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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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Sky Deutschland
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It was launched in 1991 as Premiere. After the coming of the age, the service has since consisted of many channels with many new ones added over the years. On 4 July 2009, the service and its channels were rebranded as Sky, Sky Deutschland is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sky plc. The programming service itself is provided by its subsidiary Sky Deutschland Fernsehen GmbH & Co and it topped 3,000,000 subscribers by the end of 2011. As of Q22014, Sky Deutschland has more than 4 million subscribers, the German Sky has its origin in the analogue premium channel Premiere. It was owned by Kirch Group, Bertelsmann, and Canal+, in 1996, Kirch Media launched a digital satellite platform called DF1, which offered several different channels, including premium movie and sports channels. Premiere started broadcasting three digital channels in 1997, one mirroring the analogue channel and two showing the same content at different times. Premiere and DF1 merged to form Premiere World on 1 October 1999, many of the channels offered on DF1 were carried over to Premiere World, others were rebranded or closed. In 2002, the became known as simply Premiere. Many of the channels were rebranded and the structure was overhauled at the same time. At the same time, KirchGroup filed for bankruptcy, in 2003, investment group Permira stepped in and took control of Premiere. Exclusivity was for a time a major selling point for Premiere. This changed in September 2007, when Premiere launched Premiere Star, the new package was called Sky Welt/Extra. The package included TNT Serie, TNT Film, Sat.1 emotions, Kabel eins Classics, AXN, on 4 July 2009, Premiere was rebranded to become Sky Deutschland. In conjunction with the relaunch, many disappeared from the platform, many switched packages, many were renamed. The rebrand resulted a return of News Corporations Sky brand in Germany since the encryption of the Sky Channel in 1993, besides private customers, Sky Germany also has trade customers using Sky TV to attract and entertain customers. The enlarged company would be likely to be called Sky Europe, the acquisition of the 57. 4% stake was formally announced on 25 July 2014. BSkyB also made a takeover offer to Sky Deutschlands minority shareholders
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Roger Willemsen
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Roger Willemsen was a German author, essayist and TV presenter. Willemsen was born and passed his Abitur in Bonn and he studied German philology, philosophy and history of art in Bonn, Munich and Vienna and was awarded a scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk. He did his studies on Robert Musil and received his PhD. He started his TV career in 1991 as head interviewer at 0137 and he performed about 1.000 interviews, including some with imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a fugitive bank robber, a leftover cosmonaut in space station MIR and a cannibal. He also interviewed Audrey Hepburn, Jesse Jackson, Yasser Arafat, Lech Wałęsa, Dame Edna Everage, driven by Willemsen, the show won numerous prestigious awards. Willemsen was praised for his intellect, charm and wit,1994 Willemsen got his own show Willemsens Woche on public broadcaster ZDF. In 2006 he ended his career in mass-TV, in 1999, he interviewed the German musician Herbert Grönemeyer for Stern after Herberts wife Anna had died of cancer. Willemsen wrote newspaper columns in Zeit Magazin and Die Woche and he authored about 50 books, many of them inspired by travelling such as Die Enden der Welt / The Ends of the Earth. His last bestseller, published in 2014, is Das Hohe Haus, Ein Jahr im Parlament and he died of cancer on 7 February 2016, aged 60. Piper, München, Zürich 1985, ISBN 3-492-05208-8 Deutschlandreise, eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-0718-0 Afghanische Reise. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-092103-8 Momentum, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-092107-9 Es war einmal oder nicht. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-092108-6 Das Hohe Haus, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-092109-3. Roger Willemsen at the Internet Movie Database
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Talk show
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A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre in which one person discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host. Usually, guests consist of a group of people who are learned or who have experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times, a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts, a call-in show takes live phone calls from callers listening at home, in their cars, etc. Sometimes, guests are already seated but are introduced and enter from backstage. There have been many notable talk show hosts, in many cases, there are several major formats of talk shows. Generally, each subgenre predominates during a specific programming block during the broadcast day, Breakfast chat or early morning shows that generally alternate between news summaries, political coverage, feature stories, celebrity interviews, and musical performances. Late morning chat shows that two or more hosts or a celebrity panel, and focus on entertainment and lifestyle features. Daytime talk shows, generally featuring a host, a guest or a panel of guests, and these shows may feature celebrities, political commentators, or ordinary people who present unusual or controversial topics. The hosts are often comedians who open the shows with comedy monologues, Sunday talk or political discussion shows are a staple of network programming in North America. These shows feature elected political figures and candidates for office, commentators, syndicated daytime shows may appear overnight in some markets, and some afternoon programs have similar structures to late night talk shows. These formats may vary across different countries or markets, Late night talk shows are especially significant in the United States. Breakfast television is a staple of British television, the daytime talk format has become popular in Latin America as well as the United States. Talk-radio host Howard Stern also hosted a show that was syndicated nationally in the USA. The tabloid talk show genre, pioneered by Phil Donahue but popularized by Oprah Winfrey was extremely popular during the last two decades of the 20th century, politics are hardly the only subject of American talk shows, however. Sports talk shows are very popular ranging from high-budget shows like The Best Damn Sports Show Period to Max Kellermans original public-access television cable TV show Max on Boxing. Craigslistin in Philly is a show you can attend at Plays & Players theatre in Philadelphia. The host is Aaron and they comment on and invite acts, to be considered one just has to post on craigslist mentioning the show in your post helps. Talk shows had been broadcast on television since the earliest days of the medium, joe Franklin, an American radio and television personality, hosted the first television talk show
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Sandra Maischberger
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Sandra Maischberger is a German journalist, talk show host, and author. She is the sister of German archeologist Martin Maischberger, born in Munich, Maischberger spent five years of her childhood in Frascati, near Rome, Italy and also grew up in Garching, near Munich. Her father was a physicist for the Max Planck Society and her mother was a tour guide and her initial career choices while growing up were to become a veterinarian or a detective. From 1987 to 1989 she trained at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich School of Journalism, during her time at university, Maischberger started her career at the Bayerischer Rundfunk and has since been working for various television stations including Premiere, RTL, VOX, n-tv, and ARD. The proceeds raised from auctioning many bears were given to several children’s, the bear designed by Maischberger in homage to the sculptures of Niki de Saint Phalle was auctioned in 2003 at Mercedes World at the Salzufer in Berlin. The total proceeds came to over €171,000, today, the bear can be found at the museum in Bad Pyrmont. In 2008, Maischberger founded an organization called Vincentino, which helps underprivileged children to the arts through sponsoring cultural projects in schools. Maischberger has been awarded prizes, including the Golden Camera from the German magazine Hörzu for her Helmut Schmidt interview. Golden Camera 2000, Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award Maischberger is married to cameraman Jan Kerhart, after 12 years of marriage, their first child, son Samuel, was born on February 24,2007. The family has homes in Hamburg and in Berlin, Maischberger likes to travel and also enjoys mountain climbing and diving
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
