Tough weekend ahead for Arneb and his in-laws: Hertha is hosting deä Glubb tonight, while Greuther try to rain on Hamburg's parade tomorrow. Wish me, and the count, good luck for the Easter weekend.
Fifty years ago today, the first VW Golf rolled off the production line in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. With the eighth generation fresh into production (it will be the last that runs on a carbon-based internal combustion engine), I think we can call the type a moderate success.
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A comparative analysis of three key figures pertaining to a (generally) non-sexual, (mostly) non sportive activity of worldwide economic significance. The numbers are for the whole world.
They tell a rather positive, reassuring story, tw.
The Anglo-Saxon King Alfred, who is the only English King to bear the epithet "the Great", is one of only two Anglo-Saxon kings whose will has survived the ravages of time. He died in 899 AD.
I feel compelled to use the occasion of my 70,000th post on this board to remind you of the fact that the 896 would have been up for discussion in your post. U.N. Security Council Resolution 896 discussed the possible establishment of a peace force in Abchasia - in 1994, 30 years ago. It's a grippin...
The first democratic German constitution was passed 175 years ago today. Yes, that long ago. It was discussed and passed in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main as a result of the 1848 revolution. It died when the then Prussian King refused to take the crown out of the hands of the people instead of...
Kloster Plankstetten was founded 895 years ago. They still exist, and specialise in hearty, low-yield, high taste, organic Bavarian specialties. And the beer... oh my.
Now I know shit about economics, so can judge neither his economics competence nor if his Nobel was well-deserved. But I did read his Thinking, Fast and Slow book, and found it to be extremeley convincing - the thought processes he describes (or their absence, supplanted time and again, by "heu...
And indeed, No. 2 (haha) has won. It was FC Carl Zeiss Jena against, well, SV Babelsberg 03. The scorer, forward Elias Löder, already won a proper "Goal of the Month", a technically perfect overhead kick against... well you know whom :shock: - against Hertha, even if it was only against th...