Everything you never even knew you wanted to know about Berlin by the author Berlin history blog, theberlincompanion. The first episode in the new series is both a starter and the main dish. It's a story of soup. Of instant soup that from the late s on fed Prussian, German and even foreign armies, filled stomachs both on and off the battlefields, and was tested for its combat suitability not by one but by two "Soup Commandos".
Until less than a decade ago it was a staple in most German households. Today's episode is about one of great Berlin inventions: about Erbswurst. Eight out of ten people in our scientifically absolutely unreliable survey with only one question "What is it that you could never imagine Christmas without? You can live with less or different Christmas dishes, fewer present are not a issue if the company is a match. And even spending the festive time away from your family can have its hidden charm and be a blessing in disguise for both sides.
But no Christmas tree? However symbolic a twig, a paper cut-out or a medley of dry s During excavations in the area of Berlin's Molkenmarkt - a historic plaza and the city's oldest market place - archaeologists discovered Berlin's oldest street, a Bohlendamm corduroy road or log road. Two years later they made another great discovery - this time a series of small white clay figurines of Christian saints. What would they find, though, should they start digging under what is now Berlin's largest public park, Tempelhofer Feld?
Well, apart from the unexploded World War Two The sky over Berlin is never dark. Even at night. The main cause is the city's heavy light pollution. Berlin's streetlights, its signs, its permanently illuminated buildings - all they contribute to the problem. So much so that for the past two decades the city's observatories, like the Planetarium am Insulaner, have not been able to see the Milky Road. Light spreads over Berlin like a massive dome.
One of the main contributors to light pollution in big cities like Berlin are light advertiseme In December US department stores expanded their pre-Christmas offer by a very attractive item for late or for undecided Christmas-present buyers. It was small yet profound - filled with more deep meaning than it modest size or weight could suggest. It was well-known to and caused a certain frisson among all Americans, yet it came straight from Europe.
