Random Learnings #4
I first saw a reference to Sütterlinschrift while reading Fatherhood: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger. The author was researching his grandfather's military service in…
Random Learnings #3
From the 1933 Pears' Cyclopaedia, Regensburg is the alternative name for Ratisbon. Wikipedia disambiguates Ratisbone as Regensburg and says ...it is still known in the Romance languages as a cognate of its…
Random Learnings #2
A co-worker and his family recently purchased their first home in a new community of new construction, every neighbor is new to everyone else. So far it appears like young…
Random Learnings #1
In a book I'm currently reading about German broadcasting and its use for propaganda during World War II, I read: The first on-air directive, it seems, was a decree that…