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21 hours ago · An Italian outpost was surprised, resulting in the death of an Italian NCO and a further two soldiers being wounded. The Italian defensive attitude changed with the collapse of Paul Reynaud's government, in France, on 15 June. Since Reynaud's successor, General Pétain, was known to favour an understanding with Germany, Mussolini believed it ...
- 10–25 June 1940
- See Aftermath section
- Franco-Italian border
- Italian occupied zone
21 hours ago · Italian fascism believed that the success of Italian nationalism required a clear sense of a shared past amongst the Italian people along with a commitment to a modernized Italy. In a famous speech in 1926, Mussolini called for fascist art that was "traditionalist and at the same time modern, that looks to the past and at the same time to the ...
21 hours ago · History The King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy inaugurated the Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and Autostrada A9), the first motorway built in the world, on 21 September 1924, aboard the royal Lancia Trikappa Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Florence-Mare motorway (the current Autostrada A11) in 1927 The President of Italy Antonio Segni inaugurated ...
21 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
21 hours ago · Lidl will increase staff wages for the third time in 12 months, the supermarket has announced. Shop workers in London will get £13.65, up from £13.55, while staff elsewhere will get a rise from ...
21 hours ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states.
21 hours ago · Year Countries and territories 1928 United States (mechanical television, experimental - W2XCW) 1929 United Kingdom (mechanical, experimental), Germany (mechanical, experimental), Australia (mechanical, experimental, after hours on two existing Melbourne radio stations - 3UZ and 3DB), Netherlands (mechanical, experimental in Scheveningen)
