I dont think germany was seen as much more internally unified as italy.

I think they did an overall better job post unification to bind the people together under one identity. Like universal conscription sending you across the country, or a far more integrated economic system, with railroads spanning the length of the whole country instead of just connecting important points or all leading to the capital like france.

But especially at the beginning, germans didnt see themselves as just german either. Best example there is is probably elsas. Troops that were stationed there from other parts of germany had rude derogatory terms for the populace and looked at them more like an occupied people then equalls in germany. Due to this and a huge economic issue being in the german market instead of the french one all of the sudden, lead to Elsas germans not really feeling as a core part of germany.

Remember, elsas was 80%+ german speaking when they got annexed in 1871 and after that more then 50000 people left to go to france, presumably almost all french speaking to make this german majority even more decisive. Meaning that even a region with a vast majority of german speaking people, was still not well integrated and seen as "truely german". Elsas unlike the Saarland which the french also tried annexing after WW1 and 2, didnt show major resistance to being integrated into france. These regions are right next to each other and had about the same percentage of germans, yet the desire to rejoin germany was massively apart.

Another factor that leads to bigger regional devides is geography. Italy is very mountanous. The po valley is the only continous chunk of properly usable land for mass industry, with the rest being scattered down the boot, all cut apart by pretty extreme mountain ranges, for an industrialising nation. We see it in Afghanistan, Iran/Persia, China, Spain, anywhere to mountanous basically, that regions are culturally and economically more seperated. Meanwhile all of north germany, 2/3rds of the empire was on the european flatland connected by the rhine to the south west. meaning this area is very easily traversable and not easily geographically ripped apart. The part of germany this applies the least for is Bavaria and fittingly its the most distinct part of germany, being closer to austrian dialect then a vast majority of germany.

Italys divide is north to south. The richer far more industries north seperating itself from the more rural south, economically and historically. While the seperation partys are very unlikely to win, they have a better chance at succeding then most other partys promoting breakaway nations in europe.

Germany usually also has a north south divide, protestant and flat north, vs catholic, mountainous south, though this changed with the cold war. Artifically, the biggest difference is now between west and east. One far poorer and linguisticly different with a very noticable way of speaking. This slowly fades away since the decades of reunification as generations pass, but it shows how man made circumstances can also create a divide that shouldnt usually be there. Same with austria, for as long as german is a concept its obvious austria belongs in there, yet WW1 and 2 lead to a seperation, which lead to austrians to no longer be seen as just yet another group of germans, like saxons or bavarians. They speak the same language, plenty of TV broadcasts are used for both nations, as both understand it, they are tied together throghout 95% of their history, yet these days saying austrian is german feels just a bit to brown to mention in public. Again, man made distinctions in cultural regions.

So, back to Italy and Germany. I think the difference in unifying regional cultures wasnt as big as you may think, and the advantage that was there by the germans, can be mainly lead to industrialisation and prosperity. Things like railways made the world smaller, and the more there are, the closer the people a state over feel to you. Making your country, feel like one big natural region, instead of a bunch of seperate ones artificially strung together.

Germany was probably at least as divided as Italy (Germany was also divided between between protestant and catholic whereas italy was almost 100% catholic). But Germany had a much more powerful and competent state and a much better pitch to its citizens- being the richest and most dynamic european economy and all- which allowed it to paper over the differences.

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So basically it was a Roman building that could have handled big purchases, there was a bunch of inflation at the time so they needed more coins for better purchasing power. The coins that were minted later had less silver content so mostly coins of a certain type were kept.

Wham-O seems to be the king of owning trademarks for names you didn't even realize were trademarked. I guess that speaks pretty badly for their brand awareness.

I always chuckle when I see a Subaru ad touting how their cars are "made with love."

The same corporation also makes attack helicopters. Also, I presume, made with love.

Because Bismarck had a plan. Bismark always had a plan

They should have made it operate in the exact same way as a similar looking toy gun, to train people on how to use the real one.

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All Catholics in Prussia

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it makes perfect sense lol, you very often see companies that do manufacturing dip into various fields

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Sadly, stories like this can be found in much more modern settings as well.

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Southern Italy was also conquered by the Normans at one point too.

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Singer sewing machines made M1 rifles and 1911 pistols, and even IBM made M1s in WWII. GM did liberator stampings.

Heck, Packard built the merlin engines for the P51 Mustangs, and did it better than Rolls Royce after they standardised all the drawings and parts.

Sherman tanks had Chrysler engines. Basically, if your company had equipment and workers, the war department would tell you what you were needed and allowed to make.

It's better than bad, it's good!

Daisy (the "you'll shoot your eye out kid" pellet gun company) made a few firearms as well. IIRC, both a 22 pistol and a 22 rifle, of which the magazines for the latter are harder to find than the rifles.

What goes down stairs, over in pairs and runs over your neighbors dog? 🎶

Discraft Ultrastar ftw

One reason I've read is that the Church, a major player in Italian politics and culture, threw an absolute hissy fit over having to give up the Papal States to King Victor Emmanuel's control. Pius IX locked himself in the Vatican and claimed he was a prisoner leading to a lot of division and turmoil not only among Italy's heavily Catholic population but with Catholics worldwide. It was Mussolini who eventually signed an agreement with the Church to create Vatican City and essentially making it a country within a country.

WAMO stood for "Weapons Ammunition Murderous Objects"