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Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.
All these theories centre on two battles in Estonia, Fellin ( 1208 ) or Lyndanisse ( 1219 ), and thus try to explain the origin in relation to the tale brought forth over 300 years after the event.
After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.
An example is Andrew Lang's fairy tale Princess Nobody ( 1884 ), illustrated by Richard Doyle, where fairies are tiny people with butterfly wings, whereas elves are tiny people with red stocking caps.
Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.
Special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya was planning on working on other projects at this point in time such as a new version of a fairy tale film script called Kaguyahime ( Princess Kaguya ), but he postponed those to work on this project with Toho instead since he was such a huge fan of King Kong.
Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).
Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.
The tale of a witch hunter in the English Civil War, based on the historical Matthew Hopkins ( Vincent Price ), was more sadistic than supernatural.
* The Estoire del Saint Graal, the first part of the Vulgate Cycle ( but written after Lancelot and the Queste ), based on Robert ’ s tale but expanding it greatly with many new details.
Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.
However, the greatest glory of the Historical Cycle is the Buile Shuibhne ( The Frenzy of Sweeney ), a 12th century tale told in verse and prose.
The Welsh prose tale Culhwch and Olwen ( c. 1100 ), included in the modern Mabinogion collection, has a much longer list of more than 200 of Arthur's men, though Cei and Bedwyr again take a central place.
The Libyan government announced its decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost $ 3 billion dollars in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 .< ref > Marcus, Jonathan, ( 15 May 2006 ), < u >" Washington's Libyan fairy tale "< u >, BBC News.
This sarpasattra material was often considered an independent tale added to a version of the Mahabharata by " thematic attraction " ( Minkowski 1991 ), and considered to have a particularly close connection to Vedic ( Brahmana ) literature.

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The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.
In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.
Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).
* Conspiracy ( 2001 film ), a dramatization of the Nazi 1942 Wannsee Conference concerning the " Final Solution "
Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945, ( 2005 ), ISBN 0-521-83416-3. online review
One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.
During the time of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 1945 ), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population.
Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.
These films show strong affinities with the work of Italian neorealists, not least Roberto Rossellini's neorealist trilogy which included Germany Year Zero ( 1948 ), and are concerned primarily with day-to-day life in the devastated Germany and an initial reaction to the events of the Nazi period ( the full horror of which was first experienced by many in documentary footage from liberated concentration camps ).
Finland and Nazi Germany were " co-belligerents " against Soviet Union during Continuation War ( 1941 – 44 ), but a separate peace with Soviet Union led to the Finnish-German Lapland War ( 1944 – 45 ).
Hitler had no sympathy with the syndicalist tendencies of the NSBO, and in January 1934 a new Law for the Ordering of National Labour effectively suppressed independent working-class factory organisations, even Nazi ones, and put questions of wages and conditions in the hands of the Trustees of Labour ( Treuhänder der Arbeit ), dominated by the employers.
Assuming a specific Nazi usage of the term " Vaterland " ( which in fact never existed ), the direct English translation " fatherland " featured in news reports associated with Nazi Germany and in domestic anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.
Schmidt's premiere of Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln was made much of by the Nazis ( who had annexed Austria shortly before in the Anschluss ), and Schmidt was seen ( according to a report by Georg Tintner ) to give the Nazi salute.
At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.
Their pre-war economic policies, resembling Keynesianism, were in the beginning the brainchildren of their non-Nazi Minister of Economics, Hjalmar Schacht, who was later made to focus more on war production ( cf: Military Keynesianism ), and was eventually replaced by a Nazi, Hermann Göring.
* Wehrmacht ( 1935 – 1945 ), armed forces of Nazi Germany
Gleichschaltung ), meaning " coordination ", " making the same ", " bringing into line ", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society.
# When the newly elected Reichstag first convened on March 23, 1933, ( not including the Communist delegates, since their party had already been banned by that time ) it passed the Enabling Act ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), transferring all legislative powers to the Nazi government and, in effect, abolishing the remainder of the Weimar constitution as a whole.
On 27 September 1939, the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany — with the exception of the Orpo — were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office ( RSHA ), headed by Heydrich.
These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

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Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".
The Captainship General of Cuba, encompassing Cuba and the governorships of Florida ( safe the English occupation between 1763 – 83 ), Santo Domingo ( until 1795 ), Puerto Rico, and the entire Louisiana Territory ( 1763 – 1803 )
By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).
From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.
Consular rule was interrupted by the Neapolitan occupation ( 27 November – 12 December 1798 ), which installed a Provisional Government:
* Class ( social ), the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in society, usually defined by wealth and occupation
During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis ( FTP ), a part of the French Resistance.
Ra-gyap-pa lived in ghettos, and their occupation was to remove corpses ( human or animal ), dispose of sewage, and deal with convicts.
The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.
The player then chooses a race ( species ) such as Human or Elf, a character class ( occupation ) such as Fighter or Wizard, an alignment ( a moral and ethical outlook ), and a number of powers, skills and feats to enhance the character's basic abilities.
While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.
In June 1686 the Duke of Lorraine besieged Buda ( Budapest ), the centre of the Ottoman occupation in Hungary.
At creation, players select each character's adventuring occupation ( such as a wizard, ranger, or cleric – called a class – see below for particulars ), a patron deity, and starting city.
After the conclusion of the Treaty of Frankfurt ( 1871 ), he was left in command of the German army of occupation, a position which he held till the fall of the Paris Commune.
In his Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ), a series of speeches delivered in Berlin under French occupation, he urged the German peoples to " have character and be German "-- entailed in his idea of Germanness was antisemitism, since he argued that " making Jews free German citizens would hurt the German nation.
* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).
In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.
In the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, the Allies established their joint military occupation and administration of Germany via the Allied Control Council ( ACC ), a four-power ( US, UK, USSR, France ) military government effective until the restoration of German sovereignty.
Post-war occupied Germany: The British ( green ), Soviet ( Red ), American ( Yellow ), and French ( Blue ) occupation zones.

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