GERMANY
Geographical Location :
Between continental Europe and in the sea area west of Germany, the Baltic Sea, Denmark and the North Sea coast in the south has. Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg and has borders with Poland.
Currency :
Euro.
Public Holidays :
New Year (January 1), the Holy Three Kings (January 6), Good Friday (March 21), Easter (March 24), Labour Day (May 1), Hz. Ascension (May 1st), Pantkot Pentecost (12 May), Corpus Christi (22 May), Hz. Assumption Day Out (August 15), Germany's Combination Day (October 3), Reform Day (31 October), All Saints Sunday (November 1), Christian Festival (November 16), Repentance Day (19 November), Christmas ( 25-26 December), the main holiday season (June-September)
Some Germany Hotels :
Hilton Hotel Berlin
Located right at the beautiful Gendarmenmarkt in the historical center Germany's capital, the Hilton Berlin featuring 589 guestrooms is situated just a stone's throw away from the city's business district, all the major government and ministry offices, embassies and various organisation headquarters.
Every one of the hotel's guestrooms and suites offers individually adjustable air-conditioning, cable and pay television with video games, minibar and hair dryer. The hotel's leisure facilities consist of an enclosed swimming pool, tanning beds, fitness gear, bowling alley, massage parlour, squash court and sauna. The hotel offers a ballroom and 14 conference rooms, equipped with hi-tech audio-visual gear, and for the most part with natural light that can accomodate up to 600 persons. Every meeting room can host an exhibition.
The hotel accepts major credit cards.
Every one of the hotel's guestrooms and suites offers individually adjustable air-conditioning, cable and pay television with video games, minibar and hair dryer. The hotel's leisure facilities consist of an enclosed swimming pool, tanning beds, fitness gear, bowling alley, massage parlour, squash court and sauna. The hotel offers a ballroom and 14 conference rooms, equipped with hi-tech audio-visual gear, and for the most part with natural light that can accomodate up to 600 persons. Every meeting room can host an exhibition.
The hotel accepts major credit cards.
The Most İmportant Church :
DOM CHURCH
Cologne Cathedral stands on the site of a 4th century Roman temple, followed by a square church known as the "oldest cathedral" commissioned by Maternus, the first Christian bishop of Cologne. A second church built on the site, the "Old Cathedral," was completed in 818. This burned down on April 30, 1248.
Construction of the present Gothic church began in the 13th century and took, with interruptions, more than 600 years to complete. The new structure was built to house the relics of the Three Magi, taken from Milan by Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa and given to the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald von Dassel in 1164.
The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral was laid on August 15, 1248, by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, and the choir was consecrated in 1322. After this initial rapid progress, construction work gradually came to a standstill, and by the year 1560, only a torso had been built.
Only with the 19th century Romantic enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and the commitment of the Prussian Court did construction work resume. 1824 saw the addition of the towers and other substantial parts of the cathedral, mostly according to surviving medieval plans and drawings.
The completion of Germany's largest cathedral was celebrated as a national event in 1880, 632 years after construction had began. The celebration was attended by Emperor Wilhelm I.
The cathedral suffered 14 hits by World War II aerial bombs but did not collapse and reconstruction was completed in 1956. In the northwest tower's base, an emergency repair carried out with bad-quality brickstones taken from a nearby war ruin remained visible until the late 1990s as a reminder of the War, but then it was decided to reconstruct this section according to the original appearance. It is possible to climb a spiral staircase to a viewing platform about 98 metres above the ground.
In 1996, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites and in 2004, it was placed on the "World Heritage in Danger" list.
World War 2
World War II, or the Second World War[1] (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved most of the world's nations, including all great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "total war," the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant action against civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history,[2] with over seventy million casualties.
The start of the war is generally held to be 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and subsequentdeclarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Many countries were already at war by this date, such as Ethiopia and Italy in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and China andJapan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.[3] Many that were not initially involved joined the war later in response to events such as the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the Japanese attacks on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and on British overseas colonies, which triggered declarations of war on Japan by the United States, the British Commonwealth,[4] and theNetherlands.[5]
In 1945 the war ended in an Allied victory and a changed world. While the United Nations was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as two rivalsuperpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the acceptance of the principle of self-determination accelerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe began moving towardeconomic recovery and increased political integration.
Musicians of Bremen:
In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster, all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together. They decide to go to Bremen, known for its freedom, to live without owners and become musicians there.
On the way to Bremen, they see a lighted cottage; they look inside and see four robbers enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Standing on each others backs, they decide to perform for the men in hope of gaining food. Their 'music' has an unanticipated effect; the men run for their lives, not knowing what the strange sound is. The animals take possession of the house, eat a good meal, and settle in for the evening.
Later that night, the robbers return and send one of their members in to investigate. It is dark and he sees the eyes of the Cat shining in the darkness. He reaches over to light his candle, thinking he sees the coals of the fire. Things happen in quick succession; the Cat swipes his face with her claws, the Donkey picks up his hooves and kicks him, the Dog bites him on the leg and the Rooster crows and chases him out the door, screaming. He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers (the Cat), an ogre with a knife (the Dog), a giant who had hit him with his club (the Donkey), and worst of all, the dragon who screamed in his voice from the rooftop (the Rooster). The robbers abandon the cottage to the strange creatures who have taken it, where the animals live happily for the rest of their days.
In Popular Culture
The tale has often been retold both as animated pictures, motion pictures (often musicals) and theatre plays. Jim Henson produced a version with his Muppets called The Muppet Musicians of Bremen. In the Soviet Union, the story was loosely adapted into an animated musical in 1969 by Vasily Livanov at the studio Soyuzmultfilm, The Bremen Town Musicians. It was followed by a sequel called On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians. In 2000, a second 56-minute sequel was made, called The New Bremen Musicians (Но́вые бре́менские, Novyye bremenskiye).[1]
In the mid-1960s, Tupper Saussy wrote a composition titled The Beast with Five Heads on a commission from the Nashville Symphony to teach schoolchildren about orchestration, intended as a substitute for Peter and the Wolf.[2]
In Brazil, Chico Buarque adapted into a musical play called Os Saltimbancos, which was later released as an album, and became one of the greatest classics for children. This version was also made into a movie.[3]
In Spain, the story was made into an animated feature film in 1989, directed by Cruz Delgado.[4]
A persiflage of this tale can be found on the wall in the Fort Napoleon, Oostende, Belgium. Heinrich-Otto Pieper, a German soldier during World War I painted the German and the Austro-Hungarian eagles throned on a rock, under the light of a Turkish crescent. They look with contempt on the futile efforts of the Town Musicians of Bremen to chase them away. These animals are symbols for the Allied Forces: on top the French cock, standing on the Japanese jackal, standing on the English bulldog, standing on the Russian bear. Italy is depicted as a twisting snake and Belgium a triciolored chafer.
Richard Scarry wrote an adaptation of the story in his book Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales in 1975. In it, the donkey, dog, cat and rooster are all fully anthropomorphic (as is the case of all Richard Scarry characters), and set out since they are bored with farming.
On Cartoon Network in between cartoon breaks during the "Out of Tune Toons" marathon and on Cartoonetwork Video, there are cartoon shorts (called "Wedgies") of an animal band based on the tale called "The Bremen Avenue Experience" featuring a cat (Jessica), dog (Simon), donkey (Barret) and rooster (Tanner), they are either a modern adaptation on the Bremen Town Musicians or descendants of the old musicians of Bremen.
Hello Project's Mini Moni. starred in a drama based on the fairy tale called Mini Moni. de Bremen no Ongakutai (Mini Moni's Bremen Town Musicians). The drama goes backwards in time of three periods of Japanese history unvailing the story. The drama does not have very much in common with the fairy tale.
In the anime Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin one of the main villains is named Randagio, who is based on both the cat of the story as well as Puss in Boots. He has three underlings that are based on the other three animals from the fairy tale and have a band named Breman.
Nippon Animation Co., Ltd. adapted the tale in the first episode of the anime TV series Grimm Meisaku Gekijou, released in English as Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. The four main characters are also seen in the opening of the anime.
The tale has often been retold both as animated pictures, motion pictures (often musicals) and theatre plays. Jim Henson produced a version with his Muppets called The Muppet Musicians of Bremen. In the Soviet Union, the story was loosely adapted into an animated musical in 1969 by Vasily Livanov at the studio Soyuzmultfilm, The Bremen Town Musicians. It was followed by a sequel called On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians. In 2000, a second 56-minute sequel was made, called The New Bremen Musicians (Но́вые бре́менские, Novyye bremenskiye).[1]
In the mid-1960s, Tupper Saussy wrote a composition titled The Beast with Five Heads on a commission from the Nashville Symphony to teach schoolchildren about orchestration, intended as a substitute for Peter and the Wolf.[2]
In Brazil, Chico Buarque adapted into a musical play called Os Saltimbancos, which was later released as an album, and became one of the greatest classics for children. This version was also made into a movie.[3]
In Spain, the story was made into an animated feature film in 1989, directed by Cruz Delgado.[4]
In Germany, the story was adapted into an animated feature in 1997, under the title The Fearless Four (animated)Link titleLink title]]
Richard Scarry wrote an adaptation of the story in his book Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales in 1975. In it, the donkey, dog, cat and rooster are all fully anthropomorphic (as is the case of all Richard Scarry characters), and set out since they are bored with farming.
On Cartoon Network in between cartoon breaks during the "Out of Tune Toons" marathon and on Cartoonetwork Video, there are cartoon shorts (called "Wedgies") of an animal band based on the tale called "The Bremen Avenue Experience" featuring a cat (Jessica), dog (Simon), donkey (Barret) and rooster (Tanner), they are either a modern adaptation on the Bremen Town Musicians or descendants of the old musicians of Bremen.
Hello Project's Mini Moni. starred in a drama based on the fairy tale called Mini Moni. de Bremen no Ongakutai (Mini Moni's Bremen Town Musicians). The drama goes backwards in time of three periods of Japanese history unvailing the story. The drama does not have very much in common with the fairy tale.
In the anime Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin one of the main villains is named Randagio, who is based on both the cat of the story as well as Puss in Boots. He has three underlings that are based on the other three animals from the fairy tale and have a band named Breman.
Nippon Animation Co., Ltd. adapted the tale in the first episode of the anime TV series Grimm Meisaku Gekijou, released in English as Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. The four main characters are also seen in the opening of the anime.
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