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Tag: #word of the day
The house of advocates
In Bad Tölz is a house, called “House of Advocates”. In German, an Advokat is a synonym for lawyer or barrister, one who pleads the cause of another. I couldn’t confirm where the name comes from and if it originally had anything to do with lawyers.
Today it is split into an event venue and living apartments. But the various landlords of the house have been advocating performance arts of various kinds since the 1930s.
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Walking Leaves
These are leaf insects (aka grashoppers that engage in leaf mimikry) living in the Vivarium Darmstadt.
I’m not enough of a specialist to know if these particular insects are related to grasshoppers; they are if they are katydits but not if they are phylliidae.
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A special sunset
What made this sunset special? It was two days ago, and the sun looked like pacman. Word of the Day Challenge: Sunset
You get what you deserve
The items on the kids’ menu are:
- I don’t know
- It’s all the same to me
- Something or other
- I’m not hungry
Here is the translation:
- small schnitzel with either chips or spätzle
- six chicken nuggets with chips and ketchup
- spätzle with sauce
- empty plate with cutlery to use as drumsticks (that one is free of charge)
Dam. That’s a dam.
The Primtalsperre near Nonnweiler in the Saarland, almost France, can retain 19,85 Mio. m³ water.
233° Celsius.
What was that again in Fahrenheit? Come on, join in, throw in you books! Word of the Day: Fahrenheit
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