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Germany is one of the world's leading industrialised countries, located in the heart of Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, to the west by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic.

Germany is a democratic federal parliamentary state, made up of 16 federal states (Länder), which in certain spheres act independently of the Federation.

The Federal Republic of Germany is a member state of the United Nations, NATO, the G8 nations, and a founding member of what is now the European Union. More...

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The High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development (sound change) which took place in the southern parts of the West Germanic dialect continuum in several phases, probably beginning between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, and was almost complete before the earliest written records in the High German language were made in the 9th century. The resulting language, Old High German, can be neatly contrasted with the other continental West Germanic languages, which mostly did not experience the shift, and with Old English, which was completely unaffected. The High German consonant shift altered a number of consonants in the Southern German dialects, and thus also in modern Standard German, Yiddish and Luxemburgish, and so explains why many German words have different consonants from the obviously related words in English and Dutch. More...

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• The Bavarian state election sees the CSU losing its majority in the Landtag (pictured), the state legislature, for the first time in 46 years. (NYT) - 2008-09-28
• The German Bundestag gives parents the right to send children older than one year to a kindergarten or pre-school playgroup, mandating states to build enough facilities. (n-tv) - 2008-09-26
• Germany introduces a test for foreigners seeking to become German nations. (BBC) - 2008-09-01
  
  More Germany-related news in English can be found at Deutsche Welle and Der Spiegel.
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Anniversaries for October 6

• 1459 – Birth of geographer Martin Behaim
• 1831 – Birth of mathematician Richard Dedekind
• 1951 – Death of physician and biochemist Otto Fritz Meyerhof, recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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