The new "Tatort: The Great Fear" (March 23, 8:15 PM on Das Erste) from the Black Forest begins with an unusual scene: a man has died in a completely overcrowded cable car gondola. The crime scene ...

In both eras, the proliferation of economic sanctions and embargoes caused great powers to fear that they would be cut off ...

This is what is known as the Grande Peur (the Great Fear). Ironically, the revolutionary movement had begun with a confrontation between the crown and the upper classes when the latter refused to ...