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  • Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century, ...
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  • course of a pilgrimage around 1621, and German surveyor Carsten Niebuhr ... and translated the Babylonian writing and language, working independently of ...
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  • of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918), the German Empire (1871-1918), the Weimar ... lights ("Ampelmännchen" in German). The eastern Ampelmännchen ...
    35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
  • carried out in this, which is an official language. The Kyrgyz language, a ... *The train station, which was built in 1946 by German prisoners of ...
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  • . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. ...
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  • Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer Science ... #039;s Rugby Football Club, French Club, German Club and Drew University ...
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  • First, the ambitious systems of the German Idealists (in particular ... had been largely eclipsed by the German Idealism of Fichte, Schelling ...
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  • Fannie Snavely and Henry Hershey, of German and Swiss heritage, were ... printer who printed publications in German language. Milton, however, had ...
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  • a marriage of convenience. The Italian and German campaigns for national unification ... politics. In fact, although the German language was never officially ...
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  • Adolf Bastian (June 26, 1826 – February 2, 1905) was a German ethnographer ... Museum) and helped establish, in 1878, the German Africa Society of Berlin ...
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  • and "fissures"). Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall ... The German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was one of the ...
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  • were particularly influential in German thought. In France the Port ... was originally published as a doctoral dissertation in 1813. The German ...
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  • 1963) was an outstanding twentieth-century German composer, as well as a violist ... time that he was codifying his musical language, his teaching began to be ...
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  • Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... of Auschwitz, which at the time was under German occupation. The Auschwitz ...
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  • In 1904, German scholars excavating at the ancient site of the Manichaean ... Additionally, in the early 1900s, German researchers found a large ...
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  • to Old English gos with the plural gés, German Gans and Old Norse gas. Other ... * Crystal, D. 1998. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge ...
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  • of the best-preserved city centers in the German-speaking world, and was listed ... and were the leading ecclesiastics of the German-speaking world. ...
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  • revolutions abroad (crucially the German revolutions of 1919, but ... all conceivable circumstances, if the German revolution does not come ...
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  • Most speak a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch at home and ... The large majority of Amish are united by a common Swiss-German ancestry ...
    35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
  • The word miscegenation quickly entered the common language of the ... und der deutschen Ehre (Protection of German Blood and German Honor Act ...
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