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How did the USSR react to the bombing of Hiroshima?
History & The Arts

How did the USSR react to the bombing of Hiroshima?

...Germans. For long, he said, no one had dared think it would be a success. It was only a few days before the President had told Stalin about it in Berlin that we had learned definitely that it would work successfully. The Generalissimus replied that Soviet scientists said that it was a very difficult problem to work out. The Ambassador said that if the Allies could keep it...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...Germans hoping for as America chooses its next leader? Expectations are not high: Helmut Kopp, 46, is a senior partner in a business consultancy near Frankfurt and is married to a German-Persian woman. I follow the election closely enough to have watched the first debate live at 3 a.m. I was interested, but there was also an ironic aspect. How should I put this? I've come...
Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...courses and qualifications. If you are trying to learn a language in the age of readily available free online translation tools such as Google Translate or DeepL then you probably know that many teachers’ and learners’ attitudes to these tools are – to say the least – ambivalent. They are often considered an all-too-easy shortcut, or worse, an invitation to cheat....
Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...course, those newer, more reliable engines have also been bigger and more efficient. Of course, the slowdown in 747 production doesn’t mean the original jumbo jet will disappear from our skies just yet. The latest models are much longer, bigger and operate with more modern engines and instruments than the earlier 747-100s (no longer do the crew have to take sextant...
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble’s plan to push Greece out of the eurozone, redenominate Greek bank deposits in a currency that was not even ready, and even ban the use of euros in Greece. These threats, independently of whether they were credible or not, did untold damage to the European Union’s image as a community of nations and drove a wedge through the...
The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...German National Olympic Committee (NOC). Michael Shirp, deputy head of media for the German NOC, says that Germany is proud to support Yusra and her effort to compete at the Olympics. He says she and her sister “represent an impressive example” of the refugee population in Germany, which grew by more than 1 million in the past 15 months. Because refugees give up their...
Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Roisin Watson]Family holidays always involved a trip to a castle or church when I was younger. Walking around these places made the people of the past seem more immediate. As a teenager, I remember reading a book called Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook that completely changed what I thought...
Why is fish the translator's nightmare?
Languages

Why is fish the translator's nightmare?

...German. "Er kommt aus dem Schwarzes Meer." The Black Sea. I claimed victory. "Knew it! Hope the chef squeezed its butt real good before he chopped it up." Master Right rolled his eyes, as he often must in the company of his husband. David frowned. "I've never eaten sturgeon before. What's it like?" "It's ugly." answered Master Right. "I'm not sure, but I think it's a...