How to pronounce German in American English. (English pronunciations of German from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources Â© Cambridge University Press).y Kate Woodford, As part of our occasional series on idioms used in or in relation to business, we look today at the important area of making projects happen â getting projects started, making progress with those projects and, as sometimes happens, failing to make progress.
The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.
This war was known as the Spanish-American War. The United States declared war on Spain after the U.S. warship, the Maine, exploded and sank on February 15, 1898 while visiting Havana, Cuba. No one really knows what caused the warship to explode, but the United States blamed Spain.