Not really. The British focused on their colonies and only involved themselves in continental affairs when they had to. The Russians had plenty of challenges at home. The Bolsheviks took over in just a few years.

The Germans, on the other hand, had recently unified and had just gone to war and annexed large bits of France and Denmark and Poland. Germany was expansionist at the time. The other major powers were not.

What an insightful and original comment!

There were many ways what started as a regional conflict could have been deescalated. Wilhelm was the primary reason it wasn’t.

Seriously. Started a world war because he thought it was Germany’s turn to have an empire.

I don’t think it was only southern states. As you can see here it was also in California. Dinner was the largest meal of the day, usually served at lunchtime. Supper was a lighter evening meal.

I think rural people had largest meal at noon. City people had largest meal after getting home from work.

So as people become more urbanized dinner became synonymous with the evening meal.

Is there any egg in that carbonara?

They are crossing their fingers and hoping polygamy is next.

Look straight out of a can.