KALISCHER, TSEVI HIRSCH (1795–1874), rabbi, messianic theorist, and activist. Kalischer spent his entire life in the Posen district of Prussia. He received an intensive education in Talmudic literature and independently studied Jewish...

Prussia (German: Preußen (help·info)[1]; Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Latvian: Prūsija; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Polish: Prusy; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for centuries had...

Never, it seems, has there been so much interest in the ill-fated luxury liner RMS TITANIC. The discovery of the ship at the bottom of the ocean several years ago; and the 75th anniversary of the tragedy in 1987 contributed to a renewed...

January 18th, 1701 PRUSSIA, which was to become a byword for German militarism and authoritarianism, began its history outside Germany altogether. The people called Preussen in German, who inhabited the land on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic, were Slavs, related to...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched a special inspection at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research reactor after a report showed a worker there may have been exposed to a surprisingly high dose of radiation, a spokesman said Monday.On Oct. 17, the university, in...

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand didn't let his club foot stand in the way of success.His aristocratic parents told him the birth defect made him unfit to inherit property or for a military career. His response: What defect?He climbed the social ladder, becoming one of France's...

The military advancements made in Prussia in the 19th century, sparked by the devastating defeats to Napoleon in 1806, would come to influence the composition, training and doctrine of military forces around the world. By closely analysing the defects of the Napoleonic system and reorganizing the flaws in their own methods of war, Prussia would recognize the need to revolutionize the way the art of war was conducted.