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The breed was first officially recognized as the "American Eskimo" as early as 1919 by the American United Kennel Club (UKC), and the first written record and history of the breed was printed in 1958 by the UKC. [5] At that time there was no official breed club and no breed standard, and dogs were accepted for registration as single dogs, based ...
Relatively few place names in the United States have names of German origin, unlike Spanish or French names. Many of the German town names are in the Midwest, due to high German settlement in the 1800s. Many of the names in New York and Pennsylvania originated with the German Palatines (called Pennsylvania Dutch), who immigrated in the 18th ...
Pages in category "German communities in the United States" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
Three puppies discovered abandoned in a dumpster in California are working toward a fresh start. An individual found the three young German Shepherds in a dumpster at a business park in San Dimas ...
The German Spitz (German: Deutscher Spitz) is a breed of spitz-type dogs from Germany.It is considered a single breed, with five distinct varieties based on size and colour: the Wolfsspitz/Keeshond, the Giant Spitz or Großspitz, the Medium Spitz or Mittelspitz, the Miniature Spitz or Kleinspitz and the Pomeranian or Zwergspitz ("Dwarf Spitz").
It is called "Dutch" from Deutsch, i.e., "German", as it was the southern center of German-American settlement in St. Louis in the early 19th century. [2] It was the original site of Concordia Seminary (before it relocated to Clayton, Missouri ), Concordia Publishing House , Lutheran Hospital, and other German community organizations.
Missouri communities motivated by the war attempted to outlaw German, and campaigned to change street names from "offensive-sounding" German to acceptable American names. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Hermann German is a form of Rhenish German ( German : Rheindeutsch ), and there are other German settlements and German American farms where German is still ...