X-Nico

100 unusual facts about Berlin


1906 in radio

The second International Radiotelegraphic Convention is held in Berlin.

589 Croatia

From these measurements Dr. P.V. Neugebauer from Berlin and M.S. Mello and Simas from Trafaria (Lisboa) had independently determined the first orbital elements.

Acoustic Trio Live in Berlin

The album consists of concert recordings made in Berlin to celebrate DeVille’s 25 years of performing, and concert recordings made in Stockholm.

ADGB Trade Union School

The ADGB Trade Union School was a complex of teaching and administrative buildings in the north of Bernau in a forested area just outside Berlin (Bernau bei Berlin), Germany, constructed for the former General German Trade Union Federation (ADGB).

Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley

Empire recorded vs. Elvis in 1998 after returning home to Berlin from a tour of the United States with his band Atari Teenage Riot.

Alexander Merensky

Alexander Merensky (born 8 June 1837 in Panten near Liegnitz; died 22 May 1918 in Berlin) was a German missionary, working in South Africa (Transvaal) since 1859.

Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra

The ASYO has hosted or exchanged visits with youth orchestras from Great Britain, Australia, and Berlin, Germany.

Barrandov Studios

Seeking to make Barrandov an equal to the major film studios in Berlin and Munich, the Nazis drew up plans for three large interconnecting stages.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Berlín

Berlín was heavily damaged by flooding and landslides resulting from Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and by the earthquakes of January and February, 2001.

Berlin Rules on Water Resources

Adopted on August 21, 2004 in Berlin, the document supersedes the ILA's earlier "The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers", which was limited in its scope to international drainage basins and aquifers connected to them.

Berlin School of Library and Information Science

The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (in German, "Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft") offers study programmes at three levels: bachelors, masters (both a standard program and a postgraduate distant learning program), and doctoral.

Berlin-Blankenheim railway

Wetzlar used to be an important rail junction on the Kanonenbahn.

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The track was built at the instigation of the Prussian government between 1877 and 1882 as a direct militarily strategic railway, bypassing urban areas, connecting to Alsace-Lorraine, which had been acquired from France as a result of the War of 1870-71.

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

The complex consists of several buildings and glass-houses, such as the Cactus Pavilion and the Pavilion Victoria (which features a collection of orchids, carnivorous plants and giant white water lily Victoria-Seerosen).

Berlin-Wannsee station

These include Berlin routes 114 (to Krankenhaus Heckeshorn), 118 (to Rathaus Zehlendorf and Steinstücken), 218 (to Theodor-Heuss-Platz U-Bahn station and the Pfaueninsel), 316 (to the Glienicker Brücke in Potsdam) and 318 (to the Hahn-Meitner-Institut).

Berlin, Wisconsin

:There are also two towns named Berlin in Wisconsin.

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

A collection of ethnomusicological recordings or world music, mostly on phonographs (cylinder records) assembled since 1900 in Berlin, Germany and

Berlinische Galerie

The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin.

Carter Camp

According to Casey Camp-Horinkek, in 1960–1963 he served as a corporal in the U.S. Army unit, stationed in Berlin.

Caspar C 32

The first example was used by the Biologische Reichsanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft in Berlin until the early 1930s, before being acquired by DVS in 1933.

Crack My Nut

Crack My Nut was produced by the Australian producer Victor Van Vugt, and was recorded in the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.

Dang Ngoc Long

Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin end director of the music school Berlin

David Wright O'Brien

O’Brien died at age twenty-six, while flying a bombing raid over Berlin.

Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken

In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken with a munitions plant in Karlsruhe (Baden), formerly Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik Lorenz, and the weapons plant in Berlin.

Die Pharmazie

Originally published in Berlin by Verlag Dr. W. Saenger in German only from 1946-1972, it is now published at Eschborn in both German and English.

East Berlin Academy

Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school which became the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin and then was merged into the Academy of Arts

Eddie Hapgood

Hapgood also captained England in another infamous match, against Germany in Berlin on 14 May 1938, where Hapgood and his players were made to give the Nazi salute before the match, under pressure from British diplomats.

Eisblume

The band was formed in Berlin during 2007 by vocalist Sotiria Schenk, guitarist Christoph Hessler, bassist Philipp Schardt, drummer Philipp Schadebrodt and keyboard player Golo Schultz.

Ethisterone

The first orally active progestin, ethisterone (pregneninolone, 17α-ethynyltestosterone or 19–norandrostane), the 17α-ethynyl analog of testosterone, was synthesized in 1938 by Hans Herloff Inhoffen, Willy Logemann, Walter Hohlweg, and Arthur Serini at Schering AG in Berlin and marketed in Germany in 1939 as Proluton C and by Schering in the U.S. in 1945 as Pranone.

Eugene B. Van Camp

Van Camp then went absent without leave on Nov. 1, 1862 and was arrested in Berlin, Maryland as a deserter.

Feodor Machnow

After having spent time in Berlin he visited London in 1905 where he joined the Hippodrome accompanied by his wife and young child.

Francis Turville-Petre

In 1928 he moved to Berlin, Germany and stayed at the Institute of Sexual Research, run by Dr Magnus Hirschfeld.

Fritz Buelow

Born in Berlin, Germany, Buelow was the first player born in Berlin to play in the major leagues.

Fritz Mühlenweg

In 1927, Luft Hansa contributed to the Sino-Swedish expedition to Central and South Asia, following plans for an airline connection between Berlin and Beijing.

Garcinia humilis

The fruit took third place in the 2012 Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards held in Berlin.

George Schlieps

Moved to Berlin in 1944 and worked as a repairman for a school there.

Global Historical Climatology Network

The longest record in the collection began in Berlin in 1701 and is still collected in the present day.

Gram staining

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin in 1884.

Grandmothers for Peace

The organisation includes over 40 chapters around the USA and chapters in Berlin, Germany, Romania, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Gustav Adolph Techow

He was serving with Herman von Natzmer at the Berlin arsenal when the arsenal was stormed by the citizens of Berlin who were upset over revocation of the German constitution and the dissolution National Assembly.

Hard Wax

Furthermore, as with Tresor club in Berlin, it shares a privileged relationship with the musicians of Detroit techno in the so-called "Berlin-Detroit axis".

Harnack House

The Harnack House (German: Harnack-Haus) in the Dahlem district of Berlin, Germany was opened in 1929 as a centre for German scientific and intellectual life.

Helen Magill White

Helen Magill White accompanied her husband when he was appointed to diplomatic posts in St. Petersburg (1892–94) and Berlin (1897–1903).

Herbert L. Osgood

He attended graduate school at Amherst and Yale, and spent a year in Berlin, before returning to the United States to teach at Brooklyn High School and resume graduate studies at Columbia under Burgess, who had recently moved there.

History of rail transport in the Netherlands

The Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NBDS) was founded to fill the gap in the line between Saint Petersburg, Berlin and London.

In Those Days

The film was produced in Hamburg in the British Zone as part of a growing post-war trend in western Germany of moving film production away from its traditional centre of Berlin.

Insulin shock therapy

In 1927 Sakel, who had recently qualified as a doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths.

International Working People's Association

A final move to relaunch the IWPA, more successful than the 1907 effort, was made in December 1921 at another convention of international anarchists held in Berlin.

James Loxton

Although born in Berlin in Germany, Loxton has being capped at U-19 and U-20 level for Wales.

John Prince-Smith

John Prince-Smith (London, January 20, 1809–Berlin, February 3, 1874) was an English-born, German free trade liberal and politician.

Karl Isidor Beck

He lived in Berlin from 1844 until the outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848, and subsequently in Vienna, where he was an editor of the Lloyd.

Kostrzyn–Słubice Special Economic Zone

The Zone is situated near main roads including the international E30 (A2), E65 (A3) and E28 motorways and near to the Paris – Berlin – Warsaw – Moscow international railway line.

Krakauer Brothers

In 1977 Howard K. Graves purchased the company and moved it to Berlin, Ohio.

Kümmel

The Berlin-made Gilka Kümmel goes through a longer distillation process and has a smoother taste than the Russian kümmels, and it has become the accepted standard of kümmel quality for the past century.

Kurt Gildisch

In 1949 Gildisch was recognized at a Berlin train station by an old friend who then denounced him to the police.

Küstriner Vorland

Küstrin-Kietz as well as Gorgast also have access to local trains running on the former Prussian Eastern Railway from Berlin-Lichtenberg to Kostrzyn.

Legends of War

The player has the opportunity to change history and reach Berlin before the Soviet army does.

Leo Schulz

He was educated at Posen, and in the Royal Academic High School of Music in Berlin.

Libertas Germany

In March 2009 the foundation of Libertas Germany was disclosed at a press conference in Berlin.

Little Hells

The poster for the Little Hells European Tour was designed by Berlin-based poster artist Stefan Guzy.

Living in Danger

Ace of Base performed "Living in Danger" in the front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.

Ludwig Godenschweg

Ludwig Godenschweg (9 November 1889 &ndash in Berlin; 2 December 1942 in Dresden) was a German painter.

Marc Monnier

His father was French, and his mother a Genevese; he received his early education in Naples, he then studied in Paris and Geneva, and he completed his education at Heidelberg and Berlin.

Masoch Fund

On May 8, 1995, on the anniversary date of the end of World War II on the Eastern Front, 5500 Müllers (bearers of the most common and emblematic German surname) who lived in Berlin received greetings from the Masoch Fund saying “Happy Victory Day!”.

Max Jakob Friedländer

He was a specialist in Early Netherlandish painting and the Northern Renaissance, who volunteered at the Kupferstichkabinett or prints collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin in 1891 under Friedrich Lippmann.

Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism

The city of Berlin initially wanted to place it in the less prominent district of Marzahn, where hundreds of Roma and Sinti were held in terrible conditions from 1936.

Metal Marines

High Commander Liften Schwaltz: Basically the right-hand man to Zorgeuf the Great, this tough German was born in Berlin shortly after World War III united Europe once again.

Otoe, Nebraska

The entry of the United States into World War I was followed by hostility toward all things German, which extended to a town that bore the name of Germany's capital.

Paul Romero

--IS THIS THE CORRECT LOCATION THE Gemäldegalerie? IF NOT THEN THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY OTHER LINK TO A MUSEM OF THAT NAME IN BERLIN-->Gemeldiche Museum in Berlin, Germany as well as one performance at the Berliner Philharmonie.

Per Anger

Soon afterwards, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs offered him a trainee position at the Swedish legation in Berlin, which he began in January 1940.

Percival Vega Gull

A third aircraft for use by the British air attaché in Berlin was seized by the Germans at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Peter Friedrich Bouché

Peter Friedrich Bouché (15 February 1785, Berlin - 3 April 1856, Berlin) was a German botanist and entomologist.

Project Blinkenlights

Project Blinkenlights was a light installation in the Haus des Lehrers building at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin that transformed the building front into a giant low-resolution monochrome computer screen.

Queensbury, London

The tube station, and its local surroundings and characters were cited in the song "Queensbury Station" by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album "Beyond Believable", released in 1988.

Quiero Verte Más

Pre-production was done in Berlin, Germany with producers Vicente Sanfuentes and the Canadian Mocky who worked previously with Jamie Lidell, Jane Birkin, Peaches and Nikka Costa.

Radio Königsberg

Radio Königsberg was originally produced at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, but moved to East Prussian Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) when the Allies started to bomb Berlin.

Ray Kaye

Raymond Kaye (February 16, 1912 – July 17, 1983) was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

René Lacelle

He competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was eliminated in the heats.

Richard William Jelf

This post he filled for thirteen years, residing much at Berlin before his pupil's father became king of Hanover (in 1837).

Roll On River

Jones had first met Lämmerhirt at the Steve Club in Berlin in the early 70's.

Rosedale, Ohio

In 1964 Conservative Mennonite Bible School, a Bible college owned by the Conservative Amish Mennonite Conference, purchased the former high school building and moved from its location in Berlin, Ohio.

Rudolf Schlichter

Called for military service in World War I, he carried out a hunger strike to secure early release, and in 1919 he moved to Berlin where he joined the Communist Party of Germany and the "November" group.

Seventh constituency for French residents overseas

Living in Berlin where he was born in 1976, he currently serves as patent examiner at the European Patent Organisation.

Shake the Disease

"Shake the Disease" is Depeche Mode's thirteenth UK single recorded at Hansa Mischraum in Berlin (released on 29 April 1985), and was one of two new songs released on the compilation The Singles (81-85) the same year, along with "It's Called a Heart".

Shark Vegas

Shark Vegas was a Berlin based New wave band, consisting of ex-Factory Records German representative, Mark Reeder (guitar/tapes/keyboards), Alistair Gray (vocals), Leo Walter (drums/percussion) and Helmut Wittler (bass/keyboards).

Spreelauf

The Spreelauf starts in Spandau (Berlin) and follows the river Spree upstream to one of its three sources in Eibau (Upper Lusatia).

Stanisław Grabski

In 1890 he was the editor of the Workers Gazette in Berlin.

Strato AG

Strato AG is an internet service provider headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin Batman

In Berlin, Germany in the year 1938, wealthy socialite Baruch Wane learns from his friend Komissar Garten that the police have confiscated the library, works, and notes of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, due to his stance against the Nazi Party policy of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

The Bolsover School

The Bolsover School maintains a number of links with partner school abroad including Highland Park High School in Texas, USA, Kong Jiang Middle School in Shanghai, China, Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Groß-Umstadt, Germany and Evangelisches Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany.

The Last Millionaire

Week 2 - Berlin - Oli Norman, founder of DADA, a PR and events company and Oliver Zissman, founder of Totally Fitness and Lady Luisa

The Soviet Paradise

The Soviet Paradise (German original title "Sowjetparadies") was the name of an exhibition and a propaganda film, which was organized by the Reichspropagandaleitung of the NSDAP and was displayed from May 8 to June 21, 1942 in the Lustgarten in Berlin.

Theodor Dannecker

Owing to misuse of his position, partially due to his theft of German confiscated property, he was ordered back to Berlin in August 1942.

Through the Eyes of a Painter

The film "Through the Eyes of a Painter" fetched the 1st prize, in The Golden Bear 17th International Film Festival during the first week of July 1967, held in Berlin.

Timothée Kolodziejczak

He made his debut with the team in the team's last match against Germany at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on 30 May 2006.

Turkmenistani parliamentary election, 2008–09

Polling stations were set up at Turkmenistan's 27 diplomatic missions, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Moscow, and London.

Tutto Live

The album was recorded between May and November 1985 at Berlin, Montreux, Siena, Locarno and Dortmund.

Vistula Spit

During World War II, it became the last holdout of the remaining German soldiers in East Prussia, although the Soviets simply bypassed the spit after the East Prussian Offensive was decisively concluded, training their sights on the more important goal of capturing Berlin.

Wolfgang Lukschy

Wolfgang Lukschy (born 19 October 1905 – 10 July 1983 in Berlin) was a German actor and dubber.


4 Days in May

As it turned out in a private conversation, he wrote about the "brotherhood of the weapon" on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea from mega-geopolitical considerations: the need to tolerate the Germans, to create the axis Berlin-Moscow-Pekin.

Am Mellensee

They will provide the bread for the Communion wafers during the Eucharist for Papal Masses at Erfurt's Cathedral and in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for his September 2011 visit- his third as Pope- to Germany.

Anatol Provazník

He studied "radiophony" in Berlin and after return to Prague he helped to set up the music department of the Czech Radio.

Any Bonds Today?

Barry Wood introduced the song (along with another Berlin composition called "Arms for the Love of America") on Arsenal Day, June 10, 1941, at the War College in Washington, D.C.; he also recorded the song in the same week for RCA Victor.

Aurel Persu

Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still not reached by almost any modern production cars), depending on the source.

Bell Tower of Berlin Olympic Stadium

The tower is an important tourist destination offering a panorama of Berlin, Spandau, the Havel Valley, Potsdam, Nauen and Hennigsdorf.

Berlin Comedian Harmonists

The group has its origins in the ensemble brought together for the musical play Veronika, der Lenz ist da - Die Comedian Harmonists (Veronica, Spring Has Come - The Comedian Harmonists), which had its premiere on 19 December 1997 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

BMW 303

Two-door saloon and cabriolet bodies were manufactured, at first by Daimler-Benz's coachworks in Sindelfingen, and later by Ambi-Budd in Berlin.

Brent Berlin

In 1968, Berlin, Breedlove and Raven studied the botanical ethnography of the Tzeltal Maya people of Chiapas, Mexico.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus), Geneva, Paris (with Jules Célestin Jamin) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1855 in Basel.

Eva Besnyö

In 1930, at the age of 20, she moved to Berlin where she first worked for advertising photographer René Ahrlé before working on photoreportages with the press photographer Peter Weller.

Felix Linnemann

Throughout 1937, Linnemann was transferred as a commander of the Kriminalpolizei from Berlin to Stettin, and was also attached to Hanover.

Geogaddi

The album premiered in six cities around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.

Gerard David

To this early period belong the St John of the Richard von Kaufmann collection in Berlin and the Salting's St Jerome.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

Hallstatt Archaeological Site in Vače

Some of them were sold to museums in Harvard, Oxford and Berlin by Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg, a daughter of the princess who surveyed some excavations.

Hartford and New Haven Railroad

In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.

Heinrich LXIII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich LXIII Reuss of Köstritz (18 June 1786, Berlin – 27 September 1841, Staniszów) was a member of the House of Reuss.

Henri-Edmond Cross

In 1898 he participated with Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, and Théo van Rysselberghe in the first Neo-Impressionist exhibition in Germany, organized by Harry Kessler at Keller und Reiner Gallery (Berlin).

Herbert Mataré

Because of the massive air raids on Berlin in 1943, the Telefunken laboratory were moved to the Cisterian abbey in Lubiąż (Leubus) Silesia, where Mataré focused on the improvement of the cm-wave (SHF) receiver sensitivity.

Homagial Crown

The crown was stolen from Wawel Castle by Prussian troops in October 1795 and found its place in the collection of the Hohenzollerns in Berlin.

Illusive Tracks

The story revolves around the passengers on a train heading from Stockholm non-stop to Berlin, and includes murder, adultery, religion, Santa Claus and a very angry train conductor.

Isadore Freed

Following this Freed went to Berlin where he briefly studied piano with Josef Weiss, and then to Paris where he studied composition with Ernst Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Louis Vierne and Vincent d'Indy.

Istvan Kantor

In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael Jackson by Paul McCarthy in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum of Berlin.

John Marlow Thompson

As Thompson, as Wing Commander (Operations) during this period ensuring supply aircraft carrying materials weres able to land at RAF Gatow in the British sector of Berlin every two minutes.

Jutta Rüdiger

Born in Berlin but raised in Düsseldorf where her father was an engineer, Rüdiger was trained as a psychologist.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Margaret Mee

In 1933 she was in Berlin and witnessed the burning of the Reichstag and subsequent Jewish boycott which confirmed her left-wing views.

Monument to Freedom and Unity

The Monument to Freedom and Unity (Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal) is a planned national German monument in Berlin commemorating the country's peaceful reunification in 1990 and earlier 18th, 19th and 20th century unification movements.

Nicolae Milescu

In 1660-1664, he acted as representative of his country with its Ottoman overlord, and then as envoy to Berlin and Stockholm.

Oskar Piotrowski

tied for 2nd-3rd with Erich Cohn, behind Ossip Bernstein, in the Berlin Summer Tournament - Section I (Quadrangular), and shared 2nd with Moritz Lewitt, behind Bernstein, in the 1st Tournament of the General Chess Federation of Berlin.

Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski

A native of Magdeburg, Boguslawski met Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), who was an observatory director in Berlin and published the celestial atlas Uranographia, at the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin between 1811–12, when Boguslawski did his military service.

Rumpler

Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrtzeugbau.

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

An impressive collection of 19th century French porcelain, including large numbers of Sèvres vases, and German porcelain produced in Berlin and Vienna are among the most valuable items in the collection.

San Francisco Herald

Kimberlye Gold has interviewed many prominent figures for the paper, including ex-Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, actor/comedian Richard Lewis, comedian Margaret Cho, 1970s band Bad Company and 1980s band Berlin.

Siegfried Eifrig

His relay began at Unter den Linden and made its way to Olympiastadion in Berlin, where he lit two urns which burned until the end of the summer games.

StattAuto

In 2004 StattAuto started offering carsharing services in Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Rostock.

Sufi Center Berlin

In 2006 he held the closing speech at the „Kriya Yoga Centenary Celebrations: 100 years Paramahamsa Hariharananda“ in Berlin.

The Treasurer's Report

Benchley's disjointed parody so delighted those in attendance that Irving Berlin hired Benchley in 1923 to deliver the Report as part of Berlin's Music Box Revue for $500 a week.

Tomasz Bajer

The artist has been a two-time grant holder of the Ministry of Culture and an artist-in-residence in Carrara, Essen, Strassbourg, Munich and Newcastle (UK); nominated for the Europaeisches Kolleg der Bildenden Kuenste in Berlin.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

William C. Crain

In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.

Wintershall

At the end of World War II, the libraries of the German Army's Military Geology Unit (Wehrgeologenstellen) and the German Patent Office (Reichspatentamt) were removed from Berlin and secretly stored in the deep Wintershall potash mine in Heringen.