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Waldemar westermayer biography

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“Mermaiding? What’s that?”

This is the answer Julia gets when she tells someone mermaiding is her hobby. “Mermaiding” is the practice of swimming with a mermaid tail costume; as I didn’t know anything about the sport, I decided to find out what it was all about.

A really new idea?

The idea of mermaiding actually dates back over 100 years ago: in 1911 the Australian professional swimmer and actress Anette Kellerman was the first actress to wear a swimmable mermaid costume in her first movie, called The Mermaid. Later, she acted many times as a real-life mermaid, designing her own costumes and sometimes tailoring them by herself. Since then, mermaiding has become popular in the US and all over the world. The must-see attraction for all mermaid fans is the Weeky Wachee Springs, Florida, which hosts mermaid shows in natural springs. The audience stays behind big, underwater windows to see the stunning show in the crystalline water on the floor of the sea. In 1984, with the movie Splash which tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman who is secretly a mermaid

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Wikipedia-Bundestagsprojekt 2014

8–12 September 2014 in Berlin
This file was taken during the project “Wiki loves parliaments/Bundestag 2014” (German).

More than 40 persons participated in this project voluntarily and without expense allowance.

Organisation: Martin Rulsch, Olaf Kosinsky
Design: Martin Kraft
Photography: Foto-AG Gymnasium Melle (Jan-Kristof Blömke, Lukas Eismann, Moritz Kosinsky, Laura Lessing, Karsten Mosebach, Mascha Mosebach, Teresa Schreer, Noah Sewöster, Niklas Tschöpe), Olaf Kosinsky, Martin Kraft, Harald Krichel, Steffen Prößdorf, Ralf Roletschek, Martin Rulsch, Gerd Seidel, Sven Teschke
Video: Marc Rudnick, Manuel Schneider
Editors: Marcus Cyron, Günter Fremuth, Martin Kraft, Robin Krahl, Harald Krichel, Martin Rulsch, WikiAnika
Reception: DasMonstaaa, Leonie Rabea Große, Lutheraner, Nina Möllering, Martin Rulsch, WikiAnika, Foto-AG Gymnasium Melle
Cosmetics: Regina Bosak, Bettina Dieguez, Sandra Kobbe, Andrea Strehlke; Irada Abdullayeva, Vivien Abelmann,

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I wasn’t too thrilled when my dad told me that we would watch the ice hockey finals of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Back then, I was eleven years old and all about soccer, American football, and basketball. Ice hockey was the game my brother used to play on our local ponds, not something to watch on TV and get excited about. Then, the game started, and I was hooked. Canada won against the USA, and the game was everything I came to love about ice hockey: fast-paced, rough, and electrifying. After that, though, there wasn’t much hockey on TV anymore. Only the DEL (Deutsche Eishockey Liga) playoffs and that was pretty much it. And then the day came on which pay TV finally began to broadcast the NHL (National Hockey League), and my love affair with hockey continued and quickly blossomed into a lifelong marriage to this wonderful sport. But soon I wondered: why is ice hockey not much more popular in Germany?

Hockey is such an easy sport to follow and the rules are really not hard to learn. There’s also little difference between the basic rules of the NHL and

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