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However an epizootic outbreak in 1919 reduced the animals to just 50, and the last individuals were poached in 1927. [62] The only captive animal, a male, lived in Germany between 1908 and 1925 and bred with females of the lowland wisent subspecies. As a result, several wisent populations carry its genes today. [63] Carpathian wisent
22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded. Full date unknown Gymnasium Lerchenfeld is founded in Hamburg. [1]
1940 Henry Guttman Germany [s 2] Saint Paul's During the Blitz: July 1940 John Topham: London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Buckingham Palace: 13 September 1940 Cecil Beaton: London, England, United Kingdom [s 2] Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico: 1 November 1941 Ansel Adams: Hernandez, New Mexico, United States [s 1] The Roaring Lion: 30 ...
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
Two haplotypes are found in remains from the Vandal and Byzantine periods: one shared with Iberian bears that could have been introduced by humans, and another unique to Africa. [255] It is not known which type survived until more recent times. 1835: Darwin's large ground finch: Geospiza magnirostris magnirostris: Floreana and San Cristóbal ...
Red squirrel Garden dormouse Common vole Eurasian harvest mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
On 1 March, Nazi Germany took over the region and appointed Josef Bürckel as Reichskommissar für die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes, "Realm Commissioner for the re-union of Saarland". As the new Gau was extended to the Rhine, including the historic Palatinate, the region's name was changed again on 8 April 1940 to Gau Saarpfalz (Saar