The Defence of the Realm Act was enacted by the United Kingdom parliament days after World War I started and granted the government extraordinary wartime emergency powers. Expanded throughout the…
The Kulturpalast Dresden is a DDR-era multi-purpose hall built in the Altmarkt Square in Dresden, Germany, the largest in the city when opened in 1969. Unfortunately, I know nothing about…
After entering the Alte Nationalgalerie and purchasing your tickets, you ascend the stairs to the first floor where the exhibits are. On the landing to the right is an exterior…
Friendrich D Strenge, 1349-1381 Fürstenzug, or Procession of Princes, is a large, public mural showing the rulers of Saxony from Conrad, Margrave of Miessen (1127-1156) through King George of Saxony…
Friedliche Revolution, known as Peaceful Revolution in English, were the 1989 non-violent protests against the East German communist government which led to its demise. The protests' origins were the Monday's…
Perhaps. In Berlin it's difficult to tell original vs. renovated, truth from myth. Chunks of the Berlin Wall are still for sell, 35 years after the wall fell. Is it…
Known in English as The New Guardhouse, Neue Wache has commemorated victims of war since its construction in 1818: however, which war or victims has changed as Germany has changed,…
Bless is a Vietnamese restaurant near Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. More importantly, it was a short walk from our hotel, a key attribute as we had just arrived after overnight travel…
I arrived in Kaunas after twenty hours of travel: flying from MSP to AMS to VNO, renting a car, and driving two hours to Kaunas on minimal sleep. I'm not…
Seen while walking around Kaunas, Lithuania....any idea what's being advertised? This is on an outside wall of the YZYBar in central Kaunus, and though it was too early to stop…