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What is this cool green rock found in Yorkshire?

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Malachite?

Possibly one for @Oliver Schick

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl was elected president of the People's Chamber in East Germany.

What is the role equivalent to? Was it like speaker of the house, PM, etc?

Also was she the head of state for east Germany?

Cheers

(for context I'm making female leader quiz questions and looking for a left field German non-Merkle one)

The Wikipedia page should answer most of your questions:

she was president of the People's Chamber of East Germany from April to October 1990. During this time, she was also the interim head of state of East Germany, holding both posts until the state's merger into West Germany in October. She was the youngest, only female and the last head of state of East Germany.

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In the general election of March 1990, the only free and fair election ever held in East Germany, she was elected to the People's Chamber, which on 5 April elected her its president. On the same day, parliament also abolished the State Council, the country's collective presidency. Under the Constitution, the president of the People's Chamber was ex officio vice president of the GDR; as such, Bergmann-Pohl assumed the role of interim head of state as well. In that role, she presided over the People's Chamber formally petitioning to join the Federal Republic of Germany on 23 August, as well as the overwhelming approval of the unification treaty on 12 September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Bergmann-Pohl

I guess she would have been something like de facto, if not de iure head of state, but don't take my word for it, as I don't know much about legal things.

The Volkskammer was not a democratic institution, as elections to it weren't free, and so you can't really compare the role(s) she held to the ones you cite. I don't know in detail what official differences existed, as opposed to the real differences. She was just one of the shits that sold out the GDR to western corruption.

Looking to set up website as part of creating a limited company. Any recommendations on the best sites to do this through?

if you just want to create a basic landing page as fast as possible, that looks as good as possible, with no prior experience, then Squarespace.

Cheers! Do you know if the basic option come with a monthly cost?

oh yeah, cheaper if you do it by the year. its not the cheapest, but it is what I described. I went with Wix personally, as I have decent experience with all major CMS and it was the cheapest, but i wouldn't really recommend it to someone easily frustrated by tech

Cheers! Will check out Squarespace

Cheers.

I left them out in the end as it sounds like they may be a controversial figure

...my office also uses wix, which I used a while ago to design our website.

I wouldn't say I am IT technically savvy but it was all quite straightforward. The design part itself did come quite naturally because I am in the end a designer.

Customer support was great too. The worker clearly wasn't that experienced, but took their time, and got back internally to then feed me the answers from the experts. He even showed me how to add my vote on an add-on that I wanted to use but wasn't yet available. They have a forum where you can add requests, then other people can vote and they then respond if there is sufficient demand. Will get an email of they indeed add that feature. Very smart and very impressed!

I'm not saying its bad, otherwise I wouldnt be using it myself or have recommended to multiple clients, its just a balance of pros and cons. When I say "i wouldn't really recommend it to someone easily frustrated by tech" I mainly refer to layout stuff, things like the order of objects changing between desktop/mobile versions, the way some objects react to resizing of other objects etc.

I've used it for a few years now and have found that the page builder works best if you manually type in the size for things rather than click and drag, which I'd say is a prime example of how it's not as good as Squarespace for someone just wanted to get a quick result easily. I dunno, maybe its just me.

one of the shits that sold out the GDR to western corruption

Ostalgie anyone? It's true that Kohl/Schröder/Merkel were all massive crooks even by the standards of German politicians, but do you really think East Germany would have done better as separate nation? AfD support in the East is at about the same level as NSDAP support nationwide in 1933🙂

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East Germany would have done better as separate nation?

Which other country would be comparable Slovakia? Romania?

In terms of current politics and nostalgia for the past, maybe Hungary?

There's still a huge difference between West and East, since the Reunification.

Which other country would be comparable

I wouldn't pick one, all the freed nations of Eastern Europe have experienced difficulty in transitioning to liberal democracy in their own ways. Each has its own history to draw on, for good or ill. The trouble with Germany is how it has historically dealt with its struggle.

I was recently talking to a Hungarian friend about how they were taught about the origins of WW1 in school, and they were explaining the emphasis on the settlement and the Nationalist take on the breakup of the Empire.

I didn't realise it was two thirds of their territory.

There's still a huge difference between West and East, since the Reunification.

I guess what's hard to escape in the process is that so many people were desperate to leave the East. So it was never going to be an equitable settlement.

Absolutely spot on.

two thirds of their territory

"their" is doing some heavy lifting there. That's like saying England lost 90% of "its" territory when India left the Empire.

I want some fold up chairs that won't take up much space in the boot but are pretty comfy to sit on. Any suggestions? Cheers

Helinox? Or the cheaper knockoffs like Decathlon.

Any suggestions?

This pattern for comfort and easy stowage. Picture stolen from Argos, but they're available everywhere

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^ I have a bunch of the above. Comfy enough for me to sit in for hours at a time whilst scoring a cricket match. Usually found for £10/chair at Argos / Robert Dyas / Sainsbury's / etc.

We've had Kermit touring chairs for many years, solid.