Finally a client of mine asked me in German if I was a "career woman or a family woman".
For instance, my origins are Egyptian and German, I was born in the United States and now live in The Netherlands.
The sum of it was a too distant cousin of the German biergarten ideal I sought.
The prospect of hearing the Argentinian's comments on the lecture by the German with whom I had corresponded, but whom I did not know personally, was enough in itself to justify the price of the air fare to Buenos Aires (paid for on credit).
"She is one of the few black women I could speak German with and she is one of the few friends I had in this business, " Khan said.
I.s in postwar Germany and brought up by their German mothers have the same I.
The cake's name implied that it had northern German roots, but I came up empty-handed when I researched further.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society came into being because of a roast pig we had to keep secret from the German soldiers, so I feel a kinship to Mr. Lamb.
And though these German sides undeniably earned their respective berths in the finals as they blitzed Spanish stalwarts Barcelona and Real Madrid in the UEFA semifinals, and while German soccer enthusiasts worldwide will pridefully watch this first-ever all-German Champions final, I suspect that TV ratings in the U.S. for the final match will suffer for the match compared to the last few seasons.
Recently I asked the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, how far we were through the crisis and he thought somewhere between 50 and 60%.
"We recognised each other instantly, but we couldn't talk to each other because I spoke only German and had forgotten the Czech language, " she said.
Washington (CNN) -- A famous French painting stolen during World War I by the German Army was returned to the government of France by U.S. officials on Thursday.
CNN: French get back famous painting stolen during World War I
Hoover had performed a similar miracle for Belgium during World War I, when German occupiers were ready to let millions starve to force the British to abandon their wartime blockade.
If we can tear ourselves away from this crash course in daring German painting before World War I, the next gallery expands the narrative to give us some of the back story.
WSJ: Before Darkness Fell | German Expressionism 1900-1930 | Neue Galerie | By Karen Wilkin
As a child and teen, I studied a variety of languages, including Latin, German, classical Greek, and Hebrew, but I never learned enough to be considered fluent by any stretch of the imagination.
In 1916, during World War I, British and German fleets fought the Battle of Jutland off Denmark.
An altogether less frightening pageant was hosted by King George I, who commissioned German-born composer Handel to write him a piece for the event in 1717.
CNN: British monarchy's long-lasting love affair with the sea
And the generation that devised and presided over those tribunals had, in turn, been shaped by a much different experience in dealing with German war criminals after World War I.
As I met with the German chancellor, various ministers, member of the legislative body (the Bundestag) and the German ambassador to the United States, we disagreed on a number of issues.
"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.
I.s on the German-French border in the winter of 1944 is the tense jeopardy of military service.
Further, I asked to allow a German diplomat to be present to prove or disprove the allegation of possessing classified documents.
" I never said: "Now I am the most famous German journalist.
For the first few weeks after the landings, casualty rates sometimes matched those of the Western Front in World War I (or of the German-Soviet fighting).
Also, there are surprisingly abstract seascapes (most painted on Monhegan Island, off Maine's coast) and grim scenes of battle and German atrocities inspired by published World War I accounts.
Well as I mentioned on Saturday the German government was determined that the Cypriot rescue should not be seen by German taxpayers as in effect rescuing Russian money launderers with deposits in Cyprus.
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