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The introduction of the German mark in 1873 was the culmination of decades-long efforts to unify the various currencies used by the German Confederation. [2] The Zollverein unified in 1838 the Prussian and South German currencies at a fixed rate of 1 Prussian thaler = 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 South German gulden = 16.704 g fine silver.
Mötley Crüe's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, which shows the two metal umlauts used in the band's name. A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) [1] is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock or heavy metal bands—for example, those of Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, Mötley Crüe and the parody ...
Umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example , , and as , , and ).
This Hamburg Mark Courant was worth 27.625/34 = 13 ⁄ 16 th of a Hamburg Mark Banco (or 6.88 g fine silver) and was also divided into 16 schillings courant. [ 3 ] A mostly similar currency system was used in Denmark , Norway and Schleswig-Holstein , but with a slightly lower thaler courant worth 4 ⁄ 5 the Reichsthaler specie , so that the ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
50th anniversary of the Deutsche Mark. 10 DM, silver, 1998. 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Mark. 1 DM, gold, 1999. 300th anniversary of the Stift in Halle. 10 DM, silver, 1998. 50th anniversary of the Basic Law. 10 DM, silver, 1999. 50th anniversary of the SOS Children's Villages. 10 DM, silver, 1999.
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Notker the German is a notable exception in his period: not only are his German compositions of high stylistic value, but his orthography is also the first to follow a strictly coherent system. Significant production of German texts only resumed during the reign of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (in the High Middle Ages).