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Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
The word "motor sled" [10] is colloquial term for a snowmobile; The Inuit qamutiik is uniquely adapted for travel on the sea ice. [11] The pulk (or ahkio) is a traditional sled of the Lapland region, used for expeditions, mountain rescue, and cold weather military units to haul equipment, supplies, and passengers. Rescue toboggan, developed ...
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
Electric cars perform less well in cold weather. Lower ambient temperatures affect an EV’s range, but also how quickly the battery charges and how effective its regenerative braking system works.
In the renewable energy sector, a dunkelflaute (German: [ˈdʊŋkəlˌflaʊtə] ⓘ, lit. ' dark doldrums ' or ' dark wind lull ', plural dunkelflauten) [1] is a period of time in which little or no energy can be generated with wind and solar power, because there is neither wind nor sunlight. [2] [3] [4] In meteorology, this is known as ...
When you hear the word “training” in terms of weather, don’t think of it as training for a marathon, but rather train cars on a rail line. Sometimes storms can mimic train cars by following ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
Lichtenstein – German airborne radar used for nightfighting, in early UHF-band BC and C-1 versions, and later VHF-band SN-2 and SN-3 versions. Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz – German cipher machine. Lorenz (navigation) – pre-war blind-landing aid used at many airports. Most German bombers had the radio equipment needed to use it. "Los!" – "Go ...