Die Kaiserliche Marine und der Venusdurchgang von 1874

[Werner Presber]

Die Kaiserliche Marine und der Venusdurchgang von 1874: http:// 
www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/bilder_dokumente/01567/ 
index.html.de



The Kaiserliche Marine or Imperial Navy was the German Navy
             created by the formation of the German Empire. It  
existed between
             1871 and 1919, growing out of the Prussian Navy and  
Norddeutsche
             Bundesmarine. Kaiser Wilhelm II greatly expanded the  
Navy, causing
             a naval arms race between the German Empire and the  
British Empire.
             The navy was largely destroyed at Scapa Flow in 1919 by  
its own
             officers after the loss of the land war on the Western  
Front of
             World War I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserliche_Marine

see also: Subject: AtDTDA: 19 Back to Normal [519]: http://waste.org/ 
mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0710&msg=121809&keywords=Kaiserliche%20% 
20Venusdurchgang


. . . .whatever the hell that means down here. Kit is below decks as the
Stupendica/Maximilian stabilizes. Kit finds himself on the His Majesty's
dreadnought, "Emperor Maximillian"