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CURRENTS
Germany Engulfed in “Lena-Mania”
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest enchants Europe
Everyone is full of praise for Lena, including the Federal Chancellor: "She’s a wonderful expression of young
Germany," said Angela Merkel, who congratulated the young woman from Hanover after she finished first
place at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway, on May 29 with her song “Satellite.”
From Spain to Finland, nine of the 39 Eurovision countries gave “Little Miss Marvelous”, as the German
newspaper FAZ dubbed her, their top mark of 12 points.
Things can move fast. Just three months after Lena appeared in the casting show "Our Star for Oslo,” and
has now gained the reputation as Germany's "new voice" — without any formal voice training.
The future of Lena the superstar remains to be seen. One thing is clear: because the winner is from
Germany, the country will host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011. Hanover, Hamburg and Berlin are being
tipped as the possible venue.
Eurovision Song Contest: Olympics of Popular Music
What if you had to choose a pop song to represent the USA and win the hearts and minds of people everywhere
in an Olympics of Song judged by the common folk? This is the challenge that European countries face every year
in the Eurovision Song Contest.
� Visit www.german-world.com/Featured and listen to Lena’s winning song “Satellite.”
• Do you know “Schland?” “Schland, O, Schland” is this year’s soccer holler for the German national team in
South Africa with “Schland” being an abbreviation of Deutschland. “Schland o Schland” is also the title of a song that
is about to become this year’s German soccer hymn, published by Uwu Lena, a group of students who created a
satirical spin off of Lena’s winning Eurovision song “Satellite.” - gw/ps
HISTORY
Thomas Jefferson's writing of the original
draft took place in 17 days between his
appointment to the committee and the
presentation of draft to Congress on June
28th, 1776. Congress was called to order
on July 1st at 9 a.m. and serious debate consumed most of that Monday.
Finally, all 12 colonies voted on July 2nd and adopted the resolution,
introduced by Richard Henry Lee and John Adams, declaring independence
from Great Britain. A few more changes were added on July 3rd and July 4th,
1776. In the evening of July 4, 1776 John Hancock's Congress ordered the
declaration to be authenticated and printed.
Philadelphia printer John Dunlap was given the task to print broadside
copies of the agreed-upon declaration to be signed in type only by Continental
Congress President John Hancock and Secretary Charles Thomson. John
Dunlap is thought to have printed 200 broadsides which were distributed to the
members of Congress on July 5th. Today only twenty-five of these so-called
“Dunlap Broadsides” are known to exist but all the signed ones are lost. One of
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Fun Facts of History
In Philadelphia, the Declaration of Independence was published first in German
With regards to the upcoming 4th of July festivities, let’s take a closer look at the days leading up to July 4th in 1776 and find
out why a German version of the Declaration of Independence was published in Philadelphia earlier than the English one.
the unsigned "Dunlap Broadsides" is reported to have sold for $8.14 million in
an August 2000 New York City auction. This copy was discovered in 1989.
While browsing in a flea market, a man purchased a painting for four dollars
because he was interested in the frame. Concealed in the backing of the frame
was an original “Dunlap Broadside” of the Declaration of Independence.
Another Philadelphia printer, Henrich Millers, produced a German newspaper
in 1776 called the Pennsylvanscher staatsbote. On July 9, 1776, a few
days before the press date of the English-language local paper, the staatsbote
printed a full German translation of the American Declaration of
Independence, a copy of which is on display at the library of the German
Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Historian Karl J. R. Arndt of Clark University, however, claims that Millers
was trumped by German printers Cist and Steiner who produced a broadside
as early as July 6th, the day after Dunlap's printing. The historic broadside is
now in the archives of Gettysburg College. At the bottom center of the
Declaration there is an imprint saying "Philadelphia: Gedruckt bey Steiner und
Cist, in der Zweyten-strasse."
Source: http://declarationofindependence.info/ - Author: Stan Klos.