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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.
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 ...
Woellke won the British AAA Championships title in the shot put event at the 1937 AAA Championships. [3] [4] [5] He won a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships. [6] Woellke served with the Order Police. During World War II, he was a captain in the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 attached to a regiment in the Waffen-SS.
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 ...
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
Yemisi Ogunleye (born 3 October 1998) is a German shot putter. She won the gold medal in the shot put at the 2024 Paris Olympics with 20.00 metres in the last round. Early life
According to the orthography in use in German prior to the German orthography reform of 1996, ß was written to represent : word internally following a long vowel or diphthong: Straße, reißen; and; at the end of a syllable or before a consonant, so long as is the end of the word stem: muß, faßt, wäßrig. [10]: 176
Allows the shot to drop below their shoulder or outside the vertical plane of their shoulder during the put. At any time if the shot loses contact with the neck then it is technically an illegal put. During the putting motion, touches with any part of the body (including shoes): the top or ends of the toe board; the top of the iron ring