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Gerónimo Barbadillo Gerónimo Barbadillo Gonzáles (born September 29, 1954 in Lima, Peru) was a Peruvian football player who played for UANL Tigres in Mexico, and for Avellino and Udinese in Italian Serie A. He also played with the Peruvian national team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Gerb A gerb is a type of firework which produces a jet of sparks, usually from 30 to 120 seconds. It is a thick-walled tube filled with pyrotechnic composition and possessing a choke, which is a narrowing in the tube.
Gerber convention Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by John Gerber (winner of regional and national championships in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, representing the USA at world championships in the early 1960s). It is similar to Blackwood in that it uses a basic "asking bid" to enquire about aces and subsequently kings.
Gerber File A Gerber File is a standard file format used by printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication houses that contains information necessary for computer controlled machines to draw exact patterns for circuit boards. These patterns are typically used to assemble and electrically connect electronics assemblies.
Gerber Mark II The Gerber Mark II was a fighting knife designed by Knifemaker Al Mar and manufactured by Gerber Legendary Blades from 1966 to 2000, plus a limited run of 1500 in 2002. It had a double edged, spear point, wasp-waisted blade, and used a distinctive handle similar to that of the Fairbairn-Sykes combat knives developed during World War II.
Gerber Products Company Gerber Products Company is perhaps the best-known purveyor of baby food and baby products in the world. The company was founded in 1927 in Fremont, Michigan by Daniel Frank Gerber, owner of the Fremont Canning Company producing canned fruits and vegetables.
Gerber Scientific Gerber Scientific Inc. is the parent of companies which provide end-to-end customer solutions to the world's sign making and specialty graphics, ophthalmic lens processing, and apparel and flexible materials industries.
Gerber/Hart Library The Gerber/Hart Library, founded in 1981, is the largest circulating library of gay and lesbian titles in the Midwestern United States. Located in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, it houses over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.
Gerbert de Montreuil Gerbert de Montreuil was a French poet of the 13th century. He is possibly the author of "Gerbert's Continuation", one of the Four Continuations of Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
Gerbilling Gerbilling also known as gerbil stuffing is the supposed sexual practice of inserting small animals, usually gerbils but also mice and hamsters, into the rectum; the idea being that the animals would "nose around" and stimulate the prostate as in anal sex. Despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the 1980s, no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists; its status is that of an urban legend.
Gerbo (woreda) Gerbo is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, named after its major town, Gerbo. Part of the Fiq Zone, Gerbo is bounded on the southwest by Segeg, and on the north and east by the Degehabur Zone.
Gerboise Bleue Gerboise Bleue ("blue jerboa") was the first French nuclear weapon. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the middle of the Sahara desertFrench Senate report #179: The first French tests in the Sahara, in French Algeria on February 13, 1960.
Gerd Gerd, Gärd, Gerdhr, Gerda or Gerdur (Old Norse Gerðr) is a Jotun-giantess in Norse Mythology most well known as the wife of the Norse god Freyr. She is the most beautiful of all creatures and may have been a personification of soil fertility and sex.
Gerd Albrecht Gerd Albrecht (born July 19, 1935) is a German conductor. He has held a wide variety of conducting jobs in Germany and in 1975, in addition to his existing position as Principal Conductor of the Berlin Deutsche Opera in Berlin, he became the Principal Conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in Switzerland, where he succeeded Rudolf Kempe.
Gerd R. Puin Gerd RĂĽdiger Puin (born 1940) is a German scholar and the world's foremost authority on Qur'anic paleography, the study and scholarly interpretation of ancient manuscripts. He is a specialist in Arabic calligraphy.
Gerd Siegmund Gerd Siegmund (born February 7, 1973) is a German ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario and finished 10th in the individual large hill at those same championships.
Gerd Tellenbach Gerd Tellenbach (1903–1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Tellenbach also made pathbreaking contributions to the study of the medieval nobility and helped establish a new field of research dedicated to mapping social networks and familial ties among medieval elites (Personenforschung).
Gerda Gattel Gerda Gattel was an artist who worked as a letterer, and later as a proofreader, for DC Comics. She was given a Special Award by the Academy of Comic Book Arts in 1972 "for bringing her special warmth to our history".
Gerda Lassooy Gerarda ("Gerda") Hendrica Maria Lassooy (born August 22, 1952 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a former medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There she was eliminated in the heats of the 200m and 400m Individual Medley.
Gerda Taro Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylles; 1911 - Spain 1937) was a German war photographer of Polish origins, very close friend, partner, companion and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War.
Gerdy's Folk City Gerdy's Folk City was one of the central nightclubs in the late 1960's folk music scene in Greenwich Village, just outside of the New York University campus. Bob Dylan, Jose Feliciano and many of the famous groups and singles artists of the time honed their trade there.
Geremi González Geremis Segundo González Acosta (born January 8, 1975 in Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Previously, González played with the Chicago Cubs (1997-98), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2003-04), Boston Red Sox (2005), New York Mets (2006), and Milwaukee Brewers (2006).
Gereshk Gereshk is a town in Gerishk District in Helmand province on the Helmand River in central Afghanistan, some 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Kandahar. Gereshk is the centre of a rich agricultural region with the Kajakai dam upriver diverting water to the Boghra Irrigation Canal.
Gereth Yaztromo Gereth Yaztromo is a fictional wizard from the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series by Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone. He was one of the three pupils (including Arakor Nicodemus and Pen Ty Kora) of Vermithrax Moonchaser, the Grand Wizard of Yore.
Gerfalcon (novel) Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).
Gerfnit Gerfnit (gurf' knit) is the protagonist in Michael Pickard's science fiction novel, The Gerfnit Chronicles. Gerfnit is a Frob from Frobzb, a planet in the Crescent galaxy circling dual suns, a huge distance from Earth.
Gergedan "Gergedan", 1987-88 yıllarında Türkiye'de yayınlanan bir "Yeryüzü Kültürü Dergisi" idi. Toplam 17 sayı(esas ekibin ayrılmasından sonra çıkarılmaya çalışılan ama "Gergedan" olamayan dört sayı ile toplam 20) çıkabilen dergi, Türkiye'de sanat ve kültür alanında yayıncılığın bir miladı olmuştur.
Gergely Berzeviczy Gergely Berzeviczy berzeviczei és kakaslomniczi (Hungarian: Berzeviczy Gergely, Slovak Gregor (or Juraj) Berzevici (or Berzeviczy), German Gregor Berzeviczy) (June 15, 1763, Kakaslomnic, today Veľká Lomnica - February 23, 1822, in the same place) was an important political economist in the Kingdom of Hungary, follower of Adam Smith, one of the first of his kind in Hungary. He was also a successful writer and an enthusiastic propagator of the High Tatras.
Gergely Pongrátz Gergely Pongrátz (in Hungarian: Pongrátz Gergely) (Szamosújvár, 1932- Kiskunmajsa, 2005) was a legendary freedom fighter during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was the commander of the strongest point of resistance, the Corvin Alley (Corvin köz) between 1st November to 9th November.
Gergesa Gergesa, (also Gergasa or the Country of the Gergesenes) is a place on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee that is described in the New Testament Gospels of Mark and Luke. According to these books, in Gergasa Jesus drove demons out of a wild man and into a herd of pigs.
Gergeti Trinity Church Gergeti Trinity Church is a popular name for Holy Trinity Church (Tsminda Sameba in Georgian) church near the village of Gergeti in the Republic of Georgia. The church is situated on the right bank of the river Chkheri (the left tributary of the river Terek), at an elevation of 1800 meters, under Mt.
Gerhana Skacinta Gerhana Skacinta is a leading Malaysian band that specializes in ska. Although based in a country far from more famous centers of ska culture, the music of the band is not a fusion of Caribbean and Southeast Asian genres, but instead pure, traditional ska style.
Gerhard Gerhard is the professional name of a Canadian comics artist known for the elaborately detailed background drawings in Dave Sim's series Cerebus the Aardvark, on which he has worked since that comic's 65th issue. Occasionally joking that he "draws tables and chairs behind an aardvark" (since Sim pencils and inks the characters and Gerhard pencils and inks the backgrounds), many issues of the comic contain at least as much work from Gerhard as Sim.
Gerhard AnschĂĽtz Gerhard AnschĂĽtz (10 January 1867 in Halle (Saale) - 14 April 1948 in Heidelberg) was a noted German teacher of constitutional law and the leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution. His principal work (with Richard Thoma) is the two-volume legal encyclopedia Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts; his constitutional commentary saw 14 editions during the Weimar Republic.
Gerhard Barkhorn Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March, 1919 - 8 January, 1983) was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. He flew over 1100 combat sorties and was credited with 301 victories on the Eastern Front flying with the famed Jagdgeschwader 52 alongside Hartmann and GĂĽnther Rall.
Gerhard Grimmer Gerhard Grimmer (born April 6, 1943 in Hora Svaté Kateřiny) was an East German cross-country skier who competed during the 1960's and 1970's. He won several medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including golds in the 50 km and the 4 x 10 km relay (both in 1974); silvers in the 30 km (1970), 4 x 10 km relay (1970), and 15 km (1974); and a bronze in the 50 km (1970).
Gerhard Gundermann Gerhard Rüdiger Gundermann, who generally performed as simply Gundermann (February 21], [[1955 — June 21, 1998), was a German singer-songwriter and rock musician. An excavator operator, his musical career began in the former East Germany, where he became known for his clever, often melancholy lyrics imbued with social commentary.
Gerhard Haidacher Gerhard Haidacher (born 29 April 1963) is a Austrian bobsledder who competed in the bobsleigh events at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Haidacher won a gold medal in the four-person bobsleigh event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Harald Winkler and Thomas Schroll.
Gerhard KĂĽntscher Gerhard KĂĽntscher (born 1900 in Zwickau-1972) was a German surgeon who inaugurated the intramedullar nailing of bone fractures, a process that was first performed in 1939 at the university hospital of Kiel, Germany. He invented what is known as the KĂĽntscher nail, an internal fixation device used to maintain the position of the fracture fragments during healing.
Gerhard Koeppel Gerhard Koeppel is a German-born historian of Roman art and a specialist in the study of Roman historical relief sculpture. Koeppel was educated at the University of Cologne and studied under the ancient art historian Heinz Kähler.
Gerhard Kubik Born in Vienna on December 10th, 1934, Gerhard Kubik studied ethnology, musicology and African languages at the University of Vienna. He published his doctoral dissertation in 1971 and achieved habilitation in 1980.
Gerhard Lenski Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski (born August 13, 1924) is an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological-evolutionary social theory (which is related to cultural evolution). He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Gerhard Pfanzelter Gerhard Pfanzelter, born in 1943 in Innsbruck, is the current Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General on September 7, 1999.
Gerhard Plankensteiner Gerhard Plankensteiner (born April 8, 1971 in Sterzing-Vipiteno) is an Italian luger. Together with Oswald Haselrieder he won the bronze medal in the Men's Doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust was a show on Comedy Central that featured writer Josh Gardner as a German backpacker hosting a television show in which he explored various cultural areas on a traveler's budget. Gerhard often found himself in strange or awkward predicaments such as being kidnapped by militants, becoming the victim of organ bandits, and being viciously attacked by bigfoot.
Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several million dollars apiece.
Gerhard Roßbach Gerhard Roßbach (February 28, 1893–August 301967) was a hardbitten veteran putschist, a swashbuckling mercenary and commander of one of the more extreme Freikorps unit, the eponymous Rossbach Group. Members of this group included Edmund Heines, Martin Bormann and Rudolf Höß (later commandant of Auschwitz).
Gerhard Sessler Gerhard Sessler (February 15, 1931-) co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Laboratories in work culminating in 1962. He was born in Rosenfeld, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany and received his Ph.
Gerhard Schmidhuber Gerhard Schidhuber was a German general who died in the battle of Budapest of 1945. He was recently memorialized by the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság for preventing the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in the face of the advancing Red Army.
Gerhard Schmidthuber Major General Gerhard Schmidthuber was commanding officer of the German Army's 13th Panzer Division during World War II. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidthuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country.
Gerhard Schulmeyer Gerhard Schulmeyer is a German American businessman. From 1994 until 1998, he was president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Nixdorf in Germany, and between 1999 and December 2001, he was president and CEO of Siemens Corporation in the United States.
Gerhard Skiba Gerhard Skiba of the Austrian Social Democratic Party was elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He got internationally known by setting up a memorial stone for the victims of Fascism in front of the house where Adolf Hitler was born.
Gerhard Stoltenberg Gerhard Stoltenberg (September 29, 1928 - November 23, 2001) was a German politician (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He also was minister-president of the German state (Land) of Schleswig-Holstein.
Gerhard Tersteegen Gerhard Tersteegen (November 25, 1697 - April 3, 1769), a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau (it fell to Prussia in 1702), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Catholic country.
Gerhard von KĂĽgelgen Franz Gerhard von KĂĽgelgen (February 26, 1772, Bacharach am Rhein - March 27, 1820, Dresden) was a German painter, famous for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Academies of Arts.
Gerhard von Scharnhorst Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (November 12, 1755 - June 28, 1813) was a general in Prussian service, Chief of the Prussian General Staff, noted for both his writings, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
Gerhard von Schwerin Gerhard von Schwerin was a German commander in World War II who was tasked with defending the city of Aachen. When he contemplated surrender to Allied forces to protect the cities artifacts (the city was the ancient resting place of Charlemagne's empire, or the First Reich), Adolf Hitler had him removed and sent Colonel Gerhard Wilck to defend the city with around 5,000 Volkssturm.
Gerhard Weinberg Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr.
Gerhard Wilck Colonel Gerhard Wilck was the German commander who defended the German city Aachen in the Battle of Aachen. He surrendered on 22 October 1944 against the orders of Hitler, this after a stubborn defence and bitter urban warfare.
Gerhart M Riegner Gerhart Moritz Riegner (born September 12, 1911, Berlin - died December 3, 2001, Geneva) was the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983. On August 8, 1942, he sent the so-called Riegner telegram through diplomatic channels to Stephen Samuel Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress.
Geri Allen Geri Allen (born June 12 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans.
Geri Reischl Geri Reischl (born on December 31, 1959 in Bellflower, California) is known by the nicknames "Replacement Jan" and "Fake Jan" for replacing Eve Plumb in nine episodes of the Brady Bunch Hour during the 1976-77 television season. She came into the television family as the new Jan Brady when Eve Plumb refused to appear in a musical revival of the original 1969-74 series.
Geriatric care management Geriatric care management is a service that provides assistance to the elderly and their families when they are faced with problems they are unable to resolve on their own. Most geriatric care managaers have backgrounds in social work or nursing, or another human service such as counseling, gerontology, speech, physical or occupational therapy.
Geriatric dentistry Geriatric dentistry or gerodontics is the delivery of dental care to older adults involving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of problems associated with normal aging and age-related diseases as part of an interdisciplinary team with other health care professionals.
Geriatric Depression Scale The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is a 30-item self-report assessment used specifically to identify depression in the elderly. The items may be answered yes or no, which is thought to be simpler than scales that use a five-category response set.
Geriatric sexology Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of sexuality in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias and disorders of or relating to sex and the sex organs.
Geriatric1927 geriatric1927 is the pseudonym of Peter Oakley from Leicester, England, a pensioner born in 1927 who is known for his popularity on the video sharing website YouTube.What to watch on the web: Video Blogs, BBC News, 27 November 2006 (accessed 29 December 2006).
Geriatrics Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
Gerichtsassessor In the German legal system, the obsolete designation Gerichtsassessor was held by judges or federal prosecutors, whose employment status today would be "on probation". Attainment of the second state legal qualification (the so-called "Competence to the Justiceship") was always a pre-requisite.
Gerishk District Gereshk District takes the name of its principal municipality, Gereshk town (pop 110,000) in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan. It sits on the intersection of Highway 1 (the 'Afghan ringroad', based on the old Silk Route and refurbished in the 1960's with US investment) and the Helmand River.
Gerlög and Inga Gerlög or Geirlaug and her daughter Inga were two powerful and rich women in 11th century Uppland, Sweden. Gerlög and Inga had their dramatic and tragic family saga documented for posterity on several runestones.
Germ (mathematics) In mathematics, a germ of (continuous, differentiable or analytic) functions is an equivalence class of (continuous, differentiable or analytic) functions from a topological space to another (often from the real line to itself), grouped together on the basis of their equality on the neighborhood of a fixed reference point in their domain of definition. In the same way, a germ of sets is an equivalence class of subsets of a given topological space, grouped together on the basis of their equality on the neighborhood of a fixed reference point belonging to all of them.
Germ line development The cells that give rise to the gametes are often set aside during cleavage. During development, these cells will differientate into primordial germ cells, migrate to the location of the gonad, and form the germ line of the animal.
Germ pore A germ pore is a small pore in the outer wall of a mycelial spore through which the germ tube exits upon germination. It can be [or eccentric in its location, and, on light microscopy], may be visualized as a lighter coloured area on the cell wall.
Germ theory of disease The germ theory of disease, also called the pathogenic theory of medicine, is a theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. Although highly controversial when first proposed, it is now a cornerstone of modern medicine and clinical microbiology, leading to such important innovations as antibiotics and hygienic practices.
Germa Seyum Germa Seyum was negus of Ethiopia, and a member of the Zagwe dynasty. Taddesse Tamrat states that he was a son of Mara Takla Haymanot, the younger brother of king Tatadim, and the father of Kedus Harbe and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.
Germain Boffrand Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 May 1667 — Paris 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself.
Germain Henri Hess Germain Henri Hess (Russian: ГеŃŃ, Герман Đванович) (August 7, 1802–November 30, 1850) was a Swiss-born Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess's Law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
Germain's Peacock-pheasant Germain's Peacock-pheasant, Polyplectron germaini is a medium-sized, up to 60cm long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar.
Germaine Dieterlen French anthropologist Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999) was a student of Marcel Mauss and wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations, techniques (particularly "descriptive ethnography"), graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
Germaine Lindsay Germaine Maurice Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, (September 23, 1985 – July 7, 2005) was one of the four suicide bombers who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, killing 56 (including themselves) and injuring more than 700.
German 161st Infantry Division The German 161st Infantry division participated in the Battle of Kursk, under the 42nd Army Corps whose other divisions were the 39th and the 282nd Infantry divisions. While the 161st infantry division did not play an active part in the battle of Kursk, it was responsible of protecting the flank of the 3rd Panzer Corps
German 1st Parachute Army The German 1st Parachute Army was formed in September of 1944 to consolidate the various Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger-Units and the Luftwaffe Field Division. It was tasked to defend the a 60 mile stretch of the Low Countries between Antwerp and Maastricht with a force of just over 30,000 men.
German 1st Ski Division The German 1st Ski Brigade was created on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1943, and strengthened to a full division in the summer of 1944. It fought exclusively on the Eastern Front, and surrendered to the Soviets at the end of the war.
German 210th Coastal Defense Division The 210th Coastal Defense Division was created from a Division zbV staff in July 1942, and shipped north to defend the port Petsamo in Arctic Finland. In late 1944 it moved westward to take up the defense of Vardø in the Norwegian Finnmark.
German 243rd Static Infantry Division The 243rd Static Infantry Division was raised in July 1943. It was stationed in the Cotentin Peninsula when the Allies invaded in June 1944, and destroyed in the Battle of Normandy, with its last elements lost in the fall of Cherbourg.
German 302nd Static Infantry Division The 302nd Static Infantry Division was raised over the winter of 1940-1941 and stationed in northern France for occupation duties. It was serving as coastal defense at Dieppe during the Canadian amphibious raid of August 1942, which it turned back, inflicting severe losses upon the Allied forces.
German 509th Heavy Panzer Detachment The schwere-Panzer-Abteilung 509 (abbreviated sPzAbt 509) was a German heavy panzer abteilung equipped with Tiger I and later Tiger II Königstiger tanks. The 509th saw action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
German 6th Parachute Division The 6th Parachute Division was incorporated into the 9th Army of General Busse in 1945 to defend the Oder-Neisse front against Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov around the Seelow Heights. Hermann Göring sent the Kurmark panzer division to rally them after a breakthrough.
German 709th Static Infantry Division The 709th Static Infantry Division was raised in May 1941 and used for occupation duties during the German occupation of France in World War II until the Allied invasion. It was on the Normandy coast when the invasion fell, and thus fought in the Battle of Normandy.
German 719th Infantry Division German 719th Infantry Division, (German: 719th Infanterie Division) was founded in early May 1941 and spent most of World War II stationed in the Netherlands and Antwerp until the Allied invasion of Normandy. The 719th fought in several defensive battles until being destroyed in April 1945.
German 99th Light Infantry Division The German 99th Light Infantry Division was raised in November 1940 and remained in training at Bad Kissingen until the summer of 1941. In June it took part in Operation Barbarossa -- the German invasion of the Soviet Union -- and operated in Poland and the Ukraine under Army Group South until the fall, when it was withdrawn to Germany for reorganization as the 7th Mountain Division.
German adverbial phrases An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, and an adverbial phrase is combination of words that perform the same function. The German language includes several different kinds of adverbial phrases.
German as a minority language German-speaking minorities live in many countries and on all six inhabited continents: the countries of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Latin America, Namibia, Israel, and Australia. These German minorities, through their ethno-cultural vitality, exhibit an exceptional level of heterogeneity: variations concerning their demographics, their status within the majority community, the support they receive from institutions helping them to support their identity as a minority.
German astronaut team The German astronaut team was established in 1987, until it became part of the European Astronaut Corps in 1998. Before the establishment of the team German astronauts were selected for single missions, or as part of the ESA manned spaceflight activities.
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis Atlantis, known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser, or merchant or commerce raider) of the Kriegsmarine, which, during World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km in 602 days, and sank 22 ships totaling 144,384 tons. Atlantis was sunk on November 21, 1941.
German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8, Schiff 41, Raider G) was a warship used in World War II. She is perhaps best-known for the sinking of Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in November 1941, during a battle in which the Kormoran was also destroyed.
German auxiliary cruiser Orion Orion (HSK-1) was an auxiliary cruiser of the German navy which operated as a merchant raider during World War II. Built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in 1930/31 as the freighter Kurmark, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of World War II and converted into the auxiliary cruiser Orion, commissioned on 9 December 1939.
German Academic Exchange Service The DAAD or German Academic Exchange Service (German: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation. It offers a wide range of scholarships to Germans and foreigners for study, research and teaching abroad and accordingly in Germany.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (or Leopoldina for short) (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) is currently located in Halle and claims 1, p. 5 to have enjoyed the longest continuous existence of any current scientific society.
Gerb A gerb is a type of firework which produces a jet of sparks, usually from 30 to 120 seconds. It is a thick-walled tube filled with pyrotechnic composition and possessing a choke, which is a narrowing in the tube.
Gerber convention Gerber is a contract bridge convention devised by John Gerber (winner of regional and national championships in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, representing the USA at world championships in the early 1960s). It is similar to Blackwood in that it uses a basic "asking bid" to enquire about aces and subsequently kings.
Gerber File A Gerber File is a standard file format used by printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication houses that contains information necessary for computer controlled machines to draw exact patterns for circuit boards. These patterns are typically used to assemble and electrically connect electronics assemblies.
Gerber Mark II The Gerber Mark II was a fighting knife designed by Knifemaker Al Mar and manufactured by Gerber Legendary Blades from 1966 to 2000, plus a limited run of 1500 in 2002. It had a double edged, spear point, wasp-waisted blade, and used a distinctive handle similar to that of the Fairbairn-Sykes combat knives developed during World War II.
Gerber Products Company Gerber Products Company is perhaps the best-known purveyor of baby food and baby products in the world. The company was founded in 1927 in Fremont, Michigan by Daniel Frank Gerber, owner of the Fremont Canning Company producing canned fruits and vegetables.
Gerber Scientific Gerber Scientific Inc. is the parent of companies which provide end-to-end customer solutions to the world's sign making and specialty graphics, ophthalmic lens processing, and apparel and flexible materials industries.
Gerber/Hart Library The Gerber/Hart Library, founded in 1981, is the largest circulating library of gay and lesbian titles in the Midwestern United States. Located in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood, it houses over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 archival collections.
Gerbert de Montreuil Gerbert de Montreuil was a French poet of the 13th century. He is possibly the author of "Gerbert's Continuation", one of the Four Continuations of Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
Gerbilling Gerbilling also known as gerbil stuffing is the supposed sexual practice of inserting small animals, usually gerbils but also mice and hamsters, into the rectum; the idea being that the animals would "nose around" and stimulate the prostate as in anal sex. Despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the 1980s, no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists; its status is that of an urban legend.
Gerbo (woreda) Gerbo is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, named after its major town, Gerbo. Part of the Fiq Zone, Gerbo is bounded on the southwest by Segeg, and on the north and east by the Degehabur Zone.
Gerboise Bleue Gerboise Bleue ("blue jerboa") was the first French nuclear weapon. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the middle of the Sahara desertFrench Senate report #179: The first French tests in the Sahara, in French Algeria on February 13, 1960.
Gerd Gerd, Gärd, Gerdhr, Gerda or Gerdur (Old Norse Gerðr) is a Jotun-giantess in Norse Mythology most well known as the wife of the Norse god Freyr. She is the most beautiful of all creatures and may have been a personification of soil fertility and sex.
Gerd Albrecht Gerd Albrecht (born July 19, 1935) is a German conductor. He has held a wide variety of conducting jobs in Germany and in 1975, in addition to his existing position as Principal Conductor of the Berlin Deutsche Opera in Berlin, he became the Principal Conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in Switzerland, where he succeeded Rudolf Kempe.
Gerd R. Puin Gerd RĂĽdiger Puin (born 1940) is a German scholar and the world's foremost authority on Qur'anic paleography, the study and scholarly interpretation of ancient manuscripts. He is a specialist in Arabic calligraphy.
Gerd Siegmund Gerd Siegmund (born February 7, 1973) is a German ski jumper who competed from 1990 to 2000. He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario and finished 10th in the individual large hill at those same championships.
Gerd Tellenbach Gerd Tellenbach (1903–1999) was a German historian and scholar of medieval social and religious history, particularly of the Papacy and German church during the Investiture Controversy and reform movements of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Tellenbach also made pathbreaking contributions to the study of the medieval nobility and helped establish a new field of research dedicated to mapping social networks and familial ties among medieval elites (Personenforschung).
Gerda Gattel Gerda Gattel was an artist who worked as a letterer, and later as a proofreader, for DC Comics. She was given a Special Award by the Academy of Comic Book Arts in 1972 "for bringing her special warmth to our history".
Gerda Lassooy Gerarda ("Gerda") Hendrica Maria Lassooy (born August 22, 1952 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a former medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. There she was eliminated in the heats of the 200m and 400m Individual Medley.
Gerda Taro Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylles; 1911 - Spain 1937) was a German war photographer of Polish origins, very close friend, partner, companion and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War.
Gerdy's Folk City Gerdy's Folk City was one of the central nightclubs in the late 1960's folk music scene in Greenwich Village, just outside of the New York University campus. Bob Dylan, Jose Feliciano and many of the famous groups and singles artists of the time honed their trade there.
Geremi González Geremis Segundo González Acosta (born January 8, 1975 in Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Previously, González played with the Chicago Cubs (1997-98), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2003-04), Boston Red Sox (2005), New York Mets (2006), and Milwaukee Brewers (2006).
Gereshk Gereshk is a town in Gerishk District in Helmand province on the Helmand River in central Afghanistan, some 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Kandahar. Gereshk is the centre of a rich agricultural region with the Kajakai dam upriver diverting water to the Boghra Irrigation Canal.
Gereth Yaztromo Gereth Yaztromo is a fictional wizard from the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series by Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone. He was one of the three pupils (including Arakor Nicodemus and Pen Ty Kora) of Vermithrax Moonchaser, the Grand Wizard of Yore.
Gerfalcon (novel) Gerfalcon is a fantasy novel by Leslie Barringer, the first book in his three volume Neustrian Cycle. It is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).
Gerfnit Gerfnit (gurf' knit) is the protagonist in Michael Pickard's science fiction novel, The Gerfnit Chronicles. Gerfnit is a Frob from Frobzb, a planet in the Crescent galaxy circling dual suns, a huge distance from Earth.
Gergedan "Gergedan", 1987-88 yıllarında Türkiye'de yayınlanan bir "Yeryüzü Kültürü Dergisi" idi. Toplam 17 sayı(esas ekibin ayrılmasından sonra çıkarılmaya çalışılan ama "Gergedan" olamayan dört sayı ile toplam 20) çıkabilen dergi, Türkiye'de sanat ve kültür alanında yayıncılığın bir miladı olmuştur.
Gergely Berzeviczy Gergely Berzeviczy berzeviczei és kakaslomniczi (Hungarian: Berzeviczy Gergely, Slovak Gregor (or Juraj) Berzevici (or Berzeviczy), German Gregor Berzeviczy) (June 15, 1763, Kakaslomnic, today Veľká Lomnica - February 23, 1822, in the same place) was an important political economist in the Kingdom of Hungary, follower of Adam Smith, one of the first of his kind in Hungary. He was also a successful writer and an enthusiastic propagator of the High Tatras.
Gergely Pongrátz Gergely Pongrátz (in Hungarian: Pongrátz Gergely) (Szamosújvár, 1932- Kiskunmajsa, 2005) was a legendary freedom fighter during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was the commander of the strongest point of resistance, the Corvin Alley (Corvin köz) between 1st November to 9th November.
Gergesa Gergesa, (also Gergasa or the Country of the Gergesenes) is a place on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee that is described in the New Testament Gospels of Mark and Luke. According to these books, in Gergasa Jesus drove demons out of a wild man and into a herd of pigs.
Gergeti Trinity Church Gergeti Trinity Church is a popular name for Holy Trinity Church (Tsminda Sameba in Georgian) church near the village of Gergeti in the Republic of Georgia. The church is situated on the right bank of the river Chkheri (the left tributary of the river Terek), at an elevation of 1800 meters, under Mt.
Gerhana Skacinta Gerhana Skacinta is a leading Malaysian band that specializes in ska. Although based in a country far from more famous centers of ska culture, the music of the band is not a fusion of Caribbean and Southeast Asian genres, but instead pure, traditional ska style.
Gerhard Gerhard is the professional name of a Canadian comics artist known for the elaborately detailed background drawings in Dave Sim's series Cerebus the Aardvark, on which he has worked since that comic's 65th issue. Occasionally joking that he "draws tables and chairs behind an aardvark" (since Sim pencils and inks the characters and Gerhard pencils and inks the backgrounds), many issues of the comic contain at least as much work from Gerhard as Sim.
Gerhard AnschĂĽtz Gerhard AnschĂĽtz (10 January 1867 in Halle (Saale) - 14 April 1948 in Heidelberg) was a noted German teacher of constitutional law and the leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution. His principal work (with Richard Thoma) is the two-volume legal encyclopedia Handbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts; his constitutional commentary saw 14 editions during the Weimar Republic.
Gerhard Barkhorn Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn (20 March, 1919 - 8 January, 1983) was the second most successful fighter ace of all time after fellow Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. He flew over 1100 combat sorties and was credited with 301 victories on the Eastern Front flying with the famed Jagdgeschwader 52 alongside Hartmann and GĂĽnther Rall.
Gerhard Grimmer Gerhard Grimmer (born April 6, 1943 in Hora Svaté Kateřiny) was an East German cross-country skier who competed during the 1960's and 1970's. He won several medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, including golds in the 50 km and the 4 x 10 km relay (both in 1974); silvers in the 30 km (1970), 4 x 10 km relay (1970), and 15 km (1974); and a bronze in the 50 km (1970).
Gerhard Gundermann Gerhard Rüdiger Gundermann, who generally performed as simply Gundermann (February 21], [[1955 — June 21, 1998), was a German singer-songwriter and rock musician. An excavator operator, his musical career began in the former East Germany, where he became known for his clever, often melancholy lyrics imbued with social commentary.
Gerhard Haidacher Gerhard Haidacher (born 29 April 1963) is a Austrian bobsledder who competed in the bobsleigh events at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. Haidacher won a gold medal in the four-person bobsleigh event with teammates Ingo Appelt, Harald Winkler and Thomas Schroll.
Gerhard KĂĽntscher Gerhard KĂĽntscher (born 1900 in Zwickau-1972) was a German surgeon who inaugurated the intramedullar nailing of bone fractures, a process that was first performed in 1939 at the university hospital of Kiel, Germany. He invented what is known as the KĂĽntscher nail, an internal fixation device used to maintain the position of the fracture fragments during healing.
Gerhard Koeppel Gerhard Koeppel is a German-born historian of Roman art and a specialist in the study of Roman historical relief sculpture. Koeppel was educated at the University of Cologne and studied under the ancient art historian Heinz Kähler.
Gerhard Kubik Born in Vienna on December 10th, 1934, Gerhard Kubik studied ethnology, musicology and African languages at the University of Vienna. He published his doctoral dissertation in 1971 and achieved habilitation in 1980.
Gerhard Lenski Gerhard Emmanuel Lenski (born August 13, 1924) is an American sociologist known for contributions to the sociology of religion, social inequality, and ecological-evolutionary social theory (which is related to cultural evolution). He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Gerhard Pfanzelter Gerhard Pfanzelter, born in 1943 in Innsbruck, is the current Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations. He presented his credentials to the United Nations Secretary-General on September 7, 1999.
Gerhard Plankensteiner Gerhard Plankensteiner (born April 8, 1971 in Sterzing-Vipiteno) is an Italian luger. Together with Oswald Haselrieder he won the bronze medal in the Men's Doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust was a show on Comedy Central that featured writer Josh Gardner as a German backpacker hosting a television show in which he explored various cultural areas on a traveler's budget. Gerhard often found himself in strange or awkward predicaments such as being kidnapped by militants, becoming the victim of organ bandits, and being viciously attacked by bigfoot.
Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several million dollars apiece.
Gerhard Roßbach Gerhard Roßbach (February 28, 1893–August 301967) was a hardbitten veteran putschist, a swashbuckling mercenary and commander of one of the more extreme Freikorps unit, the eponymous Rossbach Group. Members of this group included Edmund Heines, Martin Bormann and Rudolf Höß (later commandant of Auschwitz).
Gerhard Sessler Gerhard Sessler (February 15, 1931-) co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Laboratories in work culminating in 1962. He was born in Rosenfeld, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany and received his Ph.
Gerhard Schmidhuber Gerhard Schidhuber was a German general who died in the battle of Budapest of 1945. He was recently memorialized by the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság for preventing the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in the face of the advancing Red Army.
Gerhard Schmidthuber Major General Gerhard Schmidthuber was commanding officer of the German Army's 13th Panzer Division during World War II. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, Schmidthuber was supreme commander of German army forces in that country.
Gerhard Schulmeyer Gerhard Schulmeyer is a German American businessman. From 1994 until 1998, he was president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Nixdorf in Germany, and between 1999 and December 2001, he was president and CEO of Siemens Corporation in the United States.
Gerhard Skiba Gerhard Skiba of the Austrian Social Democratic Party was elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He got internationally known by setting up a memorial stone for the victims of Fascism in front of the house where Adolf Hitler was born.
Gerhard Stoltenberg Gerhard Stoltenberg (September 29, 1928 - November 23, 2001) was a German politician (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He also was minister-president of the German state (Land) of Schleswig-Holstein.
Gerhard Tersteegen Gerhard Tersteegen (November 25, 1697 - April 3, 1769), a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau (it fell to Prussia in 1702), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Catholic country.
Gerhard von KĂĽgelgen Franz Gerhard von KĂĽgelgen (February 26, 1772, Bacharach am Rhein - March 27, 1820, Dresden) was a German painter, famous for his portraits and history paintings. He was a professor at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and a member of both the Prussian and Russian Academies of Arts.
Gerhard von Scharnhorst Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (November 12, 1755 - June 28, 1813) was a general in Prussian service, Chief of the Prussian General Staff, noted for both his writings, his reforms of the Prussian army, and his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
Gerhard von Schwerin Gerhard von Schwerin was a German commander in World War II who was tasked with defending the city of Aachen. When he contemplated surrender to Allied forces to protect the cities artifacts (the city was the ancient resting place of Charlemagne's empire, or the First Reich), Adolf Hitler had him removed and sent Colonel Gerhard Wilck to defend the city with around 5,000 Volkssturm.
Gerhard Weinberg Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr.
Gerhard Wilck Colonel Gerhard Wilck was the German commander who defended the German city Aachen in the Battle of Aachen. He surrendered on 22 October 1944 against the orders of Hitler, this after a stubborn defence and bitter urban warfare.
Gerhart M Riegner Gerhart Moritz Riegner (born September 12, 1911, Berlin - died December 3, 2001, Geneva) was the secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress from 1965 to 1983. On August 8, 1942, he sent the so-called Riegner telegram through diplomatic channels to Stephen Samuel Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress.
Geri Allen Geri Allen (born June 12 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan) is a jazz pianist and music educator from Detroit, Michigan, who has worked with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter and Charles Lloyd. She cites her primary influences to be Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans.
Geri Reischl Geri Reischl (born on December 31, 1959 in Bellflower, California) is known by the nicknames "Replacement Jan" and "Fake Jan" for replacing Eve Plumb in nine episodes of the Brady Bunch Hour during the 1976-77 television season. She came into the television family as the new Jan Brady when Eve Plumb refused to appear in a musical revival of the original 1969-74 series.
Geriatric care management Geriatric care management is a service that provides assistance to the elderly and their families when they are faced with problems they are unable to resolve on their own. Most geriatric care managaers have backgrounds in social work or nursing, or another human service such as counseling, gerontology, speech, physical or occupational therapy.
Geriatric dentistry Geriatric dentistry or gerodontics is the delivery of dental care to older adults involving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of problems associated with normal aging and age-related diseases as part of an interdisciplinary team with other health care professionals.
Geriatric Depression Scale The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is a 30-item self-report assessment used specifically to identify depression in the elderly. The items may be answered yes or no, which is thought to be simpler than scales that use a five-category response set.
Geriatric sexology Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of sexuality in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias and disorders of or relating to sex and the sex organs.
Geriatric1927 geriatric1927 is the pseudonym of Peter Oakley from Leicester, England, a pensioner born in 1927 who is known for his popularity on the video sharing website YouTube.What to watch on the web: Video Blogs, BBC News, 27 November 2006 (accessed 29 December 2006).
Geriatrics Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
Gerichtsassessor In the German legal system, the obsolete designation Gerichtsassessor was held by judges or federal prosecutors, whose employment status today would be "on probation". Attainment of the second state legal qualification (the so-called "Competence to the Justiceship") was always a pre-requisite.
Gerishk District Gereshk District takes the name of its principal municipality, Gereshk town (pop 110,000) in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan. It sits on the intersection of Highway 1 (the 'Afghan ringroad', based on the old Silk Route and refurbished in the 1960's with US investment) and the Helmand River.
Gerlög and Inga Gerlög or Geirlaug and her daughter Inga were two powerful and rich women in 11th century Uppland, Sweden. Gerlög and Inga had their dramatic and tragic family saga documented for posterity on several runestones.
Germ (mathematics) In mathematics, a germ of (continuous, differentiable or analytic) functions is an equivalence class of (continuous, differentiable or analytic) functions from a topological space to another (often from the real line to itself), grouped together on the basis of their equality on the neighborhood of a fixed reference point in their domain of definition. In the same way, a germ of sets is an equivalence class of subsets of a given topological space, grouped together on the basis of their equality on the neighborhood of a fixed reference point belonging to all of them.
Germ line development The cells that give rise to the gametes are often set aside during cleavage. During development, these cells will differientate into primordial germ cells, migrate to the location of the gonad, and form the germ line of the animal.
Germ pore A germ pore is a small pore in the outer wall of a mycelial spore through which the germ tube exits upon germination. It can be [or eccentric in its location, and, on light microscopy], may be visualized as a lighter coloured area on the cell wall.
Germ theory of disease The germ theory of disease, also called the pathogenic theory of medicine, is a theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. Although highly controversial when first proposed, it is now a cornerstone of modern medicine and clinical microbiology, leading to such important innovations as antibiotics and hygienic practices.
Germa Seyum Germa Seyum was negus of Ethiopia, and a member of the Zagwe dynasty. Taddesse Tamrat states that he was a son of Mara Takla Haymanot, the younger brother of king Tatadim, and the father of Kedus Harbe and Gebre Mesqel Lalibela.
Germain Boffrand Germain Boffrand (Nantes, 16 May 1667 — Paris 19 March 1754) was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself.
Germain Henri Hess Germain Henri Hess (Russian: ГеŃŃ, Герман Đванович) (August 7, 1802–November 30, 1850) was a Swiss-born Russian chemist and doctor who formulated Hess's Law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
Germain's Peacock-pheasant Germain's Peacock-pheasant, Polyplectron germaini is a medium-sized, up to 60cm long, brownish dark pheasant with finely spotted buff, short crest, bare red facial skin, brown iris and purplish blue ocelli on upperbody plumage and half of its tail of twenty feathers. Both sexes are similar.
Germaine Dieterlen French anthropologist Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999) was a student of Marcel Mauss and wrote on a large range of ethnographic topics and made pioneering contributions to the study of myths, initiations, techniques (particularly "descriptive ethnography"), graphic systems, objects, classifications, ritual and social structure.
Germaine Lindsay Germaine Maurice Lindsay, also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, (September 23, 1985 – July 7, 2005) was one of the four suicide bombers who detonated bombs on three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, killing 56 (including themselves) and injuring more than 700.
German 161st Infantry Division The German 161st Infantry division participated in the Battle of Kursk, under the 42nd Army Corps whose other divisions were the 39th and the 282nd Infantry divisions. While the 161st infantry division did not play an active part in the battle of Kursk, it was responsible of protecting the flank of the 3rd Panzer Corps
German 1st Parachute Army The German 1st Parachute Army was formed in September of 1944 to consolidate the various Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger-Units and the Luftwaffe Field Division. It was tasked to defend the a 60 mile stretch of the Low Countries between Antwerp and Maastricht with a force of just over 30,000 men.
German 1st Ski Division The German 1st Ski Brigade was created on the Eastern Front in the fall of 1943, and strengthened to a full division in the summer of 1944. It fought exclusively on the Eastern Front, and surrendered to the Soviets at the end of the war.
German 210th Coastal Defense Division The 210th Coastal Defense Division was created from a Division zbV staff in July 1942, and shipped north to defend the port Petsamo in Arctic Finland. In late 1944 it moved westward to take up the defense of Vardø in the Norwegian Finnmark.
German 243rd Static Infantry Division The 243rd Static Infantry Division was raised in July 1943. It was stationed in the Cotentin Peninsula when the Allies invaded in June 1944, and destroyed in the Battle of Normandy, with its last elements lost in the fall of Cherbourg.
German 302nd Static Infantry Division The 302nd Static Infantry Division was raised over the winter of 1940-1941 and stationed in northern France for occupation duties. It was serving as coastal defense at Dieppe during the Canadian amphibious raid of August 1942, which it turned back, inflicting severe losses upon the Allied forces.
German 509th Heavy Panzer Detachment The schwere-Panzer-Abteilung 509 (abbreviated sPzAbt 509) was a German heavy panzer abteilung equipped with Tiger I and later Tiger II Königstiger tanks. The 509th saw action on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
German 6th Parachute Division The 6th Parachute Division was incorporated into the 9th Army of General Busse in 1945 to defend the Oder-Neisse front against Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov around the Seelow Heights. Hermann Göring sent the Kurmark panzer division to rally them after a breakthrough.
German 709th Static Infantry Division The 709th Static Infantry Division was raised in May 1941 and used for occupation duties during the German occupation of France in World War II until the Allied invasion. It was on the Normandy coast when the invasion fell, and thus fought in the Battle of Normandy.
German 719th Infantry Division German 719th Infantry Division, (German: 719th Infanterie Division) was founded in early May 1941 and spent most of World War II stationed in the Netherlands and Antwerp until the Allied invasion of Normandy. The 719th fought in several defensive battles until being destroyed in April 1945.
German 99th Light Infantry Division The German 99th Light Infantry Division was raised in November 1940 and remained in training at Bad Kissingen until the summer of 1941. In June it took part in Operation Barbarossa -- the German invasion of the Soviet Union -- and operated in Poland and the Ukraine under Army Group South until the fall, when it was withdrawn to Germany for reorganization as the 7th Mountain Division.
German adverbial phrases An adverb is a word that modifies the meaning of a verb, and an adverbial phrase is combination of words that perform the same function. The German language includes several different kinds of adverbial phrases.
German as a minority language German-speaking minorities live in many countries and on all six inhabited continents: the countries of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Latin America, Namibia, Israel, and Australia. These German minorities, through their ethno-cultural vitality, exhibit an exceptional level of heterogeneity: variations concerning their demographics, their status within the majority community, the support they receive from institutions helping them to support their identity as a minority.
German astronaut team The German astronaut team was established in 1987, until it became part of the European Astronaut Corps in 1998. Before the establishment of the team German astronauts were selected for single missions, or as part of the ESA manned spaceflight activities.
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis Atlantis, known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser, or merchant or commerce raider) of the Kriegsmarine, which, during World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km in 602 days, and sank 22 ships totaling 144,384 tons. Atlantis was sunk on November 21, 1941.
German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8, Schiff 41, Raider G) was a warship used in World War II. She is perhaps best-known for the sinking of Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in November 1941, during a battle in which the Kormoran was also destroyed.
German auxiliary cruiser Orion Orion (HSK-1) was an auxiliary cruiser of the German navy which operated as a merchant raider during World War II. Built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in 1930/31 as the freighter Kurmark, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine at the outbreak of World War II and converted into the auxiliary cruiser Orion, commissioned on 9 December 1939.
German Academic Exchange Service The DAAD or German Academic Exchange Service (German: Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation. It offers a wide range of scholarships to Germans and foreigners for study, research and teaching abroad and accordingly in Germany.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (or Leopoldina for short) (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) is currently located in Halle and claims 1, p. 5 to have enjoyed the longest continuous existence of any current scientific society.
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