`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

The first line, " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt " ( usually translated into English as " Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world "), was an appeal to the various German monarchs to give the creation of a united Germany a higher priority than the independence of their small states.

Under the Hallstein Doctrine, the FRG did not have any diplomatic relations with countries in Eastern Europe until the early 1970s, when Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik led to increased dialogue and treaties like the Treaty of Warsaw, where West Germany accepted the Oder-Neisse line as German-Polish border, and the Basic Treaty, where West and East Germany accepted each other as sovereign entities.

On 14 November 1990, Germany and Poland signed a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line.

Germany defeated: On the basis of the Potsdam Conference, the Allies jointly occupied Germany west of the Oder – Neisse line.

Although the Social Democrats showed strong support for the expellees especially under Kurt Schumacher and Erich Ollenhauer, social democrats in more recent decades have traditionally been less supportive — and it was under Willy Brandt that West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse line as factual as part of his Ostpolitik.

With the collapse of the Mussolini government in line with the Allied invasion of Italy, Germany occupied Albania in September 1943, dropping paratroopers into Tirana before the Albanian guerrillas could take the capital.

Even Ribbentrop ’ s standard line that Germany was only reacting to an unjust Versailles treaty, and really only wanted peace with everyone, which had worked so well in the past, failed to carry weight.

The first German labour party, the General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ) was founded in Leipzig on 23 May 1863 by Ferdinand Lassalle ; about 600 workers from across Germany travelled to the foundation on the new railway line.

In a historical and political sense, the Main line is referred to as the northern border of Southern Germany, with its predominantly Catholic population.

The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.

* 1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

The Left's image as the last line of defense for Germany's traditional " social state " ( Sozialstaat ) proved to be a magnet for voters in western as well as eastern Germany.

The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

In addition to the method described in the section above, chlorine and radiochlorine were prepared by the electrolysis of a Af eutectic on the vacuum line, and by exchange of Af with molten Af.

Over-achievers were at least one standard deviation above the regression line in their school system.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

Each line of the displayed image is transmitted using a signal as shown above.

It combines the symbol for " writing tool " or " pen " ( a line inclined, as a pen being used ) with the symbol for " world ", which in its turn combines " ground " or " earth " ( a horizontal line below ) and its counterpart derivate " sky " ( a horizontal line above ).

The highest peak along the ridge line above Berkeley is Grizzly Peak, elevation.

Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.

::: The second line above is an allusion to Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man ( 1734 ), which contains the line " Hope springs eternal in the human breast ".

In all the above scenarios, whenever the Pass line wins, the Don't Pass line loses, and vice versa.

Alternatively, if a line is constructed perpendicularly between Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, the point where the above mentioned line and this line intersect marks the Southern Celestial Pole.

It is based on the semaphore symbols for " N " ( two flags held 45 degrees down on both sides, forming the triangle at the bottom ) and " D " ( two flags, one above the head and one at the feet, forming the vertical line ) ( for Nuclear Disarmament ) within a circle.

* Following a field goal, the non-scoring team may choose for play to resume either with a kickoff as above, or by scrimmaging the ball from its own 35-yard line.

* Following a safety, the scoring team may choose for play to resume in either of the above ways, or it may choose to kick off from its own 35-yard line.

This is a logical dividing line, since the normal boiling points of the so-called permanent gases ( such as helium, hydrogen, neon, nitrogen, oxygen, and normal air ) lie below − 180 ° C while the Freon refrigerants, hydrogen sulfide, and other common refrigerants have boiling points above − 180 ° C.

The most common use in North America and Northern Europe is to mark mountain bike and hiking trails and other cross-country trail blazing, especially in mountain regions at or above the tree line.

The corners are named as follows ( the numbers correspond to the image above, starting at the start / finish line ):

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

He rejects all subjectively motivated continuity, any line of action related to the concept of cause and effect.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

With all deck battens in place, the bilge is cleaned and painted up to the floor line.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

Thus, the dotted line shown in figure 4 was taken as typical for the temperature distribution for all blowing rates.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

Let N be a positive integer and let V be the space of all N times continuously differentiable functions F on the real line which satisfy the differential equation Af where Af are some fixed constants.

Hence, thought of as a line in a particular plane **yp, any tangent to Q has a unique image and moreover this image is the same for all planes through L.

The preceding observations make it clear that there exist line involutions of all orders greater than 1 with no complex of invariant lines and with a complex of singular lines consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve Aj.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

The run is complete when all the water has drained off into the waste line.

The company sells a complete line of gin machinery all over the cotton-growing world.

He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Eyes and legs grow quickly, a tongue is formed, and all this is accompanied by associated changes in the neural networks ( development of stereoscopic vision, loss of the lateral line system, etc .).

In some places, Camus makes the allegory explicit, as when he refers to the plague in terms that describe an enemy in war: " the epidemic was in retreat all along the line ; victory was won and the enemy was abandoning his positions.

In an assembly line, car assembly is split between several stations, all working simultaneously.