2012-04-25
post/21801564714
photo 22:03:18
A carnival ride turns inside of the cooling tower of a former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, on May 28, 2011. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986, but never operated as a nuclear power plant. Now the plant has been converted to a fun park called “Wunderland Kalkar” and receives some 600,000 visitors a year.
Photograph: Patrik Stollarz
2012-03-28
post/20061715861
photo 14:56:05
Cooling tower of the experimental THTR-300 thorium reactor, Germany (via)
2011-07-15
post/7649643809
photo 13:40:06
Reaction to meeting Yuri Gagarin by The National Archives UK on Flickr.
From Bonn to Foreign Office: the (West) Germans being grumpy at Yuri Gagarin’s visit to the UK in July 1961.
2010-09-04
post/1065942530
quote 22:20:37
“ There are two schools of thought as to why the Germans love board games. The Germans are of the opinion that it’s down to their superior education system. We English are of the opinion that it’s because German TV is shite. ”
Martin Wallace of Warfrog, quoted by Tim Harford in his article Why we still love board games.
2010-03-21
post/463017807
photo 11:02:19
A map from German dialects and migration: Sprechen Sie Deutsch? in The Economist:
FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that they reflect still govern behaviour today, says a paper from the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn.
