Beichuan ruins becomes a museum and a memorial. The most damaged town in the Sichuan earthquake zone, Beichuan, is preserved and turned into a museum and a memorial. Unlike Dresden Germany, Hiroshima Japan, and...
February 13 marked the 65th anniversary of the Allied Forces bombing of Dresden, East Germany which marked the end of the Second World War. Competing protests erupted into violence as Neo Nazi marches...
During a Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin last year, Couric asked Palin what newspapers she read. Couric was celebrated for finding Palin out for her ignorance of the news when Sarah Palin could not name a...
created by Alyzee | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2794 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
Yesterday, we had lunch with my in-laws, who hate Obama. They fear him as I feared the Bush/Cheney presidency. My unemployed husband mentioned that he was tired of being unemployed, which sent the in-laws into an Obama tirade. John and I both lost jobs during the Bush years....
Thousands of Egyptians attended the funeral of Marwa Sherbini in Cairo today, July 6, 2009. The 31-year-old 'headscarf martyr' was stabbed to death last week in a German courtroom, where Axel W, the attacker, was...
created by alia_d | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 3942 views | 4 recommendations | 16 comments
President Obama called for a redoubling of efforts to create a two state solution, stating "the moment is now for us to act." Obama was visiting Dresden earlier on Friday. He stated that peace could not be...
The German technology will be used in uttraklhand to detect the leakage in the drinking water pipeline. " MUSOORIE, 13 Nov: Rene Rother and Marcel Gossman from University of Applied Sciences, Dresden,...
It has been revealed that a Manitoba teenager shook hands with Greyhound Bus maniac Vince Li just hours before Li's heinous alleged crime. "He seemed a straight, regular guy" the teen said. " ...
created by Christina 123 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 386 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Indonesia's properties which are inscribed on the World Heritage list are Borobudur Temple, Prmabanan Temple, Sangiran Early Man Site, Komodo National Park, Lorentz National Park, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of...
created by sweet east pearl | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 225 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Oddly, a slew of indie bands have contributed material to a new travel guide. I'm guessing it will probably garner the usual ruckus from the indie sellout police, but I bet it'd be interesting. Who wouldn't want to know where Thurston Moore changes his dollars into...
created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1043 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Something tells me this isn't going to go away..."DRESDEN, Germany - German police broke through a blockade of activists and felled a 200-year-old beech tree on Tuesday to clear the way for a new bridge over the Elbe river that is opposed by environmentalists and...
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This is a test of the highlight tool, but that doesn't mean that it can't be a newsworthy article..."The UN's cultural organisation Unesco is meeting in New Zealand to discuss which sites to add to the list of...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 135 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Three teenagers who set off holiday fireworks in eastern Germany could be fined by...an ostrich farmer. Yes, an ostrich farmer, whose prize male, Gustav, was allegedly rendered temporarily unable to perform by the...
created by Kaitlin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 881 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
I had never heard of the Christmas Markets in Germany. Apparently millions of people from around the world travel there this time of year in-order to share in the festivities. With some 2,500 markets across...
created by clorenz1 | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1653 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments