In Germany, there are certain restrictions when it comes to choosing a name for a child. The justification: Names should protect the well-being of the child, and some names could possibly defame him or her or evoke potential future violence against the person. The first name: needs to be ...
There’s also discussion of “a recent study by Education First, an international education company, which showed that girls largely outperformed boys in learning English as a non-native language,” as well as various graphs; it’s probably overblown, but I pass it on for what it’s worth....
Last-name-first-name with a romantic but dangerous edge. Berenger Continued Baden Origin: German Meaning: "son of Bade" Description: If Braden and Caden, why not Baden? Baden Continued Bardo Origin: Short form of Bardolph or Aboriginal Meaning: "water" Description: Bardo has a poetic begi...
German Reich (1935-1945) Armored Reconnaissance Car – 339 Built The German Kfz.13, although an initial success as the first serially produced armored car, lacked armor and any fighting capabilities and was never intended for combat use. This led to the need for a new armored car that would...
Fatih Akin’s adaptation of German rap star Xatar’s 2015 autobiography ’All Or Nothing’ has all the bombast of something larger than life. The energy and intensity of the film’s first 20 minutes feels like an onslaught. In the Syria of 2010, Giwar Hajabi, aka Xatar (Sakraya) is ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Book-keeping errors rather than theft are likely to account for more than 60 kilograms of explosives and almost 50,000 rounds of ammunition thought to have disappeared from German special forces' stores in the summer, according to an official report se...
Acapulco– Austrian-born Johnny Weissmuller spent the last years of his life in this port city on Mexico’s Pacific coast. He died there in 1984 and is buried there. Why? Adenauer, Konrad– Germany’s first chancellor Advanced German Words of the Day– We’ve archived previous advanced and...
题目If you ask people to name one person who had the greatest effect on the English language,you will get answers like "Shakespeare" "Samuel Johnson" and "Webster" but none of these men had any effect at all compared with a man who didn't even speak English---Willi...
When Americans visit Europe for the first time,they usually find Germany more “foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does.Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that...
Eugen Levinewas one of the first people to join theSpartacus League. He had been disturbed by the "new wave of national prejudice and chauvinism". His wife,Rosa Levine-Meyer, was shocked when he stated that the war would last "at least eighteen months or two years". This upset his mothe...