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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 ...
Kugelblitz (the German term for ball lightning), in theoretical physics: a concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped; Rocks and minerals like Quartz (German spelling: Quarz), Gneiss and Feldspar (originally Gneis and Feldspat respectively), Meerschaum; Reststrahlen (lit. "residual rays")
Landser – historical term for a German infantryman; slang: "Schütze Arsch". Landwehr – Territorial Army, a type of militia. Lastensegler – cargo glider; Latrinenparole – "latrine talk", rumor. laufende Nummer – serial number. Lebensraum – "living space", or in Hitler-speak the minimum space the German people needed to live in.
A year later the Voortrekker Monument was completed and opened in Pretoria by the newly elected South African Prime Minister and National Party member Daniel Malan in 1949. A few years later, " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika " ('The Voice of South Africa'), a poem written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven referring to the Great Trek, was chosen to be ...
term, designation L, T Bezirk: district local government Bio. Billion: trillion (10 12) The German language uses the long scale. Modern English "billion" (10 9) is Milliard. Bhf. Bahnhof: railroad station L, T brit. britisch: British L b.w. bitte wenden: please turn over common way to close an email message to friends L, T, F bzgl. bezüglich ...
Voortrekker (yacht), a racing yacht; Voortrekkers (youth organisation), a youth organisation; Voortrekker High School (disambiguation) "The Voortrekkers", a short story in The Dark Between the Stars by Poul Anderson
The term Black Twitter comprises a large network of Black users on the platform and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to its size ...
Querschlag – Slanting strike, offset blow; or an element of a non-German race; Quisling – A pejorative meaning "traitor" during World War II, commonly used as an insult directed at a citizen who collaborated with the Germans in one of the conquered nations. The term was taken from Vidkun Quisling, the pro-Nazi Norwegian leader.