The East German children's program Unser Sandmännchen would begin with the little Sandman arriving in some kind of vehicle to watch television with the children. Above we see the arrival happening in orbit. See another orbital sequence here and listen to the theme song.
When East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn visited Salyut 6 in 1978 he took along a Sandmännchen figure.
Mural from Berlin's Moabit district. Source.
Hildesheim, not Glasgow. Source.
Morton travel to Firhill to meet Partick Thistle.
After half a season Morton have 5 wins, 7 draws, and 6 losses, 20 goals for and 27 against, for 21 points and 6th place. At this rate they'll finish the season with a negative goal difference, and with 42 points which would have put them in 8.5th place in last year's Championship.
Partick are in 9th place with 14 points.
Player movements: Gary Harkins has been released by Queen of the South. He had his best year since 2009-10 with Morton last season. [Signed with Partick!]
Ross MacLean is set to transfer from Morton to Falkirk in January.
Also.
Current winless streaks (league + cup):
0 Ross County
0 Dundee United
0 Alloa
2 Ayr United
2 Inverness CT
2 Partick Thistle
3 Queen of the South
3 Dunfermline
3 Falkirk
4 Morton
How have Morton fared in Match 19 this decade?
2018/1/6 Brechin 1 - 1 Morton
2017/1/7 Morton 2 - 1 Dumbarton
2016/1/2 Morton 0 - 1 St Mirren
2015/1/3 Morton 0 - 1 Airdrieonians
2014/1/4 Dumbarton 2 - 0 Morton
2013/1/5 Cowdenbeath 1 - 1 Morton
2012/1/14 Morton 1 - 1 Raith Rovers
2011/2/12 Falkirk 1 - 0 Morton
2010/1/4 Partick Thistle 1 - 0 Morton
1 win, 3 draws, 5 losses.
How many points did Morton have at the midpoints of the last ten seasons?
2017-18 27
2016-17 28
2015-16 24
2014-15 31
2013-14 9
2012-13 35
2011-12 25
2010-11 21
2009-10 15
2008-09 22
Other Championship matches:
Alloa (8th) [2 - 1] Dundee United (3rd) [Alloa's first league win against Dundee United since 1960.]
Falkirk (10th) [2 - 4] Dunfermline (7th)
QoS (5th) [1 - 1] Ayr United (2nd)
Ross County (1st) [2 - 1] Inverness CT (4th)
[Morton win 1 - 2. Goals by Tiffoney and Telfer.]
How many games have Partick Thistle played against the other 2018-19 Championship clubs?
220 Morton
216 Falkirk
135 Ayr United
119 Dundee United
118 Queen of the South
104 Dunfermline
55 Ross County
36 Alloa
35 Inverness CT
1951-52. Morton were at home to Partick Thistle and lost 1 - 2. Morton ended 1951 in 12th place with 14 points and a 0.8611 goal average.
Arthurlie versus Morton. Both clubs were founded in 1874. They met in the Scottish Cup twice in the 19th Century. In Round Two of the 1879-80 Cup Arthurlie won 8 - 3 in a game played in Barrhead. In Round Two of the 1896-97 Cup Morton prevailed 5 - 1 in a game also played in Barrhead.
Arthurlie entered the Scottish League in 1901 but never made it up to Division One. Meanwhile Morton were enjoying a run of success and did not drop down to Division Two until well into the Twenties, the result being that they only had two seasons against Arthurlie, 1927-28 and 1928-29. In their four games Morton won three and Arthurlie one, and the Greenockians outscored the Barrhead men 9 to 6.
It's in the Renfrewshire Cup that you get the largest body of results. The county cup began in 1878, and still goes on, more or less. Arthurlie won the cup in 1880-81 and 1881-82. Morton first won it in 1892-93, and have won it again over fifty times since.
1879/10/18 Morton 2 - 3 Arthurlie
1885/2/7 Morton 2 - 2 Arthurlie
1885/2/14 Morton 2 - 2 Arthurlie
1885/2/21 Arthurlie 1 - 1 Morton
1885/3/7 Arthurlie 3 - 2 Morton (yet it was Morton who advanced)
1889/10/26 Arthurlie 4 - 3 Morton
1892/10/29 Morton 5 - 2 Arthurlie
1895/11/16 Morton 4 - 1 Arthurlie
1905/4/15 Morton 2 - 0 Arthurlie
1905/4/22 Arthurlie 1 - 2 Morton
1906/4/21 Morton 2 - 2 Arthurlie
1906/5/5 Arthurlie 0 - 0 Morton
1906/5/12 Morton 4 - 3 Arthurlie
1912/3/30 Morton 2 - 0 Arthurlie
1912/4/23 Arthurlie 1 - 1 Morton
1914/4/? Morton W - L Arthurlie
1922/4/10 Morton 4 - 3 Arthurlie
1923/10/1 Arthurlie 0 - 1 Morton
1925/8/25 Morton 2 - 3 Arthurlie
But wait, there's also the Renfrewshire Victoria Cup:
1928/9/17 Morton 2 - 0 Arthurlie
1928/10/1 Arthurlie 2 - 4 Morton
And the Greenock Charity Cup:
1891/4/18 Morton 3 - 1 Arthurlie
Angus: Forfar [2 - 0] Brechin
Montrose [1 - 1] Arbroath
40th Empress's Cup, semi-finals:
Match No. 45: Nippon TV Beleza [1 - 0] Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies
Match No. 46: JEF United Chiba Ladies [0 - 1] INAC Kobe Leonessa
West Germany and Yugoslavia: two postwar countries of similar size and shape. Which was the greater soccer power?
West German clubs versus Yugoslav clubs:
1962-63 OFK Belgrade 4 - 1 Bayern Munich IFC GS
1962-63 Bayern Munich 4 - 4 OFK Belgrade IFC GS
1962-63 Rijeka 2 - 1 Rot-Weiss Oberhausen IFC GS
1962-63 Rot-Weiss Oberhausen 4 - 3 Rijeka IFC GS
1962-63 Velež Mostar 9 - 1 VfV Hildesheim IFC GS
1962-63 VfV Hildesheim 0 - 2 Velež Mostar IFC GS
1963/3/? Bayern Munich 1 - 4 Dinamo Zagreb ICFC QF
1963/4/? Dinamo Zagreb 0 - 0 Bayern Munich ICFC QF
1965/11/9 Partizan Belgrade 3 - 0 Werder Bremen EC R1
1965/11/17 Werder Bremen 1 - 0 Partizan Belgrade EC R1
1966-67 Karlsruher 2 - 1 Olimpija Ljubljana IFC GS
1966-67 Olimpija Ljubljana 2 - 1 Karlsruher IFC GS
1967/?/? Eintracht Frankfurt 3 - 0 Dinamo Zagreb ICFC SF
1967/?/? Dinamo Zagreb 4 - 0 Eintracht Frankfurt ICFC SF
1970/10/20 Dinamo Zagreb 4 - 0 Hamburger SV ICFC R2
1970/11/4 Hamburger SV 1 - 0 Dinamo Zagreb ICFC R2
1974/11/27 Partizan Belgrade 1 - 0 Köln UC R1
1974/12/11 Köln 5 - 1 Partizan Belgrade UC R1
1975 Eintracht Braunschweig 2 - 1 Vojvodina Novi Sad ITC
1975 Vojvodina Novi Sad 3 - 1 Eintracht Braunschweig ITC
1975/10/22 Red Star Belgrade 1 - 1 Hamburg UC R2
1975/11/5 Hamburg 4 - 0 Red Star Belgrade UC R2
1977/10/19 Red Star Belgrade 0 - 3 Borussia Mönchengladbach EC R2
1977/11/2 Borussia Mönchengladbach 5 - 1 Red Star Belgrade EC R2
1979/11/28 Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Red Star Belgrade UC R3
1979/12/12 Red Star Belgrade 3 - 2 Bayern Munich UC R3
1980/3/5 Hamburg 1 - 0 Hajduk Split EC QF
1980/3/19 Hajduk Split 3 - 2 Hamburg EC QF
1980 VfL Bochum 2 - 1 Napredak Kruševac ITC
1980 Napredak Kruševac 2 - 0 VfL Bochum ITC
1980/9/17 Hamburg 4 - 2 Sarajevo UC R1
1980/10/1 Sarajevo 3 - 3 Hamburg UC R1
1981/9/16 Hajduk Split 3 - 1 VfB Stuttgart UC R1
1981/9/30 VfB Stuttgart 2 - 2 Hajduk Split UC R1
1982/4/7 Radnički Niš 2 - 1 Hamburg UC SF
1982/4/21 Hamburg 5 - 1 Radnički Niš UC SF
1986/9/16 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1 - 0 Partizan Belgrade UC R1
1986/10/1 Partizan Belgrade 1 - 3 Borussia Mönchengladbach UC R1
1987/10/21 Borussia Dortmund 2 - 0 Velež Mostar UC R2
1987/11/4 Velež Mostar 2 - 1 Borussia Dortmund UC R2
1988 Karlsruher 2 - 3 Vojvodina Novi Sad ITC
1988 Vojvodina Novi Sad 0 - 2 Karlsruher ITC
1988/10/26 Dinamo Zagreb 1 - 3 VfB Stuttgart UC R2
1988/11/9 VfB Stuttgart 1 - 1 Dinamo Zagreb UC R2
1989/11/22 Red Star Belgrade 2 - 0 Köln UC R3
1989/12/6 Köln 3 - 0 Red Star Belgrade UC R3
1990 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 2 - 1 Olimpija Ljubljana ITC
1990 Olimpija Ljubljana 1 - 1 Bayer 05 Uerdingen ITC
1991/4/10 Bayern Munich 1 - 2 Red Star Belgrade EC SF
1991/4/24 Red Star Belgrade 2 - 2 Bayern Munich EC SF
West Germany 23, Yugoslavia 20, plus 8 draws.
(IFC = International Football Cup; ICFC = Inter-Cities Fairs Cup; EC = European Cup; UC = UEFA Cup; ITC = Intertoto Cup.)
Velež Mostar are currently top of the First League of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is one of two leagues that make up tier II in Bosnia Herzegovina. In 2003 VfV Hildesheim merged with Borussia 06 Hildesheim to become VfV 06 Hildesheim. They are currently 6th in the fifth-tier Oberliga Neidersachsen.
Mostar, not Greenock. Source.
Höhr-Grenzhausen in Rhineland-Palatinate has been a hub of ceramic production for hundreds of years. Source.
I wonder if Jason Lutes took some of the inspiration for his Berlin trilogy from Werner Hegemann's critique of Berlin tenement housing, Das Steinerne Berlin, which translates as Stony Berlin. Hegemann was chased out of Germany by the Nazis.
St Geoge and the Dragon on the outside of the Schwabentor, Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Source.
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