Questions about Sweden, Germany, and Italy?
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Sweden...blond haired people\nGermany..Cuckoo clocks and amazing food\nItaly...a crooked tower and spaghetti
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7 - Italy 1934 and 1990, France 1934 and 1998, Switzerland 1954, Sweden 1958, England 1966, Germany 1974 and 2006, and Spain 1982
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Italy versus Britain then Germany joined in. Theoretically Vichy France then joined Germany against Britain.\nFinally the USA joined Britain by which time Italy had virtually dropped out.
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I'd say Germany, then Italy.
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Keep your head on, don't let you be impressed by those bad jokes. They're usual, especially if British press is involved. Remember the trick they deserve to Sven (linked)!!!\nNever trust a columnist!!!\nHaving own team criticized isn't fair, but, as Italian, I've seen something going really too far:\n\n"There was outrage in Italian newspapers on Wednesday after German news weekly Der Spiegel published a satirical World Cup-related column on its Web site about the Azzurri entitled `Oiled up and greasy' which referred to Italians as 'parasitical forms of life'. \n\nThe article was later withdrawn and an apology posted on the Web site but that didn't stop the daily La Stampa declaring - `Italian parasites - that is how Der Spiegel prepares for the semi-final'."\n\nSo, don't be in anger. Their is definitively a dirty job...
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Italy...maybe United States that would be awesome.
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You must be referring to Italy.  ...Hope that's what you're looking for!  Best,    `k.
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Germany, nameDeutschland, Germany, L'Allemagne, Alemania, La Germania, Saksa and the sources of all these names!\nThere was a post on rec.travel.europe today that got me thinking about the name of the country I'm going to, and decided to do some research. Thanks to the Word Nerds, I even have some sources for it.\n\nAnyway the post this morning, posted by David Horne, on rec.travel.europe said:\n\n\n\n"German deutsch is from Old High German diutisg and Low German theodisc, meaning "of the people," which comes from an Indo-European root, teuta-, meaning "tribe" or "clan." This became tuath "people" in Old Irish and\ntheod "people, nation in Old English." \n\n\nThe Italian tedesco comes from this root, as do the Swedish word tysk and the English word Dutch, which formerly was applied to all Germans, but gradually came to refer only to those Germanic people who inhabit\nwhat is now the Netherlands"\n\n\n\n\nDavid's source is livejournal.com. The full article, on Etymology of the various names for the people of the area of Germany, from all kinds of languages, is at http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/344988.html\n\nEtymonline.com, which is the source that both the Word Nerds and leo.org suggest for English Etymology.\n\nThe names are all names of people in that area of central Europe which comprised a bunch of tribes for many years. Indeed the current borders of Germany will be only 15 years old when I am over there in early October. It almost seems like people call the country by the name of the tribe they came in contact with the mosts. \n\n"Germany" comes from Latin and date back to Julius Caeser. Etymonline traces the etymology back to Celtic words Noisy (garim) or neighbor (gair), while Live Journal's linguaphiles identify spear-man, or gari+mann as possible eymologies. Note that some version of the Germania version of the name of the country is used in Italian (La Germania), Hebrew ("germanit"), Hindi (jarman),a dn Indonesian (jerman) according to Live Journal. \n\nThe French/Spanish version of the name of the country (L'Allemagne, Alemania), according to etymonline AND the linguaphiles comes from a tribe in the southwest corner of Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. It could come from a word meaning all men, "Alamanniz" (precursor to "alle Männer). or come from "Allobroges" which means "foreign men" and may refer to the fact that this tribe moved into an area previously occupied by different people.\n\nDeutsch (and ultimately Deutschland) makes its appearance in 1380 according to etymonline, and comes from the ancestor languge of German, duit-isc, or teodisc (note consonant shift, from the t to the d). It means people, community, country. Diutusklant, the predecessor of Deutschland, was, according to etymonline, in use from the 13th century. \n\nTeutonic feels like it should be related to these, but it refers to a tribe on the coast of Germany, although at some point it probably shared the same root and also means people. (How many countries do you think have called themselves "the people?"\n\nI note that the Livejournal linguaphiles also address the roots of slavic names for Germany, but I'm tired, and I'm not going into that. You can read it yourself. \n\nd Deutschland in the German language
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Brazil, Italy, Germany, England
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Brasil & Italy/France
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hi ,\n\nhere are some cool pictures of the italian team :-\n\nhttp://www.scs.unr.edu/~arrigotd/italy%20team%20pic2.jpg\n\nhttp://www.cs.trinity.edu/~acastle/Trinity/First%20Web%20page/italy_soccer.jpg\n\nhttp://www.wldcup.com/pictures/euro2004/italie-juin02.jpg\n\nhttp://www.wldcup.com/pictures/euro2004/gallery/jun09/italie04-i.jpg\n\nhttp://www.lespressousa.com/images/czSquadra.jpg\n\nhttp://alittlebitofitaly.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/media/Italy.Soccer.Team.Photo.jpg\n\nhttp://www.postmedia.net/999/piccomich2.jpg\n\nthat's all i can find .\n\nthanks
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Europe: Italy\nS. American: Argentina
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Actually four - West Germany, Italy, France, and England
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Sorry, I don't have the answers to your questions. But I am sooooo tired of all the Italy-bashing. Why is it that when anyone wins last minute they're suddenly cheaters? Whatever ...\n\nWOO HOO ITALIA!!!
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Germany\nSlovakia\nPoland\nAustria\n\nAnd That's My Best Answer!
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United States, Britain, and Germany
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uk, spain , france, germany. and italy