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Death of a Broken Former President: Donald Trump- The New Willy Lowman Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Arthur Miller would be proud of Kamala Harris had he been alive today. He definitely would have given her a hug after watching the Presidential Debate where the curren...

Many of you probably watched the debate last night between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. And many of us saw the new version of Death of a Salesman thanks to Harris learning from Arthur Miller, the engineer behind the play. More here: flensburgerfiles.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/d...

Word of the Week: Sperrminorität (Blocking Majority) This past week, we have been following up on the events in the German states of Thuringia and Saxony, where thanks to the turnout of the state elections on the 1st of September, the far-right Alternat...

This week's Word of the Week: Sperrminorität (Blocking Majority). What it is and how it is connected with the elections in Thuringia and Saxony can be explained here: flensburgerfiles.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/w...

False Friend Exercises Nr. 6: With Co-Pilot AI After working with Chat GPT, I decided to try another program that works with artificial intelligence (AI) to find out what is different and what is the same when typing in something like the most com...

A week ago, I experimented with a False Friend using another AI program in Co-Pilot. Here are the results of the quiz, plus a link to the other False Friends exercises: flensburgerfiles.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/f...

Typical of Germany: Onions and lots of them Photo taken by Micha Riesler via WikiCommons The onion: Love it or leave it, it is one of the vegetables that is considered the remedy for human life. Egyptians from 4000 years ago worshipped it as a ...

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Salt and Bread as House-Warming Gifts? Let's start this article with this scenario: Two female friends from Bavaria, who have known each other since college, decide to open a restaurant in a rural community in Hesse, where a few of their f...

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Interesting Facts about Germany: The Currywurst Source: Ziko van Dijk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Germany has over a hundred different types of sausages coming from different parts of the co...

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Flensburg and Bridgehunter to Undergo some Changes Photo by Junior Teixeira on Pexels.com NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES & SOME MAKEOVERS IN THE PAGES EXPECTED Some readers may have noticed a few changes while visiting the Flensburg Files and Bridgehunter's C...

The Flensburg Files and The Bridgehunter's Chronicles will be undergoing some changes in the websites in the coming months. Already in the works are redoing the menu and expanding to other new social media pages. A summary on that here: flensburgerfiles.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/f...

Word of the Week: Containment Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Containment: A process of sealing off certain areas with a purpose of containing something dangerous. Containment: A process of quarantining someone who is infected with...

In connection with last night's election results in Saxony and Thuringia, we have our first Word of the Week: flensburgerfiles.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/w...

Welcome to the Blue Sky page of the Flensburg Files. This page is for collaborating over cultural topics and current events, as well as for providing some language and travel tips. It will also include some news stories affecting American-European affairs. Enjoy following the page.