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Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
18, code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8. [12] 88, code for "Heil Hitler", a phrase used in the Nazi salute. [13] Also used as a reference to the "88 Precepts", a manifesto written by white supremacist David Lane.
Neo-Nazis use the number 88 as an abbreviation for the Nazi salute Heil Hitler. [11] The letter H is eighth in the alphabet, whereby 88 becomes HH. [12] Often, this number is associated with the number 14, e.g. 14/88, 14-88, or 1488; this number symbolizes the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane, a prominent white supremacist. [13]
The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. [1] It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci , the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal , with the name given by German ...
[86] [87] [88] Hitler, Ludendorff and a number of others were arrested and were tried for treason in March 1924. Hitler and his associates were given very lenient prison sentences. While Hitler was in prison, he wrote his semi-autobiographical political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle").
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
The butterfly genus Diaethria, which has an 88-like pattern on its wings; The butterfly genus Callicore, which has an 88-like pattern on its wings; 88, a neo-Nazi symbol and code number for "Heil Hitler," based on "H" being the eighth letter of the alphabet; 88 Thisbe, a main-belt asteroid; Oldsmobile 88, a full-sized car produced by General Motors
The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.