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  2. List of German inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.

  3. 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 ...

  4. German language - Wikipedia

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    German is the second most commonly used scientific language [71] [better source needed] as well as the third most widely used language on websites after English and Russian. [72] Deutsche Welle (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə]; "German Wave" in German), or DW, is Germany's public international broadcaster. The service is available ...

  5. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...

  6. Timeline of German history - Wikipedia

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    German Peasants' War: An uprising of German-speaking peasants began. 1525: German Peasants' War: The war ended in the defeat of the peasant army. 10 April: Prussian Homage: Grand Master Albert of the Teutonic Order resigned his position and was appointed duke of Prussia by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. 1529: 19 April

  7. History of German - Wikipedia

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    The Old High German speaking area within the Holy Roman Empire in 962. The earliest testimonies of Old High German are from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the 6th century, the earliest glosses date to the 8th and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th century.

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