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The United States Army ( USA ) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land - based military operations . It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution , Article 2 , Section 2 , Clause 1 and United States Code , Title 10 , Subtitle B , Chapter 301 , Section 3001 . As the largest and senior branch of the U . S . military , the modern U . S . Army has its roots in the Continental Army , which was formed ( 14 June 1775 ) to fight the ___MASK4___ Revolutionary War ( 1775  1783 ) before the U . S . was established as a country . After the Revolutionary War , the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 , to replace the disbanded Continental Army . The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army , and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775 . The University of Chicago ( U of C , Chicago , or UChicago ) is a private research university in Chicago , Illinois . It is one of the world ' s leading and most influential institutions of higher learning , with top - ten positions in numerous rankings and measures . Social Action ( AS ), previously known as Freedom of Action (" Libertà di Azione ", LdA ), was a national - conservative political party in ___MASK28___ , founded and led by maverick ___MASK85___ Alessandra Mussolini , who is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini . The party became a faction within Silvio Berlusconi ' s People of Freedom party . Karl Emil Maximilian " Max " Weber ( 21 April 1864  14 June 1920 ) was a Prussian and German sociologist , philosopher , jurist , and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research . Weber is often cited , with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx , as among the three founders of sociology . Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism , arguing for the study of social action through interpretive ( rather than purely empiricist ) means , based on understanding the purpose and meaning that individuals attach to their own actions . Unlike Durkheim , he did not believe in monocausality and rather proposed that for any outcome there can be multiple causes . Dirk Kaesler ( born in Wiesbaden on 19 October 1944 as Dirk Käsler ) is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert . Now retired , he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg . He is the author of Max Weber : An Introduction to his Life and Work , first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988 . ___MASK75___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK75___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK75___ is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK75___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Philip I , Landgrave of Hesse ( 13 November 1504  31 March 1567 ), nicknamed "" (" the magnanimous ") was a leading champion of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in ___MASK75___ . ___MASK5___ was a historic state originating out of the Duchy of ___MASK5___ and the ___MASK57___ , and centred on the region of ___MASK5___ . For centuries , the House of ruled ___MASK5___ , successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well - organised and effective army . ___MASK5___ , with its capital in and from 1701 in Berlin , shaped the history of ___MASK75___ . In 1871 , German states united to create the German Empire under Prussian leadership . In November 1918 , the monarchies were abolished and the nobility lost its political power during the German Revolution of 1918  19 . The Kingdom of ___MASK5___ was thus abolished in favour of a republic  the Free State of ___MASK5___ , a state of ___MASK75___ from 1918 until 1933 . From 1933 , ___MASK5___ lost its independence as a result of the Prussian coup , when the Nazi regime was successfully establishing its ' laws in pursuit of a unitary state . With the end of the Nazi regime , the division of ___MASK75___ into allied - occupation zones and the separation of its territories east of the line , which were incorporated into Poland and the Soviet Union , the State of ___MASK5___ ceased to exist de facto in 1945 . ___MASK5___ existed "" until its formal liquidation by the Allied Control Council Enactment No . 46 of 25 February 1947 . Wiesbaden is a city in central western ___MASK75___ and the capital of the federal state of Hesse . In July 2016 , it had about 288 , 000 inhabitants , plus approximately 19 , 000 United States citizens ( mostly associated with the United States Army ). The Wiesbaden urban area is home to approx . 560 , 000 people . Hesse or Hessia (, Hessian dialect : " Hesse " ) is a federal state (" Land ") of the Federal Republic of ___MASK75___ , with just over six million inhabitants . The state capital is Wiesbaden ; the largest city is Frankfurt am Main . Until the formation of the German Reich in 1871 , Hesse was an independent country ruled by a Grand Duke ( Grand Duchy of Hesse ). Due to divisions after World War II , the modern federal state does not cover the entire cultural region of Hesse which includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse ( Rheinhessen ) in the neighbouring state of Rhineland - Palatinate . A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure - track faculty to continuously engage in research , as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure . Such universities can be recognized by their strong focus on innovative research and the prestige of their brand names . On the one hand , research universities strive to recruit faculty who are the most brilliant minds in their disciplines in the world , and their students enjoy the opportunity to learn from such experts . On the other hand , new students are often disappointed to realize their undergraduate courses at research universities are overly ___MASK81___ and fail to provide vocational training with immediate " real world " applications ; but many employers value degrees from research universities because they know that such coursework develops fundamental skills like critical thinking . The Philipp University of Marburg , was founded in 1527 by Philip I , Landgrave of Hesse ( usually called the Magnanimous , although the updated meaning " haughty " is sometimes given ) as one of ___MASK75___ ' s oldest universities , dating back to a Protestant foundation . As a state university it no longer has any religious affiliation . Karl Marx ( 5 May 1818  14 March 1883 ) was a German - born scientist , philosopher , economist , sociologist , journalist , and revolutionary socialist . Born in Trier to a middle - class family , he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy . As an adult , Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in ___MASK71___ , England , where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works , the most well - known being the 1848 pamphlet " The Communist Manifesto ". His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual , economic , and political history . David Émile Durkheim (; April 15 , 1858  November 15 , 1917 ) was a French sociologist , social psychologist and philosopher . He formally established the ___MASK81___ discipline and  with Karl Marx and Max Weber  is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology .