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The Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20 was a product of the innovative Zeppelin Airship company. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, founder of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH (Zeppelin Airship Construction Co.) was himself a major aeronautical innovator, creator of the groundbreaking giant aluminium alloy framed Zeppelin lighter than air dirigible airships and later developer of a series of R-Planes.
For some scholars, including whig historians and the Marxist scholar E. H. Carr, history is a key to understanding the present [17] and, in Carr's case, shaping the future. [18] Certain historians also argue that the purpose of history is to explain change and causes of events, concerns which, in their view, distinguish the historian from the ...
October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 88 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. AD 23 ...
[4] 1911 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy. 1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal. 1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the ...
The Battle of Agincourt (/ ˈ æ dʒ ɪ n k ɔːr (t)/ AJ-in-kor(t); [a] French: Azincourt) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War.It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France.
The official name was Deutsche Demokratische Republik ('German Democratic Republic'), usually abbreviated to DDR (GDR). Both terms were used in East Germany, with increasing usage of the abbreviated form, especially since East Germany considered West Germans and West Berliners to be foreigners following the promulgation of its second constitution in 1968.
4 is a 2004 Russian drama film directed by Ilya Khrzhanovsky after a screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin. [1] Originally it was conceived as a short film, but turned into a full-length film after four years of work.
Apolipoprotein E (Apo-E) is a protein involved in the metabolism of fats in the body of mammals. A subtype is implicated in Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular diseases. [5] It is encoded in humans by the gene APOE. Apo-E belongs to a family of fat-binding proteins called apolipoproteins.