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Petroleum Tanker Shipping On German Inland Waterways, 1887-1994, Ingo Heidbrink
Petroleum Tanker Shipping On German Inland Waterways, 1887-1994, Ingo Heidbrink
History Faculty Publications
Tanker shipping today is one of the major branches of German inland navigation. Indeed, the transport of petroleum and its derivatives together comprise nearly twenty percent of total inland shipping; more than 42,000,000 tons of liquid petroleum products were shipped in 1996 by a fleet with a total cargo capacity of more than 500,000 tons.' Tanker shipping is by far the largest kind of specialist transportation on German inland waterways. But because of its very special technical requirements, a high degree of dependence on a small group of shippers, and a number of risks peculiar to this trade, there are …
Jens Christian Jensen And Family: The Story Of An American Pioneer From Denmark And His Family, Lois Eagleton
Jens Christian Jensen And Family: The Story Of An American Pioneer From Denmark And His Family, Lois Eagleton
The Bridge
Family stories, by their very nature, never stop being a work in progress. My mother had kept her family tree for many years, as had her mother before her. When I decided to update what they had done and bring it into the electronic age, I really had no idea what I was getting into. My mother had attempted to keep everything organized over the years. It was organized, sort of, here and there, in drawers, in boxes, on shelves, in closets, stacked on tables, you name it. She had kept everything! Thank goodness she did, for I have found …
Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz
Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz
All Faculty Scholarship
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The Lithuanian-Polish Dispute And The Great Powers, 1918-1923, Peter Ernest Baltutis
The Lithuanian-Polish Dispute And The Great Powers, 1918-1923, Peter Ernest Baltutis
Honors Theses
In the wake of World War I, Europe was a political nightmare. Although the Armistice of 1918 effectively ended the Great War, peace in Eastern Europe was far from assured. The sudden, unexpected end of the war,combined with the growing threat of communist revolution throughout Europe created an unsettling atmosphere during the interwar period.The Great Powers-the victorious Allied forces of France, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States-met at Paris to reconstruct Europe. In particular, the Great Powers had numerous territorial questions to resolve. One of the most fascinating territorial struggles concerned the city of Vilnius (Vilna in Russian, Vilna …