in this meta-drama about a stuntman on a Western movie hot off the success of his film Easy Rider.Hooper allegedly followed the script only loosely in production, and ...
1 day ago · 51.5173°N 0.1774°W. / 51.5173; -0.1774. London transport portal. Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great Western Railway and its successors since 1838.
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4 days ago · In 1934 the ocean liner was launched—at which time it was christened by its namesake, Queen Mary —and work was completed two years later. At 1,019.5 feet (311 metres), the Queen Mary was Britain’s first entry in the 1,000-foot category of ships. It had a gross tonnage of 81,237 and was built to carry 2,038 passengers.
4 days ago · During the 19th century Bristol became associated with the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel who designed the SS Great Britain and SS Great Western oceangoing steamships in Bristol, the Clifton Suspension bridge, and the Great Western Railway linking Bristol with London.
3 days ago · The Great Western Staircase is one of the highlights of the New York State Capitol Building in Albany. Also known as the “Million Dollar Staircase”, it took fourteen years to complete at a cost of almost 1.5 million dollars. In 1894, The New York Times called the staircase “the greatest architectural work on this continent.”.
