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In 1875, civil marriages were introduced as the only legal form. A couple could still get married in a church but only after they had had a state ceremony to make the marriage official in law. This shows very clearly that the Kulturkampf
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“The trauma of the First World War can be compared to that of the Thirty Years’ War, which had begun exactly 300 years earlier. A collective catastrophe that would fuel a shared sense of national defiance.”
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
“The economic war was lost for Germany as soon as the first shot was fired in August 1914.”
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
“The KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River’s mouth, is one of the African tongues whose traces linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans today on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia.”
― King Leopold's Ghost
― King Leopold's Ghost
“Thus Flottenpolitik and Weltpolitik gained Germany a small array of colonies and the second-largest navy in the world in exchange for diplomatic isolation and looming economic catastrophe.”
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
― Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
“Fields & Carmine closed the office for the rest of the week and on Sunday we all cried at his funeral. Then on Monday we all went back to work and settled back into a new routine, a routine where one of our coworkers was dead, and that was the end of James Cronin.”
― Come Closer
― Come Closer
Thomas’s 2025 Year in Books
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