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  2. Zimmermann telegram - Wikipedia

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    The Zimmermann telegram (or Zimmermann note or Zimmermann cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917, that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.

  3. Zimmerman (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German Zimmermann, meaning "carpenter" (literally "room man"). The modern German terms for carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used. It is also commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews.

  4. World War I cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The decoding by British Naval intelligence of the Zimmermann telegram helped bring the United States into the war. Trench codes were used by field armies of most of the combatants (Americans, British, French, German) in World War I. [1] The most commonly used codes were simple substitution ciphers. More important messages generally used ...

  5. Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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    Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. [1] The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer , Tischler , or Schreiner , but Zimmermann is still used. A variant of Zimmermann is Zimmerman .

  6. Berlin Conference (March 26-27, 1917) - Wikipedia

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    [Note 1] The Berlin Conference of 26–27 March 1917 was the second governmental meeting between Arthur Zimmermann and Ottokar Czernin , the German and Austro-Hungarian foreign ministers, under the chairmanship of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg .

  7. Zimmer (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Zimmerman, Zimmermann, Zimerman, Simmerman, Timmerman Zimmer is German surname meaning "room" or "chamber". Derivative names include Zimmermann ( Zimmerman ), the occupational surname meaning Carpenter , literally translated "room man" (i.e. someone who builds wooden structures to be lived in).

  8. Song for Bob Dylan - Wikipedia

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    While there is debate as to whether the tribute to Bob Dylan is a eulogy or a "harangue", [1] Bowie invokes Dylan-esque musical progressions in "Song for Bob Dylan." The song is in A major and the "Dylanesque, though neither passively imitative nor parodistic" [6] coda is described as "attain[ing] ectasy when...electric guitar weaves tipsy arabesques over broken chord pulses on two acoustic ...

  9. Sussex pledge - Wikipedia

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    SS Sussex at Boulogne after being torpedoed in March 1916. The entire forepart of the ship was destroyed in the attack. The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the latter entered World War I.