This one is for #historythursday (+Matt Shalvatis): St. Peter's Church, Aachen Relevance for history: The oldest part of this church is the tower. It was once part of the Outer City Wall, built in 12th century. In WWII the church, which was built in 18th century, was nearly ...more...
World Heritage Site: Convent of St Gall,Switzerland
The Convent exerted great power on development in monastic architecture following the Council of Aachen. It's was in 612 that the lrish monastic Gallus withdrew into the valley of Steinach to guid...
http://worldheritagesite11.blogspot.com/2011/10/convent-of-st-gallswitzerland_01.html
NAPALM DEATH – more new album songs in 2nd part of tack-by-track! (by Century Media)
The leaders of the extreme just released the 2nd part of their amazing “Utilitarian” track-by-track series. NAPALM DEATH sensational new album “Utilitarian” surfaces February 27th in Europe (USA February 28th) and already gets praises by music journalists all over the globe. Follow the below link to the Century Media Records YouTube channel to see NAPALM DEATH singer, Mark “Barne ...more...
NAPALM DEATH - Utilitarian (Track by Track Part 2)
NAPALM DEATH - Utilitarian (Track by Track Part 2). Taken from the album "Utilitarian". Century Media 2012.
// First, I have to say that this is an excellent, substantive post. There's a lot here for everyone, and I'll be following up on it later this week with some reflections of my own.
// Secondly, I'm frankly surprised that ...more...
Original by Heinrich Damm
Last year around christmas we had quite a lot of snow. This year we can only dream of a White Christmas. For today's #PaintItSaturday (curated by +Alexius Jørgensen) I dreamt this picture. A big Hello goes to #Vincent Van Gogh, to whom I owe the style this pictute was done in.
Original by Patricia Krieg CIMCEA - Google Maps
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The Brads - The Designer’s Guide to Avoiding Terminal
Spread the Love. Looking for partners. Do you have a blog? Are you looking for content? Feel free to post my comic on your blog. The Brads is licensed under Creative Commons. That means you can repost...
http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_avoiding_terminal/#When:10:41:33Z
Original by EuroTech TEDxEutropolis, or how ideas can make borders fade! Some highlights from our reporter at last Saturday´s Tedx conference about the Eutropolis, the so called European Meuse-Rhine region
Over the centuries quite a few people have specialized in smuggling products like alcohol, tobacco and weapons across borders. Yet probably the most valuable goods one can traffic is knowledge and ideas. When knowledge and ideas are shared and spread borders fade. This is the pre ...more...
TEDxEutropolis - Ideas make borders fade - 4th of February 2012 Muziekodroom, Hasselt
Eutropolis is an everchanging utopian vision for the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. It connects more than 10 middle sized cities in this international region by imagining a crossborder subway system. This visi...
http://www.tedxeutropolis.eu/
Human-Robot Collision Study
Video part of the "DLR Crash Report: Towards a Standard Crash-Testing Protocol for Robot Safety," by Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu-Schaffer, Mirko Frommberger, Jurgen Rossmann, and Gerd Hirzinger at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR - German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany, and Institute of Man-Machine-Interaction, Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany.
DAVID GARRETT - Mission Impossible (Lalo Schifrin) David Garrett (born as David Bongartz on September 4, 1980 ) is a record breaking German/American classical violinist and recording artist.
Garrett was born in Aachen, Germany to an American prima ballerina and the German lawyer and jurist, Georg Peter Bongartz. He adopted his mother's maiden name as a pseudonym.
Musical education
When Garrett was four years old, his father bought a violin for his older brother. The young Garrett took an interest and soon learned to play. A year later, he ...more...