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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 characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
A haltija (haltia) is a spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic haltijar , which referred to the original settler of a homestead—although this is not the only possible etymology.
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.
In Finnish folklore, all places and things, and also human beings, have a haltija (a genius, guardian spirit) of their own. One such haltija is called etiäinen—an image, doppelgänger, or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does. For example, people waiting for someone at home might hear ...
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 ...
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.
A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.