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The day Wikipedia went down

"Is the idea to civilize the internet or to censor it?" Mike Pilewski explains the proposed laws behind the recent online protest.

Word origins

Dagmar Taylor writes: "The book I got for Christmas makes me laugh."

Spotlight 12/2011

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ROMANTIC IRELAND
Holiday in a castle

HISTORY: Walt Disney

Spotlight plus 12/2011

This month in our exercise booklet, Spotlight plus: Christmas markets, stranded prepositions, groups of people, playing cards, pizza and more. Practice makes perfect! Practise with plus!

A message from the heart

Colin Beaven: "You gave me your heart, but I'd prefer a diamond."

up one's game

improve one's strategy (besser werden)

Ara Anderson plays the trumpet in Berkeley, California. Photo: Jan Stuermann

When the saints go marching in

Multi-instrumentalist Ara Anderson plays the trumpet in Berkeley, California. Decades ago, trumpeter Louis Armstrong popularized one of the songs most requested of jazz bands: "When the Saints Go Marching in". Do you know what that song is about?

Opera comes to the country

Colin Beaven is Spotlight's British columnist. We can always count on him to give insight into life in the UK and to make us laugh at the same time. Listen to an excerpt of his column, titled "When opera comes to the country".

call it a day

stop the work that you have been doing for a while (aufhören)

The poet of the revolution

Poet Gil Scott-Heron has died, but his call to action lives on, writes Mike Pilewski.

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