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German New Guinea (German: Deutsch-Neuguinea) was an Imperial German protectorate from 1884. German New Guinea consisted of the territories of the northeastern part of New Guinea (German: Kaiser-Wilhelmsland) and the nearby Bismarck Archipelago, consisting of New Britain (German: Neu-Pommern) and New Ireland (German: Neu-Mecklenburg). [1]
World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian dead from causes including genocide. The movement of large numbers of people was a major factor in the deadly Spanish flu pandemic.
Guinea hens weigh more than guinea cocks, possibly because of the larger reproductive organs in the female compared to the male guineafowl. Also, the presence of relatively larger egg clusters in the dual-purpose guinea hens may be a factor that contributes to the higher body weight of the guinea hens.
A multimedia history of World War I; The Heritage of the Great War, Netherlands; Collection of World War I Color Photographs; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and the First World War; World War I : Soldiers Remembered Presented by the Washington State Library and Washington State Archives
The 'Age of Totalitarianism' included nearly all the infamous examples of genocide in modern history, headed by the Jewish Holocaust, but also comprising the mass murders and purges of the Communist world, other mass killings carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, and also the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
This is an order of battle listing the Australian and German Empire forces during the Australian occupation of German New Guinea between September and November 1914. Australian forces [ edit ]
In 1913, the three colonial powers began planning for a joint expedition to New Guinea with the purpose of exploring and mapping the interior of the island via airship. [1] However, the Dutch backed out of the project at its very beginning. Nonetheless, the Germans and English continued on to schedule a planned expedition.
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The rising sun in the Pacific, 1931 – April 1942. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06973-0. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1992). The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05752-4. Obeyesekere, Gananath (1997).