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Readers’ Comments

July 29, 2012 GW Administrator 0

GERMAN WORLD MAGAZINE will celebrate its 10th Anniversary this October. From a small 16-page newsletter, we have been able to grow the magazine to a 64-page, bilingual, glossy publication that has been acknowledged as a […]

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EDUCATION

Test Your German

July 27, 2012 GW Administrator 0

Read the text below and fill the gaps with the appropriate term. „Der Bauer und der Teufel” von den Gebrüdern Grimm Es war ___________________(1. einmal/ eins/ ein) ein kluger1 Bauer2, der spielte gerne Streiche. Die […]

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NEWS

New Waldseemüller Map Discovered

July 3, 2012 GW Administrator 0

Few Americans are aware of the fact that their continent is named after the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Even fewer probably know  that it was the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1520)  and  Matthias Ringmann who […]

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NEWS

Ich bin ein Berliner

June 27, 2012 GW Administrator 2

June 26, 1963, speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin. “Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [“I am a Roman citizen”]. Today, in the world of freedom, […]

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CULINARY

German Banana Bread

June 25, 2012 GW Administrator 0

Gabriele Utz, publisher of MyBestGermanRecipes.com, tells us how to make this all-time favorite coffee cake: Ingredients: 3 medium size ripe bananas (or 4 smaller ones) 100 g sugar 1 package vanilla sugar Dr. Oetker 2 […]