A German poker tournament, the 2010 Pokerstars.net EPT Berlin event, with a prize of 1 million euros (or $1.35 million dollars) was robbed at gun point Saturday. The competition was postponed immediately after the robbery which occurred at 2:30 p.m. local time. Up to six masked and armed men...
The Grimm Brothers are known for their stories and folktales that have become famous around the world. The Grimm brothers are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, who were German in nationality. They are famous for their children stories that become influential in the 19th century comparative literature and...
The Cold War is a term that described a time of tension and low-key hostility that was felt all throughout the world from the 1940s to the early 1990s. The two camps that were involved in this struggle were the United States and its allies against Russia and the countries aligned with it. Instead...
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
The Roman Catholic Church is facing child abuse allegations in Europe. The church faces allegations of covering up "pedophile" priests from the long arm of the law from Ireland to Germany. The homeland of Pope Benedict XVI is under the most scrutiny in Germany with more claims surfacing spreading...
Karl Marx is known as the proponent of the Marxist ideology that many communist uses even at present. Marx was a German economist and philosopher whose beliefs are focused on economic and political system that is anti-capitalism, characterized by equality and equity. Marx was known to be against...
Love Parade Kills 19, injures 350 others, and cancels festival in Germany on July 24, 2010. The electronic dance music festival and parade ended in tragedy when a stampede errupted in a tunnel. Organizers have since permanently cancelled any and all future Love Parades as a result of...
A cancer patient battling leukemia and living with HIV, has been "cured" of HIV by a team of German doctors. In a rare and defining medical moment, a team of German researchers led by Thomas Schneider, performed a 2007 bone marrow transplant on a patient battling leukemia and HIV and found, due...
The Iron Curtain is a term that has been employed as a way of describing the boundary that basically separate the countries that are part of the Warsaw Pact and those that are part of NATO (North Atlantic Treat Organization). The Iron Curtain was basically in existence from 1945 up until 1991 when...
As members of one of the most reviled and sinister organizations ever to rise to power, the Nazis were the architects of many evil and disturbing plans. Genocide, medical experimentation on humans, world war; you name it the Nazis did it. However, while living in a ruthlessly efficient military...
