The word ârhinocerosâ means ânose-hornâ. This relates to the long horn or two long horns in the case of the White Rhinoceros and the Black Rhinoceros, which is perched on top of their noses. Two species of rhinoceros are native to Africa and three to southern Asia.he Indian Rhinoceros is endangered, with fewer that 2500 individuals remaining in the wild. The White Rhinoceros is classed as Vulnerable, with roughly 14,500 remaining in the wild. Rhinoceroses are âperissodactlsâ, which means âodd toed ungulatesâ.
Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) A Polish town lies in ruins following the German invasion of Poland, which began on September 1, 1939. â National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. In the first phase of World War II in Europe, Germany sought to avoid a long war.
To determine when the Holocaust began one has to at least raise the issue of what was the Holocaust. Wanton killings began, arguably, with, as one Answerer suggests, Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass, when, for one night--November 10, 1938--all of Germany became a mob scene.Actually, they began before that.ome people say that the holocaust was made possible with the passage of the Nuhremburg laws that essentially stripped Jews of their civil rights in Germany in 1933. The state sponsored violence against Germany's Jews began in earnest in November 1938 with Kristallnacht.