Listen To This: Spinner

by May 4, 2010 » Add the second comment.
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Spinner by Revolverheld Formed in Hamburg back in 2003, Revolverheld is a product of Germany’s Neue Deutsche Welle punk revival.  The band has cycled through several names since forming… Manga and then Tsunamikiller.  In recent years they have produced several top hits in Germany, and Spinner can be added Read more »

German Man Marries His Cat?

by May 3, 2010 » Add more comments.
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This is just too crazy!  A 39-year old man near Dresden, Germany, exchanged wedding vows with his ill cat Cecilia.  His 15 year old cat is asthmatic and quite obese and he wanted to tie the knot before the cat passed away.  While the marriage isn’t “official”, that didn’t stop Read more »

Send Your Questions for May Leadership Conference

by April 28, 2010 » Add more comments.
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This last Monday, I had mentioned that we are going to try something new at our May Leadership Conference.  We are going to take a few questions from our members/readers, and then report the answer on the blog.  So here is how it is going to work…

Iceland Volcano Disrupts Air Travel

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Over the last 3 weeks the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano created havoc and virtually shut down all of European airspace for over a week.  I had my flight schedule cancelled and changed, finally able to fly on April 21. Just got back from that trip which took me to Read more »

Have Your Voice Heard

by April 26, 2010 » Add the second comment.
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We are going to try something new here…shocking, isn’t it?  DANK National holds several Leadership Conferences throughout the year where the National Board gets together to discuss what is going on in the organization and where we are headed.  These meetings are generally held in Chicago and what we tend Read more »

DAAD to hold live chat on studying in Germany

by April 19, 2010 » Add the first comment.
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DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) will be holding a special Live chat online this Wednesday (April 21, 2010) to discuss Introductory and Preparatory Courses at German Universities.  Below is the description of the chat from the host website, www.study-in.de :

Sneak Peak! Interactive Journal

by April 16, 2010 » Add more comments.

I wanted to bring our readers a little taste of what is coming to DANK.org this summer, and I thought all of you may enjoy playing around with the new Interactive German-American Journal which is embedded at the top of this post.  This will be how our online archives Read more »

Video of the Week! – Liebherr

by April 7, 2010 » Add the second comment.

German Engineering At It’s Greatest German manufacturing company, Liebherr, wanted to show the strength of one of their excavator’s, so what did they do to show it?  Why not have it climb up a tower…check it out below!