German Street
About German Street
Vokiečių Street is a street in the Old Town of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is one of the oldest streets in Vilnius and its name arise from the 14th century when the German merchants and craftsman settled there. From 1546, the Vilnius Mint was located in the street. The street was the most beautiful in Vilnius in the 16th century as it already had many brick houses. In the second half of the 19th century, the street was densely inhabited by the Jews and the Great Synagogue of Vilna was located in Vokiečių Street 13A.
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The original plaque is to Isaac Newton. It was his home when he was the president of the Royal Society. It's in German Street, which is quite near Piccadilly in London.
from No Such Thing As A Safe Toothpick, 2021-07-09 at 00:38:06 · read transcript
Other times German Street came up
It was because he had a shop on German Street in London where he could make sausages and no one really else could make as good sausages as him because he had this machine and it was a donkey that would walk. around the machine and it would like create a.
No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen
He was the official royal purveyor of pork. It was because he had a shop on German Street in London where he could make sausages. No one really else could make as good sausages as him because he had this machine and it was a donkey that would walk around the machine and it would create a cutting motion that would turn the meat into minced meat, which he could then turn into sausages, which he could then purve pork like to the king.
328: No Such Thing As A Romantic Lollipop, 2020-07-03 · listen
Yeah. Fashion House, of course. Their shop in German Street was filled with huge jars of tobacco and they were called your sort. Snuff and tobacco were called a sort. You'd hear someone. come in and they go hello your grace as i come in for ever got any of my sort in at the moment and their sort would be a mixture of cavendish in these strange names that these particular types of tobacco had and um anyway i i uh it was actually q i it was the very first q i agreed to do uh an interview for for the independent i think it was to to publicize q i as a new program and um i went to the groucho club and at the time i had decided to try and cut down cigarette smoking, but I always carried a pipe with me.
No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen
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- Tour de France · France
- Piccadilly · United Kingdom
- English Heritage · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.5074, -0.1340