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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Germanic settlers (Angles, Saxons and Jutes) in southern Britain. They brought with them dialects closely related to the continental language varieties which would produce modern German, Dutch and Frisian. This Germanic basis for English can be seen in much of our everyday vocabulary – compare heart (OE heorte), come (OE cuman) and old (OE eald) with German Herz, kommen...
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The Olympic torch: the truth
History & The Arts

The Olympic torch: the truth

...German Reich (Hitler, for instance, claimed that the Dorian tribe which had migrated into Greece from the north was of German origin and Goebbels referred to the Acropolis as the cradle of Germanic culture). Germany was keen to use the Olympics as a tool to lend credence to these phony historical theories. The 1936 Games, and in particular all the fanfare that surrounded...
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...German Jewish émigré family of musicians but I first visited East Germany in 1982 when we went on a camping holiday, a group of ten of us, including children. We arrived at a campsite in Werder, near Potsdam at 3am and blundered about noisily setting up our tents on the playground, but no-one seemed too bothered. This was the first of a comedy of errors throughout the...
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What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?
Society, Politics & Law

What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?

...German Presidential election. But challenges from the edges of politics suggests this isn't going to be an easy few years for her. Patricia Hogwood explains why. ...[Angela Merkel] Angela Merkel Angela Merkel will continue as chancellor of Germany. But following an election that saw the rise of smaller parties – most notably the far right – her fourth term will...
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A reader's guide to Midnight's Children
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Midnight's Children

...German critic called Franz Roh, in the 1920s. He was describing art which was realist but which, at the same time, had a strange, supernatural quality, and the term was applied to the work of a school of artists. Later, in Latin America, ‘magic realism’ became associated with a literary style. Subsequent exponents of the genre have included Peter Carey, Angela Carter,...
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Analysing European Romanticism
History & The Arts

Analysing European Romanticism

...course A207 From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830... Analysing European Romanticism A short introduction to this album. Breaking the Enlightenment mould German Romanticism began as a philosophical departure from Enlightenment thinking, centralising human experience and transcendence from the purely rational. This succinct discussion contextualises that shift....
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Energy policy and climate change
Science, Maths & Technology

Energy policy and climate change

...course T206 Energy for a sustainable future... Energy policy and climate change A brief introduction to this album The Copenhagen Conference Godfrey Boyle of The Open University on the key questions for the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Sustainable energy in Europe Why sustainable energy is such an important issue all around Europe Tough choices for the...
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The July Crisis: A chronology
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The July Crisis: A chronology

...German support for Austrian action against Serbia. Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg encourage Austrian action and Germany issues ‘blank cheque’, promising unconditional support to their ally. 7 July Austro-Hungarian Ministerial Council convenes and decides on (deliberately unacceptable) ultimatum to Serbia to initiate military action or...
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