Word: bavaria
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...research, the Web is a genealogists' agora, invaluable for trading information and connecting with living relatives. Dave Distler, who works at an electronics firm in Greenwood, Ind., lost track of a great-great-great-grandfather, Friedrich Jakob Distler, who was born in 1814 in Germany, Prussia, Rhineland or Northern Bavaria, according to vague records. Surfing the Net, he found an organization, Palatines to America, which referred him to a German genealogist who found his grandfather's hometown, Hinterweidenthal. When he entered the village name in a search engine, he found a private e-mail address. Three weeks after e-mailing...
DIED. CONRAD SCHUMANN, 56, unwitting cold war icon whose impromptu 1961 border crossing produced one of the era's most searing images; after hanging himself; in Bavaria, Germany. Shutterbug Peter Leibing stood by--and snapped--as the defiant 19-year-old East German soldier hurdled the tangle of barbed wire that would soon become the Berlin Wall...
...sheltered valleys and a climate that is virtually Mediterranean. The Paarl ("pearl" in Afrikaans) region, largest of the country's vineyard areas, is at the southern-hemisphere latitude equivalent of Spain's renowned Sherry region. Visitors to Constantia, Paarl and Stellenbosch have no difficulty recalling parts of France, Italy, Bavaria, Switzerland and even California's Napa Valley...
...names. It says Scientologists have been barred from joining major German parties like the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats and that some who joined earlier are being purged. The state of Baden-Wurttemberg has ordered its equivalent of the FBI to put a watch on church members. Bavaria is screening them out of the state civil service and says it will deny funds to events that feature performers who are Scientologists. Cruise and jazz pianist Chick Corea, also a member of the U.S. church, have been the targets of a demonstration and a boycott, apparently with official approval...
BONN, Germany: A 29-year-old Bosnian man convicted of a sex crime and grand larceny became the first civil war refugee to be deported by a German state. Bavaria sent the man back to Sarajevo on Wednesday. The government would like to persuade the better part of the 320,000 Bosnian refugees in Germany to return home by the middle of next year. Rhea Schoenthal of TIME's Bonn bureau says German officials are aware of the lack of suitable housing, the 70 to 90 percent unemployment, the resentment of Bosnians who stayed in-country, and the cold winter...