South of Hamburg's city center is the Harbour neighborhood (or Historic Hamburg), a district that rests on the northern banks of the River Elbe and greets sailors aboard the thousands of ships ...

Wajsbrot demands the full attention of her reader as she plays with form, ideas and writing in this novel about an unnamed protagonist arriving in Dresden to translate Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lightho ...

The cement industry is one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide. It is responsible for up to eight percent of global man-made emissions – almost three times as much as the global air traffic. To ...

Five people with Arab roots meet up in a Berlin restaurant to talk about Gaza. After more than a year of war, they say that Germany's uncritical backing of Israel has alienated them and their ...

The wooden-block troops, which took up map space corresponding to the actual ... The scenario involved a campaign fought between the Oder and Elbe Rivers, including territory in what is now ...

The following year’s The Danish Girl saw his turn as Lili Elbe, the early-20th-century transgender ... But how the persona’s geriatric nature maps so perfectly onto Redmayne’s underlying ...

Rare medieval documents, historical maps, and even gold and pearls retrieved from the river. The Vltava’s historical and cultural importance is unparalleled. Flowing 430 kilometers from its source in ...

Lili Elbe – born Einar Wegener – was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century and the first known transgender woman in arts. The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born ...

Though U.S. maps will reflect Trump's new name for the body of water, the rest of the world will continue calling it the Gulf of Mexico Win McNamee/Getty; Google Maps Google Maps will soon change ...

Leith’s low traffic neighbourhood has seen a reduction in vehicles and an increase in walking and cycling - and nearly ...