According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

Upon graduating from Johnstown High School in 1945, he enlisted in the U. S. Army on October 26, 1945, and did military service in postwar Germany, where he drew comics for an Army newspaper.

The country drew closer to Germany and Italy largely because of a shared desire to revise the peace settlements made after World War I.

During the 1930s, because of traditional right-wing elements, Bulgaria drew closer to Nazi Germany.

In Germany, Frank Wedekind introduced the femme-fatale of his first " Lulu " play, Earth Spirit ( 1895 ), in a Pierrot costume ; and when the Austrian composer Alban Berg drew upon the play for his opera Lulu ( unfinished ; first perf.

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

Farrand drew influence in her design from her several tours through Europe, where she visited many notable gardens throughout Italy, France, Germany, and England.

In 1997, Fields conceived an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which drew parallels between the " organized oppression " of Scientologists in Germany and Nazi policies espoused by Germany in the 1930s.

This land drew many immigrants mainly from the countries of Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Belgium.

On October 3, 1918 October, eighteen months after United States Congress declared war on Germany, the Mason County Council of Defense drew up resolution to abandon the use of the German language in the county.

In the war that followed, Philip, who drew his principal support from south Germany, met with considerable success.

The concert drew considerable media coverage, with Kay's fluent German stunning those who did not know beforehand about his growing up in Germany.

He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions of other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.

This role was the first time Kinski drew attention in Germany and internationally.

The biggest club in the league and the organization's bellwether was the New York Cosmos, who drew upwards of 40, 000 fans per game at their height while aging superstars Pelé ( Brazil ) and Franz Beckenbauer ( Germany ) played for them.

Anderson's return to Germany generated press interest, and drew more members of the German aristocracy to her cause.

KTM drew its diesel rolling stock from a multitude of locomotive companies from England, Japan, Canada, and more recently, India, Germany and China.

He drew attention to the ability of the ( then ) new technology of electric power and motorised transport to allow cities to spread and agglomerate together, and gave as examples " Midlandton " in England, the Ruhr in Germany, Randstad in the Netherlands, New York-Boston in the United States, the Greater Tokyo Area and Taiheiyō Belt in Japan and NCR of Delhi in India.

Ayya Khema drew her last breath on November 2, 1997 at Buddha Haus, Uttenbühl ( part of the village Oy-Mittelberg ) in Germany after a brief illness.

Poincaré focused intently on the importance of these eastern Mediterranean colonies, particularly Syria, and thereby drew closer to Germany.

When it was in effect, the law drew criticism from foreign brewers as a form of protectionism that allowed West Germany to prohibit beers from Belgium and England which contained sugars, adjunct grains such as corn and rice, and clarification and fining agents.

As part of his longterm " Blumenkrieg " strategy Hitler drew parallels between the conflict in Spain and the peaceful methods he used to gain control in Germany.

The 1957 murder of the high-class prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt in Frankfurt drew great media attention in postwar Germany.

He lost a match in England to Howard Staunton in 1846 at odds of a pawn and two moves, and drew a match with Adolf Anderssen in Germany in 1848.

The Serbian-Croatian Cvetković-Maček government that came to power, distanced Yugoslavia's former allies of France and the United Kingdom, and moved closer to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the period of 1935 – 1941.

In 1840 Hoffmann wrote a song about the Zollverein, also to Haydn's melody, in which he praised the free trade of German goods which brought Germans and Germany closer.

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

As the Russians ' war against Germany came increasingly closer to defeat, the significance of Finland as a buffer zone protecting Petrograd was highlighted, and the Russians could not allow the Finns to separate from Russia.

Goebbels ’ pogrom thus moved Germany significantly closer to war, at a time when rearmament was still far from complete.

On the basis of Lord Lothian's praise for the natural friendship between Germany and Britain, Ribbentrop informed Hitler that all elements of British society wished for closer ties with Germany.

For Germany, because an autarkic economic approach or an alliance with Britain were impossible, closer relations with the Soviet Union to obtain raw materials became necessary, if not just for economic reasons alone.

Britain opposed such proposals, because they feared the Soviets ' proposed language could justify a Soviet intervention in Finland and the Baltic states, or push those countries to seek closer relations with Germany.

by Richard C. Meredith ( 1976 )-an Alternate United States defeats a Nazi Germany which came much closer to world domination than in our history, but in the aftermath falls under the power of a ruthless home-grown " Prophet ".

Japan's expansionist policies alienated it from other countries in the League of Nations and by the mid-1930s brought it closer to Germany and Italy, who had both pursued similar expansionist policies.

This resulted in Finland being drawn closer to Germany, first with the intent of enlisting German support as a counterweight to thwart continuing Soviet pressure, and later to help regain lost territories.

However, since Austria became a member state of the European Union it has gained closer ties to other European Union economies, reducing its economic dependence on Germany.

He was also cautious towards Germany, and generally unsuccessful in his attempts to establish closer contacts with Poland, the United Kingdom and France.

In a 2000 speech to the American Bar Association, the then party leader, Mary Harney, appeared to express a desire that Ireland become " closer to Boston than Berlin ", adopting US free-market models for economic development, health, education, and other services rather than European Continental models because she believed that the continental countries ( such as Germany and France ), while having more equality had bad economies and high unemployment.

In an interview in 1990, he said, " Germany happened to be closer than England, I went to a Wehrmacht recruiting office to enlist, but it wasn't as easy as I had thought.

Three days later, de Gaulle obtained special permission from Winston Churchill to broadcast a speech via BBC Radio from Broadcasting House over France, despite the British Cabinet's objections that such a broadcast could provoke the Pétain government into a closer allegiance with Germany.

In a 1935 speech the Prince of Wales had called for a closer understanding of Germany in order to safeguard peace in Europe and in response Conservative Party Members of Parliament Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet suggested setting up a study group of pro-German MPs.

Instead of scaring Britain into turning toward Germany, the main result was to increase British fear and hostility and to draw Britain closer to France.

Furthermore, Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the destruction of the Communist Party of Germany following the 27 February 1933 Reichstag fire and Stalin's new " popular front " policy led the PCF to get closer to the SFIO.

It lived in what is now southern Germany in the Late Jurassic period around 150 million years ago, when Europe was an archipelago in a shallow warm tropical sea, much closer to the equator than it is now.