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I was watching the youtube channel "The Great War" the other day and the host mentioned that Germany’s highest military honor was the "Pour le mérite" medal. Since France and Germany were sworn enemies at the time, why did Germany gave its highest military honor a french name ?

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In the show "The Last Kingdom", we see Danes and English communicate rather easily between themselves. In reality, how were they able to understand each other, since they spoke very different languages and had particularly divergent cultural traits ?

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I was watching the youtube channel "The Great War" the other day and the host mentioned that Germany’s highest military honor was the "Pour le mérite" medal. Since France and Germany were sworn enemies at the time, why did Germany gave its highest military honor a french name ?	110
In the show "The Last Kingdom", we see Danes and English communicate rather easily between themselves. In reality, how were they able to understand each other, since they spoke very different languages and had particularly divergent cultural traits ?	6