I really should be finishing up my sga_secretsanta entry (yes, I know that technically I should be finished and posting but inspiration struck very, very late this year and anyway, not getting sidetracked here) but when I put on the Three Hazlenuts for Cinderella (we'll come to that later) soundtrack to get in the Christmas mood (again, coming to that later), I ( Read more... )

Wrong answer: a bag of rice dropped down in China.

Right answer: German Reunification.

( Anniversaries like that, they make me feel old... )

Following a discussion with my Canadian language date (basically, we meet each other to talk in foreign languages - in this case English, French and German - to get some practice... we call it Sprachtandem which sounds a lot more bureaucratic and a lot less... misleading ;)), I thought it's probably about time I write another On... Germans posting ( Read more... )

Since this is a very important date in German history, I thought I could use it for another one of my "On... Germans" posts (the other ones were "On elections.", "On heroes." and "On soldiers."). Ironically it's the day of both of one of our darkest and probably the brightest moment in all of German history; the Reichsprogromnacht that marked the ( Read more... )

Due to current tragic events I remembered that I promised to blog about Germans and their very difficult relationship to everything military as a third installment to the "On...Germans." tag, which incorporates so far:

On elections.

On heroes.

( Again, that turned out much longer than I expected it to... )

A few weeks ago, I did a posting on elections in Germany and something in that sparked the idea to do some other "Germans explained for the world" postings now and then. So far:

On elections.

Today's posting was inspired by me reading yet another WWII novel taking place in WWII London ("Liverpool Street" by Anne C. Voorhoeve, will write a review once ( Read more... )

A little explanation on why we had three nomination conventions in the last two months. I do try to be brief about it but... I can't guarantee anything.

( How we elect our political leaders. )