A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Berlin, Germany by TravelPod blogger David.whytcross titled “You Want History?”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. David.whytcross’s travel blog entry: “Wednesday, the 2nd of December, was the date of our longest bus trip of the tour: Amsterdam to Berlin. Making our way from the far west to the far east of Germany was going to be a struggle, but as we were getting used to the coach we made it in good time. We also saw plenty of sights of Berlin by night such as the Brandenburg Gate and Alexanderplatz as the coach drove through the city towards the hotel. Unfortunately, we also found out this day that two bus-loads of people can’t all go to the same service stop at once – I had to wait over half an hour for my schnitzel and chips! But by god, chicken schnitzel with mushroom sauce is the bomb! Anyway. Once we made it to the hotel, we chowed down on dinner, got ready and jumped on the tram towards Alexanderplatz, where we were to visit some Christmas markets (which would become a theme in almost every city we visited), an ice-skating rink and view the awesome TV Tower by night. Jacko and I roamed the Christmas markets, got a nice present or two to take back home, then watched the Contiki people try to ice-skate – I remember Matheesha stacking three times vividly. I also had my first taste of glühwein, which was horrible! We then ventured to a bar called the Partyhaus, where they played German party music – like Hey …
Archiv für April 2011
Berlin Adler Eurobowl Pump Up Video 2010
Sonntag, 24. April 2011Another one for the collection… I know it might have been a little tooo long for a pregame pump up and it might have been a little toooo hot in that small locker room… but you know what… 20 years from now we all gonna look back at this one remembering the feeling we had a couple of hours back!!! Thanks Benjamin Scharweit for finishing it up 4th quarter last play! Thanks to every single person involved… BERLIN ADLERS ARE PUT DOWN IN EUROPEAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY!!!! 1 Love… GC
American-German History Fun Fact: The Traffic Towers in New York and Berlin
Donnerstag, 21. April 2011This video is about a lost landmark from the history of Berlin. The traffic tower at Potsdam Square was equipped with the first electrically operated traffic lights not only in Germany but also in Europe. In contrast to today’s traffic lights, the three electric lights were orientated horizontally, and they were operated manually by a policeman. The traffic tower was built in 1924 and was inspired by the traffic towers in New York City that had been set up two years before. After twelve years, in 1936, the traffic tower at Potsdam Square was taken down.
3/7 Isaiah Berlin – Final Lecture on the Roots of Romanticism
Montag, 18. April 2011In these lectures, originally delivered at Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art in 1965, acclaimed historian of philosophy Isaiah Berlin addresses the origins of what he deems “the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred.” His focus, apart from some digressions into Montesquieu, Hume, and Rousseau, is on the German philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and he runs through the contributions of Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schlegel, and others in turn. He also shows how romanticism would later influence both the existentialists and the fascists, but paradoxically have its greatest influence upon the emergence of a liberalism that seems at complete odds with the romantic sensibility.