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Tomorrow. The story is tbc .

2006 - In Fürth, Germany an evening of talking, dinner, drinks (alcohol-free for one of the participants) and cards has to be unexpectedly called off due to premature rupture of the membranes. Otherwise, it is an iteresting day, too. 30 BC Egyptian Pharao Cleopatra dies under "unclear circumsta...

That kind of thing yes. In Germany, the standard thing to say is, "the Cup has its own laws", and it does. Upsets occur at satisfying frequency, even higher up the ladder. At some time in the 90s, Hertha's farm team, listed as amateurs and playing in the third league (which was regional, n...

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Excellent! Is it seeded or an open draw? There is some seeding to avoid amateur-amteur pairings. I am not sure if there is a provision against Bundesliga-Bundesliga pairings early on, but in the later rounds, it's completely open. We've had Bayern-Dortmund as a quarterfinal, IIRC. The competition a...

See you in round 2. 5-1 in the end.

Played 15, won 12 drawn 2, lost 1.

Hertha 3 nil up at the half against a 4th-Leaguer in the Cup. Dare we hope?

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500 years ago today, Fernando de Magellanes (né Fernão de Magalhães but renamed in order to make the point he was travelling under Spanish orders) set sail to find a Western route to the Molukka islands. Three years later, 18 of the 250 sailors aboard one of three ships returned to Seville under the...

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Oh dear, I actually laughed at that Head and Shoulders joke. Too much Riesling, I guess. Just as a nitpick, we didn't rewrite our national anthem, we just declared it to consist exclusively of the third verse of the Lied der Deutschen. The on that doesn't contain the controversial stuff. Unity, the ...

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Same here, three weeks without a blade during my vacation and people think I am giving a nod to Yassir Arafat.

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Oh thank; I could have seen that myself, but only after reading the Wikipedia article.

Heid the Ba wrote:What are white and travel over an Irish loch at a hundred miles an hour?
Mountbatten's plimsolls!

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