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23 hours ago · Pronounced , boche is a derisive term used by the Allies during World War I, often collectively ("the Boche" meaning "the Germans"). It is a shortened form of the French slang portmanteau alboche, itself derived from Allemand ("German") and caboche ("head" or "cabbage"). The alternative spellings "Bosch" or "Bosche" are sometimes found.
23 hours ago · Freikorps ( German: [ˈfʁaɪˌkoːɐ̯], "Free Corps " or "Volunteer Corps " [1]) were irregular German and other European paramilitary volunteer units that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. They effectively fought as mercenaries or private military companies, regardless of their own nationality.
23 hours ago · Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [ 1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [ 2] Any observed statistical regularity will tend to ...
23 hours ago · Germany is the seventh-largest country in Europe. [ 4] It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and Czechia to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. Germany is also bordered by the North Sea and, at the north-northeast, by the Baltic Sea.
23 hours ago · Hawk-Eye. Hawk-Eye ( dt. Falkenauge) ist ein computergestütztes System zur Ballverfolgung im Sport, so beispielsweise im Cricket, Tennis, Fußball und Snooker. Strittige Situationen, bspw. das „Aus“ des Balls, können durch das System im Nachhinein nahezu zweifelsfrei geklärt werden.
23 hours ago · The chart below reflects the average (mean) wage as reported by various data providers. The salary distribution is right-skewed, therefore more than 50% of people earn less than the average gross salary. Thus, the median figures provided further below might be more representative than averages. These figures will shrink after income tax is applied.
23 hours ago · The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968, when the Soviet Union and most Warsaw Pact members invaded ...
