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Verdingkinder. A child slicing Swiss chard leaves prior to drying them on the stove or sun drier, Switzerland, 1917. Verdingkinder, Verdingsbuben, " contract children ", [1] or " indentured child laborers " [2] were children in Switzerland who were removed from their families by the authorities (due to poverty, moral reasons (e.g. the mother ...
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North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns. Hesse: 191 cities and towns. Saxony: 169 cities and towns. Lower Saxony: 159 cities and towns. Rhineland-Palatinate: 130 cities and towns. Thuringia: 117 cities and towns. Brandenburg: 113 cities and towns. Saxony-Anhalt: 104 cities and towns. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 84 cities and towns, see ...
Karl-Johan Persson (grandson) Charlotte Söderström (granddaughter) Tom Persson (grandson) Erling Persson (21 January 1917 – 28 October 2002) was the founder of H&M (Hennes & Mauritz). [1] [2] He got the idea following a post- World War II trip to the United States: He was impressed by the country's efficient, high-volume stores. [2]
H&M. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a multinational clothing company based in Sweden that focuses on fast-fashion clothing. As of 23 June 2022, H&M Group operated in 75 geographical markets with 4,801 stores under the various company brands, with 107,375 [b] full-time equivalent positions.
The Peking Field Force was a modern-armed military unit that defended the Chinese imperial capital Beijing in the last decades of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).. The Force was founded in 1862, two years after the humiliating capture of Beijing and the sack of the Qing emperor's Summer Palace in 1860 by foreign powers at the end of the Second Opium War.
Heidi (/ ˈ h aɪ d i /; German:) is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat).
1. Henry Charles Bukowski ( / buːˈkaʊski / boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. [4]