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The educational system in the German-speaking countries generally follows the European model of free public education and a variety of secondary schools for academic and vocational education, rather than the American model of a single comprehensive high school for all students. Although there are some differences among them, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland all have a primary school (Grundschule or Volksschule) that begins at age six and lasts four years (five or six in some places), a secondary level that generally starts at age 11 (grade 5) and is divided into a less academic Hauptschule (to grade 10) leading to vocational education, an intermediate Realschule (not in Austria) leading to a technical or business school, and the academically oriented Gymnasium that leads to the Abitur or Matura diploma and a university education. Special education classes or special schools are offered for students with mental or physical disabilities.
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The German health care system dates back to 1883, when nationwide health insurance became compulsory. The German health care system has the reputation of being one of the best in the world. Medical facilities are equipped with the latest technology, an extensive network of hospitals and doctors covers even the remotest areas of Germany. Doctors are highly qualified with a thorough education as well as a high level of qualification amongst medical staff.
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The variation among the German dialects is considerable, with only the neighbouring dialects being mutually intelligible. Some dialects are not intelligible to people who only know standard German. However, all German dialects belong to the dialect continuum of High German and Low Saxon languages. In the past (roughly until the end of the Second World War), there was a dialect continuum of all the continental West Germanic languages because nearly any pair of neighbouring dialects were perfectly mutually intelligible.
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The highlight of the German content is the Hamburg Passenger Lists, which includes records of more than five million people who sailed from the German port of Hamburg between 1850 and 1934. Present on these lists are 13-year-old Adolph Coors Jr., son of Coors Brewing founder, and Frederick Pabst of Pabst Brewery, whose occupation is recorded as "Bierbrauer," German for "beer brewer." Both were returning to American from trips to Germany.
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Jean-Pierre Remy, the president of Expedia® Corporate Travel Europe, is leading the launch of the new German agency. In addition to his current responsibilities as president, Remy will ... manage the product development, marketing, supplier relations, operations and sales efforts of Expedia® Corporate Travel Germany. "The opening of our German office highlights Expedia Corporate Travel's ongoing strategy to unite our global customers on the first, truly integrated worldwide platform," said Remy. "Germany is a great opportunity for Expedia Corporate Travel to strengthen its presence and relationships with the European business travel industry and culture, while also giving our global customers more access and options within Europe."
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Their high standards and their emphasis on politics sometimes shook up the German-American publishers who had been in the business for years. In Cincinnati, for example, there was substantial rivalry between the incoming "Greens" and the old guard publishers, or "Grays," who were quite comfortable with the idea of the foreign-language newspapers as a meek forum of social announcements and sentimental stories and poems about the old country. Elsewhere... the two factions coexisted peaceably or even worked together on papers that became powerful in the community. In St. Louis, where there were seven German dailies in 1860, forty-eighters joined the staffs of Die Waage and Anzeiger des Westens, and the latter was transformed into an antislavery journal by three immigrants.
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