History
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The Bauhaus Legacy: Waldsiedlung Berlin-Zehlendorf
Modern, soulless architecture is often blamed on the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 at Weimar by Walter Gropius. There is some truth to that, but it should not be forgotten that the original idea of the Bauhaus was a very humanistic one: To provide the working class with affordable and healthy housing. This was(?) an…
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From the Wild West to the Deep South of America
Many People know the lovely film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from 1969 with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Katherine Ross. Not so many people know that the duo and their “friend” and possible mastermind of the gang Etta Place were real persons. After becoming too notorious in the Far West for robbing trains…