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Experience the Cold War like never before through award-winning, real-life stories told by those who lived it. Each week, we bring you firsthand accounts from soldiers, spies, civilians, and more, capturing the full spectrum of Cold War experiences. Host Ian Sanders takes you beyond the history books, delivering raw, personal stories where every breath, pause, and emotion adds depth to understanding this pivotal era. This is Cold War history, told from the inside. We cover subjects such as s ...
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Welcome to "Audio Guide Berlin | Walking Tour of Berlin in a Day," your perfect companion for discovering the essence of Berlin in just one day! This expertly curated audio guide takes you on a seamless journey through the German capital, covering the city's most iconic landmarks, historical sites, and hidden treasures. Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a returning traveler, this optimized tour ensures you experience the very best of Berlin at a comfortable pace, without missing any of ...
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A brief daily podcast about Cold War History delivered as it happened on this day in history (1945 to 1994).
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Explore the history of one of the world’s most captivating cities with "History Flakes - The Berlin History Podcast." Your hosts, seasoned tour guides Pip Roper and Jonny Whitlam, take you through the highs and low-lows of Berlin's past, exploring events, lives and stories from Berlin's past. From the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall to the artistic renaissance of the Weimar Republic and the dark days f the Nazi dictatorship, each episode is a blend of history, stories from the tour guide st ...
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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. Brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books. New episo ...
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Immigration should be allowed everywhere? This is the main question that our podcast talks about. Examples such as the wall between Mexico and USA, the Berlin Wall and Chinese wall would be discussed through the podcast. There would be two critic opinions.
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Podcast on the Berlin Wall Cover art photo provided by John O'Nolan on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@johnonolan
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A writer curated discussion podcast and audio literary magazine
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New cases for the reporters: episodes 27 to 52 take Paula and Philipp all around Germany. Their investigations include laser attacks in Jena and changes on the trail of the Berlin Wall [English version]
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November 9, 2019, is the 30th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down, freeing East Germany from communism, and marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. But when did the Cold War start? Why does it matter 30 years later? Find out in this ten-part series, transport back in time, feel what it was like to live through the end of the Cold War, and understand why that struggle was a battle for civilization itself. Bill Whittle narrates this compelling series about t ...
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Bestselling author Ken Follett discusses Edge of Eternity, the thrilling conclusion to his Century Trilogy, a saga of five intertwined families — American, German, Russian, English and Welsh — who loved, hated, fought and lived large through the 20th century and its social, political and economic turmoil. Ken Follett talks about the Trilogy and the dramatic events that bring it to a close, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tension of the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights in ...
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WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WITH HOSTS PAUL K AND DAVID LEO RICE 🕳️ 🐇 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support
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Podcast dedicated to all that served in Berlin, Germany from 1945 to 1994. US Army, UK Forces, French Forces, and Soviet Forces were allies in post World War II Germany. This is our story.
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The Early Bird Special is a weekly sports show hosted by "Sparky & Burdick" in Southern California. We talk all things sports and sports entertainment. Also LIVE every Sunday on ESPN Bakersfield 1230 AM, 101.1 FM + streaming LIVE at www.ESPNBakersfield.com
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Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
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A weekly and self produced podcast wherein the three of us irreverently discuss a topic of societal renown.
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A middle school, history teacher teaches his two adult friends about mistakes made in history.
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The Blaise Bryant Show is a weekly podcast covering a wide range of news and current events.
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Radio GDR. Life in the former East Germany holds an ongoing fascination for a lot of people. Join us as we learn more about the former East Germany. Radio German Democratic Republic is a podcast designed to educate and inform on the life and times of East Germany. Radio GDR is hosted by Steven Minegar and John Paul Kleiner.
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Host, Christine Kozachuk, is a real-life Coal Miner’s daughter. She suffered a life of poverty, giving birth to her first child at age 13 and two more by the time she was 18 with an abusive husband. Christine courageously walked out with her 3 children, and transformed her life with a new husband and a 6-figure business. Her show, “Women Who Triumph” includes stories from extraordinary women like Christine, who survived unthinkable circumstances to become unstoppable.
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The english version of Medio Oriente e Dintorni podcast, every day the best of the Islamic world and its surroundings. Special attention for: films, books, music, sports and, in general, its culture. We will take you from Senegal to India and Indonesia, crossing on our way Albanians, Arabs, Turks, Armenians, Persians and so on and so forth. We go out every day with an article and an episode podcast and video (currently only in Italian), follow us on our website and on our social networks.
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This Week in Germany (or TWIG as it is affectionately called) is a weekly downloadable radio show, which brings you the week's events in English.
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A Berlin-produced podcast investigating themes of horror, creepyness and chills. Hosts Bella Mae Gray and Jöran Mandik read literary takes on themes and discuss personal stories with their guests. Contact us at ghoststoryreadingclub@gmail.com
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German for advanced intermediate learners: Join Andreas and his mysterious ex on their exciting adventures. Grammar: Past tense, subordinate clauses, declination of adjectives. [English Version]
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Subscribe here for the only dedicated Freestyle Motocross and Freeriding Podcast! News, Stories, Events, in-depth interviews with the biggest riders in FMX and Freeride. Plus Motocross, Supercross and other extreme sports athletes from MTB, BMX, Skate or Scooter in the mix. From major events like the NIGHT of the JUMPs World Championships to X Games, Nitro Circus World or the old Red Bull X-Fighters, there's always a story from the people pushing the limits of their sports and their own live ...
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The Real Time History Podcast (formerly The Great War podcast) is hosted by Jesse from Real Time History. We are an independent production company known for The Great War and Real Time History channels on YouTube, the documentary series 16 Days in Berlin and Rhineland 45 and more. On the podcast Jesse interviews historians from around the world on their topics and current publications to bring you the newest in historic research.
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Chaos and Disenchantment: Berlin Wall book launch w/ David Leo Rice & B.R. Yeager
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In this season-ending episode of Wake Island, guest co-host BR Yeager—author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive—joins us for a hall of mirrors conversation. Together, we get into David Leo Rice’s latest book, The Berlin Wall, using it as a lens to examine violent cusp figures like Anders Behring Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, and the Columbin…
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Meghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)
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Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of social inclusion and exclusion in a low fertility Western European context. This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and ch…
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COLD WAR MINUTE 365: 10.15 Listen here: Cold War Minute 365. Enjoy!David G. Guerra, MBA
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As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in China have received relatively little attention in anthropology. According to the 2010 census, the Hui are the largest Muslim group in China and its third largest ethnic minority with a total populat…
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Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopolitical tools and spatial and economic planning strategies that characterized modern statecraft. My guest today, the geographer Sharad Chari, examines how racialized subaltern populations of Blacks, Ind…
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For the first episode in our new series David explores Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937), a great anti-war film that is also a melancholy meditation on friendship between enemies, love across borders, and the inevitability of loss. What, in the end, is the great illusion: war itself, or the belief that we can escape its baleful consequences? …
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A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello about his research with Gambian migrants in Italy. The focus is on Marco’s recent article in Language in Society about migrant experiences of constraints and suffering. For additional res…
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Nuclear Missions - a Canadian CF104 Starfighter Pilot's Story (369)
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Flying at high speed and low level, RCAF pilot Allen French was at the sharp end of potential nuclear bombing missions during the Cold War. Born at the dawn of the baby boomer era, Allen delves into his early inspirations, his father's service in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the pivotal moments that led him to join the Air Force. From training…
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Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)
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Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls (Lexington Books, 2024) explores these effects in the context of Arviat, Nunavut. Lisa-Jo Van den Scott lays out the inherent social p…
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Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and spatialization. Three actors p…
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David talks to author Michael Lewis about SBF and EA: about the man he got to know before, during and after his spectacular fall and about the philosophy with which he was associated. What did Sam Bankman-Fried believe was the purpose of making so much money? How did he manage to get so side-tracked from doing good? Why when it all went wrong did h…
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NOTJ LiveStream: Podium interviews Luc Ackermann, Marc Pinyol & Alejandro Bonafe from Berlin 2024
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Here's a snippet from the NIGHT of the JUMPs Berlin 2024 LiveStream with host Steve Sommerfeld speaking with Luc Ackermann, Marc Pinyol and Alejandro Bonafe after the podium and winners ceremony. Berlin – 05.10.2024 Results Final 1. Luc Ackermann (GER) 279 Points 2. Marc Pinyol (ESP) 264 Points 3. Davide Rossi (ITA) 257 Points 4. Matej Cesak (ITA) …
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Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
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In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos remaining from assisted reproduction procedures, which they contend are unborn children. While a small part of US fertility services, embryo adoption has played an outsized…
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How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Torsh speaks with Lynnette Arnold about her new book Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families (Oxford University Press, 2024). Lynnette also shares her tips …
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Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
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In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in a textured way. The Iraqi Ba’th state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only c…
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This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, global commodity chains or supply chains, exploitation of labour and environmental degradation, and resistance. To discuss these issues, we are joined by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, an environmental and economi…
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David checks in with Gary Gerstle one more time before November to explore where things now stand with the US presidential election. In a conversation recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Walz/Vance debate, they discuss dead cats, October headwinds, comparisons with 2016 and a president missing in action. Plus, if the result really is too clo…
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Audio Guide Berlin | Walking Tour of Berlin in a Day Welcome to "Audio Guide Berlin | Walking Tour of Berlin in a Day," your perfect companion for discovering the essence of Berlin in just one day! This expertly curated audio guide takes you on a seamless journey through the German capital, covering the city's most iconic landmarks, historical site…
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Audio Guide Berlin | Walking Tour of Berlin in a Day Welcome to "Audio Guide Berlin | Walking Tour of Berlin in a Day," your perfect companion for discovering the essence of Berlin in just one day! This expertly curated audio guide takes you on a seamless journey through the German capital, covering the city's most iconic landmarks, historical site…
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Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) 🏛️✨ Welcome to Brandenburg Gate, the iconic symbol of Berlin and Germany’s rich history! This neoclassical monument has witnessed the city’s most important moments, from Napoleon’s conquest to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Located at the western end of Unter den Linden boulevard, the gate is more than just a beau…
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Holocaust Memorial (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas) Welcome to the Holocaust Memorial, one of the most poignant and solemn landmarks in Berlin. Officially known as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, this vast field of over 2,700 concrete stelae honors the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Located in the heart of Berli…
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1. Google Maps Link 🗺️ https://maps.app.goo.gl/kcSnY8X9H9q9Csc78 2. Nearest Subway Station 🚇 Kochstraße (U-Bahn U6) – Just a 5-minute walk from the museum, this is the closest station and connects easily to the city center. Potsdamer Platz (S-Bahn, U-Bahn U2) – About a 10-minute walk from the museum, this station is perfect if you're coming from th…
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Checkpoint Charlie 🛂🌍 Welcome to Checkpoint Charlie, one of Berlin’s most famous and historically significant landmarks! This former border crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War is now a powerful symbol of division and reunification. Whether you’re here to learn about its role in the Cold War, take an iconic photo, or explore th…
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Gendarmenmarkt 🏛️🎻 Welcome to Gendarmenmarkt, one of the most beautiful squares in Berlin! With its stunning architectural trio—the French Cathedral, German Cathedral, and the Konzerthaus—this square is a true feast for the eyes. Whether you’re here for a concert, to admire the grand architecture, or to enjoy a coffee on one of the charming terrace…
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Museum Island (Museumsinsel) 🏛️🎨 Welcome to Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to five of Berlin’s most prestigious museums. Nestled on a small island in the Spree River, this cultural hub offers something for everyone—from ancient Egyptian treasures to classical art and Berlin’s rich history. Whether you’re a history buff, an art…
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Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) 🏛️⛪ Welcome to the Berlin Cathedral, one of the city’s most stunning architectural gems! Located on the famous Museum Island, this magnificent structure is a must-see for anyone exploring Berlin. With its impressive dome, ornate interiors, and beautiful views of the city from the top, the Berliner Dom offers a perfec…
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DDR Museum 🏛️🚩 Welcome to the DDR Museum, one of Berlin’s most interactive and fascinating museums, offering a deep dive into life in East Germany (the former GDR). This hands-on museum gives visitors a unique chance to experience what everyday life was like behind the Berlin Wall. From reconstructed East German living rooms to real Trabant cars yo…
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Nikolaiviertel 🏰🌸 Step into Nikolaiviertel, Berlin’s charming medieval quarter, where cobblestone streets, cozy cafes, and a rich history come together in one of the city’s most picturesque neighborhoods. Nestled by the Spree River and just a stone’s throw from the bustling Alexanderplatz, Nikolaiviertel offers a peaceful retreat full of historic l…
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Alexanderplatz 🏙️🕰️ Welcome to Alexanderplatz, the beating heart of Berlin’s east side and a hub for history, shopping, and sightseeing. Known locally as “Alex,” this massive square is a central spot for exploring the city, offering everything from famous landmarks like the TV Tower to bustling markets and shopping centers. Whether you're here to d…
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🏙️🎨 Hackische Hoefe (longer walk, alternatively take public transport) | Berlin Audio Walking Tour
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Hackesche Höfe 🏙️🎨 Welcome to Hackesche Höfe, Berlin’s most vibrant and picturesque network of courtyards, located in the heart of the city. Whether you’re here for the art, history, or just to soak in the atmosphere, Hackesche Höfe is the perfect blend of creativity, culture, and charm. With its hidden alleyways, cozy cafes, and boutiques, this is…
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🏛️🇩🇪 Reichstag Building (Bundestag, book ahead when going inside) | Berlin Audio Walking Tour
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Reichstag Building (Bundestag) 🏛️🇩🇪 Welcome to the Reichstag Building, the heart of German democracy and one of Berlin’s most iconic landmarks! From its turbulent history to the stunning modern glass dome, the Reichstag offers a blend of history, architecture, and politics. Whether you're here to explore the past or take in the breathtaking views, …
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Victory Column (Siegessäule) 🏆✨ Welcome to the Victory Column, one of Berlin's most striking monuments! Standing tall in the heart of the Tiergarten, this historic landmark offers not only a glimpse into the city's storied past but also a breathtaking view of Berlin from above. Whether you’re a history buff or just looking for an amazing photo op, …
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Tiergarten 🌳🦋 Welcome to Berlin’s Green Heart, the sprawling and serene Tiergarten. Whether you’re looking for a peaceful stroll, a scenic bike ride, or a picturesque picnic spot, Tiergarten has something for everyone. It's the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the city, yet it’s right in the center of Berlin! 1. Google Maps Link 🗺️ Find…
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Zoologischer Garten Berlin 🦁🌿 Welcome to Berlin’s beloved Zoologischer Garten! Whether you're traveling with family, friends, or just exploring on your own, this zoo offers a world of excitement, from majestic elephants to playful pandas. Here's a full guide with extra insider tips to make your day at the zoo truly memorable! 1. Google Maps Link 🗺️…
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Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche 🕍 Welcome to one of Berlin's most iconic landmarks, a haunting yet beautiful reminder of the city's turbulent history. Whether you’re here to admire its striking architecture or pay your respects, here’s everything you need to know to make the most of your visit! 1. Google Maps Link 🗺️ https://maps.app.goo.gl/KP889qA…
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The KGB Spies Next Door (368)
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In the sleepy suburb of Ruislip in London during the late 1950s, life was anything but exciting for Gay Search, a 15-year-old girl. Little did she know, her mundane existence was about to be shattered by a shocking revelation that would turn her world upside down. This is the gripping tale of suburban espionage, the story begins with the seemingly …
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Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing field of Sufism in the Global North which often encompasses studies of North America and western Europe. This monograph study, the first focused study of Sufism in Italy and France, uses ethnographic …
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For episode four of our series on the history of thinking about thinking machines, David and Shannon discuss a very different sci-fi sensibility: Becky Chambers’ Monk & Robot series (A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021) and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (2022)). What would it mean for robots to ‘wake up’? How might robots teach humans about the nature of…
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