No, The World Is Not Flat! Bad news for flat-earth believers: Ancient Greek astronomers proved that the earth was a sphere – which later gave us the Latin (and German) word globus. Although references to globes representing the planet earth date from about 150 BCE, no...
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The German Who Named America
America • The Americas • American: What's in a Name? How did the American continent (Erdteil in German, "earth part") get its name? America, considered one continent or a "double continent," was the fourth one to be discovered by Europeans. When (in 1606) they found...
American Versus German Parenting – The Distance
I am fresh off the holidays back in America and along with other oddities of reverse culture shock (how much water is in American toilets!?), I have a new one. Even though all of my experience as a parent is in Germany, I would assume that - as an American native -...
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