Potsdam

American  

[pots-dam, pawts-dahm] / ˈpɒts dæm, ˈpɔts dɑm /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Brandenburg, in NE Germany, SW of Berlin: formerly the residence of German emperors; wartime conference July–August 1945 of Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and later, Attlee.

2. a town in N New York.

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Potsdam British  

/ ˈpɔtsdam, ˈpɒtsdæm /

noun

1. a city in Germany, the capital of Brandenburg on the Havel River: residence of Prussian kings and German emperors and scene of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, at which the main Allied powers agreed on a plan to occupy Germany at the end of the Second World War. Pop: 144 979 (2003 est)

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Potsdam

"Museum collections are far more than archives of the past - they are essential scientific resources for understanding biodiversity today," said Dr. Alice Petzold of the University of Potsdam, who led the museomics work.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Published in Geology, the research involved scientists from the University of Southampton, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and University of Potsdam, both in Germany, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the USA.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Meanwhile, we could do without descriptions of Harry Truman’s attire at Potsdam or what Kurt Weill wrote to Lotte Lenya on V-E Day—a dozen years after the couple fled Europe for show-business success in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

At the Potsdam Conference of 1945, after Germany's surrender, the allied leaders agreed that in the future Germany should be demilitarised.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

The outcome of the test was communicated promptly to Stimson, who had accompanied Truman to the conference of the Big Three in Potsdam, outside Berlin.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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