Berlin Wall

Before coronavirus shuttered museums across the country, the Guggenheim was home to one of the most unusual architecture exhibits of the year. Countryside, the Future explores how the world’s non-urban territories might one day be designed, and it is a collaboration between legendary architect Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, the…

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Posted by Huw, 25 Mar 2020 18:00Today's set has been selected by myth: This little spacecraft, 6875 Hovercraft, was my first ever set. From what little I remember from that time, as I was 5 or 6 years old, I immediately fell in love with LEGO and the whole space…

In 1985 the great Colombian noble prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez published his world-famous book: "El amor en los tiempos del cólera". Spanish speakers immediately caught the title's irony, lost in English translation. We can understand the title in four different ways. We can read it as: "Love in a…

The Soviet Union wanted their own space shuttle — and eventually built something eerily reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle. Its performance was similar to that of the space shuttle as well. So why did it only have three hours of flight time? Suspicious Birth: Soviet suspicions of the American space…

The realisation that life is going to change for a good while is starting to take hold. To flatten the curve of the COVID-19 outbreak, radical measures of social distancing are currently being rolled out in an increasing number of countries. People are being urged – or instructed – to…

A furniture company in eastern Germany can look back at a truly moving history. For some time now, it's been riding a wave of success, and yachts are playing a major role in this, as Hardy Graupner reports from Dresden. "No handshakes please, but we're friendly people all the same,"…

They equivocate over the East German dictatorship, yet elites refuse to condemn them like right-wing populists.Bernd Riexinger, party chairperson of Die Linke, speaks to journalists alongside Katja Kipping, party chairperson of Die Linke, at the federal press conference on the election in Hamburg. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa (Photo by Carsten Koall/picture…

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Churchill museum in Fulton closes temporarily on Sunday A dramatic view of “Breakthrough,” sculpted from a section of the Berlin Wall by Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, artist Edwina Sandys, and the historic Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, which was moved from London to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., as…