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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda
Languages

Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda

...German, Norwegian, English and Italian. In languages such as Czech where the word order is less prescribed, Yoda is switched back to the "Subject – Verb – ​Object" word order you would typically expect in normal French, which is actually stranger sounding to native Czech speakers! Will you be able to help Maître Yoda to correct his French syntax? Here is a little...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...German pianist and composer. Unlike her brother, the Mendelssohn family strongly discouraged a public career as a professional musician for her, although they couldn’t stop her from pursuing a remarkable semi-private career within her renowned Berlin musical salon, known as the Sonntagsmusiken. Hensel composed nearly 500 works, including piano pieces, chamber music,...
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The Magic of Meteorites
Science, Maths & Technology

The Magic of Meteorites

...in ice: © Katherine Joy / The University of Manchester https://ukantarcticmeteorites.wordpress.com/ Fireball trajectory: © Google Earth Solar System schematic CC BY-SA 4.0: Universe Today Asteroid collision animation: © NASA Artist impression of Hayabusa2 CC BY-2.0: DLR German Aerospace Center on Flickr OSIRIS-REx footage: © NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona...
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Post-Brexit, some banks consider their options
Money & Business

Post-Brexit, some banks consider their options

...German city is home to the European Central Bank, the Bundesbank, as well as the European Insurance authority. The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority hosted 50 representatives from some of the world's biggest banks on Monday to explain the steps required to set up a business in Germany. "As committed Europeans, we do not see Brexit as a reason to celebrate,"...
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The Mill on the Floss
History & The Arts

The Mill on the Floss

...German writer Goethe. Eliot’s only surviving hand-written manuscript resides in the British Library. It reveals a strikingly neat set of volumes with little corrections except from subtle indications in the author’s handwriting which divulge the true extent of the emotional toll of the book’s denouement on its writer. Video: The real places that inspired Eliot...
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A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...German Count named Curt von Bardeleben. He was a chess master, who committed suicide in 1924 by jumping out of a window. Prospective readers should note that the title now is usually The Luzhin Defense (using the American spelling). The book has been filmed, with John Turturro in the title role. A number of contributors requested that this intriguing novel should be athe...
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Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...German cities, how they do mothering locally and transnationally, and how they navigate various nationalized, classed, and gendered ideologies of motherhood. A key aim of the research was to find methods that do not assume the importance of migration and the urban in people’s everyday lives. Rather, I leave it to the research participants to determine what is important...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...German firms doubled their intra-European sales from about 10 to 20 per cent. For firms from other European countries, the growth of intra-European sales was not quite so dramatic, but even Spanish and Italian firms were above 15 per cent, proportionally selling twice as much in Europe than British firms. Rather than bringing British firms closer to continental Europe,...
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