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The story, with its several adaptions, has been circulated widely on the Internet, and has been quoted in many books and scholarly papers. [5] [6] In one of the most popular versions, the tourist is an American (an MBA from Harvard in some versions), and the fisherman is Mexican. [7] [8] The story is also part of the syllabi of several ...
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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 ...
German cartoonist F. K. Waechter's Anti-Struwwwelpeter (1970) is a parody of Der Struwwelpeter. [2] Comic book writer Grant Morrison references "Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher" in the first story arc of their Doom Patrol run with the recurring line, "The door flew open, in he ran / The great, long, red-legged scissorman."
The full title in German (Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte) translates to Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people. The book won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1974.
The German Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (VFA) says that without the above-average number of sick days, Germany’s economy would have expanded by 0.5% in 2023 rather than ...
German workers gave hair samples and wore smartwatches to gauge the health benefits of a shortened working week.
This short story is narrated through the perspective of a businessman. It is spoken in first person. In a world where he is experiencing a never-ending feeling of dissatisfaction, the businessman lives a mentally desolate life. He begins with describing the mental and physical stress that his work causes him such as aches, worry, anxiety, and fear.