Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam.
In July 1943 the full horror of total war was visited on the German city of Hamburg.
The Indra Musik Club, site of the first Beatles gig in Hamburg, still hosts live music.
John Lennon once said, “I might have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.”
The last two Hamburg gigs, in November and December of 1962, involved another 90 hours of performing.
It was Mattheson, by his own account, who introduced Handel to the musical life of Hamburg.
Handel may well have been glad to leave Hamburg, but Hamburg did not forget him.
A guess may be hazarded that he obtained them through his old friend Telemann at Hamburg.
Our present Minister at Hamburg (Bourrienne) is far from being so nice.
I am by birth a Russian, but my childhood and youth were passed at Hamburg.
German city, the -burg is German Burg "fort," in reference to the moated castle built there c.825; the first element is perhaps Old High German hamma "ham, back of the knee" in a transferred sense of "bend, angle," with reference to its position on a river bend promontory, or Middle High German hamme "enclosed area of pastureland."
1610s, "native of Hamburg;" the meat product so called from 1884, hamburg steak, named for the German city of Hamburg, though no certain connection has ever been put forth, and there may not be one unless it be that Hamburg was a major port of departure for German immigrants to United States. Meaning "a sandwich consisting of a bun and a patty of grilled hamburger meat" attested by 1912. Shortened form burger attested from 1939; beefburger was attempted 1940, in an attempt to make the main ingredient more explicit, after the -burger had taken on a life of its own as a suffix (cf. cheeseburger, first attested 1938).
City in northern Germany on the Elbe River, near where it meets the North Sea.
Note: Hamburg is Germany's most important industrial center. It was one of the most heavily bombed German cities during World War II.
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make hamburger (or hash or mincemeat) out of someone or something
