The name "Sequoia" was coined in 1847 by Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher in honor of the Cherokee leader Sequoyah (c. 1770–1843), who invented the Cherokee syllabary.
The abbey of Saint Gall (in German Sankt Gallen) was founded in the year 613 in the town that today bears his name in Switzerland by an Irish monk, Gallus of Hibernia. It would be one of the main Benedictine monasteries in Europe for many centuries. It flourished under the patronage of Pepin the S
Panzer Division (Panzer Division) Kurmark was one of the units of the last days of the Hitlerite Third Reich. It was named after the homonymous region of Brandenburg. The division began to be formed in January 1945 from the remnants of the Langeit Brigade and the Replacement Brigade of the famous Gr
Michiel de Ruyter Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (° 24 March 1607, † 29 April 1676) is the most famous admiral in Dutch history. De Ruyter fought in the first three Anglo-Dutch wars and won several resounding victories. In addition, he was active in various conflicts on the Baltic Sea and against p
February 21, 1770 (Phalsbourg) - November 27, 1838 (Paris) Mouton, Georges, Count of Lobau Elected lieutenant by the volunteers of Meurthe, captain in November 1792, aide-de-camp to General Meynier a year later, Mouton left the Army of the Rhine in 1795 for Italy and served there on Jouberts st