If you look at the news, you get the feeling that everyone is fighting against everyone else. A whole nation hates another. Sometimes just because of prejudice and ...
Who was Socrates?
Everyone has probably heard this saying before: “I know that I know nothing.” It...
A comeback from Alcatraz? How it really was.
According to media reports, current US President Donald Trump is considering reopening the prison island of Alcatraz. There are to be ...
A beautiful tribute to Tim Bergling - The Avicii Experience
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Amsterdam in orange: King's Day
Once a year in the Netherlands: Party and sell what you can. ...
A slightly different way to decorate the Easter egg.
Many different traditions are practiced at Easter in Austria. A relatively unknown one is egg scratching ...
A Tyrolean Easter tradition: palm slats
Palm Sunday in Imst is a big day. In the truest sense of the word. The well ...
Why we should all be a little Ubuntu.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu has made an African philosophical concept world-famous: Ubuntu. And no, it goes ...
Are horse-drawn carriages part of Viennese culture or animal cruelty?
For many people, horse-drawn carriages are as much a part of Vienna as St. Stephen's Cathedral and the "Eitrige mit ...
Holi - The world is in a color frenzy
People throwing powder at each other and then running away laughing. Children running over and ...