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3 days ago · German language, official language of both Germany and Austria and one of the official languages of Switzerland. German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family, along with English, Frisian, and Dutch (Netherlandic, Flemish). Learn more about the German language.
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1 day ago · Germany, country of north-central Europe. Although Germany existed as a loose polity of Germanic-speaking peoples for millennia, a united German nation in roughly its present form dates only to 1871. Modern Germany is a liberal democracy that has become ever more integrated with and central to a united Europe.
May 10, 2024 · Frisian. Frank. Anglo-Saxon. Fleming and Walloon. Saxon. Germanic peoples, any of the Indo-European speakers of Germanic languages. The origins of the Germanic peoples are obscure. During the late Bronze Age, they are believed to have inhabited southern Sweden, the Danish peninsula, and northern Germany between the Ems River on the west, the ...
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May 9, 2024 · Tomonaga Shin’ichirō (born March 31, 1906, Kyōto, Japan—died July 8, 1979, Tokyo) was a Japanese physicist, joint winner, with Richard P. Feynman and Julian S. Schwinger of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for developing basic principles of quantum electrodynamics. Tomonaga became professor of physics at Bunrika ...
3 days ago · WikiLeaks and Chelsea Manning. In 2010 WikiLeaks posted a flurry of documents—almost half a million in total—relating to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.While much of the information was already in the public domain, the administration of U.S. Pres. Barack Obama criticized the leaks as a threat to U.S. national security.
- What is WikiLeaks?WikiLeaks is a media organization and website that functions as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information.
- Who founded WikiLeaks?WikiLeaks was founded by Australian computer programmer and activist Julian Assange in 2006. Assange was inspired to create WikiLeaks by Daniel Ell...
- What was the first publication on WikiLeaks?The first document posted to the WikiLeaks website, in December 2006, was a message from a Somali rebel leader encouraging the use of hired gunmen...
4 days ago · Switzerland, federated country of central Europe. Switzerland’s administrative capital is Bern, while Lausanne serves as its judicial centre. Switzerland’s small size—its total area is about half that of Scotland —and its modest population give little indication of its international significance. Switzerland.
2 days ago · Dutch language, a West Germanic language that is the national language of the Netherlands and, with French and German, one of the three official languages of Belgium. Although speakers of English usually call the language of the Netherlands “Dutch” and the language of Belgium “Flemish,” they are actually the same language.
