After completing his term of apprenticeship, Dürer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre — in effect gap year — in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas ; Dürer was to spend about four years away.

All the presents being placed round the trees …" After her marriage to her German cousin Prince Albert, by 1841 the custom became even more widespread throughout Britain.

The German title satirizes the German custom of giving a subtitle to the name of dramas in the form of " Ein Drama in ... Akten " ( A Drama of ... acts ), which became dictums in colloquial usage for any event with an unpleasant or dramatic course, e. g. " Bundespräsidentenwahl-Drama in drei Akten " ( Federal presidential Elections-Drama in Three Acts ).

Separate Jewish women's prayer groups were a sanctioned custom among German Jews in the Middle Ages.

A corresponding principle of German law is Stadtluft macht frei (" city air makes you free "), in longer form Stadtluft macht frei nach Jahr und Tag (" city air makes you free after a year and a day "): by custom and, from 1231 / 32, by statute, a serf who had spent a year and a day in a city was free, and could not be reclaimed by their former master.

Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.

German Protestants wanted to retain the Catholic custom of eating colored eggs for Easter, but did not want to introduce their children to the Catholic rite of fasting.

During the First World War, the custom of hanging the banners of foreign princes invested with Britain's highest order of knighthood, the Order of the Garter, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, came under criticism, as the German members of the Order were fighting against Britain.

The Latin term, applied to a Germanic custom, was adopted from a Germanic term, * morgangeba ( compare Early English morgengifu, German Morgengabe, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål Morgengave, Norwegian Nynorsk Morgongåve and Swedish Morgongåva ).

Among European powers, the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary ( French ambassadeur extraordinaire et plénipotentiaire or German außerordentlicher und bevollmächtigter Botschafter ) was historically deemed the personal representative of the Sovereign, and the custom of dispatching ambassadors to the head of state rather than the government has persisted.

Friesennot depicted the suffering of a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union ; it also depicted the murder of a young woman for an affair with a Russian -- in accordance with Nazi principle of rassenschande -- as an ancient German custom.

Later, Manchester would receive another nickname when the German custom of making ginger cakes brought on " Gingercake Town ".

Since blackletter type remained in use in German speaking parts of Europe much longer than anywhere else, the custom of letterspacing is sometimes seen as specific to German, although it has been used with other languages, including English.

German mythologist Jacob Grimm has traced the custom to Roman times and has argued that religious authorities tolerated it even after the Germans had been Christianised.

After he had become a journeyman he migrated, according to the German custom, from place to place in Germany, seeing the country and learning fresh details of his trade until he finally settled at Bremen.

This custom may be Welsh or German in origin, but that isn't clear.

In German scholarship, followers of a great scholar developed the custom of honouring their mentor by producing papers for a festschrift dedicated to him.

: There shall be a custom union between the new South German state and Austria, which will be restored to her pre-1938 political borders.

Professor Haemig's research also indicates that the custom did not reach the United States until the 1930s, even among German Lutheran immigrants.

It also enhances our capacity to canvass for custom in the German capital, especially against the background of the European Union's eastern enlargement.

Zollverein was a custom union that was formed in 1834 at the initiative of Prussia and was joined by most of the German states.

Bexleyheath has drawn a lot of custom to match the expansion in retail space from residents of towns in the borough, particularly from Erith and Thamesmead which have expanded in size with development along the River Thames.

Mesa's residents exhibit a great deal of economic diversity, with low-income areas constructed somewhat close to high-scale neighborhoods with expensive custom homes.

The custom Berkley Police cruiser, complete with a 502-CID V8 and flames, donated by a group of residents for use in the Woodward Dream Cruise.

The local custom is so widespread that it surprises some new residents that the official name is Ocean Township.

On Thursday evenings in the Summer months between Memorial Day and Labor Day Lynbrook residents have an antique and custom automobile show.

Stamford residents defended their ancient custom as a " traditional, manly, English sport ; inspiring courage, agility and presence of mind under danger.

As was custom among many residents of Levy County, both black and white, Williams used a nickname that was more prominent than his given name ; he replied to the car full of men with the name everyone used, " Lord God ", and they shot him dead.

The alert system was also supplemented by a custom of firing guns ( later cannons and bombs, whose louder sounds were considered an improvement ) when a tropical cyclone hits Hong Kong, which was the system most Hong Kong residents at the time rely on for severe weather updates, as a scant few pay attention to the warning system that was intended for seafarers.

This custom ended in 1937, as the local residents began to rely on radio, newspapers, and notices at ferry piers for tropical cyclone information.

In this new Play, I attempted to follow the old custom of mine, of making a fresh trial ; I brought it on again.

It was during the making of A Farewell to Kings when Geddy began using a custom made Rickenbacker Bass / Guitar Double Neck, incorporating a 4001 bass and a 480 12-string guitar.

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

A Danish town in England often had, as it principal officers, twelve hereditary ‘ law men .’ The Danes introduced the habit of making committees among the free men in court, which perhaps made England favorable ground for the future growth of the jury system out of a Frankish custom later introduced by the Normans .”

The movement emphasizes positive views toward modernism, and has an approach to Jewish custom which aims toward communal decision making through a process of education and distillation of values from traditional Jewish sources.

Since 2004 a few small companies have emerged in the United States making custom skis.

The Prince noir ( Black Prince ) established a record by making a full circuit in 11 minutes 04 in September 1989, beginning his ride during a Sunday at with a custom Suzuki GSX-R1100 ( notably a carter, a Suzuki GSX-R750 6 speed transmission, a recut camshaft ).

The custom socket is created by taking a plaster cast of the stump or, more commonly today, of the liner worn over the stump, and then making a mold from the plaster cast.

Initially MS-DOS and CP / M-86 also ran on computers not necessarily hardware-compatible with the IBM PC such as the Apricot and Sirius, the intention being that software would be independent of hardware by making standardised operating system calls to a version of the operating system custom tailored to the particular hardware.

Her beloved grandmother had died when she was six, and according to family custom relatives were supposed to kiss the dead person at the viewing, making it easier for them to let go.

Choosing brawn over brains and fuelled with jelousy over Duane's new gadget filled car, Minnie threatened Duane into making her a custom built skateboard.

Instead, Alexandra was to be allowed to take an exam to gain certification as a school teacher before making her way into society to find a husband, as was the custom.

This custom built system predated most, if not all, other high resolution color timing systems and gave the company a clear vision of the impact that digital technology would have on the future of film making.

In the years preceding the outbreak of World War II Velimirović continuing his campaign for a Serb revival instituted what may be called a Society of Prayer and renewed the ancient custom of Christians gathering together to visit a friend's house for prayer, in that way making Christianity social rather than individualistic and solitary.

By degrees, however, the objection to a marriage between a Catholic and an " infidel " grew stronger as the necessity for such unions decreased, and so in the course of time, more by custom than by positive enactment, the impediment of disparitas cultus making such marriages null and void began to have force.

New Ireland, like much of Papua New Guinea, has a mixture of the old and the new: traditional cultural practices (" custom ") are widespread and almost universally respected, yet society is changing as a result of church activity, urbanisation, and various aspects of global contemporary culture making their mark.

Camden wrote: " There has been a custom in the town of making a great dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the streets in great jollity on midsummer eve ".

The i860 was an early superscalar CPU that allowed the programmer access directly into the pipelines ; with custom coding the 860 was a very fast system, making it perfect for supercomputer applications.

The custom of applauding may be as old and as widespread as humanity, and the variety of its forms is limited only by the capacity for devising means of making a noise ( e. g., stomping of feet or rapping of fists or hands on a table ).

Dr. Hedgewar instilled a work culture in the RSS, like the devotion to the Bhagva ( saffron ) flag, priority to ideologies over individuals, communal decision making process, full-time dedicated volunteers, daily Shakha ( gathering every day by members of all ages for games and singing nationalistic songs ) and doing away with the custom of personality following.

Certain fraternal organizations such as Freemasons have a custom of drinking toasts from specially shaped glasses known as cannons or firing glasses, which are slammed on the table making a sound like a gunshot – a firing glass then becomes a shot glass.

A feature of the pony-collecting scene is the making and selling of custom ponies.

Expert Alan Pate notes that temple records refer to the making of a grass doll to be blessed and thrown into the river at Ise Shrine in 3 BC ; the custom was probably even more ancient, but it is at the root of the modern doll festival or Hinamatsuri.