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Merkel Goes From Glories To Disgrace
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | 05/29/10 04:42 PM | AP
BERLIN — It was only nine months ago that Forbes magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel the world’s most powerful woman for the fourth year in a row.
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Images: (Merkel) AP Photo; (Churchill) classic pose via yale.edu
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dpa
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble registers his opinion of
the Gnomes of Zurich as Chancellor Angela Merkel flinches. “Still,”
she said resignedly, “It’s better than a cowboy neck rub.”
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Date night outside Cologne, Summer, 1939.
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Robert Mitchum’s–THUNDER ROAD–would become the U.S. drive-in staple twenty years later and the Third Reich would never know.
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Images: (Thunder Road) moviepostershoppe.com; (screen) smartinc.com;
(Atlantic Wall bunkers)Paul Virilio in metropolis.com; (autos) det.news.com;
(intermission shot and food pictures) drive-infilm.com (Speer structure) stanford.edu
This entry was posted on Monday, July 10th, 2006 at 11:00 […]
Photographs and column are here.
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Did you know that the largest attendance to see a Major League team
was not at a venue in the United States?
On October 18, 1936 Nuremberg Stadium recorded an attendance of 322,463 to watch the St. Louis Browns take on the Cologne Atomizers of the Hanseatic League. Baseball Commissioner Keenesaw Mountain […]
If no one else will honor Mark, we shall!
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Spitz, once the star, upset over Beijing snub
by Polly Hui Aug 11, 2:23 am EDT
HONG KONG (AFP) - US swim legend Mark Spitz won’t be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics—because, he says, no […]
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Images: (McCain) AP via huffingtonpost.com; (Nosferatu) via wikimedia.org
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Images: (Hermann Goring) cwporter.com; (All House of Wax photos) via moviescreenshots.blogspot.com except (3D paddle baller) via cinemafantastique.com;
(All Hitler and interior photos) via Reuters–by Tobias Schwarz & Wolgang Rattay except (Hitler in a box and Botox) via Adam Berry/Bloomberg News; (3D glasses) diyhappy.com; (paddle ball toy) askville.amazon.com;
Story.
AP
Mon Feb 25, 9:59 PM ET
BERLIN - Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol —
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Images: (shoes) nextag.com;(dog) santaclaradog.org
Bush returns to G-8 summit
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - An upset stomach forced
President Bush to skip some meetings at an international summit on Friday, but he rejoined the gathering after several hours of bed rest.
“He’s not 100 percent, but he felt well enough to return to the talks,” White […]
France’s V150 Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) is seen here at the “Reims Bezannes” station on the new high-speed line built between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg, on the eve of an attempt to break its own world speed record.(AFP/Francois Nascimbeni)
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French train aims to break world speed record
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PARIS (AFP) - France’s […]