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  2. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    Karabiner (from Karabinerhaken; can also mean a Carbine firearm in German), snaplink, a metal loop with a sprung or screwed gate, used in climbing and mountaineering; translates to "riflehook". Kutte (literally 'frock' or 'cowl, monk's habit'), a type of (cut-off) vest made out of denim or leather and traditionally worn by bikers, metalheads ...

  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. Malmö - Wikipedia

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    Malmö (/ ˈ m æ l m ə / ⓘ, [4] Swedish: Malmö, IPA: [ˈmâlːmøː] ⓘ; Danish: Malmø [ˈmælmˌøˀ]) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal population of 357,377 in 2022. [5]

  5. Baghdadi - Wikipedia

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    Khâlid-i Baghdâdî or Mevlana Halid-i Bagdadi (1779–1827), Iraqi Kurdish Sufi; Mahmud al-Alusi al-Baghdadi (1802–1854), Iraqi Islamic scholar; Abdel Latif Boghdadi (politician) (1917–1999), Egyptian military and political figure

  6. Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away

  7. City of Bagdad - Wikipedia

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    City of Bagdad was a cargo steamship.She was built in Germany, and launched in 1918 as Geierfels for DDG Hansa.However, the United Kingdom seized her as part of Germany's World War I reparations to the Allies under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles.

  8. Iraqi diaspora in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The country is already home to a sizeable Iraqi population, many of whom were granted protection by the German authorities after fleeing persecution from Saddam Hussein's former regime. However, the recognition rate for Iraqis has fallen from an average of 57 per cent between 1997 and 2001, to a mere 11 per cent for the year 2006, which is one ...

  9. Weltschmerz - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...