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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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Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...German is very Prussian or Berlin German. Talked to Lord Melbourne of our journey to Scotland, and he said that it would never do, not to go - it would have such a very had effect, and that the late King's not going to the City, had had a deplorable effect. Unless anything very alarming or urgent, were to present us, we ought to carry out our project. He also, was glad to...
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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...courses and qualifications [Our] ash was mingled in the ovens - why should we be remembered separately…? (Woolford & Wolejszo S, 2006). [Forced Roma female labourers at Ravensbrϋck concentration camp] Forced Roma female labourers at Ravensbruck concentration camp The Roma (also known as Gypsies, Travellers, Sinti, Romani) are one of Europe’s oldest ethnic minorities....
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