I Heart Chaos

Oooh, sick Eurozone burn.

German news taking North Korea very seriously.

A cat and pigeon strapped with rocket bombs from a 1584 German warfare manual.

Found via BibliOdyssey, and digitized by Penn.

Testing the myth that Germans can’t say the word “squirrel”

Even though English and German are both in the same language family, English has a lot of words borrowed from other languages… words like “squirrel”, which comes from French. And there’s something weird about the consonant-vowel sound arrangement of “squirrel” that just gets Germans all tongue-tied.

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Haribo knows what the kids really want. Gummi butts with ears.

posted 21 February, 2013
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German’s solar ovens sunbake Mexican tortillas

Germans might be one of the last peoples you might expect to contribute to advancements in tortilla baking technology, but one German entrepreneur has exported his solar ovens to Mexico to help make the perfect sun-baked tortilla.

Introducing… THE HAMBURG ANALMASTER

posted 11 December, 2012
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When a 250 year old code is finally cracked, a secret society is revealed

There are hundreds of really old to ancient manuscripts out there in museums and libraries and collections that for one reason or another have yet to be deciphered. And when a code is finally broken, it unleashes new information about the past, and sometimes it reveals the existence of a secret society that existed in Germany in the 1740s.

posted 29 November, 2012
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IHC nach Einbruch der Dunkelheit: Schlag Dein Tier

Abschlussarbeit an der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in München. In diesem Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte treten Tierbesitzer in einer Fernsehshow gegen ihre Lieblinge an.

posted 18 November, 2012
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This is what the sky looked during my bicycle training today. At first I thought my glasses were fogged creating some kind of polarisation effect - but it was real. Took some pics with my cell phone and stitched them.

Greetings from Hamburg!

And now, here’s a sixteenth century automaton of a monk

Driven by a key-wound spring, the monk walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies. From time to time, he brings the cross to his lips and kisses it. After over 400 years, he remains in good working order. Tradition attributes his manufacture to one Juanelo Turriano, mechanician to Emperor Charles V. The story is told that the emperor’s son King Philip II, praying at the bedside of a dying son of his own, promised a miracle for a miracle, if his child be spared. And when the child did indeed recover, Philip kept his bargain by having Turriano construct a miniature penitent homunculus.

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