Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

For some time the Communists honored the distinction between the Soviet zone of Germany and the Soviet sector of Berlin by promulgating separately the laws for the two areas.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself a tributary of the Rhine, which it surpasses in volume when the two rivers unite at Koblenz ( Switzerland ), opposite Waldshut, Germany.

He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

( The Western Schism had begun in 1378 and there were two competing popes at the time, one in Avignon supported by France and Spain, and one in Rome supported by most of Italy, Germany and England.

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

On 3 October 1990, the two parts of Germany were reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin again became the official German capital.

No fewer than 17 Michelin starred restaurants are located in the region, among them two restaurants with 3 stars ( Restaurants Bareiss and Schwarzwaldstube in Baiersbronn ) as well as the only restaurant in Germany that has been awarded a Michelin star every year since 1966.

The Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris and the Zwinger museum in Dresden, Germany, exhibit two of his original mechanical calculators.

Within two days following the assassination, Austria-Hungary and Germany advised Serbia that they should open an investigation, but Serbian Foreign Minister Gruic, speaking for Serbia replied, " Nothing had been done so far, and the matter did not concern the Serbian Government ," after which " high words " were spoken on both sides.

Basel is located at the meeting point of France, Germany and Switzerland and has numerous road and rail crossings between Switzerland and the other two countries.

Alan Stivell at Nuremberg, Germany, 2007Celtic music means two things mainly.

In Germany, the coalitions rarely consist of more than two parties ( where CDU and CSU, two non-competing parties which always form a single caucus, are in this regard considered a single party ).

Until the two World Wars, in most European countries the political class was formed by conservative liberals, from Germany to Italy.

The CWC has been held every two years since 2001, and to date the competition has been held in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

One who had to leave Germany, Paul Bernays, had collaborated with Hilbert in mathematical logic, and co-authored with him the important book Grundlagen der Mathematik ( which eventually appeared in two volumes, in 1934 and 1939 ).

In fact Germany never distinguished between the two types, giving them pennant numbers in the same series and never giving names to destroyers.

The main three export destinations were Bulgaria with 15. 2 percent of total exports, followed by Germany with 14. 2 percent and Russia with 13. 9 percent.

Raw minerals were the main export sent to Bulgaria and Germany.

The administrative law in Germany can be divided into three main parts, which are constitutional law,

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

The main sources for gem material are Brazil and the U. S .. Australia, France, Germany, Namibia, Norway, and Spain have also produced gem quality amblygonite.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

The British Army of the Rhine was the Germany garrison formation, with the main fighting force being I ( BR ) Corps.

Particularly since hardliners among the monarchs were the main adversaries, demands for freedom of the press and other liberal rights were most often uttered in connection with the demand for a united Germany, even though many revolutionaries-to-be had different opinions whether a republic or a constitutional monarchy would be the best solution for Germany.

Eritrea ’ s main suppliers were the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Germany, and Belgium.

Erfurt () is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover.

Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.

Image: European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany-main gate. jpg | European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, old main gate.

This situation changed after 1974 when the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen ( Film and Television Accord ) was agreed between the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board ( a government body created in 1968 to support film-making in Germany ).

In all federal election campaigns since the 1980s, the party sided with the CDU and CSU, the main conservative parties in Germany.

Power plants burning lignite are one of the main sources of electricity in Germany.

Contrary to popular belief, the Marshall Plan, which was extended to also include Western Germany after it was realized that the suppression of the Western German economy was holding back the recovery of the rest of Europe, was not the main force behind the Wirtschaftswunder.

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

Pork, beef, and poultry are the main varieties of meat consumed in Germany, with pork being the most popular.

Germany became the main theatre of war and the scene of the final conflict between France and the Habsburgs for predominance in Europe.

Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870 — when Prussia and the German states smashed France — would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France.

In republics with a parliamentary system ( such as India, Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel ) the head of state is usually titled " president " or its equivalent, but the main functions of such a president are ceremonial, as opposed to the president in a presidential or semi-presidential system.

Emperor Frederick II spent little time in Germany as his main concerns lay in Southern Italy.

He came to see the lethargic and demoralized Göring, still Germany ’ s economic supremo as head of the Four Year Plan Ministry, as his main enemy.