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  • 1943, that called for active opposition to German dictator Adolf Hitler's ... Isn’t it true that every honest German is ashamed of his government ...
    22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
  • : German: Genfersee or Genfer See /'gɛnfərˌze:/ ... . Both tribes originally spoke ancient German, but learned Latin because ...
    16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
  • Carnap was born in Ronsdorf, Germany into a north German family that ... Carnap was appointed professor at the German language University of Prague ...
    27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
  • – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate ... familiar classical concepts in a non-mathematical language. ...
    22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
  • The term werewolf is Germanic in origin. In Low German it is werwulf ... upper part like a man.Franz Boas, Race, Language, and Culture (University ...
    17 KB (2,631 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
  • by non-Poles. In the local Kashubian language it is known as Gduńsk. of this name, Danzig, has been used by the German population, as well as in ...
    22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
  • in Beijing. The Spanish, Belgian, and German legations were not in the ... 12,020), French (3,520), American (3,420), German (900), Italian (80), Austro ...
    17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
  • Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ... In university rankings of German magazines and periodicals the Albert ...
    21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
  • #The group identifier, (language-sharing country group) ... 2 for French-speaking countries; 3 for German-speaking countries; 4 for ...
    20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
  • of Romanticism, Grillparzer's poetic language owes far more to the period ... produced what is perhaps the finest of all German love-tragedies. His mastery ...
    15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
  • having taken part in the 1897 anti-German riots in Prague as a schoolboy ... of the Austro-Hungarian bureaucracy. The German-speaking Hapsburgs and their ...
    15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
  • USSR in 1926, and his mother was a Volga German born in Russia. Alfred Schnittke was born in Engels in the Volga-German Republic of ...
    10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
  • In Germany, Blow met Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, and was ... While in Germany, she learned about the German kindergarten model, in which ...
    9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
  • Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher ... was a descendant of Ernst Moritz Arndt, a German patriot who had led the war ...
    16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
  • Walter Lippmann was born on September 23, 1889 in New York City to ... on philosophy and languages (he spoke both German and French) and graduated ...
    12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
  • Kobold is the German word for goblin, and the German version is very similar to the Redcaps of Britain. They are said to haunt mines and underground ...
    13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
  • In the nineteenth century, some German-trained classicists in the United States suggested modification to "Vergil," as it is closer ...
    15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
  • among bards under the name of zongs (German pronunciation of the word ... Vladimir Vysotsky used simple and honest language to illustrate life. Other ...
    11 KB (1,802 words) - 08:06, 20 September 2023
  • flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank ... The German word Flügel translates into English as wing ...
    12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
  • Eastern Francia united most of the German people and began to expand ... Slav campaign was a disaster and Louis the German, a grandson of Holy Roman ...
    16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023

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