Illuminati-R-Us

Being a West Berliner, you can imagine how old I feel. A number of my co-workers noticed the day, too, on a happy note. None expected to live to seerhe end of the Wall, let alone live through an equally long period without it. Yet here we are, it's a terrific feeling. Many people here in my little r...

Not an anniverary, but a very special day. Today is the day on which the Berlin Wall has been down exactly as many days as it had been up. I can't really believe it, but the math tells us it's true. The Wall came down without a single shot being fired. The calm and peaceful determination of the prot...

Well, my regards to your FB friends then.

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Will you forgive me my love of snooker then?

That's been my impression of Merkin football all along. When the matches came on public TV here, there were no commercials during the breaks, as this is forbidden for public TV stations after 8 p.m. So instead of commercials, you'd have coaches yelling into microphones, umpires making gestures, supe...

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Uh-oh...
Rangers 1 -2 Hibernian

Heid is excused for evening...
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This is windig up to be a REALLY shitty season.

Hertha BSC 1 - 1 TSG Hoffenheim

Sorry, can't stop yawning...
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85 years ago, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler Chancellor. In a free, fair, equal and secret general election in November, 1932, Germans had given Hitler's party, the NSDAP, a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler's ascendance became possible when another far-right party,...

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And sorry, btw, it was three nil, not two...

Hertha doon one at half time...

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FC Ingolstadt 2 - 0 SpVgg Fürth

It's going great, this season, isn't it?
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February 2, 1943 - 75 years ago - saw the capitulation of the 6th German Army at Stalingrad, USSR. The army's commander, General Paulus, ordered his officers not to commit suicide and instead share their subordinates' fate of becoming Soviet POWs. He gave himself up on Jan 31. The death toll of this...

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