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Scheduled to be in Bonn for the G7 summit during the week of the fortieth anniversary of V-E Day celebrations, US president Ronald Reagan a...

Fêted on this day on the anniversary of his consecration as the bishop of Milan in 374 AD, the statesman and theologian Saint Ambrose was ...

Occupied by elements of the US Army’s Eighth Infantry Regiment under the leadership of General Henry Tureman Allen, who recognising its hi...

Fêted on this day on the occasion of her death in retirement on an estate in Schornsheim near Mainz in 782 (*710), Saint Leoba wa...

For a work-outing, we took a cruise on the Rhein from Rüdesheim to the picturesque village dominated by the twelfth century fortified cas...

Taking another stroll around the neighborhood during my lunch break ( see previously ) and with the subterranean pedestrian p...

  My workplace located in the extended concrete canvas of The Meeting of the Styles ( previously ) international street artist collective an...

Usually during lunch, I make a circuit around the neighbourhood of Mainz-Kastell and though I pass it every day, it still strikes me as a m...

Though separated by a considerable distance in the north and the southern part of modern Germany, it’s interesting to note, via the alwa...

Acclaimed by the Praetorian Guard as emperor in the West on this day in 238—a year later labelled by history as the Year of the Six Emperors...

Born this day in 1699, Johann Zach (†1773, also called by the Czech equivalent Jan) was a versatile Bohemian composer, violinist and organis...

Though preliminary reports are from a company press release and have not been independently verified, news that the COVID-19 candidate vacc...

Decided in the plaintiff’s favour on this day in 1455 in the refectory (the dining room or fratery, a frat house and documented by the above...

The second major book printed with movable type in the West and the first by printers and former colleagues Johann Fust and Petrus Schöffer...

Though this castle built on a rocky spur (Spornburg) dominating an adjacent valley of the Moselle, a tributary called the Ehrbach, that we v...

The site of our last night of camping along the Moselle, guarded by a host of more manky swans, was in a village called Burgen beneath its n...

With trade and occupation lasting the duration of the late Empire, Roman culture left its imprint on the region including excavations of anc...

Our penultimate overnight stop brought us to the Central Moselle (Mittelmosel) community of Trittenheim—this like most other steep vineyards...

Again passing through the Calmont , we got a chance to inspect one of the monorail cars that climb the steep hillside so pickers can collect...

We started driving along the upper Moselle valley passing through the wine-producing region and first took a detour for a short hike outside...