আপনি কি উচ্চ শিক্ষার জন্য জার্মানীতে যেতে চান, তার জন্য আমরা আছি আপনার সাথে :
It existed for 184 years, the German Question. It arose
on August 6, 1806 when Franz II, the last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of
the German Nation, bowed down to an ultimatum from Napoleon, laid down his
crown, relieved the Estates of their duties and thereby dissolved the “Old
Empire”. The German Question was resolved on October 3, 1990, with the approval
of the four former occupying powers, when the German Democratic Republic
acceded to the Federal Republic of Germany. At a state act in the Berlin Philharmonie
Richard von Weizsäcker, the German President, described the historical
importance of Reunification in a sentence that has gone down in the annals of
German history: “The day has come on which for the first time in history the
whole of Germany takes a permanent place among Western democracies.”
Between 1806 and 1990 there were indeed periods in which
Europe was not concerned by what we call “the German Question”. Between 1871
and 1914, the peacetime of the Kaiserreich, nobody would have dreamed of
referring to an unresolved German Question. There can be no denying that the
German Question resurfaced at the latest on May 8 and 9, 1945 when the German
Reich surrendered unconditionally to the victors of the Second World War. The
division of Germany into two states was a preliminary answer to the German
Question. The final answer came in the form of the merger of the two states,
together with the recognition under international law of the borders of 1945.
Since October 3, 1990 it has been irrefutably laid down where Germany lies,
what belongs to the country and what does not.
Do
you think you know a lot of things about Germany? Here are some interesting
facts that you might never heard before:
1.
With
81 million people Germany has the largest population in the European Union.
2.
Germany
is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
3.
One
third of the country is still covered in forests and woodlands.
4.
Germany
is the seventh-largest country in Europe covering an area of 137,847 square
miles, of which 34,836 square miles is covered by land and 3,011 square miles
contains water.
5.
Germany
is composed of sixteen states. The states have their own constitution and are
largely autonomous in regard to their internal organization. At the municipal
level, Germany is divided into 403 districts (Kreise), of which 301 are rural
districts and 102 urban districts. Bavaria is the largest state.
6.
Germany
shares borders with nine other countries – Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
7.
Germany
is the EU’s largest economy – with a gross domestic product (GDP) of 3.73
trillion USD, and lies fourth place in the world behind the US, China and
Japan.
8.
Germany
is one of the world’s largest car producers – selling 5.9 million cars in 2011.
VW’s Golf is one of the best selling cars of all time: in 2012 it year it sold
more than 430,000 Golfs around Europe (125,000 ahead of its nearest rival). In
2013, the top-selling car brands in Germany were Volkswagen, Mercedes. Audi and
BMW.
9.
Berlin
has the largest train station in Europe.
10. Berlin is 9
times bigger than Paris and has more bridges than Venice.
11. The following
cities have all at one time or another been capitals of Germany: Aachen,
Regensburg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Nuremberg, Berlin, Weimar, Bonn (and East
Berlin), and, since 1990, Berlin again.
12. The first
printed book was in German.
13. Germany is one
of the world’s leading book nations – publishing around 94,000 titles every
year.
14. The first
magazine ever seen was launched in 1663 in Germany.
15. Germany was the
first country in the world to adopt Daylight saving time – DST, also known as
summer time. This occured in 1916, in the midst of WWI.
16. When JFK visited
Berlin, he infamously said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which also translates to “I
am a jelly donut.”
17. 65% of the
Autobahn (highway) has no speed limit.
18. German is the
most widely taught third language across the world.
19. German remains
the language with the most native speakers in Europe.
20. Germany,
Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein have German as the official
language.
21. Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
is the longest word to be published. It is 79 letters long.
22. There are thirty
five dialects of the German language.
23. College is free
for everyone (even non-Germans).
24. There are over
300 different kinds of bread in Germany.
25. There are over
1,000 kinds of sausages in Germany.
26. Beer is
considered as a food in Bavaria officially.
27. There are over
1,500 different beers in Germany.
28. Smoking is
banned in public places but drinking alcohol is still legal.
29. After the Irish,
the Germans are those consume the most beer, making Germany the second largest
consumer of Beer.
30. The biggest Beer
Festival in the world is of course the Oktoberfest in Munich, Bavaria, where
the size of the beer glass is not 500ml but a whole liter!
31. To get ONE beer
in Germany, you show your thumb. To show your first finger means that you want 2
beers: one with the thumb, and one with the finger.
32. There are more
football (soccer for the North Americans) fan clubs in Germany than anywhere
else in the world.
33. Germany has
(once) lost a penalty shootout in a major football competition. It was in 1976 when
the then West Germany lost a shootout 5-3 in in the European Championships
against Czechoslovakia. On the four other occasions the Germans
have been involved in one, they won.
have been involved in one, they won.
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34. The Christmas
tree (Tannenbaum) tradition came from Germany.
35. Germany has over
400 zoos, the most in the world.
36. Chancellor
Angela Merkel has a Barbie doll made after her.
37. Toilet paper in
Germany has the softness and consistency of paper towels.
38. Most taxis in
Germany are Mercedes.
39. Holocaust denial
is either implicitly or explicitly a crime in 17 countries, including Germany
and Austria.
40. There are over
150 castles in Germany.
41. The world’s
narrowest street is in Reutlingen. It is called Spreuerhofstrasse and is 31 cm
(one foot) wide at its narrowest point.
42. The Chancellor’s
office in Berlin is known locally as as the “washing machine”.
43. Germany is a
leader in climate and energy policies – it made a decision in 2011 to
decommission all nuclear power stations (then producing around 18 percent of
electricity consumed) by 2022 and to replace them with renewable energies and
new storage for green electricity.
44. In Germany
there’s no punishment for a prisoner who tries to escape from jail, because it
is a basic human instinct to be free.
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