We about us
Our aims and intentions
Our team
20 Years of the DAG
Activities
Lectures and Reports
Our excursions
Concerts
Thanksgiving
Taking Care of People
Help and Advice
Partners
Our City
Partner Organisations
Contact
Membership
Did You know already ...
More
Did You know already ...

...that the famous Woodstock festival 1969 did not take place in Woodstock?
   -more -
...who invented the carport?
   -more-
...that there had been womens suffrage in one US State between 1776 and 1807?
    -more-
...the history of the Pledge of Allegiance?
   -more-
...that the largest power provider in the US is a non-profit governmental corporation?
   -more-
...that Wshington DC looks older than it is?
   -more-
...what means muckraker?
   -more-
...how Teddy Bear got its name?
   -more-
...that Equal Rights for women are not yet guaranteed in the US Constitution?
   -more-
...that in 1932 units of the US Army attacked US World War I veterans in Washington DC using violence?
   --more-
...that Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the USA, did visit Germany?
   -more-
...that for 13 years the USA had no President?
   -more-
...that the National Prohibition had been part of the American Constitution for 13 years?
   -more-
...that the oldest still existing European settlement in North America had been founded by the Spanish?
   -more-
...that there exists a Hermann Monument in the USA?
   -more-
... that there had been a Russian settlement just north of San Francísco for nearly 30 years?
    -more-
... what means "spoils system" and who introduced that into the political practice of the USA?
    -more-
... how the figure Uncle Sam became the personification of the USA?
    -more-
... how the national anthem of the United States was born?
    -more-
... that there had been an prussian-jewish chief of the Acoma Pueblo Indians in New Mexico?
    -more-
... that 42,8 Mill. Americans are of German descent?
    -more-
... that American historians and political scientists since 1948 regularly set up ranking of the best and worst Presidents of the USA?
    -more-
... that President Obama had been in office several minutes already before he took the oath?
   -more- 
... that there had been once a US President and his Vice President elected from opposing political parties?
    -more-
... what has been the shortest term of a US President?
    -more-
... who was the first Afro-American seriously running for presidential nomination?
    -more-
… who became the very first US Ambassador in Berlin?
     -more-
... that there 33 places in the USA named Germantown?
    -more-
... that 9 Americans became President of the  USA witout being elected in this office?
    -more-
... that Monrovia, the Capital of the West African State Liberia, was named after the fifth US President James Monroe?
    -more-
... what means Manifest Destiny?
    -more-
... that Coca-Cola had been produced in Germany well into the Second World War?
    -more-
... how and when Hawaii became 50th State of the USA?
   - more -
... that a society of aristocrats in Mainz - called the "Mainzer Adelsverein" had something to do with Germans in Texas?
    - more -
... that the famous Route 66 connected Chicago with Los Angeles "only"?
    - more -
... that a german revolutionary became US Secretary of the Interior?
    - more -
... what means the Muehlenberg legend?
    - more -
... since when the President of the USA can be elected for two terms only?
    - more -
... that 400 years ago the first permanent English settlement in North America - Jamestown - had been established?
    - more -
... that the last Indian victory against the White Man dates back 131 years?
    - more -
... how America got its name?
    - more -
... that Wyatt Earp never became Sheriff or Marshall in Tombstone?
    - more -
... that the first crossing of the North American continent was completed just more than 200 years  ago?
    - more -
... that the designer of the world famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York had been born just more than 200 years ago in Mühlhausen, Thüringen, Germany?
    - more -
... that Benjamin Franklin did sign 1785 a treaty of friendship between the young USA and  Frederick the Great?
    - more -
... that 1914 New York City had been the second largest german city following the german capital Berlin?
    - more -
... how the first flag of the United States was created?
    - more -