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2. Public holidays in Germany - Wikipedia

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   By law, "the Sundays and the public holidays remain protected as days of rest from work and of spiritual elevation" (Art. 139 WRV, part of the German constitution via Art. 140 GG). Thus all Sundays are, in a manner, public holidays – but usually not understood by the term "holiday" (except for, normally, Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday).

3. Thursday - Wikipedia

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   Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. ... Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic ...

4. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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   The German Mittwoch, the Low German Middeweek, the miðviku-in Icelandic miðvikudagur and the Finnish keskiviikko all mean "mid-week". Thursday: Old English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]), meaning ' Þunor 's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor.

5. EU approves 920 million euro German aid for Infineon chips plant

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   The European Commission said on Thursday it had approved a 920 million euro German state aid to Infineon for the construction of a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in Dresden. The measure ...

6. Holocaust survivor, 99, to return German award over far-right ...

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   By Rachel More. BERLIN (Reuters) -A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in protest over a parliamentary vote in ...

7. 30 injured in 'suspected' vehicle attack in Munich, police say

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   Thursday's vehicle crash came less than two months after a car plowed through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing two people and injuring nearly 70 others, local officials said at ...

8. German Unity Day - Wikipedia

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   From 1954 to 1990, 17 June was an official holiday in the Federal Republic of Germany to commemorate the East German uprising of 1953, even with the name "German Unity Day". [8] Since 1963, it was proclaimed by the President of the Federal Republic as "National Day of Memorial of the German People".

9. Long weekend - Wikipedia

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   In the German language, a bridge-related term is also used: a day taken off from work to fill the gap between a holiday Thursday (or Tuesday) and the weekend is called a Brückentag ("bridge day") in Germany and Switzerland, and a Fenstertag ("window day") in Austria.