The Germans began the war by having U-boats surface to seek the surrender of merchantmen, but the British armed civilian ships, designated them as reserve cruisers, and ordered them to ram any ...

Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate This paper investigates the currency reforms undertaken subsequent to the ...

The gold coins evidence a broad geography hailing from France, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Romania, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Ottoman empire. Curiously, German and Czechoslovakian coins are ...

Ukraine said Friday it had exposed a network of Hungarian spies trying to obtain defense secrets in a border region of Ukraine – the first time it said such an operation has been discovered.

They originated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire when it was ruled by Franz Joseph I. “I found out that these coins did not travel from the Vienna mint to us, but to the Balkans,” he said.“ ...

The expulsion of two Hungarian diplomats came as a tit for tat move following Kyiv’s revelation that Hungarian spies tried to determine the level of local support to a possible invasion by Budapest.

Not everyone is a fan of this passenger-led onboard activity, however. Encouraging cruisers to either keep or re-hide the cruising ducks they find is intended to spread joy and create connections ...

They originated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire when it was ruled by Franz Joseph I. “I found out that these coins did not travel from the Vienna mint to us, but to the Balkans,” he said.

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