It was designed to counter the German's Fokker aircraft.

St. Michael was originally a village in central Frankfort, Minnesota which was started by German's, but later became its own town in 1934.

' When he was matched with undefeated African-American sensation Joe Louis in 1936 for the German's first fight on American soil in more than two years, he was clearly the betting underdog, considered a name opponent for Louis to roll over on his route to the title.

The book was also three times used as the basis for an opera, by François-André Philidor in 1765 ( see Philidor's opera ), by Edward German in 1907 ( see German's opera ), and by Stephen Oliver in 1975.

Part of the reasoning was that German's World War I reparations were deeply resented in Germany, and credited internationally as a cause of World War II, and thus debt relief helped reconciliation and peace in Europe.

German was engaged to finish The Emerald Isle after the death of Arthur Sullivan in 1900, the success of which led to more comic operas, including German's popular Merrie England ( 1902 ) and Tom Jones ( 1907 ).

This was perhaps German's greatest success, and its dance music was popular separately.

The score is one of German's finest works and received a production in New York ( with German conducting ), was performed for decades and spawned separate performances of its dance music.

The first Edward German Festival was held in 2006 in German's birthplace, Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.

Keynes recognised the young German's understanding and abilities, and was able to have Schumacher released from internment.

Whether the German's own depth charges or the torpedo from Eskimo was the source of the explosion is unclear.

During the German's Operation North Wind ( Unternehmen Nordwind ), VI Corps was assaulted by elements of four German corps in the first week of January 1945, and the corps was forced to give ground in bitter winter fighting until 25 January 1945.

One example of this was during the 1994 Australian Grand Prix where, following the controversial crash between Michael Schumacher and Walker's close friend Damon Hill which decided the World Drivers ' Championship in the German's favor, Walker, unlike his fellow commentators at the time, most notably former 500cc Motorcycle World Champion Barry Sheene, declined to blame Schumacher outright for the crash.

It takes its name from the St. German's Priory generally associated with St Germanus, although W. M. M Picken theorises the church was initially associated with a local saint, but was gradually replaced by the 14th century.

On August 3, 1919, Commandant Barnett instructed him to report to a Marine regiment that was stationed near Galveston, Texas on an intelligence-gathering mission by the decree of the Office of Naval Intelligence, concerning the fear of German's seizing Mexico's oil fields.

The secret radio station, built over seven months using smuggled parts, was broadcasting from the camp until the autumn of 1942 when it was dismantled by Pilecki's men after concerns that the German's might discover its location because of " one of our fellow's big mouth ".

Because of the age of Casiano and Quiñones at the time, fifteen, the team was nicknamed by the media as Los Nenes de San German ( San German's Boys ), apart from the team's already existent Monstruo Anaranjado nickname ( Orange Monsters ).

At the Rome Olympics Walter Mahlendorf was eliminated in the heats of 100 m and ran the third leg in the German's 4x100 m relay team.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

It was a straight, solid, once-in-a-lifetime shot ; ;

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago.

Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something.

`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on.

It was Nischwitz' third straight victory of the new season and ran the Grizzlies' winning streak to four straight.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely.

By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

After losing 7 straight games, the decision was made to release head coach Dan Reeves.