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Back to the future: The tape recorder model Tesla in the Museum Utopia and Everyday Life for Everyday Culture of the GDR in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg / © Photo: Georg Berg

A Tesla is a Tesla. Who is Tesla?

Travel educates and museum visits broaden the horizon. Thank you Museum for Utopia and Everyday Life in Eisenhüttenstadt (former GDR) that I now think of so much more than the strange Mr. Musk when I hear the name Tesla!

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Angel with beer crate in front of the Pope. A living statue strides through the Roman Gate in front of Cologne Cathedral with a beer crate, which it will use as a pedestal. In the background Pope Benedict VI waves in survival size from a poster / © Photo: Georg Berg

Cheating during Lent

Not angels, but monks once sent beer to the Pope in Rome. His blessing for a fasting beer was quickly granted, because it tasted so awful after the long journey that he found it worthy of a fasting drink and granted the monks 5 liters per day. Here now more cheating of the clergy against their own fasting laws.

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Rainbow over the state prison on the Caribbean island of Grenada / © Photo: Georg Berg

Prison with a great View

The inn of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is picturesquely situated. Nevertheless, the Grenada Richmond Hill is not on any bucket list

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The home and the climate

The small village of Lützerath rarely had more than 100 inhabitants. Thanks to climate activists, Lützi has become internationally known and a symbol. Several hundred places in the Rhenish lignite area have already fallen victim to the hunger for energy and the lignite excavators before

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Advertisement in the Japanese daily newspaper Nikkei (Nihon Keizai Shimbun) for the collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton in January 2023 © Photo: Noriko Hasegawa

Louis Vuitton scores with Yayoi Kusama

On an advertising stretch of four infinite pages and the slogan “Creating Infinity”, luxury brand Louis Vuitton launches its collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

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Distribution of roles in the port of Tombo Bay, Sierra Leone. Women wait for the fishermen and their catch / © Photo: Georg Berg

Hidden object with Cristiano Ronaldo

After the African country of Morocco advanced in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup against the team of Portugal, I remember a photo I took in Sierra Leone in 2016

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Price list at a market in Morocco / © Photo: Georg Berg

Parlez-vous Español, please

Review of the book by Françoise Hauser, in which she describes the differences and similarities of many world languages in an easily understandable way.

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Annabelle Hirsch, journalist with German-French roots explains the genesis of her first book. Things. A history of women in 100 objects / © Photo: Georg Berg

Things. A history of women

For Annabelle Hirsch, everyday objects are not trivia, but access to history. Her look at 100 objects opens a Wunderkammer of femininity

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Ceiling painting with soccer scenes during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Cologne Central Station / © Photo: Georg Berg

Soccer idols on murals

If you love soccer but not the World Cup in Qatar, you might get a lot of enjoyment out of a book by Andy Brassell during your downtime: Football Murals

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Laugh in Translation

On the occasion of the lifting of entry restrictions in October 22, a report on our trip through the Japanese province appears in the Shizuoka Shimbun.

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Food editor and Great Britain fan Angela Berg in the kitchen of Audleys End. The alternative to a visit to Downton Abbey, if you wanted to avoid long queues at the zenith of the series' success

Candle stubs and Coronation Ceremonies

King Charles III is to be crowned on May 6, 2023. A cookbook by Tom Parker Bowles, son of the Queen Consort Camilla to be crowned, could provide ideas for a modest celebration.

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Sooty kettle on a wood fire / © Photo: Georg Berg

Something warm man needs

Every year, landlords in Germany are required to put heating systems into operation on October 1. This year, however, with a throttled temperature

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