Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

* 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

There is good archaeological evidence for this process and crucibles used to produce brass by cementation have been found on Roman period sites including Xanten and Nidda in Germany, Lyon in France and at a number of sites in Britain.

A number of European countries, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, apply a strict liability towards cyclists, protecting them.

On March 16, 1517, the Fifth Council of the Lateran closed its activities with a number of reform proposals ( on the selection of bishops, taxation, censorship and preaching ) but not on the major problems that confronted the Church in Germany and other parts of Europe.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.

Stoiber, as a minister in the state of Bavaria, is widely known for advocating a reduction in the number of asylum seekers Germany accepts, something that prompted critics to label him xenophobic, anti-Turkish and anti-Islam.

" Orinoco Flow ", reported to be named after Orinoco Studios ( now Miloco Studios ), where it was conceived, topped the charts in the United Kingdom, peaked at number 2 in Germany and the Watermark album sold eleven million copies.

In Germany, " Only Time " re-entered the German single charts at number 1 and the album A Day Without Rain reached number one some weeks later.

It reached the Top 10 in both the UK and the US, and peaked at number 3 in Germany.

Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

A number of flutes dating to about 43, 000 to 35, 000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Alb region of Germany.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

A number of modern German films such as Downfall, Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, The Lives of Others and The Counterfeiters address the nature of totalitarianism in 20th-century Germany.

In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film-making from 1896, but did not make a significant number of films per year till 1910.

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

The Italian Socialist Party opposed the war on the grounds of internationalism, but a number of Italian revolutionary syndicalists supported intervention against Germany and Austria-Hungary on the grounds that their reactionary regimes needed to be defeated to ensure the success of socialism.

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has close and friendly relations with a number of countries around the world, including: the United States, Japan, Germany, Turkey, India, China, Canada, Russia, United Arab Emirates and many others.

The number of Afghans in Germany is about 90, 000 but many others have been deported from there in the last decade.

The number of Russian soldiers active in the Civil War declined markedly once Germany attacked Russia on 18 February 1918.

The United Nations Population Fund lists Germany as host to the third-highest number of international migrants worldwide.

But, contrary to his hopes, a majority of the monarchists did not follow his pleas for cooperation, many of whom backed the aspirations of Germany, and who had hoped to see the victory of the Kaiser, as another channel to restore the monarchy.

Before the rise of the NSDAP it was the main nationalist party in Weimar Germany composed of nationalists, reactionary monarchists, völkisch, and antisemitic elements, and supported by the Pan-German League.

Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists ( i. e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-King and the rule of the House of Habsburg ), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss ' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of the Nazi regime.

During the hegemony of Germany in 1918, the monarchists won the political battle and a clear majority of the Young Finns voted for a German prince Friedrich Karl to become the King of Finland.

As Lenin himself remarked, " That was the time when everyone in Germany, including the blackest reactionaries and monarchists, declared that the Bolsheviks would be their salvation.

Julius Caesar in Gallic Wars tells us ( 1. 51 ) that Ariovistus had gathered an army from a wide region of Germany, but especially the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones, Nemetes and Sedusii.

As the popular response to Luther gathered momentum, the social disorders, which Erasmus dreaded and Luther disassociated himself from, began to appear, including the German Peasants ' War, the Anabaptist disturbances in Germany and in the Low Countries, iconoclasm and the radicalization of peasants across Europe.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

In December 2001, political leaders gathered in Germany to agree on new leadership structures.

Mack had gathered the greater part of the Austrian army at the fortress of Ulm in Swabia ( modern day southern Germany ).

The Huguenots gathered a formidable army under the command of Condé, aided by forces from south-east France, led by Paul de Mouvans, and a contingent of fellow Protestant militias from Germany — including 14, 000 mercenary reiters led by the Calvinist Duke of Zweibrücken.

On 14 August West Berliners gathered on the western side of the gate to demonstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor Willy Brandt, who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour in West Germany earlier on the same day.

While operating from a BPS framework requires that more information be gathered during a consultation, a growing trend in US healthcare ( and already well-established in Europe such as in the U. K. & Germany ) includes the integration of professional services through integrated disciplinary teams, to provide better care and address the patient's needs at all three levels.

In 2006, the top three countries receiving the most venture capital investments were the United Kingdom ( 515 minority stakes sold for € 1. 78 billion ), France ( 195 deals worth € 875 million ), and Germany ( 207 deals worth € 428 million ) according to data gathered by Library House.

On his way to Elberfeld, Engels took two cases of rifle cartridges which had been gathered by the workers of Solingen, Germany, when those workers had stormed the arsenal at Gräfrath, Germany.

The tumult which gathered round the person of the critic increased the success of the work, and the reputation of Brandes grew apace, especially in Germany and Russia.

Auf dem Weg nach Tabou ( 1995 ; translated as Parting from Phantoms ) gathered essays, speeches, and letters written during the four years following the reunification of Germany.

As a Catholic, he also objected to the increasing repression of the Roman Catholic Church, which gathered pace after 1935: in 1937 he sent a letter to Hitler, protesting the persecution of Christians in Germany.

In 1817, inspired by liberal and patriotic ideas of a united Germany, student organisations gathered for the Wartburg festival at Wartburg Castle, at Eisenach in Thuringia, on the occasion of which reactionary books were burnt.

Here, representatives from Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Japan gathered to come to an agreement.

Every other year, school children from across East Germany gathered for a Bach competition held in East Berlin.

After a visit to western Germany where Goerdeler was horrified by the damage caused by Anglo – American bombing, in July 1943 Goerderler wrote a letter to Field Marshal Günther von Kluge that read as: The idea fostered by the High Military authorities that the devastation in the West was not so bad and that after a few days, during which they ' gathered up their chattels from among the ruins ', the workers return to work, induced me to look at the devastation for myself.

He is best known for a series of works on the social condition of the poor in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria, the materials for which he gathered on a four years tour as travelling bachelor of his university.

In December 1943, Doriot travelled to Germany and made contact with the former members of Vichy regime and other collaborators who had gathered together at Sigmaringen.

Brandler and Thalheimer gathered their supporters into a new organization called the Communist Party of Germany ( Opposition ) ( KPO ), a group which was founded at the December 30, 1928 meeting which had originally prompted the wave of expulsions.

A widely spread belief in a Jesuit conspiracy to taint the new " Germany " gathered momentum, particularly focused against the regions in which Catholicism had a long-standing foothold, such as Bavaria, the Duchy of Baden, and the upper Rhineland, in the vicinity of the old Electorate of Cologne.

He adorned Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of Germany ; welcoming foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals.

He gathered glimpses of Haeckel's ambition to achieve a universal Theory of Development embracing all human knowledge, if not his ideas of German Volk and support for Bismarck's unification of Germany.