Author archives: Frank

Funny and witty Street Art by Barbara

24. January 2016
Art & Culture, Lifestyle & More
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[caption id="attachment_127369" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Translation - Random grafitti: "Goethe was here." Barbara: "So was Barbara."[/caption] There is probably no cool and hip Berliner who doesn’t know the street artist Barbara. Who is Barbara? Well, nobody knows. It’s a pseudonym. We don’t even know whether it’s one person or 10 people putting...

Hipsters, snobs & tree huggers – who li...

21. January 2016
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Clichés – they everywhere, you can’t avoid them. Just like in any other city, Berlin is full of clichés as well. By merely knowing in which district the person lives, you can literally tell what their character is like, you immediately know their favorite clothing shop, favorite color, diet and...

Lichtenberg – the new hotspot for hip und c...

19. January 2016
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  Berlin is like an ever-changing organism, heavily influenced by factors like gentrification and other aspects. Now that former worker and student boroughs like Kreuzberg have become unaffordable for exactly these occupation groups, the students and simple blue-collar workers are flocking to other boroughs to live there. Neukölln is absolutely en...

Human interaction in Berlin – temporary fri...

18. January 2016
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Berlin is big, ever-changing and exciting. Here, in Berlin’s legendary and notorious club scene, you can meet all kinds of personalities and interesting characters. This fact may sound very appealing. But at the same time, Berlin is a fertile ground for isolation, a place where superficiality and loneliness blossom and...

The Roaring 20ies in Berlin

18. January 2016
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The 20ies in Berlin were truly golden. If I could choose a past era to experience, it would be the roaring 20ies in Berlin. Apart from art, music and self-confident women, also new drugs made this era a pinnacle of entertainment, amusement and excess. However, it was also a time,...

Cats for Allergy Sufferers

17. January 2016
Lifestyle & More, Animals & Nature
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To own a cat is to bring happiness in one‘s life. Who wouldn't want to have a small bundle of joy rubbing its head against your leg while meowing in such an adorable way, that you just can't help but obey its every command? Unfortunately some people are cursed with...

Wildcats at home

16. January 2016
Lifestyle & More, Animals & Nature
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Cats - beautiful and gentle pets with a sense of fortitude and elegance, longing to be comforted by their owners. The perfect animal companion, one would assume. But what if one has acquired a rather...exotic taste? Back in the 50's and 60's, both periods of post-war economic success, a strange custom...

Scalping – a hairy custom

15. January 2016
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Scalping is the brutal custom of taking off the scalp of an enemy by force for the purpose of making a trophy out of it. Most of the time, the removal is performed with a knife. Most of us probably know this custom from western movies and books about Indians...

How trappers discovered the world

13. January 2016
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When the world was still a fairly unknown place to us, we set out to discover it. When the brave explorers did their work and succeeded in invading the new piece of land, the next adventurers came to hunt for lady fortune. Amongst them were many trappers that hunted for...

Why do we have hair?

12. January 2016
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When the mammals evolved from cynodonts in the geologic period of the Permian, they also grew hair. Since then, we can’t get rid of them. Head and body hair are crucial attributes of mammals. But for what do we need hair? The main purpose of hair is actually very clear and...

Body Hair Grooming through the Ages

12. January 2016
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Body hair is typically human attribute. Some have more, others have less. And often, we have the feeling that nowadays, people tend to hide and remove it. But body hair removal is definitely not a trend of our modern times, as many feminists want to depict it. In fact, in...

Donate your hair to help cancer patients

11. January 2016
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Donating blood, spinal fluid or even organs is regarded as a selfless and humane act because it will save a person’s life. As long as humanity still is not able to produce and create artificial organs and blood, the medical field will continue relying and depending on kind people who...

The bizarre Scene of Furries

11. January 2016
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The internet is a strange place that shows you things you thought never existed. Sometimes, you stumble upon things that can’t be unseen. They burn themselves into your brain and will never leave your consciousness again. One of these things is definitely the bizarre scene of furries. In the furry scene,...

Uluru – Ayers Rock, the Holy Mountain

9. January 2016
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The Ayers Rock also called Uluru by the Aborigines is a large sandstone rock formation in central Australia. In 1873, the rock characterized by a width of 9km and a height of 863km, was discovered by the Europeans. Initially, the surrounding area was supposed to be used for agriculture. However,...

A Town Like Alice

8. January 2016
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“It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.” Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice „ A Town Like Alice“ is a book written by author Nevile Shute and was published in 1950. In said masterpiece, war and love represent the core of the plot.  A love...

The lost generation of Aboriginal descent

6. January 2016
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The lost or stolen generations were children of  Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families from 1909 to 1969 and brought to state-owned children’s homes or they were given up for adoption. 20% of all aboriginal children at that time were victims of this terrible act. When the...

Australia’s strangest laws

5. January 2016
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Laws are defined to govern a state or country. Every citizen is bound to abide by the laws of a country. They are supposed to establish order and to prevent chaotic and anarchist structures. Nevertheless, even the most modern countries such as Australia have laws that seem kind of ridiculous...
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