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posted 27 January:further revisions in schedule - especially for TESTSPosted 18 January:Revised schedule to allow for classes lost to snow. Includes specifications for Project 1Note: Click the sound links below only if you have a fast internet connection.Martin Luther King and German:To hear the massed choirs at the 2004 King Day concert in Washington, DC, singing the 4th movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as the church hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,"click on this link (streaming .mov, 5.6MB)To hear an English-language report from NPR about what life was like growing up in Germany as a black woman, the daughter of an American GI and a German woman,click on this link (streaming .mov, 8.1MB)It may be odd to think that MLK's parents would choose to name him for the 16th-Century church reformer and co-founder of Protestantism. Or maybe not - Luther was the greatest protester of his day, though not as strongly non-violent as King.For on-line encyclopedia "Wikipedia" about Martin Luther (available also in German from the page),click on this link.To view the homepage of Wittenberg (south of Berlin), where Luther started the Protestant Reformation in Germany,click on this link.It's an important skill to find out how to talk about our own world in German. Better than a dictionary is a website like MagazinUSA (home page). To read in German about the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center in Atlanta, GA,click on this link.Presidents' Day and GermanGeorge Washington and German: To hear an English language report from NPR about, Emanuel Leutze, the German artist who painted the famous picture of Washington crossing the Delaware River ("Don't stand up in the boat, George!"),click on this link (streaming .mov, 8.8MB)It's interesting to think that Washington was on his way to defeat the British forces at Trenton, NJ; that army was composed largely of German mercenaries (Hessians) who had been forced into service by the ruler of the tiny principality of Hesse and sold into British service.German (Prussian) military officers served as advisors to Washington; the most famous was Von Steuben, whose memory was celebrated in America until recent years as Von Steuben Day in October. Sic transit gloria mundi!Posted 5 January:German 102 Begins!
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