Best Answer: it's the eye of horus. but now modern women wear it as a pendant to keep away evil eyes. ie., envy that can hurt just by looking at the envied object. eastern women are obsessed with this idea, so you see so many wearing this eye to distract the eye of the one who grudges. it works, trust me.
History & Culture. Zimmermann Telegram - Origins: As World War I ground on, Germany began assessing options for striking a decisive blow. Unable to break the British blockade of the North Sea with its surface fleet, the German leadership decided to return to a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
For everyone that's saying it was because a German U-boat sunk the Luisitania, you're wrong. We didn't enter the war until 2 years later. Two of the biggest reasons US entered WWI was because... 1.) The Sussex Plead was violated by Germans. The Sussex pledge was the post fixation after they sunk the Lusitania. 2.) US heard the Zimmerman note in 1917 The Zimmerman note was basically Germans asking Mexico to invade the US to keep the US occupied.