Brachiosaurus brancai has been dead for 150 million years, but he remains impressive, towering nearly 43 feet over visitors to the Berlin Museum of Natural History. Special binoculars now allow the curious to see life-like images of the dinosaur moving about its environment. Read
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Director Fatih Akin can simply not stop winning awards. A winner at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last year, his movie "The Edge of Heaven" (Auf der Anderen Seite) picked up four awards—best film, best director, best script and best editing—from the German Film Academy in Berlin. Read
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The first German settlers in America arrived 400 years ago in Virginia, where a series of festive events from April 18-10 were held and Ambassador Scharioth unveiled a new National Park Service historic marker at the Jamestown Glasshouse before a cheering crowd of proud German-Americans. Read
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The city once central to the Holocaust is now hosting an array of Israeli artists and ensembles, including the Batsheva Dance Company, photographer Vardi Kahana, the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, Naomi Yoeli with her "Tante Frieda" theater performance and actor Itay Tiran. Read
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A BBC study shows that Germany has a better image abroad than any other large country in the world. According to the survey, the global view of Germany's influence is predominantly positive. Read
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He won three Grammy Awards, was perhaps the most recorded and filmed conductor in history, and led orchestras worldwide, including over 100 concerts in the United States, yet Karajan, born 100 years ago, remained a controversial figure. Read
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Flocke (Snowflake) is growing up fast - she has learned to gnaw on bones, playfight and drink milk from a bowl like big bears, all in the span of a few short weeks. Given her good health and great disposition, Flocke could make her first public appearance as soon as early April, according to the Nuremberg Zoo she calls home. Read
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The International Parliamentary Scholarship combines an internship in the office of a Member of the German Bundestag with an academic program organized by Berlin’s three universities and the experience of being together with participants from 25 nations. Read
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A new exhibit “Dreams,” the first part of the new moving-art exhibition by the Hirshhorn Museum, “Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image,” explores how cinema affects our perceptions of what is real and what is an illusion through works by range of influential and emerging international artists, including some from Germany. Read
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After captivating audiences in Germany and Europe, boy band Tokio Hotel has now started to carve out a US fan base, attracting screaming young audiences and earning respectable reviews after performances at The Roxy in Los Angeles and The Fillmore in New York. Read
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Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden have teamed up to propose a number of Baltic Sea sites where Vikings moored their longboats and held off rivals as UNESCO world heritage sites. The German sites are a former Viking trading capital and a series of protective earthen walls. Read
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The Berlin International Film Festival, which draws top stars, film artists and cineastes, holds its own with Cannes and Venice, as most of the up to 400 films shown are making their world or European premieres. The Berlinale is also the world’s largest public film festival. Read
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More than 150 years after his birth Heinrich Zille remains one of Berlin’s best-loved artists. His illustrations immortalized the life of the ordinary and downtrodden, with whom he was not afraid to rub shoulders. A new exhibit celebrates his work. Read
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The Society to Promote the Reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Dresden is saying “thank you” to supporters in the US and around the world who helped fund the restoration of the landmark baroque church destroyed by bombing in 1945. Read
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The New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation will receive some 1.1 million euros in funds to promote understanding and reinforce relations between German and American Jewish circles. Read
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Apply now for the Fulbright Spring Seminar for US Teachers in Germany, taking place from May 31 to June 21, 2008, administrated by the German-American Fulbright Commission in Berlin. The application deadline is January 15, 2008. Read
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Paula Modersohn-Becker, who was able to sell only very few paintings during her lifetime, is now known as one of the most important German women artists of the 20th century. Several exhibitions are now examining her work, 100 years after her death. Read
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