Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, Aug. 17, 2015: Soviet War Memorial, Berlin
August 17, 2015
A quiet place, in a peaceful park in Berlin hardly seems connected at first sight to the horrific fighting that took place all over
A quiet place, in a peaceful park in Berlin hardly seems connected at first sight to the horrific fighting that took place all over
The Heiliggeistkirche, to give it its German name, is the most imposing church in Heidelberg; it stands out above the Altstadt (Old City) section of the city so distinctively that I dared not include an exterior view among the clues. I make amends…
Many of the cathedrals and major churches of Europe can trace their foundations back a millenium or more, and their present buildings on those foundations for six or seven hundred years. But Berlin’s Dom, or Cathedral, while in the same location as…
In the time before mechanical watches and clocks, the sundial helped track the passing hours. Most of us think of sundials set on the
It’s taken us almost a month to track down what we found, this imposing 20-foot construction worker, standing on a pedestrian path just off buy
San Francisco is testing a special paint that splashes back on your shoes and trousers if you offend it by urinating in public. It’s a possible answer to San Francisco’s rash of complaints asking the city to steam-clean urine from stinky walls. …
Copenhagen and Amsterdam compete regularly for honors as Europe’s top bicycle city, but it’s hard to imagine that either could match this parking lot
If you’re the kind of driver who views the speed limit as a suggestion, you might want to avoid France. The country’s extensive network of speed cameras caught 21 million speeders in 2014, and 4.5 million of those were foreigners.
Not a car or truck this time, but a sort of bus: a 12-passenger+”driver” bicycle with 13 sets of pedals to keep it going. The more get on, the more powerful (and perhaps faster) it gets. We saw several other versions of multi-passenger…
“Tartine de Nutella”—Breakfast for France? Photo: A. Kniesel / Wikimedia While most observers of international relations have been focused
A quiet place, in a peaceful park in Berlin hardly seems connected at first sight to the horrific fighting
The Heiliggeistkirche, to give it its German name, is the most imposing church in Heidelberg; it stands out above the Altstadt (Old City) section of the city so distinctively that I dared not include an exterior view among the clues. I make amends…
Many of the cathedrals and major churches of Europe can trace their foundations back a millenium or more, and their present buildings on those foundations for six or seven hundred years. But Berlin’s Dom, or Cathedral, while in the same location as…
In the time before mechanical watches and clocks, the sundial helped track the passing hours. Most of us think
It’s taken us almost a month to track down what we found, this imposing 20-foot construction worker, standing on a
San Francisco is testing a special paint that splashes back on your shoes and trousers if you offend it by urinating in public. It’s a possible answer to San Francisco’s rash of complaints asking the city to steam-clean urine from stinky walls. …
Copenhagen and Amsterdam compete regularly for honors as Europe’s top bicycle city, but it’s hard to imagine that either
If you’re the kind of driver who views the speed limit as a suggestion, you might want to avoid France. The country’s extensive network of speed cameras caught 21 million speeders in 2014, and 4.5 million of those were foreigners.
Not a car or truck this time, but a sort of bus: a 12-passenger+”driver” bicycle with 13 sets of pedals to keep it going. The more get on, the more powerful (and perhaps faster) it gets. We saw several other versions of multi-passenger…
“Tartine de Nutella”—Breakfast for France? Photo: A. Kniesel / Wikimedia While most observers of