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  • quot; was a direct translation of the German word Papierfalten, brought ... of Origami Austria, available in English and German Category:Art ...
    17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
  • post-doctoral studies in geography. German by birth, Boas worked for ... observant Jews, his parents, like most German Jews, embraced Enlightenment ...
    37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
  • and warlike. They clashed with French, German, British, and American soldiers ... other adjoining islands, became known as German Samoa. The U.S. accepted ...
    18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:51, 6 September 2022
  • The modern day term, Vampire (derivative of the German vampir), usually ... The English word vampire is a derivative of the German vampir, which ...
    26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
  • of the French poem was translated into the Middle German Rolandslied by Konrad der Pfaffe (possible author also of the Kaiserchronik). In his translation ...
    19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
  • and Albişoara Streets. The English language name for the city was based ... struck on November 10 that year. The German and Romanian armies began ...
    21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
  • eend = "duck," eind = "end," German ente = "duck," and ende = "end." This similarity goes back to Indo-European—compare ...
    13 KB (1,960 words) - 17:18, 12 February 2024
  • ) Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by ... Monarchy in France”). During the Franco-German War of 1870–71, he corresponded ...
    23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
  • in works by as Novalis (1772 - 1801), a German romanticist poet, and Baudelaire (1821 – 1867), a French poet, as well as by some philosophers ...
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  • of Islam IV, 318. According to German historian Eduard Glaser, the name "Ka'bah" may have been related to the southern Arabian ...
    10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
  • which means "beloved." The old German name for the city is Laibach. ... spoke Slovene, with most of the rest using German. In 1550, the first two books ...
    26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
  • stems from either the French motiver or the German motivieren. The word first appeared in English in 1904.[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term ...
    18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
  • of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg." ... In 1042 the city was destroyed by German King Henry I. More plight ...
    38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
  • and closely wrought, full of intricate language, but the dominant feature ... school with a view to learning French and German, so that he could take up ...
    17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
  • the League to the rebuilding of the North German town of Lübeck in 1159 by ... German cities achieved domination of trade in the Baltic with striking ...
    33 KB (4,832 words) - 05:08, 25 June 2024
  • to a fundamental "ground rule" (German,Grundnorm) whose universal ... he was three years old, his family, of German-speaking, Jewish and middle ...
    17 KB (2,504 words) - 05:06, 25 June 2024
  • Jewish customs in such areas as dress, language, and music ... In the early 1800s, elements within German Jewry sought to reform ...
    17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
  • Kant’s immediate predecessors, the great German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz ... was a reaction to the intervening systems (German Idealism and Positivism) ...
    26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
  • family spoke mostly Yiddish, but also German, Hungarian, and Romanian ... or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the ...
    25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
  • townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ... two hundred years, and versions exist in German, French, Italian, Dutch, ...
    24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023

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