Germans

Germans (German: Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history, and speak the German language as their native language. Alternatively, Germans are those who live or were born in Germany.

The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages. Before the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1990, Germans constituted the largest divided nation in Europe by far. Ever since the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation within the Holy Roman Empire, German society has been characterized by a Catholic-Protestant divide.

Of approximately 100 million native speakers of German in the world, roughly 80 million consider themselves Germans. There are an additional 80 million people of German ancestry mainly in the United States, Brazil (mainly in the South Region of the country), Argentina, Canada, South Africa, the post-Soviet states (mainly in Russia and Kazakhstan), and France, each accounting for at least 1 million. Thus, the total number of Germans lies somewhere between 100 and more than 150 million, depending on the criteria applied (native speakers, single-ancestry ethnic Germans, partial German ancestry, etc.).

German (given name)

German is a given name, often the Slavic form of Herman. For the Spanish given name pronounced with stress in the second syllable see Germán.

People with the name German include:

Art and music

  • German Galynin, Soviet Russian composer
  • German Goldenshteyn, Romanian klezmer musician
  • German Moreno, Filipino actor
  • German Okunev, Soviet Russian composer
  • Humanities and social sciences

  • German Gref, Russian economist
  • German Kim, Kazakhstani historian
  • German Sadulaev, Chechen writer and lawyer
  • Politics

  • German Kuznetsov, former deputy premier of Kyrgyzstan
  • Sport

  • German Apukhtin, Soviet Russian footballer
  • German Beriyev, Russian footballer
  • German Fernandez, American distance runner
  • German Felk, Russian footballer
  • German Glessner, Argentine skeleton racer
  • German Kutarba, Russian footballer
  • German Lovchev, Russian footballer
  • German Ruano, Costa Rican footballer
  • German Skurygin, Russian race walker
  • German Titov (ice hockey), Russian ice hockey player
  • Other

  • German, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church
  • German Gardiner, English Catholic martyr
  • List

    A list is any enumeration of a set of items. List or lists may also refer to:

    People

    Places

  • List auf Sylt, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt
  • Enumerations

  • Electoral list, a grouping of candidates
  • Listicle, an article in list format
  • Mailing list, collection of names and addresses to send material to multiple recipients
  • Task list, sometimes a to-do list, a prioritization strategy for time management
  • Computing

  • Comma-separated values, sometimes character-separated values, a file type that stores tabular data in plain-text form
  • Electronic mailing list
  • List (abstract data type), sometimes called a sequence
  • Organizations

  • List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
  • SC Germania List, German rugby union club
  • Other uses

  • List (watercraft), the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship
  • Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted
  • List, an alternative term for roll in flight dynamics
  • Flight dynamics

    Flight dynamics is the study of the performance, stability, and control of vehicles flying through the air or in outer space. It is concerned with how forces acting on the vehicle influence its speed and attitude with respect to time.

    In fixed-wing aircraft, the changing orientation of the vehicle with respect to the local air flow is represented by two critical parameters, angle of attack ("alpha") and angle of sideslip ("beta"). These angles describe the vector direction of airspeed, important because it is the principal source of modulations in the aerodynamic forces and moments applied to the aircraft.

    Spacecraft flight dynamics involve three forces: propulsive (rocket engine), gravitational, and lift and drag (when traveling through the earths or any other celestial atmosphere). Because aerodynamic forces involved with spacecraft flight are very small, this leaves gravity as the dominant force.

    Aircraft and spacecraft share a critical interest in their orientation with respect to the earth horizon and heading, and this is represented by another set of angles, "yaw," "pitch" and "roll" which angles match their colloquial meaning, but also have formal definition as an Euler sequence. These angles are the product of the rotational equations of motion, where orientation responds to torque, just as the velocity of a vehicle responds to forces. For all flight vehicles, these two sets of dynamics, rotational and translational, operate simultaneously and in a coupled fashion to evolve the vehicle's state (orientation and velocity) trajectory.

    List auf Sylt

    List auf Sylt (known as List until 31 December 2008) is the northernmost municipality in Germany, located on the North Sea island of Sylt close to Denmark in the district of Nordfriesland in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

    Etymology

    List derived from the Middle Low German Liste (ledge, bar or edge).

    History

    List was originally a Danish settlement. It was first mentioned in 1292 (Lystum). The original village was destroyed by the great flood of 1364. The settlement was rebuilt further east from the previous location. In the mid-15th century, a church named St. Jürgen was mentioned. In a treaty of 1460, Schleswig and Holstein were linked to the Danish crown, but List remained part of the royal enclaves, small areas of the Kingdom of Denmark situated within the Duchy of Schleswig, but directly controlled by the Danish king.

    From the 16th century, the people of List mostly made a living from Oyster farming, raising sheep and collecting and selling gull eggs. At the time, List was an important protective anchorage. In 1644, a Swedish-Dutch fleet of 26 ships commanded by Admiral Thijssen was attacked in the Lister Tief and defeated by Danish ships commanded by king Christian IV of Denmark. The anchorage north of today's town was named Königshafen to honour this event.

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