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  • German Memories - Germanic Migration from Scandinavia to Southern Europe  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    The southward movement of Germanic tribes were probably influenced by a deteriorating climate in Scandinavia around 600 BC - 300 BC. The warm and dry climate of southern Scandinavia which was a couple of degrees warmer than today, deteriorated considerably, which not only dramatically changed the flora, but forced people to change their way of living and to leave their settlements.

    At around this time, this culture discovered how to extract bog iron from the ore in peat bogs. Their technology for gaining iron ore from local sources may have helped them expand into new territories.

    After they learnt new technological advancements, the Germanic tribes Teutons and the Cimbri were moving towards the southern parts of Europe. The Teutons were mentioned as a Germanic tribe in early historical writings by Greek and Roman authors, Strabo and Velleius.
  • German Memories in Asia - Adam's Peak of Sri Lanka  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    A visiting German team became familiar to me when we were having dinner at the beach-end restaurant at the Aquarius resort as we were sitting at adjoining tables. They were going to Adam's Peak in a few hours just before midnight as they could reach Adam's peak in the early morning hours of sunrise.

    Adam's Peak is a beautiful place, which is more divine than mere fun to visit. There were many visitors from around the world who visited Adam's Peak, which is jutting out, sharply skyward from the lush jungles of southwestern Sri Lanka since historical times.
  • German Memories in Asia - Germans' Sufferings  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Stephan, a Saxon-Anhalt in our discussion on various Second World War issues, posed vaguely the world should know how the Allied Forces destroyed buildings and killed thousands of people ruthlessly. There was frustration always in Germany though they apologized to the world for the massacres of Jews, Gypsies and other atrocities committed by Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Forces, the world has not so far apologized properly for the atrocities against the Germans around the world.
  • German Memories In Asia - Roman Era Europe And West Asia  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    The early events of Jaffna by the Portuguese recalled the historical events in the Roman era Europe and West Asia.

    In the course of the centuries the Roman Empire steered into a heavy and lasting crisis.

    Constant wars for the defense of borders, rising military expenditure, excessive taxes, repressive laws, rampantly growing bureaucracy and all-present corruption - all this undermined the loyalty of the Romans and provincial residents to the Roman state.

    The taxes were so high that many citizens had to work for the state for most of the year, while only a little was left for themselves. The Roman citizens had turned into slaves of the state and they didn't care after sometime whether their ruler and oppressor was a Roman or a victorious Germanic conqueror.
  • German Memories in Asia: A Discussion on Volcanic Winter & Human Evolution!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    But the Sumatra region has a record of having faced many disasters and re-shaping human evolution itself on Planet Earth.

    A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a "volcanic winter".

    Professor Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois advocated this idea. He believes that the eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra caused the bottleneck.
  • German Memories in Asia: A Mission in Asia!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Pascal holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and had worked for some time in the German Ministry of Defense.


    Pascal is a simple guy.



    He said his maternal grandfather was from France and in the Second World War while serving in Germany, had fallen in love with his to-be grandmother.




    There were many inter-marriages in Germany and Europe in the Second World War and before.



    Pascal is now attached to the International Institute of Ratings and Consultancy.
  • German Memories in Asia: A Visit to War-Torn Area  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    When we stopped near the Vavuniya clock tower along the highway, there were people, who gathered to see what was happening.



    It is a usual phenomenon in Asian rural areas when Europeans make visits.


    Whatever the hidden motive or drive which impels them to meet the white-skinned foreigners, especially the Europeans, it is something they would not miss as it is a chance in a lifetime among these village folk.



    The obvious reason is that they hardly come across them in their remote places and do not have the wherewithal to travel to Europe and meet them.
  • German Memories in Asia: Exploring the Human Evolution  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While we were having a chat by the seashore, twilight has turned into night and the German team who were playing volleyball has already left the beach.

    We were discussing many things.

    The similarities of genes between the human and the chimpanzee became a hot topic in our discussion.

    When I was telling about genealogy, my other German friend couldn't grasp it, but Walker did quiet easily.
  • German Memories in Asia: The German Kindness  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Having delivered my speech and moving away from the table, the way the students were greeting me by tapping slowly on the table is ever memorable. The simultaneous tapping on the table was creating a new kind of melodious music. I accepted their greeting with a smile. I was really amazed by their greetings and the way they did it.
  • German Memories in Asia: The Memorable Moments of Our Tsunami Mission!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    One could not help watching Fredrike's care and concern at the restaurant garden when she was tending to an infant who was with the mother inside a van.


    Fredrike extended one of her fingers into the tiny palm, and the infant immediately seized Fredrike's finger as tightly as possible.


    I noticed Freidke was enjoying those moments.

    I wished them all and when Freidka's turn came I observed that she looked uncomfortable.


    Her soft nature once again confirmed her emotional reactions.
  • German Memories in Asia: The Unsafe World!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Still in South India, some tribal groups who have been marginalized heavily by the rigid Hindu religion and cultural system and caste orthodoxy are still eating rats for their protein as other sources are beyond their means.


    In India there is competition in every field though one would think the vast Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea could give some employment by way of fishing as a source of food.


    The level of competition could be understood if one moved closely in Indian society.



    Colonial invaders from Europe and the rest of the world to unknown places of the world from time to time was only part of the problem for those native inhabitants.



    The world is at times not a safe place for living and creates tragedies and costs lives.
  • German Memory - Pennsylvania's Amish County & Mennonite Communities in Mexico  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Pennsylvania's Amish county in Lancaster has turned into a wonder land after the Harrison Ford movie "Witness" filmed in 1985. Thereafter each year, a large number of visitors journey to Amish land to experience the excitement.


    Agricultural exchange, a unique exchange program with an Amish order in Pennsylvania made it possible for some Low German Mennonites to survive in Mexico.

    Both the Amish and Mennonites speak German dialects, but they still require translators to communicate. As the two groups learned during an evening of singing, they share similar chant-style songs as well.
  • German Memory in Asia - A Discussion with German-Spanish Student  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Aquarius resort's indoor stadium was flooded by visitors for an unusual event, the German university student's fashion show.

    Once the fashion show was over, I extended my congratulations to Nita who performed so excellently. While I was talking to her, she related some stories and said her mother was a German and father a Spanish.

    She asked me whether I had heard of Valencia and when I said "No", her face darkened and asked me repeatedly "you never heard about Valencia?"
  • German Memory in Asia - An Exploration into Austrian-German Dialects  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    In the middle of our conversation, she smiled at Doering and said, "You are talking with an Austrian accent". He with a smile accepted her remark. Doering has been living in Sri Lanka for more than twenty years with his mother and he might have adopted that accent for her benefit.

    Austrian German is a variety of the German language and mostly a High German dialect.
    Dialects are receding in Austria as they are in some other areas of Europe, but it can safely be said that they are more persistent than in most of Germany.
  • German Memory in Asia - Austrian History  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Andrea had traveled vastly in Europe and covered a number of sporting events for the PRESS in Austria. When I asked her about the Austrian economy, she said with a sense of pride that it was a very rich country amongst the European Union. She said after the Second World War, there was a steady growth in the economy. She mentioned that recurrent flooding was a major catastrophe in the history of Austria. Her deep love towards her motherland was reflected in her facial expressions when describing various historical issues of Austria.

    The territory of Austria, originally known as the Celtic kingdom of Noricum, was a long time ally of Rome. It was occupied rather than conquered by the Romans during the reign of Augustus and made the province Noricum in 16 BC.
  • German Memory in Asia: A Tsunami Mission on the Shores of Bay of Bengal!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While I was approaching the edge of the Indian Ocean, I observed there were some sea gulls speedily hurrying from sea to land.


    I was terrified thinking that another tsunami was approaching us.


    Though I didn't feel any strong quake, I was aware that an earthquake can trigger killer waves thousands of miles across the ocean and could generate hours later the tsunami waves.
  • German Memory in Asia: A Visit to Tsunami-Hit Coastal Areas of Indian Ocean!  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    I had a fine view of the mangroves in the both directions of the passage, recalling memories of the good old days in Mullaitivu.


    When we reached the tsunami-hit bridge, we stopped over it and had a close view of the devastated bridge and the surrounding area.


    In the vicinity we could see that LTTE cadres were reconstructing the bridge and excavating the debris under it to enable an uninterrupted water-flow over the narrow canal which links the Indian Ocean and the interior Lake.
  • German Memory in Asia: German - Americans  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    Doering was continuing on Germans and German origin names around the world. Ethnic German minorities live in many countries in all six continents including the former Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, the United States, Latin America, Namibia, and Australia. These German minorities, through their ethno-cultural vitality, exhibit an exceptional level of variations.
  • German Memory in Asia: Memories of the Old Europe  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    While we were passing a junction, the driver told, he wanted to visit a deity, because he had made a vow some time back and turned the vehicle towards a more isolated passage.

    Though he was Catholic by religion his faith in deity worship is not strange in Sri Lanka.
    Ancient nature worship and Hindu traditions are deeply rooted in the daily life of many people.

    Steffani and Romy were watching intently what was happening in that small temple of deity worship. But the deity and nature worship is not strange to Europe. Before Christianity was introduced into Europe, there were deities and also everywhere other sorts of Pagan religious practices.
  • German Tsunami Mission in Asia: My Experience and Memories  By : Rajkumar Kanagasingam
    I couldn't imagine how a tremour underneath in the form of an earthquake by tectonic plate movements caused a massive disaster in the coastal areas of most of the Indian Ocean Rim countries.

    Memories of the early morning travel from George Town, the capital of Penang Island of Malaysia to the Teluk Bahang, the northern coastal front of the island still come to mind with the different panoramas of the Strait of Malacca and the silently waving southern seas of Andaman-Nicobar Islands in the far distance.

    My inner-eyes started to visualize in a distance spectrum gradually and now I could experience the tragedies of the coastal hamlets "Semmalai" and "Alampil", which were almost sunk underneath, where a few years ago, during my tenure as an officer in CARE International in the war - torn periods of the northern region, I visited extensively and was amazed by the hospitality of those village folk, but now everything has perished.

    Still I could hear those melodies of a cinema song which was aired over a radio while I was resting under the shade of a flock of densely grown coconut trees.
  • Get started with guide scrapbooking ultimate  By : John Foster
    Guide Scrapbooking ultimate not only gives you excellent ideas for scrapbooking but also makes sure that the art is preserved in a right manner.
  • Get started with scrapbooking material  By : John Foster
    Accessibility or availability of scrapbooking material has solved many problems for the scrapbookers, earlier it was difficult to find appropriate material for the scrapbook.
  • Get Thousands Of Beautiful Categorized Tattoo Designs Easily...  By : Nick Lim
    Have you been wanting to get a tattoo but don't have an exact idea or not sure what you want?
  • Getting that Call Back and other Audition Tips  By : Bill Healey
    Auditioning can be stressful especially if you are new to the experience of it all. Unfortunately, it's the best and usually the only way to find work in theater, film and commercials
  • Girl tattoos  By : doyourock
    Girl Tattoos are more and more associated with fashion and now appears on all body parts. Tattoos are now considered very sexy, feminine, sensual and provocative. It is no longer just for male but women of all walks of life embrace it more and more, especially the artists and actresses. It is a fashion statement that appears on female's shoulders, stomach, neck, back, legs and ankles. The trend is growing at a fast rate.
  • Go netting for free scrapbooking printables  By : John Foster
    One can add more fun in scrapbooking activities with the introduction of free scrapbooking printables, as they give great ideas in less time.
  • Got A Lot of Business Card Holders? Use Them Now!  By : Bradlley Mckoy
    You might find yourself in a position where you have plenty of business card holders but limited business cards to put in, or even no business cards at all. You might be a student with no need for business cards yet (just the gift card and the check from your parents would do, thank you very much) or a new graduate starting out your career (a call card is more appreciated) or embarking on a new career.
  • Gray Matter and the Bell Curve  By : Basil Anthony Beighey
    We all have relatively the same amount of gray matter and there's something going on in there. So stay present, introspective, and aware. Find your bell curve. That will be the one that has you at 100% competence and a frequency of one.
  • Greatness  By : Laurent Grenier
    What is the worst evil in the world? Wouldn't you agree that it is what prevents the achievement of everything that is good? And what prevents this achievement more than the weakness in a person's very soul that leads this person along the path of mediocrity, or worse, criminality? Let's take a look at this evil, first in the context of writing, then more generally in the context of living.
  • GUITARISTS BEWARE: Michael Johnson's Olympic 200m record Ripped to shreds!  By : little african boy
    Guitar players have a lot to learn from athletes...With the current on going Olypics, what can guitarists learn from the athletes competing at the 2008 beijing Olympics?

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