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24 days of Christmas: German holiday traditions

Posted onDecember 24, 2014December 26, 2014AuthoradminLeave a comment

Article written by Explorica Program Associate Charlotte Smith. In December 2010, I was given the unique opportunity to spend the month of December in Germany. Since then I have visited many more places and seen holiday celebrations in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and back home in the United States. But memories of my time Read More …

Germany and the Berlin Wall

Posted onSeptember 2, 2011June 17, 2015AuthoradminLeave a comment

What do Leonard Bernstein, Pink Floyd and David Hasselhoff have in common? They all rocked a common cause—having performed concerts celebrating the reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall over 20 years ago. With hundreds of thousands of attendees plus enraptured television audiences around the world, Berlin went from dismally divided to the official party Read More …