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The Borchardt C-93 Was the First Mass-Produced Semiautomatic Pistol
The C-93 pistol was designed and invented in 1893 by Hugo Borchardt (June 6, 1844-May 8, 1924), who was born in Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (the present-day capital of the German state Saxony ...
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What’s So Great About Frederick? The Warrior King of Prussia
For all Frederick loathed the military rigidity of his father, by 1786 (the year he died) Prussia had a 195,000-strong army—a huge force for the small kingdom that had become the envy of Europe.
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Heinrich Campendonk
He was associated with the Der Blaue Reiter movement. Born in 1889 in Krefeld, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, he studied at the Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule. His work was influenced by Johan ...