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10 unusual facts about German


Anti-German

Anti-German sentiment suspicion or hostility towards Germany or the German people

German Party

The German-Hanoverian Party - A regionalist party based in the old Kingdom of Hanover

German-Jordanian University

GJU receives government aid through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) and also the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences are contributing.

German-Malaysian Institute

It was located at Taman Shamelin-Perkasa, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur but has moved to the new campus in Jalan Ilmiah, Taman Universiti, 43000 Kajang, Selangor.

German-Pennsylvanian Association

The first top chairperson was publishing editor Dr. Michael Werner who established the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe and an archive for Pennsylvania Dutch literature in Ober-Olm.

German, Bulgaria

Upon promotion, however, they changed ownership, left German and were renamed PFC Chernomorets Burgas Sofia.

Heinrich Hellwege

Heinrich Peter Hellwege (born August 18, 1908 in Neuenkirchen; died October 4, 1991 in Neuenkirchen) was a German politician (DHP, DP and CDU).

Ibero-German

Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.

Tom Vasel

Originally, Vasel represented players who prefer designer games, while co-host Joe Steadman advocated for those who prefer wargames.

William Le Queux

His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.


1584 in music

Daniel Friderici, German cantor, conductor, and composer (died 1638)

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Apple Creek, Missouri

In the early 1820s German Catholic immigrants from the Baden area were the first to settle Apple Creek.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Banz Abbey

Banz Abbey (German: Kloster Banz), now known as Banz Castle (German: Schloss Banz), is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Bentheim-Tecklenburg

Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German district based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Betley Bridge

During the Second World War the Steyning Line was an important route to move sugar beet from Sussex farms from Henfield station towards the capital, and Betley Bridge was a strategic target for German bombers.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

Bunsenite

It was first described in 1868 for a sample from a hydrothermal nickel-uranium vein from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany and named for German chemist Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811–1899).

Christian Karl Reisig

Christian Karl Reisig (name sometimes given as Karl Christian Reisig; 17 November 1792 – 17 January 1829) was a German philologist and linguist who was a native of Weißensee.

Daniel Alarcón

The German translation of Lost City Radio by Friedericke Meltendorf received the International Literature Award from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Domela

Harry Domela (1905–1978), Latvian-born German impostor who pretended to be a deposed German crown prince

E.M.A.K.

E.M.A.K.'s music was influenced by older German electronic music, from that of Karlheinz Stockhausen to Can, both based in or near Cologne, but was also deliberately different, the band's name even cocking a deliberate snook at Stockhausen's self-appropriation of elektronische Musik.

Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship

Obsolete by the time of the German invasion, both Eidsvold class ships were sunk during the first Battle of Narvik.

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

George Silk

Trapped with the famed Desert Rats at Tobruk in Libya, he was captured by German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces but escaped 10 days later.

Gesenius

Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842), German orientalist, Biblical critic, theologian and Hebraist

Give Me the Music

It's also been covered by the German band Queensberry and released as their debut clip following their success on German Popstars in 2008 and Nicki French is too releasing a version of the song on Energise Records in 2009.

Grenzlandring

The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes Grenzland-Ring written, is a former high-speed race track oval in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch town of Roermond.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

History of U.S. foreign policy

President Wilson vehemently denounced German violations of American neutrality that involved loss of life, most famously in the torpedo attack on the RMS Lusitania in 1915 that killed 128 American civilians but which may have been carrying war munitions.

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (August 30, 1745, Erfurt – August 29, 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

Kennst du die Stars

Bushido and Oliver Pocher poking fun at German celebrities, including Sarah Connor, Mario Barth, Sido and Detlef "D" Soost.

Laurensberg

Beyond the German border, the district borders the Belgian town of Kelmis, in the Province of Liège, as well as the Dutch communities of Vaals, Wittem and Simpelveld, all contained with the Dutch Province of Limburg.

Luise von Ploennies

Luise von Ploennies (7 November 1803 – 22 January 1872) was a German poet born at Hanau, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler.

Marc Armand Ruffer

He was the son of German banker Baron Alphonse Jacques Ruffer and his German wife Caroline.

Martin Buber

--This source says this Martin Buber's birthdate and death is 1878 to 1965 so it has to be the same person-->Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten included the first German translation ever made of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Martin Fischer-Dieskau

Martin Fischer-Dieskau (born 1954) is a German conductor, currently Music Director-Designate of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.

Max Montgelas

The previous year he and Professor Walther Schucking had edited The Outbreak of the World War - German Documents collected by Karl Kautsky (commonly known as the Kautsky Documents) which were published by the Oxford University Press.

Milieu

Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Millowitsch

Peter Millowitsch (born 1949), German actor and current director of Volkstheater Millowitsch

Mittelrhein

Middle Rhine (German: Mittelrhein), the Rhine River between Bingen and Bonn, Germany

Parasite aircraft

After that, this squadron, based in the Crimea, carried out a tactical attack on a bridge over the river Dneiper at Zaporozhye, which had been captured by advancing German troops.

Piero Calamandrei

The German general Albert Kesselring who was responsible for various war crimes during the Nazi occupation of Italy had been sentenced to death, a sentence that was later commuted.

Raunheim station

Raunheim station is a railway station in the town of Raunheim in the German state of Hesse on the Main Railway from Mainz to Frankfurt am Main.

Robert Böhm

Böhm went through his youth playing for various German sides, including the youth departments of KFC Uerdingen 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04.

Sadomania

Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.

Sapper

Here the retreating Ottoman and German rearguard had blown up the bridge's central arch which was repaired in five hours by Sappers attached to the Australian Mounted Division.

Sonia Martínez

But her career was put an end in 1986, when Sonia was in Ibiza filming an episode of the German TV series Großstadtrevier, in what she played the role of a police woman.

Stephan Breuing

Stephan Breuing (born September 21, 1985 in Bochum) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2005.

STN Atlas

STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations.

Taimo Toomast

He has performed as guest soloist in many other German theatres (Gera, Bauzen, Osnabrück, Passau).

The Time Ships

Some time later, a German Messerschmitt plane arrives over the campsite, drops a Carolinum bomb (analogous to an atomic bomb in our world; see Wells's The World Set Free), and devastates the time-traveling Juggernauts and all but twelve of the Force.

V25

Fokker V.17, a version of which was called the "V.25", was an experimental German aircraft designed in the 1910s

Walter Arendt

Walter Arendt (born 17 January 1925 in Heessen; died 7 March 2005 in Bornheim) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Werturteilsstreit

John Dewey - Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung -, 1986 (Published in German 2002 as "Sozialforschung")

XX Corps

XX Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I