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  2. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    In Germany, the word usually simply means 'habitat' Nazi, short for Nationalsozialist (National Socialist) Neanderthal (modern German spelling: Neandertal), for German Neandertaler, meaning "of, from, or pertaining to the Neandertal ("Neander Valley")", the site near Düsseldorf where early Homo neanderthalensis fossils were first found.

  4. German toponymy - Wikipedia

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    See also: German naming convention of Polish town names during World War II as an analogy. [1]-au, -aue (related to rivers or water), see German words Au or Aue. This meaning of -au (earlier spelling ow, owe, ouwe) describes settlements by streams and rivers. Examples: Passau, the town Aue, rivers named Aue.

  5. List of German abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...

  6. Nutbush City Limits - Wikipedia

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    "Nutbush City Limits" is a semi-autobiographical song written by Tina Turner which commemorates her rural hometown of Nutbush in Haywood County, Tennessee, United States. Originally released as a single on United Artists Records in August 1973, it is one of the last hits that husband-wife R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner released together.

  7. Glossary of German military terms - Wikipedia

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    Can mean either the road structure or a ship's command center, also the supporting framework that existed below the bird-like monoplane wings of the earlier examples of the Etrich Taube before World War I. Brückenleger – bridgelayer. Brummbär – "grumbling bear"; a children's word for "bear" in German. It was the nickname for a heavy ...

  8. German language - Wikipedia

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    German is the official language of the following countries: Germany; Austria; 17 cantons of Switzerland; Liechtenstein; German is a co-official language of the following countries: Belgium (as majority language only in the German-speaking Community, which represents 0.7% of the Belgian population) Luxembourg, along with French and Luxembourgish

  9. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (Germany)

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    Wikipedia does not use the German-language system of hyphenating the subdivisions of municipalities, as this meaning is not intelligible in English, e.g. Spandau, not "Berlin-Spandau". The article explains in the text that this is a place in Berlin. Exception: Bergen-Belsen.