The overhand grip is used in giant swings, and the dorsal grip in German Giant Swings.

The Elbe rises at an elevation of about in the Krkonoše ( also known as Giant Mountains or in German as Riesengebirge ) on the northwest borders of the Czech Republic.

Dogs of any breed, even mixes, can compete in Schutzhund today, but the most common breeds are German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, Boxers, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Cane Corso, Giant Schnauzers, Bouvier des Flandres, Dutch Shepherd Dogs, Beaucerons, American Bulldogs, Black Russian Terriers, Airedale Terriers, Australian Cattle Dogs, and the like.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

In 1919 he started work on his " Giant " JG1 design, intended to seat passengers within thick wings, but two years later the Allied Aeronautical Commission of Control ordered the incomplete JG1 destroyed for exceeding post-war size limits on German aircraft.

Obviously the name means “ aboriginal abyss ,” or in the terser German, Urgrund, and we have reason to believe it to be a translation of the Babylonian Tiamat, “ the Deep .”< p > The Chinese legend tells us that P ’ an-Ku ’ s bones changed to rocks ; his flesh to earth ; his marrow, teeth and nails to metals ; his hair to herbs and trees ; his veins to rivers ; his breath to wind ; and his four limbs became pillars marking the four corners of the world, — which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat .< p > Illustrations of P ’ an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane ; sometimes also the dragon, the emblem of power, and the phoenix, the emblem of bliss .< p > When the earth had thus been shaped from the body of P ’ an-Ku, we are told that three great rivers successively governed the world: first the celestial, then the terrestrial, and finally the human sovereign.

The Deutsche Riesengebirgsverein ( German Giant Mountains Club ), an organization to protect the environment of the Giant Mountains ( Krkonoše ) and to promote tourism, was founded in 1880 by Theodor Donat and 47 other dignitaries of the region.

Start of a German Reichswehr military training patrol team in the Karkonosze | Giant Mountains, 1932.

In creekside riparian habitats are found plants such as Giant Cane ( Arundo donax ), German Ivy ( Delairea odorata ), Blue Periwinkle ( Vinca major ), and Ivy ( Hedera spp.

It differs from the English, Giant and German Angora in that it possesses a clean face and front feet, with only minor tufting on the rear legs.

Its coat contains three types of wool: soft under wool, awn fluff, and awn hair ; the awn type wool exists only on the Giant and German Angora.

Many people confuse German with Giant Angora, but they are not the same.

Technically one could show a German angora as a Giant angora since they have German angoras in their pedigrees, however they are unlikely to score well due to the lack of desired body shape.

Furthermore, the German word " Riese " can be translated as " giant " in English, thus inspiring a common tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the beforementioned saying, " nach Adam Riese und Eva Zwerg " (" according to Adam Ries / Giant and Eve Dwarf ).

The album " Catching Rays On Giant ", the first commercial studio album in 13 years, was released on November 19, 2010 and entered the official German album charts at number 9 in its first week of release.

* " Giant Of The Air-The Latest German Liner ", January 1933, Popular Mechanics cutaway drawing of G. 38 better than 1931 article

German Shepherd Dogs and Belgian Malinois are most commonly used because of their availability ( see List of police dog breeds ); however other dog breeds have also contributed, such as Dutch Shepherds, Rottweilers, Boxers, Doberman Pinschers, Giant Schnauzers, American Pit Bull Terriers, and American Staffordshire Terriers.

Issues such as # 2598 -' Let Me Fly ' & # 2713 -' The Flying Musketeers ' portrayed WW2 from the experiences of German combatants whilst # 2574 -' Giant Duel ' was a story about Italian air-force bomber crews in WW2.

Then 2 modified Würzburg Riese (" Würzburg Giant ") radars tracked a single British bomber and a German night fighter to bring them together.

It was at this time ( breed description and showing of these dogs ) that some breeders used standard schnauzers to help fix the schnauzer type and developed the central German type Giant Schnauzer.

* Hermann Eberhard ( 1852 – 1908 ), a 19th-century German explorer that discovered Giant sloth remains at Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument.

* Killed by a Giant 311 ( Italian, German )

Socialist leaders in Milwaukee recognized her worth, not only because of her dedication but because of her fluency in German, French, and Luxemburg.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

The term for the mountain peaks varies by nation and language: words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, and berg are used in German speaking regions: mont and aguille in French speaking regions ; and monte or cima in Italian speaking regions.

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages ( English, French, German ).

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

In the German Evangelical Church the German title of Abt ( abbot ) is sometimes bestowed, like the French abbé, as an honorary distinction, and survives to designate the heads of some monasteries converted at the Reformation into collegiate foundations.

In French, Italian, Spanish and German, alternate history novels are called uchronie.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.