When Mary Jane West, later the stage and film star Mae West (1893-1980), was growing up in Brooklyn and Queens she was known as "the German girl." Her mother, Mathilde/Matilda West (née Delker), had been born on 8 December 1870, probably in the Kingdom of Württemberg,...
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Mark Twain in Berlin and Vienna
Mark Twain, whose passport bore the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, crossed the Atlantic Ocean 49 times. In Europe the American writer visited many German-speaking cities, from Berlin to Vienna, and many points in-between. The future globetrotter's first foreign trip...
Alexander von Humboldt: Why Do We Find His Name All Around the Globe and Even on the Moon?
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf Let's start at the beginning. There were several special reasons I wanted to read Wulf's Humboldt biography. I myself have many connections with the Humboldt name, but I did not really known...
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