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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Guest Post: The gods behind the days of the week

Margaret Clunies Ross , University of Sydney The origins of our days of the week lie with the Romans. The Romans named their days of the w...

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Guest Post: From gay Nazis to 'we're here, we're queer': A century of arguing about gay pride

Laurie Marhoefer , University of Washington This month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will join gay pride marches in ci...

Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Guest Post: Forgotten origins of the modern gay rights movement in World War I

Laurie Marhoefer , University of Washington One of the World War I’s most enduring legacies is largely forgotten: It sparked the modern g...

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Guest Post: How the Nazis co-opted Christmas

by Joe Perry , Georgia State University In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas sp...

Monday, January 21, 2008

Useful Conversational Distinctions

Michael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch and Just Say Nu , has a monthly language column in the Jewish Daily Forward . In his latest piece , ...

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