Case vareniki, Zitter bree, and Noodles and Potatoes... Old recipes from Lincoln, Nebraska's Germans from Russia community
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*All photos in this post are from the genealogy files of Rick J. Greenwald and are the property of Rick J. Greenwald.During the reign of Russia’s Catherine the Great, many Germans immigrated to the Russian steppes. They built their villages along the Volga River, spreading outward from the city of Saratov. A little over 100…
Volga Germans
The German Culture
Germans Ermics was born in Riga (Latvia) in 1985. He lived his academic years in Denmark where he studied design in Copenhagen.
The Germans are onto something. They call a bike a rad. From a linguistic standpoint, that is the most accurate name for a bike in any language. They call
The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Europe was between the French and the Germans. Twice, cataclysmic wars were fought out on their borders, successfully by the French in 1914-18 and unsuccessfully in 1940. Both wars led to military occupation--for the large block of northern France behind the German trenches in the First World War and ultimately the whole country in the Second. Richard Cobb's extraordinary book is a meditation on the whole idea of occupation. How do you survive? When do you collaborate? What moral compromises are necessary? Above all, it is a book about the way that history gives a shape and rationality to events which for those living through them are completely mysterious, and terrifying. For those trapped under German rule--frightened, confused, malnourished--what is the right course of action? French and Germans, Germans and French recreates, with a brilliant mix of wit and sympathy, the story of one of the modern era's great dramas.
Documentary about Germans who immigrated to Russia then to USA
These documentaries explore a distinctive ethnic group’s history, culture, and folkways.
Posts about WWII: Germans written by Burkhard
St Germans church. The two towers are of Norman origin with much of the rest of the church being 18th century. The site was originally Cornwall's cathedral Jul 2007
Illustration, Product Design, Chisel, Chalk, ruler
Blog de galletas decoradas con glasa, decoración de fiestas y manualidades infantiles. Happy "GlasIng"!
Houses in St Germans with a distinctly Jacobean styling (if I'm not mistaken, which I probably am!) At a guess this might have been a vicarage. Jul 2007
