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Star Chefs Spice Up Kitzbühel Resort
The ski resort of Kitzbühel in Tyrol, Austria is hoping to provide visitors with both a luxurious snowy and foodie experience this winter season with their snow pass packages.
DER BLOGGER
Who Wants War with Iran?
Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.”
WANDERLUST
Following in the Footsteps of Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote musical history and continues to delight people today. Some locations are, even today, strongly connected to the composer.
GERMERICANA
German Americans Cheer Bismarck's Triumph
Members of New York's German American groups came out in force to celebrate the end of the Franco-Prussian war that established Germany's unity. A report in The New York Times of April 10, 1871 make for interesting reading. Please click HERE
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Half-Scot Elected Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 06:45 — Walter
A man who listens to the name David McAllister, right, has been elected Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. The half-Scot succeeds Christian Wulff, Germany's new President.
The 39-year old McAllister won 80 of the 148 votes in the Landtag, or state parliament, in Hannover. (Photo: McAllister with Wulff to his right)
Wulff, 51, stepped down as Ministerpräsident, or prime minister of Lower Saxony in Mai, after Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Party (CDU) named him their candidate for the country’s highest office.
Wulff was elected on Wednesday, but it took three rounds of voting, laying bare discontent within Merkel's own ranks.
For the past seven years, McAllister had been his party’s majority leader in the Landtag. Two years ago, he relieved Wulff as CDU chairman of Lower Saxony. He is the youngest of Germany’s 16 state prime ministers.
McAllister’s father, a Scotsman, served in the British military in Germany where he met his wife, David’s mother.
David McAllister has two small children. The family lives in Bad Dederkesa, a spa near the port city of Cuxhafen.
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News In Brief
DAS BUCH
What Caused World War I?
Many historians consider WWI to have been inevitable. Not so, maintains author Jack Beatty, a news analyst on National Public Radio, in his delightfully contrarian account, The Lost History of 1914.
STAMMTISCH
German-American Runs for President!
By Don Heinrich Tolzmann
How many U.S. Presidents have been of German descent? There are several of them, including Hoover and Eisenhower. How many know that a German-American is running for President today? His name is Ron Paul.
DAS KINO
'Farewell My Queen' Opens Berlinale
The curtain rose on the Berlin Film Festival Thursday with a lavish period drama telling the story of the French Revolution through the eyes of Maria Antoinette's servants, launching the 10-day Berlinale.
FUSSBALL
KULTUR
Guggenheim and Deutsche Bank to End Berlin Partnership
Once hailed as the mecca of contemporay art, Deutsche Bank AG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced plans to close the Deutsche Guggenheim exhibition space on Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard when the current contract expires at the end of this year. The partnership between the two institutions began 14 years ago.