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14 tourist attractions that epically flopped
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoIt originally opened in 1969 as the VEB Kulturpark Plänterwald and was East Germany’s only amusement park, attracting 1.7 million visitors each year. It...
No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoThree veteran British journalists wrote a chronicle of the 1968 campaign called An American Melodrama. The authors concluded that < ...
Vladimir Putin warns of global clash as Russia marks Victory Day
South China Morning Post· 7 hours agoPutin, who sent his army into Ukraine in 2022, casts the war as part of a struggle with the West,...
An AP photographer dazzles with a drone's view of a colorful field in Germany
Associated Press· 6 days agoMichael Probst has been working as a photographer and editor in Germany for over 40 years. Here’s...
'Fallout' is fun, but the reality of a post-nuclear apocalypse is nightmare fuel
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoPrime Video's hit show "Fallout" and other pop culture depictions of the post-apocalypse are pretty far from reality, as this writer learns from Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario."
John Suchet: The chaotic genesis of Beethoven’s greatest hit
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFew themes in classical music are more famous than the “Ode to Joy” setting in the final movement of...
Opinion | Daniel Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us
New York Times· 3 days agoIt was played at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin; it was performed in that city again on Christmas...
The rise of white terrorists who set out to kill minorities and immigrants
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt was the culmination of their decade-long indoctrination into Germany’s far-Right world. They...
Voices: Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and the lurid details that will haunt me forever
The Independent via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoNixon meets Mao; Reagan at the Berlin Wall. Bush being told about the Twin Towers in a primary...
'Tsar' Putin tells the West: Russia will talk only on equal terms
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPutin, who rose to the top of the Kremlin just eight years after the fall of ...
