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Editor s note: This account is drawn from the books The Skipper and the Eagle by Gordon McGowan and The Barque of Saviors by Russell Drumm and the archives of The Day.
The three-masted vessel that appeared in the harbor the morning of July 12, 1946, looked like something out of New London s past, but it belonged to the future.
Nearly 300 feet long with a graceful steel hull painted white, it was rigged as a barque: square sails on the foremast and mainmast, fore and aft sails on the mizzen mast. The ship docked at Fort Trumbull and was later inspected by 1,200 curious people.
Make becoming a German citizen easier, integration ministers urge
Easier child access to German citizenship has been floated by integration ministers of Germany s 16 states. But the idea is likely to face opposition from federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
Children born to foreigners living in Germany should be granted faster access by law to German citizenship, integration ministers from Germany s 16 states have urged in a majority appeal
Meeting in the harbor city-state of Bremen Friday, ministers called on the federal government to reform Germany s Nationality Act (StAG) by reducing a resident child s waiting time for citizenship from the current eight years to six years.
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Is Germany facing a water shortage crisis?
In recent years, record heat and low rainfall have taken a toll on Germany s groundwater, even in the winter. Experts say it s time to radically overhaul the way the country manages its water.
An arid landscape in Germany s central Harz region during the summer of 2018
Germany s ground isn t quite as parched now as it was in June or September, according to the drought monitor at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ). But January 2021 is clearly proving to be drier than the same period last year.
The UFZ s monitor uses shades of red to indicate degrees of dryness in the soil across the country. Its latest map shows widespread dark red patches in deeper layers of soil in other words, very severe drought.