Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

J.D. Vance is right: Europe is becoming totalitarian

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Okay, I watched Vice-President J.D. Vance's speech at the Munich conference .  And he was absolutely spot-on.   The same European countr...
Saturday, November 09, 2019

The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago today

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Here's my piece of it: The slab of it at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum (photo taken December 21, 2016): ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz is officially verboten

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It's taken an act of legislation to wipe out the longest word in the German language. "You vill EAT your rindfleischetikettieru...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin has passed away

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The Knight Shift today is remembering and honoring the life of an army officer from Nazi Germany.  And for good reason... Ewald-Heinrich...
Friday, September 28, 2012

The statue of Buddha made from a meteorite and acquired by Nazis

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That's not the most weird headline I've ever made for a blog post, but I must say: that it's certainly among the most interesti...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

German public TV airing "Patterns of Force" - AKA the Nazi episode of STAR TREK - for first time tonight

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Forty-three years after it first aired on American television in 1968 as part of Star Trek 's second season, "Patterns of Force...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dude gets shot in head... and doesn't find out 'til 5 years later!

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Robert Chojecki , a fella out of Herne, Germany, went to his doctor because he had been suffering severe headaches for a year and didn't...
Monday, July 05, 2010

Life-sized General Grievous costume

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A few days ago this blog forwarded along a story about a full-sized costume of a Covenant Elite from the Halo video games . If that didn...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Most weirdest Star Wars-related post I've EVER made

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There is a girl who can discern different Star Wars characters while blindfolded by putting them in her mouth and sucking on them. I never ...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down twenty years ago today

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It was built by the East German government in 1961. It completely encircled what was then West Berlin. It was one of the most tangible symbo...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Skull thought to be Hitler's is actually of a woman

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In April of 1945, during the final days of the European theater and with the approaching rumble of Soviet tanks heralding the collapse of hi...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Monopoly helped British POWs "Get out of jail free" from Nazi captors!

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If Ridley Scott wants to make a Monopoly movie so bad , he should scrap his plans for a straight adaptation of the board game and film this ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

World War II began 70 years ago today

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Early on the morning of September 1st, 1939, a squadron of Nazi German Luftwaffe attacked the Polish town of Wieluń. More than twelve hund...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Nazi concentration camp guard charged 29,000 times

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German prosecutors have thrown not just the book, but several hefty volumes of 'em, at John Demjanjuk. For his time as a prison guard a...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

German schoolboy corrects NASA's math on killer asteroid odds

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A 13-year old schoolboy named Nico Marquardt has found errors in NASA's calculations about the Apophis asteroid . And NASA has conceded...
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