Local people still remember the rumours that a long time ago, the place where the lake is located used to be covered with green meadows where the fairies lived.They would gather by night and dance on the hill close to a rock. The shepherds from the area were bringing their sheep to ...
Some FB pals (well one) has expressed a certain level of ignorance about the aforementioned John. I don’t feel inclined to help them out when they can easily google it, which is what I did in the first place. There’s a lot of stuff out there on tinterweb about Johnny boy, as y...
UIKonf2017 takes place from May, 14th to 17th at“Kosmos Berlin”, which is a 200m walk from subway/tram station “Frankfurter Tor”. You can get there using subway line U5, tram M10, or tram M21. I compiled a list of places to stay, which aren’t too far from the conference ven...
the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic (体育的) but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners. “It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway....
I had sent him an email the other day, saying that I did not fancy waiting five or more hours at the station. I wrote I'd take a bus over to Rinus' place, and then phone him when he arrived around 10h. And that's what I did. But then Jean had not read my mail. Moreover,...
In the final wild-card matchup, the Dallas Cowboys knocked off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning 31-14 on Monday. The divisional round will take place over January 21-22 and includes four games that will determine who moves on to the conference championships on January 29. The Philadelphia ...
I get hundreds if not thousands of itinerary questions for people who are considering aEurail trip around Europe, and most people just include the word “Switzerland” among a list of cities like Paris, Rome, and Berlin that they want to visit. So where in Switzerland should you go if you...
Over the last year I’ve been amazed by the scale of the protests in London, Berlin and cities around the world, which exceed every previous effort. It feels like it a tipping point, and it ought to be, because one is long overdue. Whether it proves to be the moment the tide turns...
“I have information that by March 5 there won’t be any Jews left in Berlin!” According to “My Underground Life in Berlin,” a memoir she wrote with the help of her daughter, Ida Gassenheimer was advised by a sympathetic Aryan doctor to take the name of an Aryan German woman he ...
But itdoesexplain why IBM worked on national language support for those countries well before the Berlin Wall fell and the borders opened. P.S: What’s a Caron, Anyway? A minor related mystery is that of the caron. Several languages (mostly Slavic) use a diacritical mark which likely origi...