You know, the toes of the gecko, curling and uncurling like the fingers of Michael Moschen.

The trials were to commence on 20 November 1945, in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg.

Upper Austria (German , Austro Bavarian Obaöstarreich ) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria.

Germans, understandably, have a problem with national symbolism, but I spotted a few fans in quasi Bavarian dress.

In the Peace of Pressburg of 1805 it became Bavarian property which gave it to Württemberg five years later.

Not that that is particularly beautiful when you look at it with the human eye, the way the leaves form. They're curling back on each other.

In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice president until 1928.

In its annual festival this year, Munich s Bavarian State Opera put on a new production of the apocalyptic Götterdämmerung, the final work in Richard Wagner s four evening cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Wagner himself wrote letters to the mad Bavarian King Ludwig about the corruption of finance (though bankers remuneration at the time was not comparable with the handouts that Wagner received from the King).

Franconians in southern Germany disliked the fact that the Napoleonic Wars subjected them to Bavarian rule they saw German nationalism as a way to use Prussia and Berlin as a counterweight to Munich s hegemony.

It will also be a government without the Greens, who continue to have a devoted, if limited, clientele, but are now regarded by many as a luxury that Germany can no longer afford. This leaves two possibilities a coalition between the CDU, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, and the liberal Free Democrats, or a grand coalition between the SPD and the CDU.