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The German Shepherd Dog, one of the most popular breeds of domestic animal, was created between the 1890s and World War I by a circle of enthusiasts in Imperial Germany. The GSD movement was a consciously nationalist program of blending herding breeds from Central Europe to create a single ideal embodying what the founders considered German virtues...
The top hat was originally a country gentleman's hat that became first an emblem of a new democratic order, then a near-universal, then a popular symbol of inequality and domination. One reason for the type's persistence was alertness of nineteenth-century Europeans and North Americans to the significance of countless shifting permutations. Its fas...