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Hitler referred to the Danube as the "river of the future". [15] At other times he was more explicit about its role in the German-dominated Europe: The Danube is the waterway which leads into the very heart of the continent, and for this reason, in a Europe united by us, will have to be regarded as a German river and controlled by Germany.
The Blue Onion pattern was designed by Johann Gregor Herold in 1739 likely inspired by a Chinese bowl from the Kangxi period. The pattern it was modelled after by Chinese porcelain painters, featured pomegranates unfamiliar in Saxony, so the plates and bowls produced in the Meissen factory in 1740 created their own style and feel.
Jules Verne's The Danube Pilot (1908) (Le Pilote du Danube) depicts the adventures of fisherman Serge Ladko as he travels down the river. In the Star Trek universe, the Danube-class runabout is a type of starship used by the Federation Starfleet, featured prominently in the Deep Space Nine series. Miklós Jancsó's film the Blue Danube Waltz (1992)
The first Blue Danube was delivered to stockpile at RAF Wittering in November 1953 although there were no aircraft equipped to carry it until the following year. No. 1321 Flight RAF was established at RAF Wittering in April 1954 as a Vickers Valiant unit to integrate the Blue Danube nuclear weapon into RAF service.
Britain and France, however, were less idealistic. Ignoring the fact that they had agreed in 1938 to turn the European Commission of the Danube over to the river-bordering powers (headed by Nazi Germany), they insisted that the Convention of 1921 was still in force and that their rights could not be abolished without their consent. [2]: 51
Commemorative plaque at a lighthouse in Sulina, Tulcea county, Romania, built by the European Commission along with river dykes and completed in November 1870. The European Commission of the Danube was the first — and for a long time the only — international body to have serious police and juridical powers over private vessels and individual people, and it was seen in 1930, for example, by ...
Map of most important tributaries of the Danube. This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance.. The Danube is Europe's second-longest river.It starts in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers—the Brigach and the Breg—which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing generally eastwards for a distance of some 2,850 km ...
www.ddsg-blue-danube.at The Erste Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft ( German pronunciation: [ˈeːɐ̯stə ˈdoːnaʊ ˌdampf ˌʃɪffaːɐ̯ts ɡəˌzɛlʃaft] , literally First-Danube-Steamboat-Shipping Company ) or DDSG was a shipping company founded in 1829 by the Austrian government for transporting passengers and cargo on the Danube .