With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
The Rome catacombs then fell victim to pillaging by Germanic invaders around the early 9th Century.
As the first proud Germanic dwarves arrived in England they were promptly re-named as the more humble "gnome".
Mimicking Anglo-American musical poses was cheesy, but anything that sounded overtly Germanic evoked dangerous historical memories.
Italy's technocratic class is quite Germanic, observes Julian Callow of Barclays Capital, an investment bank.
Whether electorates will be quite so quick to shackle themselves to Germanic fiscal rules is another matter.
Forcing Franco Germanic work practices onto Southern Europe is the wrong policy tool at the wrong time.
Although Germany is blameless now, the Freedom Party is being punished for conjuring up long-banished Germanic demons.
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By contrast, low-context cultures (most of the Germanic and English-speaking countries) expect messages to be explicit and specific.
Her priority has been to push weaker countries to be more Germanic through reforms to improve their competitiveness.
The Greeks, Spanish and to a degree the Irish, are portrayed as feckless outsiders incapable of adopting Germanic values.
But it was Goethe who, in the richest of verse, made of it a drama with truly Germanic resonance.
The Germanic bloc has treated Hollande as disdainfully as any other leader who questions the precise course of integration.
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In North America, for instance, the new Italian, Slavic and Germanic immigrants clearly had a choice of Spanish, French and English.
But then Mr Schroeder decided to get all familiar again, lunging forward to embrace the president in a mighty, Germanic bear hug.
Highly polished beveled edges reflect light in two directions for better legibility and emphasize needle-sharp tips, lending an air of Germanic precision.
That is a belief that Muslims and atheists alike would contest, but Benedict used his well-honed Germanic intellect to argue it with vigour.
When completed, this tree had sprouted branches representing all the main language groups in modern Europe: Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and so on.
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Around the turn of the century the Germans, in that rather Germanic manner, had a good hard look at what was causing high unemployment.
For as long as I can remember, British politicians have bemoaned that the City does not take a Germanic long-term approach to supporting smaller businesses.
One way of looking at Belgium's divide is as a counterpart to the EU's split between a Germanic, frugal north and a subsidy-dependent Latin south.
Nevertheless, the rules of the euro zone supposedly based on a Germanic vision of budgetary discipline and an independent European Central Bank (ECB) are clearly in flux.
Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.
The Germanic culture that dominated most of northern Europe gave us the word yule, and the tradition of burning a yule log to ward off evil spirits.
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King George V changed the family's Germanic name to Windsor.
The climate is cooler, the names sound German, the architectural aesthetics call to mind the Mosel region rather than rural France, and the cuisine enjoys a distinct Germanic influence.
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Some see this as a victory within the bank of Germanic conservatism over Anglo-Saxon risk-taking: Vereinsbank has always been happier with low risks and low returns than wheeler-dealing Hypo-Bank.
The mysterious Nuraghic people came around 1800 BC, followed by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Germanic Vandals, Byzantines, Pisans, Genoese and Spanish, before the island was incorporated into a unified Italy in 1861.
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